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

Gods cause and doe not thinke that they haue done all or done enough if they haue done something some one time The Morall man hath said well and well applied it Plutar. A Ship is a Ship for euer if you repaire it So sayes hee Honour is Honour and so say wee A good Conscience is a good Conscience for euer if you repaire it But sayes he well Aliquid famae addendum ne putrescat Honour will putrifie and so will a good Conscience too if it be not repaired He that hath done Nothing must begin and hee that hath done something for Gods cause must doe more if hee will continue his name in the Booke of Life though God leaue no one particular action done for his glorie without glorie as those who assisted his glorie heere haue a glorious Commemoration in this Song In the fifteenth verse Princes haue their place The Princes of Issachar were with Deborah when the King goes to the field Many who are in other cases Priuiledged are by their Tenures bound to goe It is a high Tenure to hold by a Crowne And when God of whome and whome onely they hold that hold so goes into the field it becomes them to goe with him But as God sits in Heauen and yet goes into the field so they of whome God hath said Yee are Gods the Kings of the Earth may stay at home and yet goe too They goe in their assistance to the Warre They goe in their Mediation for Peace They goe in their Example when from their sweetnesse and moderation in their Gouernement at home their flowes out an instruction a perswasion to Princes abroad Kings goe many times and are not thanked because their wayes are not seene and Christ himselfe would not alwayes bee seene In the eight of Iohn he would not be seene When they tooke vp stones to stone him he withdrew himselfe inuisibly hee would not be seene When Princes find that open actions exasperate they doe best if they be not seene In the sixth of Iohn Christ would not bee seene When they would haue put vpon him that which was not fit for him to take when they would haue made him King he withdrew himselfe and was not seene When Princes are tempted to take Territories or possessions in to their hands to which other Princes haue iust pretences they doe best if they withdrawe themselues from engagements in vnnecessarie Warres for that that onely was Iofiahs 2. Reg. 23.29 ruine Kings cannot alwayes goe in the sight of Men and so they lose their thankes but they cannot goe out of the sight of God and there they neuer lose their reward For the Lord that sees them in secret shall reward them openly with peace in their owne States and Honour in their owne Chronicles as here for assisting his cause hee gaue the Princes of Issachar a roome a straine in Deborah and Barakes Song And in the ninth verse the Gouernors the great Officers haue their place in this praise My heart is towards the Gouernors of Israel that offered themselues willingly It is not themselues in person Great Officers cannot doe so They are Intelligences that moue great Spheares but they must not bee mou'd out of them But their glorie here is their willingnesse That before they were inquired into how they carried themselues in their Offices before they were intimidated or soupled with fines and ransomes voluntarily they assisted the cause of God Some in the Romane Church write that the Cardinalls of that Church are so incorporated into the Pope so much of his body and so bloud of his bloud that in a feuer they may not let bloud without his leaue Truly the great Persons and Gouernors in any state are so noble and neere parts of the King as that they may not bleed out in any subuentions and assistances of such causes vnder-hand as are not auowd by the King for it is not euident that that cause is Gods cause at least not euident that that way is an assistance of Gods cause But a good and tractable and ductile disposition in all courses which shall lawfully bee declared to bee for Gods glorie then not Contra but Praeter not against but besides not in opposing but in preuenting the Kings will before hee vrge before he presse to be willing and forward in such assistances this giues great Persons Gouernors and Officers a verse in Baraks and Deborahs Song and Deborah and Baraks Song is the Word of God The Merchants haue their place in that verse too For as wee said before those who ride vpon white Asses which was as honorable a transportation as Coaches are now are by Peter Martyr amongst ours and by Serarius the Jesuit amongst others well vnderstood to be the Merchants The greatnesse and the dignitie of the Merchan of the East is sufficiently expressed in those of Babylon Thy Merchants were the great Men of the Earth And for the Merchants of the Apoc. 18.23 West we know that in diuers forraine parts their Nobilitie is in their Merchants their Merchants are their Gentlemen And certainly no place of the world for Commodities and Situation better disposed then this Kingdome to make Merchants great You cannot shew your greatnesse more then in seruing God with part of it you did serue before you were free but here you do both at once for his seruice is perfect freedome I am not here to day to beg a Beneuolence for any particular cause on foot now there is none but my Errand in this first part is first to remoue iealousies and suspitions of Gods neglecting his businesse because he does it not at our appointment and then to promoue and aduance a disposition to assist his cause and his glory in all wayes which shall bee declar'd to conduce thereunto whether in his body by relieuing the poore or in his house by repairing these walls or in his honour in employments more publique And to assure you that you cannot haue a better debter a better pay-master then Christ Iesus for all your Entayles and all your perpetuities doe notso nayle so hoope in so riuet an estate in your posteritie as to make the Sonne of God your Sonne too and to giue Christ Iesus a Childes part with the rest of your Children It is noted perchaunce but out of leuity that your Children doc not keepe that which you get It is but a calumny or but a fascination of ill wishers We haue many happy instances to the contrarie many noble families deriued from you One enough to enoble a World Queene ELIZABETH was the great granchild of a Lord Maior of London Our blessed God blesse all your Estates and blesse your posteritie in a blessed enioying therof But truly it is a good way to that amongst all your purchases to purchase a place in Barak and Deborahs Song a testimonie of the Holy Ghost that you were forward in all due times in the assistance of Gods cause That testimonie in this Seruice

in our Text haue the Iudges of the Land in the verse too ye that fit in Iudgement Certainly Men exercised in Judgement are likeliest to thinke of the last Iudgement Men accustomed to giue Iudgement likeliest to thinke of the Iudgement they are to receiue And at that last Iudgement the Malediction of the left hand falls vpon them that haue not harbored Christ not fed him not clothed him And when Christ comes to want those things in that degree that his Kingdome his Gospell himselfe cannot subsist where it did without such a sustentation an omission in such an assistance is much more heauie All Iudgements end in this Suum cuique to giue euery one his owne Giue God his owne and hee hath enough giue him his owne in his owne place and his cause will be preferred before any Ciuill or Naturall obligation But God requires not that pay euery other Man first owe nothing to any Man pay your Children apportion them conuenient portions Pay your estimation your reputation liue in that good fashion which your ranke and calling calls for when all this is done of your superfluities beginne to pay God and euen for that you shall haue your roome in Deborah and Baraks Song for Assistants and Coadiutors to him For a farre vnlikelier sort of people then any of these haue that in the same verse also Ambulantes super viam They that walke vp and downe idle discourcing Men Men of no Calling of no Profession of no sense of other Mens miseries and yet they assist this cause Men that sucke the sweet of the Earth and the sweat of other Men Men that pay the State nothing in doing the offices of mutuall societie and embracing particular vocations Men that make themselues but pipes to receiue and conuay and vent rumors but spunges to sucke in and powre out foule water Men that doe not spend time but weare time they trade not they plough not they preach not they plead not but walke and walke vpon the way till they haue walked out their sixe moneths for the renuing of bands euen these had some remorse in Gods cause euen these got into Deborah and Baraks Song for assisting there And lesse that is Poorer then these for in the Second verse the people are as forward as the Gouernors in the Ninth They offered themselues willingly They might offer themselues their persons It is likely they did and likely that many of them had nothing to offer but themselues And when Men of that pouertie offer part easily with that which was hardly got how acceptable to God that Sacrifice is we see in Christs testimonie of that Widdow who amongst many great giuers gaue her Mite That shee gaue more then all they because shee gaue all which testified not onely her Liberalitie to God but her Confidence in God that though shee left nothing shee should not lacke for that right vse doth Saint Augustine make of that example Diuites largiuntur securi de diuitijs pauper securus de Domino A rich man giues and feeles it not feares no want because hee is sure of a full Chest at home A poore man giues and feeles it as little because hee is sure of a bountifull God in Heauen God then can worke alone there wee set out yet he does require assistance that way wee went And to those that doe assist hee giues glory here so farre we are gone but yet this remaynes that hee layes notes of blame and reproach vpon them whom collaterall respects withdrew from this assistance For there is a kind of reproach and increpation laide vpon Reuben in that question Why abodest thou amongst the sheepfolds The diuisions of REVBEN were great Verse 16. thoughts of heart Ambition of precedencie in places of employment greatnes of heart and a lothnesse to be vnder the commaund of any other and so an incoherence not concurring in Counsailes and Executions retard oftentimes euen the cause of God So is there also a reproach and increpation Verse 17. vpon Dan in that question why did Dan remaine in his ships A confidence in their owne strength a sacrificing to their owne Nets an attributing of their securitie to their owne wisedome or power may also retard the cause of God that stayed Dan behinde Thus then they haue their thankes that doe thus their markes that doe not assist in Gods cause though God to encourage them that doe accomplish his worke himselfe They fought from heauen The Starres in their order fought against Sisera They fought sayes the Text but does not tell vs who least men should direct their thankes for that which is past or their prayers for future benefits to any other euen in heauen then to God himselfe The stars are nam'd It could not be feared that Men would pray to them sacrifice to them Angels Saints are not named Men might come to ascribe to them that which appertained to God onely Now these Stars sayes the text fought in their courses Manentes in Ordine they fought not disorderly It was no Enchantment no Sorcery no disordring of the frame or the powers or the influence of these heauenly bodies in fauor of the Israelites God would not be beholden to the Deuill or to Witches for his best friends It was no disorderly Enchantment nor it was no Miracle that disordered these Starres as in Iosuahs time the Sunne and Moone were disordred in their Motions But as Iosephus who relates this battaile more particularly sayes with whom all agree The naturall Influence of these heauenly bodies at this time had created and gathered such stormes and hayles as blowing vehemently in the Enemies face was the cause of this defeate for so wee might haue said in that deliuerance which God gaue vs at Sea They fought from heauen The Starres in their order fought against the Enemie Without coniuring without Miracle from heauen but yet by naturall meanes God preserued vs. For that is the force of that phrase and of that maner of expressing it Manentes in Ordine The Starres containing themselues in their Order fought And that phrase induces our second part the accommodation the occasionall application of these words God will not fight nor be fought for disorderly And therefore in illustration and confirmation of those words of the Apostle Let all things be done decently and in order Aquinas in his Commentaries vpon that place cites and applies this Text as words to the same purpose and of the same signification You sayes Saint Paul you who are Stars in the Church must proceede in your warfare decently and in order for the stars of heauen when they fight for the Lord they doe their seruice Manentes in Ordine containing themselues in their Order And so in our order we are come to our second part In which we owe you by promise made at first an Analysis a distribution of the steps and branches of this part now when wee are come to the handling thereof And thus wee