GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-018440
Sermon TitleSermon on Hebrews 12:3 (descriptive title)
In ManuscriptAnonymous sermon on Hebrews 12:3: EL 1171 (34/B/41)
Extent28 leaves, unfoliated and unpaginated
Autographuncertain
Composition Dateca. 1603 - 1616
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeTranscription of Sermon (Source Unknown)
Sermon Type(s)
Bible TextsHebrews 12:3 - 12: 3
Associated People
Associated Sermons
Preachings (old) - England - Lent;
Additional Material
Print Editions / Witnesses
DescriptionA presentation manuscript, written in a very neat, mixed secretary and italic hand, with several pen flourishes. The margins are ruled in red ink. The preacher is unknown. The sermon begins as follows: 'Our Lent, our tyme of Mortification by fasting and humbling our selues [...] is not yet halfe done' (see the verso of the first leaf). The preacher goes on to argue that '[o]ur Lent is a representation of our life' (see the recto of the second leaf).
Source of DataGuide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 31; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThe manuscript has been dated by the present cataloguer according to the handwriting and its place within the Ellesmere collection. As there is a reference to the king, the sermon was clearly delivered during the reign of James I. The margins are ruled in red ink. There is some use of Latin and Greek. Marginal notes are principally Biblical and Classical citations, including Seneca and Ovid.
GEMMS record createdOctober 30, 2019
GEMMS record last editedOctober 30, 2019