PHILLIPS, Jerome.

The Fisher-man. A Sermon preached at a Synode held at Southwell in Nottinghamshire ...

London, Printed for [sc. by] W. I. for Robert Bird … 1623. Small 4to., pp. [6], 26, wanting the first and last blank leaves; a very good copy in nineteenth-century half calf and marbled boards (endleaves tattered). First edition of Phillips’s only publication. The magnificent Southwell Minster is the cathedral church of the diocese of Southwell, which includes all of the county of Nottingham. Jerome Phillips, who entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1591 and died in 1648, was sometime fellow of Magdalene, and at this time rector of Althorpe in the Isle of Axholme.At the Synod, preaching to the clergy, he took his text from Mark 1.17, ‘Follow me, and I will make you Fishers of Men’, exploring such topics as ‘The necessitie of calling and gifts enabling in a Minister’, ‘Wisdome and learning absolutely necessary in Preachers’, ‘Unlearned and frothy preaching doth much hurt’, and ‘Gods worke goeth best forward whin his workmen agree well amongst themselves’. The sermon is dedicated to John Williams, the conservative Bishop of Lincoln, who was soon to become embroiled with the Puritans over innovations in religion. STC 19862.

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