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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

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 Diuisio Our Text settles vs vpon both these considerations The holy place 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 First vacate Psal 46.10 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 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

booke that thou mightst not vexe thy soule with mistaken sentences but relie vpon the establishment of Gods purpose in the whole booke which is that he hates putting away If the euidence pressed by thine owne pressures heighthned by thine owne deiections exalted by thine owne sinking grow strong against thee that thou canst not quench the iealousie nor deuest the scruple of such a Diuorce doe but consider who should occasion who should enduce it It must be God or thy selfe Though the Iewes put away their wiues not onely for the wiues fault but for the husbands frowardnesse thou hast had too good experience of Gods patience to charge him with that If it be done it is thy fault and if thou acknowledge that i● is not done for it is neuer done so irreuocably but the confessing of the fault cancels and auoydes it Releeue thy selfe by reflecting vpon some of those circumstances Essentiall circumstances which were required in their bills of Diuorce and without which those bills were voyde and see if those be in thine for though wee haue not these circumstances in that place of Scripture Deut. 24. where Diuorce is permitted yet in the ordinarie practise of the Iewes abroad and in the bookes of formes and precedents which their Rabbins haue collected wee haue them expressed They are many and many impertinent wee will but name and but a few such as best admit application and most conduce to the triall of thy case First a man might not produce a bill written in priuate in the husbands bed-chamber but he must goe to a Scribe to a publique Notary to an authorizd Officer Vbi iste libellus Where is this bill of thy Diuorce Thou must not looke for it in Gods bed-chamber in his vnreueal'd Decrees in heauen but in his publique Records his Scriptures If from thence thou pretend to produce any thing that conuince thy sad soule goe to them to whom God hath committed the dispensation thereof and there thou mayest receiue consolation when thine owne priuate misinterpretation might misleade thee Againe the wife how guilty so euer in her owne conscience might not take her selfe to be put away except the husband had expresly giuen her a Bill of Diuorce Hath thy Husband thy God done so Vbi est libellus Consider the bill that is the booke of God and see if it be not full of such protestations Viuo ego As I liue saith the Lord I would not the death of any sinner nor the departing of any soule So also these bills must be well testified with vnreproachable witnesses Vbi iste libellus Hath thy bill such witnesses who be they Inordinate deiection of spirit irreligious sadnesse Iealousie of the anger distrustfulnesse of the mercy diffidence in the promises of the Gospell Are these witnesses to be heard against God God calls heauen and earth to witnesse that hee hath offered thee thy choise of life or death but that he hath thrust death vpon thee there is no witnesse Thy conscience is a thousand witnesses It is that thou hast committed a thousand sinnes and it is that thou hast receiued a thousand blessings but of an eternall decree of thy diuorce thy conscience thus misinformd can be no witnesse for thou wast not call'd to the making of those decrees Those Bills were also to be authentically seald Vbi iste Libellus Hath thy imaginary Bill of Diuorce and euerlasting seperation from GOD any Seale from him GOD hath giuen thee Seales of his Mercie in both his Sacraments Seales in White and Seales in Redde Waxe Seales in the participation of the candor and innocencie of his Sonne in thy Baptisme and Seales in the participation of his Body and Bloud in the other But Seales of Reprobation at first or of irreuocable Separation now there are none from GOD No Calamitie not Temporall no not Spirituall No Darkenesse in the Vnderstanding no Scruple in the Conscience no Perplexitie in the resolution Not a Sodaine Death not a Shamefull Death not a stupide not a raging Death must bee to thy selfe by the way or may bee to vs who may see thine Ende an Euidence a Seale of Eternall Reprobation or of finall Seperation Almightie God blesse vs all from all these in our selues but his blessed Spirit blesse vs to from making any of these when hee in his vnsearchable wayes to his vnsearchable endes shall suffer them to fall vpon any other seales of such Seperation in them Though wee may not enlardge our selues to far in these Circumstances another was That the Names of the Parties must bee set downe and of both the Parties Parents and those to the third Generation The Sonne and Daughter of such and such and such Vbi iste Libellus Findst thou in thy Bill the three Descents the three Generations if we may so say of thy God A Holy Ghost proceeding from a Sonne And a Sonne begotten by a Father Findest thou the God of thy Consolation the God of thy Redemption the God of thy Creation and canst thou produce a God of Diuorce of Separation out of these Findest thou thine own three Descents as thou wast the Son of Dust of Nothing And the Sonne of Adam reduced to nothing And then the Sonne of God in Christ in whom thou art all things and canst thou thinke that that GOD who married thee in the house of dust and marryed thee in the house of infirmitie and Diuorcd thee not then hee made thee not no Creature nor hee made thee not no Man hauing now marryed thee in the House of Power and of Peace in the body of his Sonne the Church will now Diuorce thee Lastly to ende this consideration of Diuorces If the Bill were interlinde or blotted or dropt the Bill was voyd Vbi Libellus What place of Scripture soeuer thou pretend that place is enterlinde enterlinde by the Spirit of God himselfe with Conditions and Limitations and Prouisions If thou repent If thou returne and that enterlining destroies the Bill Looke also if this Bill be not dropt vpon and blotted The venim of the Serpent is dropt vpon it The Wormwood of thy Desperation is dropt vpon it The Gall of thy Melancholly is dropt vpon it and that voydes the Bill If thou canst not discerne these drops before drop vpon it nowe Drop the teares of true compunction drop the bloud of thy Sauiour and that voyds the Bill And through that Spectacle the bloud of thy Sauiour looke vpon that Bill and thou shalt see that that Bill was nayld to the Crosse when he was naylde and torne when his body was torne and that hath cancelld the bill Oppresse not thy selfe with what GOD may doe of his absolute power God hath no where told thee that hee hath done any such thing as an ouertender Conscience may mis-imagine from this Metaphore of Diuorcing nor from the other which beggs leaue for one word by way of Conclusion Selling away Which of my Creditors is it to whom I haue sold you Quis