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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20638	Encænia the Feast of Dedication, celebrated at Lincolnes Inne, in a sermon there vpon Ascension day, 1623 : at the dedication of a new chappell there, consecrated by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Bishop of London / preached by Iohn Donne ...	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1623 (1623)	STC 7039; ESTC S1700	14,605	48

the Festiuall alone According to which paterne Felix one Bishop of Rome ordained that the Festiuals of the Dedication of Churches should bee yearely celebrated in those places Greg. and another extended the Festiuall to eight dayes at least at the first dedication thereof if not euery yeare that God might not onely be put into the possession of the place but setled in it God by Moses made the children of Israel a Song because as hee sayes Deut. 31.19 howsoeuer they did by the Law they would neuer forget that Song that Song should be his witnesse against them Therefore would God haue vs institute solemne memorialls of his great deliuerances that if when those dayes come about we doe not glorifie him that might aggrauate our condemnation Euery fift of August the Lord rises vp to hearken whether we meet to glorifie him for his great deliuerance of his Maiesty before he blest vs with his presence in this Kingdome and when he finds vs zealous in our thankes for that he giues vs farther blessings Certainly he is vp as early euery fift of Nouember to hearken if we meet to glorifie him for that deliuerance still and if hee should finde our zeale lesse then heretofore hee would wonder why Gods principall his radicall Holy day the Sabboth had a weekly returne his other Sabbaths instituted by himselfe and those which were instituted by those paternes that of Mordechai that of the Maccabees those of the Christian Church They all return once a yeare God would keepe his Courts once a yeare and see whether wee make our apparances as heeretofore that if not hee may know it Feastes in generall Feastes instituted by the Church alone Feasts in their yearely returne and obseruation haue their vse and particularly those Feasts of the Dedication of Churches which was properly and literally the Feast of this Text. It was the Feast of Dedication Encaeuia As it diminishes not preiudices not Gods Eternitie that wee giue him his Quando certaine times of Inuocation God is not the lesse yesterday Temple and to day and the same for euer because wee meet here to day and not yesterday so it diminishes not preiudices not Gods Vbiquitie and Omnipresence that wee giue him his Vbi certaine places for Inuocation That 's not the lesse true that the most High dwells not in Temples made with handes Acts 7.48 though God accept at our hands our dedication of certaine places to his seruice manifest his working more effectually more energetically in those places then in any other for when we pray Our Father which art in Heauen It is not sayes Saint Chrysostome that wee deny him to bee heere Chrysostome where wee kneele when we say that Prayer but it is that we acknowledge him to be there where he can graunt and accomplish our prayer It is as Origen hath very well expressed it Origen Vt in melioribus mundi requiramus Deum That still wee looke for God in the best places looke for him as he heares our petitions here in the best places of this world in his House in the Church looke for him as he graunts our petition in the best place of the next world at the right hand and in the bosome of the Father Deut. 30.13 When Moses sayes that the word of God is not beyond Sea he addes It is not so beyond Sea as that thou must not haue it without sending thither When he sayes there it is not in heauen he adds not so in heauen as that one must goe vp before hee can haue it The word of God is beyond Sea the true word truly preached in many true Churches there but yet we haue it here within these Seas too God is in Heauen but yet hee is here within these walles too And therefore the impietie of the Manicheans exceeded all the Gentiles who concluded the God of the Old Testament to be an impotent an vnperfect God because hee commaunded Moses first to make him a Tabernacle and then Salomon to make him a Temple as though he needed a House God does not need a house but man does need that God should haue a House And therefore the first question that Christs first Disciples asked of him was Magister vbi habitas they would know his standing house where he hath promised to bee alwaies within and where at the ringing of the Bell some body comes to answere you to take your errand to offer your Prayers to God to returne his pleasure in the preaching of his Word to you The many and heauy Lawes with which sacred and secular stories abound against the prophanation of places appropriated to Gods seruice and that religious custome that passed almost through all ciuill Nations that an oath which was the bond between man and man had the stronger Obligation if that were taken in the Church in the presence of God for such was the practise of Rome towards her enemies Tango aras mediosque ignes to make their vowes of hostility in the Church and at time of diuine Seruice and such is their practise still they seale their Treasons in the Sacrament such was Romes practise towards others and such was the practise of others towards Rome for so Anniball sayes that his father Amilcar swore him at the Altar that he should neuer bee reconciled to Rome And such is your practise still as often as you meet here you renew your band to God that you will neuer bee reconciled to the Superstitions of Rome all these and all such as these and such as these are infinite heap vp testimonies that euen in Nature there is a disposition to apply and appropriate certaine places to Gods seruice And this impression in nature is illustrated in the Law as the time so the place is distinguished Yee shall keepe my Sabboths Leui. 19.30 there is the time and you shall reuerence my Sanctuary there is the place But that they may be reuerenced that they may bee Sanctuaries they are to be sanctified and that 's the Encaenia the Dedication Euen in those things which accrue vnto God and become his Encaenia by another title then as he is Lord of all by Creation that is by appropriation by dedication to his vse and Seruice There is a Lay Dedication and an Ecclesiasticall Dedication I hope the distinction of Laytie and Clergie the words scandalize no man Luther and Caluin too might haue iust cause to decline the words as they did when so much was ouer-attributed to that Clergie which they intend as that they were so Sors Domini the Lords portion as that the world had no portion in them and yet they had the greatest portion of the world and howe little soeuer they had to doe with God yet no State no King might haue any thing to doe with them But as long as we declare that by the Layetie we intend the people glorifying God in their secular callings