Sermons on Evil-Speaking

Sermons on Evil-Speaking, by Isaac Barrow
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Title: Sermons on Evil-Speaking Author: Isaac Barrow Release Date: November 25, 2003 Language: English Chatacter set encoding: US-ASCII [eBook #10274]
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SERMONS ON EVIL SPEAKING
BY ISAAC BARROW, D.D.
CONTENTS. Introduction by Professor Henry Morley. Against Foolish Talking and Jesting. Against Rash and Vain Swearing. Of Evil-speaking in General. The Folly of Slander. Part 1. The Folly of Slander. Part 2.
INTRODUCTION.
Isaac Barrow was born in London in 1630. His father was draper to the king. His mother died when he was four years old. He was named Isaac after an uncle, who died in 1680, Bishop of St. Asaph. Young Isaac Barrow was educated at the Charterhouse School, and at Felstead, before he went, in 1643, to Cambridge. He entered first at Peterhouse, where his uncle Isaac was a Fellow, but at that time his uncle was ejected from his Fellowship for loyalty to the King’s cause, and removed to Oxford; the nephew, who entered at Cambridge, therefore avoided ...