Consider this treatise as posthumous. The notes were taken from his mouth by the pen of a ready writer, and a person of note and integrity, whose design is not to forge a piece under the author's name. The very style and matter is so like his other pieces, we hope the legitimacy of it will not be questioned. It is easier to counterfeit another man's name than another man's gifts. Had the author lived to supervise his own work, no question but it would have passed his hand with more authority and more politeness. - Summary by Simeon Ash and Editor 00:00:00 01 To The Reader 00:07:46 02 A Learned Commentary or Exposition upon the FourthChapter of the Second Epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians 00:35:09 03 Verse 6 Part 1 01:00:30 04 Verse 6 Part 2 01:24:12 05 Verse 6 Part 3 01:47:44 06 Verse 6 Part 4 02:17:50 07 Verse 7 Part 1 02:49:36 08 Verse 7 Part 2 03:15:05 09 Verse 7 Part 3 03:48:54 10 Verse 7 Part 4 04:22:09 11 Verse 7 Part 5 04:59:46 12 Verses 7-9 Part 1 05:24:23 13 Verses 7-9 Part 2 06:06:36 14 Verse 10 Part 1 06:31:45 15 Verse 10 Part 2 06:58:02 16 Verse 11 07:31:55 17 Verse 12, 13 08:14:07 18 Verse 13 08:48:09 19 Verse 14 09:19:42 20 Verse 15 Part 1 09:45:57 21 Verse 15 Part 2 10:25:06 22 Verses 16-18 Twitter https://twitter.com/RichMoo50267219 Exposition of 2nd Corinthians Chapter 4 - Puritan Richard Sibbes (Christian Audio Book) Richard Sibbes Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL45BC2AAC7888484A Top 10 Most Popular Sermons (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzOwqed_gET3I_hiobSa2ftDDZZW-HoD7 Puritans (Playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL147B764889A13CCA ▶️SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/stack45ny ▶️SUPPORT CHANNEL: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=RB72ANM8DJL2S&lc=US&item_name=stack45ny¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted ▶️Telegram: https://t.me/ChristianSermonsAndAudioBooks ▶️RUMBLE https://rumble.com/c/c-278901 Richard Sibbes was born in 1577 at Tostock, Suffolk, in the Puritan county of old England. He was baptized in the parish church in Thurston, and went to school there. As a child, he loved books. His father, Paul Sibbes, a hardworking wheelwright and, according to Zachary Catlin, a contemporary biographer of Sibbes, was "a good, sound-hearted Christian," but became irritated with his son's interest in books. He tried to cure his son of book-buying by offering him wheelwright tools, but the boy was not dissuaded. With the support of others, Sibbes was admitted to St. John's College in Cambridge at the age of eighteen. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1599, a fellowship in 1601, and a Master of Arts degree in 1602. In 1603, he was converted under the preaching of Paul Baynes, whom Sibbes called his "father in the gospel." Baynes, remembered most for his commentary on Ephesians, succeeded William Perkins at the Church of St. Andrews in Cambridge. Sibbes was ordained to the ministry in the Church of England in Norwich in 1608. He was chosen as one of the college preachers in 1609 and earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1610. From 1611 to 1616, he served as lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge. His preaching awakened Cambridge from the spiritual indifference into which it had fallen after the death of Perkins. A gallery had to be built to accommodate visitors in the church. Sibbes never married, but he established an astonishing network of friendships that included godly ministers, noted lawyers, and parliamentary leaders of the early Stuart era. "Godly friends are walking sermons," he said. Sibbes was a gentle man who avoided the controversies of his day as much as possible. "Fractions breed fractions," he insisted. His battles with Archbishop Laud, Roman Catholics, and Arminians were exceptions. He also remained close friends with many pastors and leaders who wanted more radical reform than he did for the Church of England. Sibbes wrote, "To preach is to woo.... The main scope of all [preaching] is, to allure us to the entertainment of Christ's mild, safe, wise, victorious government." Sibbes's last sermons, preached a week before his death, were on John 14:2 2 In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. , "In my Father's house are many mansions.... I go to prepare a place for you." When asked in his final days how his soul was faring, Sibbes replied, "I should do God much wrong if I should not say, very well." Sibbes began his will and testament, dictated on July 4, 1635, the day before his death, with "I commend and bequeath my soul into the hands of my gracious Savior, who hath redeemed it with his most precious blood, and appears now in heaven to receive it." William Gouge preached Sibbes's funeral sermon. (Excerpt from Meet the Puritans by Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall J. Pederson).