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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

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

in such ioyes as this world could giue And some others who haue auoided both the Temporall kingdome imagin'd by the Apostles presently after the Ascention And the Emperiall kingdome of the Iewes before the Resurrection And the Carnall kingdome of the Chiliasts the Millenarians after the Resurrection though they speake of no kingdome but the true kingdome the kingdome of glory yet they erre as much in assigning a certaine time when that kingdome shall beginne when the ende of this world when the Resurrection when the Iudgement shall be Non est vestrum nosse tempora sayes Christ to his Apostles then and lest it might be thought that they might know these things when the Holy Ghost came vpon them Christ denies that he himselfe knew that as Man and as Man Christ knew more then euer the Apostles knew Whatsoeuer therefore Christ intended to his Apostles heere hee would not giue it presently non adhuc hee would not binde himselfe to a certaine time Non est vestrum nosse tempora It belongs not to vs to know Gods times Beloued vse godly means and giue God his leisure You cannot beget a Sonne and tell the Mother I will haue this Sonne born within fiue Moneths nor when he is borne say you will haue him past daunger of Wardship within fiue yeares You cannot sowe your Corne to day and say it shall bee aboue ground to morrow and in my Barne next weeke How soone the best Husbandman sow'd the best Seede in the best ground GOD cast the promise of a Messias as the seede of all in Paradise In Semine Mulieris The Seede of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents head and yet this Plant was Foure thousand yeares after before it appeared this Messias Foure thousand yeares before he came GOD shew'd the ground where that should grow Two thousand yeares after the Promise in Abrahams Family In semine tuo In thy Seed all Nations shall be blessed God hedg'd in this Ground almost One thousand yeares after that In Micheas time Et tu Bethlem Thou Bethlem shalt bee the place and God watered that and weeded that refreshed that dry expectation with a Succession of Prophets and yet it was so long before this expectation of Nations this Messias came So GOD promised the Iewes a Kingdome in Iacobs Prophecie to Iuda Gen. 49. That the Scepter should not depart from his Tribe In Two hundred yeares more he saies no more of it Deut. 17.14 then he ordaines some institutions for their King when they should haue one And then it was Foure hundred yeares after that before they had a King GOD meant from the first houre to people the whole earth and God could haue made men of clay as fast as they made Brickes of Clay in Egypt but he began vpon two and when they had beene multiplying and replenishing the Earth One thousand sixe hundred yeares the Flood washed all that away and GOD was almost to begin againe vpon eight persons and they haue seru'd to people Earth and Heauen too Bee not you discouraged if the Promises which you haue made to your selues or to others be not so soone discharg'd though you see not your money though you see not your men though a Flood a Flood of Bloud haue broken in vpon them be not discouraged Great Creatures lye long in the Wombe Lyons are litterd perfit but Beare-whelpes lick'd vnto their shape actions which Kings vndertake are cast in a mould they haue their perfection quickly actions of priuate men and priuate Purses require more hammering and more filing to their perfection Onely let your principall end be the propagation of the glorious Gospell and though there bee an Exclusiue in the Text GOD does not promise you a Kingdome Ease and Abundance in all things and that which hee does intend to you he does not promise presently yet there is an Inclusiue too not that But but something equiuolent at least 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 Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth 2. Part. NOw our Sauiour Christ does not say to these men since you are so importunate you shall haue no Kingdome now nor neuer t is not yet But Sed. hee does not say you shall haue no Kingdome nor any thing else t is not that But the importunitie of beggers sometimes drawes vs to such a froward answer For this importunitie I will neuer giue you any thing Our patterne was not so froward hee gaue them not that but as good as that Samuel was sent to super-induct a King vpon Saul 1. Sam. 16. to annoint a new King Hee thought his Commission had been determined in Eliab Surely this is the Lords Annointed But the Lord said not hee nor the next Aminadab nor the next Shammah nor none of the next seuen But but yet there is one in the field keeping sheepe annoint him Dauid is hee Saint Paul prayed earnestly and frequently to be discharged of that Stimulas Carnis God sayes no not that but Gratia mea sufficit Thou shalt haue grace to ouercome the tentation though the tentation remaine God sayes to you No Kingdome not Ease not Abundance nay nothing at all yet the Plantation shall not discharge the Charges not defray it selfe yet but yet alreadie now at first it shall conduce to great vses It shall redeeme many a wretch from the Lawes of death from the hands of the Executioner vpon whom perchance a small fault or perchance a first fault or perchance a fault heartily and sincerely repented perchance no fault but mallice had otherwise cast a present and ignominious death It shall sweepe your streetes and wash your doores 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 alreadie not onely a Spleene to drayne the ill humors of the body but a Liuer to breed good bloud alreadie the imployment breedes Marriners alreadie the place giues Essayes nay Fraights of Marchantable Commodities alreadie it is a marke for the Enuie and for the ambition of our Enemies I speake but of our Doctrinall not Nationall Enemies as they are Papists they are sorrie wee haue this Countrey and surely twentie Lectures in matter of Controuersie doe not so much vexe them as one Ship that goes and strengthens that Plantation Neyther can I recommend it to you by any better Rhetorique then their mallice They would gladly haue it and therefore let vs be glad to hold it Thus then this Text proceedes Spiritus Sanctus 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