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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20656	Two sermons preached before King Charles, upon the xxvi verse of the first chapter of Genesis. By Dr. Donne Dean of Pauls	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 7058; ESTC S110040	53,420	110

in the next word Hominem That though we were made by the whole Trinitie yet the whole Trinitie made us but men and men in this name of our text Adam and Adam is but earth and that is our West our declination our Sun-set We passed over the foure names by which man is ordinarily expressed in the scriptures and we found necessary miserie in three of them and possible nay likely miserie in the fourth in the best name We insisted upon the name of our text Adam earth and had some use of these notes first That if I were but earth God was pleased to be the potter If I but a sheep he a shepherd If I but a cottage he a builder So he work upon me let me be what he will We noted that God made us earth not aire not fire that man hath bodily and worldly duties to perform and is not all spirit in this life Devotion is his soul but he hath a bodie of discretion usefulnesse to invest in some calling We noted too that in being earth we are equall we tried that equalitie first in the root in Adam there if any man will be nobler earth then I he must have more originall sinne then I for that was all Adams patrimonie all that he could give And we tried this equalitie in another furnace in the grave where there is no means to distinguish royall from plebeian nor catholick from hereticall dust And lastly we noted that this our earth was red considered in what respect it was red even in Gods hands but found that in the bloud-rednesse of sinne God had no hand but sinne and destructions for sinne were wholly from our selves which consideration we ended with this that there was Macula alba a white spot of leprosie as well as a red and we found the overvaluation of our own puritie and the uncharitable condemnation of all that differ from us to be that white spot And so farre we sailed with that Western winde are come to our third point in this our compasse our North. In this point III. Part. Aquilo the North we place our first comfort The North is not alwayes the comfortablest clime nor is the North alwayes a type of happinesse in the scriptures Many times God threatens storms from the North but even in those Northern storms we consider their action that they scatter they dissipate those clouds which were gathered and so induce a serenitie Job 37.22 And so fair weather comes from the North. The consideration of our West our low estate that we are but earth but red earth died red by our selves and that imaginary white which appeares so to us is but a white of leprosie this West inwraps us in heavie clouds of murmuring in this life that we cannot live so freely as beasts do and in clouds of desperation for the next life that we cannot die so absolutely as beasts do We die all our lives and yet we live after our deaths These are our clouds then the North shakes these clouds Prov. 25.13 The North-winde driveth away the rain sayes Solomon There is a North in our text that drives all these tears from our eyes Cant. 4.16 Christ calls upon the North as well as the South to blow upon his garden and to diffuse the perfumes thereof Adversitie as well as prosperitie opens the bountie of God unto us and oftentimes better But that is not the benefit of the North in our present consideration but this is it that first our Sunne sets in the West The Eastern dignitie which we received in our first creation as we were the work of the whole Trinitie falls under a Western cloud that that Trinitie made us but earth And then blows our North and scatters this cloud that this earth hath a nobler form then any other part or limbe of the world for we are made by a fairer pattern by a nobler image by a higher likenesse Faciamus Though we make but a man Let us make him in our image after our likenesse The varietie which the holy Ghost uses here in the pen of Moses hath given occasion to divers to raise divers observations upon these words which seem divers Image and Likenesse as also in the varietie of the phrase for it is thus conceived and layed In our image and then After our likenesse I know it is a good rule that Damascen gives Parva non sunt parva ex quibus magna proveniunt Nothing is to be neglected as little from which great things may arise If the consequence may be great the thing must not be thought little No Jod in the scripture shall perish therefore no Jod is superfluous if it were superfluous it might perish Words and lesse particles then words have busied the whole Church In the Councel of Ephesus where Bishops in a great number excommunicated Bishops in a greater Bishop against Bishop and Patriarch against Patriarch in which case when both parties had made strong parties in Court and the Emperour forbore to declare himself on either side for a time he was told that he refused to assent to that which 6000 Bishops had agreed in the strife was but for a word whether the blessed Virgin might be called Deipara The mother of God for Christipara The mother of Christ which Christ all agree to be God Nestorius and all his partie agreed with Cyril that she might be In the Councel of Calcedon the difference was not so great as for a word composed of syllables It was but for a syllable whether Ex or In. The heretiques condemned then confessed Christ to be Ex duabus naturis to be composed of two natures at first but not to be In duabus naturis not to consist of two natures after And for that In they were thrust out In the Councel of Nice it was not so much as a syllable made of letters for it was but for one letter whether Homoousion or Homöusion was the issue Where the question hath not been of divers words nor syllables nor letters but onely of the place of words what tempestuous differences have risen How much hath sola sides and sides sola changed the case Nay where there hath been no quarrell for precedencie for transposing of words or syllables or letters where there hath not been so much as a letter in question how much doth an accent varie a sense An interrogation or no interrogation will make it directly contrarie All Christian expositours reade those words of Cain My sinne is greater then can be pardoned Gen. 4.13 positively and so they are evident words of desperation The Jews reade them with an interrogation Are my sinnes greater then can be pardoned and so they are words of compunction and repentance The prophet Micheas sayes Mich. 5.3 that Bethlehem is a small place Matth. 2.6 The Evangelist S. Matthew sayes No small place An interrogation in Micheas mouth reconciles it Art thou a small place amounts to that