‎SHUTE, IOSIAS. ‎
‎Judgement and mercy or The plague of frogges inflicted, removed delivered in nine sermons (...) whereunto is added, A sermon preached at his funerall by Mr. Ephraim Udall.‎

‎London, Charles Greene, 1644 & 1645. 4to. In contemporary full calf with double ruled fillets to boards. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Lower left corner of front board with loss of leather. Doodles in contemporary hand to end-papers which are partly detached, otherwise internally nice and clean. (12), 218, 42, (1) pp.‎

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‎The rare first edition of Shute’s posthumously published sermons on judgement and mercy and his funeral sermon preached by Ephraim Udall. Josias Shute (1588–1643) acted from 1632 as chaplain to the East India Company, preached thanksgiving and other sermons for them at St. Helena. Shute was appointed by Charles I to the archdeaconry of Colchester on 15 April 1642, and was chosen on 14 June 1643 by the houses of parliament a member of the Westminster Assembly of divines but died on 13 June 1643, before the first sitting.. Thomas Fuller, English Churchman and historian says he was 'molested and vext to death by the rebels,' and that he was denied a funeral sermon by Richard Holdsworth, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as he wished. One was, however, preached by Ephraim Udall which is offered here.‎