Sermons on Useful and Important Subjects

Simpson (David)

Sermons on Useful and Important Subjects

Description: FIRST EDITION, slightly browned and a few stains here and there, pp. 77, [5], 81-209, [3], 214-238, 8vo, contemporary rustic half calf, gilt rules on either side of raised bands on spine, rubbed and worn, leather missing from corners, sound

Publication Details: Macclesfield: Printed for the Author, by T. Bayley, 1774

Notes: 'Although Simpson was an evangelical Arminian in his theology and associated most naturally with clergy of similar views, he maintained a wide acquaintance among evangelicals and was a regular correspondent of Rowland Hill, Thomas Robinson, and several others with whom he engaged in a concert of prayer. At Macclesfield he combined a regular ministry to a settled congregation with itinerant preaching in the surrounding area. He was a popular preacher and an energetic pastor, who visited regularly throughout his parish, ministered to the legal and medical needs of the poor, and founded friendly ...more'Although Simpson was an evangelical Arminian in his theology and associated most naturally with clergy of similar views, he maintained a wide acquaintance among evangelicals and was a regular correspondent of Rowland Hill, Thomas Robinson, and several others with whom he engaged in a concert of prayer. At Macclesfield he combined a regular ministry to a settled congregation with itinerant preaching in the surrounding area. He was a popular preacher and an energetic pastor, who visited regularly throughout his parish, ministered to the legal and medical needs of the poor, and founded friendly societies, charity schools, and Sunday schools. As a consequence, he attracted large congregations and often had six or seven hundred communicants. He was an early pioneer of congregational hymn singing, and a collection of hymns formed one of his earliest publications in 1776.' (ODNB). The final sermon is: 'Marriage honorable, Whoredom damnable.' Bound after a run of the Arminian Magazine, edited by John Wesley, July to December 1778, and before a copy of A Treatise concerning the Gospel-method of being Righteous, 1762, lacking title-page (2 copies only in ESTC). HIDE

Bibliography: (ESTC T79316, 5 copies in 4 locations in the UK, Duke only elsewhere)