(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-13357)
The full title is 'A true Discouery of the Vanity of the Creature, Collected Out of the Sacred Scriptures, As also, Out of the Laborious Works of Ancient, and Modern Diuines; for the Consolation of all these that Look Vpon It With a Discerning Eye, and a Sanctified Heart.' The sermon begins as follows: 'Aristotle (the most Eagle-Eyed of all the Philosophers in the Misteryes of Nature, and therefore Named Natures Secretary) Could Not Stamp Perfection Vpon any Created Being.'
Hannah Yip
Written in a predominantly secretary hand, with catchwords at the bottom of the pages. There are no marginal annotations. There are some later insertions. While the sermon displays some of the rhetorical features of written sermons ('Let vs apply the Authority of the Word to Our Own Particular Sicknesse and disease' (fol. 18v)), the work does not seem to be based on any Biblical text in particular.