SERMON II. Preached at Pauls, upon Christmas Day, in the Evening. 1624.
ESAIAH. 7.14. Part of the first Lesson, that Evening. Therefore the Lord shall give you a signe; Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, and beare a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
That is how I came across it too ! And it led me to find a book of many more of his sermons on the London Library. I didn’t realise that ‘no man is an island’ is also from his sermon
That’s something else that’s nobody reads now, but in the early nineteenth century everyone would have known all about Fordyce and his sermons and been able to imagine Mr Collins from it . Like if I say ‘my teenage daughter is lying on the sofa reading the new Wendell Berry book ‘
Thank you! This looks like the one?
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SERMON II. Preached at Pauls, upon Christmas Day, in the Evening. 1624.
ESAIAH. 7.14. Part of the first Lesson, that Evening. Therefore the Lord shall give you a signe; Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, and beare a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Yes it is!
Thank you for this!
That is how I came across it too ! And it led me to find a book of many more of his sermons on the London Library. I didn’t realise that ‘no man is an island’ is also from his sermon
Yes! Isn't that funny?
These kinds of things always make me realize that I need to read more sermons. It's not a genre I gravitate toward immediately!
Also, email subscribers, please forgive the typo in the FIRST sentence. Fixed it, but bah humbug!
No indeed , nor me. Wasn’t Amy March always having to read them to her aunt Josephine when Beth had scarlet fever?
Ha, yes. Or I think of Mr. Collins with Fordyce's Sermons!
That’s something else that’s nobody reads now, but in the early nineteenth century everyone would have known all about Fordyce and his sermons and been able to imagine Mr Collins from it . Like if I say ‘my teenage daughter is lying on the sofa reading the new Wendell Berry book ‘