DDWF/23/1 - Sermons, The Wesley Family Papers

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1486
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-1558)
Title
Sermons, The Wesley Family Papers
Shelfmark
DDWF/23/1
Creation Date
1710 - 1723
Contents Note

Sermons preached by Samuel Wesley (senior) in 1710 - 1723. There are a number of sermons later than the remit of GEMMS:
7. Sermon on Psalm 35:3, preached at Wroot January 1721, July 24 1723, Epworth July 18 1728, Wroot January 16 1729, pp. 149-175; 8. Sermon on 1 Romans 4:5 Epworth Easter Day 1721, Wroot 1723, 1726, pp. 176 - 184; 9. Sermon on Psalms 119:165, preached at Wroot February 16 1723, Epworth June 11 1727, 10 October 1721, pp. 186 - 195; 10. Sermon on Psalms 119:165, preached at Epworth June 19 1727; 11. Sermon on Psalms 38:8, May 1721, March 1723, July 7 1734, pp. 206 – 215; 12. Sermon on Psalms 24:8, preached June 18 1721, March 9 1723/4, pp. 216 – 228; 13. Sermon on Hebrews 8:14, preached at Epworth 1721, July 7 1728, pp. 229 – 287; 14. Sermon on Hebrews 4:12 preached at Epworth May 26 1728, January 24 1721, January 19 1723/4, pp. 238 – 252; 15. Sermon on Mark 14:6, preached Easter Day 1720, Epworth 1724, pp. 253 – 260; 16. Sermon on Proverbs 28:17, preached at Epworth 1723, 30 January 1723, Epworth 1733, pp. 261 – 269.
Some of the dates appear to be written in a different hand, so potentially could have been preached by another preacher at a later date.

Material Features

Inscribed in pencil "This vol contains XXV Sermons, being excellent sermons neatly and plainly written”, followed by an index. The volume opens with a prayer (p.1).

Provenance

In the Wesley family papers, which were originally held at City Road Chapel in London, where manuscripts relating to the family were collected from shortly after the death of John Wesley in 1791. Over the next 175 years the collection was regularly augmented by private collectors including Russell J. Colman and Edmund Sykes Lamplough, so that the present collection represents a composite of many deposits of varying sizes. In 1977 the archive was transferred to the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, where it was combined with the Libraries own holdings.

Source of Data

Catherine Evans; John Rylands Library Catalogue

GEMMS record created
November 22, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024