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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

haue it yet that 's the exclusiue part But there enters the inclusiue You shall receiue power after that the Holy Ghost is come vpon you and you shall bee witnesses vnto mee both in Ierusalem and in all Iudaea and in Samaria and vnto the vttermost parts of the Earth In which second part we shall passe by these steps Superueniet Spiritus The holy Ghost shall come vpon you The Spirit shall witnesse to your Spirit and rectifie your Conscience And then by that you shall receiue power A new power besides the power you haue from the State and that power shall enable you to be witnesses of Christ that is to make his doctrine the more credible by your testimony when you conforme your selues to him and doe as hee did and this witnesse you shall beare this conformity you shall declare first in Ierusalem in this Citie And in Iudaea in all the parts of the Kingdome and in Samaria euen amongst them who are departed from the true worship of God the Papists and to the vttermost part of the Earth to those poore Soules to whom you are continually sending Summarily If from the Holy Ghost you haue a good testimony in your owne Conscience you shall be witnesses for Christ that is as he did you shall giue satisfaction to all to the Citie to the Countrey to the Calumniating Aduersary and the naturals of the place to whom you shall present both Spirituall and Temporall benefit to And so you haue the Modell of the whole frame and of the partitions wee proceede now to the furnishing of the particular roomes 1. Part. FIrst then this first word But excludes a temporall Kingdome the Apostles had fild themselues with an expectation with an ambition of it but that was not intended them It was no wonder that a woman could conceiue such an expectation and such an ambition as to haue her two sonnes sit at Christs right hand Mat. 20.20 and at his left in his Kingdome when the Apostles expected such a Kingdome as might affoord them honours and preferment vpon Earth More then once they were in the disputation in which Christ deprehended them which of them should bee the greatest in his Kingdome Mat. 1.81 Neither hath the Bishop of Rome any thing wherein he may so properly call himselfe Apostolicall as this error of the Apostles this theire infirmitie that heis euermore too conuersant vpō the contemplation of temporall Kingdomes They did it all the way when Christ was with them and now at his last step Cum actu ascendisset when Christ was not Asending but in part ascended when one foot was vpon the Earth and the other in the cloud that tooke him vp they aske him now wilt thou at this time restore the Kingdome so women put their husbands and men their fathers and friends vpon their torture at their last gaspe and make their death bed a racke to make them strech and encrease ioyntures and portions and legacies and signe Scedules and Codicils with their hand when his hand that presents them is ready to close his eyes that should signe them And when they are vpon the wing for heauen men tye lead to their feet and when they are laying hand fast vpon Abrahams bosome they must pull their hand out of his bosome againe to obey importunities of men and signe their papers so vnderminable is the loue of this World which determines euery minute GOD as hee is three persons hath three Kingdomes There is Regnum potentiae The Kingdome of power and this wee attribute to the Father it is power and prouidence There is Regnum gloriae the Kingdome of glorie this we attribute to the Sonn and to his purchase for he is the King that shall say Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the World And then betweene these three is Regnum Gratiae The Kingdome of Grace and this we attribute to the Holy Ghost he takes them whom the king of power Almighty God hath rescued from the Gentiles Mat. 4.11 and as the king of grace Hee giues them the knowledge of the misterie of the Kingdome of GOD that is of future glory by sanctifying thē with his grace in his Church The two first kingdomes are in this world but yet neither of them are of this world because both they referre to the kingdome of glory The kingdome of the Father which is the prouidence of God does but preserue vs The kingdome of the Holy Ghost which is the grace of God does but prepare vs to the kingdome of the Sonne which is the glory of GOD and that 's in heauen And therfore though to good men this world be the way to that kingdome yet this kingdome is not of this world sayes Chist himselfe Though the Apostles themselues Iohn 18.36 as good a Schoole as they were bred in could neuer take out that lesson yet that lesson Christ giues and repeates to all you seeke a Temporall kingdome But sayes the Text stop there A kingdome you must not haue Beloued in him whose kingdome and Gospell you seeke to aduance in this Plantation our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus if you seeke to establish a temporall kingdome there you are not rectified if you seeke to bee kings in either acceptation of the word To be a King signifies Libertie and indepency and Supremacie to bee vnder no man and to be a King signifies Abundance and Omnisufficiencie to neede no man If those that gouerne there would establish such a gouernment as should not depend vpon this or if those that goe thither propose to themselues an exemption from Lawes to liue at their libertie this is to be Kings to deuest Allegeance to bee vnder no man and if those that aduenture thither propose to themselues present benefit and profit a sodaine way to bee rich and an aboundance of all desirable commodities from thence this is to be sufficient of themselues and to neede no man and to bee vnder no man and to neede no man are the two acceptations of being Kings Whom liberty drawes to goe or present profit drawes to aduenture are not yet in the right way O if you could once bring a Catechisme to bee as good ware amongst them as a Bugle as a knife as a hatchet O if you would bee as ready to hearken at the returne of a ship how many Indians were conuerted to Christ Iesus as what trees or druggs or Dyes that Ship had brought then you were in your right way and not till then Libertie and Abundance are Characters of kingdomes and a kingdome is excluded in the Text The Apostles were not to looke for it in their employment nor you in this your Plantation At least CHRIST expresses himselfe thus farre in this answer that if he would giue them a kingdome Non adhuc hee would not giue it them yet They aske him Wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome and