Sermon on Psalms 38:9

GEMMS ID
GEMMS-SERMON-7537
GEMMS-SERMON2-7112
Sermon Title
Sermon on Psalms 38:9 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 95r-101v
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Type
Bible Text
Psalms 38:9 - 38:9
Preachings
1620-12-21 - 1620-03-20 (old) - Lincoln's Inn - Occasion not identified The place is not given in the text, but is identified in printed versions of the sermon. No date is given in the text. The Oxford Edition places it in winter 1620 rather than spring 1618, the date given by earlier scholars.
Print Editions / Witnesses

Five printings: 1) Privately printed by Wilfred Merton from Dowden manuscript in 1921; 2) "Appendix A: Sermon by Donne (Hitherto Unpublished)," in Evelyn M. Simpson, A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne, 1st ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924), pp. 321-339; 3) "Number 6. Preached at Lincoln's Inn," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 2 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955), pp. 144-163; 4) George Reuben Potter, ed., A Sermon Preached at Lincoln's Inn by John Donne on the Ninth Verse of Psalm 38 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1946); 5) "Preached at Lincoln’s Inn," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, vol. 4, ed. Emma Rhatigan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953), p. 36; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (vol. 4)

Other Note

Other manuscript copies appear in the Dowden, Lothian, and Dobell manuscripts (see Potter and Simpson vol. 1, p. 36). The sermon was printed only in the first edition of Simpson's Study of the Prose Works of John Donne (1924); it was removed from the second edition (1948).

URLs
http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/volume-4 Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (Volume 4)
http://www.cems-oxford.org/donne/sermons-in-manuscript/sermons/oesjd-iv8-on-psa… Full text of the sermon on the Oxford Edition website
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024