Three sermons vpon speciall occasions preached by Iohn Donne ...
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- Three sermons vpon speciall occasions preached by Iohn Donne ...
- Author
- Donne, John, 1572-1631.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to be sold at his shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere St. Clements Church,
- 1623.
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- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Three sermons vpon speciall occasions preached by Iohn Donne ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20655.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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TO THE MASTERS OF THE BENCH, AND the rest of the Honourable Societie of LINCOLNES INNE.
IT pleased you to exer∣cise your interest in me, and to expresse your fa∣uour to mee, in inuiting mee to preach this Ser∣mon: and it hath plea∣sed you to doe both ouer againe, in inuiting me to publish it. To this latter seruice I was the more inclinable, because, though in it I had no occasion to handle any matter of Controuersie betweene vs, and those of the Romane Perswasion, yet the whole body and frame of the Sermon, is opposed a∣gainst one pestilent calumny of theirs, that
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wee haue cast off all distinction of places, and of dayes, and all outward meanes of as∣sisting the deuotion of the Congregation. For this vse, I am not sorry that it is made publique, for I shall neuer bee sorry to ap∣peare plainly, and openly, and directly, with∣out disguise or modification, in the vindica∣ting of our Church from the imputations and calumnies of that Aduersary. If it had no publique vse, yet I should satisfie my selfe in this, that it is done in obedience to that, which you may call your Request, but I shall call your Commandement vpon
Your very humble Ser∣uant in Christ Iesus. IOHN DONNE.