GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001457
TitleSermon Book of Walter Stonehouse
ShelfmarkMC:F2/MS1/1
Creation Date1623 - 1639
RepositoryMagdalen College Library
Contents Note19 autograph sermons by Walter Stonehouse, fellow of Magdalen College, preached at various locations from c.1623-39. Preceding the sermons is a prayer that encompasses Great Britain and Ireland, France, the sovereign James, Frederick (Count Elector Palatine) and his wife Elizabeth, the whole nobility, gentry, and community of this land, archbishops, two bishops, Oxford and Cambridge, William Earl of Pembroke Lord Chamberlain, Magdalen and Wadham Colleges, right down through a list of founders and benefactors. Following the final column of sermons is a folio with the entire contents listed, including biblical texts.
Material FeaturesSermons written in a clean, tiny, tidy hand on both sides of large folios. Formatted in double columns (593 in total) within red ruled lines. No pagination; instead, each column is numbered with a catchword at the end of the second column of each leaf (recto and verso). Titles are repeated as running heads on each leaf (recto and verso).
Title page with heavy black borders and red ruled lines detailing the number of sermons and the author, accompanied by an engraved label of an eagle on a perch with a scroll bearing the words "Servus natus theologus."
Associated Peoplepreacher - Stonehouse, Walter
Provenance
AcquisitionThe volume of sermons was secured, according to William Macray, by John Bloxam from the Bristol bookseller Kerslake at an unknown date (Magdalen College Archive Catalogue)
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Magdalen College Archive Catalogue
Other Note
Sermons ContainedThe Sinners Conversion -- Columns 5-23The Sinners Conversion 2 -- Columns 24-45The Sinners Conversion 3 -- Columns 46-68Water and the Spirit -- Columns 69-78Gowries Conspiracy -- Columns 99-122Doctor Langtons Funerall -- Columns 123-150A Christians Lesson -- Columns 151-170Life After Death -- Columns 171-192Davids Desire For Life -- Columns 193-212Jehosaphat's Charge To His Judges -- Columns 213-244The Evidence of Adoption -- Columns 245-272The Preachers Preferment -- Columns 273-303The Steward's Distraction -- Columns 304-348S. Paul's Charge to Timothie -- Columns 349-388The Use and Abuse of Temples -- Columns 389-424The Furious Devill -- Columns 425-448The Furious Devill How Ejected -- Columns 449-480Temptation After Baptisme -- Columns 481-511Christ in the Desert -- Columns 512-544
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdMarch 17, 2021
GEMMS record last editedMarch 17, 2021