Item genre: Precis

Huntington Library: Hastings Religious, Box 1, Folder 13
Sermon notes, biblical extracts, meditations, and a prayer (c.1625-1633. Dates occasionally appear in titles in this manuscript (1625 and 1631). One of her sources was printed in 1633 (John Preston's "Sins overthrow"). Hastings died in 1633.)
Elizabeth Hastings (Author, scribe)

Item 12 (Precis, Sermon notes), fol. 21r


William Perkins (Author)

Notes out of Mr Perkins's sermon: leaf. 411.

[The text of the sermon is Zephaniah 2:1-2. These extracts were taken from William Perkins's Works, printed in 1631. His sermon, ""A faithfull and plaine exposition upon the two first verses of the second Chapter of Zephaniah"", appears on pages 411-427 (plus an unpaginated title page and dedicatory epistle). A subtitle on Perkins's title page indicates the subject of the sermon: ""Containing a powerfull Exhortation to Repentance: as also the manner how men in Repentance are to search themselves"". Hastings lists the five points made in the sermon (noted on p. 411 in the printed text), with some variants. The second half of her notes consist of page numbers (pp. 411-418 and 422) and the letters A-D in various combinations, with occasional quotations from the printed text. For example, she writes ""417. D.ABC.D"". Each page of the printed text is divided into two columns with the letter A appearing between the two columns at the top of the page, B part way down, C further down, and D near the bottom. This is obviously a way of subdividing the sermon into manageable chunks for easy reference. Hastings's reference to D.ABC.D probably refers to the paragraph after D in the left hand column, then the entire right hand column (A-D). In these notes she has largely provided a kind of index to the passages in the sermon she found useful. For a discussion of Perkins as a ""moderate puritan"" see Michael Jinkins's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article.]