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Richard Sibbes (1577 - 1635), divine, was 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 is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
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