Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Title page – Errata
DEVOTIONS VPONUPON Emergent Occasions, and seuerall steps in my Sicknes: Digested into
1. MEDITATIONS vponupon our Humane Condition.
2. EXPOSTVLATIONS, and Debatements with God.
3. PRAYERS, vponupon the seuerall Occasions, to him.
By IOHN DONNE, Deane of S. Pauls, London.
LONDON, Printed for THOMAS IONES. 1624.
TO THE MOST EXCELlent Prince, Prince CHARLES.
Most Excellent Prince,
I HaueHave had three Births; One, Naturall, when I came into the World; One Supernatural, when I entred into the Ministery; and now, a preter-naturall Birth, in returning to Life, from this Sicknes. In my second Birth, your Highnesse Royall Father vouchsafed mee his Hand, no… onelyonly to sustaine me… in it, but to lead mee to it. In this last Birth, I my selfe am borne a Father: This Child of mine, this Booke, comes into the world, from mee, and with mee. And therefore, I presume (as I did the Father to the Father) to present the Sonne to the Sonne; This Image of my Humiliation, to the liuely Image of his Maiesty, your Highnesse. It might bee enough, that God hath seene my Deuotions: But Examples of Good Kings are Commandements; And Ezechiah writt the Meditations of his Sicknesse, after his Sicknesse. Besides, as I hauehave liu'd to see, (not as a Witnesse onelyonly, but as a Partaker) the happinesses of a part of your Royal Fathers time, so shall I liue, (in my way) to see the happpinesses of the times of you… Highnesse too, if this Child of mine, inanimated by your gracious Acceptation, may so long preserue aliue the Memory of
Your Highnesse Humblest and Deuo…edst IOHN DONNE.
Stationes, siue Periodi in Morbo, ad quas referuntur Meditationes sequentes.
1 INsultus Morbi primus;
2 Post, Actio loesa;
3 Decubitus sequitur tandē;
4 Medicus que vocatur;
5 Solus adest; 6 Metuit;
7 Socios sibi iungier instat;
8 Et Rex ipse suum mittit;
9 Medicamina scribunt;
10 Lentè & Serpenti sata…unt occurrere Morbo.
11 Nobilibus que trahunt, a cincto corde, venenum,
Succis, & Gemmis; & quae Generosa, ministrant
Ars, & Natura, instillant;
12 Spirante Columbâ,
Suppositâ pedibus, reuocantur ad ima vapores;
13 At que Malum Genium, numeroso stigmate, fassus…
Pellitur ad pectus, Morbi que Suburbia, Morbus:
14 Id que notant Criticis, Medici, euenisse diebus.
15 Inter…a insomnes Nocte… ego duco, Dies que :
16 Et properare meum, clamant, e turre propinqua
Obstreperae Campanae, aliorum in funere, funus.
17 Nunc lento sonitu dicunt… Morieris; 18 At inde…
Mortuus es, sonitu celeri, pulsu que agitato.
19 Oceano tandem emenso, aspicienda resurgit
Terra; vident, iustis, Medici, iam cocta mederi
Se posse, indicijs; 20 Id agunt;
21 At que an…uit Ille,
Qui per eos clamat, linquas iam Lazare lectum;
22 Sit Morbi Fomes tibi Cura; 23 Metus que Relabi.
Erra…a.
Pag. 40. pro 2.3. Meditat.
Pag. 43. vlt. pasture, posture.
Pag. 96. lin. penult. flesh. God,
Pag. 158. in Marg. Buxdor.
Pag. 173. li. 13. add, hast.
Pag. 184. in marg. Augustin.
Pag. 185. lin. 17. blow. flow.