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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20655	Three sermons vpon speciall occasions preached by Iohn Donne ...	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1623 (1623)	STC 7057; ESTC S350	58,117	180

yet it is none of the least neither but a middle starre Those Preachers which must saue your soules are not ignorant vnlearned extemporall men but they are not ouer curious men neither Your children are you and your seruants are you and you doe not prouide for your saluation if you prouide not for them who are so much yours as that they are you No man is sau'd as a good man if he be not sau'd as a good Father and as a good Master too if God haue giuen him a family That so Priest and people the whole Congregation may by their religious obedience and fighting in this spirituall warfare in their Order minister occasion of ioy to that heart which hath beene grieued in that fulnesse of ioy Which Dauid expresseth The King shall reioyce in thy strength O Lord and in thy saluation how greatly shall hee reioyce Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire and thou hast not withholden the request of his lipps for the King trusteth in the Lord and by the mercy of the most High he shall not bee mooued And with that Psalme a Psalme of Confidence in a good King and a Psalme of Thanksgiuing for that blessing I desire that this Congregation may be dissolued for this is all that I intended for the Explication which was our first and for the Application which was the other part proposed in these wordes FINIS A SERMON VPON THE VIII VERSE OF THE I. CHAPTER OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Preach'd To the Honourable Company of the VIRGINIAN PLANTATION 13o. Nouemb. 1622. BY IOHN DONNE Deane of St. Pauls London LONDON Printed by A. MAT for THOMAS IONES and are to sold at his Shop in the Strand at the blacke Rauen neere vnto Saint Clements Church 1622. TO THE HONORABLE COMPANY OF THE VIRGINIAN Plantation BY your fauours I had some place amongst you before but now I am an Aduenturer if not to VIRGINIA yet for VIRGINIA for euery man that Prints Aduentures for the Preaching of this Sermon I was but vnder your Inuitation my Time was mine owne and my Medtations mine owne and I had beene excusable towards you if I had turnd that Time and those Meditations to GOD's seruice in any other place But for the Printing of this Sermon I am not onely vnder your Inuitation but vnder your Commandement for after it was preach'd it was not mine but yours And therefore if I gaue it at first I doe but restore it now The first was an act of Loue this of Iustice both which Vertues Almighty God euermore promoue and exalt in all your proceedings Amen Your humble Seruant in Christ Iesus IOHN DONNE ACTS 1. 8. 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 Iudea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost part of the Earth THere are reckoned in this booke 22. Sermons of the Apostles and yet the booke is not called the Preaching but the Practise not the VVords but the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of the Apostles were to conuay that name of Christ Iesus and to propagate his Gospell ouer all the world Beloued you are Actors vpon the same Stage too the vttermonst part of the Earth are your Scene act ouer the acts of the Apostles bee you a light to the Gentiles that sit in darkenesse be you content to carry him ouer these Seas who dryed vp one red Sea for his first people and hath powred out another red Sea his owne bloud for them and vs. When man was fallen God clothed him made him a Leather Garment there God descended to one occupation when the time of mans redemption was come then God as it were to house him became a Carpenters Sonne there God descended to another occupation Naturally without doubt man would haue beene his own Taylor and his owne Carpenter something in these two kinds man would haue done of himselfe though hee had had no patterne from God but in preseruing man who was fallen to this redemption by which he was to be raisd in preseruing man from perishing in the Flood God descended to a third occupation to be his Shipwright to giue him the modell of a ship an Arke and so to be the author of that which man himselfe in likelihood would neuer haue thought of a means to passe from Nation to Nation Now as GOD taught vs to make cloathes not onely to cloath our selues but to cloath him in his poore and naked members heere as God taught vs to build houses not to house ourselues but to house him in erecting Churches to his glory So God taught vs to make Ships not to transport ourselues but to transport him That when wee haue receiued power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon vs we might be witnesses vnto him both in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth As I speake now principally to them who are concernd in this Plantation of Virginia yet there may be diuers in this Congregation who though they haue no interest in this Plantation yet they may haue benefit and edification by that which they heare me say so Christ spoke the words of this Text principally to the Apostles who were present and questioned him at his Ascention but they are in their iust extention and due accomodation appliable to our present occation of meeting heere As Christ himselfe is Alpha and Omega so first as that hee is last too so these words which he spoke in the East belong to vs who are to glorifie him in the VVest That we hauing receiued power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon vs might be witnesses vnto him both in Ierusalem and in all Iudea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth The first word of the Text is the Cardinall word the word the hinge vpon which the whole Text turnes The first word But is the But that all the rest shoots at First it is an exclusiue word something the Apostles had required which might not bee had not that And it is an inclusiue word something Christ was pleasd to affoord to the Apostles which they thought not of not that not that which you beat vpon But but yet something else something better then that you shall haue That which this but excludes is that which the Apostles expresse in the Verse immediatly before the Text a Temporall Kingdome VVilt thou restore againe the kingdome of Israel No not a temporall Kingdome let not the riches and commodities of this World be in your contemplation in your aduentures Or because they aske more VVilt thou now restore that not yet If I will giue you riches and commodities of this world yet if I doe it not at first if I doe it not yet be not you discouraged you shall not haue that that is not Gods first intention and though that be in Gods intention to giue

heartily and sincerely repented perchance no fault but malice had otherwise cast a present and ignominious death It shall sweep your streets and wash your dores from idle persons and the children of idle persons and imploy them and truely if the whole Countrey were but such a Bridewell to force idle persons to work it had a good vse But it is already not onely a Spleene to draine the ill humors of the body but a Liuer to breed good bloud already the imployment breeds Marriners already the place giues essayes nay Fraytes of Marchantable commodities already it is a marke for the Enuy and for the ambition of our Enemies I speake but of our Doctrinall not Nationall Enemies as they are Papists they are sory we haue this Countrey and surely twenty Lectures in matter of Controuersie doe not so much vexe them as one Ship that goes strengthens that Plantation Neither can I recommend it to you by any better Retorique then their malice They would gladly haue it and therefore let vs bee glad to hold it Thus then this Text proceedes and gathers vpon you All that you would haue by this Plantation you shall not haue GOD bindes not himselfe to measures All that you shall haue you haue not yet GOD bindes not himselfe to times but something you shall haue nay you haue already some great things and of those that in the Text is The Holy Ghost shall come vpon you we find the Holy Ghost to haue come vpon men foure times in this Booke First vpon the Apostles at Pentecost Then when the whole Congregation was in prayer for the imprisonment of Peter and Iohn Againe when Peter preached in Cornelius his house the Holy Ghost fell vpon all them that heard him And fourthly when Saint Paul laid his hands vpon them who had beene formerly baptized at Ephesus At the three latter times it is euident that the Holy Ghost fell vpon whole and promiscuous Congregations and not vpon the Apostles onely and in the first at Pentecost the contrary is not euident nay the Fathers for the most part that handle that concurre in that that the Holy Ghost fell then vpon the whole Congregation men and women The Holy Ghost fell vpon Peter before hee preach'd and it fell vpon the hearers when he preach'd and it hath fallen vpon euery one of them who haue found motions in themselnes to propagate the Gospell of Christ Iesus by this meanes The Sonne of GOD did not abhorre the Virgins wombe when hee would be made man when he was man he did not disdaine to ride vpon an Asse into Ierusalem the third person of the Trinity the Holy Ghost is as humble as the second hee refuses Nullum vehiculum no conueyance no doore of entrance into you whether the example and precedent of other good men or a probable imagination of future profit or a willingnes to concurre to the vexation of the Enemie what collaterall respect soeuer drew thee in if now thou art in thy principall respect be the glory of God that occasion whatsoeur it was was vehiculum Spiritus Sancti that was the Petard that broke open thy Iron gate that was the Chariot by which he entred into thee and now hee is fallen vpon thee if thou do not Depose lay aside all consideration of profit for euer neuer to looke for returne No not Sepose leaue out the consideration of profit for a time for that and Religion may well consist together but if thou doe but Post-pose the consideration of temporall gaine and study first the aduancement of the Gospell of Christ Iesus the Holy Ghost is fallen vpon you for by that you receiue power sayes the Text. There is a Power rooted in Nature and a Power rooted in Grace a power yssuing from the Law of Nacions and a power growing out of the Gospell In the Law of Nature and Nations A Land neuer inhabited by any or vtterly derelicted and immemorially abandoned by the former Inhabitants becomes theirs that wil possesse it So also is it if the inhabitants doe not in some measure fill the Land so as the Land may bring foorth her increase for the vse of men for as a man does not become proprietary of the Sea because hee hath two or three Boats fishing in it so neither does a a man become Lord of a maine Continent because hee hath two or three Cottages in the Skirts thereof That rule which passes through all Municipal lawes in particular States Interest reipublic vt quis re sua bene vtatur The State must take order that euery man improoue that which he hath for the best aduantage of that State passes also through the Law of Nations which is to all the world as the Municipall Law is to a particular State Interest mundo The whole world all Mankinde must take care that all places be emprou'd as farre as may be to the best aduantage of Mankinde in generall Againe if the Land be peopled and cultiuated by the people and that Land produce in abundance such things for want whereof their neghbours or others being not enemies perish the Law of Nations may iustifie some force in seeking by permutation of other commodities which they neede to come to some of theirs Many cases may be put when not onely Comerce and Trade but Plantations in lands not formerly our owne may be lawfull And for that Accepistis potestatem you haue your Commission your Patents your Charters your Seales from him vpon whose acts any priuate Subiect in Ciuill matters may safely rely But then Accipietis potestatem You shall receiue power sayes the text you shall when the Holy Ghost is come vpon you that is when the instinct the influence the motions of the Holy Ghost enables your Conscience to say that your principall ende is not gaine nor glory but to gaine Soules to the glory of GOD this Seales the great Seale this iustifies Iustice it selfe this authorises Authoritie and giues power to strength it selfe Let the Conscience bee vpright and then Seales and Patents and Commissions are wings they assist him to flye the faster let the Conscience be lame and distorted and he that goes vpon Seales and Patents and Commissions goes vpon weake and feeble crouches When the Holy Ghost is come vpon you your Conscience rectified you shall haue Power a new power out of that what to doe that followes to bee witnesses vnto Christ. Infamy is one of the highest punishments that the Law inflicts vpon man for it lyes vpon him euen after death Infamy is the worst punishment and Intestabilitie to be made intestable is one of the deepest wounds of infamy and then the worst degree of intestabilitie is not to bee beleeued not to bee admitted to be a witnesse of any other he is Intestable that cannot make a Testament not giue his owne goods and hee Intestable that can receiue nothing by the Testament of another hee is Intestable in whose