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Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to Him / by Iohn Donne ...
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Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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of need Is not my Meditation rather to be enclined another way to condole and commiserate their distresse who haue none How many are sicker perchance then I and laid in their wofull straw at home if that coâ—ner be a home and haue no more hope of helpe though they die then of preferment though they liue Nor doe no more expect to see a Phisician then then to bee an Officer after of whome the first that takes knowledge is thâ— Sexten that buries themâ— who buries them in obliuioâ— too For theâ— doe but fill vp the number of the dead in the Bill but we shall neuer heare their Names till wee reade them in the Booke of life with our owne How many are sicker perchance then I and thrown into Hospitals where as a fish left vpon the Sand must stay the tide they must stay the Phisicians houre of visiting and then can bee but visited How many are sicker perchaunce then all we and haue not this Hospitall to couer them not this straw to lie in to die in but haue theiâ— Graue-stone vnder them and breathe out theiâ— soules in the eares and in the eies of passengers harder then their bed the flint of the streâ—tâ— That taste of no part of our Phisick but a sparing dyet to whom ordinary porridge would bee Iulip enough the refuse of our seruants Bezar enough and the off scouâ—ing of our Kitchin tables Cordiall enough O my soule when thou art not enough awake to blesse thy God enough for his plentifull mercy in affoording thee many Helpers remembâ—r how many lacke them and helpe them to them or to those other things which they lacke as much as them 7. EXPOSTVLATION MY God my God thy blessed Seruant Augustine begg'd of thee that Moses might come and tell him what heâ— meant by some place of Genesis May I haâ—â— leaue to aske of thâ— Spirit that writ thâ— Booke why when Dâ—â—uid expected newes fiâ—â— Ioabs armie and that thâ— Watchman tolde him that hee sawe a man ruâ—â—ning alone Dauid concluâ—ded out of that circumstance That if hee caâ—â— alone hee brought 〈◊〉 newes I see the Graâ—â—mar the word signifie so and is so euer accepâ—ted Good newes but I see not the Logique nor the Rhetorique how Dauid would prooue or perswade that his newes was good because hee was alone except a greater coÌ„pany might haue made great impressions of danger by imploring and importuning present supplies Howsoeuer that bee I am sure that that which thy Apostle sayes to Timothy Onely Luke is with me Luke and no body but Luke â— hath a taste of coÌ„plaint sorrow in itâ— Though Luke want no testimony of abilitie oâ— forwardnes of constancie perseuerance in assisting that great building which S. Paul laboured in yet S. Paul is affected with that that ther was none but Luke to assistâ— We take S. Luke to haue bin a Phisician it admits the application the better that in the presence of one good Phisician we may bee glad of more It was not only a ciuill spirit of policy or order that moued Moses father in law to perswade him to diuide â—he burden of GouernmeÌ„t Iudicature with others take others to his assistance but it was â—lso thy immediat spirit O my God that mou'd Moses to present vnto â—hee 70 of the Elders of Israel to receiue of that spirit which was vpon Moses onely before such â— portion as might ease â—im in the gouernmeÌ„t of that people though Moses alone had indowments aboue all thou gauest him otheâ— assistants I consider thâ— plentifull goodnesse 〈◊〉 my God in employing Angels more then onâ— in so many of thy remarkable workes Oâ— thy Sonne thou saist Iâ— all the Angels of God wâ—â—â—ship him If that bee iâ— Heauen vpon Earth hâ—â— sayes that hee could coâ—â—maund twelue legions 〈◊〉 Angels And when Hâ—â—uen and Earth shall bâ— all one at the last dayâ— Thy Sonne O God the Sâ—â— of Man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him The Angels that celebrated his birth to the Shepheards the Angels that celebrated his second birth his Resurrection to the Maries were in the plurall Angells associated with Angels In Iacobs ladder they which ascended and descended maintain'd the trade between Heauen and Earth between thee and vs they who haue the Commission and charge to guide vs in all our wayes they whâ—â— hastned Lot and in himâ— vs from places of danger and tentation theâ— who are appoynted to instruct gouerne vs in thâ— Church heere they who are sent to punish the disobedient and refractarâ—â— they that are to be the Mowers and haruest meâ— after we are growne â—p in one field the church 〈◊〉 the day of IudgmeÌ„t they that are to carrie oâ—â— soules whither they caâ—â—â—ed Lazarus they who attend at the seueral gateâ— of the new Ierusalem to admit vs there all these who administer to thy seruants from the first to their last are Angels Angels in the plurall in euery seruice Angels associated with Angells The power of a single Angell wee see in that one who in one night destroyed almost 200. thousand in Sennacheribs army yet thou often imployest many as we know the power of saluation is abundantly in any one Euangelist and yet thou hast afforded vs foure Thy Sonne proâ—claimes of himselfe thâ— thy Spirit hath annoynteâ— him to preach the Gospelâ— â— yet he hath giuen otheâ—s for the perfiting of the S. in the worke of the Miâ—â—â—stery Thou hast made him Bishop of our soules but there are others Biâ—shops too Hee gaue the holy Ghost others gaue it also Thy way O mâ— God and O my God thoâ— louest to walk in thine own waies for they are large thy way from thâ— beginning is multiplication of thy helps and therfore it were a degree of ingratitude not to accept this mercy of affording me many helpes for my bodily health as a type and earnest of thy gracious purpose now and euer to affoord mee the same assistances That for thy great Helpe thy Word I may seeke that not froÌ„ corners nor Conuenticles nor schismatical singularities but froÌ„ the assotiation communion of thy Catholique Church and those persons whom thou hasâ— alwayes furnished thâ— Church withall And that I may associate thâ— Word with thy Sacrâ—â—ment thy Seale with thy Patent and in that Sâ—â—crameÌ„t associate the sigâ—â— with the thing signified the Bread with the Bodâ— of thy Sonne so as I maâ— be sure to haue receiuâ—â— both and to bee maâ—â— thereby as thy blesseâ— seruant Augustine sayes the Arke and the Monâ—â—ment the Tombe of thâ— most blessed Sonne that hee and all the merits of his death may by that receiuing bee buried in me to my quickning in thiâ— world and my immortall establishing in the next 7. PRAYER O Eternall and most gracious God who gauest to thy seruants in