MS 28.21 - Sermons of Obadiah Wills, Volume 6

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 805
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-231)
Title
Sermons of Obadiah Wills, Volume 6
Shelfmark
MS 28.21
Creation Date
1700 - 1700
Contents Note

This is one of eleven small bound volumes of sermons, being vols. 2-4 and 6-13 of a series, hastily written in a uniform hand throughout. Vol. 6 is dated April 20, 1700 and contains the a title and comment found in similar form in each volume: Sermons on several subjects per O. W.

Following this is written: "Hastily studdyed & [there]for confusedly written this being only a repository for g[ene]rall heads pop[ular]: discourses etc yt they may not be lost as g[ene]rally they are when writt in loose papers."

It is conjectured that the author was Obadiah Wills, sometime (to 1660) Rector of
Alton Barnes, Wiltshire, licensed as a Congregationalist preacher at Devizes in 1672.

The volume contains notes for eighteen sermons on six different texts.

Material Features

pp. 282. This volume is in better repair than earlier volumes, where the leaves are coming away from the binding. The very last page of the volume begins to put down thoughts on 1 Peter 5:8, but they are not developed enough to merit an entry.

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami

Other Note

The approximate dates for the sermons contained within this series of volumes is determined from the date at the beginning of each volume. This one is dated April 20, 1700.

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
April 19, 2016
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024