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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

Consecrations came into free vse they were full of Ceremonies And many of those Ceremonies deriu'd from the Iewes and not vnlawfull for that The Ceremonies of the Iewes which had their foundation in the prefiguration of Christ and were types of him were vnlawfull after Christ was come because the vse of them then implyed a deniall or a doubt of his being come But those Ceremonies which though the Iewes vsed them had their foundation in Nature as bowing of the knee lifting vp the eyes and hands and many very many others which either testified their deuotion that did them or exalted their deuotion that sawe them done are not therefore excluded the Church because they were in vse amongst the Iewes That Pope whom we named before Hyginus the eighth after Saint Peter he instituted Ne Basilica sine Missa consecretur That no Church bee consecrated without a Masse If this must binde vs to a Masse of the present Romane Church it were hard and yet not very hard truely for they are easily had But that word Masse is in Saint Ambrose in Saint Augustine in some very ancient Councels and surely intends nothing to this purpose but the Seruice the Common Prayer of the Church then in vse there And when the Bishop Panigarola sayes in his Sermon vpon Whitsunday that the Holy Ghost found the blessed Virgin and the Apostles at Masse I presume hee meanes no more then that they were mett at such publique Prayer as at those times they might make Sure Pope Clemens and Pope Hyginus meane the same thing when one sayes Missa consecretur and the other Diuinis Precibus One sayes Let the Consecration bee with a Masse the other with Diuine Seruice the Liturgie the Diuine Seruice was then the Masse In a word a constant forme of Consecrations wee finde none that goes through our Ritualls the Ceremonies were still more or lesse as they were more or lesse obnoxious or might bee subiect to scandalize or to be mis-interpreted And therefore I am not heere either to direct or so much as to remember that which appertaines to the manner of these Consecrations onely in concurring in that which is the Soule of all humble and heartie prayer that God will heare his Seruants in this place I shall not offend to say that I am sure my zeale is inferiour to none And more I say not of the first Part The Holy place and but a little more of the other though at first it were proposed for an equall part The Holy Person That at the Feast of the Dedication Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch 2. Part. In this second part wee did not spread the words nor shed our considerations vpon many particulars the first was Jesus in Templo that euen Iesus himselfe had recourse to this Holy place In the new Ierusalem in Heauen there is no Temple Apo. 21.22 I saw no Temple there sayes Saint Iohn for the Lord God Almightie and the Lambe are the Temple of it In Heauen where there is no danger of falling there is no need of assistance Heere the Temple is called Gnazar 2. Paral. 4.9 that is Auxilium A Helper the strongest that is needs the helpe of the Church And it is called Sanctificium by Saint Hierom Psal 78.69 a place that is not onely made holy by Consecration but that makes others holy by GOD in it And therefore Christ himselfe whose person and presence might consecrate the Sanctum Sanctorum would yet make his often repayre to this Holy place not that hee needed this subsidie of Locall holinesse in himselfe but that his example might bring others who did neede it and those who did not and that euen his owne Preaching might haue the benefite and the blessing of Gods Ordinance in that place hee sayes of himselfe Math. 26. Quotidie apud vos sedebam docens in Templo and Semper docui in Synagoga in Templo as in the Actes the Angell that had deliuered the Apostles out of prison sends them to Church Actes 5. Stantes in Templo loquimini plebi The Apostles were sent to preach but to preach in the Temple in the place appropriated and consecrated for that holy vse and employment Tempus He came to this place and he came at those times which no immediate command of God but the Church had instituted Facta sunt Encaenia sayes the Text It was the Feast of the Dedication Wee know what Dedication this was That of Salomon was much greater A Temple built where none was before That of Esdras at the returne was much greater then this An intire reedification of that demolished Temple where it was before This was but a zealous restoring of an Altar in the Temple which hauing beene prophaned by the Gentiles the Iewes themselues threw downe and erected a new and dedicated that Salomons Dedication is called a Feast 2 Chr. 5.3 a Holy day by the very same name that the Feast of vnleauened bread and the Feast of the Tabernacle is called so often in Scripture Ezra 6.16 which is Kag The Dedication of Ezra is sufficiently declared to bee a solemne Feast too But neither of these Feastes though of farre greater Dedications were Anniuersarie neither commanded to be kept euery yeare and yet this which was so much lesser then the others the Church had put vnder that Obligation to bee kept euery yeare and Christ himselfe contemnes not condemnes not disputes not the institution of the Church But as for matter of doctrine hee sends euen his owne Disciples to them who sate in Moses Chayre so for matter of Ceremony he brings euen his owne person to the celebrating to the authorizing to the countenancing of the Institutions of the Church and rests in that Now it was Winter sayes the Text Etsi Hyems Christ came etsi Hyems though it were Winter so small an inconuenience kept him not off Beloued it is not alway colder vpon Sunday then vpon Satterday nor at any time colder in the Chappell then in Westminster Hall A thrust keepes some off in Summer and colde in Winter and there are more of both these in other places where for all that they are more content to be Remember that Peter was warming himselfe and hee denyed Christ They who loue a warme bed let it bee a warme Studie let it bee a warme profit better then this place they deny CHRIST in his Institution That therefore which CHRIST sayes Pray that your flight bee not in the Winter Mat. 24.20 nor vpon the Sabboth we may apply thus Pray that vpon the Sabboth I tolde you at first what were Sabboths the Winter make you not flie not abstaine from this place Put off thy shooes Exod. 35. sayes God to Moses for the place is holy ground When Gods ordinance by his Church call you to this holy place put off those shoes all those earthly respects of ease or profit Christ came Etsi Hyems Quia

FOVRE SERMONS VPON SPECIALL OCCASIONS Viz. 1. A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse 2. To the Honourable 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 St. Pauls London LONDON Printed for THOMAS IONES and are to be sold at his Shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere Saint Clements Church 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE Marquesse of Buckingham High ADMIRALL of ENGLAND c. WHen I would speake to the KING by your LORDSHIPS Meanes I doe Now when I would speake to the Kingdome I would doe that by your Lordships Meanes too and therefore I am bolde to transferre this Sermon to the World through your Lordships hands and vnder your Name For the first part of the Sermon the Explication of the Text my Profession and my Conscience is Warrant enough that I haue spoken as the Holy Ghost intended For the second part the Application of the Text it will be warrant enough that I haue spoken as his Maiestie intended that your Lordship admits it to issue in your Name It is because Kings fauour the Church that the Prophet sayes they are her Foster-Fathers and then those persons who haue also interest in the fauour of Kings are her Foster-Brothers and such vse to loue well By that Title as by many other also your Lordshippe loues the Church as you are her Foster-Brother loued of him who loues her And by that Title you loue all them in the Church who endeauour to aduaunce both the vnitie of our Church in it selfe and the vnitie of the Church with the godly designes of our religious King To which Seruice I shall euer sacrifice all the labors of Your Lordships humblest and thankefullest Seruant in Christ Iesus IOHN DONNE IVDGES 5.20 De coelo dimicatum est contra eos stellae manentes in Ordine cursu suo aduersus Siseram pugnauerunt They fought from Heauen The stars in their courses fought against Sisera ALl the words of God are alwayes sweete in themselues sayes Dauid but sweeter in the mouth and in the pen of some of the Prophets and some of the Apostles then of others as they differed in their naturall gifts or in their education but sweetest of all where the Holy Ghost hath beene pleased to set the word of God to Musique and to conuay it into a Song and this Text is of that kind part of the Song which Deborah Barak sung after their great victory vpon Sisera Sisera who was Iabin the King of Canaans Generall against Israel God himselfe made Moses a Song Deut. 31.19 and expressed his reason why The children of Israel sayes God will forget my Law but this song they will not forget and whensoeuer they sing this song this song shall testifie against them what I haue done for them how they haue forsaken me And to such a purpose hath God left this Song of Deborah and Barak in the Scriptures that all Murmurers and all that stray into a diffidence of Gods power or of his purpose to sustaine his owne cause and destroy his owne Enemies might run and read might read and sing the wonderfull deliuerances that God hath giuen to his people by weake and vnexpected meanes This world begun with a Song if the Chalde Paraphrasts vpon Salomons Song of Songs haue taken a true tradition That assoone as Adams sinne was forgiuen him he expressed as he cals it in that Song Sabbatum suum his Sabboth his peace of conscience in a Song of which we haue the entrance in that Paraphrase This world begun so and so did the next world too if wee count the beginning of that as it is a good computation to doe so from the comming of Christ Iesus for that was expressed on Earth in diuers Songs in the blessed Virgins Magnificat My soule doth magnifie the Lord In Zacharies Benedictus Blessed be the Lord God of Israel and in Simeons Nunc dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace This world began so and the other and when both shall ioyne and make vp one world without end it shall continue so in heauen in that Song of the Lamb Great and marueilous are thy workes Lord God Almighty Apoc. 3. iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints And to Tune vs to Compose and giue vs a Harmonie and Concord of affections in all perturbations and passions and discords in the passages of this life if we had no more of the same Musique in the Scriptures as we haue the Song of Moses at the Red Sea and many Psalmes of Dauid to the same purpose this Song of Deborah were enough abundantly enough to slumber any storme to becalme any tempest to rectifie any scruple of Gods slacknesse in the defence of his cause when in the History and occasion of this Song expressed in the Chapter before this we see That Israel had done euill in the sight of the Lord againe and yet againe God came to them That God himselfe had sold Israel into the hands of Iabin King of Canaan and yet he repented the bargaine and came to them That in twenty yeeres oppression he came not and yet he came That when Sisera came against them with nine hundred Chariots of Iron and all preparations proportionable to that and God cald vp a woman a Prophetesse a Deborah against him because Deborah had a zeale to the cause and consequently an enmity to the enemie God would effect his purpose by so weake an instrument by a woman but by a woman which had no such interest nor zeale to the cause by Jael And in Iaels hand by such an instrument as with that scarce any man could doe it if it were to be done againe with a hammer she driues a nayle through his temples and nayles him to the ground as he lay sleeping in her tent And then the end of all was the end of all not one man of his army left aliue O my Soule why art thou so sad why art thou so disquieted within me Sing vnto the Lord an old song the song of Deborah and Barak That God by weake meanes doth mighty workes That all Gods creatures fight in his behalfe They fought from heauen the starres in their Order fought against Sisera You shal haue but two parts out of these words And to make these two parts Diuision I consider the Text as the two Hemispheres of the world laid open in a flat in a plaine Map All those parts of the world which the Ancients haue vsed to consider are in one of those Hemispheres All Europe is in that and in that is all Asia and Afrike too So that when we haue seene that Hemisphere done with that we might seeme to haue seene all done with all the world but yet the other Hemisphere that of America is as big as it though but by occasion of new and late discoueries we had

as before temporall assistance of Princes Officers Iudges Merchants all sorts of People but it is the Gospell of Christ Iesus and the preaching thereof Preaching is Gods ordinance with that Ordinance hee fights from heauen and batters downe all errors And thirdly to maintain this War he hath made Preachers Stars and vae si non woe be vnto them if they doe not fight if they doe not preach But yet in the last place they must fight as the Stars in heauen doe In their order in that Order and according to those directions which they to whom it appertaines shall giue them for that is to fight in Order And in these foure branches wee shall determine this second part First then we are in Contemplation of a Spirituall warre now though there be a Beatie Pacifici a blessing reserued to Peace-makers to the Peace-maker our Peace-maker who hath sometimes effected it in some places and alwayes seriously and chargeably and honourably endeuoured it in all places yet there is a spirituall Warre in which Maledicti Pacifici Cursed bee they that goe about to make Peace and to make all one The warres betweene Christ and Beliall Let no man seuer those whom God hath ioyned but let no Man ioyne those whom God hath seuered neyther and God hath seuered Christ and Belial and that was Gods action Ponam inimicitias The Seed of the woman and the Seed of the Serpent wee and the Deuill should neuer haue fallen out wee agree but too well but God hath put an enmity betweene vs. God hath put Truth and Falshood Jdolatrie and Sinceritie so farre asunder and infused such an incompatibilitie and imprinted such an implacabilitie betweene them as that they cannot flow into one another And therefore there Maledicti Pacifici It is an opposition against God by any colourable Modifications to reconcile opinions diametrally contrary to one another in fundamentall things Day and Night may ioyne and meet In Diluculis and in Crepusculis The dawning of the day in the Morning and the shutting in of the day in the Euening make day and night so much one as sometimes you cannot tell which to call them but Lux tenebrae light and darknes Midnight and Noone neuer met neuer ioynd There are points which passions of men and vehemence of disputation haue carried farther a sunder then needed and these indeed haue made the greatest noyse because vpon these for the most part depends the matter of profit and Beati pacifici blessed were that labour and that labourer that could reconcile those things and of that there might bee hope because it is often but the Persons that fight it is not the thing the matters are not so different But then there are matters so different as that a Man may sit at home and weepe and wish prayse God that hee is in the right and pray to God for them that are in the wrong but to thinke that they are indifferent and all one Maledicti Pacifici hee that hath brought such a Peace hath brought a curse vpon his owne Conscience and laid not a Satisfastion but a Stupefaction vpon it A Turke might perchance say in scorne of vs both They call you Heretiques you call them Idolaters why might not Idolaters and Heretiques agree well enough together But a true Christian will neuer make Contrarieties in fundamentall things indifferent neuer make foundations and superedifications the Word of God and the Traditions of men all one Euery man is a little world sayes the Philosopher Euery man is a little Church too and in euery man there are two sides two armies the flesh fights against the Spirit This is but a Ciuill warre nay it is but a Rebellion indeed and yet it can neuer be absolutely quenched So euery man is also a Souldier in that great and generall warre betweene Christ and Beliall the Word of God and the will of man Euery man is bound to hearken to a peace in such things as may admit peace in differences where men differ from men but bound also to shut himselfe vp against all ouertures of peace in such things as are in their Nature irreconcileable in differences where men differ from God That warre God hath kindled and that warre must bee maintain'd and maintain'd by his way and his way and his Ordinance in this warre is Preaching If God had not said to Noah Fac tibi Arcam and when he had said so if he had not giuen him a Deseigne a Modell a Platforme of that Arke we may doubt credibly whether euer man would haue thought of a Ship or of any such way of trade Commerce Shipping was Gods owne Inuention and therein Laetentur Insulae as Dauid sayes Let the Ilands reioyce So also if Christ had not said to his Apostles Ite praedicate Goe and preach And when he had said so said thus much more Qui non crediderit damnabitur Hee that beleeues not your Preaching shall be damned certainly man would neuer haue thought of such a way of establishing a kingdome as by Preaching No other Nation had any such Institution as Preaching In the Romane State there was a publique Officer Conditor Precum who vpon great emergent occasions deprecations of imminent dangers or Gratulations for euident benefites did make particular Collects answerable to those occasions And some such occasionall Panegyriques and gratulatory Orations for temporall benefites they had in that State But a fixt and constant course of conteining Subiects in their Religious and Ciuill duties by preaching onely God ordain'd onely his Children enioy'd Christ when he sent his Apostles did not giue them a particular command Ite orate goe and pray in the publique Congregation All Nations were accustomed to that Christ made no doubt of any mans opposing or questioning Publique Prayer and therefore for that he onely said Sic orabitis Not goe and pray but when you pray pray thus hee instructed them in the forme the dutie was well knowne to all before But for Preaching He himselfe was anointed for that The Spirit of the Lord is vpon me Esa 61.1 because the Lord hath anoynted mee to preach His vnction was his function He was anoynted with that power and hee hath anoynted vs with part of his owne vnction All power is giuen vnto mee sayes hee in Heauen and in Earth and therefore as he addes there Goe yee Math. 28 19. and preach Because I haue all power for preaching take yee part of my power and preach too For Preaching is the power of God vnto Saluation and the sauour of life vnto life When therefore the Apostle sayes 1 Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit Nec in te nec in alio sayes Aquinas Quench it not in your selfe by forbearing to heare the Word preached quench it not in others by discouraging them that doe preach For so Saint Chrysostome and not hee alone vnderstood that place That they quench the spirit who discountenance preaching and dishearten Preachers Saint

hee answers It is not for you to know the times whatsoeuer God will doe Man must not appoint him his time The Apostles thought of a kingdome presently after Christs departure the comming of the Holy Ghost who lead them into all truthes soone deliuered them of that error Other men in fauour of the Iewes interpreting all the prophesies which are of a Spirituall Kingdome the kingdome of the Gospell into which the Iewes shall be admitted in a literall sense haue thought that the Iewes shall haue not onely a temporall kingdome in the same place in Ierusalem againe but because they finde that kingdome which is promised that is the kingdome of the Gospell to bee expressed in large phrases and in an abundant manner applying all that largenesse to a temporall kingdome they thinke that the Iewes shall haue such a kingdome as shall swallow and annihilate all other kingdomes and bee the sole Empire and Monarchy of the world After this very great men in the Church vpon these words of One thousand yeares after the Resurrection haue immagin'd a Temporall Kingdome of the Saints of God heere vpon Earth Apo. 20. before they entred the ioyes of Heauen and Saint Augustine himselfe De Ciuit. Dei 20.7 had at first some declinations towards that opinion though he dispute powerfully against it after That there should bee Sabatismus in terris that as the world was to last Sixe thousand yeares in troubles there should be a Seuenth thousand in such ioyes as this world could giue And some others who haue auoided both the Temporall kingdome imagin'd by the Apostles presently after the Ascention And the Emperiall kingdome of the Iewes before the Resurrection And the Carnall kingdome of the Chiliasts the Millenarians after the Resurrection though they speake of no kingdome but the true kingdome the kingdome of glory yet they erre as much in assigning a certaine time when that kingdome shall beginne when the ende of this world when the Resurrection when the Iudgement shall be Non est vestrum nosse tempora sayes Christ to his Apostles then and lest it might be thought that they might know these things when the Holy Ghost came vpon them Christ denies that he himselfe knew that as Man and as Man Christ knew more then euer the Apostles knew Whatsoeuer therefore Christ intended to his Apostles heere hee would not giue it presently non adhuc hee would not binde himselfe to a certaine time Non est vestrum nosse tempora It belongs not to vs to know Gods times Beloued vse godly means and giue God his leisure You cannot beget a Sonne and tell the Mother I will haue this Sonne born within fiue Moneths nor when he is borne say you will haue him past daunger of Wardship within fiue yeares You cannot sowe your Corne to day and say it shall bee aboue ground to morrow and in my Barne next weeke How soone the best Husbandman sow'd the best Seede in the best ground GOD cast the promise of a Messias as the seede of all in Paradise In Semine Mulieris The Seede of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head and yet this Plant was Foure thousand yeares after before it appeared this Messias Foure thousand yeares before he came GOD shew'd the ground where that should grow Two thousand yeares after the Promise in Abrahams Family In semine tuo In thy Seed all Nations shall be blessed God hedg'd in this Ground almost One thousand yeares after that In Micheas time Et tu Bethlem Thou Bethlem shalt bee the place and God watered that and weeded that refreshed that dry expectation with a Succession of Prophets and yet it was so long before this expectation of Nations this Messias came So GOD promised the Iewes a Kingdome in Iacobs Prophecie to Iuda Gen. 49. That the Scepter should not depart from his Tribe In Two hundred yeares more he saies no more of it Deut. 17.14 then he ordaines some institutions for their King when they should haue one And then it was Foure hundred yeares after that before they had a King GOD meant from the first houre to people the whole earth and God could haue made men of clay as fast as they made Brickes of Clay in Egypt but he began vpon two and when they had beene multiplying and replenishing the Earth One thousand sixe hundred yeares the Flood washed all that away and GOD was almost to begin againe vpon eight persons and they haue seru'd to people Earth and Heauen too Bee not you discouraged if the Promises which you haue made to your selues or to others be not so soone discharg'd though you see not your money though you see not your men though a Flood a Flood of Bloud haue broken in vpon them be not discouraged Great Creatures lye long in the Wombe Lyons are litterd perfit but Beare-whelpes lick'd vnto their shape actions which Kings vndertake are cast in a mould they haue their perfection quickly actions of priuate men and priuate Purses require more hammering and more filing to their perfection Onely let your principall end be the propagation of the glorious Gospell and though there bee an Exclusiue in the Text GOD does not promise you a Kingdome Ease and Abundance in all things and that which hee does intend to you he does not promise presently yet there is an Inclusiue too not that But but something equiuolent at least But yee shall receiue power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon you and yee shall be witnesses vnto me both in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth 2. Part. NOw our Sauiour Christ does not say to these men since you are so importunate you shall haue no Kingdome now nor neuer t is not yet But Sed. hee does not say you shall haue no Kingdome nor any thing else t is not that But the importunitie of beggers sometimes drawes vs to such a froward answer For this importunitie I will neuer giue you any thing Our patterne was not so froward hee gaue them not that but as good as that Samuel was sent to super-induct a King vpon Saul 1. Sam. 16. to annoint a new King Hee thought his Commission had been determined in Eliab Surely this is the Lords Annointed But the Lord said not hee nor the next Aminadab nor the next Shammah nor none of the next seuen But but yet there is one in the field keeping sheepe annoint him Dauid is hee Saint Paul prayed earnestly and frequently to be discharged of that Stimulus Carnis God sayes no not that but Gratia mea sufficit Thou shalt haue grace to ouercome the tentation though the tentation remaine God sayes to you No Kingdome not Ease not Abundance nay nothing at all yet the Plantation shall not discharge the Charges not defray it selfe yet but yet alreadie now at first it shall conduce to great vses It shall redeeme many a wretch from the Lawes of death from

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

That 's not the lesse true Acts 7.48 that the most High dwells not in Temples made with handes though God accept at our hands our dedication of certaine places to his seruice manifest his working more effectually more energetically in those places then in any other for when we pray Our Father which art in Heauen Chrysostome It is not sayes Saint Chrysostome that wee deny him to bee heere where wee kneele when we say that Prayer but it is that we acknowledge him to be there where he can graunt and accomplish our prayer It is as Origen hath very well expressed it Origen Vt in melioribus mundi requiramus Deum That still wee looke for God in the best places looke for him as he heares our petitions here in the best places of this world in his House in the Church looke for him as he graunts our petition in the best place of the next world at the right hand and in the bosome of the Father Deut. 30.13 When Moses sayes that the word of God is not beyond Sea he addes It is not so beyond Sea as that thou must not haue it without sending thither When he sayes there it is not in heauen he adds not so in heauen as that one must goe vp before hee can haue it The word of God is beyond Sea the true word truly preached in many true Churches there but yet we haue it here within these Seas too God is in Heauen but yet hee is here within these walles too And therefore the impietie of the Manicheans exceeded all the Gentiles who concluded the God of the Old Testament to be an impotent an vnperfect God because hee commaunded Moses first to make him a Tabernacle and then Salomon to make him a Temple as though he needed a House God does not need a house but man does need that God should haue a House And therefore the first question that Christs first Disciples asked of him was Magister vbi habitas they would know his standing house where he hath promised to bee alwaies within and where at the ringing of the Bell some body comes to answere you to take your errand to offer your Prayers to God to returne his pleasure in the preaching of his Word to you The many and heauy Lawes with which sacred and secular stories abound against the prophanation of places appropriated to Gods seruice and that religious custome that passed almost through all ciuill Nations that an oath which was the bond between man and man had the stronger Obligation if that were taken in the Church in the presence of God for such was the practise of Rome towards her enemies Tango aras mediosque ignes to make their vowes of hostility in the Church and at time of diuine Seruice and such is their practise still they seale their Treasons in the Sacrament such was Romes practise towards others and such was the practise of others towards Rome for so Anniball sayes that his father Amilcar swore him at the Altar that he should neuer bee reconciled to Rome And such is your practise still as often as you meet here you renew your band to God that you will neuer bee reconciled to the Superstitions of Rome all these and all such as these and such as these are infinite heap vp testimonies that euen in Nature there is a disposition to apply and appropriate certaine places to Gods seruice And this impression in nature is illustrated in the Law as the time so the place is distinguished Yee shall keepe my Sabboths Leui. 19.30 there is the time and you shall reuerence my Sanctuary there is the place But that they may be reuerenced that they may bee Sanctuaries they are to be sanctified and that 's the Encaenia the Dedication Euen in those things which accrue vnto God and become his Encaenia by another title then as he is Lord of all by Creation that is by appropriation by dedication to his vse and Seruice There is a Lay Dedication and an Ecclesiasticall Dedication I hope the distinction of Laytie and Clergie the words scandalize no man Luther and Caluin too might haue iust cause to decline the words as they did when so much was ouer-attributed to that Clergie which they intend as that they were so Sors Domini the Lords portion as that the world had no portion in them and yet they had the greatest portion of the world and howe little soeuer they had to doe with God yet no State no King might haue any thing to doe with them But as long as we declare that by the Layetie we intend the people glorifying God in their secular callings and by the Clergie persons seposed by his ordinance for spirituall functions The Layetie no farther remoou'd then the Clergie The Clergie no farther entitled then the Layetie in the blood of Christ Iesus neither in the effusion of that blood vpon the Crosse nor in the participation of that blood in the Sacrament and that an equall care in Clergie and Layetie of doing the duties of their seuerall callings giues them an equall interest in the ioyes and glory of heauen I hope no man is scandaliz'd with the names The Lay Dedication then is the voluntary surrendring of this piece of ground thus built to God For we must say as Saint Peter said to Ananias Acts 5.4 Whiles it remain'd was that not your owne and now when that is raised sauing that there was Dedicatio Intentionalis a purpose from the beginning to appropriate it to this holy vse might you not till this houre haue made this roome your Hall if you would But this is your Dedication that you haue cheerfully pursued your first holy purposes and deliuer now into the hands of this seruant of God the Right Reuerend Father the Bishop of this See a place to be presented to God for you by him not misbecomming the Maiestie of the great God who is pleased to dwell thus amongst vs. What was spent in Salomons Temple is not told vs. What was prepared before it was begun is such a summe as certainly if all the Christian Kings that are would send in all that they haue at once to any one seruice all would not equall that summe They gaue there till they who had the ouer-seeing therof complain'd of the abundance and proclaim'd an abstinence Yet there was one who gaue more then all they for Christ sayes the poore widdow gaue more then all the rest because she gaue all she had There is a way of giuing more then she gaue I who by your fauours was no strāger to the beginning of this work and an often refresher of it to your memories and a poore assistant in laying the first stone the materiall stone as I am now a poore assistant again in this laying of this first formall Stone the Word Sacrament and shall euer desire to be so in the seruice of this place I I say can truly testifie

Psal 39.12 as that Dauid formes one Prayer thus Auribus percipe lachrimas meas O Lord heare my teares hee puts the office of the Eye too vpon the Eare. And then if the Magistrate stop his Eares with Wooll with staple bribes profitable bribes and with Cyuet in his wooll perfumes of pleasure and preferment in his bribes hee falsifies Gods Word who hath said they are Gods for they are Idoles and not Gods if they haue eares and heare not And so it is also of the hand too In all that Iob suffered he sayes no more but that the Hand of God had touched him but touched him in respect of that hee could haue done for when Iob sayes to men Why persecute you mee Iob 19.22 as God hee meanes as God could doe so vehemently so ruinously so destructiuely so irreparably There is no phrase oftner in the Scriptures then that God deliuered his people in the hand of Moses and the hand of Dauid and the hand of the Prophets all their Ministeriall office is called the Hand and therfore as Dauid prayes to God That hee would pull his hand out of his bosome and strike so must wee euer exhort the Magistrate That hee would plucke his hand out of his pocket and forget what is there and execute the Cause committed to him For as wee at last shall commend our Spirits into the hands of God God hath commended our Spirits not onely our ciuill peace but our Religion too into the hand of the Magistrate And therefore when the Apostle sayes Studie to bee quiet it is not quiet in the blindnesse of the Eye nor quiet in the Deafenesse of the Eare nor quiet in the Lamenesse of the Hand the iust discharge of the dueties of our seuerall places is no disquieting to any man But when priuate men will spend all their thoughts vpon their Superiours actions this must necessarily disquiet them for they are off of their owne Center and they are extra Sphaeram Actiuitatis out of their owne Distance and Compasse and they cannot possibly discerne the Ende to which their Superiours goe And to such a iealous man when his iealousie is not a tendernesse towards his owne actions which is a holy and a wholesome iealousie but a suspition of his Superiours actions to this Man euery Wheele is a Drumme and euery Drumme a Thunder and euery Thunder-clapp a dissolution of the whole frame of the VVorld If there fall a broken tyle from the house hee thinkes Foundations are destroyed if a crazie woman or a disobedient childe or a needie seruant fall from our Religion from our Church hee thinkes the whole Church must necessarily fall when all this while there are no Foundations destroyed and till foundations bee destroyed the righteous should be quiet Hence haue wee iust occasion first to condole amongst our selues who for matters of Foundations professe one and the same Religion and then to complaine of our Aduersaries who are of another First that amongst our selues for matters not Doctrinall or if Doctrinall yet not Fundamentall onely because wee are sub-diuided in diuers Names there should bee such Exasperations such Exacerbations such Vociferations such Eiulations such Defamations of one another as if all Foundations were destroyed VVho would not tremble to heare those Infernall words spoken by men to men of one and the same Religion fundamentally as Indiabolificata Perdiabolificata and Superdiabolificata that the Deuill and all the Deuills in Hell and worse then the Deuill is in their Doctrine and in their Diuinitie when God in heauen knowes if their owne vncharitablenesse did not exclude him there were roome enough for the Holy Ghost on both and on either side in those Fundamentall things which are vnanimely professed by both And yet euery Mart wee see more Bookes written by these men against one another then by them both for Christ But yet though this Torrent of vncharitablenesse amongst them bee too violent yet it is within some bankes though it bee a Sea and too tempestuous it is limitted within some bounds The poynts are certaine knowen limitted and doe not grow vpon vs euery yeare and day But the vncharitablenesse of the Church of Rome towards vs all is not a Torrent nor it is not a Sea but generall Flood an vniuersall Deluge that swallowes all the world but that Church and Church-yard that Towne and Suburbes themselues and those that depend vpon them and will not allowe possibilitie of Saluation to the whole Arke the whole Christian Church but to one Cabin in that Arke the Church of Rome and then denie vs this Saluation not for any Positiue Errour that euer they charged vs to affirme not because wee affirme any thing that they denie but because wee denie some things which they in their afternoone are come to affirme If they were Iusti Righteous right and iust dealing men they would not raise such dustes and then blind mens eyes with this dust of their own raysing in things that concerne no Foundations It is true that all Heresie does concerne Foundations there is no Heresie to bee called little Great Heresies proceeded from things in apparance small at first and seem'd to looke but towards small matters There were great Heresies that were but Verball Heresies in some Word That great Storme that shaked the State and the Church in the Councell of Ephesus and came to Factions and Commotions in the Secular part and to Exautorations and Excommunications amongst the Bishops so farre as that the Emperour came to declare both sides to bee Heretiques All this was for an Errour in a Word in the word Deipara whether the Blessed Virgine Marie were to bee called the Mother of God or no. There haue beene Verball Heresies and Heresies that were but Syllabicall little Praepositions made Heresies not onely State-praepositions Precedencies and Prerogatiues of Church aboue Church occasioned great Schismes but Literall Praepositions Praepositions in Grammar occasioned great Heresies That great Heresie of the Acephali against which Damascene bendes himselfe in his Booke De Natura Composita was grounded in the Praeposition In They would confesse Ex but not In That Christ was made of two Natures but that hee did not consist in two Natures And wee all know what differences haue beene raysed in the Church in that one poynt of the Sacrament by these three Prepositions Trans Con and Sub. There haue beene great Heresies but Verball but Syllabicall and as great but Litterall The greatest Heresie that euer was that of the Arrians was but in one Letter So then in Heresie there is nothing to bee called little nothing to bee suffered It was excellently sayde of Heretiques though by one who though not then declared Nestorius was then an Heretique in his heart Condolere Hereticis crimen est It is a fault not onely to bee too indulgent to an Heretique but to bee too compassionate of an Heretique too sorrie for an Heretique It is a fault to say Alas let him alone hee