The Glorious Feast of the Gospel
Richard Sibbes · 1650
Warm sermons on Isaiah's feast on the mountain, where God wipes away every tear: a book about the generosity of God.
- Lived
- 1577–1635
- Where
- Cambridge and London, England
- In the library
- 1 book
Author
Richard Sibbes
The gentle preacher his hearers called “the heavenly Doctor.”
Richard Sibbes was the son of a wheelwright who made it to Cambridge on scholarships. He spent his life as a preacher to the lawyers of Gray's Inn in London and as master of St Catharine's Hall in Cambridge.
Where many preachers of his day thundered, Sibbes comforted. His best-known book, The Bruised Reed, is about how tenderly Christ treats people who feel weak and worn out. Those who heard him called him “the sweet dropper” and “the heavenly Doctor Sibbes.”
The Glorious Feast of the Gospel was published after his death from the sermons he had preached on Isaiah's picture of God spreading a banquet for all peoples.
“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
The Bruised Reed