GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000655
TitleSermons by Obadiah Wills: Volume 7
ShelfmarkMs 28.22
Creation Date1700 - 1700
RepositoryDr Williams's Library
Contents NoteThis is one of eleven small bound volumes of sermons, being vols. 2-4 and 6-13 of a series, hastily written in a uniform hand throughout. Contains the a title and comment found in similar form in each volume: Sermons on several subjects per O. W. Following this is written: "Hastily studdyed & [there]for confusedly written this being only a repository for g[ene]rall heads pop[ular]: discourses etc yt they may not be lost as g[ene]rally they are when writt in loose papers." Dated "July 30th 1700." It is conjectured that the author was Obadiah Wills, sometime (to 1660) Rector of Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, licensed as a Congregationalist preacher at Devizes in 1672. The volume contains notes for 4 sermons.
Material FeaturesSmall, leather bound notebook.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Wills, Obadiah
Provenance
Acquisition
Source of DataAnne James
Other Note
Sermons ContainedSermon on 2 Corinthians 4:4 -- pp.1-70Sermon on Matthew 25:24 -- pp. 71-81Sermon on Luke 11:24-26 -- pp. 82-158Sermon on 2 Timothy 2:26 -- pp. 160-286
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdMay 19, 2017
GEMMS record last editedMay 16, 2023