GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-012473
Sermon TitleA sermon preached at the spittle by Mr Andrewes the wednesday in Easter weeke. April. 10. 1588.
In ManuscriptFour sermons, c. 1588: MS 38.F.22
Extentff. 51r-67r
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeTranscription of Sermon (Source Unknown)
Sermon Type(s)Passion
Bible Texts1 Timothy 6:17 - 6: 19
Associated Peoplepreacher - Andrewes, Lancelot
Associated Sermons
Preachings1588-04-10 (old) - St Mary - Easter Wednesday;
Additional MaterialIn the right-hand margin of f. 51r, a nineteenth-century hand has written the following: "Note. A remarkable circumstance this being the original Sermon differs materialy from the one in print. See Bp. Andrews Sermons pt. 2 page 1." Peter McCullough (2005) expands upon this, pp. 464-466.
Print Editions / WitnessesThis is the first sermon in Part II ("Certaine Sermons Preached At sundry times, upon severall occasions") of XCVI. Sermons by [...] Lancelot Andrewes, ed. William Laud and John Buckeridge (1629). In his modern edition of this print witness, Peter McCullough discusses the significant changes Andrewes made between the sermon as prepared (i.e., as published in XCVI. Sermons) and the sermon as actually preached (MS 38.F.22). See McCullough (2005), pp. 40-81 (and pp. 303-331 for the explanatory notes).
DescriptionThis is the only extant sermon of Andrewes preached at the Spital, one of early modern London's two great outdoor pulpits. Written in a fair secretary hand, with italic script used for most patristic and biblical quotations. The scribal corrections are incidental copying errors as opposed to substantive emendations to the text. There are no marginal annotations. There are catchwords at the bottom of each page.
In February 1588, the City's Recorder was ordered by the Aldermen to write to "Master Doctor Bisse, Master Doctor Powell, and Master Andrewes of Cambridge" to "intreate them from this Cyttye to take paynes to preach at St Marye Spyttle on the Mundaye Tewesday and Wednesdaye in the Easter week" (Corporation of London Record Office, Rep. 21 p. 527). According to Peter McCullough, Andrewes and the other preachers all combined "exhortation to almsgiving, warnings to the rich, and rejoinders to Roman Catholicism, in what had become a conventional Spital formula". See McCullough (2005), pp. 304-305. A conservative transcription of Andrewes' sermon can be found in McCullough (2005), Appendix 1 (pp. 243-264).
Source of DataPeter McCullough, ed., Lancelot Andrewes: Selected Sermons and Lectures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); Hannah Yip
Other Note
GEMMS record createdJuly 05, 2018
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2023