George Abbot, later Archbiship of Canterbury, preached a sermon on some part of the Book of Jonah every Thursday from 1594 to 1599. That comes to 260 sermons on a book four chapters long, with 48 verses--- 5+ sermons per verse! (p. 157, Nicolson, God's Secretaries-- a 2003 Christmas List item). These were published as An exposition vpon the prophet Ionah [electronic resource] : Contained in certaine sermons, preached in S. Maries Church in Oxford. By George Abbot Professor of Diuinitie, and Maister of Vniuersitie Colledge. Published: London : Imprinted by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-friers, 1600. Description: [8], 638, [2] p. [permalink, http://php.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/w/03.12.16fa.htm ]

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