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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73848	The first sermon preached to King Charles, at Saint Iames 3⁰. April. 1625. By Iohn Donne, Deane of Saint Pauls, London.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1625 (1625)	STC 7040; ESTC S110043	18,059	62

Eccles Cat. C. 25. Nihil in Ecclesia catholica salubrius fit quam vt 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 meane 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 iecit Salomon sayes the vulgate 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 sayes 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 accommodation bee vnderstood to bee the Determinations and Resolutions Canons and Decrees of generall Councels And Saint Iohns garnishment of precious stones may in a faire accommodation bee vnderstood to bee the Learned and Laborious the zealous and the pious Commentaries and Expositions of the Fathers For Councells and Fathers assist the Foundation But the foundation it selfe is Christ himselfe in his Word his Scriptures And then certainely they loue the House best that loue the foundation best not they that impute to the Scriptures such an Obscuritie as should make them in-intelligible to vs or such a defect as should make them insufficient in themselues To denie vs the vse of Scriptures in our vulgar Translations and yet to denie vs the vse of them in the Originall Tongues too To tell vs we must not trie Controuersies by our English or our Latine Bibles nor by the Hebrew Bibles neither To put such a Maiestie vpon the Scriptures as that a Lay man may not touch them and yet to put such a diminution vpon them as that the writings of men shall bee equall to them this is a wrinching a shrinking a sinking an vndermining a destroying of Foundations of the foundation of this first House which is the Church the Scriptures Respub Domus Enter wee now into a Suruay of the second House The State the Kingdome the Common-wealth and of this House the foundation is the Law And therefore Saint Hierome referres this Text in a litterall and primary signification to that to the Law for so in his Commentaries vpon the Psalmes he translates this Text Si dissipatae Leges Hee makes the euacuating of the Law this destroying of foundations Lex communis Reipub. sponsio sayes the Law it selfe The Law is the mutuall the reciprocall Suretie betweene the State and the Subiect The Lawe is my Suretie to the State that I shall pay my Obedience And the Lawe is the States Suretie to mee that I shall enioy my Protection And therefore therein did the Iewes iustly exalt themselues aboue all other Nations That God was come so much nearer to them then to other Nations by how much they had Lawes and Ordinances more righteous then other Nations had Now as it is sayd of the Foundations of the other House the Temple The King commaunded in the laying thereof the King had his hand in the Church so is it also in this House the State the Common-wealth the King hath his hand in and vpon the foundation here also which is the Lawe so farre as that euery forbearing of a Lawe is not an Euacuating of the Law euery Pardon whether a Post-pardon by way of mercy after a Lawe is broken or a Prae-pardon by way of Dispensation in wisedome before a Lawe bee broken is not a Destroying of this foundation For when such things as these are done Iuo Non astu Mentientis sed affectu compatientis not vpon colourable disguises nor priuate respects but truely for the Generall good all these Pardons and Dispensations conduce and concurre to the Office and contract the Nature of the Foundation it selfe which is that the whole Bodie may bee the better supported But where there is an inducing of a super-Soueraigne and a super-Supremacie and a Sea aboue our foure Seas and a Horne aboue our Head and a forraine Power aboue our Natiue and naturall Power where there are dogmaticall Positiue Assertions that men borne of vs and liuing with vs and by vs are yet none of vs no Subiects owe no Allegeance this is a wrinching a shrinking a sinking an vndermining a destroying of Foundations the Foundation of this second House which is the State the Law The third House that falles into our present Suruay Domus Domicilium is Domus quae Domicilium Domus habitationis our Dwelling house or Family and of this house the foundation is Peace for Peace compacts all the peeces of a family together Husband and Wife in Loue and in Obedience Father and Sonne in Care and in Obedience Master and Seruant in Discipline and in Obedience Still Obedience is one Ingredient in all Peace there is no Peace where there is no Obedience Now euery smoke does not argue the house to bee on fire Euery domestique offence taken or giuen does not destroy this Foundation this Peace within doores There may bee a Thunder from aboue and there may bee an Earth-quake from below and yet the foundation of the House safe From aboue there may bee a defect in the Superiour in the Husband the Father the Master and from below in the Wife the Sonne the Seruant There may bee a Iealousie in the Husband a Morositie in the Father an Imperiousnesse in the Master And