GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-007524
Sermon TitleSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 (descriptive title)
Extentff. 40r-46r
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. 21]: WitnessSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [MS. Rawl. E. 19]: WitnessSermon on Psalms 122:8-9 [MS. Rawl. D. 353]: 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 MaterialFollowed by two letters: a letter the King James I (ff. 46r-47r) and a letter from Burges to the Bishop of Lincoln (f. 47r-v).
Print Editions / WitnessesJohn Burges, A Sermon Preached Before the late King James His Majesty, &c. (London, 1642). Manuscript witnesses are as follows: British Library, Harley MS 3791, ff. 172r-181r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 353, ff. 189r-211r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. E. 19, ff. 124r-134r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. E. 21, ff. 38r-46v; Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 336, ff. 69r-77r; Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.351, ff. 126r-141r.
DescriptionPreached "at Greenwich Before the King".
Source of DataJeanne Shami; Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (see link below); George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953), p. 34
Other NoteFor more information about this sermon, see Peter McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 142; 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).
Attached URLs:
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| mpese.ac.uk/t/BurgessSermonKingJames1604.html | Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England entry for Burgess's sermon. |
GEMMS record createdApril 13, 2017
GEMMS record last editedNovember 30, 2021