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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

vnderstanding to the simple Some parables the holy Ghost e Intus feris Greg. hom 9. in Ezech. in the Scripture hath written within and without expressed and expounded and that partly by Christ himselfe as that of the seed and some others and partly by the Apostles but chiefly by Saint Iohn who was both scriptor and interpres as learned f Tonstall lib. 1. de Euchar. Tonstall styles him he thought not fit to passe ouer the sayings of our Lord surda aure but recorded what our Sauiour spake expounded what he recorded For a view whereof take these ensuing particulars expressed expounded Ioh. 2.19 Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will raise it Ioh. 2.22 This hee spake of the Temple of his body Ioh. 6.55 For my flesh is meat indeed and my blood is drinke indeed Ioh. 6.63 It is the spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing Ioh. 7.38 He that beleeueth on me out of his belly shall flow riuers of running water Ioh. 7.39 This hee spake of the Spirit which the beleeuers should receiue Ioh. 12.32 And I if I be lifted vp will draw all after me Ioh. 12.33 This he spake signifying what death he should die Now as we are happy in these infallible expositions of Christ and his Eagle so hence are our teares that this Text a parabolicall prouerbe hath deserued that worth twice to be recorded by two seuerall Euangelists and yet not once to be illuminated by any diuine exp●sition Insomuch that the g Ob●c●ta clausa sunt omnia in sudore tamen v ltus nostri e●amus panem Aug. in P●●l 7● bread thereof that is the meaning is to be eaten in the sweat of our studies I may say of it what h Hieron ad Pau●in Hierome did of the seuen short Epistles of the foure Apostles t is mysticall and succinct brevis pariter longa short and yet long brevis in verbis longa in sententijs short in words long in the diuers but not aduerse expositions thereof And of them I shall deliuer none other then those which the ancient E●gles of the Church haue deliuered and which may methodically be reduced to foure generall Expositions In the progresse whereof O God my Redeemer that hast the key of Dauid openest where no man shutteth shuttest where no man openeth Thou that openedst thy mouth in parables open the mouth of mee the speaker that this parable may at this time be opened to this Assembly The first Exposition THe first that occurres vnto me and for the Authors antiquitie first to be discussed is i Origen tract 30. in Matth. Origens who hath sensed the bodie to be the Church the Eagles the Doctors the gathering together sensus and consensus the harmonie vnitie and consent in points of faith And to that in k Matth. 24 28. Matthew this is very probable where Christ premonisheth his Disciples Take heed that no man deceiue you vers 4. Many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many vers 5. Many false Prophets shall arise and deceiue many vers 11. Then our Lord prescribes rules how to auoyd them If any man shall say Loe here is Christ or there is Christ beleeue it not vers 23. If they shall say Ecce in deserto behold he is in the desart Goe not forth behold he is in the secret chambers beleeue it not vers 26. Then hee demonstrates as it were with a finger where he is that is where the Eagles are marke their flight it guides you to the light for vbicunque fuerit corpus c. Secretae Scripturae rectè Solitudines appellantur Scripture secretly expounded is a secret wildernesse Basilides saith Origen tells me Christ is here Marcion he is in the secret chambers Valentinus behold he is in the desart and bring Scripture with solitarie expositions to confirme their singular opinions But I beleeue them not ſ Sed nos illis cre●ere non debemus nec exire à prima ecclesiastica traditione nec aliter credere nisi quemadmodia Ecclesiae tradiderunt nobis Origen vt supra tract 29. sub fine and repaire for the Catholike veritie to the Church where the pasturing Eagles are No Scripture saith t 2 Pet. 1.20 S. Peter is of a priuate interpretation which is to be vnderstood not ratione personae but ratione modi A priuate man may expound but not in a priuate manner by stamping new expositions vpon holy writ diuers ab Ecclesiae consortio u Quicunque extra hanc domum agnum comederit profanus est Si quis in arca Noe non fuerit peribit regnante diluvio Hieron epist ad Damas pap It is profane to eat the Paschall Lambe out of this house to gather the flowers of interpretation without the limits of the Churches garden If any Father or Doctor shall broach any solitarie exposition against the Torrent of the Church we reiect it x Noverint Catholi● se cum Ecclesia Doctores recipe e non cum Doctorio is ●cclesia fidem se deserere debere Vincent Lyr. contra Nov●t c 23. it being the property of the faithfull to receiue the Eagles with the body the Doctors with the Church and not to forsake the faith of the Church with the Doctors Ex personis probamus fidem an ex fide personas Doth the faith depend vpon the persons or the credit of the persons vpon the faith We ought therefore to embrace what the Church holdeth The Church to hold what the Apostles haue deliuered The Apostles hauing deliuered what Christ taught who taught nothing but what he receiued of the Father as y Quod E●clesia ab Apostol●s Apostoli a Christo Christus a Deo accepit sine dubio tenendum Tertull. praescript advers haereses Tertullian iustly prescribes Origen himselfe whose house was * Vincent Lyr. vt supra illustrata martyrio famous for martyrdome himselfe adorned totius doctrinae magnificentia with all the magnificence of learning yet when hee began to set on foot priuate Tenets and Glosses z Origenes in acre dom●num gloria pro daemonibus impudenti crucifigit mendacio Bernard ser 54. in Cant. As that the paines of the damned should not be eternall and that Christ should be crucified in the ayre againe for the deuils as he was on earth for man herein we reiect this Eagle because hee was not gathered to the body Vincent ●yr Tertullian a worthy Ancient famous for his Apologies for the Christians for his writings for the Christian faith whom S. Cyprian reuerently esteemed as his master Da magistram yet when this Eagle began to doate in his old age vpon the dreames of Montanus and his associates who held themselues equall to the Apostles in diuine reuelations we say Hic magister non tenetur and herein reiect this Eagle as gone out from the body But when the lightning shall shine from the East vnto the West when

the West and Easterne Eagles the Doctors of the Greeke and Latine Church shall meet in one harmonicall center of agreement as they did in the foure first Generall Councels we thinke it more then common insolencie to dissent from them But when the lightning hath shone in the West and darknesse vpon the face of the East and when the Westerne Eagles shall decline from the Church wee leaue those and cleaue to them that are gathered to the bodie S. Hierome in his time complaines to Damasus how the a Hieron ad Damas pap testatia vasa vel lignea Non vastitas Elementi liquentis interiacens longitud● terrarum c. Nunc in Occidente Sol Iustitiae oritur in Oriente Lucifer ille qui ceciderit posuit thronum suum Idem vt supra Eagles of the East had degenerated nothing but weeds sowre grapes thornes and thistles growing in their garden therefore hee had his recourse to the Sunne that then shone in the Westerne Church not the depth of the seas not the length of the earth could separate him from this light for sayes he Wheresoeuer the body is thither will the Eagles be gathered together But as his complaint was of the corruption of the East we iustly resume it bewayling the now declined estate of the Westerne Church That the Eagle of Rome the Patriarke of the Occidentall Church hath taken her flight from her body lamentably musing with the Prophet How is the faithfull Citie become a harlot Rome ancient Rome b L●tius praesideres religione divina quam dominatione terrena Leo in Natal Apostolorum Petri Pauli ser 1. famoused more for thy religion then conquests sacked thou art of thy pretious margarite of faith and veritie That thy Pope is c Reverendiss Episcopus Winton in respons Apol. pro Iuramento Fidelitatis contra Bellar. alius à Christo another from Christ we doubt not But if alius ab Antichristo another from Antichrist we deseruedly call it into question The like complaint make we of the inferiour Eagles of Rome of their new deuised expositions to vphold their drooping and dying cause To instance but in one who is in stead of all Cardinall Bellarmine who hath translated Christ into the Pope That Stone that corner Stone that pretious corner Stone and sure found●tion which d ●say 28.16 Esay the Prophet foretold and e 1 Pet. 2.6 Peter the Eagle applyed vnto Christ f Jn Histrionica sua praes●t●o●● affix in ●●o●●e l●b de Rom Pont●f Bellarmine hath squared it for the Pope He can conuert omnes into solos Christ saith of the Chalice g Matth. 26.27 Drinke you all of this that is saith hee h Clarissimè patet verba illa ad s●los Apost●lo● pertinere Bellar. de Sacram. Euchar lib. 4. c. 25. §. Re●●at●igit●r the Priests alone and manducationem in Monarchiam i Acts 10.13 Peter kill and eat ergo Peter was Head of the Church Therefore wee reiect this and such Eagles because they haue not kept them to the body And hereby we descry the Brownists and Separatists to be no Eagles those erring starres that haue no fixed motion in the Churches orbe who in stead of reso●ting to the body doe cut off themselues from vs by a schismaticall rent k Expos in Matth 24. S. Chrysostome obserueth that our Sauiour saith not exite but nolite credere goe you out but beleeue them not But like an expert Captaine prohibites all excursions from the Churches bounds nolite exire goe not out Beleeue them not auoid heresie Goe not out take heed of schisme Say our Church be deformed yet shee is not infectious Say the chaffe is mingled with the wheat Do we for the chaffes-sake forsake the threshing floore of the Lord Saint l Greg pastoral part 3. admonit 23. Gregory notes that our Lord in the Gospell ioynes salt and peace together * Mark 9.50 Haue salt with your selues and peace one with another Sal sinc pace non virtutis est donum sed damnationis argumentum Let your salt of doctrine season the Church with a peacefull vnion for the one without the other is not virtuous but vitious But most of all that Father Bishop Martyr S. Cyprian in th●t admirable Treatise of his De vnitate Ecclesiae h●th battered this forlorne error m Hanc vnitatem qui non tenet tenere se fidem credit Solis multi radij sed lumen vnum Rami arboris multi sed robur vnum de fonte vno rivi plurimi defluunt numerositas licet diffusa videatur vnitas tamen seruatur in origine Cypr. de vnit Ecclesiae nu 4. The vnitie of the Church he that holdeth not doth he thinke he holdeth the faith Many beames issue from the Sunne yet but one Sunne diuers Riuers streame from the fountaine yet but one head many branches arise from one root yet but one tree breake off a branch fractus germinare non potest it withereth it dyeth separate a Riuer from the fountaine praecisus arescet it dryeth vp and so no hauing of God for our Father vnlesse we take the Church for our Mother Let not Novatian a Separatist boast of his morall gifts and rectitude of faith which otherwise may be in him Christianus non est qui in Ecclesia Christi non inest He is no Christian that is not in the Church of Christ He may giue all his goods to the poore and his body to be burned yet * Non erit illa fidei corona sed poena perfidia Idab nu 12. occidi potest coronari non potest If he die without the Churches limits killed he may be crowned with martyrdome he cannot be Hitherto Cyprian Certes this sequestration sheweth them to be no Eagles who are not gathered to the body All this while haue I fought vnder Origens banner I leaue him now and proceed to the second exposition The second Exposition ANd that 's of n Hi●●on Comme 〈◊〉 in Matth. Hierome and o T●e 〈◊〉 in l●c 〈◊〉 homi●us proper no● mortius est in casam positas Matth 24. Iob ●9 2● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whi●h s●●nti●s to●●●● 〈◊〉 ●●l Theophylact who conceiue by the bodie to be meant Christ suffering and dead vpon the Crosse by the Eagles the Saints whose garments are washed in the blood of the Lambe and by the gathering together the efficacie of his passions Wheresoeuer the dead body is as S. Matthew hath it and in Iob Wheresoeuer the wounded or slaine is which reading Th●ophylact keepeth not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to which also p Hae●●●●tia 〈…〉 similitud● c●●●ris ●●●u●●m●●a Bez● ann l. ● 1 C●●a●er Beza doth assent not the body but the carcasse to which the Eagles are gathered Holy Scripture proclaymeth that Christ suffered that Christ died for vs vpon the Crosse witnesse the q lib. 1● 3● Tormentors that abstained