Five Sermons 2, Dedication 1
FOVRE SERMONS VPONUPON SPECIALL OCCASIONS.
(Viz.)
1. A Sermon preached at Pauls Croſſe.
2. To the Honourable, 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 St. Pauls, London.
LONDON, Printed for THOMAS IONES, and are to be ſold at his Shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere Saint Clements Church. 1625.
TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE, GEORGE, Marqueſſe of Buckingham, High ADMIRALL of ENGLAND, &c.
WHen I would ſpeake to the KING, by your LORDSHIPS Meanes, I doe: Now, when I would ſpeake to the Kingdome, I would doe that by your Lordſhips Meanes too: and therefore I am bolde to tranſferre this Sermon to the World, through your Lordſhips hands, and vnderunder your Name. For the first part of the Sermon, the Explication of the Text, my Profeſsion, and my Conſcience is Warrant enough, that I hauehave ſpoken as the Holy Ghoſt intended. For the ſecond part, the Application of the Text, it will be warrant enough, that I hauehave ſpoken as his Maieſtie intended, that your Lordſhip admits it to iſſue in your Name. It is becauſe Kings fauour the Church, that the Prophet ſayes they are her Foſter-Fathers; and then, thoſe perſons, who hauehave alſo intereſt in the fauour of Kings, are her Foſter-Brothers: and ſuch vſe to louelove well. By that Title, (as by many other alſo) your Lordſhippe loues the Church; as you are her Foſter-Brother; loued of him who loues her. And by that Title you louelove all them in the Church, who endeauour to aduaunce both the vnitie of our Church in it ſelfe, and the vnitie of the Church, with the godly deſignes of our religious King. To which Seruice, I ſhall euer ſacrifice all the labors of
Your Lordſhips humbleſt and thankefulleſt Seruant in Chriſt Ieſus: IOHN DONNE.