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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

Hyems But then Quia Hyems Because it was Winter Hee did walke in Salomons Porch which was couered not in Atrio in that part of the Temple which was open and expos'd to the weather We doe not say that infirme and weak men may not fauour themselues in a due care of their health in these places That he who is not able to raise himselfe must alwayes stand at the Gospell or bow the knee at the name of Iesus or stay some whole houres altogether vncouered heere if that increase infirmities of that kinde And yet Courts of Princes are strange Bethesdaes how quickly they recouer any man that is brought into that Poole How much a little change of ayre does and how well they can stand and stand bare many houres in the Priuy Chamber that would melt and flowe out into Rhumes and Catarrs in a long Gospell heere But Citra Scandalum a man may fauour himselfe in these places but yet this excuses not the irreuerent manner which hath ouertaken vs in all these places That any Master may thinke himselfe to haue the same libertie heere as in his owne house or that that Seruant that neuer puts on his hat in his Masters presence all the weeke on Sunday when hee and his Master are in Gods presence should haue his hat on perchance before his Masters Christ shall make Master and Seruant equall but not yet not heere nor euer equall to himselfe how euer they become equall to one another Gods seruice is not a continuall Martyrdome that a man must bee heere and here in such a posture and such a manner though hee dye for it but Gods House is no Ordinary neither where any man may pretend to doe what he will and euery man may doe what any man does Christ slept in a storme I dare not make that generall let all doe so Christ fauoured himselfe in the Church I dare not make that generall neither to make all places equall or all persons equall in any place T is time to end Basil Saint Basill himselfe as acceptable as hee was to his Auditory in his second Sermon vpon the 14. Psalme takes knowledge that hee had preached an houre and therefore broke off I see it is a Compasse that all Ages haue thought sufficient But as we haue contracted the consideration of great Temples to this lesser Chappell so let vs contract the Chappell to our selues Et facta sint Encaenia nostra let this be the Feast of the Dedication of our selues to God Christ calls himselfe a Temple Soluite templum hoc Iohn 2.19 Destroy this Temple 1 Cor. 3.16 6.19 And Saint Paul calls vs so twice Know ye not that ye are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Facta sint Encaenia nostra Encaenia signifies Renouationem a renewing Aug. and Saint Augustine sayes that in his time Si quis noua tunica indueretur Encaeniare diceretur If any man put on a new garment hee called it by that name Encaenia sua Much more is it so if wee renew in our selues the Image of God and put off the Olde man and put on the Lord Iesus Christ This is truly Encaeniare to dedicate to renew our selues Nazian and so Nazian in a Sermon or Oration vpon the like occasion as this calls Conuersionem nostram Encaenia our turning to God in a true repentance or renewing our dedication Let mee charge your memories but with this note more That when God forbad Dauid the building of an House Because hee was a man of blood at that time Dauid had not embrued his hands in Vriahs blood nor shed any blood but lawfully in iust warres yet euen that made him vncapable of this fauour to prouide God a house Some callings are in their nature more obnoxious and more exposed to sinne then others are accompanied with more tentations so retard vs more in holy duties And therefore as there are particular sinnes that attend certaine places certaine ages certaine complexions and certaine vocations let vs watch our selues in all those and remember that not only the highest degrees of those sinns but any thing that conduces therunto prophanes the Consecration and Dedication of this Temple our selues to the seruice of God it annihilates our repentance and frustrates our former reconciliations to him Almighty God worke in you a perfit dedication of your selues at this time that so receiuing it from hands dedicated to God hee whose holy Office this is may present acceptably this House to God in your behalfes and establish an assurance to you that God will be alwayes present with you and your Succession in this place Amen THE FIRST SERMON PREACHED TO KING CHARLES At Saint IAMES 30. April 1625. By IOHN DONNE Deane of Saint Pauls London LONDON Printed by A. M. for THOMAS IONES and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand 1625. PSALME 11.3 If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe WEe are still in the season of Mortification in Lent But wee search no longer for Texts of Mortification The Almightie hand of God hath shed and spred a Text of Mortification ouer all the land The last Sabboth day was his Sabboth who entred then into his euerlasting Rest Be this our Sabboth to enter into a holy and thankfull acknowledgement of that Rest which God affords vs in continuing to vs our Foundations for If foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe I scarse know any word in the Word of God in which the Originall is more ambiguous and consequently the Translations more various and therfore necessarily also the Expositions more diuers then in these words There is one thing in which all agree that is the Argument and purpose and scope of the Psalme And then in what sense the words of the Text may conduce to the scope of the Psalme wee rest in this Translation which our Church hath accepted and authorized and which agrees with the first Translation knowen to vs by way of Exposition that is the Chalde Paraphrase If Foundations bee destroyed what can the righteous doe The Church of God euer delighted herselfe in a holy officiousnesse in the Commemoration of Martyrs Almost all their solemne and extraordinarie Meetings and Congregations in the Primitiue Church were for that for the honourable Commemoration of Martyrs And for that they came soone to institute and appoynt certaine Liturgies certaine Offices as they called them certaine Seruices in the Church which should haue reference to that to the Commemoration of Martyrs as wee haue in our Booke of Common Prayer certaine Seruices for Marriage for Buriall and for such other holy Celebrations And in the Office and Seruice of a Martyr the Church did vse this Psalme This Psalme which is in generall a Protestation of Dauid That though hee were so vehemently pursued by Saul as that all that wished him well sayd to his Soule Flie as a Bird to the Mountaine as

that you speaking of the whole Societie together of the publike stock the publike treasury the publike reuenue you gaue more then the widow who gaue all for you gaue more then all A stranger shall not entermeddle with our ioy as Salomon saies strangers shall not know how ill we were prouided for such a work when we begun it nor with what difficulties we haue wrastled in the way but strangers shall know to Gods glory that you haue perfected a work of full three times as much charge as you proposed for it at beginning so bountifully doth God blesse and prosper intentions to his glory with enlarging your hearts within and opening the hearts of others abroad And this is your Dedication and that which without preiudice and for distinction wee call a Lay Dedication though from religious hearts and hands There is another Dedication Ecclesiastica that we haue call'd Ecclesiasticall appointed by God so as God speaks in the ordinances and in the practise of his Church Haereditary Kings are begotten conceiu'd the naturall way but that body which is so begotten of the blood of Kings is not a King no nor a man till there bee a Soule infused by God Here is a House a Child conceiu'd wee may say borne of Christian parents of persons religiously disposed to Gods glory but yet that was to receiue another influence an inanimation a quickening by another Consecration Oportet denuo nasci holds euen in the children of Christian parents when they are borne they must be borne again by Baptisme when this place is thus giuen by you for God oportet denuo dari it must be giuen againe to God by him who receiues it of you It must there seems a necessitie to be implied because euen in Nature there was a consecration of holy places Iacob in his iourney Gen. 28.20 before the Law consecrated euen that stone which he set vp in intention to build God a House there In the time of the Law Num. 7.1 this Feast of Dedication was in practise first in the Tabernacle that and all that appertain'd to it was annointed and sanctified So was Salomons Temple after so was that which was reedified after their return from Babylon and so was this in the Text after the Heathen had defiled and profan'd the Altar thereof and a new one was erected by Iudas Maccabeus Thus in Nature thus in Law and thus far thus in the Gospell too that as sure as wee are that the people of God had materiall Churches in the Apostles first times so sure we are that those places had a Sanctitie in them If that place of Saint Paul 1 Cor. 11.22 Despise yee the Church of God be to be vnderstood of the locall of the materiall Church and not of the Congregation you see there is a rebuke for the prophanation of the place and consequently a sanctity in the place But assoone as the Church came euidently by the fauour of Princes to haue liberty to make lawes and power to see them practised it was neuer pretermitted to consecrate the places Before that we find an ordinance by Pope Hyginus he was within 150. after Christ and the eighth Bishop of that See after Saint Peter euen of particulars in the Consecrations But after Athanasius in his Apologie to Constantius Athanas makes that protestation for all Christians That they neuer meet in any Church till it bee consecrated And Constantine the Emperour least hee should be at any time vnprouided of such a place as we read in the Ecclesiasticall story in all his warres carried about with him a Tabernacle which was consecrated In Nature in the Law in the Gospell in Precept in Practise these Consecrations are established Vsus This they did But to what vse did they consecrate them not to one vse only and therfore it is a friuolous contention whether Churches be for preaching or for praying But if Consecration be a kind of Christning of the Church that at the Christning it haue a name wee know what name God hath appoynted for his House Domus mea Domus orationis vocabitur My House shall bee called the House of Prayer And how impudent and inexcusable a falshood is that in Bellarmine That the Lutherans and Caluinistes doe admit Churches for Sermons and Sacraments Sed reprehendunt quod fiant ad orandum They dislike that they should be for Prayer when as Caluin himselfe who may seeme to bee more subiect to this reprehension then Luther for there is no such Liturgie in the Caluinists Churches as in the Lutheran yet in that very place which Bellarmine cites sayes Conceptae preces in Ecclesia Deo gratae and for singing in Churches which in that place of Caluin cannot be only meant of Psalmes for it was of that manner of singing which being formerly in vse in the Easterne churches S. Ambrose in his time brought into the Church of Millan and so it was deriud ouer the Western churches which was the modulation and singing of Versicles and Antiphons and the like this singing sayes Caluin was in vse amongst the Apostles themselues Et sanctissimum saluberimum est institutum l. 3.20 § 32. It was a most holy and most profitable Institution Still consider Consecration to be a Christning of the place and though we find them often called Templa propter Sacrificia for our sacrifices of praier and of praise of the merits of Christ and often called Ecclesiae ad conciones Churches in respect of congregations for preaching and often call'd Martyria for preseruing with respect and honor the bodies of Martyrs and other Saints of God there buried often often by other names Dominica Basilica and the like yet the name that God gaue to his house is not Concionatorium nor Sacramentarium but Oratorium the House of Prayer And therefore without preiudice to the other functions too for as there is a vae vpon me Si non Euangelizauero If I preach not my selfe so may that vae be multiplied vpon any who would draw that holy ordinance of God into a dis-estimatiō or into a slacknesse let vs neuer intermit that dutie to present our selues to God in these places though in these places there bee then no other Seruice but Common prayer For then doth the House answere to that name which God hath giuen it if it be a house of Prayer Modus Thus then were these places to receiue a double Dedication a Dedication which was a Donation from the Patron a Dedication which was a consecration from the Bishop for to his person and to that ranke in the Hierarchy of the Church the most ancient Canons limited it and to those purposes which wee haue spoken of of which Prayer is so farre from being none as that there is none aboue it A little should be said before wee shut vp this part of the manner the forme of Consecrations In which in the Primitiue Church assoone as