Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:16

GEMMS Sermon ID
GEMMS-SERMON- 18502
(old series: GEMMS-SERMON-19228)
Sermon Title
Sermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:16 (Descriptive)
Manuscript
Harley MS 6946 - Five sermons by John Donne
Extent
ff. 49r-60r
Autograph
No
Composition Date
Primary Language
English
Sermon Type
Sermon
Bible Text
1 Thessalonians 5:16 - 5:16
Associated People
Preachings
Print Editions / Witnesses

John Donne, Sermon no. 50 in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), pp. 466-474; George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson, eds, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 vols (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1953-1962), X, pp. 213-228.

Description

According to Katrin Ettenhuber, this undated sermon 'argues for the need to rejoice even in the face of sorrow and death'. See Katrin Ettenhuber, Donne's Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 102.

Source of Data

Hannah Yip

Other Note

Written in a neat, slanting secretary hand with some italic forms.

URLs
http://donnesermons.web.ox.ac.uk/oesjd-1-thes-516 Diplomatic transcription of the sermon by Jeanne Shami.
GEMMS record created
February 15, 2020
GEMMS record last edited
July 12, 2024