Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was an English pastor and theologian. A leading Puritan, he influenced George Herbert, John Wesley and Charles Spurgeon.
In his book Preachers and Preaching, Martyn Lloyd-Jones noted, “I shall never cease to be grateful to Richard Sibbes, who was balm to my soul at a period in my life when I was overworked and badly overtired, and therefore subject in an unusual manner to the onslaughts of the devil…. I found at that time that Richard Sibbes… was an unfailing remedy. His books quietened, soothed, comforted, encouraged, and healed me.”
These mediations on the Song of Solomon were originally published under the title “Bowels opened (or, A Discovery of the Near and Dear Love, Union and Communion, Between Christ and the Church).”
