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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

Ladder and hearken after vs. Bee this thine Arke and let thy Doue thy blessed Spirit come in and out at these Windowes and let a full pot of thy Manna a good measure of thy Word and an effectuall preaching thereof bee euermore preserued and euermore bee distributed in this place Let the Leprosie of Superstition neuer enter within these Walles nor the hand of Sacriledge euer fall vpon them And in these walles to them that loue Profit and Gaine manifest thou thy selfe as a Treasure and fill them so To them that loue Pleasure manifest thy selfe as Marrow and Fatnesse and fill them so And to them that loue Preferment manifest thy selfe as a Kingdome and fill them so that so thou mayest bee all vnto all giue thy selfe wholly to vs all and make vs all wholly thine Accept our humble thanks for all c. IOHN 10.22 And it was at Ierusalem the Feast of the Dedication and it was Winter and Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch SAint Basill in a Sermon vpon the 114. Basill Psalme vpon the like occasion as drawes vs together now The consecration of a Church makes this the reason and the excuse of his late comming thither to doe that Seruice that he stayd by the way to consecrate another Church I hope euery person heere hath done so consecrated himselfe who is a Temple of the Holy Ghost before hee came to assist or to testifie the consecration of this place of the Seruice of God Bern. Ser. 1. Nostra festiuitas haec est quia de Ecclesia nostra sayes Saint Bernard This Festiuall belongs to vs because it is the consecration of that place which is ours Magis autem nostr● quia de nobis ipsis But it is more properly our Festiuall because it is the consecration of our selues to Gods seruice For Sanctae Animae propter inhabitantem Spiritum your Soules are holy by the inhabitation of Gods holy spirit who dwells in them Sancta corpora propter inhabitantem animam Your Bodies are holy by the inhabitation of those sanctified Soules Sancti parietes propter Corpora Sanctorum These walles are holy because the Saints of God meet here within these walls to glorifie him But yet these places are not onely consecrated sanctified by your comming but to bee sanctified also for your comming that so as the Congregation sanctifies the place the place may sanctifie the Congregation too They must accompany one another holy persons and holy places If men would wash sheep in the Baptisterie in the Font those sheep were not christned If prophane men or idolatrous men pray here after their way their prayers are not sanctified by the place Neither if it be after polluted doth the place retain that sanctitie which is this day to be deriued vpon it and to bee imprinted in it Our Text settles vs vpon both these considerations The holy place Diuisio and the holy person It was the Feast of the Dedication there 's the holinesse of the place And the holy person was holinesse it selfe in the person of Christ Iesus who walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch These two will bee our two parts And the first of these wee shall make vp of these pieces First we shall see a lawfull vse of Feasts of Festiuall dayes And then of other Feasts then were instituted by God himselfe diuers were so this was not And thirdly not only a festiuall solemnizing of some one thing at some one time for the present but an Anniuersary returning to that solemnitie euery yeare And lastly in that first part this Festiuall in particular The Feast of the Dedication of the Temple that sanctified the place that shall determine that part In the second part The holinesse of the person we shall carry your thoughts no farther but vpon this That euen this holy person Iesus himselfe would haue recourse to this place thus dedicated thus sanctified And vpon this that hee would doe that especially at such times as hee might countenance and authorise the Ordinances and Institutions of the Church which had appointed this Festiuall And this sayes the Text he did in the Winter First Etsi Hiems though it were Winter hee came and walked in the Porch a little inconuenience kept him not off And Quia Hiems because it was Winter he walked in the Porch which was couered not in the Temple which was open So that heere with modestie and without scandall he condemned not the fauouring of a mans health euen in the Temple And it was at Ierusalem the Feast of the Dedication and it was Winter and Iesus walked in the Temple in Salomons Porch In our first part Holy places 1. Part. Festa wee looke first vpon the times of our meeting there Holy dayes The root of all those is the Sabboth that God planted himselfe euen in himselfe in his owne rest from the Creation But the root and those branches which grow from that root are of the same nature and the same name And therefore as well of the flower as of the root of a Rose or of a Violet we would say This is a Violet this is a Rose so as well to other Feasts of Gods institution as to the first Sabboth God giues that name hee cals those seuerall Feasts which he instituted Sabboths enioynes the same things to be done vpon them inflicts the same punishments vpon them that breake them Leuit. 23. So that there is one Moralitie that is the soule of all Sabboths of all Festiualls howsoeuer all Sabboths haue a ceremoniall part in them yet there is a Morall part that inanimates them all they are elemented of Ceremonie but they animated with Moralitie And that Moralitie is in them all Rest for if Adam could name creatures according to their nature God could name his Sabboth according to the nature of it and Sabboth is Rest It is a Rest of two kindes our rest and Gods rest Our rest is the cessation from labour on those dayes Gods rest is our sanctifying of the day for so in the religious sacrifice of Noah when hee was come out of the Arke Genes 8. God is said to haue smelt Odorem quietis the sauour of rest vpon those dayes we rest from seruing the world and God rests in our seruing of him And as God takes a tenth part of our goods in Tythes but yet he takes more too he takes Sacrifices so though he take a seuenth part of our time in the Sabboth yet he takes more too he appoints other Sabboths other Festiualls that he may haue more glory and we more Rest for all wherin those two concurre are Sabboths Vacate videte quoniam ego sum Dominus sayes God Psal 46.10 First vacate rest from your bodily labours distinguish the day and then videte come hither into the Lords presence and worship the Lord your God sanctifie the day And in all the Sabboths there is still a Cessate Leuit. 23. and

Hyems But then Quia Hyems Because it was Winter Hee did walke in Salomons Porch which was couered not in Atrio in that part of the Temple which was open and expos'd to the weather We doe not say that infirme and weak men may not fauour themselues in a due care of their health in these places That he who is not able to raise himselfe must alwayes stand at the Gospell or bow the knee at the name of Iesus or stay some whole houres altogether vncouered heere if that increase infirmities of that kinde And yet Courts of Princes are strange Bethesdaes how quickly they recouer any man that is brought into that Poole How much a little change of ayre does and how well they can stand and stand bare many houres in the Priuy Chamber that would melt and flowe out into Rhumes and Catarrs in a long Gospell heere But Citra Scandalum a man may fauour himselfe in these places but yet this excuses not the irreuerent manner which hath ouertaken vs in all these places That any Master may thinke himselfe to haue the same libertie heere as in his owne house or that that Seruant that neuer puts on his hat in his Masters presence all the weeke on Sunday when hee and his Master are in Gods presence should haue his hat on perchance before his Masters Christ shall make Master and Seruant equall but not yet not heere nor euer equall to himselfe how euer they become equall to one another Gods seruice is not a continuall Martyrdome that a man must bee heere and here in such a posture and such a manner though hee dye for it but Gods House is no Ordinary neither where any man may pretend to doe what he will and euery man may doe what any man does Christ slept in a storme I dare not make that generall let all doe so Christ fauoured himselfe in the Church I dare not make that generall neither to make all places equall or all persons equall in any place T is time to end Basil Saint Basill himselfe as acceptable as hee was to his Auditory in his second Sermon vpon the 14. Psalme takes knowledge that hee had preached an houre and therefore broke off I see it is a Compasse that all Ages haue thought sufficient But as we haue contracted the consideration of great Temples to this lesser Chappell so let vs contract the Chappell to our selues Et facta sint Encaenia nostra let this be the Feast of the Dedication of our selues to God Christ calls himselfe a Temple Soluite templum hoc Iohn 2.19 Destroy this Temple 1 Cor. 3.16 6.19 And Saint Paul calls vs so twice Know ye not that ye are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Facta sint Encaenia nostra Encaenia signifies Renouationem a renewing Aug. and Saint Augustine sayes that in his time Si quis noua tunica indueretur Encaeniare diceretur If any man put on a new garment hee called it by that name Encaenia sua Much more is it so if wee renew in our selues the Image of God and put off the Olde man and put on the Lord Iesus Christ This is truly Encaeniare to dedicate to renew our selues Nazian and so Nazian in a Sermon or Oration vpon the like occasion as this calls Conuersionem nostram Encaenia our turning to God in a true repentance or renewing our dedication Let mee charge your memories but with this note more That when God forbad Dauid the building of an House Because hee was a man of blood at that time Dauid had not embrued his hands in Vriahs blood nor shed any blood but lawfully in iust warres yet euen that made him vncapable of this fauour to prouide God a house Some callings are in their nature more obnoxious and more exposed to sinne then others are accompanied with more tentations so retard vs more in holy duties And therefore as there are particular sinnes that attend certaine places certaine ages certaine complexions and certaine vocations let vs watch our selues in all those and remember that not only the highest degrees of those sinns but any thing that conduces therunto prophanes the Consecration and Dedication of this Temple our selues to the seruice of God it annihilates our repentance and frustrates our former reconciliations to him Almighty God worke in you a perfit dedication of your selues at this time that so receiuing it from hands dedicated to God hee whose holy Office this is may present acceptably this House to God in your behalfes and establish an assurance to you that God will be alwayes present with you and your Succession in this place Amen THE FIRST SERMON PREACHED TO KING CHARLES At Saint IAMES 30. April 1625. By IOHN DONNE Deane of Saint Pauls London LONDON Printed by A. M. for THOMAS IONES and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand 1625. PSALME 11.3 If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe WEe are still in the season of Mortification in Lent But wee search no longer for Texts of Mortification The Almightie hand of God hath shed and spred a Text of Mortification ouer all the land The last Sabboth day was his Sabboth who entred then into his euerlasting Rest Be this our Sabboth to enter into a holy and thankfull acknowledgement of that Rest which God affords vs in continuing to vs our Foundations for If foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe I scarse know any word in the Word of God in which the Originall is more ambiguous and consequently the Translations more various and therfore necessarily also the Expositions more diuers then in these words There is one thing in which all agree that is the Argument and purpose and scope of the Psalme And then in what sense the words of the Text may conduce to the scope of the Psalme wee rest in this Translation which our Church hath accepted and authorized and which agrees with the first Translation knowen to vs by way of Exposition that is the Chalde Paraphrase If Foundations bee destroyed what can the righteous doe The Church of God euer delighted herselfe in a holy officiousnesse in the Commemoration of Martyrs Almost all their solemne and extraordinarie Meetings and Congregations in the Primitiue Church were for that for the honourable Commemoration of Martyrs And for that they came soone to institute and appoynt certaine Liturgies certaine Offices as they called them certaine Seruices in the Church which should haue reference to that to the Commemoration of Martyrs as wee haue in our Booke of Common Prayer certaine Seruices for Marriage for Buriall and for such other holy Celebrations And in the Office and Seruice of a Martyr the Church did vse this Psalme This Psalme which is in generall a Protestation of Dauid That though hee were so vehemently pursued by Saul as that all that wished him well sayd to his Soule Flie as a Bird to the Mountaine as

a Humiliate animas bodily rest and spirituall sanctifying of the day Holy dayes then that is dayes seposed for holy vses and for the outward publike seruice of God are in Nature and in that Morall Law which is written in the heart of man That such dayes there must be is Morall and this is Morall too that all things in the seruice of God bee done in order and this also that obedience be giuen to Superiours in those things wherein they are Superiors And therfore it was to the Iewes as well Morall to obserue the certaine dayes which God had determined as to obserue any at all Not that Gods commandement limitting the dayes infused a Moralitie into those particular dayes for Moralitie is perpetuall and if that had been Morall it must haue been so before and it must bee so still Gods determining the dayes did not infuse not induce a Moralitie there but it awakened a former Moralitie that is an obedience to the commandement for that time which God had appoynted that for them for this Obedience and Order is perpetuall and so Morall We depart therfore from that error which those ancient Heretiques the Ebionites begun and some laboured to refresh in Saint Gregories time and which continues in practise in some places of the world still To obserue both the Iewes Sabbath and the Christians Satterday and Sunday too because the Sabboth is called Pactum sempiternum Exod. 31. for to that any of Saint Augustines Answeres will serue either that it is called euerlasting because it signified an euerlasting rest where be pleased to note by the way that Holy dayes Sabbaths are not onely instituted for Order but they haue their Mystery and their Signification for Holy dayes Col. 2.16 as the Text calls them there and New Moones and the Sabboth were but shadowes of things to come or else the Sabboth was called euerlasting to them because it bound them euerlastingly and they might neuer intermit it as some other ceremonies they might But their Sabboths bind not vs we depart from them who thinke so and so we doe from them who think we are bound to no Festiualls at all or at least to none but the Sabboth For God requires as much seruice from vs as from the Iewes and to them hee enlarged his Sabboths and made them diuers But those were of Gods immediat institution but all that the Iewes obserued were not so and that 's our next consideration Festiualls instituted by the Church Sine Mandato At first when God was alone it is but Faciamus let vs vs the Trinity make man This was when God was as we may say in Coelibatu But after God hath taken his spouse maried the Church then it is Cadite nobis vulpes Cant. 2.15 doe you take the little Foxes you the Church for our vines haue grapes the vines are ours yours and mine sayes Christ to the Church and therfore do you looke to them as well as I. The Tables of the law God himselfe writ and gaue them written to Moses he left none of that to him not a power to make other Lawes like those lawes but for the Tabernacle which concern'd the outward worship of God that was to be made by Moses Exod. 25.9 Iuxta similitudinem according to the paterne which God had shewed him God hath giuen the Church a paterne of Holy dayes in those Sabboths which hee himselfe instituted and according to the paterne the Church hath instituted more and Recte festa Ecclesiae colunt Aug. qui se Ecclesiae filios recognoscunt They who disdaine not the name of sonnes of the Church refuse not to celebrate the daies which are of the Churches institution There was no immediate commandement of God for that Holy day which Mordechai by his letters establish'd Ester 9.23 but yet the Iewes vndertooke to do as Mordechai had written to them There was no such commandement for this Holy day in the Text and yet that was obserued as long as they had any beeing And where the reason remaines the practise may The Iewes did we may institute new Holy dayes And not onely transitory daies for a present thanks giuing for a present benefit but Anniuersaries perpetuall memorials of Gods deliuerances And that 's our next step Anniuersaria Both the Holy dayes which we named before which were instituted with out speciall Commaundement from God were so That of Mordechai he commanded to be kept euery yeare for two dayes and this in the Text Iudas Maccabeus commanded to be kept yearely for eight dayes which was more then was appoynted to any of the Holy dayes instituted by God himselfe for the Festiuall alone According to which paterne Felix one Bishop of Rome ordained that the Festiuals of the Dedication of Churches should bee yearely celebrated in those places Greg. and another extended the Festiuall to eight dayes at least at the first dedication thereof if not euery yeare that God might not onely be put into the possession of the place but setled in it Deut. 31.19 God by Moses made the children of Israel a Song because as hee sayes howsoeuer they did by the Law they would neuer forget that Song that Song should be his witnesse against them Therefore would God haue vs institute solemne memorialls of his great deliuerances that if when those dayes come about we doe not glorifie him that might aggrauate our condemnation Euery fift of August the Lord rises vp to hearken whether we meet to glorifie him for his great deliuerance of his Maiesty before he blest vs with his presence in this Kingdome and when he finds vs zealous in our thankes for that he giues vs farther blessings Certainly he is vp as early euery fift of Nouember to hearken if we meet to glorifie him for that deliuerance still and if hee should finde our zeale lesse then heretofore hee would wonder why Gods principall his radicall Holy day the Sabboth had a weekly returne his other Sabbaths instituted by himselfe and those which were instituted by those paternes that of Mordechai that of the Maccabees those of the Christian Church They all return once a yeare God would keepe his Courts once a yeare and see whether wee make our apparances as heeretofore that if not hee may know it Feastes in generall Feastes instituted by the Church alone Feasts in their yearely returne and obseruation haue their vse and particularly those Feasts of the Dedication of Churches which was properly and literally the Feast of this Text. It was the Feast of Dedication Eucania As it diminishes not preiudices not Gods Eternitie that wee giue him his Quando certaine times of Inuocation God is not the lesse yesterday Temple and to day and the same for euer because wee meet here to day and not yesterday so it diminishes not preiudices not Gods Vbiquitie and Omnipresence that wee giue him his Vbi certaine places for Inuocation