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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLES-CROSSE the second day of June being the last Sunday in EASTER Terme 1622. BY THOMAS AILESBVRY Student in Diuinitie HIERON in MATTH Quoties diem illum cogito toto corpore contremisco LONDON Printed by George Eld for Leonard Becket and Robert Wilson and are to be sold neere the Temple Church and at Graies Inne new Gate 1623. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE LORD AND REVEREND FATHER in God IOHN by diuine prouidence Bishop of LINCOLNE Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of ENGLAND OF all created things Right Honorable which doe in their kinde set forth the Creators greatnesse Coeli enarrant c And in the firmament the Heauens glory the Sunne In Sole posuit tabernaculum suum And in the Sunne these three The glorious light piercing beames and refreshing heat thereof draw with them most admiration Man an earthly Sunne amazeth man to consider what is in man But when these three Learning Vertue and Honour meet in one man as in one Center who can but admire who can but to such a man owe and tender all obseruancie From hence is that Scitum of a knowing man Honorem esse escam Doctrinam hamum Virtutem rete amorís But quorsum ista Say that all these as all must say who will speake the truth not onely are but doe after a goodly proportion shine in your Lordship shall it not be said presumption in me who am as yet but a twig of the Leviticall Tree to offer my fruits which may seem perhaps but leaues and that first of all to your Selfe who are so firme so fruitfull and so profitable a root both in our Church Common-wealth Yet because both Church and Common-wealth doe truly say that of You which St. Bernard hoped he might say of his Eugenius In te facta est mutatio non de te nec priori statui tuo successit promotio sed accessit I repaire to your Lordship though I bring no more to you then Noahs Doue did to him A little branch in my mouth being very sensible that seeing it sprang from a tree in Gods garden that the onely putting forth of your hand may not onely take me that bring it into the Arke but giue to it growth with a plenteous blessing which being all my suit to your Lordship I humbly beseech the God of heauen to assist you with his grace foeliciter currere ac foeliciùs in Christi pietate consummare to the great good of Church and Common-wealth here and to the vnspeakable good of your owne soule and body hereafter Your Honours vnfainedly devoted in all obseruance and dutie THOMAS AILESBVRY TO MY MOST worthy Friend SIR GRati est cui multum debes ei plurimum velle debere All that know me know that I owe you much more then my selfe And God the searcher of the heart is priuie to my gratefull acknowledgement thereof I dare not expresse your kindnesse nor your name for I am well acquainted how pleasing it is to you to doe well and vnpleasing to heare thereof hauing learn't with Seneca That Qui dedit beneficium taceat narret qui accepit The knowledge of the ill successe of hiding Talents in the Earth and your especiall desire to read aswell as to heare haue moved me to suffer this Sermon to be printed The good therein is Gods and his grace working in me The perfection is his the imperfection mine owne For wee haue this treasure in earthen vessells My chiefe intention was to please God and to ayme at his glory But I know not how an affection of humane affectation hath interserted it selfe As that man thinking to satisfie nature with food vnawares offendeth in gluttony Per expositionem patefeci dona per confessionem detego vulnera In my Sermon I layd open what Christians are to practise and in this confession what in me they are to pardon God giue a blessing to mine indeauours and a pardon to mine infirmities and multiply his grace vpon you and yours in this world that when these temporary meanes faile you may bee receiued into the euerlasting habitation Your Seruant in Christ Iesus Thomas Ailesbury Faults escaped in printing which the Printer prayeth the courteous Reader to correct with his Pen the Author being absent Fol. Lin. Fault Correction 5. 23. pasturing pastoring 9. 22. arescet arescit 25. 1. And the and that the. 29. 5. caught into caught vp into 29. 27. Ea Eagles 36. 18. * ● 34. 1. but speciall but by speciall A SERMON PREACHED AT Paules-Crosse LVKE 17. verse 37. Vbicunque fuerit corpus illuc congregabuntur Aquilae Wheresoeuer the body is thither will the Eagles be gathered together THAT Adam did eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree by faith we constantly beleeue it by experience we wofully lament it But the a Habet curiosam cognitionē adhuc incompertam Pererius in Gen. lib. 3. q. 2. species or kinde of fruit that he did eat if it were a Pomegranate or a Fig if it were a Grape or an Apple holy Scripture hath not expressed The substance of his fault that he did eat is recorded but the circumstance what kinde of fruit he did eat is not at all reuealed That lawlesse eating hath occasioned a lawfull iudgement which Christ in the Gospell hath positiuely declared but the time when and place where that iudgement shall be is not by him in any place disclosed And therefore when his Disciples would haue pressed him to it by a bold and curious question Where shall it be Lord our Sauiour in my Text shapeth such an answer that needs an explication Intimating thereby Gods counsels to be as deepe waters which mortall men may not thinke to draine in the hollow of their hands Vbicunque fuerit corpus saith hee wheresoeuer the body is thither will the Eagles be gathered together Dauid prophesied of Christ b Psal 78.2 Aperiam in parabolis os meum that his lips should distill parables In this Text in part his prophesie is fulfilled And parables haue in them what Fulgentius generally applyeth to the Scriptures c In S●ripturis abundat quod robustus comedat quod parvulus sugat Fulgent ser de Confessor Et quod robustus comedat quod parvulus sugat Meat for the great ones milke for the weake ones And that of d Diuinus sermo sicut mysterijs prudentes exercet sic plerunque superficie simplices refovet habet in publico vnde parvulos nutriat seruat in secreto unde mentes sublimium admiratione suspendat Greg. epist ad Leandr affix fronti Moral in Iob. Gregory agreeth with euery parable That which may nourish the little ones habet in publico That which suspendeth with admiration the profoundest wits seruat in secreto It is a deepe and yet a shallow Ford vbi Agnus ambulet vbi Elephas natet where the Lambe may wade the Elephant may swim Therein are mysteries to exercise the prudent and histories to giue