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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

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

should declare what should bee Heresie and hauing declared that to bee Heresie which opposed or retarded the dignitie of that Church now they call in Brachium Spirituale All those Sentences of Fathers or Councells that mention Heresie and they call in Brachium Saeculare all those Lawes which punish Heresie and wherea● these Fathers and Councells and States intended by Heresie Opinions that destroyed Foundations they bend all these against euery poynt which may endammage not the Church of God but the Church of Rome nor the Church of Rome but the Court of Rome nor the Court of Rome but the Kitchin of Rome not for the Heart but for the Bellie not the Religion but the Policie not the Altar but the Exchequer of Rome But the Righteous lookes to Foundations before hee will bee scandalized himselfe or condemne another When they call Saint Peter their first Pope and being remembred how hee denied his Master say then that was but an Acte of Infirmitie not of Infidelitie and there were no Foundations destroyed in that wee presse not that euidence against Saint Peter wee forbeare and wee are quiet When wee charge some of Saint Peters imaginary Successors some of their Popes with actuall and personall Sacrificing to Idoles some with subscribing to formall Heresies with their owne hand many with so enormous an ill life as that their owne Authors will say that for many yeares together there liued not one Pope of whose Saluation any hope could bee conceiued and they answere to all this that all these were but Personall faults and destroyed no Foundations wee can bee content to bury their faultes with their persons and wee are quiet When wee remember them how many of the Fathers excused officious Lyes and thought some kinde of Lying to bee no Sinne how very many of them hearded in the heresie of the Millenarians That the Saints of God should enioy a thousand yeares of temporall felicity in this world after their Resurrection before they ascended into Heauen And that they say to all this The Fathers said these things before the Church had decreed any thing to the contrary and till that it was lawfull for any man to say or thinke what hee would wee do not load the memory of those blessed Fathers with any heauier pressings but wee are quiet Yet wee cannot chuse but tell them that tell vs this that they haue taken a hard way to make that saying true that all things are growen deare in our times for they haue made Saluation deare Threescore yeares agoe a man might haue beene sau'd at halfe the price hee can now Threescore yeares agoe he might haue beene saued for beleeuing the Apostles Creed now it will cost him the Trent Creed too Euermore they will presse for all and yeeld nothing and there is indeed their Specification there 's their Character that 's their Catholique their Vniuersall To haue all As in Athanasius his time when the Emperour pressed him to affoord the Arrians one Church in Alexandria where hee was Bishop and hee asked but one Church in Antioch where the Arrians preuayled not doubting but hee should draw more ●o the true Church in Antioch then they should corrupt in Alexandria yet this would not bee granted It would not be granted at Rome if we should aske a Church for a Church In a word wee charge them with vncharitablenesse and Charitie is without all Controuersie a Foundation of Religion that they will so peremptorily exclude vs from Heauen for matters that doe not appertaine to Foundations For if they will call all Foundations that that Church hath or doth or shall decree wee must learne our Catechisme vpon our Death-bedd and inquire for the Articles of our Faith when wee are going out of the world for they may haue decreed something that Morning No one Author of theirs denied Pope Ioane till they discerned the Consequence That by confessing a Woman Pope they should disparage that Succession of Bishops which they pretend And this Succession must bee Foundation No Author of our side denied Saint Peters beeing at Rome till wee discerned the Consequence That vpon his personall being there they grounded a Primacie in that Sea And this Primacie must bee Foundation Much might bee admitted in cases of Indifferencie euen in the Nature of the things Much in cases of Necessitie for the importance of Circumstances much in cases of Conueniency for the suppling of boysterous and for the becalming of tempestuous humours but when euery thing must be called Foundation we shall neuer knowe where to stop where to consist If wee should beleeue their Sacrificium incruentum their vnbloody Sacrifice in the Masse if wee did not beleeue their Sacrificium Cruentum too that there was a power in that Church to sacrifice the Blood of Kings wee should bee sayde to bee defectiue in a fundamentall Article If wee should admitt their Metaphysiques their transcendent Transubstantiation and admitt their Chimiques their Purgatorie Fires and their Mythologie and Poetrie their apparitions of Soules and Spirits they would binde vs to their Mathematiques too and they would not let vs bee saued except wee would reforme our Almanackes to their tenne dayes and reforme our Clockes to their foure and twentie for who can tell when there is an ende of Articles of Faith in an Arbitrarie and in an Occasionall Religion When then this Prophet sayes If Foundations bee destroyed what can the righteous doe hee meanes that till that the righteous should bee quiet Except it were in fundamentall Articles of Faith our selues should not bee so bitter towards one another our Aduersarie should not bee so vncharitable against vs all And farther wee need not extend this first Consideration The second is 2. Part. to Suruay some such Foundations as fall within the frayltie and suspition and possibilitie of this Text that they may bee destroyed for when the Prophet sayes If they bee they may bee Now Fundamentum proprie de aedificijs dicitur sayes the Lawe when wee speake of Foundations wee intend a house and heere wee extend this House to foure Considerations for in foure Houses haue euery one of vs a dwelling For first Ecclesia Domus the Church is a House it is Gods house and in that House wee are of the householde of the faithfull if as it is testified of Moses wee bee faithfull in all his House Hebr. 3.5 as Seruants You see there is a faithfulnesse required in euery man in all the house of God not in any one roome a disposition required to doe good to the whole Church of God euery where and not onely at home Secondly Respublica Domus The Commonwealth the State the Kingdome is a House and this is that which is called so often Domus Israel The house of Israel the State the Gouernment of the Iewes And in this House God dwells as well as in the other In the State as well as in the Church For these words The Lord hath chosen Sion Psa 132.13