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mercy_n	lord_n	psal_n	trust_v	3,209	5	9.2539	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

saile and make great voyages is none of the starres of the greatest magnitude but yet it is none of the least neither but a middle starre Those Preachers which must saue your soules are not ignorant vnlearned extemporall men but they are not ouer curious men neither Your children are you and your seruants are you and you doe not prouide for your saluation if you prouide not for them who are so much yours as that they are you No man is sau'd as a good man if he be not sau'd as a good Father and as a good Master too if God haue giuen him a family That so Priest and people the whole Congregation may by their religious obedience and fighting in this spirituall warfare in their Order minister occasion of ioy to that heart which hath beene grieued in that fulnesse of ioy Which Dauid expresseth Psal 21. The King shall reioyce in thy strength 〈…〉 Lord and in thy saluation how great●● 〈…〉 reioyce Thou hast giuen him his 〈…〉 ●nd thou hast not withholden the 〈…〉 his lipps for the King trusteth in the Lord and by the mercy of the most High he shall not bee mooued And with that Psalme a Psalme of Confidence in a good King and a Psalme of Thanksgiuing for that blessing I desire that this Congregation may be dissolued for this is all that I intended for the Explication which was our first and for the Application which was the other part proposed in these wordes FINIS A SERMON VPON THE EIGHTH VERSE OF THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Preached To the Honourable Company of the VIRGINIAN PLANTATION 13. Nouemb. 1622. BY IOHN DONNE Deane of Saint Pauls LONDON LONDON Printed for Thomas Iones 1624. TO THE HONOVRABLE COMPANIE OF THE VIRGINIAN PLANTATION BY your Fauours I had some place amongst you before but now I am an Aduenturer if not to VIRGINIA yet for VIRGINIA for euery man that Prints Aduentures For the Preaching of this Sermon I was but vnder your Inuitation my Time was mine owne and my Meditations mine owne and I had beene excusable towards you if I had turned that Time and those Meditations to GODS Seruice in any other place But for the Printing of this Sermon I am not onely vnder your Inuitation but vnder your Commandement for after it was preached it was not mine but yours And therefore if I gaue it at first I doe but restore it now The first was an act of Loue this of Iustice both which Vertues Almightie God euermore promoue and exalt in all your proceedings AMEN Your humble Seruant in Christ Iesus IOHN DONNE ACTS 1.8 But yee shall receiue power after that the HOLY GHOST is come vpon you and yee shall be witnesses vnto mee both in Ierusalem and in all Iudea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost part of the Earth THERE are reckoned in this Booke Two and Twentie Sermons of the Apostles and yet the Book is not called the Preaching but the Practise not the Words but the Acts of the Apostles and the Acts of the Apostles were to conuey that name of Christ Iesus and to propagate his Gospell ouer all the world Beloued you are Actors vpon the same Stage too the vttermost part of the Earth are your Scene Act ouer the Acts of the Apostles bee you a Light to the Gentiles that sit in darkenesse bee you content to carrie him ouer these Seas who dryed vp one Red Sea for his first people and hath powred out another Red Sea his owne Bloud for them and vs. When man was fallen God cloathed him made him a Leather Garment there God descended to one Occupation when the time of mans Redemption was come then God as it were to house him became a Carpenters Sonne there God descended to another Occupation Naturally without doubt man would haue beene his owne Taylor and his owne Carpenter something in these two kinds man would haue done of himselfe though hee had had no patterne from God but in preseruing man who was fallen to this redemption by which he was to be raisd in preseruing man from perishing in the Flood God descended to a third occupation to be his Shipwright to giue him the modell of a Ship an Arke and so to be the author of that which man himselfe in likelihood would neuer haue thought of a means to passe from Nation to Nation Now as GOD taught vs to make cloathes not onely to cloath our selues but to cloath him in his poore and naked members heere as God taught vs to build houses not to house our selues but to house him in erecting Churches to his glory So God taught vs to make Ships not to transport our selues but to transport him That when wee haue receiued power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon vs we might be witnesses vnto him both in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth As I speake now principally to them who are concernd in this Plantation of Virginia yet there may be diuers in this Congregation who though they haue no interest in this Plantation yet they may haue benefit and edification by that which they heare me say so Christ spoke the words of this Text principally to the Apostles who were present and questioned him at his Ascention but they are in their iust extention and due accomodation appliable to our present occation of meeting heere As Christ himselfe is Alpha and Omega so first as that hee is last too so these wordes which he spoke in the East belong to vs who are to glorifie him in the West That we hauing receiued power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon vs might be witnesses vnto him both in Ierusalem and in all Iudea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth The first word of the Text is the Cardinall word the word the hinge vpon which the whole Text turnes The first word But is the But that all the rest shoots at First it is an exclusiue word something the Apostles had required which might not bee had not that And it is an inclusiue word somthing Christ was pleasd to affoord to the Apostles which they thought not of not that not that which you beat vpon But but yet something else something better then that you shall haue That which this but excludes is that which the Apostles expresse in the Verse immediatly before the Text a Temporall Kingdome Wilt thou restore againe the kingdome of Israel No not a temporall Kingdome let not the riches and commodities of this world be in your contemplation in your aduentures Or because they aske more Wilt thou now restore that not yet If I will giue you riches and commodities of this world yet if I doe it not at first if I doe it not yet be not you discouraged you shall not haue that that is not Gods first intention and though that be in Gods intention to giue it you hereafter you shall not