Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:6

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 7121
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-7546)
Sermon Title
Sermon on 2 Corinthians 4:6 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 156r-171r
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Sermon Type
Bible Text
2 Corinthians 4:6 - 4:6
Associated Sermons
Preachings
1622-04-22 (old) - St Mary without Bishopsgate - Easter Monday The place is identified in the manuscript as "ye Spitle", which the Oxford Edition website identifies as "the Spital Cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s without Bishopsgate".
Print Editions / Witnesses

Three printings: "A Sermon Preached at the Spittle upon Easter-Munday, 1662: Sermon XXV," in XXVI Sermons Preached by That Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London (London, 1660/1), pp. 357-392; 2) "Number 3. A Sermon Preached at the Spittle, Upon Easter-Munday, 1622," in George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 4 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1962), pp. 89-131; 3) "Preached at the Spittle [i.e., the Spital Cross in the churchyard of St Mary’s without Bishopsgate] upon Easter Monday, 1622," in The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Vol. 8, ed. by Mary Morrissey (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Description

Written at the end of the sermon is, "Finis of Doc: Donns Sermon at ye Spitle on Easte [sic] Munday 1622."

Source of Data

Jeanne Shami; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, vol. 1 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953), p. 36; Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne website (vol. 8).

Other Note

Another manuscript copy is found in the St Paul's manuscript, also known as the 'Chetwode MS' (St. Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14). See Potter and Simpson, vol. 1, p. 36. See the link below for a diplomatic transcription of this version by Erica Longfellow (OESJD).

Digitized Copy

Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne - Diplomatic transcription

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/volume-viii-sermons-civic-pulpits-pauls-cross-… Information about Mary Morrissey, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume VIII: Sermons for Civic Pulpits: Paul's Cross, Spital, Virginia Company (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-viii2-2-cor-46#tab-419916 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Mary Morrissey.
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-viii2-2-cor-46-0#tab-420521 Diplomatic transcription of another version of this sermon in the 'Chetwode MS', St Paul's Cathedral Library, MS 52.D.14 by Erica Longfellow.
GEMMS record created
April 13, 2017
GEMMS record last edited
September 1, 2024