Note On The Text Of Barrow’s Sermons

Only one of Barrow’s sermons appeared in his lifetime, The Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor which was published at the request of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, before whom it had been preached, “with what farther he had prepared to deliver at that time”. The sermon he preached at the Guildhall Chapel on Good Friday, 1677, Upon the Passion of Our Blessed Saviour, was also published by order of this Court, but was still in the press when Barrow died on May 4, 1677. The..