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G Purefoy's name appears on folio 1.

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Also included are "A short account of the Lord's way of providence..." (folio 28), extracts from a diary, with texts and a prayer signed by James Fairnie, St Andrews, 1731 (folio 60), and a group of prayers for use before and after sermons (folio 73).

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All the sermons are anonymous, but some can be identified as the work of Alexander Carlyle (MS.3466, folios 1-27), and most of the remainder are probably by Thomas Masson, Minister of Dunnichen (MS.3466, folios 85-125; MS.3467).

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All the sermons are anonymous, but some can be identified as the work of Alexander Carlyle (MS.3466, folios 1-27), and most of the remainder are probably by Thomas Masson, Minister of Dunnichen (MS.3466, folios 85-125; MS.3467).

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The sermon at folio 1 is headed "Sermons preached against Popery begun Febr: 1686’ but no others appear to have been preached, or at least copied, on this subject. The volume contains copies by John Gray of sermons by Robert Meldrum, Minister of Yester (pages 85-104), Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow (page 256) and Benjamin Calamy (page 289).

There are the remains of two pairs of clasps.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

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The volume contains copies by John Gray of sermons of Robert Leighton, Archbishop of Glasgow (folio 58) and of "Mr L.C.", presumably Laurence Charteris (folio 78); and a copy in another, early eighteenth-century, hand of a sermon by Leighton (folio 178).

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Bound, or rebound, during the eighteenth century, doubtless by the Gray Library, Haddington.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

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The volume also contains various memoranda at page 147.

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The volume contains excerpts by John Gray from printed books at folios 83 verso.

There are the remains of a clasp.

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The sermons although individually undated were preached in 1672 and 1673 according to a note at folio 1.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

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For the conditions under which the sermons were preached, see pages 235, 246, 273, 451, 464, 479, 500, 562.

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The papers of Principal Dunlop, dating from 1687 to 1699, are chiefly notes for and drafts of sermons, and the place and date of delivery is recorded on many of them. Those of Alexander Dunlop (folio 196) consist of Latin speeches dating from 1710 to 1721.

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The volumes have been arranged chronologically as far as possible, but many of the volumes are composite, consisting of unrelated gatherings of leaves (including some blank) bound together, containing sermons preached in different years (a large number are undated: some were preached more than once, at intervals of several years). It is not known whether some of these volumes were bound after John Gray's death.

Scope and Contents According to a note in a modern hand (folio 1 verso), 'these 53 sermons were written by John Campbell [Minister] of Craiggy in 1671 & 1672'. The first three sermons were connected with a communion service at Irvine, 12 November 1671; the remaining fifty, on Romans, viii, 1-7, form a group delivered between 8 October 1671 and 14 July 1672. Campbell, who appears to have been Minister of Sorn from 1658 to 1684, had been, at the time of composition of these sermons, deprived of his church...

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At the end is the first page of "Jesus Christ crucified ... being the substance of six sermons preached at Lorimers' Hall from 1st Cor. 2.1.2", by Robert Trail; in a hand of the early eighteenth century.

Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Commentary on St Mark's Gospel by the pseudo-Jerome (folio 1). See ‘Repertorium Biblicum medii aevi’, number 3436. The commentary is printed in, J P Migne, ‘Patrologiae Cursus Completus ... Latina’, volume xxx, 589-644.(ii) 'Continuatio veteris et novi testamenti', a rhymed version of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Contion of pseudo-Hegesippus, 'De bello iudaico' (folio 18); beginning 'Continuare volumus...