‎SMITH, JOHN.‎
‎An exposition of the Creed: or, An explanation of the articles of our Christian faith. Delivered in many afternoone sermons, by that reverend and worthy divine, Master Iohn Smith, late preacher of the Word at Clavering in Essex, and sometime fellow of...‎

‎London, By Felix Kyngston for Robert Allot, 1632. Folio (285 x 200 mm). in contemporary full calf with five raised bands. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Blind-stamped boarders to boards and edges of boards gilt. Light wear and soiling to extremities, internally with a few tears but otherwise fine. (10), 660, (22) pp. ‎

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‎Rare first edition of John Smith’s seventy four sermons originally delivered in Clavering, Essex and in Oxford. “SMITH, JOHN (1563–1616), divine, born at or near Coventry, Warwickshire, in 1563, was educated at the Coventry grammar school recently founded by John Hales, and elected at the age of fourteen to a Coventry scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford. He proceeded M.A. in 1585, and B.D. in 1591. He was made a fellow of his college, and highly valued in the university ‘for his piety and parts.’ He was chosen lecturer at St. Paul's Cathedral, in the place of Lancelot Andrewes [q. v.], and became minister of Clavering, Essex, in 1592. He died in November 1616, leaving benefactions to St. John's College, to Clavering parish, and to ten faithful and good ministers who had been deprived on the question of ceremonies. He obtained a license to marry Frances, daughter of William Babbington of Chorley, Cheshire, on 21 Oct. 1594 (FOSTER, London Marriage Licenses, p. 1244).” (DNB)‎