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Sermons

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 346 Collections and/or Records:

Sermons by Thomas Key (c.1688-1756), minister of Kilrenny

 Fonds
Identifier: MS KEY
Scope and Contents

Volume of sermons on Romans 8, preached in Kilrenny, Fife.

Oblong volume with 95 numbered folios. The hand is a very small but is a clear secretary, with some italic features. No shorthand is immediately apparent, but a key is written in pencil on the front board.

From the General Assembly Library.

Dates: 2 December 1738 - 13 May 1739
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons by William Fraser (1779-1853), Burgher minister at Alloa

 Fonds
Identifier: MS FRA 5
Scope and Contents

Sermons of William Fraser (1779-1853), Burgher minister at Alloa. Contents is mostly long hand, with sermons in shorthand.

Also contains statistics on the students in the Burgher Divinity Hall, Selkirk, 1798 from when Fraser was a student there under Dr. George Lawson. Fraser tracks their ordination status and service until 1818.

Dates: 1816-1818
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons collected by R. Jardine

 Fonds
Identifier: MS JAR
Scope and Contents

Sermons and lectures by various authors compiled into a manuscript volume by R. Jardine. Noted as volume 5 with writing starting from both ends of the volume. Envelopes have been laid in with references to Stirling on them. 'Janet Renny' inscribed on last page verso. From General Assembly Library.

Dates: 1714
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons: Galatians 3:23, September 1816

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/17/35
Dates: September 1816
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons and writings

Sermons: 'Glasgow and St Andrews SH [short hand] where the subjects are ascertained', [1815-1824]

 File
Identifier: MS CHA6/17/3
Scope and Contents Contents given as: 'Sermon 6, 12 August 1815' 'On purloining 1816' 'Freeness of the Gospel, 6 December 1816' 'On sowing to the spirit, 7 March 1819' 'Running is uncertainty, 21 May 1819' 'Difference between the Law and the Gospel for conversion, 9 October 1819' 'On attaining righteousness by works, 1819' 'Faith and conscience 1820' 'On city ministers 1820' 'On the expulsive power of a new affection, 1821' 'On Dr Macculloch's death [1824]' 'The connection between faith and peace' 'Bible...
Dates: [1815-1824]
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons and writings

Sermons: 'Glasgow short-hand where the subjects are not yet ascertained', 1815-1818

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA6/17/1
Dates: 1815-1818
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 6, Manuscript writings and papers / Sermons and writings

Sermons notebooks, c1915-1960

 Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/5/3
Scope and Contents

11 numbered notebooks containing sermons by John Baillie and a further single notebook containing sermons specifically for children.

Dates: c1915-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Sermons

Sermons of Alexander Wodrow (1674-1706), minister at Tron Kirk, Glasgow

 Collection
Identifier: MS WOD1
Scope and Contents

Sermons, possibly in the author's hand, mainly preached at Laigh Kirk, later Tron Kirk [Collegiate charge], and Outer Kirk, Glasgow. Some notes in shorthand.

Dates: 1702-1703
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons of Andrew Harper (1844-1936), Principal of St Andrews College, Sydney

 Fonds
Identifier: MS HAR 1
Scope and Contents

Bound volume of manuscript sermons. Spine title reads:

"Manuscript Sermons. 1849 - 1879. By the Reverend Principal Harper D.D."

Volume is written in shorthand, apart from 19 leaves in Latin script at the back.

Presented to New College Library by Harper's granddaughter, Jean A. Hay Wilson, in 1923. Correspondence regarding the donation is laid in the front.

Dates: 1849-1879; Event: 1923
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

Sermons of Angus MacBean (1785-1845), minister of Free Gaelic Church, Greenock

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCB
Scope and Contents

Manuscript book of sermons by Rev. Angus McBean, of the Free Gaelic Church, Greenock. 102 pages.

Sermons were begun on the 6 August 1826, and ended on the 11 February 1827. Individual entries are titled but not dated.

Volume title is written on the front board by Hugh Buie of Greenock. A third hand has added the dates 1821-1845 in pencil, presumably in reference to McBean's tenure as minister.

Dates: 1826-1827
Found in: New College Library Special Collections