1631, Richard Sibbes Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax

Description: THE BRVISED REEDE, AND SMOAKING FLAX. [Running title:] THE BRUISED REED, AND SMOAKING FLAX. Some Sermons contracted out of the 12. of Matth.20. At the desire, and for the good of weaker Christians. By R. Sibbes, D.D. Master of Katherine-Hall in Cambridge, and Preacher of Grayes-Inne London. The third Edition, corrected. 12mo. 5.5 x 3.25 inches. [54] + 392 + [10] pp. index. Decorated by headpiece vignettes and by initials. All text within rules, with notes in ruled margin. Bound in later brown cloth, spine with contrasting black title label, The Bruised Reed, decorated gilt. Extremities worn, including corners and head and tail of spine. A little browning of interior with occasional light staining, small tear to index and two leaves in the book, but otherwise a very good crisp copy. A few early ink margin notes and early signature at head of title and 1867 ownership signature on first free endpaper. Devotional sermons by Richard Sibbes (1577-1635), Anglican theologian, Biblical scholar and church lecturer in Cambridge and preacher at Grays Inn, London. Sibbes was a Puritan who remained within the Church of England and accepted the Book of Common Prayer. The book is dedicated to Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635), who had a distinguished military career fighting for the Dutch against the Spanish from 1590-1605 and later served the Protestant cause in the Electoral Palatinate and again in the Netherlands, 1624-32. The book's title is based on a quotation from Isaiah, 42: 13, interpreted in Matthew, 12: 20. Sibbes influenced later theologians; this title, first published in 1630, had appeared in six editions by 1638, and was later reissued in the early nineteenth century, with numerous modern versions. Scarce early edition. (ESTC S100509). THEOLOGY/HISTORY SERMONS THEOLOGY- CHURCH CHRISTIAN 17TH CENTURY THEOLOGY/HISTORY

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