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A00003	A sermon preached at Paules-Crosse the second day of Iune, being the last Sunday in Easter terme. 1622. By Thomas Ailesbury student in diuinitie	Ailesbury, Thomas, fl. 1622-1659.	1623 (1623)	STC 1000; ESTC S101513	32,856	62

not all sleepe but shall be changed in a moment in the twinckling of an eye Hereupon many of the i 〈…〉 10. 〈◊〉 42. Ancient haue thought that some at that day shall passe without death to life though Dauid say Lord who is that man that shall not see death Shall he deliuer himselfe from the power of the graue And the Apostle tells vs that it is a statute agreed vpon in the Parliament of heauen Heb. ●● Statutum est omnibus mori all to die and so to iudgement But S. Paul seemeth to determine this doubt though a sleepe shall not be yet a change shall be in stead of sleeping Shall not sleep that is so long as others that haue lyon long buried so * 〈◊〉 men A●selm in 1. Cor. 15. Occumenius ●tà dormitio breuissi●na non tamen nulla so * 〈◊〉 men A●selm in 1. Cor. 15. Anselmus Shall not all sleepe that is continually but shall be awaked so * 〈…〉 Lorinus to meet in the clouds the Lord of glory The third is of the attendance of the Angels Saints and Martyrs vpon the Lord of glory Sa●●● v●●rtes 〈◊〉 Do●●●●● m Matth. 25 31. Then shall you see the Sonne of man come in glory and the holy Angels with him in the clouds in maiestie and great glory For qualis Rex talis praeparatio Regis sayes the Author of the imperfect perfect worke vpon Matthew and Dignitate domini honorata sit conditio serui The glory of the Iudge shall be eminent in his followers and the Saints shall be glorified in attending vpon the Lord of glory Of this saith the Apostle n C●●●s 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall we appeare also with him in glory The fourth that by the Eagles are meant all the Saints Sanct●● g●●ere from the first day of the world till the last day o Heb. 11 2● for they without vs shall not be made perfect These elect Eagles shall come from the foure quarters of the world and shall sit downe with the Patriarkes in the kingdome of heauen Thus we see all agree that by the Eagles are meant the Saints only therefore he saith not the Vultures or such foule Fowles though it be their property likewise but the Eagles are gathered In them to note the regalitie of the Saints And this the p 〈…〉 o●d 〈…〉 Glosse obserueth duo quaerentibus vnum respondet of the two labourers in the field the Disciples demand where the one and the other shall be Christ he answers for his that they shall be gathered and leaues them to vnderstand what shall become of them which are none of his they shall be reiected T is true the Eagles doe not rise alone but they shall be gathered alone The Vultures shall appeare the wicked shall arise but to condemnation Damnable is that Rabbinicall conceit that none shall rise but those that shall be saued And the wicked by this corporall death shall be vtterly extinct in soule and body grounding themselues vpon those mistaken words of the q Psal 1.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à radice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to ●●e or stand Psalme The wicked shall not rise in iudgement non quod non resurgant sed quod in iudicio non resurgant he saith not that the wicked shall not rise but in iudgement they shall not rise saith r Hieron in Psal ● S. Hierome they sh●ll not ſ Cyri●l Hierus Is●g rise 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Cyrill of Hierusalem As Felons whose fact being euident are placed at the barre not so much to be conuicted as to be condemned Their sins their conscience c. shall so accuse that the Lord Iudge will not make any great inquisition to find out their fault but presently proceede to sentence t Greg. Moral in Iob. lib. 26. S. Gregory obserues that of the wicked and the godly the Eagles and the Vultures there shall be a fourefold manner of proceeding in iudgement First of the wicked Quidam iudicantur pereunt some are iudged and condemned perish by iudgement such as haue drawne neere vnto God with their lips but are farre from him in their hearts u Idem ibid. Professionem fidei retinentes opera professionis non habentes Hold ng a profession of the faith but not works of that prof●ssion These mens cause shall be heard I was hungry but you fed me not c. Such men shall be weighed in the scales and shall be found to be light shall perish in iudgement Secondly of the wicked Quidam non iudicantur pereunt Are not iudged and condemned perish without iudgement Notorious sinners that would not be curbed vpon any termes Of them the Apostle speaketh * 〈◊〉 2.12 As many as haue sinned without the Law shall perish without the Law x Greg● supra Neque enim necesse est lege perimi qui lege nunquam potuit teneri No nec ssitie that the lawlesse liuer should be tryed by a l●w as his life knew no law so his death shall be without law shall perish without iudgement Thirdly of the godly whereof Quidam iudicantur regnant are iudged and quitted saued by iudgement Secular men that vse the world are often foyled in the world and recouer by repentance Their cause is heard Esuriu● ded●stis mihi I was hungry and you fed me c and the sentence pronounced for them Come yee blessed of my Father c. Fourthly of the godly Quidam non iudicantur regnant are not iudged and raigne saued without iudgement Saints that haue transcended ordinarie holinesse hauing abstained from things lawfull because not expedient that they might be the more at liberty to serue the Lord. Such were the Apostles y 〈◊〉 1 ●8 Peter to Christ Ecce reliquimus omnia Behold we haue left all and followed thee Christ to Peter You ●o many as haue thus followed mee shall sit vpon twelue Thrones and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel Thus wee see the Saints shall not rise alone but shall be saued alone The Eagles onely to the body shall be gathered together It is not amisse in the next place to consider wherein the Eagles doe resemble the Saints and that 's in fiue properties ensuing z Gorr●n expos in locum Matth. ●4 The first is The Eagles moolt off their old feathers and so become bald The Saints of God doe so plucke off their sinfull feath rs from the soule that they become bald like vnto the Eagle They crucifie the old man with the lusts weed out sinne by the roots The Prophet Micah exhorting the people to repentance bids them a Micah 1. vlt. to inlarge their baldnesse like the Eagle Mary Magdalen did more then cast her feathers when shee conuerted her eyes her haire her lips feathers of wantonnesse into pledges of Repentance Her eyes that allured

inuiting 3. his gathering 4. and his drawing of vs For the first he saith d Mat. 8.28 Venite ad me c. Come vnto me all ye that are weary and heauy laden c. For the second e Luke 14.17 He sent his seruant at supper time to inuite the guests c. For the third f Mat. 23.37 Ierusalem Ierusalem how often would I haue gathered thee together c. And for the fourth g Iohn 12.32 If I be lifted vp will draw all after me Oh the peruersnesse of man Christ calleth we stop our eares at the voyce of this celestiall Charmer he inuiteth but we make excuses hee would gather vs but wee would not yet when these will not serue O rare mercy he draweth Trahit inuitos B●rn facit voluntarios He draweth vs vnwilling that he might make vs willing to be gathered I am now speaking of his gathering together and see with what passion and compassion hee speakes to Ierusalem Ierusalem Mat. 23.37 and O Ierusalem I would gather and how often would I gather thee gather thee as a Hen and as a Hen her Chickens her Chickens vnder her wings The damnable obstinacy of the Citizens that did refuse it See how opposite Christ is vnto Sathan Christ he gathereth the deuill disperseth Christ gathereth as a Hen the deuill disperseth as a Lyon Christ vnder his wings the deuill within his jawes The Prophet Dauids prayer was h Psal 17. Protect me vnder the shadow of thy wings then were Christs wings displayed when his armes were stretched out vpon the Crosse then were his armes and body open to embrace thee opened indeed by the nailes by the speare by the thornes and so he did both cor and brachia and latus aperire saith i In Lucam 14. cap. Stella opened all for thee that heauen might be opened to thee see the gathering together The Eagles then the Saints must and doe resort to this body and let it be our practice to resort vnto it by a commemoration of his death by an application of his merits Let vs remember him who hath remembred and thus remembred vs as to call to inuite vs to draw and to gather vs together Domine quid est homo Lord what is man that thou shouldest thus remember him Man forlorne man man rebellious man man sinfull man And homo quid est Deus Man what is the Lord that hee should remember thee the Lord that made thee re-made thee the Lord that gaue thee life died for thee c. It was Opus sine exemplo gratia sine merito donum sine pretio charitas sine modo saies mellisluent Bernard A worke not to be sampled grace not to be merited a gift not to be prised charity not to bee measured While the first Adam k Dormit Adam vt fiat Eua● moritur Christu vt fiat Ecclesia Aug. slept in the garden Eue was framed while the second Adam slept in the graue the Church was formed when the body was a carkas were the Eagles gathered together Let vs gather together his merits to vs to make them efficacious Iesu esto mihi Iesus That Iesus would be to vs a Iesus This it is to build our nests in the clefts of the Rocke The Rocke is Christ the clefts are the wounds of Christ to build our nests is by interesting our selues through faith in his merits Vt ille l August sit salus in te qui suscepit vulnera propter te That he might be a plaister an Antidote to thee that was wounded for thee and remember m Leo. Non itur ad Christum nisi per Christum no flying to Christ but by Christ therefore he saith n Iohn 14.6 I am the way the life and the truth I am the way which leadeth to the truth I am the truth that promise life I am the life which I lay downe for the life of the world Clamat errantibus Ego sum via clamat dubitantibus Ego sum veritas clamat lacescentibus Ego sum vita Bernard Christ is the way for vs to walke truth vs to direct life vs to refresh These things considered let vs take our Eagles wings that we may be safe vnder the protection of his wings and flye vnto the body So where the body is shall the Eagles be gathered together And thus much for the second exposition The third Exposition THe third generall Exposition Chrysost Theoph. St●lla Ferus Maldonat expos in Loc. Mat. 24. wherein the major part of Interpreters agree That in these words an adumbration of the last iudgement is contained For in the precedent verse Christ speakes of the o Verse 30. day and that day and his day when p Verse 31. the Sonne shall be reuealed And compares it q Verse 37. to Noahs time the old world and the flood To r Verse 40. Lots time Sodom fire and brimstone tels vs how some shall be acquitted and others condemned Two men labouring in the field the one shall be receiued the other refused s V●●e 41. Two women grinding at a mill the one shall be accepted the other reiected And then shuts vp all with this Epiphonema Vbicunque faerit corpus c. and so here is vbicunque for vbi corpus for Christus Aquilae for animae nothing expressed yet all prefigured an answer that needs an answer a resolution that needs an explication with a Lord shew vs this parable Wheresoeuer the body shall be c. there is the Cortex the husk but wheresoeuer Christ shall be c. there is the Medulla the sap The body then is Christ the Iudge the Eagles are the Saints the gathering together is the generall Iudgement This is the Center whereunto the Circumference of my meditations is to be gathered together 1 Iu●● The body is Christ Christ is the Iudge as humiliauit scipsum to dye for man to be iudged by man so exaltauit cum Deus to iudge his Iudges and so is fulfilled that of the Apostle The stone which the builders not onely improbauerunt but reprobauerunt not disliked but vtterly refused is become the head stone in the corner In the t Iohn 5.22 fifth of Iohn the Father iudgeth no man but hath committed all iudgement to the Sonne the Father hath surrendred and resigned all iudgement into the hands of his Sonne And therefore hee saith The Father iudgeth no man but the Sonne Before it seemed by Christs words the Father did what the Sonne doth not the Father loueth the Sonne and sheweth him all things that he doth tanquam Pater faciebat Filius videbat saith Augustine as if the Father were the Worker the Sonne the Spectator there I beheld Patrem facientem Filium expectantem the Father the doer the Son the looker on here I see Patrem vacantem Filiū iudicantē the Father at leasure in vacation the Sonne iudging in a