GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-014281
Sermon TitleSermon on 2 Thessalonians 3:10 (descriptive title)
Extentpp. 115-151
Autographyes
Composition Dateca. 1532 - 1533
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon Draft
Sermon Type(s)
Bible Texts2 Thessalonians 3:10 - 3: 10
Associated Peoplepreacher - Armstrong, Clement
Associated Sermons
Preachings (old) - England - Occasion not identified; Note that this sermon is not likely to have been preached.
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesThere is a partial transcription of this 'sermon' in Reinhold Pauli, 'Drei volkswirthschaftliche Denkschriften aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII. von England', Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 23 (1878), pp. 1-77 (pp. 43-48). Note that Pauli refers to this tract as the fifth sermon.
Description
Source of DataReinhold Pauli, 'Drei volkswirthschaftliche Denkschriften aus der Zeit Heinrichs VIII. von England', Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 23 (1878), pp. 1-77 (pp. 43-48); Ethan H. Shagan, 'Clement Armstrong and the godly commonwealth: radical religion in early Tudor England', in Peter Marshall and Alec Ryrie, eds, The Beginnings of English Protestantism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 60-83; Hannah Yip.
Other NoteThis could be classified as more of a treatise or tract than a sermon. Armstrong opens by discussing Adam being put into paradise by God and set to work, arguing that 'god first ordenyd man that he shuld werke before he ete'. The biblical text is not specified, but it can be assumed that the text is 2 Thessalonians 3:10 as the following reference is made at the beginning: 'as poule saith […] Si quid no[n] vult opera nec manducet'. See Shagan, pp. 74-75. Armstrong states that 'this text shall condemyne suche as hath destroyed the co[mm]en weale of England'. There is some use of Latin, and also some marginal notes (first half of the sermon only). It appears to be unfinished, ending mid-sentence.
GEMMS record createdDecember 21, 2018
GEMMS record last editedFebruary 17, 2019