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A20631	Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to Him / by Iohn Donne ...	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1624 (1624)	STC 7033A; ESTC S1699	101,106	641

waters must we looke to bee drowned are they bottomlesse are they boundles That 's not the dialect of thy langauge thou hast giuen a Remedy against the deepest water by water against the inundation of sinne by Baptisme and the first life that thou gauest to any Creatures was in waters therefore ●hou do●●t not ●hr●●ten v● wi●h an irrem●diablenesse when our affliction is a Sea It is so if we consider our selues so thou callest Gennezareth which was but a lake and not salt a Sea so thou callest the Mediterranean Sea still the great Sea because the inhabitants saw no other Sea they that dwelt there thought a Lake a Sea and the others thought a little Sea the greatest and wee that know not the afflictions of others call our owne the heauiest But O my God that is truly great that ouerflowes the chan●ell that is really a great affliction which is aboue my strength but thou O God art my strength and then what can bee aboue it Mountaines shake with the swelling of thy Sea secular Mountaines men strong in power spirituall mountaines men strong in grace are shaked with afflictions but thou laiest vp thy sea in store-houses euen thy corrections are of thy treasure and thou wilt not waste thy corrections when they haue done their seruice to humble thy patient thou wilt call them in againe for thou giuest the Sea thy decree that the waters should not passe thy Commandement All our waters shal run into Iordan thy seruants passed Iordan dry foot they shall run into the red Sea the Sea of thy Sons bloud the red Sea that red Sea drownes none of thine But they that saile in the Sea tell of the danger thereof I that am yet in this affliction owe thee the glory of speaking of it But as the wise man bids me I say I may speak much and come short wherefore in summe thou art all Since thou art so O my God and affliction is a Sea too deepe for vs what is our refuge thine Arke thy ship In all other Seas in all other afflictions those meanes which thou hast ordained In this Sea in Sicknesse thy Ship is thy Physitian Thou hast made a way in the Sea and a safe path in the waters shewing that thou canst saue from all dangers yea though a man went to Sea without art yet where I finde all that I finde this added Neuerthelesse thou woul●est not that the worke of thy wisdome should be idle Thou canst saue without meanes but thou hast told no man that thou wilt Thou hast told euery man that thou wilt not When the Centurion beleeued the Master of the ship more than Saint Paul they were all opened to a great danger this was a preferring of thy meanes before thee the Author of the meanes but my God though thou beest euery where I haue no promise of appearing to me but in thy ship Thy blessed Sonne preached out of a Ship The meanes is preaching he did that and the Ship was a type of the Church hee did it there● Thou gauest S. Paul the liues of all them that saild with him If they had not beene in the Ship with him the gift had not extended to them As soone as thy Son was come out of the ship immediatly there met him out of the tombes a man with an vncleane spirit and no man could hold him no not with chaines Thy Sonne needed no vse of meanes yet there wee apprehend the danger to vs if we leaue the ship the meanes in this case the Physitian But as they are Ships to vs in those Seas so is there a Ship to them too in which they are to stay Giue mee leaue O my God to assist my selfe with such a construction of these words of thy seruant Paul to the Centurion when the Mariners would haue left the Ship Except these abide in the Ship you cannot bee safe Except they who are our ships the Physitians abide in that which is theirs and our ship the truth and the sincere and religious worship of thee and thy Gospell we cannot promise our selues so good safety for though we haue our ship the Physitian he hath not his ship Religion And meanes are not meanes but in their concatenation as they depend and are chained together The ships are great saies thy Apostle but a helme turnes them the men are learned but their religion turnes their labours to good And therefore it was a heauy ●●●se when the third part o● the ships perished It is a heauy case where either all Religion or true Religion should forsake many of these ships whom thou hast sent to conuey vs ouer these Seas But O my God my God since I haue my ship and they theirs I haue them and they haue thee why are we yet no neerer land As soone as thy Sonnes Disciple had taken him into the ship immediatly the ship was at the land whither they went Why haue nor they and I this dispatch Euery thing is immediatly done which is done when thou wouldst haue it done Thy purpose terminates euery action and what was done before that is vndone yet Shall that slacken my hope Thy Prophet from thee hath forbid it It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the saluation of the Lord. Thou puttest off many iudgements till the last day many passe this life without any and shall not I endure the putting off thy mercy for a day and yet O my God thou puttest me not to that for the assurance of future mercy ●s present mercy But what is my assurance now What is my seale It is but a cloud that which my Physitians call a cloud in that which giues them their Indication But a Cloud Thy great Seale to all the world the raine-bow that ●ecured the world for euer from drowning was but a reflexion vpon a cloud A cloud it selfe was a pillar which guided the church and the glory of God not only was but appeared in a cloud Let me returne O my God to the consideration of thy seruant Eliahs proceeding in a time of desperate drought he bids them look towards the Sea They looke and ●ee nothing He bids thē againe and againe seuen times and at the seuenth time they saw a little cloud rising out of the Sea and presently they had their desire of raine Seuen dayes O my God haue we looked for this cloud and now we haue it none of thy Indications are friuolous thou makest thy signes seales and thy Seales effects and thy effects consolation and restitution whersoeuer thou maiest receiue glory by that way 19. PRAYER O Eternall and most gracious God who though thou passedst ouer infinite millions of generations before thou camest to a Creation of this world yet when thou beganst didst neuer intermit that worke but continuedst day to day till thou hadst perfited all the worke and deposed

it in the hands and rest of a Sabbath though thou haue beene pleased to glorifie thy selfe in a long exercise of my patience with an expectation of thy declaration of thy selfe in this my sicknesse yet since thou hast now of thy goodnesse afforded that which affords vs some hope if that bee still the way of thy glory proceed in that way and perfit that worke and establish me in a Sabbath and rest in thee by this thy seale of bodily restitution Thy Priests came vp to thee by steps in the Temple Thy Angels came downe to Iaacob by steps vpon the ladder we finde no staire by which thou thy selfe camest to Adam in Paradise nor to Sodome in thine anger for thou and thou o●ely art able to doe all at once But O Lord I am not wearie of thy pace nor wearie of mine owne patience I prouoke ●he● not with a praier not with a wish not with a ●ope to more haste than consists with thy purpose nor looke that any other thing should haue entred into thy purpose but thy glory To heare thy ●steps comming towards mee is the same comfort as to see thy face present with mee whether thou doe the worke of a thousand yeere in a day or extend the worke of a day to a thousand yeere as long as thou workest it is light and comfort Heauen it selfe is but an extention of the same ioy and an extention of this mercie to proceed at thy leisure in the way of restitution is a manifestation of heauen to me here vpon earth From that people to whom thou appearedst in signes and in Types the Iewes thou art departed because they trusted in them but from thy Church to whom thou hast appeared in thy selfe in thy Sonne thou wilt neuer depart because we cannot trust too much in him Though thou haue afforded me these signes of restitution yet if I confide in them and beginne to say all was but a Na●urall accident and nature begins to discharge her selfe and sh●e will perfit the whole worke my hope shall vanish because it is not in thee If thou shouldest take thy hand vtterly from me and haue nothing to doe with me Nature alone were able to destroy mee but if thou withdraw thy helping hand alas how friuolous are the helps of Nature how impotent the assistances of Art As therefore the morning dew is a pawne of the euening fatnesse so O Lord let this daies comfort be the earnest of to morrowes so f●rre as may conforme me entirely to thee to what end and by what way so●uer thy mercie haue appointed mee 20. Id●agunt Vpon these Indications of digested matter they proceed to purge 10. MEDITATION THoug● counsel seeme rather to consist of spirituall parts than action yet action is the spirit and the soule of counsell Counsels are not alwaies determined in Resolutions wee cannot alwaies say this was concluded actions are alwaies determined in effects wee can say this was done Then haue Lawes their reuerence and their maiestie when wee see the Iudge vpon the Bench executing them Then haue counsels of warre their impressions and their operations when we see the seale of an Armie set to them It was an ancient way of celebrating the memorie of such as deserued well of the State to afford them that kinde of statuarie representation which was then called Hermes which was the head and shoulders of a man standing vpon a Cube but those shoulders without armes and hands All together it figured a constant supporter of the state by his counsell But in this Hierogliphique which they made without hands they passe their consideration no farther but that the Counsellor should bee without hands so farre as not to reach out his hand to forraigne tentations of bribes in matters of Counsell and that it was not necessary that the head should employ his owne hand that the same men should serue in the execution which assisted in the Counsell but that there should not belong hands to euery head action to euery counsell was neuer intended so much as in figure and representation For as matrimonie is scarce to bee called matrimonie where there is a resolution against the fruits of matrimonie against the hauing of Children so counsels are not counsels but illusions where there is from the beginning no purpose to execute ●he determina●ions of ●hose counsels The arts and sciences are most properly referred to the head that is their proper Element and Spheare But yet the art of prouing Logique and the Art of perswading Rhetorique are deduced to the hand and that expressed by a hand contracted into a sist and this by a hand enlarged and expanded and euermore the power of man and the power of God himselfe is expressed so● All things are in hi● hand ● neither is God so often presented ●o vs by names that carry our consideratiō vpon counsell as vpon execution of counsell he is oftner called the Lord of Hosts ●han by all other names that may be referred to the other signification● Hereby● therefore wee take into our meditation the slipperie condition of man whose happinesse in any kinde the defect of any one thing conducing to that happinesse may ruine but i● must haue all the peeces to make it vp Without counsell I had not got thus farre● withou● action and practise I should goe no farther towards health But what is ●he present nec●ssary action purging A withdrawing a violating of Nature a farther weakening O deare price O strange way of addition to doe it by substraction of restoring Nature to violate Nature of prouiding strength by increasing weaknesse Was I not sicke before And is it a question of comfort to be asked now Did your Physicke make you sicke Was that it that my Physicke promised to make me sicke This is another step vpon which we may stand and see farther into the miserie of man the time the season of his Miserie It must bee done now O ouer-●●nning ouer-watchfull ouer-diligent and ouer-sociable misery of man that seldome comes alone but then when it may accompanie other miseries and so put one another into the higher exaltation and better ●eart I am ground euen to an attenuation and must proceed to euacuation all waies to exinani●ion and annihilation 20. EXPOSTVLATION MY God my God the God of Order but yet not of Ambition who assignest place to euery one but not contention for place when shall it be thy pleasure to put an end to all these quarrels for spirituall precedences when shall men leaue their vncharitable disputations which is to take place faith or repentance and which when we consider faith and works The head and the hand too are required to a perfit naturall man Counsell and action too to a perfit ciuill man saith and works too to him that is perfi●ly spirituall But because it is easily said I beleeue and because it doth not easily lie in proofe nor is easily demonstrable by any euidence taken from my heart for