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B12480	Six sermons upon severall occasions preached before the King, and elsewhere: by that late learned & reverend divine John Donne, Doctour in divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 7056; ESTC S109990	89,403	184

and the desire and means of returning to him When we do fall into particular sinnes it is well if we can take hold of the first step of this ladder with that hand of David Domine respice in testamentum Psal 74. 10. O Lord consider the covenant if we can remember God of his covenant to his people and to their seed it is well That is more if we can clamber a step higher on this ladder to a Domine labia mea aperi if we can come to open our lips in a true confession of our wretched condition and of those sinnes by which we have forfeited our interest in that covenant it is more and more then that too if we can come to that Inebriabo me lacrymis if we overflow and make our selves drunk with teares in a true sense and sorrow for those sinnes still it is more then all these if we can expostulate with God in an Vsque quò Domine How long Lord shall I take counsel within my self having wearinesse in my heart These steps these gradations to God do well Warre is a degree of peace as it is the way to prayer and this colluctation and wrestling with God brings a man to peace with him But then is a man upon the stone of David when in a fairer and even and constant religious course of life he enters into sheets every night as though his executours had closed him as though his neighbours next day were to shrowd and winde him in those sheets and lies down every night not as though his man was to call him up the next day morning to hunt or to the next dayes sport businesse but as though the Angels were to call him to the resurrection And this is our third benefit as Christ is a stone we have securitie and peace of conscience in him The next is that he is Lapis David the stone with which he slew Goliah and with which we may overcome all our enemies Sicut baculus crucis ità lapis Christi habet typum sayes Augustine Davids sling was a type of the crosse and the stone was a type of Christ We will choose to insist upon spirituall enemies sinnes And this is the stone that enables the weakest man to overthrow the strongest sinne if he proced as David did David said to Goliah Thou comest to me with a sword with a spear and with a shield but I come unto thee in the name of the God of hosts of Israel whom thou hast railed upon If thou watch the approach of any sinne any giant sinne that transports thee most if thou apprehend it to rail against the Lord of hosts in that there is a loud and active blasphemie against God in every sinne if it desire to come with a sword or a spear perswasions of advancement if thou do it threatnings of dishonour if thou do it not if it come with a shield with promises to cover and palliate it if thou do it if then this David thy attempted soul can put his hand into his bag as David did for Quid cor hominis nisi sacculus Dei mans heart is that bag in which God layes up all good directions if he can take into his consideration his Christ Jesus and sling out his works his commandments his merits this Goliah this giant sinne will fall to the ground And then as it is said of David there that he slew him when he had no sword in his hand and yet in the next verse that he took his sword and slew him with that so even by the consideration of that which my Saviour hath done for me I shall give this sinne the first deaths wound and then I shall kill him with his own sword his own abomination his own foulnesse shall make me detest him if I dare but look him in the face if I dare call him I come in the name of the Lord if I consider him I shall triumph over him Et dabit certandi victoriam qui dedit certandi audaciam That God who gave me courage to fight will give me courage to overcome The last benefit which we consider in Christ as he is a stone is that he is Petra A rock the rock gave water to the Israelites and he gave them honie Num. 20. 11. out of the stone and oyl out of the rock Now when S. Paul saith that our fathers drank of the same rock as we heard that rock was Christ so 1. Cor. 10. 4 that all temporall and spirituall blessings to us and to our fathers were all conferred upon us in Christ But we consider not now any miraculous production from the rock but that which is naturall to the rock that it is a firm defence to us in all tempests in all afflictions in all tribulation And therefore Laudate Dominum habitationes petrae Isa 42. 11. sayes the Prophet You that are inhabitants of this rock you that dwell in Christ and Christ in you you that dwell in earth in this rock praise ye the Lord blesse him and magnifie him for ever If the sonne shall ask bread of the father will he give him a stone as is Christs question Yes O blessed Father we ask no other answer to our petition no better satisfaction to our necessitie when we say Da nobis hodie panem Give us this day our daily bread then that thou give us this stone this rock thy self in the Church for our direction thy self in thy sacraments for our refection what hardnesse soever we finde there what corrections soever we receive there all shall be of easie digestion and good nourishment to us thy holy Spirit of patience shall command these stones to be made bread and we shall finde more juice more marrow in these stones in these afflictions then worldly men shall do in the softnesse of their oyl in the sweetnesse of their honie in the cheerfulnesse of their wine for as Christ is our foundation we beleeve in him and our corner stone we are at peace with all the world in him as he is Jacobs stone giving us peace in our selves and Davids stone giving us victorie over all our enemies so he is a rock of stone no affliction no tribulation shall shake us And so we have passed through all the benefits proposed to be considered in the first place It is some degree of thankfulnesse to stand long II Part. in the contemplation of the benefits which we have received and therefore we have insisted thus long upon this first part But it is a degree of spirituall wisdome too to make haste to the considerations of our dangers and therefore we come now to them we will fall upon this stone and be broken this stone may fall upon us and grinde us to powder And in the first of these we may consider Quid frangi Quid cadere What that falling upon this stone is and what it is to be broken upon it and then the latitude of this Vnusquisque

to heaven without discharging his duties to other men then without doing them to God himself Man liveth not by bread onely sayes Christ but Luke 4. 4. yet he liveth by bread too every man must do the duties every man must bear the encumbrances of some calling Pulvis es Thou art earth he whom thou treadest upon is no lesse and he that treads upon thee is no more Positively it is a low thing to be but earth and yet the low earth is the quiet center there may be rest acquiescence content in the lowest condition But comparatively earth is as high as the highest Challenge him that magnifies himself above thee to meet thee in Adam there bid him if he will have more nobilitie more greatnesse then thou take more originall sin then thou hast If God have submitted thee to as much sin and penalty of sin as him he hath afforded thee as much and as noble earth as him And if he will not trie it in the root in your equalitie in Adam yet in another test another furnace in the grave he must there all dusts are equall Except an epitaph tell me who lies there I cannot tell by the dust nor by the epitaph know which is the dust it speaks of if another have been layed there before or after in the same grave nor can any epitaph be confident in saying Here lies but Here was laid for so various so vicissitudinarie is all this world as that even the dust of the grave hath revolutions As the motions of an upper sphere imprint a motion in a lower sphere other then naturally it would have so the changes of the life work after death And as envie supplants and removes us alive a shovell removes us and throwes us out of our grave after death No limbeck no weights can tell you This is dust royall this plebeian dust no commission no inquisition can say This is catholick this is hereticall dust All lie alike and all shall rise alike alike that is at once and upon one command The saint cannot accelerate the reprobate cannot retard the resurrection And all that rise to the right hand shall be equally kings and all at the left equally what the worst name we can call them by or affect them with is devil and then they shall have bodies to be tormented in which devils have not Miserable unexpressible unimaginable macerable condition where the sufferer would be glad to be but a devil where it were some happinesse and some kinde of life to be able to die and a great preferment to be nothing He made us all of earth and all of red earth our earth was red even when it was in Gods hands a rednesse that amounts to a shamefastnesse to a blushing at our infirmities is imprinted in us by Gods hands for this rednesse is but a conscience a guiltinesse of needing a continuall supply and succession of more and more grace and we are all red red so even from the beginning and in our best state Adam had the angels had thus much of this infirmitie that though they had a great measure of grace they needed more The prodigall childe grew poore enough after he had received his portion and he may be wicked enough that trusts upon former or present grace and seeks not more This rednesse a blushing that is an acknowledgement that we could not subsist with any measure of faith except we pray for more faith nor of grace except we seek more grace we have from the hand of God and an other rednesse from his hand too the bloud of his Sonne for that bloud was effused by Christ in the vail of this ransome for us all and accepted by God in the vail thereof for us all and this rednesse is in the nature thereof as extensive as the rednesse derived from Adam is both reach to all so we were red earth in the hands of God as rednesse denotes our generall infirmities and as rednesse denotes the bloud of his Sonne our Saviour all have both But that rednesse which we have contracted from bloud shed by our selves the bloud of our own souls by sinne was not upon us when we were in the hands of God that rednesse is not his tincture not his complexion no decree of his is writ in any such red ink Our sins are our own our destruction is from our selves We are not as accessaries and God as principall in this soul-murder God forbid We are not as executioners of Gods sentence and God the malefactour in this soul-damnation God forbid Cain came not red in his brothers bloud out of Gods hands nor David red with Vriahs bloud nor Achitophel with his own nor Judas with Christs or his own That that Pilate did illusorily God can do truely wash his hands from the bloud of any of those men It were a weak plea to say I killed not that man but it is true I commanded one who was under my command to kill him It is rather a prevarication then a justification of God to say God is not the authour of sinne in any man but it is true God makes that mans sinne that sinne God is innocencie and the beams that flow from him are of the same nature and colour Christ when he appeared in heaven was not red but white his hand his head and hairs too he and that that grows from him he and we as we come from his hands are white too his angels that provoke us to the imitation of that pattern are so in white two men two angels stood by the apostles in white Acts 1. 10. apparell the imitation is laid upon us by precept too At all times let thy garments be Eccles 9. 8. white those actions in which thou appearest to the world innocent It is true that Christ is both My beloved is white and ruddy sayes the Cant. 5. 10. Spouse but the white was his own his rednesse is from us That which Zipporah said to her husband Moses in anger the Church may say to Christ in thankfulnesse Verè sponsus sanguinum Thou art truely a bloudy husband to me Damim sanguinum of blouds blouds in the plurall for all our blouds are upon him This was a mercie to the militant Church that even the triumphant Church wondred at it They knew not Christ when he came up into heaven in red Who is this that cometh in red garments Isa 63. 1. wherefore is thy apparell red like him that treadeth in the wine-presse They knew he went down in white in entire innocencie and they wondred to see him return in red but he satisfies them Calcavi You think I have troden the wine-presse and you mistake it not I have troden the wine-presse and Calcavi solus and that alone All the rednesse all the bloud of the whole world is upon me and as he addes Non vir de gentibus Of all people there was none with me with me so as to have any part