Bishop of Winchester · preacher · Anglican

Lancelot Andrewes

Born: 1555
Died: 1626

English bishop successively of Chichester, Ely and Winchester, a leading translator of the King James Bible and the most admired court preacher of the Jacobean church; his sermons and private devotions shaped the Caroline divines.

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Gunpowder Plot Sermon

The first of Andrewes's annual sermons before King James I on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, on Psalm 118:23-24, 'This is the day which the Lord hath made', giving thanks for the nation's deliverance.

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