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A20648	A sermon of commemoration of the Lady Da[n]uers late wife of Sr. Iohn Da[n]uers. Preach'd at Chilsey, where she was lately buried. By Iohn Donne D. of St. Pauls, Lond. 1. Iuly 1627. Together with other commemorations of her; by her sonne G. Herbert.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633. aut	1627 (1627)	STC 7049; ESTC S118478	33,254	202

and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse But first let vs doe our first worke and pursue the literall purpose of the Apostle in these words Which words out of their connection and coherence be pleas'd to receiue thus spread and dilated into this Paraphrase Neuerthelesse that is though there be scoffers and iesters that deride and laugh at the second comming of Christ as the Apostle had said v. 3. And neuerthelesse againe Though this day of the Lord will certainly come and come as a Theefe and as a Theefe in the night and when it comes the Heauens shall passe away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with seruent heat the Earth also and all the Workes that are therein shall be burnt vp as hee had also said v. 10. Though there be such a scorne put vpon it by scoffers and iesters and though there be such a horrour in the truth of the thing it selfe yet neuerthelesse for all that for all that scorne and for all that horrour We We saies the Text We that are fixt in God We that are not ignorant of this one thing as he saies v. 8. that one day is with the Lord as 1000. yeares and 1000. yeares as one day We that know that the Lord is not stacke in his promise though he be long-suffering to vs-ward as he also saies v. 9. We According to his promises that is building vpon that foundatiō his Scriptures presuming vpon nothing that is not in that euidence and doubting of nothing that is there We expect We looke for something saies our Text which we haue not yet Wee determine not our selues nor our contentment in those things which God giues vs here not in his Temporall not in his spirituall Blessings in this life but we expect future things greater than wee are capable of here for We looke for new Heauens and new Earth in which that which is not at all to be had here or is but an obscure In-mate a short Soiourner a transitory Passenger in this World that is Righteousnesse shall not onely Bee but Dwell for euer Neuerthelesse wee according to his promise looke for new Heauens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse So then in this our Voyage through this Sea which is truly a Mediterranean Sea a Sea betwixt two Lands the Land of Possession which wee haue and the Land of Promise which wee expect this Old and that new Earth that our dayes may be the better in this land which the Lord our God hath giuen vs and the surer in that Land which the Lord our God will giue vs In this Sea-voyage bee these our Land-markes by which we shall steere our whole course First the day of Iudgement is subiect to scorne some laugh at it And then in a second consideration it induces horror The best man that is but man trembles at it But wee which is a third branch those that haue laid hold vpon God And in a fourth place haue laid hold vpon God by the right handle According to his promises Wee which will constitute a fift point Wee expect We blesse God for our Possession but We looke for a greater Reuersion which Reuersion in the next roome is new Heauens and new Earth And lastly such Heauens and such Earth as may be an euerlasting Dwelling for Righteousnesse And through all these particulars we shall passe with as much cleerenesse and shortnesse as the weight and number thereof will admit First then to shake the constancy of a Christian there will alwaies be Scorners Iesters Scoffers and Mockers at Religion The Period and Consummation of the Christian Religion the Iudgement day the second comming of Christ will alwaies be subiect to scornes And many times a scorne cuts deeper then a sword Lucian wounded Religion more by making Iests at it than Arius or Pelagius or Nestorius with making Arguments against it For against those profest Heretikes and against their studied Arguments which might seeme to haue some weight it well beseem'd those graue Reuerend● Fathers of the Church to call their Councels and to take into their serious consideration those Arguments and solemnly to conclude and determine and decree in the point But it would ill haue become those reuerend persons to haue cal'd their Councels or taken into their so serious considerations Epigrams and Satyres and Libells and scurrill and scornfull iests against any point of Religion Scornes and Iests are easilier apprehended and vnderstood by vulgar ordinary capacities then Arguments are and then learned men are not so earnest nor so diligent to ouerthrow and confute a Iest or Scorne as they are an Argument and so they passe more vncontrol'd and preuaile further and liue longer then Arguments doe It is the height of Iobs complaint that contemptible persons made Iests vpon him And it is the depth of Samsons calamity that when the Philistins hearts were merry then they cald for Samson to make them sport So to the Israelites in Babylon when they were in that heauinesse that euery breath they breath'd was a sigh their enemies cal'd to sing them a song And so they proceeded with him who fulfil'd in himselfe alone all Types and Images and Prophesies of sorrowes who was as the Prophet calls him Vir dolorum A man compos'd and elemented of sorrowes our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus For They platted a crowne of thornes vpon his head and they put a reed into his hand and they bowed the knee before him and mockt him Truly the conniuing at seuerall Religions as dangerous as it is is not so dishonourable to God as the suffering of Iesters at Religion That may induce heresie but this do●'s establish Atheisme And as that is the publike mischiefe so for the priuate there lies much danger in this that hee that giues himselfe the liberty of iesting at Religion shall finde it hard to take vp at last as when Iulian the Apostata had receiued his Deathes-wound and could not chuse but confesse that that wound came from the hand and power of Christ yet he confest it in a Phrase of Scorne Vicisti Galilaee The day is thine O Galilean and no more It is not Thou hast accomplish't thy purpose O my God nor O my Maker nor O my Redeemer but in a stile of contempt Vicisti Galilaee and no more And therefore as Dauid begins his Psalmes with Blessednesse so he begins Blessednesse with that Blessed is hee which sitteth not in the seat of the scornfull Dauid speakes there of walking with the vngodly but walking is a laborious motion And hee speakes there of standing with the sinner but standing is a painfull posture In these two walking and standing there 's some intimation of a possibility of wearinesse and so of desisting at last But in sitting in the seat of the scornfull there is denoted a sinning at ease and in the Vulgate edition at more that ease with authority and glory For it is In cathedra In the chaire of

desi●d that glorie and yet staid his time for it If I pretend to desire death that I might see no more sinne heare no more blasphemies from others it may be I may do more good to others than I shall take harme by others if I liue If I would die that I might be at an end of temptations in my selfe yet I might lose some of that glory which I shall haue in Heauen by resisting another yeeres tentation if I died now To end this consideration as this looking for the day of the Lord which is the word of our Text implyes a ioy and a gladnesse of it when it shall come whether we consider that as the day it selfe the day of Iudgement or the Eue of the day the day of our death so doth this looking for it imply a patient attending of Gods leasure For our example the Apostle saies The earnest expectation of the Creature waiteth for the manifestation of the Sonne of God It is an earnest expectation and yet it waits and for our neerer example Wee our selues which haue the first fruits of the spirit groane within our selues But yet he addes wee wait for the adoption the redemption of the bodie Though wee haue some eares we wait for the whole sheaues And we may be content to doe so for we shall not wait long This is the last time sayes St. Iohn speaking of the present time of the Gospell In the time of nature they were a great way off from the Resurrection for then the time of the Law was to come in And in the time of the Law they were a great way off for then the time of the Gospell was to come in But this is the last time There shall bee no more changes after the Gospell the present state of the Gospell shall land vs vpon the Iudgement And as the Vulgate reads that place Nouissima horaest If God will haue vs stay a little longer it is but for a few minutes for this is our last houre Wee feele scornes wee apprehend terrours Neuerthelesse we we rooted in his promises doe expect we are not at an end of our desires and with an holy impatience that he would giue vs and yet with a holy patience till he be pleas'd to giue vs New Heauens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse Which are the two branches which remaine yet to be consider'd As in the first discoueries of the vnknowne parts of the world the Maps and Cards which were made thereof were verie vncertaine verie vnperfect so in the discouerie of these New Heauens th● expositions of those who haue vndertaken that worke are verie diuers First Origen citing for his opinion Clement whom hee cals the Disciple of the Apostles takes those heauens and that Earth which our Antipodes and generally those that inhabit● the other Hemispheare inhabit to be the new Heauens and the new Earth of this Text. Hee sayes Oceanus intransibilis ad reliquos mundos There are Worlds beyond these Worlds beyond that Ocean which wee cannot passe nor discouer sayes Origen But those Worlds and those Heauens and that Earth shall bee discouer'd before the last day and the Gospell of Christ bee preach't in all those places And this is our expectation that which wee looke for According to his promises in the intention and exposition of Origen Those that were infected with the heresie of the Chiliasts or Millenarians with which heresie diuers great and learned men whom we refuse not to call Fathers in the Primitiue Church were infected vpon the mistaking of those words in the Apocalyps of reigning with Christ a thousand yeeres after the first Resurrection argu'd and concluded a happie temporall state of Gods Saints here vpon this Earth for so many yeeres after that day So that though there should not be truly a new Earth and new Heauens but the same Heauens and the same Earth as was before for those future thousand yeeres yet because those Saints of God which in their whole former life had beene in miserie vpon this Earth should now enioy all earthly happinesse vpon the same Earth for a thousand yeeres before they ascended into Heauen these Heauens and this Earth because they are so to them are called a new Earth and a new Heauens by those Millenarians St. Ierome and St. Augustine and after them the whole streame run in another channell They say that these Heauens and this Earth shall be so purified so refin'd by the last fires of conflagration as that all corruptible qualities shall bee burnt out of them but they in their substance remaine still To that those words of St. Paul helpe to incl●ne them Perit figura The fashion of this world passeth away The fashion not the substance For it is Melioratio non interitus The world shall bee made better but it shall not bee made nothing But to what end shall it be thus improu'd In that St. Augustine declares himselfe Mundus in melius immutatus apte accommodabitur hominibus in melius immutatis When men are made better by the Resurrection this World being made betterby those fires shall bee a fit habitation for those Saints of God and so euen this World and whatsoeuer is not Hell shall bee Heauen And truly some verie good Diuines of the Reformation accompany those Ancients in that Exposition that these Heauens purified with those fires and super-inuested with new endowments shall be the euerlasting habitation of the blessed Saints of God But still in these discoueries of these new Heauens and this new Earth our Maps will bee vnperfect But as it is said of old Cosmographers that whē they had said all that they knew of a Countrey and yet much more was to be said they said that the rest of those countries were possest with Giants or Witches or Spirits or Wilde beasts so that they could pierce no farther into that Countrey so when wee haue trauell'd as farre as wee can with safetie that is as farre as Ancient or Moderne Expositors lead vs in the discouerie of these new Heauens and new Earth yet wee must say at last that it is a Countrey inhabited with Angells and Arch-angells with Cherubins and Seraphins and that wee can looke no farther into it with these eyes Where it is locally wee enquire not We rest in this that it is the habitation prepar'd for the blessed Saints of God Heauens where the Moone is more glorious than our Sunne and the Sunne as glorious as Hee that made it For it is he himselfe the Sonne of God the Sunne of glorie A new Earth where all their waters are milke and all their milke honey where all their grasse is corne and all their corne Manna where all their glebe all their clods of earth are gold and all their gold of innumerable carats Where all their minutes are ages and all their ages Eternity Where euery thing is euery minute in the highest exaltation as good as it can be and yet

the scornfull which implies a Magisteriall a Doctorall kinde of sinning that is to sinne and to prouoke others by example to sinne too and promises no returne from that Position For as wee haue had diuers examples that men who haue vs'd and accustom'd their mouthes to Oaths and Blasphemies all their liues haue made it their last syllable and their last gaspe to sweare they shall die so they that inlarge and vngirt their wits in this iesting at Religion shall passe away at last in a negligence of all spirituall assistances and not finde halfe a minute betweene their last iest and their euerlasting earnest Vae vobis qui ridetis Woe be vnto you that laugh so for you shall weepe and weepe eternally Saint Paul preacht of the Resurrection of the dead and they mockt him And here St. Peter saies there will be that is there will be alwaies Scoffers that will say where is the promise of Christs comming For since the Fathers fell asleepe all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation But doe they so saies this Apostle Was not the world that then was ouerslow'd with water and perish't If that were done in earnest why doe yee make a iest of this saies he That the heauens and the earth which are now are reserued vnto fire against the day of Iudgement 2. Tim. 3. 1 The Apostle saies That in the last dayes perillous times shall come and hee reckons there diuers kindes of perillous men but yet these Iesters are not among them And then 1 Tim 4. 1. The Apostle names more perillous men Seducing Spirits and Seducing by the doctrine of Deuils forbidding meats and mariage and we know who these men are Our Sauiour tels vs they shall proceed a great way They shall shew great signes and wonders they shall pretend Miracles they shall exhibite false Christs Christs kneaded into peeces of bread And wee know who these are and can beware of these proceedings But Saint Iude remembers vs of the greatest danger of all Remember the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ that there should bee mockers in the last time For against all the rest the Church of God is better arm'd But Perniciosissimum humano generi sayes Saint Augustine This is the ruine and ouerthrow of mankinde that is of Religion which is the life and soule of mankinde Cum vera salubris sententia imperitorum populorum irrisione sordescit When true and sincere Religion shall be cri'd down and laugh't out of countenance by the scornes and iests of ignorant people When to all our sober preaching and serious writing a scornfull ignorant shall thinke it enough to oppose that one question of contempt Where was your Church before Luther Whereas if wee had had any thing from Luther which wee had not had before yet euen that were elder than those Articles which they had from the Councell of Trent and had not as Articles before For Luthers Declarations were before the Constitutions of that Councell So that wee could play with them at their owne Game and retort their owne scornes vpon themselues but that matters of Religion should moue in a higher Spheare and not bee deprest and submitted to iests But though our Apostles prophesie must be fulfilled There will bee and will alwaies be some scoffers some iesters Neuerthelesse saies the Text there is a Religious constancy vpheld and maintained by others And farther wee extend not this first Consideration of our danger But though I can stand out these scornes and iests there is a Tentation that is Reall There are true terrours sad apprehensions substantiall circumstances that accompany the consideration of Christs second comming and the Day of Iudgement It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God if I doe but fall into his hands in a feuer in my bed or in a tempest at Sea or in a discontent at home But to fall into the hands of the liuing God so as that that liuing God enters into Iudgement with mee and passes a finall and irreuocable Iudgement vpon mee this is a Consternation of all my spirits an Extermination of all my succours I consider what God did with one word with one Fiat he made all And I know he can doe as much with another word With one Pereat he can destroy all As hee spake and it was done he commanded and all stood fast so he can speak and all shall bee vndone command and all shall fall in peeces I consider that I may bee surpriz'd by that day the day of Iudgement Here Saint Peter saies The day of the Lord wil come as a Thiefe And Saint Paul saies we cannot be ignorant of it Your selues know perfectly that the day of the Lord so commeth as a Thiefe And as the Iudgement it selfe so the Iudge himselfe saies of himselfe I will come vpon thee as a Thiefe He saies he will and he doe's it For it is not Ecce veniam but Ecce venio Behold I doe come vpon thee as a Thiefe There the future which might imply a dilatorinesse is reduc't to an infallible present It is so sure that he will doe it that he is said to haue done it already I consider hee will come as a Thiefe and then as a Thiefe in the night And I doe not only not know when that night shall be For himselfe as he is the Son of man knowes not that but I doe not only not know what night that is which night but not what night that is what kinde of night he meanes It is said so often so often rep●d●ed that he will come as a Thiefe in the night as that hee may meane all kinde of nights In my night of Ignorance hee may come and hee may come in my night of Wantonnesse In my night of inordinate and sinfull melancholy and suspicion of his mercy hee may come and he may come in the night of so stupid or so raging a sicknesse as that he shall not come by comming Not come so as that I shall receiue him in the absolution of his Minister or receiu●●●im in the participation of his body and his bloud in the Sacrament So hee may come vpon mee as such a Thiefe in such a night nay when all these nights of Ignorance of Wantonnesse of Desperation of Sicknesse of Stupiditie of Rage may bee vpon mee all at once I consider that the Holy Ghost meant to make a deepe impression of a great terror in me when he came to that expression That the Heauens should passe away Cum stridore with a great noise and the Elements melt with feruent heat and the earth and the workes that are therein shall be burnt vp And when he adds in Esay The Lord will come with fire and with his Chariots like a whirlewind to render his anger with fury for by fire and by his sword will the