[Milton-L] early modern sermons

[Jameela Lares]

Quoting Boyd M Berry/FS/VCU <bberry at vcu.edu>:

> Carol Barton . . . is aware of the wide-spread importance of preaching . . . I
would think JameEla Lares might be of help, given her interest in sermons.

Thanks, Boyd.  Carol and Conrad have already made just about all the
suggestions I could make.  I will add, however, that I wish there were a
database listing the TEXT of scripture for various sermons, since English
Reformation sermons depended on the pattern laid down on the Continent, to read
a text out of the canonical scriptures (e.g., Lamentations 1.10), explain its
context and meaning, and then draw out "doctrines" from it that could then be
"used" or applied to the life of the believer.  One might have good luck
searching such a database for sermons on potentially useful verses, such as
Romans 7:23, which has references to all three of your search terms:  "But I
see another law in my members, warring [passion] against the law of my MIND,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members [i.e.,
BODY]."

I did a quick look at EEBO and found the following:

1.  Barlow, John.  The good mans refuge in affliction. Or A most profitable and
comfortable sermon, preached by Iohn Barlovv. And now published especially for
the good of them that bee, or haue been afflicted inwardly in minde, or
outwardly in body , London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Nathanael
Newbery, and are to be sold at his shop, vnder St. Peters Church in Corn-hill,
1618.

2.  Burgess, Daniel.  The Christian temper: or, The quiet state of mind that
God's servants labour for Set forth in a sermon at the funeral of Mrs. Ursula
Collins. By D.B. , London : printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three
Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, and Robert Gibbs at the Golden Ball in
Chancery-Lane, 1688.

3.  Cave, John.  Christian tranquility, or, The government of the passions of
joy and grief in a sermon preached at Shenton in Leicestershire, upon the
occasion of the much lamented death of that hopeful young gentleman, Mr.
Francis Wollatson ... / by John Cave ...  , London : Printed for R. Chiswell
..., MDCLXXXV [1685]

4.  Chub, William.  A fruitfull sermon preached in a right honorable audience,
treating wholy of affliction, both inward in mind and outward in bodie With the
end and vse of the same, as wel in the good as the bad. The parts of this sermon
doe appeere in the processe. By W. Chub Minister. Published at the instance of
the hearers.  , Imprinted at London : By Iohn Iackson, 1587.

5.  Foster, William.  The means to keepe sinne from reigning in our mortall body
A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, May 26. 1629. By William Foster, Master of
Arts, and parson of Hedgeley in the county of Buckingham.  , London : Printed
by Iohn Haviland, 1629.

6.  Heron, Edward.  Physicke for body and soule Shevving that the maladies of
the one, proceede from the sinnes of the other: with a remedie against both,
prescribed by our heauenly physitian Iesus Christ. Deliuered in a sermon at
Buckden in Huntingtonsh, before the right reuerend Father in God the Lord
Bishop of Lincolne then being, by E. Heron Bachelor of Diuinitie, and sometime
fellow of Trin. Colledge in Cambridge. , London : Printed by Iohn Legatt for
Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard at
the signe of the White Lyon, 1621.

7.  Hodges, Thomas.  Inaccessible glory, or, The impossibility of seeing Gods
face whilst we are in the body delivered in a sermon preached at the funeral of
... Sir Theodore de-Mayerne, in the parish church of St. Martins in the Feilds
[sic] on Friday the 30 of March, 1655 / by Thomas Hodges ...  , London :
Printed for William Leak, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1655.

8.  Neville, Robert.  Ta ano the things above proved to be the most proper
objects of the mind and affections, in a sermon preached before the University
in Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge / by Robert Neville.  , London :
Printed by J.R. for Benjamin Billingsly, 1683.

There's more to find on EEBO, of course.  This was just a quick search with
"Sermon" as a title keyword position + any of your three keywords.

One CAN search for scripture text on the John Donne sermon database at BYU.  See
at http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/donne/.  Yes, Donne is a default value, but a
good one.  His sermon "Death's Duell" kept coming up in my quick EEBO search.

Cheers,

Jameela
-- 
Jameela Lares, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English
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