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The Works of John Donne (2); With a Memoir of His Life
The Works of John Donne With a Memoir of His Life - 2 Author:John Donne Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Original Publisher: Parker Subjects: Sermons History / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Sermons / Christian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of th... more »e original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 104 SERMON XXXV. PREACHED UPON WHITSUNDAY. John xvi. 8, 9, 10, 11. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because ye believe not on me. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more. Of judgment, because the Prince of this world is judged. In a former sermon upon these words, we have established this, that the person whom our Saviour promises here, being by himself promised, in the verse before the text, in the name and quality of The Comforter, all that this person is to do in this text, is to be done so, as the world, upon which it is to be done, may receive comfort in it. Therefore this word, reproof, admitting a double signification, one by way of authority, as it is a rebuke, an incre- pation, the other as it is a convincing by argument, by way of instruction, and information, because the first way cannot be applied to all the parts of this text, and to all that the Holy Ghost is to do upon the world, (for, howsoever he may rebuke the world of sin, he cannot be said to rebuke it of righteousness, and of judgment) according to St. Augustine's later interpretation of these words, (for in one place of his works, he takes this word, reproof, in the harder sense, for rebuke, but in another, in the milder) we have and must pursue the second signification of the word, That the Holy Ghost shall reprove t...« less