Selections from the works of John Donne Author:John Donne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: divinity, that changes with the season, with the time, and meridional divinity, calculated to the height of such a place, and luuary divinity, that ebbs and Bows... more », and state divinity, that obeys affections of persons, the true church of God, had need of a continual succession of light, a continual assistance of the Spirit of God, and of her own industry, to know those things that belong to her peace. IMPLICIT RELIEVERS. Implicit believers, ignorant believers, the adversary- may swallow; but the understanding believer, he must chaw, and pick bones, before he come to assimilate him, and make him like himself. The implicit believer stands in an open field, and the enemy will ride over him easily; the understanding believer, is in a fenced town, and he hath out-works to lose, before the town be pressed; that is, reasons to be answered, before his faith be shaked, and he will sell himself dear, and lose himself by inches, if he be sold or lost at last; and therefore let all men know, that is, endeavour to inform themselves, to understand. HARMOSY AND RESURRECTION OF A CHRISTIAN. God was never out of Christ's sight; he was always with him, always within him, always he himself; yet Christ, at some times, applied himself in a nearer distance, and stricter way of prayer to God than at other times. Christ's whole life was a continual abstinence, a perpetual sobriety, yet Christ proposed, and proportioned a certain time, and a certain number of days for a particular fast, upon particular occasion. This is the harmony, this is the resurrection of a Christian, in this respect, that his soul be always so fixed upon God, as that he do nothing but with relation to his glory principally, and habitually; that he think of God, at all times, but that, besides that, he sepose sometimes, to...« less