GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000863
TitleCollection of 17thc loose-leaf sermons and sermon fragments written by Robert Browne (Bundle H)
ShelfmarkMA0114
Creation Dateca. 1600 - 1700
RepositoryThomas Plume's Library
Contents NoteA single date is recorded in the manuscript (1601). An individual named Robert Browne has been identified as the author, although this is a common name and the precise individual has not been identified.
Material FeaturesThe manuscript contains some large pages folded down into four folios, 203 x 156 mm. It also contains some bifolios secured with a metal pin. Many of the manuscripts were affected by damp in the past and have been since conserved, but parts of the text are missing on many of them.
Provenance
AcquisitionLeft to the library in Thomas Plume's will of 1704.
Source of DataHelen Kemp
Other NoteBundle H comprises 68 separate numbered documents by Robert Browne and one by another author, stored together in a conservation box. There is no number 50, but instead 49 and 49a.
Sermons ContainedGloria virtutis comes -- 4 foliosFor a second argument consider thine owne -- 6 foliosThe rebellious heart of man -- 4 foliosThe saints of god they have a visible honour -- 2 foliosPride it was the first sinne -- 4 foliosProved unto them that -- 4 foliosThey that are poore in spirit are sometimes rich in grace and may then inherit the kingdome of God -- 4 foliosHonour: There is an honour that is due to God -- 4 foliosThe fear of God -- 4 foliosWhen out of a true [implicite] faith I am assured that Xt died for man -- 4 foliosThat can [text missing] -- 4 foliosSermon on unidentified text -- 4 foliosThe first purpose is thus: men must become innocent not for feare of punishment but for love of riteousnesse -- 4 foliosIt really therefore concerns us all -- 4 foliosThe unlearnest man that is may understand -- 2 foliosWee have here laid out unto us -- 4 folios... is a pure spotlesse duty of the soul -- 4 foliosHe shall judge the poor of the people -- 2 foliosBut for that I answer as you must be like a guide -- 2 foliosThese wordes doe naturallie divide themselves unto to parts -- 2 foliosThe part from ye -- 6 foliosThus each of the affirmative -- 2 foliosLet these afflictions -- 2 foliosYour comfort shall be -- 2 foliosThe second use of [1] -- 2 foliosThe second use of [2] -- 2 foliosLuke 6 Among the blessed and all ye happinesse -- 2 foliosMat 5 In all the whole volume of nature -- 4 foliosThousand rivers of oile -- 2 foliosUse: if all in a word -- 1 foliothat for a little affliction -- 2 foliosThe first weeping is the weeping of the soule of God -- 2 foliosUse more of this point -- 2 foliosIn the next place blessed are they that weepe -- 4 foliosSecondly: God -- 2 foliosHumillitie is a gift or grace of God -- 1 folioThus we have seen -- 1 folioThe meanes how to accomplish this -- 1 folioThe best meanes -- 4 foliosLet thy servant bee as an handmaid -- 2 foliosPeter 5 Humble yourselves -- 4 foliosHumble yourselves etc -- 4 foliosProverbs 10:19 Solomon yt wise and potent king -- 8 foliosIt is now possessed -- 2 foliosHonour his day with delight -- 2 foliosIntertainment 1601 -- 4 foliosThere be too essential parts of ye man his soul and his body -- 2 foliosThis would below -- 2 foliosAnd so we come to ye last point -- 2 foliosSermons on Colossians 3:4 -- 4 foliosHow shall wee ever bring any evidence to such -- 4 foliosProvide a medicine -- 2 foliosPlace undoubtedly -- 4 foliosThus wee have done with ye outward meanes and must [therefore] come now to ye inward meanes -- 4 foliosThis word believe is used in a three fold -- 4 foliosSermon note: This is ye outward means of faith -- 4 foliosHeavenly pleasures flow abundently into ye soules of men -- 2 foliosCommonly this is a doctrine yt brings great glory unto god -- 4 foliosBut the second argument of obedience -- 4 foliosGod spake all those words -- 4 foliosThe sacrament is -- 1 folioBut yet there is [aligaid] amplius latens in mysterio -- 2 foliosUse: is it thus that we came all from ye Lord -- 4 foliosI am the Lord thy God -- 2 foliosCome wee now to the third argument of obedience -- 4 foliosHere we have -- 1 folioThe authority of God is very eminent -- 2 folios
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJuly 19, 2018
GEMMS record last editedDecember 26, 2023