Sermons.
Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:
Theological works of St Bernard of Clairvaux and others, probably from a Cistercian house.
Two documents concerning Scottish history., 1666-1700.
The contents are as follows.
(i) Account, probably original, by a Covenanter, of his examination and imprisonment in 1666 and 1667. He seems to have been associated with Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire. (Folio 1.)
(ii) 'A sermon preached by Mr. James Webster in the Tolbooth Church of Edr. Febry. 11 ... 1700 ... on the occasion of that terrible conflagration that happened in the Parliament Close upon ... Febry. 4th . . . 1700.' Eighteenth-century copy. (Folio 15.)
Two manuscripts bound in a volume of seventeenth-century printed sermons: a sermon, undated, preached by James Fergusson, Minister of Kilwinning (died 1667); and a treatise, 1717, entitled 'A vindication of set forms in generall and of the English service in particular', apparently by Thomas Law., 17th century, 1717.
These are the more substantial of the letters, papers and notes found in the Lauriston Castle Collection of printed books, whether pasted or inserted loosely into volumes or as inscriptions written in books.
Two of a series of volumes of sermons., 1704-1706.
The sermons, of which there is a list at the beginning of each volume, were apparently copied out during the years 1704 and 1706 by one Stephen Ewens, whose name is inscribed in MS.2751, folio iv.
Various manuscripts written or owned by Thomas Ruddiman.
The manuscripts are lettered RA-RK (RC missing) and some also have Roman numerals.
Various sermons of Alexander Carlyle., 1749-1803, undated.
Volume containing eleven sermons written out in full by an unknown preacher.
Volume of Warrants and Orders of the Honourable General James St Clair, many in the hand of his then secretary, David Hume., 1746, undated.
The volume contains notes in Lord Hailes' hand on sermons preached at Inveresk church, undated (folio 27), and miscellaneous historical notes, undated.
Volumes containing texts of sermons preached by John Gray on various occasions., 1668-1712, undated.
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.
Volumes of sermons and notes of various ministers of Scotland., 17th century to 18th century.
Includes:
18 volumes of sermons
three volumes of library catalogue
papers concerning the management of the Library and of the affairs of the parish.
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1762-1768, 1804-1807.
The sheets which Sir Walter Scott published in his edition of Anna Seward's ‘Poetical works’, 1810, were evidently taken out by him, and this collection consists of the unpublished remainder. These writings are described in her letter of 17 July 1807, sent to Scott posthumously (MS.870, folio 14, printed in her ‘Poetical works,’ volume i, page xxxiii).
Writings of Anna Seward, copied in her autograph and bequeathed by her to Sir Walter Scott., 1743-[1789], undated.
The volume contains ‘Telemachus’, the first three books of an epic poem (folio 1); ‘Poems’, by the Reverend Thomas Seward (folio 92); “Observations upon Professor Spence's Essay on Pope's Odyssey” (folio 110); and four sermons (folio 144).
Writings of Savonarola, translated into English, in the hand of Alexander Falconar, Advocate, who added some comments in the margins, late seventeenth or early eighteenth century.
Contains: ‘De Simplicitate Christianae Vitae’, preceded by the ‘Epistola’, as in the Cologne edition (1550), and followed by a sermon on John, iv, I, preached on 9 June 1495 (folio 101).
There are notes on the manuscript and its writer on folios i and iii.