SERMONS - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

SoutHeRn MAnuScRipt SeRMonS BefoRe 1800
missing an undetermined number of front pages. Its last page of text (34 of 34)
is separated by a double line drawn slightly below a point two-thirds down the
page and under which Clay inscribes the dates and possibly the locations where
the sermon was preached in two columns as follows (with a slash indicating a
line break): “71 [1771]/1. A/4. E/4. U/7. O/—-2 [1772]/3. J./—-3 [1773]/8. O./—-
4 [1774]/J. 9/—-6 [1776]/E. 1/[?]. 2/[new column] —-6 [1776]/A. 8/T. 8./—-7
[1777]/O. 12”. A very few sections of the sermon are either boxed or crossed out.
Clay uses abbreviations throughout the sermon.
Keywords: parents, training of children; children, training by parents; duty to
educate children; Christian education; serving God; parents, duty to children;
children, duty to educate; children, education of; children, parents’ duties to;
children, religious education of; faith; love; obedience; God, service to; God,
glorification of; God, worship of; God as father; God, commandments of; Christ,
salvation through; sin, punishment of; damnation, eternal; Hell, torments of;
Baptism; education, Christian; covenant of grace; grace, covenant of; world, sins of;
heaven, joys of; catechism; children, duties of; God, grace of;
716. CLAY, CHARLES. (VA; Epis.; 1745-1820; lic. for VA June 7, 1769; ord.
London, 1769)
“For Christmas Day” [1771;] 2 + 33 + 1 blank pp. [Acc. No. 4035] [Entry added
January 2010.]
Repository: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA (Clay family papers, 1769-
1951. Mss1 C5795a, Sermons, folder 46-47)
Bib. Ref.: 1 John 4 Chap. 9, 10 verses. In this was manifested the love of God towds.
[toward] us, because yt [that] God Sent his only begotten Son into the [symbol for
“world”], yt [that] we might live [symbol for “through”] him. herein is love, not yt
[that] we loved God, but yt [that] he loved us, & sent his Son to be the propitiation
for Our Sins.
Commentary: This sermon is presently located in folder 46-47 and grouped with
accession number 4036. Their relationship is undetermined. The cover bears
the title of the sermon. The inside front cover bears a date and possible location
of the sermon: “1786 - 10.X.” The inside back cover bears the conclusion of the
sermon and under it, in a heavily stained section of the manuscript, is a column
which indicates the dates and perhaps locations where the sermon was preached
as follows (with a slash indicating a line break): “1771 [?]/10-G[?]/—-4 [1774]/10.
J/—-6 [1776]/10. O/—-7 [1777]/10 J/10 O/—-8 [1778]/10 A[?]”. The manuscript
bears light editing by Clay and a use of abbreviations throughout.
Keywords: Feast of Tabernacle; Tabernacle, Feast of; God, love of; mercy of God;
obedience; temperance; Christmas, sermon for; sermon, Christmas; God, love for
mankind; Christ, birth of; Christ, salvation through; Mosaic law; Christ, nativity
of; salvation; God, mercy of; Christ, incarnation of; Incarnation of Christ; grace,
covenant of; covenant of grace; original sin; sin, original; Devil; man, sins of; God’s
vengeance; God, goodness of; God, justice of; God, compassion of; redemption;
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