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A20654	A sermon vpon the XX. verse of the V. chapter of the booke of Ivdges wherein occasion was iustly taken for the publication of some reasons, which His Sacred Maiestie had been pleased to giue, of those directions for preachers, which hee had formerly sent foorth : preached at the Crosse the 15th. of September. 1622 / by Iohn Donne ..., ; and now by commandement of His Maiestie published, as it was then preached.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1622 (1622)	STC 7054; ESTC S1535	27,357	74

calling wee are said to take Orders Yours are called Trades and Occupations and Mysteries Law and Phisicke are called Sciences and Professions many others haue many other names ours is Orders When by his Maiesties leaue we meet in our Conuocations and being met haue his further leaue to treat of remedies for any disorders in the Church our Constitutions are Canons Canons are Rules Rules are Orders Parliaments determine in Lawes Iudges in Decrees wee in Orders And by our Seruice in this Mother Church we are Canonici Canons Regular Orderly men not Canonistae men that know Orders but Canonici men that keepe them where wee are also called Prebendaries rather à Praebendo then à Praebenda rather for giuing example of obedience to Orders then for any other respect In the Romane Church the most disorderly men are their men in Orders I speake not of the viciousnesse of their life I am no Iudge of that I know not that but they are so out of all Order that they are within rule of no temporall Law within iurisdiction of no Ciuill Magistrate no secular Iudge They may kill Kings and yet can be no Traytors they assigne their reason Because they are no Subiects He that kils one of them shall be really hang'd and if one of them kill hee shall be Metaphorically hang'd hee shall bee suspended Wee enjoy gratefully and wee vse modestly the Priuiledges which godly Princes out of their pietie haue affoorded vs and which their godly Successours haue giuen vs againe by their gracious continuing of them to vs but our Profession of it selfe naturally though the very nature of it dispose Princes to a gracious disposition to vs exempts vs not from the tye of their Lawes All men are in deed we are in Deed and in name too Men of Orders and therefore ought to be most ready of all others to obey Now beloued Ordo semper dicitur ratione Aquin. principij Order alwayes presumes a head it alwayes implyes some by whom wee are to be ordered and it implyes our conformitie to him Who is that God certainly without all question God But betweene God Man we consider a two-fold Order One as all creatures depend vpon God as vpon their beginning for their very Being and so euery creature is wrought vpon immediately by God and whether hee discerne it or no does obey Gods order that is that which God hath ordained his purpose his prouidence is executed vpon him accomplishd in him But then the other Order is not as man depends vpon God as vpon his beginning but as he is to be reduced and brought back to God as to his end that is done by meanes in this world What is that meanes for those things which wee haue now in consideration the Church But the body speaks not the head does It is the Head of the Church that declares to vs those things whereby we are to be ordered This the Royall and religious Head of these Churches within his Dominions hath lately had occasion to do And in doing this doth he innouate any thing offer to doe any new thing Do we repent that Canon Constitution in which at his Maiesties first comming we declar'd with so much alacrity as that it was the second Canō we made That the King had the same authoritie in causes Ecclesiasticall that the godly Kings of Iudah and the Christian Emperors in the primatiue Church had Or are we ignorant what those Kings of Iudah and those Emperors did We are not wee know them well Take it where the power of the Empire may seem somwhat declind in Charls the great we see by those Capitularies of his that remain yet what orders he gaue in such causes there he saies in his entrance to them Nemo presumptuosum dicat Let no man call this that I doe an vsurpation to prescribe Orders in these cases Nam legimus quid Iosias fecerit We haue red what Iosiah did and we know that wee haue the same Authoritie that Iosiah had But that Emperor consulted with his Clergie before he published those Orders It is true he sayes he did But he from whom we haue receiued these Orders did more then so His Maiesty forbore til a representation of some inconueniēces by disorderly preaching was made to him by those in the highest place in our Clergie and other graue and reuerend Prelates of this Church they presented it to him and thereupon hee entred into the remedie But that Emperour did but declare things constituted by other Councells before but yet the giuing the life of execution to those Constitutions in his Dominions was introductorie and many of the things themselues were so Amongst them his 70. Capitularie is appliable to our present case there hee sayes Episcopi videant That the Bishops take care that all Preachers preach to the people the Exposition of the Lordes Prayer and he enioynes them too Ne quid nouum ne quid non Canonicum That no man preach any new opinion of his owne nay though it bee the opinion of other learned men in other places yet if it be Non Canonicum not declared in the Vniuersall Church not declared in that Church in which he hath his station he may not preach it to the people And so he proceeds there to Catechistical Doctrine That is not new then which the Kings of Iudah did and which the Christian Emperours did But it is new to vs if the Kings of this kingdome haue not done it Haue they not done it How little the Kings of this kingdome did in Ecclesiasticall causes then when by their conniuence that power was deuold into a forraine Prelates hand it is pitie to consider pitie to remember pitie to bring into Con emplation And yet truly euen then our Kings did exercise more of that power then our aduersaries who oppose it will confesse But since the true iurisdiction was vindicated and reapplyed to the Crowne in what iust height Henrie the eight and those who gouerned his Sonnes minoritie Edward the sixt exercised that iurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes none that knowes their Story knowes not And because ordinarily wee settle our selues best in the Actions and Precedents of the late Queene of blessed and euerlasting memory I may haue leaue to remember them that know and to tell them that know not one act of her power and her wisedome to this purpose When some Articles concerning the falling away from iustifying grace and other poynts that beat vpon that haunt had been ventilated in Conuenticle and in Pulpits too and Preaching on both sides past and that some persons of great place and estimation in our Church together with him who was the greatest of all amongst our Clergy had vpon mature deliberation established a resolution what should bee thought and taught held and preached in those poynts and had thereupon sent down that resolution to be published in the Vniuersitie not vulgarly neither to the people but in a Sermon Ad

He troubled not so much as a cloud he imployed no Creature at all against the Philistines when they came vp with thirty thousand Chariots but hee 1. Sam. 23 5 breathed a dampe an astonishment into them he imprinted a diuine terror in their hearts and they fought against one another Iud. 6. God fore saw a diminution of his honour in the augmentation of Israels forces and therfore he reduced Gideons thirty two thousand to three hundred persons It was so in persons God does much with few and it was so in time God does much though late though God seeme a long time to haue forgot his people yet in due time that is in his time he returnes to them againe S. Augustine makes a vse ull Historicall note That that land to which God brought the Children of Israel was their owne land before they were the right heires to it lineally descended from him who was the first possessor of it after the floud but they were so long out of possession of it as that they were neuer able to set their title on foot nay they did scarce know their own title and yet God repossessed them of it reinuested them in it It is so for persons and times in his wayes in this world Much with few much though late and it is so in his wayes to the next world too for persons Elias knew of no more but himselfe that serued the right God aright God makes him know that there were seuen thousand more seuen thousand was much to one but it was little to all the world and yet these seuen thousand haue peopled heauen and sent vp all those Colonies thither all those Armies of Martyrs those flockes of Lambes innocent children those Fathers the Fathers of the Church and Mothers holy Matrons and daughters blessed Virgines and learned and laborious Doctors these seuen thousand haue filled vp the places of the fallen Angels and repeopled that Kingdome And wheresoeuer we thinke them most worne out God at this time hath his remnant as the Apostle Rom. 11.5 sayes and God is able to make vp the whole garment of that remnant So he does much with few in the wayes to heauen and that he does much though late in that way too thou mayest discerne in his working vpon thy selfe How often hast thou suffered thy Soule to grow cleane out of all reparations into ruine by thine inconsiderate and habituall course of sinne and neuer repaired it by any good vse of hearing the word or receiuing the Sacrament in a long time and when thou hast at any time come to a suruey of thy conscience how hast thou beene affected with an inordinate apprehension of Gods anger and his inaccessiblenesse his inexorablenesse towards thee and sunke euen into the iawes of desperation And yet Quia manet semen dei because the seed of God hath remained in thee Incubat Spiritus 1. 10. 3.4 the Holy Ghost hath sat vpon that seed and hatched a new Creature in thee a modest but yet infallible assurance of the Mercy of thy God Recollect all in raysing of sieges and discomfiting of Armies in restoring possessions and reinuesting right heires in repairing the ruines of the Kingdome of heauen depopulated in the fall of Angels in reestablishing peace of conscience in a presumptuous confidence or ouer-timorous diffidence in God God glorifies himselfe that way to doe much with little He does so but yet hee will haue something God is a good Husband a good Steward of Mans contributions but contributions he will haue hee will haue a concurrence a cooperation of persons Euen in that great worke which wee spake of at first the first creation which was so absolutely of Nothing yet there was a Faciamus let vs vs make Man though but one God yet more Persons in that worke Christ had been Matt. 4.3 able to haue done as the Deuill would haue had him doe to haue made bread of stones when hee had so great a number to feed in the Wildernesse but hee does not so Hee askes his Disciples Quot panes habetis How many loafes haue you and though they were but fiue yet since they were some he multiplies them and feeds aboue fiue thousand with those fiue Hee would haue a remnant of Gedeons Armie to fight his battailes A remnant of Israels beleeuers to make vp his Kingdome A remnant of thy Soule his seed wrapd vp somewhere to saue thy Soule And a remnant of thy selfe of thy Mind of thy Purse of thy Person for thy temporall deliuerance God goes lowe and accepts small Sacrifices a Pigeon a handfull of Flower a few eares of Corne but a Sacrifice he will haue The Christian Church implies a shrewd distresse when shee prouides that reason that clause in her prayer Quia non est alius Giue Peace in our time O Lord because there is no other that fighteth for vs If the bowels of compassion bee eaten out if the band of the Communion of Saints be dissolued we fight for none none fights for vs at last neyther we nor they shall fight for Christ nor Christ for them nor vs but all become a prey to the generall enemie of the name of Christ for God requires something some assistance some concurrence some cooperation though he can fight from heauen and the Starres in their order can fight against Sisera And therefore though God giue his glorie to none his glorie that is to doe all with Nothing yet he giues them their glorie that doe any thing for him or for themselues And as hee hath laid vp a record for their glorie and Memoriall who were remarkeable for Faith for the eleuenth Chapter to the Hebrewes is a Catalogue of them So in this Song of Deborah and Barake hee hath laide vp a Record for their glorie who expressed their faith in Workes and assisted his seruice That which is said in generall The Memorie of the iust is blessed but the name of the Prou. 13.7 wicked shall rot That is applied and promised in particular by him who can performe it by Christ to that woman who anointed him That whersoeuer his Gospell should be Preached in the whole world ther should also this that Mat. 26.13 this woman had done be told for a memoriall of her Shee assisted at his Funerall as Christ himselfe interprets her action That shee did it to burie him and hath her glorie how shall he glorifie them that aduance his glorie Shee hath her reward in his death what shall they haue that keepe him and his Gospell aliue Not a verse in Deborah and Baraks song and yet that is honourable euidence Not a commemoration at the Preaching of the Gospell and yet that is the honourable testimonie in this place and at these Exercises of such as haue contributed to the conueniencies of these Exercises but they shall haue a place in the Booke of life indelibly in the Booke of life if they proceede in that deuotion of assisting