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Sermons on various subjects preached at Apoquiniminck in the year 1765 : manuscript

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Call Number:
F0130
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
1 item (80 pages)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 0098, F0130, Reading, Phillip, Sermons on various subjects preached at Apoquiniminck in the year 1765 : manuscript, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1765 (inclusive)
Creator:
Reading, Philip, 1720-1778
Form:
Sermons
Abstract:
This holograph booklet was written by Philip Reading, an Episcopal minister and missionary in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1765, and contains five sermons on various subjects, including "On the Love of God," "On the Love of our Neighbor," "On the Love of our Brother," "On the Love of the World," and "On the Love of ourselves."

Philip Reading (1720-1778) was an Anglican clergyman sent to the American colonies by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG). He served as the priest of St. Anne’s Church in Apoquiniminck (present day Appoquinimink Hundred in Delaware) from 1746-1778. The SPG was established in London in 1701 through a charter from King William III. The organization was created as a vehicle for sending priests and teachers to North America, in order to improve and expand the ministry of the Church of England to the colonists.

Thompson, Henry Paget.Into All Lands: The History of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1950. London: S.P.C.K., 1951. Further biographical and historical information derived from the collection.

This holograph booklet was written by Philip Reading, an Episcopal minister in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1765, and contains sermons on "Various subjects." The first page of the booklet features a table of contents listing the page numbers of several sermons. The sermons are titled "On the Love of God," "On the Love of our Neighbour," "On the Love of our Brother," "On the Love of the World," and "On the Love of ourselves."

  1. Box 5, F0130: Shelved in SPEC MSS 0098 manuscript boxes

A digitized copy of this item is available at the University of Delaware Digital Institutional Repository

Purchase, 1975.

Processed and encoded by E. Evan Echols, June 2012. Further encoded by George Apodaca, July 2015.

MSS 0462, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts transcripts of letters relating to Delaware.

This item forms part of MSS 0098 Delaware Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

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Sermons on various subjects preached at Apoquiniminck in the year 1765 : manuscript, 1765.
Box 5 Folder F0130
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