Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Volume 2, Mark marshall Sibbes excelled as a comforter

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Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Volume 2, Mark marshall Sibbes excelled as a comforterFirst published in 1857, Mark was the second book to appear in J. C. Ryles series of Expository Thoughts on the Gospels. The earliest of the Gospel narratives to be written, Mark, says Ryle, is singularly full of precious facts about the Lord Jesus, narrated in a simple, terse, pithy, and condensed style. Those last four adjectives could well be used to describe Ryles own comments on the Gospel! In one of the occasional explanatory notes, he quotes