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A20648	A sermon of commemoration of the Lady Da[n]uers late wife of Sr. Iohn Da[n]uers. Preach'd at Chilsey, where she was lately buried. By Iohn Donne D. of St. Pauls, Lond. 1. Iuly 1627. Together with other commemorations of her; by her sonne G. Herbert.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.; Herbert, George, 1593-1633. aut	1627 (1627)	STC 7049; ESTC S118478	33,254	202

wrapt mee vp in his Couenant and deriu'd mee from Christian Parents I suck'd Christian bloud in my Mothers wombe and Christian milke at my Nurses breast The first sound that I heard in the world was the voice of Christians and the first Character that I was taught to know was the Crosse of CHRIST IESVS How many children that are borne so borne within the Couenant borne of Christian Parents doe yet die before they bee baptiz'd though they were borne heires to Baptisme But God hath afforded me the seale of that Sacrament And then how many that are baptiz'd and so eas'd in originall sinne doe yet proceed to act●all sins and are surpriz'd by death before they receiue the Seale of their Reconciliation to Christ in the Sacrament of his body and his bloud but God hath afforded mee the Seale of that Sacrament too What sinnes soeuer GOD forgaue mee this morning yet since the best and I am none of them fall seuen times a day God forgiues mee seuen more sinnes to morrow then he did to day and seuen in this Arithmetike is infinite Gods temporall Gods spirituall blessings are inexhaustible What haue wee that we haue not receiued But what haue wee receiued in respect of that which is laid vp for vs And therefore Expectamus We determine our selues in God so as that wee looke for nothing but from him But not so as that wee hope for no more from him then we haue had For that were to determine God to circumscribe God to make God finite Therefore we blesse God for our possession but yet we expect a larger reuersion And the day intended in this Text shall make that Reuersion our Possession which is the day of Iudgment Therefore in the verse immediatly before the Text the Apostle accompanies this Expectantes with another word it is Expectantes properantes Looking for and hasting to the comming of the day of God Wee must haue such an Expectation of that day as may imply testifie a loue to it a desire of it a longing for it When these things beginne to come to passe saies Christ speaking of the signes preceding the last day then looke vp and lift your heads for your Redemption draweth neere All our deiections of spirit should receiue an exaltation in that one consolation that that day draweth neere Seu velimus seu nolimus Whether we will or no that day will come but saies that Father in that short prayer of his the Lord hath giuen thee an entire Petition for accelerating and hasting that day of the Lord When hee bids thee say Thy Kingdome come hee meanes that thou shouldest meane the Kingdome of glory at the Iudgement as well as the Kingdome of Grace in the Church Christ sayes If I goe and prepare a place for you I will come againe and receiue you vnto my selfe that where I am you may be also Now Beloued hath Christ done one halfe of this for vs and would not we haue him doe the other halfe too Is he gone to prepare the place and would we not haue him come to fetch vs to it Certainly Christ speakes that in fauour he intends● it for a fauour when he sayes Behold I come quickly It is one fauour that hee will come and seconded with another that he will make speed to saue vs that hee will make haste to helpe vs. And to establish vs in that assurance hee addes in that place Behold I come quickly and my reward is with mee if the comming doe not if the speed doe not yet let the reward worke in you a desire of that day The last words that Christ speakes in the Bible and amongst vs last words make deepest impressions are Surely I come quickly And the last answer that is made in our behalfes there is Amen euen so come Lord Iesus There is scarce any amongst vs but does expect this commings They that feare it expect it But that crowne that the Apostle speakes of is laid vp for them that loue the appearing of the Lord Not only expect it but loue it And no man can doe so that hath not a confidence in his cause Aduentū Iudi●is non diligit No prisoner longs for the Sessions no Client longs for the day of hearing Nisuqui in causa suase sciat habere iustitiae meritum Except hee know his cause to bee good and assure himselfe that hee shall stand vpright in Iudgement But can wee haue that assurance Assuredly ● wee may He that hath seene the marks of election in both editions in the Scripture first and then in his conscience hee that does not flatter and abuse his owne soule nor tempt and presume vpon God he that in a sobe● and rectified conscience findes himselfe truly incorporated in Christ truly interessed in his merits may be sure that if the day of Iudgement came now now he should be able to stand vpright in Iudgement And therefore let Schoole-boyes looke after holy-dayes and worldly men after rent-dayes and Trauellers after Fairedayes and Chap-men after Market-dayes Neuerthelesse We we that haue laid hold vpon God and laid hold vpon him by the right handle According to his promises Expectamus We looke for this day of the Lord and Properamus We are glad it is so neere and wee desire the further hasting of it But then Beloued the day of our death is the Eue of this day of the Lord The day of our death is the Saturday of this Sunday the next day after my death is the day of Iudgement For betweene these these eyes shall see no more dayes And then are wee bound nay may wee lawfully wish and desire the day of our death as wee haue said wee are bound to doe the day of Iudgement The Soules of the Martyrs vnder the Altar in Heauen cry vnto God there Vsque quo Domine How long ô Lord holy and true doest thou not iudge and auenge our bloud That which those Martyrs solicite there is the day of Iudgement And thogh that which they aske was not presently granted but the day of Iudgement put off for a time yet God was not displeased with their solicitation for for all that hee gaue them then their white robes testimony enough of their innocencie If we could wish our owne death as innocently as harmlesly as they did the day of Iudgement if no ill circumstances in vs did vitiate our desire of death if there were no dead flies in this oyntment as Salomon speakes if we had not at least a collaterall respect if not a direct and principall to our owne ease from the incum brances and grieuances and annoyances of this world certainly wee might safely desire piously wish religiously pray for our owne death But it is hard verie hard to de●est those circumstances that infect it For if I pretend to desire death meerly for the fruition of the glorie of the sight of God I must remember that my Sauiour

ciuill Actions was Religion so the rule of her Religion was the Scripture And her rule for her particular vnderstanding of the Scripture was the Church Shee neuer diuerted towards the Papist in vndervaluing the Scripture nor towards the Separatist in vnderualuing the Church But in the doctrine and discipline of that Church in which God seal'd her to himselfe in Baptisme shee brought vp her children shee assisted her family she dedicated her soule to God in her life and surrendered it to him in her death And in that forme of Common Prayer which is ordain'd 〈◊〉 by ●hat Church and to which she had accustom●td her selfe with her family wide 〈◊〉 day she ioyn'd with than company which was about her death-bed in answering to euery par● thereof which the Congrgationl is directed to answer to with a cleere vnderstanding with a constant memory with a distinct ●voyed not 〈◊〉 houres before she died 〈◊〉 According to this promise that is the will of God manifested in the 〈◊〉 She expected Shee expected this that she hath rece●ued Gods Physioke and Gods M●sicke a Christianly death For death in the old Testamen was a Com●●nation but in the now Testament death is a Promise When there was a Super-dying a death vpon the death a Morte vpon the Mor●eris● a Spirituall death after the bodily then wee died a●cording to Gods threatning Now when by the Gospell that second death is taken off though wee die still yet we die according to his Promise That 's a part of his mercy and his Promise which his Apostle giues vs from him That wee shall all bee changed For after that promise that change follow 's that triumphant Acclamation O death where is thy sting O graue where is thy victory Consider vs fallen in Adam and wee are miserable that wee must die But consider vs restor'd and redintegrated in Christ wee were more miserable if wee might not die Wee lost the earthly Paradise by death then but wee get not Heauen but by death now This shee expected till it came and embrac't it when it came How may we thinke shee was ioy'd to see that face that Angels delight to looke vpon the face of her Sauiour that did not abhor the face of his fearfullest Messenger Death● Shee shew'd no feare of his face in any change of her owne but died without any change of countenan●e or posture● without any strugling any disorder but her Death-bed was as quiet● as●her Graus To another Magdalen Christ said vp on earth ascended● Being ascended now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and she b●●ing gone 〈◊〉 to him as●●r she'e had awaited his 〈◊〉 so 〈◊〉 ●yo●res as that more would● 〈…〉 growne to bee vexd●●on and s●rrow was her last 〈◊〉 horb were 〈◊〉 my will to the will of God so wee doubt not but the first word which she heard there was that Euge from her Sauiour Well done good and faithfull seruant enter into thy mastersioy Shee expected that dissolution of body and soule and rest in both from the incumbrances and tentations of this world But yet shee is in expectation still Still a Reuersionarie And a Reuersionary vpō along life The whole world must die before she come to a possession of this Reuersion which is a Glorified body in the Resurrection In which expectation she return's to her former charity shee will not haue that till all wee shall haue it as well as shee She eat not her morsels alone in her life as Iob speakes Shee lookes not for the glory of the Resurrection alone after her death But when all we shall haue beene mellow'd in the earth many yeeres or chang'd in the Aire in the twinkling of an eye God knowes which That body vpon which you tread now That body which now whilst I speake is mouldring and crumbling into lesse and lesse dust and so hath some motion though no life That body which was the Tabernacle of a holy Soule and a Temple of the holy Ghost That body that was eyes to the blinde and hands and feet to the lame whilst it liu'd and being dead is so still by hauing beene so liuely an example to teach others to be so That body at last shall haue her last expectation satisfied and d'well bodily with that Righteousnesse in these new Heauens and new Earth for euer and euer and euer and infinite and super-infinite euers Wee●nd all with the valediction of the Spouse to Christ● His left hand is vnder my head and his right embraces mee was the Spouses valediction and goodnight to Christ then when she laid her selfe downe to sleepe in the strength of his Mandrakes and in the power of his Spices as it is exprest ●here that is in the influence of his mercies Beloued euery good Soule is the Spouse of Christ● And this good Soule being thus laid downe to sleepe in his peace His left hand vnder her head gathering and composing and preferuing hen dust for future Glory His right hand embracing her assuming and establishing her soule in present Glory in his name and in her behalfe I say that to all you which Christ sayes there in the behalfe of that Spouse Adiuro vos I adiure you I charge you O daughters of Ierusalem that yee wake her not till she please The words are directed to the daughters rather then to the sons of Ierusalem because for the most part the aspersions that women receiue either in Morall or Religious actions proceed from womē themselues Therfore Adiuro vos I charge you Oye daughters of Ierusalem wake her not Wake her not with any halfe calumnies with any whisperings But if you wil wake her wake her and keepe her awake with an actiue imitation of her Morall and her Holy vertues That so her example working vpon you and the number of Gods Saints being the sooner by this blessed example fulfil'd wee may all meet and meet quickly in that kingdome which hers and our Sauiour hath purchac't for vs all with the inestimable price of his incorrup●tible blou● To which ●●glorious Sonne of God c. FINIS MEMORIAE MATRIS Sacrum AH Mater quo te deplorem f●nte Dolores Quae guttae poterunt enumerare meos Sicca meis lacrymis Thamesis vicina videtur Virtutumque choro siscior ipse tuo In flumen maerore nigrum si funderer ardens Laudibus hand ●ierem sepia iusta t●is Tantùm istaec scrib● gratus n● tu mih● tant ùm Mater ista Dolor ●●nc tibi M●tra parit 〈…〉 〈…〉 Confer●● lacrymas Illa quae vos iniscuit Vestrasaue laudes posoit mixi as genas 〈…〉 Pudorque constet vel solut is crinibus 〈…〉 Decus mul●erum perijt metùunt v●r● Vtrumqu● sexum dote ne mulctauerit Non illa soles terere comptu lubricos Struices superbas at que turritum c●pute Molita reliquum deinde garr●ens diem Nam post Babelem Linguae adest confusio Quin post mode stam qualis integras decet Substructionem capit is