commentary

The Common Principles of the Christian Religion

1659 · 25 entries

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By

Hugh Binning

Dates

first published 1659

Tradition

reformed, presbyterian

Also called

The Common Principles of Christian Religion; A Practical Catechism

Follows

The Common Principiles of Christian Religion. Clearly proved, and singularly improved; Or, a Practical Catechism, wherein some of the most concerning-foundations of our Faith are solidely laid down; And that Doctrine, which is according to Godliness, sweetly, yet pungently pressed home, and most satisfyingly handled, the fifth impression, “carefully corrected & amended”, printed by Robert Sanders, Glasgow, its title page dated 1666 and its colophon 1667 (Glasgow); Wing B2927, ESTC R33213 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From EEBO-TCP A28171Checked against a copy at archive.org: every heading (each sermon’s text, and the contents’ headings), every sermon’s first and last page, fifteen pages drawn at random, and “To the Reader”, word by word; the TCP’s I for the printing’s italic J throughout, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-30

License

Public domain

Notes

Hugh Binning (1627–1653), regent in philosophy at Glasgow and then minister of Govan, preached these sermons on the opening questions of the Shorter Catechism to his congregation; they were printed after his death, at Glasgow in 1659, with an epistle “To the Reader” on his life signed by Patrick Gillespie. The text here is the fifth impression, “carefully corrected & amended”, which EEBO-TCP transcribed (its title page is dated 1666 and its colophon 1667); the first edition is on archive.org (bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-common-principles-of_binning-hugh_1659). Each entry is one of its twenty-five sermons, its text Markdown, beginning with the Scripture it preaches on; it is titled by the printing’s heading where it has one (001, 003) and else by the sermon’s heading in the contents, which give the seventh and eighth one heading. Its questions are the catechism’s it treats, by its subject: Binning prints none of them, and goes as far as question 20 (the covenant of grace, in the last sermon, on 1 Tim. 1:15); none treats question 14, what sin is, apart from the fall and Adam’s first sin. “To the Reader” and the contents are prose/; the title page and the colophon are left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A28171 by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --on wsc --sermons --italic-j), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek and Hebrew), but where the scan was read. EMENDATIONS.md gives the conventions and every correction. The film shows pp. 244–245 twice.

On

Westminster Shorter Catechism (1647)

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