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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

wee need not extend this first Consideration The second is 2. Part. to Sur●ay 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 hee hath desired it for a habitation Psa 132.13 are spoken of the whole Bodie Church and State Thirdly there is Domus Habitatio●is Domus quae Domi●liu● a House to dwell in and to dwell with a Family and in this House God dwells too for as Dauid sayes of the Building wee may say of the Dwelling ●●cept the Lord 〈◊〉 the House Psal 127.1 they labour in vaine So except the Lord dwell in the House it is a desolate Habitation And then lastly there is Domus quae Dominus a house which is the Master of the House for as euery Man is a little World so euery man is his owne House and dwels in himselfe And in this House God dwells too for the Apostle seemes so much to delight himselfe in that Metaphore as that hee repeats it almost in all his Epistles Habitat in nobis That the Holy Ghost dwells in vs. Now of all these foure Houses that house which hath no walles but is spread ouer the face of the whole Earth the Church And that House which with vs hath no other walls but the Sea the State the Kingdome And that house which is walled with drie Earth our dwelling house our family and this house which is wall'd with drie Earth this loame of flesh our selfe Of all these foure houses those three of which and in which we are and this fourth which wee our selfe are God is the Foundation and so foundations cannot bee destroyed But as though the common foundation of all buildings bee 〈◊〉 Earth yet wee make particular foundations for particular Buildings of Stone or Brick or Piles as the Soyle requires v●● shall wee also beene consider such particular Foundations of these foure houses as may fall within the frailtie and suspition within the possibilitie and danger of the Text of being destroyed Of the first House then Ecclesia Domus which is the Church the foundation is Christ Other foundation can no man lay 1 Cor. 3.11 then that which is 〈◊〉 which is Iesus Christ Non propterea dicinius sayes Saint Augustine De vnita Eccles C. 16. Wee doe not say that our Church is Catholique therefore because Optatus sayes so and because Ambrose sayes so and yet Optatus and Ambrose the Fathers are good Witnesses neither do we say it sayes he Quia Collegarum nostrorum Conciliis praedicata est Because some Synodes and Councells of men of our owne Religion haue said it is Catholique And yet a Harmony of Confessions is good Euidence Nec quia tanta f●unt in ea mirabilia sayes hee wee call it not Catholique because so many Myracles are wrought in it for wee oppose Gods many miraculous Deliuerances of this State and Church to all their imaginary miracles of Rome Non ideo manifestatur Catholica sayes still that Father All this does not make our Church Catholique nay non manifestatur all this does not declare it to bee Catholique all these are no infallible marks thereof but onely this one sayes hee Quia ipse Dominus I●su● c. because the Lord Iesus himselfe is the Foundation of this Church But may not this be subiect to reasoning to various Disputation Whether wee haue that foundation or no It may but that will goe farre in the clearing thereof which the same Father sayes in another Booke De Moribus Eccles Cat. C. 25. Nihil in Ecclesia catholica salubrius fit quam 〈◊〉 Rationem praecedat Autoritas Nothing is safer for the finding of the Catholique Church then to preferre Authoritie before my Reason to submit and captiuate my Reason to Authoritie This the Romane Church pretends to embrace but Apishly like an Ape it kills with embracing for it euacuates the right Authoritie The Authority that they obtrude is the Decretals of their owne Bishops The authoritie which Saint Augustine literally and expressely declares himselfe to ●eane is the authoritie of the Scriptures Christ then that is the Doctrine of Christ is the foundation of this first House the Church 2 Chro. 3.3 Haec sunt fundamenta quae ●ecit Salomon sayes the vulga●e Edition These are the foundations that Salomon layde and then our Translation hath it These are the things in which Salomon was instructed One calls it Foundations the other Instructions All 's one The Instructions of Christ the Doctrine of Christ the Word the Scriptures of Christ are the Foundation of this House For when the Apostle sayes Ephes 2.20 Christ Iesus himselfe is the chiefe corner Stone yet hee addes there Yee are built vpon the Prophets and Apostles for the Prophets and Apostles had their part in the foundation in the laying though not in the beeing of the Foundation The wall of the citie Apoc. 21.14 saye Saint Iohn had twelue Foundations and in them the Names of the twelue Apostles But still in that place they are Apostles of the Lambe still they haue relation to Christ For they who by inspiration of the Holy Ghost writt of Christ and so made vp the Bodie of the Scriptures haue their parts too in this Foundation Besides these it is sayd in the building of the Materiall Temple 2 Reg. 5.17 The King commaunded and they brought great Stones and costly Stones and hewed Stones to lay the foundations of the House The care of the King the labours of men conduce to the foundation And besides this in that place of the Reuelation The foundation of the Wall is sayde to bee garnished with all manner of precious stones Garnished but not made of that kinde of precious stones So then Salomons hewed Stones and costly stones may in a faire accomodation bee vnderstood to bee the