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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AD POPULUM. SERMON I. AT GRANTHAM, LINCOLNSHIRE, OCTOBER 3, 1620. I Kings xxi. 29. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me ? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. J. HE history of this whole chapter affordeth matter of much . variety and use; but no passage in it so much either of wonder or comfort, as this in the close of the whole both story and chapter. That there should be mighty ones sick with longing after their meaner neighbours' vineyards; that there should be crafty heads to contrive for greedy great ones what they unjustly desire; that there should be officious instruments to do a piece of legal injustice upon a great man's letter; that there should be Knights of the Post f to depose any thing though Sermons i-iii. ad Populum were all delivered at Grantham, on the same day of the week, as it appears, viz. Tuesday, which was the Lecture- day at Northampton in 1638. See Prynne, Canterbury's Doom, 92. It may therefore be conjectured that they were preached on occasion of Sanderson's taking his turn at the Lecture given in that market town by 'a combination' of the neighbouring Clergy. It was to the Divines of the Lecture of Grantham that Bp. Williams, in 1627, submitted the paper by which he proposed to settle the difference which had arisen between the Vicar and the Parishioners, occasioned by the removal of the Communion Table from its previous position; in order that he might have the benefit of their judgment, if we follow Hacket, ii. 101, 2; for the purpose of having it dispersed and scattered over all the country, according to Heylyn, Life of Laud, 162. The Instructions which Charles I. sent, Dec. 30, 1629, to Archbishop Abbot, with a d...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458954664 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458954668 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 314 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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