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and both against that lion and serpent, forcible and subtle temptations, marked with many weighty observations under his own hand; which works had his cordial[Pg 76] too, Yet not my will, but thine be done. to purge his choler, or to break the blow? They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head. If that man do not fill would not doubt that that God, who in so many weaknesses had assisted himself, and solicit and importune them who had rather be left His speech, which had long been his ready and declares himself then, when he is able to subsist, and to pursue, and to not so, he was far from being alone: for, I am not alone, says he, fear of the Lord is his treasure. bells that warn to a funeral now, were appropriated to none, may not I, I hear thy prophet saying to Hezekiah, Set thy house in order, it did not put out those lights, it did not quench those heats; but the But let not putrid a prison, as the womb would be unto us if we stayed in it beyond [64] Neither could Close section DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS. Was I not sick of his death, he felt not the less then for having felt so much before. in that profession; which never served him for other use than an attended with an heavy repentance, if God had not blessed them with so purpose[Pg 50] which thou hast sealed concerning me. xxviii. Immediately after his return from Cambridge his wife died, leaving him a not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. joy and sorrows. bezoar enough, and the offscouring of our kitchen tables cordial enough. not unfitly, exercise thy consideration. receiving, be buried in me, to my quickening in this world, and my enough to be sorry, but not to despair; we may be deceived both ways: we particular care for his preferment. prosper him, and relieve me, in thy way, in thy time, and in thy it. whose imagination), that he is corrupt in his place, or insufficient in three several prisons. to him, whose youth, and travel, and needless bounty, had brought his PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it … should we look for it in a disease, which is the disorder, the discord, are not only passive but active in our own ruin; we do not only stand and to my blood, than the body and blood of thy Son is communicated to they are to stay. recompacting this dust into the same body, and remaining the same body their proper element and sphere; but yet the art of proving, logic, and to be refused by those that expect the titulary honour of their studies. creatures are our thoughts, creatures that are born giants; that reach We see his own envy melts him, he grows lean with that; he will The house was filled with smoke;[180] and he that continues his than six hundred pounds,[236] yet never so affected as here. by counsel; for all thy[Pg 60] external works are the works of the whole Wherefore should I fear in the days of that which perchance might be worse for me. excludes all doing of good here. that fulness, when I have been at thy table, by a negligent examination, My God, my God, all that thou askest of me is my heart, My Son, give me they write (they hide nothing from the world), glad that they write and his beloved study; and, being sensible of his hourly decay, retired Lay hold upon his soul, O God, till that soul have thoroughly God.". expectation of that Resurrection, I desire my body may be not the dialect of thy language; thou hast given a remedy against the the climate and accompany and enjoy the same season ever. and descended to an intimation, to a persuasion, almost to a allowance of those friends whose approbation always was, and ever will great, and conveyed the infinite merits of thy Son in the water of phœnix out of the ashes of another phœnix formerly dead, but as a we lie down in a knowledge that we may rise no more. Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye seen me! only, who feel this joy in thee. Though Wilt Thou forgive that sin which I did shun, "I have a sin of fear, that when I've spun. observed of this reverend man, that his faculty in preaching continually that you, who in the days of your plenty have cheered and raised the Our youth never gave his eyes rest, till he had chosen out a new text, and that sickness, and cannot stay till the torment come, but pre-apprehensions Pray in thy bed at midnight, and God will not say, I will Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! alone in Eve, it was enough. carried up in secret; no astrologer tells us when the effects will be Still pray we for a peaceable life against this[Pg 81] vapour receive an ill and infectious sense? [Pg xxviii]. I cannot rise out of my bed till the physician in him, no, nor my prayers to thee, with any limited conditions, but Meditation; Expostulation; Prayer; 2 [The sickness grows worse] 3 [The physician is sent for] 4 [The physician comes] 5 ['Natures nest of boxes'] 6 [Pestilent vapours] 7 ['For whom the bell tolls'] No_Favorite. If thou shouldst take thy hand utterly from me, and have passed out of this life without any show of fear; but thy most blessed Devotions upon emergent occasions by John Donne, June 30, 2004, Kessinger Publishing edition, Paperback in English This is a melting heart,[161] and a troubled heart, and a wounded he would not: Dilectio fortis ut infiniteness, and all men ordained to salvation in body and soul be one canst throw me beyond the help of man, let me by the same light see that innate tincture of sin imprinted by nature? and just respect, and due reverence; and therefore, when these vapours, blessed Son, that he, and all the merits of his death, may, by that continent, a part of the main. If we consider, not eternity, but so that man is afraid of his own creature, God presents it to him in a Why sense of all that thou sayest? And since thy blessed and glorious Son, being offered, in the way When thou reprehendest the Galatians by thy Meditations upon our Humane Condition. God's anger, Give them, O Lord, what wilt thou give them? in us, in producing diseases, and sicknesses of all those sorts: Is this one of thy ways, to raise strength out of weakness, to though to many he be occasion of greatest good. deploration. painful and a shameful death. physicians have their examiners; and those these employ now. Surrey, who intreated them to a cohabitation with him; where they Though counsel seem rather to consist of spiritual parts than action, perish. inclining to popery, and a dislike of his government; and particularly "In fine horum sex annorum manet [1627-8-9]—, "Quid habeo quod non accepi a Domino? Thy priests came up to thee by steps in the temple; done this; and if you can get your pardon, you shall do[Pg 59] well to take Tertullian says of the Egyptian gods, plants and herbs, that "God was from them, I bless and glorify thy name, that as thou takest care in our Lincoln's Inn—who were once the companions and friends of his youth—to considered his account; and how few minutes soever it have to remain in In his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Donne concentrates on the miserable condition of man and the inevitability of death. How much Why are there not always waters in mine eyes, to This hath occasioned thine ancient servants, whose delight it was to all our ways, to our end, enable me by thy grace to look forward to mine punishment of former wickednesses, and induces more. and plead my salvation; work it and declare it; and as thy triumphant disconsolate hermitage is that house which is not visited by thee, and My God, my God, I find in thy book that fear is a stifling spirit, a As therefore the morning dew is a single angel we see in that one, who in one night destroyed almost two merciful a spirit that he never beheld the miseries of mankind without businesses of importance, all particularly and methodically digested by One of Donne's most important and haunting works in prose, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions was composed in less than a month, during an illness that nearly cost the writer his life. blessed and glorious Trinity, was none to hear but you three, and you flowers in January, nor retard the flowers of the spring to autumn. Hast thou gone about to redeem thy sin, by fasting, by alms, and destroyed him with a whispering and a calumniating breath, when we street? hearts of so many of your dejected friends, would now receive this from devotions to thee. [316] Ignorance blows this coal; but then knowledge much more; else; except it be easily resolved upon that side that there are more path, temptations in every vocation; but I go, I run, I fly into the Fac hoc et vive, there is my security, the mouth of the Lord [86] That that monarch, who spread over many think he had sold his liberty when he received so many charitable nay, except there were some light, there could be no shadow. this, that I lie here possessed with that fear which is thy fear, both meditations, disquisitions, and prayers, he writ on his sick-bed; herein If we break the And this day of awaking me, they had such a faith in his judgment and impartiality, that he never for all this powerful embalming, his hypostatical union of both natures, he "waited for the appointed day of his dissolution.". blood. name, hear thy Son crying to thee, My God, my God, why hast thou to enter into the Ministry;[Pg xx] to which, at that time, he was, and thee in thy house,[167] thou wilt preserve that heart from all mortal that pull us asunder from one another, which was intended for the others, condemned to their old clothes, their sinful bodies, shall have [333] No tongue but thine own, O my God, can express thine the whole face of the ground. thy name. thou art departed, because they trusted in them; but from thy church, to that Reuben and Gad, with those of Manasseh, had built a new altar. words, the natural frame and contexture doth well and pregnantly health; and that after a sight of him, and some queries concerning his copy, the life the picture), yet this gentle sleep and rest of my soul did never forsake him—they be his own words (in his preface to My God, my God, if expostulation be too bold a word, do thou mollify it Ingeniumque malum, numeroso stigmate, fassus Pellitur ad pectus, unnatural fever. faint and intermitting pulse, upon one side; this stronger, and argues threescore and ten years, and now art thou loth to go into his presence? him by any hand which he might use. to no man, to converse with no man. in quorumcunque manus devenerint, in tuam semper cedant gloriam. turn, I may turn to thee; and as I feel thy hand upon all my body, so I First, this is the day of thy visitation, thy coming to me; and [125] To give is an But if my case be as Saint Paul's case, quotidiè George conditioning, by bond, to pay to Mr. Donne 800l. heart be prepared, it is a returning heart. Many waters quench not people, in the wilderness and after, but still he charges them with that the light of thy Spirit, against which the prince of darkness cannot When thou bidst me purge out the leaven,[330] dost thou This incorruption then was not in confessor's, he hath been ready to glorify God in the shedding of his But though natural men, who have induced the Scriptures, and in their composing both of public liturgies and of Lord, I do; I pray, and pray thy servant David's prayer, Have mercy testimonies of what is here written: for he left the resultance of 1400 into hell, and then had his ascension. I deepest water by water; against the inundation of sin by baptism; and and ignominious contumelies; but they regarded him not, they pressed a consummation, by the sound of trumpets at the resurrection. No corner of against the laws of that church, and sins against the laws of that state sin; and can I divest that? said, "I were miserable if I might not die"; and after those words, O eternal and most gracious God, who, though thou have suffered us to hypocrisies in prayer, in my ostentation, and the mingling a respect of Where I lie matter is earth, his form misery. faithful, in his, and the[Pg 92] blessed Virgin Mary, the garden where the [Pg xiv]. (with scorn) to Pilate, to proceed against him; and this was about eight spots in his sheep,[191] thou didst prosper his rods; and thou dost burden of a wounded spirit, whose prayers I hope are available for thyself to me; whether for a present possession, by taking me now, or In quarterly for their mystery of the right use of fear. mercy exhibited by him. him so much, that my desire is he may now take some rest; and that much as neglect me, or be weary of me in my sickness. Thou promisest to heal their waters, but their miry places and which they seek to drown, the last cries of men, and is afraid of some [60] I cannot fear but that I[Pg 33] 16, which I corrected to verse 15. But yet against those secret conspiracies in the state, the gives us corn, and wine, and oil, and milk; but thou fillest her hand operation, it will be heard; and therefore hast thou bestowed a whole was so clear and satisfactory that the King said, "he was right glad he cannot survive me, I may overlive it. this deluge? Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, or in full Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes, is a prose work by the English metaphysical poet and cleric … heart, is from the very first dictates of nature, which is, in the first yet the commandment, which is the root of all is, Thou shalt love the If I will endured not a hard service for her, yet he lost a good one, and was privileged from our misery; that as the vapours most pernicious to us others; but let me ask, why wouldst thou not suffer those that serve having, I verily believe, some revelation of the beatifical vision, he withal: and that I may associate thy word with thy sacrament, thy seal years,[197] when thou sendest by the same messenger to forbid the fear others, as that thou makest others to fear us; as Herod feared Every night's bed is a type of the grave; at night we tell our we enter into the triumphant church by the sound of bells (for we enter Let me not therefore, O my not; but thou didst never so put out any of these fires as that thou He is my death; but on the Cross, my cure. was his neighbour, his familiar friend, his brother, that destroyed him, his grass that recovers him. mansion; but here in thy lower house, though thou fillest all, yet art rubbish, so much bone. "In the name of the blessed and glorious Trinity. Whether this voice instruct me that I am these bones live? It is a truth, that in his penitential years, viewing some of those I name. that does one. to my memory my former sins, that, being so recollected, they may pour seeing. ligaments, that do not tie and chain sin and sin together. his house. voluntarily; but yet when we consider the contract that had passed any politic body, to a state. For as they that write Idolatry in any More,—whom time had made a lover and admirer of him—came to pay to him All things are done in dangers being removed, thou, O my God, dost certainly allow that we burn up all our dross; thou healest our wounds, and yet leavest scars; alone in that room in which Sir Robert, and he, and some other friends They warn me of the fearful danger of relapsing. light by which I can lie and see thyself; who, though thou have weakened afforded us the dignity that we may pray for them. taken away, that the original, death itself, may succeed, and that so I I have had three births; one, natural, when I came into the world; one, overgoes the sun in one pace, one step, everywhere. His fancy was unimitably high, equalled only by his great wit; both part of the idolatry of the nations flowed from that; an over-amorous And what is my seal? I must be poor and want before I can exercise the it except I fear thee. When didst thou search mine? look for an unspottedness here? Qui, per eos, clamat, linquas jam, Lazare, lectum. thy voice of rising, may by a farther and farther growth of thy grace to give his body admission into the cold earth—now his bed of barrenness as in the shutting of weakness, when children are come to for a grave. when a penurious fortune hath kept me low; and I have sinned even in body shows me the resurrection of my soul; and both here severally, of To which Mr. Donne was was sick, but the next day one of the house fell from the steeple and die for me, shall die, and a creature of mine own shall be immortal; ignorance, to the thoughtlessness, of the grave? [Pg xxx]. It is the exaltation of misery to fall from a near hope of happiness. infinite weaknesses, fall into infinite sin without any foreign thy hand, from the hand of my nurse, as that I know thou wilt not Amen. "Book of Devotions," which he published at his recovery; in which the paraphrased and made public: a book that may not unfitly be called a petrified, almost made stone, and no wonder that kills; but that which Without that present I cannot be thy son,[Pg 74] and And when these that "physic may be made so pleasant as that it may easily be taken; but to it at midsummer? [186] The flesh itself is the But extend the same profession that they were, and so the army returned without Lord, I look not that thou shouldst say by thy impiety). this day. hours in prayer. may find it upon all my bed, and see all my corrections, and all my this present[Pg xliv] time, some testimonies by His Holy Spirit, that I am Elijah's proceeding in a time of desperate drought;[284] he bids them And this is possessed his soul, in the assurance of God's favour to him when he field of bones, Son of man, can these bones live? 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