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A20642	Foure sermons vpon speciall occasions. (Viz.) 1. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse. 2. To the Honorable, the Virginia Company. 3. At the consecration of Lincolnes Inne Chappell. 4. The first sermon preached to K. Charles at St. Iames, 1625. By Iohn: Donne. Deane of Saint Pauls, London	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Sermon upon the xx. verse of the v. chapter of the booke of Judges. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Sermon upon the viii. verse of the I. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Encaenia. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. First sermon preached to King Charles, at Saint James. aut	1625 (1625)	STC 7042; ESTC S114207	75,778	242

Hyems But then Quia Hyems Because it was Winter Hee did walke in Salomons Porch which was couered not in Atrio in that part of the Temple which was open and expos'd to the weather We doe not say that infirme and weak men may not fauour themselues in a due care of their health in these places That he who is not able to raise himselfe must alwayes stand at the Gospell or bow the knee at the name of Iesus or stay some whole houres altogether vncouered heere if that increase infirmities of that kinde And yet Courts of Princes are strange Bethesdaes how quickly they recouer any man that is brought into that Poole How much a little change of ayre does and how well they can stand and stand bare many houres in the Priuy Chamber that would melt and flowe out into Rhumes and Catarrs in a long Gospell heere But Citra Scandalum a man may fauour himselfe in these places but yet this excuses not the irreuerent manner which hath ouertaken vs in all these places That any Master may thinke himselfe to haue the same libertie heere as in his owne house or that that Seruant that neuer puts on his hat in his Masters presence all the weeke on Sunday when hee and his Master are in Gods presence should haue his hat on perchance before his Masters Christ shall make Master and Seruant equall but not yet not heere nor euer equall to himselfe how euer they become equall to one another Gods seruice is not a continuall Martyrdome that a man must bee heere and here in such a posture and such a manner though hee dye for it but Gods House is no Ordinary neither where any man may pretend to doe what he will and euery man may doe what any man does Christ slept in a storme I dare not make that generall let all doe so Christ fauoured himselfe in the Church I dare not make that generall neither to make all places equall or all persons equall in any place T is time to end Basil Saint Basill himselfe as acceptable as hee was to his Auditory in his second Sermon vpon the 14. Psalme takes knowledge that hee had preached an houre and therefore broke off I see it is a Compasse that all Ages haue thought sufficient But as we haue contracted the consideration of great Temples to this lesser Chappell so let vs contract the Chappell to our selues Et facta sint Encaenia nostra let this be the Feast of the Dedication of our selues to God Christ calls himselfe a Temple Soluite templum hoc Iohn 2.19 Destroy this Temple 1 Cor. 3.16 6.19 And Saint Paul calls vs so twice Know ye not that ye are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Facta sint Encaenia nostra Encaenia signifies Renouationem a renewing Aug. and Saint Augustine sayes that in his time Si quis noua tunica indueretur Encaeniare diceretur If any man put on a new garment hee called it by that name Encaenia sua Much more is it so if wee renew in our selues the Image of God and put off the Olde man and put on the Lord Iesus Christ This is truly Encaeniare to dedicate to renew our selues Nazian and so Nazian in a Sermon or Oration vpon the like occasion as this calls Conuersionem nostram Encaenia our turning to God in a true repentance or renewing our dedication Let mee charge your memories but with this note more That when God forbad Dauid the building of an House Because hee was a man of blood at that time Dauid had not embrued his hands in Vriahs blood nor shed any blood but lawfully in iust warres yet euen that made him vncapable of this fauour to prouide God a house Some callings are in their nature more obnoxious and more exposed to sinne then others are accompanied with more tentations so retard vs more in holy duties And therefore as there are particular sinnes that attend certaine places certaine ages certaine complexions and certaine vocations let vs watch our selues in all those and remember that not only the highest degrees of those sinns but any thing that conduces therunto prophanes the Consecration and Dedication of this Temple our selues to the seruice of God it annihilates our repentance and frustrates our former reconciliations to him Almighty God worke in you a perfit dedication of your selues at this time that so receiuing it from hands dedicated to God hee whose holy Office this is may present acceptably this House to God in your behalfes and establish an assurance to you that God will be alwayes present with you and your Succession in this place Amen THE FIRST SERMON PREACHED TO KING CHARLES At Saint IAMES 30. April 1625. By IOHN DONNE Deane of Saint Pauls London LONDON Printed by A. M. for THOMAS IONES and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand 1625. PSALME 11.3 If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe WEe are still in the season of Mortification in Lent But wee search no longer for Texts of Mortification The Almightie hand of God hath shed and spred a Text of Mortification ouer all the land The last Sabboth day was his Sabboth who entred then into his euerlasting Rest Be this our Sabboth to enter into a holy and thankfull acknowledgement of that Rest which God affords vs in continuing to vs our Foundations for If foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe I scarse know any word in the Word of God in which the Originall is more ambiguous and consequently the Translations more various and therfore necessarily also the Expositions more diuers then in these words There is one thing in which all agree that is the Argument and purpose and scope of the Psalme And then in what sense the words of the Text may conduce to the scope of the Psalme wee rest in this Translation which our Church hath accepted and authorized and which agrees with the first Translation knowen to vs by way of Exposition that is the Chalde Paraphrase If Foundations bee destroyed what can the righteous doe The Church of God euer delighted herselfe in a holy officiousnesse in the Commemoration of Martyrs Almost all their solemne and extraordinarie Meetings and Congregations in the Primitiue Church were for that for the honourable Commemoration of Martyrs And for that they came soone to institute and appoynt certaine Liturgies certaine Offices as they called them certaine Seruices in the Church which should haue reference to that to the Commemoration of Martyrs as wee haue in our Booke of Common Prayer certaine Seruices for Marriage for Buriall and for such other holy Celebrations And in the Office and Seruice of a Martyr the Church did vse this Psalme This Psalme which is in generall a Protestation of Dauid That though hee were so vehemently pursued by Saul as that all that wished him well sayd to his Soule Flie as a Bird to the Mountaine as

Common Wealth and of that Church though they liue not to see the growth thereof to perfection Apollo watred ● Cor. 3.6 but Paul planted he that begun the worke was the greater man And you that are young now may liue to see the Enemy as much impeached by that place and your friends yea Children aswell accommodated in that place as any other You shall haue made this Iland which is but as the Suburbs of the old world a Bridge a Gallery to the new to ioyne all to that world that shall neuer grow old the Kingdome of Heauen You shall adde persons to this Kingdome and to the Kingdome of Heauen and adde names to the Bookes of our Chronicles and to the Booke of Life To end all as the Orators which declaimed in the presence of the Roman Emperors in their Panegyriques tooke that way to make those Emperours see what they were bound to doe to say in those publique Orations that those Emperors had done so for that increased the loue of the Subiect to the Prince to be so told that he had done those great things and then it conuayd a Counsell into the Prince to doe them after As their way was to procure things to be done by saying they were done so beloued I haue taken a contrary way for when I by way of exhortation all this while haue seemed to tell you what should be done by you I haue indeed but told the Congregation what hath beene done already neither doe I speake to moue a wheele that stood still but to keepe the wheele in due motion nor perswade you to begin but to continue a good worke nor propose forreigne but your owne Examples to doe still as you haue done hitherto For for that that which is especially in my contemplation the conuersion of the people as I haue receiu'd so I can giue this Testimonie That of those persons who haue sent in Moneyes and conceal'd their Names the greatest part almost all haue limitted their Deuotion and Contribution vpon that point the propagation of Religion and the conuersion of the People for the building and beautifying of the House of GOD and for the instruction and education of their young Children Christ Iesus himselfe is yesterday and to day and the same for euer In the aduancing of his Glory be you so too yesterday and to day and the same for euer here and hereafter when Time shall be no more no more yesterday no more to day yet for euer and euer you shall enioy that ioy and that glorie which no ill accident can attayne to diminish or Eclipse it PRAYER WE returne to thee againe O GOD with Prayse and Prayer as for all thy mercies from before Minutes began to this Minute from our Election to this present Beame of Sanctification which thou hast shed vpon vs now and more particularly that thou hast afforded vs that great Dignitie to be this way Witnesses of thy Sonne Christ Iesus and Instruments of his Glorie Looke graciously and looke powerfully vpon this Body which thou hast been now some yeeres in building and compacting together this Plantation Looke graciously vpon the Head of this Body our Soueraigne and blesse him with a good disposition to this Worke and blesse him for that disposition Looke graciously vpon them who are as the Braine of this Body those who by his power counsaile and aduise and assist in the Gouernment thereof blesse them with disposition to Vnitie and Concord and blesse them for that disposition Looke graciously vpon them who are as Eyes of this Body those of the Clergie who haue any interest therein blesse them with a disposition to preach there to pray here to exhort euery where for the aduancement thereof and blesse them for that disposition Blesse them who are the Feet of this Body who goe thither and the Hands of this Bodie who labour there and them who are the Heart of this Body all that are heartily affected and declare actually that heartinesse to this action blesse them all with a cheereful disposition to that and blesse them for that disposition Blesse it so in this Calme that when the Tempest comes it may ride it out safely blesse it so with Friends now that it may stand against Enemies hereafter Prepare thy selfe a glorious Haruest there and giue vs leaue to be thy Labourers That so the number of thy Saints being fulfilled wee may with better assurance ioyne in that Prayer Come Lord Iesus come quickly and so meet all in that Kingdome which the Sonne of GOD hath purchased for vs with the inestimable price of his incorruptible Bloud To which glorious Sonne of GOD c. Amen FINIS Encaenia THE FEAST OF DEDICATION CELEBRATED AT LINCOLNES INNE in a Sermon there vpon Ascension day 1623. At the Dedication of a new Chappell there Consecrated by the Right Reuerend Father in God the Bishop of LONDON Preached by IOHN DONNE Deane of St. PAVLs LONDON Printed by AVG. MAT. for THOMAS IONES and are to bee sold at his Shop in the Strand at the blacke Rauen neere vnto Saint Clements Church 1623. TO THE MASTERS OF THE BENCH AND the rest of the Honourable Societie of LINCOLNES INNE IT pleased you to exercise your interest in me and to expresse your fauour to mee in inuiting mee to preach this Sermon and it hath pleased you to doe both ouer againe in inuiting me to publish it To this latter seruice I was the more inclinable because though in it I had no occasion to handle any matter of Controuersie betweene vs and those of the Romane Perswasion yet the whole body and frame of the Sermon is opposed against one pestilent calumny of theirs that wee haue cast off all distinction of places and of dayes and all outward meanes of assisting the deuotion of the Congregation For this vse I am not sorry that it is made publique for I shall neuer bee sorry to appeare plainly and openly and directly without disguise or modification in the vindicating of our Church from the imputations and calumnies of that Aduersary If it had no publique vse yet I should satisfie my selfe in this that it is done in obedience to that which you may call your Request but I shall call your Commandement vpon Your very humble Seruant in Christ Iesus IOHN DONNE The Prayer before the Sermon O Eternall and most gracious God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ and in him of all those that are his As thou diddest make him so much ours as that he became like vs in all things sinne onely excepted make vs so much his as that we may be like him euen without the exception of sinne that all our sinnes may bee buryed in his wounds and drowned in his Blood And as this day wee celebrate his Ascension to thee bee pleased to accept our endeauour of conforming our selues to his patterne in raysing this place for our Ascension to him Leane vpon these Pinnacles O Lord as thou diddist vpon Iacobs

it is in the first verse Though hee saw That the wicked had bent their Bowes and made ready their Arrowes vpon the string that they might priuily shoot at the vpright in heart as it is in the second verse Though he take it almost as granted that Foundations are destroyed And then what can the righteous doe as it is in the third verse which is our Text yet in this distresse he findes what to doe For as hee begunne in the first verse In thee Lord put I my trust So after he had passed the enumeration of his dangers in the second and third verses in the fourth he pursues it as he begun The Lord is in his holy Temple the Lords Throane is in Heauen And in the fifth hee fixes it thus The Lord tryeth the Righteous he may suffer much to be done for their triall but the wicked and him that loueth violence his soule hateth This then is the Syllogisme this is the Argumentation of the righteous Man In Collaterall things in Circumstantiall things in things that are not fundamentall a righteous Man a constant Man should not bee shaked at all not at all Scandalized That 's true But then in a second place sometimes it comes to that That Foundations are destroyd and what can the Righteous doe then Why euen then this is a question not of desperation that nothing can bee done but of Consultation with God what should be done I know sayes Dauid I should not be and thou knowest O God I haue not beene mou'd with ordinary trialls not though my Friends haue dis-auowed mee and bid mee flye to the Mountaine as a Bird not though mine enemies prepare and prepare Arrowes and shoote and shoote priuily bestowe their labour and their cost and their witts to ruine mee yet these haue not moou'd mee because I had fixed my selfe vpon certaine Foundations Confidences and Assurances of Deliuerance from thee But if O Lord I see these foundations destroyed if thou put mee into mine Enemies hand if thou make them thy Sword if their furie draw that Sword and then thy Almightie Arme sinewed euen with thine owne indignation strike with that sword what can I how righteous soeuer I were doe So then for the Explication and Application of these words there will need no more but to spread them by way of Paraphrase vpon these three considerations Diuisio First That the righteous is bolde as a Lyon not easily shaked But then Foundations themselues may bee destroyed and so hee may bee shaked If hee bee yet hee knowes what to doe or where to aske Counsell for these are not wordes of Desperation but of Consultation If Foundations bee destroyed c. 1. Part. First then wee fixe our selues vpon this consideration that the Prophet in proposing this thus If Foundations bee destroyed intimates pregnantly that except there bee danger of destroying Foundations it is the part of the righteous Man the godly man to bee quiet Studie to bee quiet sayes the Apostle Studie 1 Thess 4.11 that is an action of the Minde and then Operam detis say the Vulgate Edition Labour to bee quiet and Labour is an action of the bodie Indeed it is the proper businesse of the Minde and Bodie too of Thoughts and Actions too to bee quiet And yet alas how many breake their sleepe in the night about things that disquiet them in the day too and trouble themselues in the day about things that disquiet them all night too Wee disquiet our selues too much in beeing ouer tender ouer sensible of imaginarie iniuries Transeant iniuriae sayes the Morall man Let many iniuries passe ouer for Seneca Plaeras que non accipit qui nescit Hee that knowes not of an iniurie or takes no knowledge of it for the most part hath no iniurie Qui inquerunt quid in se dictum est sayes hee They that are too inquisitiue what other men say of them they disquiet themselues for that which others would but whisper they publish And therefore that which hee addes there for Morall and Ciuill matters holds in a good proportion in things of a more Diuine Nature in such parts of the religious worship and seruice of God as concerne not Foundations Non expedit omnia videre non omnia audire we must not too iealously suspect not too bitterly condemne not too peremptorily conclude that what soeuer is not done as wee would haue it done or as wee haue seene it done in former times is not well done for there is a large Latitude and by necessitie of Circumstances much may bee admitted and yet no Foundations destroyed and till Foundations bee destroyed the righteous should bee quiet Now this should not prepare this should not incline any man to such an indifferencie as that it should bee all one to him what became of all things all one whether wee had one or two or tenne or no Religion or that hee should not bee awake and actiue and diligent in assisting trueth and resisting all approaches of Errour For God hath sayd of all into whose hand hee hath committed power You are Gods Now they are not Gods but Idoles if as the Prophet sayes Psal 115.6 They haue Eyes and see not Eares and heare not Hands and strike not nay as hee addes there if they haue Noses and smell not if they smell not out a mischieuous practise before it come to execution For Gods eyes are vpon the wayes of man Iob. 33.21 and hee sees all his goings Those who are in the number of them of whome God hath said they are Gods must haue their eyes vpon the wayes of men and not vpon their Ends onely vpon the pathes of mischiefe and not vpon the bed of mischiefe onely vpon the Actors of mischiefe and not vpon the Act onely Gods eye sees our wayes sayes Dauid too that is hee can see them when hee will but there is more in the other Prophet Gods eyes are open vpon all our wayes Iere. 32.19 alwayes open and hee cannot chuse but see So that a wilfull shutting of the eye a winking a conniuencie is not an assimilation to God And then Abac. 1.13 Gods eyes are purer then to beholde euill and they cannot looke vpon iniquitie So that in an indifferencie whether Times or Persons bee good or badd there is not this assimulation to God Hebr. 4.13 Againe All things are naked and open to the eyes of God So that in the disguising and palliating and extenuating the faults of men there is not this assimilation to God Thus farre they falsifie Gods Word who hath sayd They are Gods for they are Idoles and not Gods if they haue eyes and see not So is it also in the consideration of the Eare too for as Dauid sayes Psal 94.9 Shall not hee that planted the Eare heare So wee may say Shall hee vpon whom God hath planted an Eare bee deafe Gods eares are so open so tender so sensible of any motion