Preceded by a letter from Donne to the Countess of Montgomery (f. 86v), but it is unrelated to this sermon. This letter also precedes the sermon in the Dobell manuscript (see Potter and Simpson, vol. I, p. 35).
Four printings: 1) the fourth sermon in Six Sermons upon Severall Occasions, Preached before the King, and Elsewhere: by the Late Learned & Reverend Divine John Donne, Doctour in Divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London (London, 1634), 1-26; 2) "Sermon XXXV. Preached February 21. 1611." in Fifty Sermons, Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr in Divinity, Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls London (London, 1649), 311-320; 3) "Number 8. Preached February 21. [1618/19]" in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953-1962), Vol. II, pp. 179-196; 4) "Preached February 21. [1618/19; possibly at the Cock-pit in Whitehall]," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 6, ed. Philip West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
At the end is written, "Finis of a Sermon of docter Donns preach'd at ye Cockpit."
Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953-1962), vol. I, p. 35
Other manuscript witnesses appear in the Dowden, Lothian, and Dobell manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson, vol. I, p. 35), in addition to British Library, Harley MS 6356, which was discovered by Jeanne Shami.