Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes (1577 - 1635), divine, was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He attended St John's College at Cambridge, where he held various academic posts, of which he was deprived by the High Commission on account of his Puritanism.
He was the author of several devotional works expressing intense religious feeling — The Saint's Cordial (1629), The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, etc. He was a man of great learning.
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
