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

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 LONDON Printed for Thomas Iones 1624. TO THE HONOVRABLE COMPANIE 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 Meditations mine owne and I had beene excusable towards you if I had turned that Time and those Meditations to GODS 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 preached 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 Almightie 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 mee both in Ierusalem and in all Iudea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost part of the Earth THERE are reckoned in this Booke Two and Twentie Sermons of the Apostles and yet the Book is not called the Preaching but the Practise not the Words but the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of the Apostles were to conuey that name of Christ Iesus and to propagate his Gospell ouer all the world Beloued you are Actors vpon the same Stage too the vttermost 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 bee you content to carrie 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 cloathed 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 owne 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 our selues but to house him in erecting Churches to his glory So God taught vs to make Ships not to transport our selues 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 wordes which he spoke in the East belong to vs who are to glorifie him in the West 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 somthing 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 Wilt 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 Wilt thou now restore that not yet If I will giue you riches and commoditles 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 it you hereafter you shall not haue it yet that 's the exclusiue part But there enters the inclusiue You shall receiue power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon you and you shall bee witnesses vnto mee both in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth In which second part we shall passe by these steps Superueniet Spiritus The holy Ghost shall come vpon you The Spirit shall witnesse to your Spirit and rectifie your Conscience And then by that you shall receiue power A new power besides the power you haue from the State and that power shall enable you to be witnesses of Christ that is to make his doctrine the more credible by your testimony when you conforme your selues to him and doe as hee did and this witnesse you shall beare this conformity you shall declare first in Ierusalem in this Citie And in Iudaea in all the parts of the Kingdome and in Samaria euen amongst them who are departed from the true worship of God the Papists and to the vttermost part of the Earth to those poore Soules to whom you are continually sending Summarily If from the Holy Ghost you haue a good testimony in your owne Conscience you shall be witnesses for Christ that is as he did you shall giue satisfaction to all to the Citie to the Countrey to the Calumniating Aduersary and the naturals of the place to whom you shall present both Spirituall and Temporall benefit to And so you haue

alreadie some great things and of those that in the Text is The Holy Ghost shall come vpon you Wee finde the Holy Ghost to haue come vpon men foure times in this Booke First vpon the Apostles Acts 2 1. at Pentecost Then when the whole Congregation was in prayer for the imprisonment of Peter and Iohn 4 31. Againe when Peter preached in Cornelius his house 10 44. the Holy Ghost fell vpon all them that heard him And fourthly when Saint Paul laid his hands vpon them 19 6. 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 contrarie 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 hee preach'd and it hath fallen vpon euery one of them who haue found motions in themselues 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 hee was man hee did not disdaine to ride vpon an Asse into Ierusalem the third Person of the Trinitie 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 willingnesse 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 glorie of God that occasion whatsoeuer 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 doe 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 gayne and studie 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 Potestatem a Power issuing from the Law of Nations 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 will 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 encrease for the vse of men for as a man does not become proprietarie of the Sea because hee hath two or three Boats fishing in it so neyther does 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 Municipall Lawes in particular States Interest Reipublicae vt quis re sua bene vtatur The State must take order that euerie 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 Mankind 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 neighbours or others being not enemyes 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 Commerce 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 relye 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 end 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 be 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 hee that goes vpon Seales and Patents and Commissions goes vpon weake and feeble Crutches 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 Infamie is one of the highest punishments that the Law inflicts vpon man Testes for it lyes vpon him euen after death Infamie is the worst punishment and Intestabilitie to be made intestable is one of the deepest wounds of Infamie and then the worst degree of intestabilitie is not to be beleeued not to be admitted to be a Witnesse of any other Hee 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 behalfe no testimonie may be accepted but be is the most miserably Intestable of all the most detestably intestable that discredites another man by speaking well of him and makes him the more suspitious by his commendations A Christian in profession that is not a Christian in life is so intestable hee discredites Christ and hardens others against him Iohn Baptist was more then a Prophet because hee was a Witnesse of Christ and hee was a Witnesse because hee was like him hee did as hee did hee lead a holy and a religious life so hee was a Witnesse That great and glorious name of Martyr is but a Witnesse Saint Stephen was Proto-martyr Christs first Witnesse because hee was the first that did as hee did that put on his Colours that drunke of his Cup that was baptised with his Baptisme with his owne Bloud so hee was a Witnesse To be Witnesses for Christ is to be like Christ to conforme your selues to Christ and they in the Text and you are to be Witnesses of Christ in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth Saint Hierome notes that Iohn Baptist was not bid to beare witnesse in Ierusalem Jerusalem in the Citie but in the Wildernesse hee and none but