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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

Clerum onely yet her Maiestie being informed thereof declared her displeasure so as that scarce any houres before the Sermon was to haue been there was a Countermaund an Inhibition to the Preacher for medling with any of those poynts Not that her Maiestie made her selfe Iudge of the Doctrines but that nothing not formerly declared to be so ought to bee declared to be the Tenet and Doctrine of this Church her Maiestie not being acquainted nor suplicated to giue her gracious allowance for the publication thereof His sacred Maiestie then is herein vpon the steps of the Kings of Iudah of the Christian Emperors of the Kings of England of all the Kings of England that embraced the Reformation of Queene Elizabeth her selfe and he is vpon his owne steps too For it is a seditious calumny to apply this which is done now to any occasion that rises but now as though the King had done this now for satisfaction of any persons at this time For some yeares since when he was pleased to call the Heads of Houses from the Vniuersity and intimate to them the inconueniences that arose from the Preaching of such men as were not at all conuersant in the Fathers in the Schoole nor in the Ecclesiasticall Storie but had shut vp themselues in a few later Writers and gaue order to those Gouernours for remedy herein Then he began then he laid the foundation for that in which hee hath proceeded thus much further now to reduce Preaching neerer to the manner of those Primitiue times when God gaue so euident and so remarkable blessings to mens Preaching Consider more particularly that which he hath done now His Maiestie hath accompanied his most gracious Letter to the most Reuerend Father in God my Lords Grace of Canterbury with certaine Directions how Preachers ought to behaue themselues in the exercise of that part of their Ministerie These being deriued from his Grace in due course to his reuerend Brethren the other Bishops our worthy Diocesan euer vigilant for the Peace and vnitie of the Church gaue a speedy very speedy intimation thereof to the Clergie of his Iurisdiction so did others to whom it appertain'd so to doe in theirs Since that his Maiestie who alwayes taking good workes in hand loues to perfect his owne works hath vouchsafed to giue some Reasons of this his proceeding which being signified by him to whom the State and Church owes much The right Reuerend Father in God the Bishop of Lincolne Lord Keeper of the great Seale and after by him also who began at first his Maiesties pleasure appearing thereby as he is too Great and too Good a King to seeke corners or disguises for his actions that these proceedings should be made publique I was not willing only but glad to haue my part therein that as in the seare of God I haue alwaies preached to you the Gospell of Christ Iesus who is the God of your Saluation So in the testimony of a good Conscience I might now preach to you the Gospel of the Holy ghost who is the God of peace of vnitie and concord These Directions then and the Reasons of them by his Maiesties particular care euery man in the Ministery may see write out in the seuerall Registers Offices with his owne hand for nothing and for very little if hee vse the hand of another Perchance you haue at your conuenience you may see them When you do you shall see That his Maiesties generall intention therein is to put a difference between graue and solid from light and humerous preaching Origen does so when vpon the Epistle to the Romanes he sayes There is a great difference Inter praedicare docere A man may teach an Auditory that is make them know something that they knew not before and yet not Preach for Preaching is to make them knowthings appertaining to their saluation But when men doe neither neither Teach nor Preach but as his Maiestie obserues the manner to bee To soare in poynts too deepe To muster vp their owne Reading To display their owne Wit or Ignorance in medling with Ciuill matters or as his Maiestie addes in rude and vndecent reuiling of persons this is that which hath drawen downe his Maiesties piercing Eye to see it and his Royall care to correct it Hee corrects it by Christs owne way Quid ab initio by considering how it was at first for as himselfe to right purpose cites Tertullian Id verum quod primum That is best which was first Hee would therefore haue vs conuersant in Antiquitie For Nazianzen askes that question with some scorne Quis est qui veritatis propugnatorem vnius diei spatio velut e luto statuam fingit Can any man hope to make a good Preacher as soone as a good Picture In three or foure dayes or with three or foure Books His Maiesty therfore cals vs to look Quid primum what was first in the whole Church And againe Quid primum when we receiued the Reformation in this Kingdom by what meanes as his Maiestie expresseth it Papistry was driuen out and Puritanisme kept out and wee deliuered from the Superstition of the Papist and the madnesse of the Anabaptists as before hee expresseth it and his religious and iudicious eye sees clearly That all that Doctrine which wrought this great cure vpon vs in the Reformation is contained in the two Catechisines in the 39. Articles and in the 2. Bookes of Homilies And to these as to Heads and Abundaries from whence all knowledge necessarie to saluation may abundantly be deriu'd hee directs the meditations of Preachers Are these new wayes No way new for they were our first way in receiuing Christianity and our first way in receiuing the Reformation Take a short view of them all as it is in the Catechismes as it is in the Articles as it is in the Homilies First you are called backe to the practise of Catechising Remember what Catechising is it is Institutio viua voce And in the Primitiue Church when those persons who comming from the Gentiles to the Christian Religion might haue beene scandalized with the outward Ceremoniall and Rituall worship of God in the Church for Ceremonies are stumbling blockes to them who looke vpon them without their Signification and without the reason of their Institution to auoyd that daunger though they were not admitted to see the Sacraments administred nor the other Seruice of God performed in the Church yet in the Church they receiued Instruction Institution by word of mouth in the fundamentall Articles of the Christian Religion and that was Catechising The Christians had it from the beginning and the Iewes had it too for their word Chanach is of that signification Initiare to enter Traine vp a child in the way he should goe and when he Pro. 22.6 is olde hee will not depart from it Traine vp sayes our Translation in the Text Catechise say our Translators in the Margin according to the naturall force of the

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