Reforming the Reformation A Description of Christ - Richard
Sibbes (1577 - 1635) was a Puritan theologian, Cambridge
academic, and much-loved author. View all resources by Richard
Sibbes "Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in
whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit upon him, and
he shall shew judgement to the Gentiles. He shall not strive,
nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets,"
&c.—Matt. 12:18. The words are the accomplishment of a prophecy,
taken out of Isaiah 52:1,2, as we may see by the former verse,
'that it might be fulfilled.' Now the occasion of bringing them
in here in this verse, it is a charge that Christ gives, verse
16, that they should not reveal and make him known because of
the miracles he did. He withdraws himself; he was desirous to be
concealed, he would not allow himself to be seen over much, for
he knew the rebellious disposition of the Jews, who were eager
to change their government, and to make him king. Therefore, he
laboured to conceal