1. Richard Sibbes is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism because he always remained in the Church of England and worshiped according to the Book of Common Prayer.
Richard Sibbes was born in Tostock, Suffolk, where his father was a wheelwright; other sources say Sudbury.
Richard Sibbes was lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, from 1610 or 1611 to 1615 or 1616.
Richard Sibbes was then preacher at Gray's Inn, London, from 1617, returning to Cambridge as Master of Catherine Hall in 1626, without giving up the London position.
Also in 1626, the support group known as the Feoffees for Impropriations was set up, and Richard Sibbes was a founding member.
Richard Sibbes was one of four ministers in the original feoffees, the other members being chosen as four lawyers and four laymen.
The content belied the mainly moderate and conforming attitudes for which Richard Sibbes was known in his lifetime.
The clerical leaders of the Feoffees, Davenport, Gouge and Richard Sibbes, all adhered to Calvinist covenant theology, as shaped by the English theologians Perkins, Preston, William Ames, and Thomas Taylor.
Richard Sibbes believed the Second Coming was necessary to complete the work that Christ had begun.
Richard Sibbes is a fully conforming Puritan, with Preston, Samuel Ward, and Robert Hill.
Richard Sibbes's perspective was European, or even wider, and he saw Catholicism in terms of a repressive conspiracy.