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Bezig met laden... The showing forth of Christ; sermons (1630)door John Donne
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The natural man can be good, if he "relieve the poor, defend the oppressed". But the godly man must also have faith in the Trinity -- in God as Creator, and in Creation itself, as the Spirit of God. Donne is relentless about this Trinity--and the Holy Spirit is not overlooked--"who gave me comfort in sickness...troubles, and perplexities, and diffidencies of my conscience". [6]
"Challenge him, that magnifies himself above you, to meet you in Adam; there bid him, if he will have more nobility, more greatness, than you, take more original sin than you have." [10]
"Nor can any epitaph be confident in saying, here lies; but, here was laid. For so various, so vicissitudinary is all this world, as that even the dust of the grave has revolutions." [10]
"The Saint cannot accelerate, the reprobate cannot return the Resurrection. And all that rise to the right hand, shall be equally kings; and all at the left, equally, what? ...they shall have bodies to be tormented in...Miserable, unexpressible, unimaginable, macerable condition, where the sufferer would be glad to be but a devil; where it were some happiness, and some kind of life, to be able to die; and a great preferment, to be nothing." [11]
"Our sins are our own, and our destruction is from ourselves. We are not as accessories, and God as principal in this Soul murder: God forbid." [11]
"That which Zipporah said to her husband Moses in anger, the Church may say to Christ in thankfulness, 'Thou art truly a bloody husband to me'." [12]
"The good works that are done openly to please men have their reward, says Christ, that is, shall never have reward." [13]
"But for those men that served God's execution upon the idolaters of the golden calf, it is pronounced in their behalf that therein they consecrated themselves to God; and for that service God made that tribe, the tribe of Levi, his portion, his clergy, his consecrated tribe." [16 noting the qualitative shift following a people's indulgence in murders; cf. Rape of the Sabines creating Rome, annihilation of villages creating the Mongols, etc]
The "image of God" is in the soul. [19-29]
TK reminder from other works, Donne was a Universalist: "In 1624, the English poet John Donne wrote, “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” ( )