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A20650 A sermon, preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24 Febr. 1625. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London. And now by his Maiestes [sic] commandment published Donne, John, 1572-1631. 1626 (1626) STC 7050; ESTC S109972 19,456 62

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sentences but relie vpon the establishment of Gods purpose in the whole booke which is that he hates putting away If the euidence pressed by thine owne pressures heighthned by thine owne deiections exalted by thine owne sinking grow strong against thee that thou canst not quench the iealousie nor deuest the scruple of such a Diuorce doe but consider who should occasion who should enduce it It must be God or thy selfe Though the Iewes put away their wiues not onely for the wiues fault but for the husbands frowardnesse thou hast had too good experience of Gods patience to charge him with that If it be done it is thy fault and if thou acknowledge that it is not done for it is neuer done so irreuocably but the confessing of the fault cancels and auoydes it Releeue thy selfe by reflecting vpon some of those circumstances Essentiall circumstances which were required in their bills of Diuorce and without which those bills were voyde and see if those be in thine for though wee haue not these circumstances in that place of Scripture where Diuorce is permitted yet in the ordinarie practise of the Iewes abroad and in the bookes of formes and precedents which their Rabbins haue collected wee haue them expressed They are many and many impertinent wee will but name and but a few such as best admit application and most conduce to the triall of thy case First a man might not produce a bill written in priuate in the husbands bed-chamber but he must goe to a Scribe to a publique Notary to an authorizd Officer Vbi iste libellus Where is this bill of thy Diuorce Thou must not looke for it in Gods bed-chamber in his vnreueal'd Decrees in heauen but in his publique Records his Scriptures If from thence thou pretend to produce any thing that conuinces thy sad soule goe to them to whom God hath committed the dispensation thereof and there thou mayest receiue consolation when thine owne priuate misinterpretation might misleade thee Againe the wife how guilty so euer in her owne conscience might not take her selfe to be put away except the husband had expresly giuen her a Bill of Diuorce Hath thy Husband thy God done so Vbi est libellus Consider the bill that is the booke of God and see if it be not full of such protestations Viuo ego As I liue saith the Lord I would not the death of any sinner nor the departing of any soule So also these bills must be well testified with vnreproachable witnesses Vbi iste libellus Hath thy bill such witnesses who be they Inordinate deiection of spirit irreligious sadnesse Iealousie of the anger distrustfulnesse of the mercy diffidence in the promises of the Gospell Are these witnesses to be heard against God God calls heauen and earth to witnesse that hee hath offered thee thy choise of life or death but that he hath thrust death vpon thee there is no witnesse Thy conscience is a thousand witnesses It is that thou hast committed a thousand sinnes and it is that thou hast receiued a thousand blessings but of an eternall decree of thy diuorce thy conscience thus misinformd can be no witnesse for thou wast not call'd to the making of those decrees Those Bills were also to be authentically seald Vbi iste Libellus Hath thy imaginary Bill of Diuorce and euerlasting seperation from GOD any Seale from him GOD hath giuen thee Seales of his Mercie in both his Sacraments Seales in White and Seales in Redde Waxe Seales in the participation of the candor and innocencie of his Sonne in thy Baptisme and Seales in the participation of his Body and Bloud in the other But Seales of Reprobation at first or of irreuocable Separation now there are none from GOD No Calamitie not Temporall no not Spirituall No Darkenesse in the Vnderstanding no Scruple in the Conscience no Perplexitie in the resolution Not a Sodaine Death not a Shamefull Death not a stupide not a raging Death must bee to thy selfe by the way or may bee to vs who may see thine Ende an Euidence a Seale of Eternall Reprobation or of finall Seperation Almightie God blesse vs all from all these in our selues but his blessed Spirit blesse vs to from making any of these when hee in his vnsearchable wayes to his vnsearchable endes shall suffer them to fall vpon any other seales of such Seperation in them Though wee may not enlardge our selues to far in these Circumstances another was That the Names of the Parties must bee set downe and of both the Parties Parents and those to the third Generation The Sonne and Daughter of such and such and such Vbi iste Libellus Findst thou in thy Bill the three Descents the three Generations if we may so say of thy God A Holy Ghost proceeding from a Sonne And a Sonne begott●en by a Father Findest thou the God of thy Consolation the God of thy Redemption the God of thy Creation and canst thou produce a God of Diuorce of Separation out of these Findest thou thine own three Descents as thou wast the Son of Dust of Nothing And the Sonne of Adam reduced to nothing And then the Sonne of God in Christ in whom thou art all things and canst thou thinke that that GOD who married thee in the honse of dust and marryed thee in the house of infirmitie and Diuorcd thee not then hee made thee not no Creature nor hee made thee not no Man hauing now marryed thee in the House of Power and of Peace in the body of his Sonne the Church will now Diuorce thee Lastly to ende this consideration of Diuorces If the Bill were interlinde or blotted or dropt the Bill was voyd Vbi Libellus What place of Scripture soeuer thou pretend that place is enterlinde enterlinde by the Spirit of God himselfe with Conditions and Limitations and Prouisions If thou repent If thou returne and that enterlining destroies the Bill Looke also if this Bill be not dropt vpon and blotted The venim of the Serpent is dropt vpon it The Wormwood of thy Desperation is dropt vpon it The Gall of thy Melancholly is dropt vpon it and that voydes the Bill If thou canst not discerne these drops before drop vpon it nowe Drop the teares of true compunction drop the bloud of thy Sauiour and that voyds the Bill And through that Spectacle the bloud of thy Sauiour looke vpon that Bill and thou shalt see that that Bill was nayld to the Crosse when he was naylde and torne when his body was torne and that hath cancelld the bill Oppresse not thy selfe with what GOD may doe of his absolute power God hath no where told thee that hee hath done any such thing as an ouertender Conscience may mis-imagine from this Metaphore of Diuorcing nor from the other which beggs leaue for one word by way of Conclusion Selling away Which of my Creditors is it to whom I haue sold you As Christ in his Parable comprehends all excuses and all backwardnesses in