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A73849 A sermon vpon the eighth verse of the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles Preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13. Nouemb. 1622. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London.; Sermon upon the viii. verse of the I. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles Donne, John, 1572-1631. 1624 (1624) STC 7052; ESTC S109974 15,806 54

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the Modell of the whole frame and of the partitions wee proceede now to the furnishing of the particular roomes 1. Part. FIrst then this first word But excludes a temporall Kingdome the Apostles had fild themselues with an expectation with an ambition of it but that was not intended them It was no wonder that a woman could conceiue such an expectation and such an ambition as to haue her two sonnes sit at Christs right hand Mat. 20.20 and at his left in his Kingdome when the Apostles expected such a Kingdome as might affoord them honours and preferment vpon Earth More then once they were in the disputation in which Christ deprehended them Mat. 1.81 which of them should bee the greatest in his Kingdome Neither hath the Bishop of Rome any thing wherein he may so properly call himselfe Apost licall as this error of the Apostles this theire infirmitie that heis euermore too conuersant vpō the contemplation of temporall Kingdomes They did it all the way when Christ was with them and now at his last step Cum actu ascendisset when Christ was not Asending but in part ascended when one foot was vpon the Earth and the other in the cloud that tooke him vp they aske him now wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome so women put their husbands and men their fathers and friends vpon their torture at their last gaspe and make their death bed a racke to make them strech and encrease ioyntures and portions and legacies and signe Scedules and Codicils with their hand when his hand that presents them is ready to close his eyes that should signe them And when they are vpon the wing for heauen men tye lead to their feet and when they are laying hand fast vpon Abrahams bosome they must pull their hand out of his bosome againe to obey importunities of men and signe their papers so vnderminable is the loue of this World which determines euery minute GOD as hee is three persons hath three Kingdomes There is Regnum potentiae The Kingdome of power and this wee attribute to the Father it is power and prouidence There is Regnum gloriae the Kingdome of glorie this we attribute to the Sonn and to his purchase for he is the King that shall say Mat. 25.34 Come ye blossed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the World And then betweene these three is Regnum Gratiae The Kingdome of Grace and this weattribute to the Holy Ghost he takes them whom the king of power Almighty God hath rescued from the Gentiles and as the king of grace Hee giues them the knowledge of the misterie of the Kingdome of GOD Mat. 4.11 that is of future glory by sanctifying thē with his grace in his Church The two first kingdomes are in this world but yet neither of them are of this world because both they referre to the kingdome of glory The kingdome of the Father which is the prouidence of God does but preserue vs The kingdome of the Holy Ghost which is the grace of God does but prepare vs to the kingdome of the Sonne which is the glory of GOD and that 's in heauen And therfore though to good men this world be the way to that kingdome yet this kingdome is not of this world sayes Chist himselfe Though the Apostles themselues Iohn 18.36 as good a Schoole as they were bred in could neuer take out that lesson yet that lesson Christ giues and repeates to all you seeke a Temporall kingdome But sayes the Text stop there A kingdome you must not haue Beloued in him whose kingdome and Gospell you seeke to aduance in this Plantation our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus if you seeke to establish a temporall kingdome there you are not rectified if you seeke to bee kings in either acceptation of the word To be a King signifies Libertie and indepency and Supremacie to bee vnder no man and to be a King signifies Abundance and Omnisufficiencie to neede no man If those that gouerne there would establish such a gouernment as should not depend vpon this or if those that goe thither propose to themselues an exemption from Lawes to liue at their libertie this is to be Kings to deuest Allegeance to bee vnder no man and if those that aduenture thither propose to themselues present benefit and profit a sodaine way to bee rich and an aboundance of all desirable commodities from thence this is to be sufficient of themselues and to neede no man and to bee vnder no man and to neede no man are the two acceptations of being Kings Whom liberty drawes to goe or present profit drawes to aduenture are not yet in the right way O if you could once bring a Catechisme to bee as good ware amongst them as a Bugle as a knife as a hatchet O if you would bee as ready to hearken at the returne of a ship how many Indians were conuerted to Christ Iesus as what trees or druggs or Dyes that Ship had brought then you were in your right way and not till then Libertie and Abundance are Characters of kingdomes and a kingdome is excluded in the Text The Apostles were not to looke for it in their employment nor you in this your Plantation At least CHRIST expresses himselfe thus farre in this answer that if he would giue them a kingdome Non adhue hee would not giue it them yet They aske him Wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome and 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