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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

eate that Fruite Ne contristaretur Delicias suas least he should cast her whom he lou'd so much into an inordinate deiection but if he satisfied her and his owne Vxoriousnesse any satisfaction is not nothing But what had I for Heauen Adam sinnd and I suffer I forfeited before I had any Possession or could claime any Interest I had a Punishment before I had a being And God was displeased with me before I was I I was built vp scarse 50. years ago in my Mothers womb I was cast down almost 6000. years agoe in Adams loynes I was borne in the last Age of the world and dyed in the first How how iustly do we cry out against a Man that hath sold a Towne or sold an Army And Adam sold the World He sold Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and all the Patriarchs and all the Prophets He sold Peter and Paul and both their Regiments both the glorious Hemispheres of the World The Iewes and the Gentiles He sold Euangelists and Apostles and Disciples and the Disciple whom the Lord loued the beloued Mother of the Lord her selfe say what they will to the contrary And if Christ had not prouided for himselfe by a miraculous Generation Adam had sold him If Christ had bene conceiud in Originall sinne hee must haue dyed for himselfe nay he could not haue dyed for himselfe but must haue needed another Sauiour It is in that Contemplation as hee was descended from Adam that St. Paul sayes of himselfe Rom. 7.14 Venundatus I am carnall sold vnder sinne For though St. Augustine and some others of the Fathers doe sometimes take the Apostle in that place to speake of himselfe as in the person of a naturall Man that euery Man considerd in nature is sold vnder sinne but the Supernaturall the Sanctified Man is not so yet St. Augustine himselfe in his latest and grauest Bookes and particularly in his Retractions returnes to this sense of these words That no man in what measure soeuer Sanctified can so emancipate himselfe from that Captiuitie to which Adam hath enthralld him but that as hee is enwrapped in Originall sinne hee is solde vnder sinne And both S. Hierome and S. Ambrose both which seeme in other places to goe an other way That onely they are sold vnder sinne which haue abandond and prostituted themselues to particular sinnes doe yet returne to this sense That because the Embers the Spaune the leauen of Origiginall sinne remaines by Adams sale in the best the best are sold vnder sinne A Nobis So the Iewes were and so were we sold by Adam to Originall sinne very cheape but in the second sale as wee are sold to actuall and habituall sinnes by our selues cheaper 42.19 for so sayes this Prophet You haue sold your selues for nothing Our selues that is all our selues or bodies to intemperance and ryot and licenciousnes and our soules to a greedines of sinne and all this for nothing for sinne it selfe for which wee sell our selues is but a priuation and priuations are nothing Rom. 6 21. What fruit had you of those things whereof you are now ashamed sayes the Apostle here is Barrennesse and shame Barrennesse is a priuation of fruit shame is a priuation of that confidence which a good Conscience administers and when the Apostle tells them they sold themselues for barrennesse and shame it was for priuations for nothing Iob. 24.15 The Adulterer waits for the twy-light sayes Iob. The Twy-light comes serues his turne and sin to night looks like a Purchase like a Treasure but aske this sinner to morrow and he hath sold himselfe for nothing for debility in his limnes for darkenesse in his vnderstanding for emptinesse in his purse for absence of grace in his Soule and Debilitie and Darkenes and emptinesse and Absence are priuations and priuations are nothing All the name of Substance or Treasure that sinne takes is that in the Apostle Thesaurizastis Iram Dei You haue treasurd vp the wrath of God against the day of wrath And this is a fearefull priuation of the grace of God here and of the Face of God hereafter a priuation so much worse then nothing as that they vpon whom it falls would faine be nothing and cannot A Deo So then we were sold so cheape by Adam to Originall and cheaper by our selues to Actuall Sinne but cheapest of all when we come to be sold by God For he giues vs away casts vs away deliuers vs ouer to punishments for sinne and to sin for punishment God makes Sinne it selfe his executioner in vs and future sinnes are the punishments of former Vendit paenis As some Schoolemasters haue vsd that Discipline to correct the Children of great Persons whose personall correction they finde reason to forbeare by correcting other Children in their names and in their sight and haue wrought vpon good Natures that way So did Almightie God correct the Iewes in the Aegyptians for the ten plagues of Aegypt were as Moses Decem Verba as the ten Commandements to Israel that they should not prouoke GOD. Euery Iudgement that falls vpon another should be a Catechisme to me But when this Discipline preuaild not vpon them God sold them away gaue them away cast them away in the tempest in the whirlewinde in the inundation of his indignation and scatterd them as so much dust in a windy day as so many broken strawes vpon a wrought Sea With one word One Fiat Let there bee a world nay with one thought of God cast toward it for Gods speaking in the Creation was but a thinking God made all of Nothing And is any one rationall Ant The wisest Phylosopher is no more Is any roaring Lyon the most ambitious and deuouring Prince is no more Is any hiue of Bees The wisest Councels and Parliaments are no more Is any of these so estabishd as that that God who by a word by a thought made them of nothing cannot by recalling that word and withdrawing that thought in sequestring his Prouidence reduce them to nothing againe That Man that Prince that State thinks Past-board Canon-proofe that thinkes Power or Policy a Rampart when the Ordinance of God is planted against it Nauyes will not keepe off Nauies if God be not the Pilot Nor Walles keepe out Men if God be not the Sentinell If they could if wee were walld with a Sea of fire and brimstone without and walld with Brasse within yet we cannot ciel the Heauens with a roofe of Brasse but that God can come downe in Thunder that way Nor paue the Earth with a floare of Brasse but that God can come vp in Earthquakes that way God can call vp Damps Vapors from below and powre down putride defluxions from aboue and bid them meet and condense into a plague a plague that shall not be onely vncureable vncontrollable vnexorable but vndisputable vnexaminable vnquestionable A plague that shall not onely not admit a remedy when

little to all the world and yet these seuen thousand haue peopled heauen and sent vp all those Colonies thither all those Armies of Martyrs those flockes of Lambes innocent children those Fathers the Fathers of the Church and Mothers holy Matrons and daughters blessed Virgines and learned and laborious Doctors these seuen thousand haue filled vp the places of the fallen Angels and repeopled that Kingdome And wheresoeuer we thinke them most worne out God at this time hath his remnant as the Apostle sayes and God is able to make vp the whole garment of that remnant Rom. 11.5 So he does much with few in the wayes to heauen and that he does much though late in that way too thou mayest discerne in his working vpon thy selfe How often hast thou suffered thy Soule to grow cleane out of all reparations into ruine by thine inconsiderate and habituall course of sinne and neuer repaired it by any good vse of hearing the word or receiuing the Sacrament in a long time and when thou hast at any time come to a suruey of thy conscience how hast thou beene affected with an inordinate apprehension of Gods anger and his inaccessiblenesse his inexorablenesse towards thee and sunke euen into the iawes of desperation And yet Quia manet semen dei because the seed of God hath remained in thee 1. Io. 3.4 Incubat Spiritus the Holy Ghost hath sat vpon that seed and hatched a new Creature in thee a modest but yet infallible assurance of the Mercy of thy God Recollect all in raysing of sieges and discomfiting of Armies in restoring possessions and reinuesting right heires in repairing the ruines of the Kingdome of heauen depopulated in the fall of Angels in reestablishing peace of conscience in a presumptuous confidence or ouer-timorous diffidence in God God glorifies himselfe that way to doe much with little He does so but yet hee will haue something God is a good Husband a good Steward of Mans contributions but contributions he will haue hee will haue a concurrence a cooperation of persons Euen in that great worke which wee spake of at first the first creation which was so absolutely of Nothing yet there was a Faciamus let vs vs make Man though but one God yet more Persons in that worke Matt. 4.3 Christ had been able to haue done as the Deuill would haue had him doe to haue made bread of stones when hee had so great a number to feed in the Wildernesse but hee does not so Hee askes his Disciples Quot panes habetis How many loafes haue you and though they were but fiue yet since they were some he multiplies them and feeds aboue fiue thousand with those fiue Hee would haue a remnant of Gedeons Armie to fight his battailes A remnant of Israels beleeuers to make vp his Kingdome A remnant of thy Soule his seed wrapd vp somewhere to saue thy Soule And a remnant of thy selfe of thy Mind of thy Purse of thy Person for thy temporall deliuerance God goes lowe and accepts small Sacrifices a Pigeon a handfull of Flower a few eares of Corne but a Sacrifice he will haue The Christian Church implies a shrewd distresse when shee prouides that reason that clause in her prayer Quia non est alius Giue Peace in our time O Lord because there is no other that fighteth for vs If the bowels of compassion bee eaten out if the band of the Communion of Saints be dissolued we fight for none none fights for vs at last neyther we nor they shall fight for Christ nor Christ for them nor vs but all become a prey to the generall enemie of the name of Christ for God requires something some assistance some concurrence some cooperation though he can fight from heauen and the Starres in their order can fight against Sisera And therefore though God giue his glorie to none his glorie that is to doe all with Nothing yet he giues them their glorie that doe any thing for him or for themselues And as hee hath laid vp a record for their glorie and Memoriall who were remarkeable for Faith for the eleuenth Chapter to the Hebrewes is a Catalogue of them So in this Song of Deborah and Barake hee hath laide vp a Record for their glorie who expressed their faith in Workes and assisted his seruice That which is said in generall The Memorie of the iust is blessed Prou. 13.7 but the name of the wicked shall rot That is applied and promised in particular by him who can performe it by Christ to that woman who anointed him That whersoeuer his Gospell should be Preached in the whole world Mat. 26.13 ther should also this that this woman had done be told for a memoriall of her Shee assisted at his Funerall as Christ himselfe interprets her action That shee did it to burie him and hath her glorie how shall he glorifie them that aduance his glorie Shee hath her reward in his death what shall they haue that keepe him and his Gospell aliue Not a verse in Deborah and Baraks song and yet that is honourable euidence Not a commemoration at the Preaching of the Gospell and yet that is the honourable testimonie in this place and at these Exercises of such as haue contributed to the conueniencies of these Exercises but they shall haue a place in the Booke of life indelibly in the Booke of life if they proceede in that deuotion of assisting Gods cause and doe not thinke that they haue done all or done enough if they haue done something some one time The Morall man hath said well and well applied it Plutar. A Ship is a Ship for euer if you repaire it So sayes hee Honour is Honour and so say wee A good Conscience is a good Conscience for euer if you repaire it But sayes he well Aliquid famae addendum ne putrescat Honour will putrifie and so will a good Conscience too if it be not repaired He that hath done Nothing must begin and hee that hath done something for Gods cause must doe more if hee will continue his name in the Booke of Life though God leaue no one particular action done for his glorie without glorie as those who assisted his glorie heere haue a glorious Commemoration in this Song In the fifteenth verse Princes haue their place The Princes of Issachar were with Deborah when the King goes to the field Many who are in other cases Priuiledged are by their Tenures bound to goe It is a high Tenure to hold by a Crowne And when God of whome and whome onely they hold that hold so goes into the field it becomes them to goe with him But as God sits in Heauen and yet goes into the field so they of whome God hath said Yee are Gods the Kings of the Earth may stay at home and yet goe too They goe in their assistance to the Warre They goe in their Mediation for Peace They goe in their Example when from their sweetnesse and

Creditor As Christ in his Parable comprehends all excuses and all backwardnesses in the following of him Luke 14.18 in those two Marriage and Purchasing for one had bought Land and stocke and another had married a Wife So God expresses his loue to Man in these two too Hee hath married vs he hath bought vs that so he might take in all dispositions and worke vpon Vxorious Men men soupled and entendred with Matrimoniall loue and vpon worldly men men kneaded and plaistred with earthly loue Het hath Married vs hee will not Diuorse He hath bought vs he will not sell For who can giue so much as he payd Deut 32.30 Doe yee thus requite the Lord O yee foolish people Is not he your Father that hath bought you And will you suspect your Father Yes sayes this Disconsolate Soule Fathers might sell their Children and my Father my GOD hath sold me T is true Fathers might sell their Children Amongst the Gentiles they might for matter of Law for matter of Fact their Bookes are full of Euidence Amongst the Iewes they might till a Iubile redeemd them Amongst the Christians they might and for euer Saint Ambrose found the World in possession of that vnnaturall Custome and lamented it Vidi miserabile spectaculum sayes he liberos haeredes calamitatis qui nec participes successionis The Children sayes hee inherit the Calamity but not the Lands of their Fathers when they were solde to maintaine them who had wastefully sold that which was to maintaine them all And Saint Ambrose induces the Creditor making his Claime Mea nutriti pecunia This Childe was nourced and brought vp with my Money and belongs to mee Constantine found this and amended it enacted and constituted that it should be no more done and canst thou imagine such a hard-heartednes in GOD as Saint Ambrose should neede to lament or Constantin neede to correct Quis Creditor sayes GOD Which of my Creditors is it to whom I haue sold you As in the Bill of Diuorce so in this bill of sale we aske who should occasion it A Father might sell for his Sonnes fault or for his owne necessitie but in no other case If thou say it is done for thy fault it is not done that implies a Confession and a Repentance and that auoydes all but if thou imagine a sale for thy Fathers necessitie Quis Creditor sayes hee Which of my Creditors c. Adam brought GOD in Debt to Death to Satan to Hell in Iustice GOD ought all mankinde to them but then at one payment hee payd more in the death of his Sonne Christ Iesus And now Quis Creditor The word indeed is originally Nashah and Nashah is an Vsurer and so Saint Ambrose reades this place Quis Faenerator To what Vsurer am I so indebted as that I neede sell thee Let it be so That the principall debt was all Mankinde pursue your Vsurious Computations that euery seuen yeares doubles and then redoubles your Debt and what a Debt might this bee in allmost 4000. yeare from Adam to Christ and 1000. from Christ to vs yet when all this is multiplied infinitely it was infinitly ouerpayd if but one drop of the bloud of the Sonne of God had bene payd and the Sonne of God bled out his Soule and then Quis Creditor may God well say Which of those Vsurers is it to whom I need sell thee God may lend thee out euen to Satan suffer thee to bee his Bayliffe and his Instrument to the vexation of others So hee lent out Saint Paul to the Scribes and Pharises to serue them in their Persecutions So God may lend thee out God may Let thee out for a time to them that shall plough and harrow thee fell and cleaue thee and reserue to himselfe but a little Rent a little glory in thy Patience So hee Let out Iob euen to Satan himselfe so God may Let thee out GOD may Mortgage thee to a sixe Months Feuer or to a longer debility So he Mortgaged Hezekias God may lay thee waste and Pull vp thy Fences extinguish their Power or withdrawe their Loue vpon whom thou hast establishd thy dependance So he layd Dauid wast when hee withdrewe his Childrens obedience from him so God may lay thee waste God may Let out all his time in thee in this World and reserue to himselfe only a last yeare a last day a last minute suffer thee in vnrepented sinnes to the last gaspe so God let out the good Thiefe God is Lord of all that thou hast and art and then Dominium potestas est tum vtendi cum abutendi He that is Lord Owner Proprietary may doe with that which is his what he will But God will not cannot deuest his Dominion nor sell thee so as not to reserue a Power and a Will to Redeeme thee if thou wouldst be redeem'd For howsoeuer hee seeme to thee to haue sold thee to Sinne to Sadnesse to Sickenesse to Superstition for these be the Ismaelits Gen. 37.27 these be the Midianite Merchants that buy vp our Iosephs our soules though he seeme to sell his present estate hee will not sell Reuersions his future title to thee by a future Repentance hee will not sell But whensoeuer thou shalt grow due to him by a new and a true repentance hee shall re-assume thee into his bed and his bosome no bill of Diuorce and re-enter thee into his Reuenue and his Audit No bill of sale shall stand vp to thy preiudice but thy deiected spirit shall bee raised from thy consternation to a holy cheerefulnesse and a peacefull alacritie and no tentation shall offer a reply to this question which GOD makes to establish thy Conscience vbi libellus Where is the Bill of thy Mothers Diuorcement c. FINIS Errat Pag. 13. l. 24. for retractions read retractations pa. 32. l. 14 for Herbs read Grapes