Theological tracts including various sermons and sermon fragments, two dated in the 1630s and the rest undated. Also includes a set of 75 "seasonable queries" against the Book of Common Prayer and prelacy, written shortly after the Great Fire of London by "a true orthodox protestant of the Church of England" (f. 39); a defence of Samuel Clarke's conception of the Trinity, written by Dr. Daniel Waterland (f. 50); a letter to Bernard Mandeville criticizing his religious ideas, published in 1720 (f. 152); arguments defending the authority of the Roman Catholic Church (f. 237); a translation of a French text entitled "A short and easy method of prayer", translated by "Madame de la Motte Guyon" (Jeanne Guyon) (f. 263); and a paraphrase of the Lord's Prayer (f. 300).
Paper, 306 leaves, octavo. Most of the sermons (ff. 166r-236r) and other documents are written in the same small, clear hand.
Bound c. 1862.
Jeanne Shami, Bodleian Library Rawlinson Catalogue
The cataloguer notes that portions of other sermons in this collection are to be found in Rawlinson E. 153, which is entirely in the same small, clear hand as many of the documents in this volume. Several of the sermons in that volume were preached in Gorinchem, Holland. The Summary Catalogue (vol. 3) dates those sermons c. 1712.
Concio ad clerum -- ff. 1r-15r
Sermon on Ephesians 5:21 -- ff. 17r-36v
Sermon on Proverbs 11:18 -- ff. 166r-177v
Sermon on Joshua 23:9-11 -- ff. 178r-186r
Sermon on Deuteronomy 32:6 -- ff. 188r-190v
Sermon 1 on unidentified text -- ff. 191r-194v
Sermon on Psalms 23:26 -- ff. 195r-196v
Sermon 2 on unidentified text -- ff. 197r-210v
Sermon on Ezekiel 18:23 -- ff. 211r-214v
Sermon 3 on unidentified text -- ff. 215r-216v
Sermon 4 on unidentified text -- ff. 217r-220v
Sermon 5 on unidentified text -- ff. 221r-227r
Sermon 6 on unidentified text -- f. 228r-v
Sermon 7 on unidentified text -- ff. 229r-236r