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Sermons.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Religious discourses delivered as part of a church service, usually delivered from a pulpit, based upon a text of scripture, and with the purpose of giving religious instruction or exhortation.

Found in 388 Collections and/or Records:

Sermons of James Blair and William Eccles, Ministers at Paisley, taken down in shorthand.

 File
Identifier: MS.7173
Scope and Contents

There are some notes and summaries (folios 84, 204), proper names, and quotations in Latin (passim) in cursive script. A few leaves at the beginning are missing. The shorthand used resembles the system devised by T Metcalfe, (‘Radio-stenography, or short writing’) from which it was probably adapted by the copyist himself.

Dates: 1681-1682.

‘Sermons of Mtr. Gorge Campbell, which belongs to me Marie Mar Marie Maule. Wrytten at Alloa 15 March 1689.' , 1689.

 File
Identifier: MS.1941
Scope and Contents

Four sermons on Psalm xlv, 1-4, followed (after page 994) by meditations on affliction, based on various texts of Scripture, in another hand. Marie Maule may be the wife of Charles, Earl of Mar.

Dates: 1689.

Sermons or other devotional writings, 1853, in the language of Old Calabar, by the Reverend William Anderson., 1832, 1853..

 File
Identifier: MS.3112, folios 289-295
Scope and Contents

Also includes a copy made by the Reverend William Anderson in 1873 from a poem on the Reform Bill written on a corn-box in a stable in 1832 (folio 294).

Dates: 1832, 1853..