Post-Mediæval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, & 17th Centuries; with outlines of their sermons, and specimens of their styleBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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Post-Mediæval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the 15th, 16th, & 17th Centuries; with outlines of their sermons, and specimens of their style
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Preaching
The date of his death is not known with certainty, but it probably took
place in 1495, though, according to some, he lived till 1520.
His works and their different editions are:—
Commentaria in libros iv. Magistri Sententiarum; Basil., 1512; Brixiæ,
1574, 5 vols. in 3, 4to.
In Sententias; Parisiis, 1514, fol.; Basileæ, Joc. de Pfortzen, 1512, 2
vols. fol.; Lugduni, Jacobus Myt, 1527, fol.
Sententiarum repertorium generale; Lugduni, Cleyn, 1614, fol.
Historia Dominicæ Passionis, prodiit una cum Defensorio et Sermonibus
cunctis; Hagenæ, 1519.
Passionis Dominicæ sermo historialis; sine loco et anno, 4to.
Sermones dominicales de tempore. Sermones de festivitatibus Christi.
Absque loci et anni nota, 4to.; sine loco impressionis, 1494, fol.,
Goth., a 2 col.; Tubingen, Otmar, 1510, Goth., 2 col.; Haguenaw, 1515,
4to.
Sermones de Sanctis. Absque loci et anni nota, 4to. Ejusdem de
festivitatibus Virginis Mariæ, 1599, 4to.
Sermones sacri totius anni; Brixiæ, 1583, 4to.
Sermones medicinales contra Pestem et Mortis Timorem; Defensorium
obedientiæ pontificis. Expositio canonis Migsæ; Lugduni, 1514, fol.;
Parisiis, Jehan Petit, 1516, fol., Goth.; Hagenoiæ, 1519, fol.;
Antuerpiæ, 1549, 8vo.; Lugduni, 1542; Venet., 1576; Brixiæ, 1580;
Bergomi, 1594.
Lectura super canonem Missæ, in alma universitate Tuwingensi ordinarie
lecta; Reutlingæ, Otmar, 1488, fol.
Tractatus de Monetarum potestate simul et utilitate; Norembergiæ, 1442,
4to.; Colon., 1574, 4to.; Lugduni, 1605, 4to.
Epitome scripti Gulielmi de Occam, et Collectorium circa iv. libr. Sent.
Still in MS.
The Exposition of the Mass which passes under the name of Biel is really
a copy from the work of Eggeling of Brunswick, as, indeed, Biel owns at
the end of the book.
The simple earnestness of Gabriel Biel renders his sermons very
attractive; and as being the production of a well-read and a thoughtful
man, these sermons furnish ample material for reproduction in the modern
pulpit. The reader will not find in Biel much of the fire of the Italian
pulpit, nor the richness of simile which characterized the Spanish
preachers, but he will find plain truths drawn from Scripture in a very
straightforward manner, and applied in short but nervous sentences.
Perhaps the main difference between a sermon of Biel and one of a modern
preacher, is, that the former contains many thoughts in few words, whilst
the latter consists of many words, but contains few thoughts.
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Analysis of Sermon xix. “De tempore,” being a sermon for Septuagesima, on
the text from the Gospel: “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that
is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers
into his vineyard,” &c. (Matt. xx. 1.)
Introduction.
Hitherto the Church has been keeping festival. Now she closes
her season of festivity, that she may lament and weep for the
lapse of her sons.
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