Sanderson, Robert

Twelve Sermons Preached 1. Ad Clerum. III. 2. Ad Magistratum. III. 3. Ad Populum. VI. Whereunto Are Now Added Two Sermons More, the One Preached at St. Pauls Crosse, Theother at a Visitation, Concerning the Perswasion of Conscience

      London: Printed by R.B. for R. Dawlman and are to be sold at the signe. 3rd edition. 4to. (bound in eights). 19cm x 14.5cm x 4.3cm. 4ff. /pp.544 [i.e. 556] / 5ff. /pp.557-652 / pp.654-655/1f. (blank). Pagination and register are continuous throughout. Contemporary full calf with a smooth spine. Hinges carefully strengthened. Recent endpapers (hand made paper). Light soiling to printed title, otherwise clean English text throughout. 3 other printed title pages occur within the book: p.121-"Three Sermons, Ad Magistratum By Robert Saunderson...London: Printed by Richard Badger for Robert Dawlman and Luke Faulne, 1636. "; p.241-"Three Sermons Ad Populum Preached In The Parish Church of Grantham...London: Printed by R.B. for Robert Dawlman, and Luke Fawne, 1637. "; p.545-"Two Sermons: The Former, Concerning The right use of Christian Liberty, Preached At St. Pauls Crosse London May 6. The Later, Concerning the perswasion of Conscience Preached At a Metropoliticall visitation at Grantham Lincoln: Aug. 22. 1634. London: Printed by R.B. for R. Dawlman and L. Fawne...1636. " STC: S21707 ** Robert Sanderson 1587–1663, English clergyman. Gaining William Laud's favor, he was appointed a royal chaplain in 1631 and regius professor of divinity at Oxford in 1642. Imprisoned during the civil war, he was reinstated to his professorship and named bishop of Lincoln in 1660. The second preface of the Anglican prayer book and the General Thanksgiving are attributed to him. His published writings include Logicae artis compendium (1618) and De obligatione conscientiae praelectiones decem (1660). Robert Sanderson, who lived to become a bishop at the restoration, and is embalmed in the exquisite prose of Izaak Walton, was another of the Elizabethans who made the church of England notable for its preaching power. The famous saying of Charles I is, perhaps, his chief title to distinction: "I carry my ears to hear other preachers, but I carry my conscience to hear Dr. Sanderson; "