Sold for £340
A bundle of 17th & 18th century printed sermon pamphlets, c1641-1724 - Reformation, English Civil War / Restoration, Anti-Catholic & Jacobite / Monmouth Rebellion and general Religious History interest, to include:- Puritan preacher Jeremiah Burroughs; Sions Joy A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament at their publique thanksgiving September 7 1641 For the peace concluded between England and Scotland, published by order of the said House, printed by T.P. and M.S. for R. Dawlman and are to be sold at the entrance out of Lumbard-street into Popes Head Alley, 1641; John Sharpe; The things that make for peace delivered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, upon the 23 of August, 1674, By John Sharpe, chaplain to the right honourable Heneage Lord Finch, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, printed by Andrew Clark for Walter Kettilby (John Sharpe became Archbishop of York in 1691); Edward Young; A sermon preached before His Majesty at White-Hall, 29 Decemb. 1678, By Edward Young, B.L.L. fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon: and chaplain to His Excellency Thomas Earl of Ossory, general of His Majesties subjects in the service of the United Neatherlands. By His Majesties special command, printed by Tho. James, for William Birch, at the sign of the Black-Swan over against S. Clements-Church in the Strand 1679; George Hickes; A discourse to prove that the strongest temptations are conquerable by Christians, or, A sober defence of nature and grace against the cavils and excuses of loose inconsiderate men in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London, and court of aldermen, the 14th of January, 1676/7, printed by W. Godbid, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt, at The Angel in St Paul’s Church-Yard 1677; William Hughes (?); A discourse of pluralities (with the appendant non-residence) evincing the great evil and necessary duty of forsaking them by him that would approve himself a faithful minister of God, printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Sign of the Bible and Three Crowns in the lower end of Cheapside 1680; Benjamin Camfield, Of God Almighty's Providence Both in the Sending and Dissolving Great Snows & Frosts, and the Improvement, We Ought to Make, of it: A Sermon, Occasioned by the Late Extreme Cold Weather, Preached in it to His Neighbours and now thought to be made more Public for the Common Good, printed for R. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul’s Church-Yard 1684; Dr William Payne; A sermon upon the death of the Queen, preached in the parish-church of St. Mary White-Chappel, the third edition, printed by J.R. for B. Aylmer ..., S. Smith, and B. Walford 1695 (Mary II, daughter of James II and wife of William III); An answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance to sovereign powers in defence of the Case of allegiance to a king in possession in a letter to a friend, London 1691; Anonymous. (John Williams) - The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the fifth and sixth chapters of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented, as far as concerns praying to images and the cross. And for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome. Licensed, Jan. 22. 1686, printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard,1687; Henry Hesketh (Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty); A sermon preached in His Majesty's Chapel-Royal at White-Hall, upon the 26th day of July 1685 being the day of publick thanksgiving to Almighty God for His Majesty's late victory over the rebels, printed by Command, Jo. Hindmarsh at the Golden Ball against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1685; Adam Widenfelt, trans James Taylor; Wholsome advices from the Blessed Virgin, to her indiscreet worshippers written by one of the Roman communion and done out of the French into English, by a gentleman of the Church of England with a preface shewing the motives to the translation, printed for Randal Tayler near Stationers Hall, 1687; Anonymous (Edward Gee); An answer to the compiler of the Nubes testium wherein is shewn that antiquity (in relation to the points of controversie set down by him) did not for the first five hundred years believe, teach, or practice as the Church of Rome doth at present believe, teach, and practice together with a vindication of the Veteres vindicati from the late weak and disingenuous attempts of the author of Transubstantiation defended by the author of the Answer to Mr. Sclater of Putney, printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St Paul’s Church-Yard, 1688; Symon Patrick DD Dean of Peterborough; A sermon preach'd before the Queen at Whitehall, March 1, 1688/9, published by her Majesty’s Special Command, Richard Chiswell at the Rose & Crown in St Paul’s Church-Yard 1689; John Tillotson; Discourse against transubstantiation The third edition, printed M. Flesher for Brabazon Aylmer at the three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill and William Rogers at the Sun over against St Dunstan’s Church in Fleetstreet 1685; Gilbert Burnet; A discourse wherein is held forth the opposition of the doctrine, worship, and practices of the Roman church to the nature, designs and characters of the Christian faith, printed J. Watts at the Angel in St Paul’s Church-Yard 1688; John Smith, D.D. and prebendary of Durham; An apology to Christians for the Gospel, and its ministers In a sermon preach'd at the cathedral church of Durham, upon the XIth. Sunday after Trinity, printed for Henry Clements, at the Half-Moon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1708; Thomas Manningham STP; Concio habita in Ecclesia Stæ Mariæ Cantabrigiæ, Jul. 3. 1724. pro gradu doctoratûs, printed Jonah Bowyer, 1724; John Mainwaring, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College; The nature and offices of pity and courtesy: consider'd in two discourses preach'd before the University of Cambridge, printed J. Whiston and B. White in Fleet-street, 1759; lacking cover but believed to be William Clagett and John Williams; The Difference of the case, between the separation of Protestants from the Church of Rome, and the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England, circa 1683; a 1852 reprint by David Pulsifer in Boston of A Solemne league and covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happynesse of the king, and the peace and safetie of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, London, printed for E. Husbands, Sept. 22, 1643; other partial pamphlets and loose pages
Condition Report
The whole in poor condition with loose and broken bindings, missing covers and pages, fraying edges etc.
Many are incomplete.
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