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A23586 The passion sermon at Pauls-Crosse vpon Good-Friday last, Aprill 7. 1626. By Thomas Ailesbury. Ailesbury, Thomas, fl. 1622-1659. 1626 (1626) STC 999; ESTC S113678 18,096 36

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his birth of a Virgin-mother cradle banishment when he fled that could not goe the efficacy of his preaching his miraculous cures vindicating of his Fathers Temple from pollution c. all are filed which were in him fulfilled Let vs arest our selues awhile vpon his foretold Passions when Christ rode in triumph towards his Crosse hee did not bestride an Asses backe without a Prophesie to helpe him vp Behold Z●ch 5. thy King commeth riding vpon an Asses fole Indas makes his merchandise of him the price of bloud is pitcht by one Prophet and the man of bloud described by another Lach 11.13 a goodly price that I was prized of them euen thirty pieces see the difference GOD values man at his owne Bloud man his God at thirty pence The Betrayer is betrayed by description My familiar and friend c. Ps● 41. hath conspired against me All his Disciples shall turne Cowards a Prophesie had sounded that retreat I will strike the Shepherd and the sheepe shall be scattered dye he must for the Messias must be slaine and that in a grieuous manner to make good the Type he must be lifted vp then fastened with nailes They haue pierced my hands and my feet vpon a Crosse Dominus triumphauit eligno which reading Iustin Martyr and Tertullian imbrace If they plough vpon his backe with whips those Furrowes are recorded No maruell the Souldiers riflle for his garments that vailed couetousnesse of Lots an euent in it selfe contingent Psal 22. in the Prophesie certaine for my vestments they did cast lots What will the Iew say now Prophesies not accomplished ambiguitates sunt anigmata saith Irenaeus are darke Clouds but in the accomplishment those Clouds are dispersed they become Histories Obdurate Iewes shew vs but a man in whom all the Prophesies were fulfilled and any Prophesie left vnfulfilled in our Sauiours person and we will suppose some probability to march on your side why then knowing what the Iewes did know vpon so foule a fact will our Apostle finde and returne Ignoramus Yet one prophesie had not beene accomplisht if the Iewes had knowne it that they must be the men to imbrew their hands in the bloud of their Messias But They glory in the act are so confident that were it to doe againe their Conscience would make no scruple to reiterate it as deeming the same a master piece of obedience In killing of his Disciples they thought to merit at the hands of God but in killing of his sonne to super-errogate and in a desperate affectation of Ignorance sollicite for that blood vpon their heads which Pilate washed from his hands and are so farre from sorrow that holding one life too little to take from him onely they lament he hath no more their Malice is so hereditary that if Christ should reuiue himselfe daily to saue the Priests of Rome a labour daily would they Sacrifice him A Grosse mistake there was then in the person of Christ 4 The Miracles of Iesus did not remoue their ignorance who in their owne verdict was not tainted with sinne but that they could not collect what he was by his miracles they are to mee a miracle of sottish infidelity Iudaei signa petunt their curiositie was set vpon miracles now they might take their fill Tell me what was he Arnob. Cuius Iussu ipsi Daemones in hominum visceribus merst cooperti possessione ●●debant The very Dinels inuiscerated in men at the sound of his Imperiall word yeeld vp possession leauing their habitations as if their houses had beene on fire ouer their heads Confession is their penance with an yeelding voyce they yellow out Thou art the Sonne of God Intelligunt diaboli quod non intelligunt Iudaei as Cyrill spake of the Arians that power the diuels ascribe to God which the Iewes to the Diuels surely Sathan is a greater polititian then to vndermine himselfe with ciuill discord Was hee an ordinary Man who with the trident of his word becalmes the Seas paues them with solidity to a confirmed path for himselfe and Peter to walke on the Spectators amazed cry out what manner of man was this to whom the dumbe creatures speake such obedience Surely hee another Neptune was then whom Poets faine Arnob. cra Gentes lib 1. Post liminto vitam restituens animas efflatas iussit in diem lucidam remeare Christs call awakes Lazarus in the graue vnites what death for foure dayes had diuorced the spirit returneth to its old moald and by a new Metempsychosis or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such which Pythagoras neuer dreamed of the same soule reenters into the same body This Miracle reconciles enuie enuie a conspiracy and for a further conclusion They will see if God can dye or noe When the Conspirators came armed to apprehend him who expected not declined them the breath of his mouth as a mighty tempest leuels them with the earth A Roman Cohort driuen backe at a word Nec vox hominem sonat could not his speech betray him without flattery they might haue applauded not the voyce of man but God Quid poterit Matest as eius iudicatura cuius hoc poterat humilitas Iudicanda saith Leo. When Peter with a blow had lopt off Malchus eare the diuorced peece is glewed to its former place Christ reforming what himselfe had formed and that flesh knowing whose potsheard it was is no sooner touched with Gods finger then againe restored yet this Physitians pay was cruelty Thus to recapitulate all 1. not humane science 2. not reuealed prophesies 3. though accomplished in Christs person 4. confirmed with the working of Miracles could open their eyes but in seeing they did not see Aquia c. God hath sent them the spirit of slumber These Euidences led them to know the Messias in Christ but not the Mysterie in the Deitie but with leaue to Aquinas the Iewes held the Deitie inseperable from the Messias Chrisostome in loc or they knew not Crucifixionis mysterium The Messias to vndergoe so ignominious a death to suffer and be crucified vnder Pontius Pilate could neuer come within the Iewish Creede The vulgar Iew conceiued well but not truly of him yet somewhat popish loath to leaue the tradition of his fathers The more illuminate Doctors had greater knowledge but with greater pride and malice which did extinguish it Their Theory was vertiginous swom in the braine there floating without anchor and was of no credit with the will They cauelled at his preaching traduced his person slandered his miracles fathering them vpon diuels God onely hath the key which vnlocks the heart Faith is in his owne custodie and he distributs it to whom he will Yet their ignorance was a sinne Saint Paul led away with inconsiderate zeale was made thereby the chiefe of sinners though qualified for mercy In the Iewes their knowledge shall accuse them not acquit them they knew enough to condemne them but not enough to to saue