Shelfmark
Ep.8.15
Author
Uniform title
[Sermons. Selections.]
Title
Fifteen sermons on various subjects. : Viz. Of faith in general; its nature, cause, degrees, efficacy and kinds. [etc.] / By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the twelfth volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed for Ri. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1703.
Physical description
[16], 464 p. : port. ; 8vo.
Note
With a list of contents (leaves A3-A8) and a final advertisement leaf.
Note
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, leaf A1, signed: 'R. White sculp.'
Note
Title page enclosed within double line border.
Note
Each sermon has caption title; register and pagination are continuous.
Note
With a half-title: Arch-Bishop Tillotson's twelfth volume.
Formatted contents note
Contents: [Taken from the title-page]: Of faith in general; its nature, cause, degrees, efficacy and kinds. -- Of a religious and divine faith, viz. a perswasion of the principles of natural religion; and of things supernatural and reveal'd. -- Of the faith or perwasion of a divine revelation. -- Of the testimony of the spirit to divine revelation. -- Of the reasonableness, usefulness, and efficacy of divine faith. -- Of the Christian faith; the means of conveying the Christian doctrine; and our obligation to receive it. -- Of the Christian faith consider'd as sanctifying, justifying, and saving. -- Of the Gospel covenant, and its consistency with the merit of Christ. -- Of the nature and testimony of miracles, particularly those wrought in confirmation of Christianity. -- Of the advantages of truth, in opposition to error.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N7029
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington, recording donation to Eton College in 1731.
Provenance
18th-century engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf; two blind tooled double fillet borders; outer panel sprinkled; inner panel painted faintly to appear like marble; blind tooled large fleurons at the corners of inner panel; gold tooled decoration on spine; red and green sprinkled edges.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmarks: Ed.6.22, Fq.6.
Subject
Sermons, English 17th century.
Added entry--name
Barker, Ralph, 1648 - 1708 publisher.
Added entry--name
Chiswell, Richard bookseller.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London
Identifier
B38966