The Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 4 Thomas Peck Flavel’s complete works had long

Flavel’s complete works had long been unobtainable until reprinted by the Trust in 1968

The greatest concern of all at that time was the state of one’s soul before God

Ryle explained

possessed as he was with a moral conviction and a resolute fidelity to Scripture which ‘sometimes puzzled the lovers of expediency’

the issues bound up with it have surfaced again and again throughout the ages – thus what was happening in Colossae in 60 A

The Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 4 Thomas Peck Flavel’s complete works had longMore than anything else, Richard Sibbes was a great preacher. He never lost sight of the fact that the best Christian counselling is done through the patient and enlivening exposition of the Word of God. Sibbes excelled as a comforter of the troubled and doubting, but he also possessed the rare gift of illuminating every passage of Scripture he handled by drawing out its significance for his hearers and readers. The republication of the Nichol edition