GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-004752
Sermon TitleSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 (descriptive title)
Extentff. 36r-57v
Autographno
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)
Bible TextsPsalms 122:8 - 122: 9
Associated SermonsSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [MS. Rawl. E. 19]: WitnessSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [MS. Rawl. E. 21]: WitnessSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [MS. Eng. th. c. 71]: WitnessSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [Harley MS 3791]: Manuscript witnesses of the same sermon.
Preachings1604-06-19 (old) - Greenwich Palace Chapel Royal - Occasion not identified;
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesThe sermon and the first letter (together with one to the Lords of the Council) were printed, 4°. Lond. 1642. A sermon preached before the late King James His Majesty at Greenwich the 19 of Iuly 1604 together with two letters in way of apology for his sermon : the one to the late King Iames His Majesty : the other to the Lords of His Majesties then Privie Councell / by John Burges ..., London : Printed by Thomas Brudenell, 1642. Manuscript witnesses are as follows: British Library, Harley MS 3791, ff. 172r-181r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. E. 19, ff. 124r-134r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. E. 21, ff. 38r-46v; Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71, ff. 40r-47v; Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 336, ff. 69r-77r; Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.351, ff. 126r-141r.
DescriptionThis is a fair copy of Burgess's 1604 sermon. Written out very neatly and clearly; a polished text with marginal citations and manicule symbols.
Source of DataManuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (see link below); Lucy Busfield.
Other NoteThis sermon is discussed by Peter McCullough in his Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge, 1998), p. 142. See also Peter Lake, 'Moving the Goal Posts? Modified Subscription and the Construction of Conformity in the Early Stuart Church', in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, ed. by Peter Lake and Michael Questier (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000), 179-205; Emma Rhatigan, 'Preaching to Princes: John Burgess and George Hakewill in the Royal Pulpit', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62.2 (2011), 273-296 (p. 274 n. 3; p. 285 n. 24).
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| mpese.ac.uk/t/BurgessSermonKingJames1604.html | Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England entry for Burgess's sermon. |
GEMMS record createdJuly 11, 2016
GEMMS record last editedSeptember 17, 2021