1676 PURITAN UNPUBLISHED MSs. 236pp Volume of Red-Hot Judgment Sermons

A superb, unpublished and unresearched 236pp manuscript volume of rather intense, often eschatologically toned sermons preached between 1676 and 1708. One gets the feeling of a Richard Baxter or other experimental puritans.  Subjects include a series of sermons on Paul before Felix and the missionary necessity and appropriateness of the imminent judgment of God in preaching; this is followed up be a pair of rather threatening sermons on the Rich Man and Lazarus and the famed, "What shall it profit a man . . ." text; and rounded on by a series of sermons on the peace and love of Christ in the Gospel and on the baptism of the Holy Ghost in Acts 2. The ecclesiastical tribe of our author is not immediately evident, but his preaching follows the later experimental puritan narrative model, especially the conversion thinking of Joseph Alleine, Richard Baxter, etc.,  . . . a penetrating, emotionally devastating view of personal sinfulness as the set up for an equally impactful and expansive vi