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GEMMS IDGEMMS-SERMON-003065
Sermon TitleSermon 1 on James 4:17 (descriptive title)
Extentpp. 235-249
Autographuncertain
Composition Date -
Primary LanguageEnglish
Text TypeSermon
Sermon Type(s)
Bible TextsJames 4:17 - 4: 17
Associated Peoplepreacher - Watson, Thomas
Associated Sermons
Preachingsca. 1669-10-31 - 1669-11-02 (old) - England - Occasion not identified; The three sermons that comprise this book were preached over two days, but the disposition of the sermons to particular days is not clear.
Additional Material
Print Editions / WitnessesIn the margin, p. 235, is written in a less formal hand: "See the sermons at the end of Watson's Body of Divinity." In the "Supplement" or "Addition of some Sermons" to this printed work "A Body of Practical Divinity [London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1692], the final item is entitled "Of knowing to do God, and not to do it," the text being James 4:17. According to the CL cataloguer, this is substantially the same discourse as the three sermons in Book 5, through verbally very different. The printed version gives no date or place of preaching.
DescriptionThis is the first of three sermons in Book 5 of this volume. The heading of this Book is "The Dreadfull Evill of Sinning against Knowledg."
Source of DataJeanne Shami
Other NotePrecise location unknown.
GEMMS record createdApril 29, 2016
GEMMS record last editedApril 23, 2021