A Sermon preached by Mr. Simson of Trinity Colledge

GEMMS ID
GEMMS-SERMON-23415
GEMMS-SERMON2-22541
Sermon Title
A Sermon preached by Mr. Simson of Trinity Colledge
Extent
ff. 48r-54v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Bible Text
John 3:6 - 3:6
Preachings
1617-10-01 - 1617-10-31 (old) - Royston - Occasion not identified
Print Editions / Witnesses

Another manuscript witness is Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.5.25.

Description

The full title of the sermon is as follows: 'A Sermon preached by Mr Simson of Trinity Colledge. afore his Ma.ty at Roiston, in October. 1617.'

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

The exact preaching date is not specified. For an analysis of this sermon, see Nicholas Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c. 1590-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), pp. 43-44; Peter White, Predestination, Policy and Polemic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 177-178; Jeanne Shami, John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003), pp. 38-39; Tim Harris, Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), p. 99.

GEMMS record created
August 24, 2021
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024