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A36308 XXVI sermons. The third volume preached by that learned and reverend divine John Donne ... Donne, John, 1572-1631. 1661 (1661) Wing D1873; ESTC R32773 439,670 425

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a vehement Fever take hold of him he remembers where he sweat and when he took cold where he walked too fast where his Casement stood open and where he was too bold upon Fruit or meat of hard digestion but he never remembers the sinful and naked Wantonnesses the profuse and wastful Dilapidations of his own body that have made him thus obnoxious and open to all dangerous Distempers Thunder from heaven burns his Barns and he says What luck was this if it had fallen but ten foot short or over my barns had been safe whereas his former blasphemings of the Name of God drew down that Thunder upon that house as it was his and that Lightning could no more fall short or over then the Angel which was sent to Sodom could have burnt another Citie and have spar'd that or then the Plagues of Moses and of Aaron could have fallen upon Goshen and have spar'd Egypt His Gomers abound with Manna he overflows with all for necessities and with all delicacies in this life and yet he findes worms in his Manna a putrefaction and a mouldring away of this abundant state but he sees not that that is because his Manna was gathered upon the Sabbath that there were profanations of the Name and Ordinances of God mingled in his means of growing rich To end all This is the true Use that we are to make of the long-suffering and patience of God That when his patience ends ours may begin That if he forbear others rather then us 21.7 we do not expostulate as in Job Wherefore do the wicked live and become old and grow mighty in power but rather if he chastise us rather then others Psal 44.18 say with David Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy ways though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death And that if sentence be executed upon us we may make use of his judgement and if not we may continue and enlarge his mercies towards us AMEN A SERMON Preached at WHITE-HALL Serm. 7. Novemb. 2. 1617. SERMON VII PSAL. 55.19 Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God IN a Prison where men wither'd in a close and perpetual imprisonment In a Galley where men were chain'd to a laborious and perpetual slavery In places where any change that could come would put them in a better state then they were before this might seem a fitter Text then in a Court where every man having set his foot or plac'd his hopes upon the present happy state and blessed Government every man is rather to be presum'd to love God because there are no changes then to take occasion of murmuring at the constancie of Gods goodness towards us But because the first murmuring at their present condition the first Innovation that ever was was in Heaven The Angels kept not their first Estate Though as Princes are Gods so their well-govern'd Courts are Copies and representations of Heaven yet the Copy cannot be better then the Original And therefore as Heaven it self had so all Courts will ever have some persons that are under the Increpation of this Text That Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God At least if I shall meet with no conscience that finds in himself a guiltiness of this sin if I shall give him no occasion of repentance yet I shall give him occasion of praysing and magnifying that gracious God which hath preserv'd him from such sins as other men have fallen into though he have not For I shall let him see first The dangerous slipperiness the concurrence Divisio the co-incidence of sins that a habit and custom of sin slips easily into that dangerous degree of Obduration that men come to sin upon Reason they find a Quia a Cause a Reason why they should sin and then in a second place he shall see what perverse and frivolous reasons they assign for their sins when they are come to that even that which should avert them they make the cause of them Because they have no changes And then lastly by this perverse mistaking they come to that infatuation that dementation as that they loose the principles of all knowledge and all wisedom The fear of God is the beginning of wisedom and Because they have no changes they fear not God Part I. First then We enter into our first Part The slipperiness of habitual sin with that note of S. Gregorie Peccatum cum voce est culpa cum actione peccatum cum clamore est culpa cum libertate Sinful thougths produc'd into actions are speaking sins sinful actions continued into habits are crying sins There is a sin before these a speechless sin a whispering sin which no body hears but our own conscience which is when a sinful thought or purpose is born in our hearts first we rock it by tossing and tumbling it in our fancies and imaginations and by entertaining it with delight and consent with remembring with how much pleasure we did the like sin before and how much we should have if we could bring this to pass And as we rock it so we swathe it we cover it with some pretences some excuses some hopes of coveraling it and this is that which we call Morosam delectationem a delight to stand in the air and prospect of a sin and a loathness to let it go out of our sight Of this sin S. Gregory sayes nothing in this place but onely of actual sins which he calls speaking and of habitual which he calls crying sins And this is as far as the Schools or the Casuists do ordinarily trace sin To find out peccata Infantia speechless sins in the heart peccata vocatia speaking sins in our actions And peccata clamantia crying and importunate sins which will not suffer God to take his rest no nor to fulfil his own Oath and protestation He hath said As I live I would not the death of a sinner and they extort a death from him But besides these Here is a farther degree beyond speaking sins and crying sins beyond actual sins and habitual sins here are peccata cum ratione and cum disputatione we will reason we will debate we will dispute it out with God and we will conclude against all his Arguments that there is a Quia a Reason why we should proceed and go forward in our sin Et pudet non esse impudentes as S. Augustine heightens this sinful disposition Men grow asham'd of all holy shamefac'dness and tenderness toward sin they grow asham'd to be put off or frighted from their sinful pleasure with the ordinary terror of Gods imaginary judgements asham'd to be no wiser then S. Paul would have them to be mov'd or taken hold of by the foolishness of preaching or to be no stronger of themselves then so 1 Cor. 1.21 that we should trust to anothers taking of our infirmities Matth.