Political occasion

This sermon was preached in the aftermath of the Forced Loan Controversy. See S. Mutchow Towers, Control of Religious Printing in Early Stuart England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2003), p. 169.

Written in a large italic hand. The pages are ruled in red ink. There are marginal annotations, sometimes written in Greek and Latin. In addition, the running header is 'The Life of Loue'. Griffith divides his text into seven parts. He concludes the sermon by exhorting that '[w]hen you hate the impieties of y[ou]r dearest freinds, yet honour in your deadliest Enimies, the Image of God; Then doe you loue one another w[i]th a pure hearte feruently' (see p. 42).