The Bruised Reed
Sibbes' best-loved work expounds Isaiah 42:3 (applied to Christ in Matthew 12:20), showing how the gentle Saviour will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax. Written for weak, doubting, and discouraged believers, it magnifies the smallest beginnings of grace and the patience of Christ toward the faltering.
Based on The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax (1630), by Richard Sibbes
From the book
In Richard Sibbes's own words
“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.”
“Grace is little at the first; things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth.”
“The strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.”
