Laud, William; Hatherell, J. W. [editor]. Sermons, preached by William Laud, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford; Reprinted verbatim from the last Edition, in 1651. London: Rivingtons, 1829. [10558]
Green cloth spine with original printed paper label, plain boards, 9 x 5 1/2 inches, slight edge-wear to the binding, tight. xvi, [4], 241 clean pp. The original book as it was bound by the publisher. Pages are untrimmed and most of the book remains unopened (top fold uncut). Good. Hardcover.
This reprint of the 1651 edition retains the original orthography and punctuation.
A brief Memoir of 8 pp. followed by seven sermons from the Psalms.
William Laud (1573-1645), royal chaplain to James I., archbishop and religious advisor to Charles I.; he wielded immense power in the Church of England. Archbishop Laud was of a High-Church and anti-Puritan persuasion and used his power to suppress Puritanism to the best of his ability. He was loyal to the Crown and was accused of arbitrary and tyrannical acts against those whose religious views he condemned. He was fiercely resisted by the Church of Scotland. Many of the Church of England admired him for his resistance to Calvinism and Independency, and for his defense of the doctrines of the Church of England. After the overthrow and execution of Charles I. Laud himself was tried and executed by the House of Commons.
"This venerable prelate, a victim to sectarian violence and blood-thirsty ambition, evinced in his last moments the animating power of that religion which he had preached and professed. No murmurs or lamentations escaped him: in prayers and supplications he bowed himself before heaven; though he was long prepared for that blow, which was neither sudden or unexpected. Thus died as he had lived, in the true spirit of genuine piety, this zealous servant of the most high God, a martyr to the cause of truth, being persecuted even unto the death by the blood-thirsty and remorseless Calvinists of that gloomy period." - J. W. Hatherell, in the Memoir prefacing the reprint of Laud's Sermons (1829), p. xiii.
