A sermon by Hooker on this text has had two printings: 1) A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect Especially of the Prophet Habakkuks Faith (Oxford, 1612); 2) "A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect Especially of the Prophet Habakkuks Faith" in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker ... ed. J. Keble, vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888), 469-481. The latter is followed by another sermon on the same text (pp. 483-547). Hooker also published a treatise that cited this text at the beginning: see Richard Hooker, A Learned Discovrse of Ivstification (Oxford, 1612); W. Speed Hill [general editor], The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume 5 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 83-170.
For a detailed analysis of this sermon, see W. Speed Hill [general editor], The Folger Library Edition of The Works of Richard Hooker, Volume 5 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. 83-170; Corneliu C. Simut, Richard Hooker and his Early Doctrine of Justification (Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005).
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