Sibbes, Saints Cordialls, 1637
Facsimile first title page reads [with lacunae]:
The Saints Cordialls Delivered in Sundry Sermons at Graies-Inne, and in the citie of Lon[don]. Whereunto is now added, The Saints Safety in Evill Times Preached in Cambridge upon speciall Occasions. By Richard Sibbs D.D. Late Master of Katherine hall in Cambridge, and Preacher in Grays Inne. London, Printed by M. F. for Henry Overton, an[d to be sold at] entering in of Popes Head Alley out of lumbar[d street. 1637.]
Modern quarter vellum with orange cloth over boards. Black title label on spine. New end papers. Main title in facsimile bound in after A5. E4 with 4 inch tear near gutter, no loss. A few leaves with some pencil markings in a likely modern hand. Marginalia in an early hand on pg 193. Folded blank sheet with penciled notes (19th century?) adhered to blank verso of Bb1. Paper repairs to first eleven leaves, with variable degrees of text loss around margins. All pages heavily thumbed at corners, only rarely and very focally into text. Scattered marginal worming. Damp stains and ink stains throughout. Text ends on page 394. Binding tight.
Contains numerous title pages to sermons on various topics.
A5, A1 in facsimile, B1-P6, Q5, R2-3, S-Kk6, L5.
Richard Sibs (Sibbes), 1577 – 1635 was born in Suffolk, and was ordained as a minister in Norwich in 1608. “His preaching awakened Cambridge from the spiritual indifference into which it had fallen after the death of (William) Perkins. … John Cotton and Hugh Peters were converted under Sibbe’s preaching. … He wrote at least thirteen introductions to the writings of his Puritan colleagues. … The historian Daniel Neal described Sibbes as a celebrated preacher, an educated divine, and a charitable and humble man who repeatedly underestimated his gifts. … David Masson, biographer of John Milton, wrote, ‘No writings in practical theology seem to have been so much read in the mid-seventeenth century among the pious English middle classes as those of Sibbes.’ (Beeke, pg 534 etc)
