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The first sermon preached to King Charles, at Saint Iames 3⁰. April. 1625. By Iohn Donne, Deane of Saint Pauls, London.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631.
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the Example in himselfe First hee continues his Innocencie and auowes that the destroying of Foundations does not destroy his Foundation Innocence still hee is able to confound his aduersaries Ioh. 8.46 with that Which of you can conuince mee of sinne And then hee prayes for the remoouing of the persecution Transeat Calix let this Cup passe When that might not bee hee prayes euen for them who inflicted this persecution Pater ignosce Father forgiue them And when all is done hee suffers all that can bee done vnto him And hee calls his whole Passion Horam suam it spent nights and dayes his whole life was a continuall Passion yet how long soeuer he calls it but an Houre and how much soeuer it were their act the act of their malignitie that did it yet hee calls it his because it was the act of his owne Predestination as God vpon himselfe as Man And hee calles it by a more acceptable Name then that hee calles his Passion Calicem suum his Cup because hee brought not onely a patience to it but a delight and a ioy in it for for the ioy that was set before him Hebr. 12.2 hee endured the Crosse All this then the righteous can doe though Foundations bee destroyed Hee can withdrawe himselfe if the duties of his place make not his residence necessarie If it doe hee can pray and then hee can suffer and then hee can reioyce in his sufferings and hee can make that protestation Our God is able to deliuer vs Dan. 3.17 and hee will deliuer vs but if not wee will serue no other Gods For the righteous hath euermore this refuge this assurance that though some Foundations bee destroyed all cannot bee for first The foundation of God stands sure 2 Tim. 2.19 and hee knowes who are his Hee is safe in God and then he is safe in his owne Conscience Pro. 10.25 for The Righteous is an euerlasting foundation not onely that he hath one but is one and not a temporary but an euerlasting Foundation So that foundations can neuer bee so destroyed but that hee is safe in God and safe in himselfe Domus Ecclesia For such things then as concerne the foundation of the first House the Church Bee not apt to call Super-Edifications Foundations Collaterall Diuinitie Fundamentall Diuinitie Problematicall Disputable Controuertible poynts poynts Essentiall and Articles of Faith Call not Super-Edifications Foundations nor call not the furniture of the House Foundations Call not Ceremoniall and Rituall things Essentiall parts of Religion and of the worship of God otherwise then as they imply Disobedience for Obedience to lawfull Authoritie is alwayes an Essentiall part of Religion Doe not Anti-date Miserie doe not Prophesie Ruine doe not Concurre with Mischiefe nor Contribute to Mischiefe so farre as to ouer-feare it before nor to mis interprete their wayes whose Ends you cannot knowe And doe not call the cracking of a pane of glasse a Destroying of foundations But euery man doing the particular duties of his distinct Calling for the preseruation of Foundations Praying and Preaching and Doing and Counsailing and Contributing too Foundations beeing neuer destroyed the Righteous shall doe still as they haue done enioy God manifested in Christ and Christ applyed in the Scriptures which is the foundation of the first House the Church For things concerning the Foundation of the second House Respub Domus the Common-wealth which is the Lawe Dispute not Lawes but obey them when they are made In those Councells where Lawes are made or reformed dispute but there also without particular interest without priuate affection without personall relations Call not euery entrance of such a Iudge as thou thinkest insufficient a corrupt entrance nor euery Iudgement which hee enters and thou vnderstandest not or likest not a corrupt Iudgement As in Naturall things it is a weakenesse to thinke that euery thing that I knowe not how it is done is done by Witch craft So is it also in Ciuill things if I know not why it is done to thinke it is done for Money Let the Law bee sacred to thee and the Dispensers of the Law reuerend Keepe the Lawe and the Lawe shall keepe thee And so Foundations being neuer destroyed the Righteous shall doe still as they haue done enioy their Possessions and Honours and themselues by the ouershadowing of the Lawe which is the Foundation of the second House the State For those things which concerne the Foundations of the third House Domus Domicilium the Family Call not light faults by heauie Names Call not all sociablenesse and Conuersation Disloyaltie in thy Wife Nor all leuitie or pleasurablenesse Incorrigiblenesse in thy Sonne nor all negligence or forgetfulnesse Perfidiousnesse in thy Seruant Nor let euery light disorder within doores shut thee out of doores or make thee a stranger in thine owne House In a smoakie roome it may bee enough to open a Windowe without leauing the place In Domestique vnkindnesses and discontents it may bee wholesomer to giue them a Concoction at home in a discreete patience or to giue them a vent at home in a moderate rebuke then to thinke to ease them or put them off with false diuertions abroad As States subsist in part by keeping their weakenesses from being knowen so is it the quiet of Families to haue their Chauncerie and their Parliament within doores and to compose and determine all emergent differences there for so also Foundations beeing kept vndestroyed the righteous shall doe as they should doe enioy a Religious Vnitie and a Ciuill Vnitie the same Soule towards God the same heart towards one another in a holy and in a happy Peace and Peace is the foundation of this third House The Family Domus Dominus Lastly for those things which concerne the Foundations of the fourth House Our selues Mis-interprete not Gods former Corrections vpon thee how long how sharpe soeuer Call not his Phisicke poyson nor his Fish Scorpions nor his Bread Stone Accuse not God for that hee hath done nor suspect not God for that hee may doe as though God had made thee onely because hee lacked a man to damne In all scruples of Conscience say with Saint Peter Domine quo vadam Lord whither shall I goe thou hast the Word of eternall life And God will not leaue thee in the darke In all oppression from potent Aduersaries say with Dauid Tibi soli peccaui Against thee O Lord onely haue I sinned And God will not make the malice of another man his Executioner vpon thee Crie to him and if hee haue not heard thee crie lowder and crie oftner The first way that God admitted thee to him was by VVater the water of Baptisme Goe still the same way to him by Water by repentant Teares And remember still that when Ezechias wept Vidit lachrymam God saw his Teare His Teare in the Singular God sawe his first teare euery seuerall teare If thou thinke God haue not done so by thee Continue thy teares till thou finde hee doe The first way that Christ came to thee was in Blood when hee submitted himselfe to the Lawe in Circumcision And the last thing that hee bequeathed to thee was his Blood in the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament Refuse not to goe to him the same way too if his glorie require that Sacrifice If thou pray and hast an apprehension that thou hearest God say hee will not heare thy prayers doe not beleeue that it is hee that speakes If thou canst not chuse but beleeue that it is hee let mee say in a pious sense doe not beleeue him God would not bee beleeued in denouncing of Iudgements so absolutely so peremptorily as to bee thought to speake vnconditionally illimitedly God tooke it well at Dauids hands that when the Prophet had tolde him The childe shall surely die yet hee beleeued not the Prophet so peremptorily but that hee proceeded in Prayer to God for the life of the childe Say with Dauid Thou hast beene a strong Tower to mee Psal 61.4.62.7 I will abide in thy Tabernacle Et non Emigrabo I will neuer goe out I know thou hast a Church I know I am in it and I will neuer depart from it and so Foundations beeing neuer destroyed the righteous shall doe as the righteous haue alwayes done enioy the Euidence and the Verdict and the Iudgement and the Possession of a good Conscience which is the Foundation of this fourth House First gouerne this first House Thy selfe well and as Christ sayde hee shall say againe Thou hast beene faithfull in a little take more Hee shall enlarge thee in the next House Thy Family and the next The State and the other The Church till hee say to thee as hee did to Ierusalem after all his other Blessings Et prosperata es in Regnum Now I haue brought thee vp to a Kingdome A Kingdome where not onely no Foundations can bee destroyed but no stone shaked and where the Righteous know alwayes what to doe to glorifie God in that incessant Acclamation Saluation to our God who sits vpon the Throne and to the Lambe And to this Lambe of God who hath taken away the sinnes of the world and but changed the Sunnes of the world who hath complicated two wondrous workes in one To make our Sunne to set at Noone and to make our Sunne to rise at Noone too That hath giuen him Glorie and not taken away our Peace That hath exalted him to Vpper-roomes and not shaked any Foundations of ours To this Lambe of God the glorious Sonne of God and the most Almightie Father and the Blessed Spirit of Comfort three Persons and one God bee ascribed by vs and the whole Church the Triumphant Church where the Father of blessed Memorie raignes with God and the Militant Church where the Sonne of blessed Assurance raignes for God All Power Praise Might Maiestie Glory and Dominion now and for euer Amen FINIS Errat Pag. 12. l. 17. for Cause read Lawes pa 43. l. 20. for Syllagismus r. Syllogismus