A sermon preached at Lincoln's inn : by John Donne on the ninth verse of Psalm XXXVIII, "Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee."
A sermon preached at Lincoln's inn : by John Donne on the ninth verse of Psalm XXXVIII, "Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee."
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Very Good. 1946 first edition Stanford University Press (Stanford, California), 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches tall orange cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, dark orange lettering to front cover and spine, vii, 71 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with very slight bumping to tips. Otherwise, apart from very slight age toning, a very good copy-clean and unmarked-in a moderately soiled, chipped, worn and torn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. ~III~ [1.5P] John Donne (1572-1631) was a poet and Church of England clergyman. He was born in London, educated at Hart Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College) and received legal training at Lincoln's Inn. Donne found work as a soldier, a secretary, a professional author (seeking patronage) and Member of Parliament, before finally accepting a role in the Church of England, rising to the eminent position of Dean of St Paul's. Although best known now for his dazzlingly inventive 'metaphysical' poems, with their extended metaphors and elaborate conceits, in his own day Donne was a celebrated preacher. This excerpt derives from Donne's second sermon discussing Psalm 38, in which a penitent David chastises himself for his sins and asks for God's support ('be not far from me'), for his 'iniquities' are 'too heavy' a burden for him. The sermon was included in a collection of fifty of Donne's sermons, first printed in 1649, eighteen years after Donne's death. It is not known when the sermon was first preached, but it almost certainly dates from the late 1610s or early 1620s when Donne was employed as preacher by the Lincoln's Inn Society. Potter and Simpson date the series of sermons about Psalm 38 to the spring or summer of 1618, based on a reference to the construction of a new chapel at Lincoln's Inn in the sermon on verse 9 (Introduction, pp. 13? 14). Donne's congregation for sermons at the Inns of Court would have largely consisted of members of the Inn, 'including the benchers (the governing body of the Society), the barristers, and also the students' (Rhatigan, p. 109).
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 71 clean, unmarked pages/index/notes; dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; Text based on the manuscript numbered: Nor 4506" in the Library of Harvard University.
