Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	rule_n	scripture_n	3,053	5	6.0044	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

ciuill Actions was Religion so the rule of her Religion was the Scripture And her rule for her particular vnderstanding of the Scripture was the Church Shee neuer diuerted towards the Papist in vndervaluing the Scripture nor towards the Separatist in vnderualuing the Church But in the doctrine and discipline of that Church in which God seal'd her to himselfe in Baptisme shee brought vp her children shee assisted her family she dedicated her soule to God in her life and surrendered it to him in her death And in that forme of Common Prayer which is ordain'd 〈◊〉 by ●hat Church and to which she had accustom●td her selfe with her family wide 〈◊〉 day she ioyn'd with than company which was about her death-bed in answering to euery par● thereof which the Congrgationl is directed to answer to with a cleere vnderstanding with a constant memory with a distinct ●voyed not 〈◊〉 houres before she died 〈◊〉 According to this promise that is the will of God manifested in the 〈◊〉 She expected Shee expected this that she hath rece●ued Gods Physioke and Gods M●sicke a Christianly death For death in the old Testamen was a Com●●nation but in the now Testament death is a Promise When there was a Super-dying a death vpon the death a Morte vpon the Mor●eris● a Spirituall death after the bodily then wee died a●cording to Gods threatning Now when by the Gospell that second death is taken off though wee die still yet we die according to his Promise That 's a part of his mercy and his Promise which his Apostle giues vs from him That wee shall all bee changed For after that promise that change follow 's that triumphant Acclamation O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory Consider vs fallen in Adam and wee are miserable that wee must die But consider vs restor'd and redintegrated in Christ wee were more miserable if wee might not die Wee lost the earthly Paradise by death then but wee get not Heauen but by death now This shee expected till it came and embrac't it when it came How may we thinke shee was ioy'd to see that face that Angels delight to looke vpon the face of her Sauiour that did not abhor the face of his fearfullest Messenger Death● Shee shew'd no feare of his face in any change of her owne but died without any change of countenan●e or posture● without any strugling any disorder but her Death-bed was as quiet● as●her Graus To another Magdalen Christ said vp on earth ascended● Being ascended now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and she b●●ing gone 〈◊〉 to him as●●r she'e had awaited his 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 ●yo●res as that more would● 〈…〉 growne to bee vexd●●on and s●rrow was her last 〈◊〉 horb were 〈◊〉 my will to the will of God so wee doubt not but the first word which she heard there was that Euge from her Sauiour Well done good and faithfull seruant enter into thy mastersioy Shee expected that dissolution of body and soule and rest in both from the incumbrances and tentations of this world But yet shee is in expectation still Still a Reuersionarie And a Reuersionary vpō along life The whole world must die before she come to a possession of this Reuersion which is a Glorified body in the Resurrection In which expectation she return's to her former charity shee will not haue that till all wee shall haue it as well as shee She eat not her morsels alone in her life as Iob speakes Shee lookes not for the glory of the Resurrection alone after her death But when all we shall haue beene mellow'd in the earth many yeeres or chang'd in the Aire in the twinkling of an eye God knowes which That body vpon which you tread now That body which now whilst I speake is mouldring and crumbling into lesse and lesse dust and so hath some motion though no life That body which was the Tabernacle of a holy Soule and a Temple of the holy Ghost That body that was eyes to the blinde and hands and feet to the lame whilst it liu'd and being dead is so still by hauing beene so liuely an example to teach others to be so That body at last shall haue her last expectation satisfied and d'well bodily with that Righteousnesse in these new Heauens and new Earth for euer and euer and euer and infinite and super-infinite euers Wee●nd all with the valediction of the Spouse to Christ● His left hand is vnder my head and his right embraces mee was the Spouses valediction and goodnight to Christ then when she laid her selfe downe to sleepe in the strength of his Mandrakes and in the power of his Spices as it is exprest ●here that is in the influence of his mercies Beloued euery good Soule is the Spouse of Christ● And this good Soule being thus laid downe to sleepe in his peace His left hand vnder her head gathering and composing and preferuing hen dust for future Glory His right hand embracing her assuming and establishing her soule in present Glory in his name and in her behalfe I say that to all you which Christ sayes there in the behalfe of that Spouse Adiuro vos I adiure you I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem that yee wake her not till she please The words are directed to the daughters rather then to the sons of Ierusalem because for the most part the aspersions that women receiue either in Morall or Religious actions proceed from womē themselues Therfore Adiuro vos I charge you Oye daughters of Ierusalem wake her not Wake her not with any halfe calumnies with any whisperings But if you wil wake her wake her and keepe her awake with an actiue imitation of her Morall and her Holy vertues That so her example working vpon you and the number of Gods Saints being the sooner by this blessed example fulfil'd wee may all meet and meet quickly in that kingdome which hers and our Sauiour hath purchac't for vs all with the inestimable price of his incorrup●tible blou● To which ●●glorious Sonne of God c. FINIS MEMORIAE MATRIS Sacrum AH Mater quo te deplorem f●nte Dolores Quae guttae poterunt enumerare meos Sicca meis lacrymis Thamesis vicina videtur Virtutumque choro siscior ipse tuo In flumen maerore nigrum si funderer ardens Laudibus hand ●ierem sepia iusta t●is Tantùm istaec scrib● gratus n● tu mih● tant ùm Mater ista Dolor ●●nc tibi M●tra parit 〈…〉 〈…〉 Confer●● lacrymas Illa quae vos iniscuit Vestrasaue laudes posoit mixi as genas 〈…〉 Pudorque constet vel solut is crinibus 〈…〉 Decus mul●erum perijt metùunt v●r● Vtrumqu● sexum dote ne mulctauerit Non illa soles terere comptu lubricos Struices superbas at que turritum c●pute Molita reliquum deinde garr●ens diem Nam post Babelem Linguae adest confusio Quin post mode stam qualis integras decet Substructionem capit is

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