Sermon on Psalms 144:15

This sermon was later published in John Donne, LXXX Sermons (London, 1640) as no. 74. Evelyn M. Simpson notes that there are a few minor variants between the version in St. Paul's Cathedral Library MS 52.D.14 and that found in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640). Simpson also notes the presence of some scribal errors in the St. Paul's version; see Simpson 1942, pp. 237-238. Another print witness is George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Volume III (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1957), pp. 73-90. In addition, this will be published as the fifth sermon in Hugh Adlington, ed., The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume II: Sermons Preached at the Jacobean Courts, 1619-1625 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Versions of this sermon are also found in the "Lothian" manuscript (National Library of Scotland MS 5767), the "Dowden" manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. th. e. 102), and the "Merton" manuscript (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. th. c. 71). See George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds., The Sermons of John Donne, Volume I (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953), p. 41. Full diplomatic transcriptions of these manuscripts are available at the "Sermons in Manuscript" page on the OESJD website (see link below).