1791 THOMAS SCOTT. Life and Death of John Thornton - Clapham Sect + 15 Other Evangelical Funeral Sermons.

A really wonderful assemblage of not just funeral discourses, but often appended biographies and lives of the some of the most influential Evangelical clergy and missionaries of the early 19th century. These include people associated with the Clapham Sect, William Wilberforce, Hannah More, Abolition, Missions, and more. Superb reading. 

The volume includes 16 discourses in all, the highlights being:

Scott, Thomas. The Love of Christ the Source of Genuine Philanthropy. A Discourse on ii Cor. Chap. V. Ver. 14, 15. Occasioned by the Death of John Thornton, Esq. Late of Clapham, Surry: Containing Observations on His Character and Principles. London. 1791. 50pp.

Thornton, born in 1720, was one of the great evangelical philanthropists of his day, friends with William Wilberforce, etc., and it was his sons that formed the now-famed "Clapham Sect."

Biddulph, T. T. God Glorified in his Ministering Servants. A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of Cheddar, in the County of Somerset, on Monday, October 17, 1803, at the Funeral of the Rev. Thomas Drewitt, A.M. Curate of the Said Parish. Bristol. Printed and Sold by W. Bulgin. 1803. 31pp.

Thomas Drewitt was one of Hannah More's ministers; she was instrumental in many young, evangelical clergy finding their charge in a similar manner to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. He led the influential "Cheddar Plan" to reach the entire community which More saw as a model

Scott, Thomas. A Sermon, Preached at the Parish Church of Great Missenden, Bucks, Sunday, June 19, on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Jeremiah Newell, Vicar of Great Missenden, and Perpetual Curate of Lee; (Published be Special Request, for the Benefit of his Widow and Children;) To which is added, a Memoir of the Deceased. London. Printed for the Author, 1803. 55pp.

Preached by the famed, Thomas Scott, an excellent life of a long-time faithful minister who worked in close proximity with Scott, John Newton, etc.

Roe, Peter, Minister at Kilkenny. A Sermon Preached in St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny, August 14th, 1808, on the Death of the Rev. Edward Pidgeon, Victor of St. John and Claragh. Dublin. Printed by Robert Napper. 1808. 51pp. [Inscribed in pencil, "with the author's kind regards"]

Important evangelical divine working in Ireland. 

Wilson, Daniel. The Blessedness of the Christian in Death: Two Sermons Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Richard Cecil, M.A. Late Rector of Bisley and Vicar of Chobham, Surrey; and Minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London. Preached at the Above Chapel: The First, on Sunday, August 26, The Second, on Sunday, September 2, 1810. London. Printed for the Author. Printed for the Author. 1810. 78pp. 

Member of the Clapham Sect, one of the leaders of the Eclectic Society [which included John Newton, etc.] 

Robinson, Thomas. The Blessedness of the Faithful and Wise Steward. A Funeral Sermon Preached at St. John's Church, Trichinopoly, April 9th, 1826, on the Decease of the Right Reverend Reginald, Lord Bishop of Calcutta. With Notes and an Appendix. Calcutta. Bishop's College. 1826. 50pp.

Reginald Heber, influential missionary bishop to India, contemporary with William Carey, etc. 

Wilson, Daniel. The Gentleness of the Christian Minister an Argument for Perseverance in the Faith. A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, A.M. Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street, and Rector of St. Leonard's, Foster-Lane. Preached at the Parish Church of Christ Church, On Sunday, October 11, 1829. London. Saunders and Benning. 1829. 71pp.

Important Evangelical clergymen, originating member of the Church Missionary Society, abolitionist, and for whom Samuel Ajayi Crowther, first "native" African Bishop was named.

Hall, John. Two Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of St Werburgh, Bristol, on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Thomas Tregenna Biddulph, Minister of St. James's: On Sunday Evening, June 3, and on Sunday Morning, June 17, 1839. London. Hamilton, Adams, & Co. 1838. 44pp.

Biddulph was a leading evangelical in Bristol, etc. 

And several others. Attractive and sound half leather volume with some rubbing, but solid, crisp and clean. A very fine assemblage of the funeral sermons and lives of some of the most significant Evangelical clergy of the early 19th century.