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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 FIRST SERMON PREACHED TO KING CHARLES At Saint IAMES 30. April 1625. By IOHN DONNE Deane of Saint Pauls London LONDON Printed by A.M. for THOMAS IONES and are to bee sold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand 1625. PSALME 11.3 If the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe WEe are still in the season of Mortification in Lent But wee search no longer for Texts of Mortification The Almightie hand of God hath shed and spred a Text of Mortification ouer all the land The last Sabboth day was his Sabboth who entred then into his euerlasting Rest Be this our Sabboth to enter into a holy and thankfull acknowledgement of that Rest which God affords vs in continuing to vs our Foundations for If foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe I scarse know any word in the Word of God in which the Originall is more ambiguous and consequently the Translations more various and therfore necessarily also the Expositions more diuers then in these words There is one thing in which all agree that is the Argument and purpose and scape of the Psalme And then in what sense the words of the Text may conduce to the scope of the Psalme wee rest in this Translation which our Church hath accepted and authorized and which agrees with the first Translation knowen to vs by way of Exposition that is the Chalde Paraphrase If Foundations bee destroyed what can the righteous doe The Church of God euer delighted herselfe in a holy officiousnesse in the Commemoration of Martyrs Almost all their solemne and extraordinarie Meetings and Congregations in the Primitiue Church were for that for the honourable Commemoration of Martyrs And for that they came soone to institute and appoynt certaine Liturgies certaine Offices as they called them certaine Seruices in the Church which should haue reference to that to the Commemoration of Martyrs as wee haue in our Booke of Common Prayer certaine Seruices for Marriage for Buriall and for such other holy Celebrations And in the Office and Seruice of a Martyr the Church did vse this Psalme This Psalme which is in generall a Protestation of Dauid That though hee were so vehemently pursued by Saul as that all that wished him well sayd to his Soule Flie as a Bird to the Mountaine as it is in the first verse Though hee saw That the wicked had bent their Bowes and made ready their Arrowes vpon the string that they might priuily shoot at the vpright in heart as it is in the second verse Though he take it almost as granted that Foundations are destroyed And then what can the righteous doe as it is in the third verse which is our Text yet in this distresse he findes what to doe For as hee begunne in the first verse In thee Lord put I my trust So after he had passed the enumeration of his dangers in the second and third verses in the fourth he pursues it as he begun The Lord is in his holy Temple the Lords Throane is in Heauen And in the fifth hee fixes it thus The Lord tryeth the Righteous he may suffer much to be done for their triall but the wicked and him that loueth violence his soule hateth This then is the Syllogisme this is the Argumentation of the righteous Man In Collaterall things in Circumstantiall things in things that are not fundamentall a righteous Man a constant Man should not bee shaked at all not at all Scandalized That 's true But then in a second place sometimes it comes to that That Foundations are destroyd and what can the Righteous doe then Why euen then this is a question not of desperation that nothing can bee done but of Consultation with God what should be done I know sayes Dauid I should not be and thou knowest O God I haue not beene mou'd with ordinary trialls not though my Friends haue dis-auowed mee and bid mee flye to the Mountaine as a Bird not though mine enemies prepare and prepare Arrowes and shoote and shoote priuily bestowe their labour and their cost and their witts to ruine mee yet these haue not moou'd mee because I had fixed my selfe vpon certaine Foundations Confidences and Assurances of Deliuerance from thee But if O Lord I see these foundations destroyed if thou put mee into mine Enemies hand if thou make them thy Sword if their furie draw that Sword and then thy Almightie Arme sinewed euen with thine owne indignation strike with that sword what can I how righteous soeuer I were doe So then for the Explication and Application of these words there will need no more but to spread them by way of Paraphrase vpon these three considerations Diuisio First That the righteous is bolde as a Lyon not easily shaked But then Foundations themselues may bee destroyed and so hee may bee shaked If hee bee yet hee knowes what to doe or where to aske Counsell for these are not wordes of Desperation but of Consultation If Foundations-bee destroyed c. part 1 First then wee fixe our selues vpon this consideration that the Prophet in proposing this thus If Foundations bee destroyed intimates pregnantly that except there bee danger of destroying Foundations it is the part of the righteous Man the godly man to bee quiet Studie to bee quiet sayes the Apostle Studie 1 Thess 4.11 that is an action of the Minde and then Oporam detis say the Vulgate Edition Labour to bee quiet and Labour is an action of the bodie Indeed it is the proper businesse of the Minde and Bodie too of Thoughts and Actions too to bee quiet And yet alas how many breake their sleepe in the night about things that disquiet them in the day too and trouble themselues in the day about things that disquiet them all night too Wee disquiet our selues too much in beeing ouer tender ouer sensible of imaginarie iniuries Transeant iniuriae sayes the Morall man Let many iniuries passe ouer for Seneca Plaerasque non accipit qui nescit Hee that knowes not of an iniurie or takes no knowledge of it for the most part hath no iniurie Qui inquirunt quid in se dictum est sayes hee They that are too inquisitiue what other men say of them they disquiet themselues for that which others would but whisper they publish And therefore that which hee addes there for Morall and Ciuill matters holds in a good proportion in things of a more Diuine Nature in such parts of the religious worship and seruice of God as concerne not Foundations Non expedit omnia videre non omnia audire we must not too iealously suspect not too bitterly condemne not too peremptorily conclude that what soeuer is not done as wee would haue it done or as wee haue seene it done in former times is not well done for there is a large Latitude and by necessitie of Circumstances much may bee admitted and yet no Foundations destroyed and till Foundations bee destroyed the righteous should