Sermon on Habakkuk 1:4

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 17771
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-18491)
Sermon Title
Sermon on Habakkuk 1:4 (Descriptive)
Extent
ff. 1r-50r
Autograph
Composition Date
Primary Language
Bible Text
Habakkuk 1:4 - 1:4
Preachings
1586-03-01 (old) - Temple Church - Occasion not identified This sermon was delivered shortly before March 1586, during Hooker's first year at the Temple.
Print Editions / Witnesses

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.

Description

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).

Source of Data

Hannah Yip and Adam Richter

Other Note

The pages are ruled in red ink. The paper is gilt on all three sides. Written by a professional scribe in a neat secretary hand. Italics are used for quotations and certain nouns. There are minor corrections in the hand of the scribe.

GEMMS record created
November 6, 2019
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024