Sermon on Psalms 122:8-9

GEMMS ID
GEMMS-SERMON-1490
GEMMS-SERMON2-29329
Sermon Title
Sermon on Psalms 122:8-9 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 38r-46v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Psalms 122:8 - 122:9
Preachings
Print Editions / Witnesses

John Burges, A Sermon Preached Before the late King James His Majesty, &c. (London, 1642). Manuscript witnesses are as follows: British Library, Harley MS 3791, ff. 172r-181r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. D. 353, ff. 189r-211r; Bodleian Library, MS. Rawl. E. 19, ff. 124r-134r; Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. th. c. 71, ff. 40r-47v; Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 336, ff. 69r-77r; Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.351, ff. 126r-141r.

Source of Data

Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England (see link below); Richard Snoddy; Lucy Busfield.

Other Note

For more information about this sermon, see Peter McCullough, Sermons at Court: Politics and religion in Elizabethan and Jacobean preaching (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 142; Peter Lake, 'Moving the Goal Posts? Modified Subscription and the Construction of Conformity in the Early Stuart Church', in Conformity and Orthodoxy in the English Church, c. 1560-1660, ed. by Peter Lake and Michael Questier (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000), 179-205; Emma Rhatigan, 'Preaching to Princes: John Burgess and George Hakewill in the Royal Pulpit', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 62.2 (2011), 273-296.

URLs
http://mpese.ac.uk/t/BurgessSermonKingJames1604.html Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England entry for Burgess's sermon.
GEMMS record created
December 16, 2015
GEMMS record last edited
September 17, 2021