1671, A Collection of Sermons Upon Several Occasions,

whereunto is added a correct copy of some notes concerning God's decrees, especially of reprobation, enlarged.

As a popular preacher, Pierce was the author of many printed sermons.

All were included in this Collection issued in 1671.

Controversialist President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Salisbury engaged in pamphlet warfare and was appointed chaplain-in-ordinary to Charles II at the restoration of the monarchy, then canon of Canterbury.

Until the end of 1644 Pierce was a Calvinist, but he then changed his views for Arminian ones and attacked his abandoned opinions with the zeal of a neo-convert.

For some time he was content to confine his thoughts to the manuscript, but in 1655 he expounded his creed, that the sin in him was due to his own and not to God's will, and that the good done by him was received from the special grace and favor of God.

This pronouncement produced a furious controversy.

On 16 June 1662, he had been appointed to the lectureship at Carfax.

During 1661 and 1662 many sermons were preached by him in London, including one delivered on 1 February 1663 before the king at Whitehall against the Roman Catholic church.

Written by Thomas Pierce D.D. President of St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon.