SERMONS - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

SoutHeRn MAnuScRipt SeRMonS BefoRe 1800
Bib. Ref.: 2. Cor. xiii. 5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith,—prove your
own selves,—know ye not your own selves,—how that Jesus Christ is in you except
ye be reprobates?
Commentary: The last page contains a four-quatrain hymn entitled “An Hymn on
the Subject.”
Keywords: hymn;
1380. PETTIGREW, CHARLES. (NC; Epis.; 1744-1807; ord. 1775;)
“A Sermon on the Love of God—God is Love.” [1792] 56pp. [Acc. No. 965]
Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Southern
Historical Collection)
Bib. Ref.: 1 John IV. 8.
Commentary: The last two pages of the sermon have five quatrains in common
ballad measure entitled “An Hymn.” Notes on the sermon read “at Edenton 22d
July 92 Do. at E[dento]n 26th Apl. 94 Do. at Windsor 9th August 95 at Skinner’s
C.[hapel] 26th Novr. 97 Preached at the C. House 6th of May 1798 at Phelps
C[hapel] 15th Aug 1802 At Sk.rs [Skinners] 1.st July 1804 At White Chapel 22d.
July 1804.”
Keywords: love of God; God is Love; hymn;
1381. PETTIGREW, CHARLES . (NC; Epis.; 1744-1807; ord. 1775;)
“A Sermon on the profanation of the name of God.” [1793] 46pp. [Acc. No. 966]
Repository: Department of Archives and History, North Carolina State Library,
Raleigh, NC
Bib. Ref.: Exodus xx. 7. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God in vain,
—for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain.
Commentary: There is a minor loss of text on pages 45-46. A note on the sermon
reads “Preached at Edenton 7th of April 1793—at Sk.rs[Skinner’s] Chapel 26th July
1801 at Phelps’s Chapel 2d. Aug.st 1801.” Skinner’s in located in Chowan Co., N.
C. Phelps is probably now located in Washington Co., N. C., but it was formed in
1799 from Tyrrel Co. A note at the end of the sermon states: “I acknowledge the
advantage which my ideas have derived on this subject, from the Lectures of Arch
Bishop Secker, & a Sermon of D.r Knox—.”
Keywords: Name of God, profanation of; profanity; profanation of the name of God;
Knox, Dr.; Secker, Archbisho;
1382. PETTIGREW, CHARLES. (NC; Epis.; 1744-1807; ord. 1775;)
“On what is to be done for the inheritance of eternal life.” [1799] 34pp. [Acc. No. 968]
Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (Southern
Historical Collection)
Bib. Ref.: Mark X. 17. And when he was gone forth into the [way], there came one
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