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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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THE PASSION SERMON AT PAVLS-CROSSE vpon GOOD-FRIDAY last Aprill 7. 1626. By Thomas Ailesbury Sanguis Christi est Clauis Paradisi Tertullian LONDON Printed by G. M. for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard 1626. THE PASSION SERMON at Pauls-Crosse vpon Good-Friday last Aprill 7. 1626. 1 Cor. 2.8 Had they knowne they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory SAint Paul the Trumpe and solemne Proclaimer of the Gospell who on earth sate at Gamaliels feet and in a diuine rapture was assumed into a higher Schoole in Heauen where hee gained the audience of vnspeakable mysteries The deputed deligated Doctor and Apostle of the Gentiles 1 Cor. 1. made Christ crucified his preaching his learning and his glory The subiect of his preaching We preach Christ crucified Gal. 6 14. the obiect of his glory God forbid I should glory saue in the Crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ The Sap of his learning I determined not to know any thing saue Iesus Christ and him crucified Very well may the death of life the end of eternity and the Obsequies of him that could not dye make worke for this great Apostle T is learning enough to sit at the Crosse by the feete of Christ no Schoole to Caluary no Chaire to the Crosse no Doctor vnto Christ no Lesson to him crucified This is Iacobs Ladder Moses Chaire Dauids Key and Solomons Throne wherein I know not if the loue of God the Father was more ardent to exhibit or the Will of God the Sonne more prompt to this propitiatory expedition Oblatus est quia voluit And Christ would neuer haue beene so willing but he knew it to be of soueraigne vse for mankinde misit redemptionem Hee sent redemption to his people profitable for vs but it cost him deare redemit sanguine it was the price of bloud Were euery Starre a world here is plenteous redemption for them all of great extent which reacheth vnto all Omnia trahit ad seipsum In this good all our felicity doth consent the effusion of his Bloud not without paine that paine without paralell Was there euer sorrow like to my sorrow Paine concomitated with shame Cum iniquis reputatus est he makes vp the number of the wicked as vniust as could be Sicut ouis ad occisionem as vnkind as might be massacred by his owne Nation A people whom God had sequestred to himselfe yet when we view the record of their liues they make it good that their Election was not of workes but of grace They had Abraham to their Father could God to that Patriarke vpon the exercise of his omnipotency forge or raise a more flinty Ceneration The Messias the perfume of their Offrings the bloud of their Sacrifices the fire of their Holocausts shadowed in their Ceremonies fore-spoken by their Prophets all this could not dispell that mist of darknesse which setled vpon their hearts Si enim cognouissent for had they knowne they would not haue crucified the Lord of Glory The parts and persons of this Text are two fold First the persons nocent the Iewes Secondly the party Innocent The Lord of glory Of them the Apostle speaketh first by way of supposition Si cogno●issent Had they knowne Secondly by way of position the sequel inferreth non cognouerunt they haue not knowne him In the second part there are two branches 1. The Indignitie of the Passion the worst that might be They crucified 2. The dignitie of the Patient the best that could be the Lord of glory These pillars must carrie my meditations and your attentions I begin with the Iewes ignorance and shall end with their malice to the Lord of glory THE Iewes proceed against their Messias out of errour Ignorance was that cloud The first part of their ignorance in which all the stormes that fell vpon our Sauiours head were ingendred so the due punishments which hung ouer their heads and by the tradition of iust reuenge vpon their children to them were vailed Ierusalem si cognouisses haec a Citie in this miserable in that she did not vnderstand her approaching misery COuld the Iewes bee ignorant of their Messias The Iewes could not see Christ by the light of Nature They were men and vpon the first Man God stampt his Image as the Sunne is guilded with light so the Soule was engrauen with knowledge but Adam and his wife ambitious to enlarge their Science would steale it forth of the sides of an Apple that all was cancelled and obliterated by their fall and a penance due to their pride to know as Gods was to bee as ignorant as beasts Thus man an Egregious creature was yoaked with beasts who may say truly what God Ironically Gen. 3. Ecce Adam factus est quasi vnus e nobis see man is become as one of vs here 's little light left for the Iewes to see their Messias Man naturally endeuours to repaire these losses to set downe some thing in the naked tables of his soule the corporall organs no sooner giue leaue to the soule to vnfold it selfe but it readily makes loue to knowledge Dame natures best scholler makes vs no lesse desirous then happy in the enioying Yet without supernall reuelation Philosophie begetteth not Theologie Hierom. Hoc doctus Plato nesciuit hoc eloquens Demostenes ignorauit Platoes learning could neuer towre so high nor Demosthenes eloquence expresse it Were euery Iew as Moses well read in Aegyptian learning and Aegypt was then the worlds Academy Greece and Palestine had not yet spoiled her of that Iewell such Herbalists as Salomon whose skill reacheth from the Cedar to the Thistle such Secretaries to Nature that the earth should not quake nor the Sea passe her bounds except their Art should impale the one confirme the other or that the voice of thunder could not be heard in our Land but they so well acquainted with it as if they had made that Canon and charged it with that Bullet or the Clouds not set on fire by lightning without the sparkes of their inuention to kindle them or those Christall bottles of the aire thin as the liquor they containe could not emptie their moist burthens vpon the earth without their prognostication or the power of some domineering planet to vnstop them could they number the Starres read their meaning in their faces I load your patience what of all this This is a wise madnesse saith Iustin Martyr a busie vanitie saith Basil and a curious fansie Ioh 38 4. These men darken counsell by words without knowledge Where wast thou when I laid the foundation of the earth declare Iob 38.25.26 If thou hast vnderstanding who laid the corner stone who shut vp the Sea within doores when I made a cloud the garment thereof and the thicke darkenesse a swadling-band and said hitherto shalt thou come here shall thy proud waues be staied The Lord weigheth the winds and waters by measure maketh a