Diamonds and Pearls

Just finished another book review for Steve. It was great to get in some Puritan reading. I’ve been having withdrawal symptoms since Rob, Andy and myself stopped meeting to read John Owen’s Overcoming Sin & Temptation. But Richard Sibbe’s The Bruised Reed has now displaced that as my favourite Puritan work. Wow! This was encouraging stuff. Here’s my thoughts….

Review of Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, in Alexander B. Gossart (ed.) Works of Richard Sibbes (Banner of Truth, 1973), pp. 42-101.

The Bruised Reed and the Smoking flax is an exposition of Isaiah 42:1-4, where it states that God’s coming servant will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a dimly burning wick (or smoking flax). Richard Sibbes shows this to be an illustration of how God deals with us in his act of grace through Christ in the believer’s life.