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 ...

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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 ...

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Donne, John, 1572-1631.

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London :: Printed for Thomas Iones,

1624.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE MOST EXCEL∣lent Prince, Prince CHARLES.
• Stationes, siue Pe∣riodi in Morbo, ad quas referuntur Me∣ditationes se∣quentes.
• Erraa.
• DEVOTIONS.
  • 1. Insultus Morbi primus; The first alteration, The first grudging of the sicknesse.
    • 1. MEDITATION.
    • 1. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 1. PRAYER.
  • 2. Actio Laesa. The strength, and the fun∣ctiō of the Senses, & other faculties change and faile.
    • 2. MEDITATION.
    • 2. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 2. Prayer.
  • 3. Decubitus sequitur tandem. The Patient takes his bed.
    • 2. MEDITATION.
    • 3. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 3. PRAYER.
  • 4. Medicus{que} vocatur. The Phisician is sent fo
    • 4. MEDITATION.
    • 4. EXPOSTVLATION
    • 4. PRAYER.
  • 5. Solus adest. The Phisician comes.
    • 5. MEDITATION.
    • 5. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 5. PRAYER.
  • 6. Metuit. The Phisician is afraid.
    • 6. MEDITATION.
    • 6. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 6. PRAYER.
  • 7. Socios sibi iungier instat. The Phisician desires to haue others ioyned with him.
    • 7. MEDITATION.
    • 7. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 7. PRAYER.
  • 8. Et Rex ipse suum mittit. The King sends his owne Phisician.
    • 8. MEDITATION.
    • .8 EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 8. PRAYER.
  • 9. Medicamina scribūt. Vpon their Consultation, they prescribe.
    • 9. MEDITATION.
    • 9. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 9. PRAYER.
  • 10. Lentè & Serpenti sata∣gunt occurrere Morbo. They find the Disease to steale on insensibly, and endeauour to meet with it so.
    • 10. MEDITATION.
    • 10. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 10. PRAYER.
  • 11. Nobilibus{que} trahunt, a cincto Corde, venenum, Succis & Gemmis, & quae generosa, Ministrant Ars, et Natura, instillant. They vse Cordials, to keep the venim and Malig∣nitie of the disease from the Heart.
    • 11. MEDITATION.
    • 11. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 11. PRAYER.
  • 12. — Spirante Columbâ Suppositâ pedibus, Reuo∣cantur ad ima vapores. They apply Pidgeons, to draw the vapors from the Head.
    • 12. MEDITATION.
    • 12. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 12. PRAYER.
  • 13. Ingenium{que} malum, nu∣meroso stigmate, fassus Pellitur ad pectus, Morbi{que} Suburbia, Morbus. The Sicknes declares the infe∣ction nd malignity thereof .
    • 13. MEDITATION.
    • 13. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 13. PRAYER.
  • 14. Id{que} notant Criticis, Medici euenisse Diebus. The Phisicians obserue these accidents to haue fallen vpon the criticall dayes.
    • 14. MEDITATION.
    • 14. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 14. PRAYER.
  • Intereà insomnes noctes Ego duco, Diesque. I sleepe not day nor night.
    • 15. MEDITATION.
    • 15. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 15. PRAYER.
  • 16. Et properare meum clamant, è Turre pro∣pinqua, Obstreperae Campanae aliorum in funere, funus. From the bels of the church adioyning, I am daily remembred of my buri∣all in the funeralls of others.
    • 16. MEDITATION.
    • 16. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 16. PRAYER.
  • 17. Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, Morieris. Now, this Bell tolling soft∣ly for another, saies to me, Thou must die.
    • 17. MEDITATION.
    • 17. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 17. PRAYER.
  • 18. —At inde Mortuus es, Sonitu cele∣ri, pulsuque agitato. The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead.
    • 18. MEDITATION.
    • 18. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 18. PRAYER.
  • 19. Oceano tandem e∣menso, aspicienda re∣surgit Terra; vident, iustis, medici, iam cocta mederi se posse, indicijs. At last, the Physitians, af∣ter a long and stormie voyage, see land; They haue so good signes of the conoction of the disease, as that they may safely proceed to purge.
    • 19. MEDITATION.
    • 19. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 19. PRAYER.
  • 20. Idagunt. Vpon these Indications of digested matter, they proceed to purge.
    • 10. MEDITATION.
    • 20. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 20. PRAYER.
  • 21 — Atque annuit Ille, Qui, per eos, clamat, Linquas iam, Lazare, lectum. God prospers their pra∣ctise, and he, by them, calls Lazarus out of his tombe, mee out of my bed.
    • 21. MEDITATION.
    • 1. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 21. PRAYER.
  • . Si morbi fomes tibi cura; he Physitians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coales, and fuell of the disease, and seeke to purge or correct that.
    • 2. MEDITATION.
    • 22. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 22. PRAYER.
  • 23.—Metusque, Relabi They warne mee of the fearefull danger of re∣lapsing.
    • 23. MEDITATION.
    • 23. EXPOSTVLATION.
    • 23. PRAYER.