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cause_n	woman_n	year_n	zeal_n	34	3	8.3602	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20642	Foure sermons vpon speciall occasions. (Viz.) 1. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse. 2. To the Honorable, the Virginia Company. 3. At the consecration of Lincolnes Inne Chappell. 4. The first sermon preached to K. Charles at St. Iames, 1625. By Iohn: Donne. Deane of Saint Pauls, London	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Sermon upon the xx. verse of the v. chapter of the booke of Judges. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Sermon upon the viii. verse of the I. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Encaenia. aut; Donne, John, 1572-1631. First sermon preached to King Charles, at Saint James. aut	1625 (1625)	STC 7042; ESTC S114207	75,778	242

FOVRE SERMONS VPON SPECIALL OCCASIONS Viz. 1. A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse 2. To the Honourable the Virginia Company 3. At the Consecration of Lincolnes Inne Chappell 4. The first Sermon preached to K. Charles at St. Iames 1625. By IOHN DONNE Deane of St. Pauls London LONDON Printed for THOMAS IONES and are to be sold at his Shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere Saint Clements Church 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE Marquesse of Buckingham High ADMIRALL of ENGLAND c. WHen I would speake to the KING by your LORDSHIPS Meanes I doe Now when I would speake to the Kingdome I would doe that by your Lordships Meanes too and therefore I am bolde to transferre this Sermon to the World through your Lordships hands and vnder your Name For the first part of the Sermon the Explication of the Text my Profession and my Conscience is Warrant enough that I haue spoken as the Holy Ghost intended For the second part the Application of the Text it will be warrant enough that I haue spoken as his Maiestie intended that your Lordship admits it to issue in your Name It is because Kings fauour the Church that the Prophet sayes they are her Foster-Fathers and then those persons who haue also interest in the fauour of Kings are her Foster-Brothers and such vse to loue well By that Title as by many other also your Lordshippe loues the Church as you are her Foster-Brother loued of him who loues her And by that Title you loue all them in the Church who endeauour to aduaunce both the vnitie of our Church in it selfe and the vnitie of the Church with the godly designes of our religious King To which Seruice I shall euer sacrifice all the labors of Your Lordships humblest and thankefullest Seruant in Christ Iesus IOHN DONNE IVDGES 5.20 De coelo dimicatum est contra eos stellae manentes in Ordine cursu suo aduersus Siseram pugnauerunt They fought from Heauen The stars in their courses fought against Sisera ALl the words of God are alwayes sweete in themselues sayes Dauid but sweeter in the mouth and in the pen of some of the Prophets and some of the Apostles then of others as they differed in their naturall gifts or in their education but sweetest of all where the Holy Ghost hath beene pleased to set the word of God to Musique and to conuay it into a Song and this Text is of that kind part of the Song which Deborah Barak sung after their great victory vpon Sisera Sisera who was Iabin the King of Canaans Generall against Israel God himselfe made Moses a Song Deut. 31.19 and expressed his reason why The children of Israel sayes God will forget my Law but this song they will not forget and whensoeuer they sing this song this song shall testifie against them what I haue done for them how they haue forsaken me And to such a purpose hath God left this Song of Deborah and Barak in the Scriptures that all Murmurers and all that stray into a diffidence of Gods power or of his purpose to sustaine his owne cause and destroy his owne Enemies might run and read might read and sing the wonderfull deliuerances that God hath giuen to his people by weake and vnexpected meanes This world begun with a Song if the Chalde Paraphrasts vpon Salomons Song of Songs haue taken a true tradition That assoone as Adams sinne was forgiuen him he expressed as he cals it in that Song Sabbatum suum his Sabboth his peace of conscience in a Song of which we haue the entrance in that Paraphrase This world begun so and so did the next world too if wee count the beginning of that as it is a good computation to doe so from the comming of Christ Iesus for that was expressed on Earth in diuers Songs in the blessed Virgins Magnificat My soule doth magnifie the Lord In Zacharies Benedictus Blessed be the Lord God of Israel and in Simeons Nunc dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace This world began so and the other and when both shall ioyne and make vp one world without end it shall continue so in heauen in that Song of the Lamb Great and marueilous are thy workes Lord God Almighty Apoc. 3. iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints And to Tune vs to Compose and giue vs a Harmonie and Concord of affections in all perturbations and passions and discords in the passages of this life if we had no more of the same Musique in the Scriptures as we haue the Song of Moses at the Red Sea and many Psalmes of Dauid to the same purpose this Song of Deborah were enough abundantly enough to slumber any storme to becalme any tempest to rectifie any scruple of Gods slacknesse in the defence of his cause when in the History and occasion of this Song expressed in the Chapter before this we see That Israel had done euill in the sight of the Lord againe and yet againe God came to them That God himselfe had sold Israel into the hands of Iabin King of Canaan and yet he repented the bargaine and came to them That in twenty yeeres oppression he came not and yet he came That when Sisera came against them with nine hundred Chariots of Iron and all preparations proportionable to that and God cald vp a woman a Prophetesse a Deborah against him because Deborah had a zeale to the cause and consequently an enmity to the enemie God would effect his purpose by so weake an instrument by a woman but by a woman which had no such interest nor zeale to the cause by Jael And in Iaels hand by such an instrument as with that scarce any man could doe it if it were to be done againe with a hammer she driues a nayle through his temples and nayles him to the ground as he lay sleeping in her tent And then the end of all was the end of all not one man of his army left aliue O my Soule why art thou so sad why art thou so disquieted within me Sing vnto the Lord an old song the song of Deborah and Barak That God by weake meanes doth mighty workes That all Gods creatures fight in his behalfe They fought from heauen the starres in their Order fought against Sisera You shal haue but two parts out of these words And to make these two parts Diuision I consider the Text as the two Hemispheres of the world laid open in a flat in a plaine Map All those parts of the world which the Ancients haue vsed to consider are in one of those Hemispheres All Europe is in that and in that is all Asia and Afrike too So that when we haue seene that Hemisphere done with that we might seeme to haue seene all done with all the world but yet the other Hemisphere that of America is as big as it though but by occasion of new and late discoueries we had