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A20641 Fiue 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. 5. A sermon preached to his Maiestie at White-hall, 24. Febr. 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; Donne, John, 1572-1631. Sermon, preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 24 Febr. 1625. aut 1626 (1626) STC 7041; ESTC S109970 94,733 348

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for the Childrens transgressions the Mother is put away Dimissa Mater This Mother is the Church that Church to whose breasts GOD hath applyed that Soule and Gods putting away of this Mother is as it was in the Daughter his leauing her to her selfe So those imaginary Churches that will receiue no light from Antiquitie nor Primitiue formes GOD leaues to themselues and they crumble into Conuenticles And that Church which will needes be the Forme to all Churches God leaues to her selfe to her owne Traditions and Shee swells into tumors and vlcers and blisters And when any Church is thus left to her selfe deuested of the Spirit of GOD then follow heauie Symptomes and Accidents That which is forbidden in the Law Leuit. 21.16 That Men that haue blemishes offer the Bread of our God Men blemished in their Opinions in their Doctrine blemishd in their Lifes in their Conuersation are admitted to Sacrifice at Gods Altar Then followes that which is complaind of in Ieroboams time The lowest of the People 1 King 22 33 and whosoeuer will shall bee made Priests Contemptible men shall bee made Priests and so the Priesthood shall bee made Contemptible The followes that which the Prophet Ose sayes The Prophet shall be a Foole 9.7 and the Spiritual Man madde Madde as Saint Hierome translates that word Arreptitius possest possest with an aery spirit of ambition and an Earthly Spirit of Seruilitie And a watrie Spirit of Irresolution and dispossest of the true Spirit of Holy fire the Zeale of the exaltation of Gods glory There is a Curse in remoouing but the Candlesticke Apoc. 2.5 That the Light shall not bee in that eminency and euidence that becomes it but that some faint shadowes some Corner Disguises some Temporizings some Modifications must be admitted There is a heauier Curse in weakning the Eye of the beholder when as this Prophet sayes God shall make hearts fatt and eares deafe and eyes blinde There shall bee Light but you shall not see by it there shall be good Preaching but you shall not profit by it But the greatest Curse of all is in putting out the Light when GOD blinds the Teachers themselues For Math. 6.23 If the light that is in thee bee darkenesse how great is that darkenesse This is that Luke 22.53 Potestas tenebrarum when power is put into their hands who are possest with this darkenesse And this is that Iude 13. Procella tenebrarum The storme of darkenesse The blackenesse of Darkenesse as we Translate it when darkenes power and passion meete in one Man And to these fearefull heights may the sinnes of the Children bring the Mother That that Church which now enioyes so aboundantly Truth and Vnitie may bee poysoned with Heresie and wounded with Schisme and yet GOD bee free from all imputation of Tyranny And so wee haue done with all those peeces which constitute our First Part Gods Dischardge His Mercy in his Ecce that hee warnes vs of his Iudgements before they fall And his Iustice in his Proceeding though after wee bee solde cheape by Adam to Originall sinne So Saint Paul sayes He was sold vnder sinne And Cheaper by our selues to actuall sinnes for Nothing for Priuations So the Prophet told Ahab that hee was sold to sinne God also Sell vs away Cast vs away To Punishments for sinnes So hee did the Israelites and then to sinnes for punishments So hee did Dauid and so hee did Ierusalem and though hee come to a Diuorce of Daughter and Mother of our Soules in particular and the Church it selfe in generall Part. 2. Wee are descended to our second part Mans discharge That not disputing what God of his absolute power might doe nor what by his vnreueald Decree hee hath done God hath not allowd me nor thee nor any to conclude against our selues a necessity of perishing May this seeme an impertinent part in a Court To suspect that any here are too much afraid of God or too much dei●cted with the sense of their sinnes or his iudgements Are sinnes of presumption rather to be feared here then sinnes of desperation It hath a faire probability But all the Lent wee prepare Men for the Sacrament And as Casuists we say Sacramentum articulus Mortis aequiparantur We consider a Man at the Sacrament as at his death bed and vpon our Death-beds wee are likelyer to be attempted with sinnes of Deiection then of presumption And so though in a Court if you will be content to thinke of a death-bed in a Court and God hath taken wayes to awaken those thoughts in you it may be pertinent and seasonable to establish you now against those deiections and diffidences which may offer at you then T is true then there may be a selling there may be a putting away but hath not God reserued to himselfe a power of reuocation in both in all cases Audisti repudium Crede coniugium Is sweetly and safely said by St. Ambrose As often as thy thoughts fall vpon a fearefulnesse of a Diuorce from thy God establish thy selfe with that comfort of a Mariage to thy God for the words of his Contracts are Sponsabo te mihi in aeternum There can be no Diuorce imagined if there were not a mariage and if there be a mariage With God there can be no Diuorce for sponsat in aeternum hee marries for euer Can God doe so forsake foreuer The Crowe went out of the Arke and came no more The Doue went and came againe and came with an Oliue branch God may absent himselfe that he may be sought but hee comes againe and with the Oliue of peace Zion said The Lord hath forsaken mee Esay 49.14 and my Lord hath forgotten me Why will Zion say so sayes God Can Zion say My Lord my Lord hath forgotten mee Can shee remember that GOD is hers and not thinke that shee is his Can shee remember him and thinke that hee hath forgotten her Can Zion retaine her bowels of piety and thinke that GOD is disembowelled of his GOD calls her not to Nationall examples to how low conditions hee came in the behalfe of Sodome what he did for Nineue what he did for Zion her selfe in Aegipt but hee carries her home to her owne breast and her owne Cradle and onely askes her that question Can a Mother forget her sucking Childe And hee stayes not her answere nor assures himselfe of a good answere from her but adds himselfe Yes a Mother may forget her sucking Childe yet I will not forget thee Can GOD doe it Did GOD euer doe it Did he euer put away without possibility of re-assuming when where whom Israel the ten Tribes Yet euen to them 3.7 sayes Ieremy After they had done all this GOD said turne vnto me and they would not turne And then God put her away and sent her a bill of Diuorce V. 8. and neuer re-assumd her neuer brought backe the ten Tribes from their