Welcome to a year of reading Richard Sibbes together! The reading plan for the entire year can be accessed here. I encourage you to stick with us, allow yourself time to read, and soak in the riches of this gifted and prolific Puritan preacher. You will be edified and encouraged.
If you have trouble with how Sibbes used words, check out the Lexicons of Early Modern English for definitions from the period.
Summary/Engagement
Friends, this has been a trying week for me (Nick). Thursday of last week my wife fell ill. She went to the doctor Friday who prescribed antibiotics and an order to get to the ER if she wasn’t better by morning. So, Saturday we went to the ER. While being poked, and prodded, bled and tested, the doctors determine my wife was pregnant. Praise God! We were happy for this news but still quite concerned as she was very ill and an in a lot of pain. They switched from their plan of doing a CT scan to an MRI given the pregnancy revelation and found an inflamed appendix. It had to come out.
So it did. We’ve been worried about the health of the baby given the surgery and medicines. Amy is only about 5 weeks along. Amy had some pretty severe pain following the surgery and had to stay an extra day in the hospital before coming home on Monday. Since then I’ve been taking care of her and my son, Gabriel. He’s a four and a half year old boy. Need I say more?
All that to say, Mea Culpa. There will be no Sibbes post this week. Reading the old Doctor was the last thing on my mind as I didn’t remember until last night that I had neglected to read him. If you read Josiah’s Reformation for this week, good! If not, well, no big deal.
I’ll see you here next week when we read The Fruitful Labor For Eternal Food.
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Last week, we read A Rescue From Death.
Next week, we read The Fruitful Labor For Eternal Food.
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