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The eagles flight or six principall notes, or sure markes for euery true Christian to soare vp to the euerlasting nest of Gods eternall kingdome. As it was deliuered in a most godly and fruitfull sermon at Paules Crosse. By Maister Price of S. Iohns in Oxford.
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vnto vs hath in the one preuented and in the other as it were put by our curiositie For concerning the time Mark 13.32 he cleane discorageth vs to enquire elswher telling vs that with it not the Angels nor the Son himselfe much lesse may we be acquainted And for the place here giues he vs almost as little heart makeing his Apostles whose priuiledge he saide it was to know the misteries of heauen no directer than an indefinit answere vouchsafing their wher not so much as a Here or a There but putting it by as a demaund which misliked him with an vnresoluing whersoeuer Of which wheresoeuer of his you are not yet to conceiue as of an answere whereby hee purposed to shake them off vtterly as vnresolued Luk. 2.27 for more liberal of these secrets then thus was hee when in a generality hee gaue them to vnderstand that hee woulde come in the Clowdes but the mistery which hee refuseth to breake vnto them is the particular place or part of this Ayre where this greate Assise shall be held which notwithstanding yet are there of the peaching lignage of ambitious Adam Wisards who as if they had crept into the heart of the Almightie and ouerheard his secrets would beare the world in hande that they haue learned and distinctly know that ouer the valley Iosaphat nere Ierusalem at the foote of the hill from whence the Lord was taken vp into heauen shall this Iudges throne be setled This Counceller this mightie God so Esay tearmes our Redemer is silent and yet dares dust and ashes presume to speake Wheresoeuer quoth hee and designes no place euen here say they and appoint at the valley Iosaphat True indeede is it that the Lord will summon all nations into the valley Iosaphat for so hath hee promised Ioel. 3.2 but whether into material Iosaphat or Iosaphat so tearmed because the Iudgement which here shall bee pronounced shall resemble that which there was executed vpon the Moabites and Amonites â—â—ustly with Rapertus Fuitiensis doubt For what is Iosaphat if you interpret it but the iudgement of the Lord and what is the valley but the depth of that Iudgement into which Salomonâ— assures sures the young man that God will bring him after all the iollitie of his youth after hee hath cheered himselfe in the daies of his youth and walked in the way of his heart and in the sight of his eyes Eccl. 11.9 Now long these men for a reason of mee why the Prophet should specifie this place Quest Ment hee not to teach the Church that heere literally was this Iudge to be expected My answere is readie two reasons had hee to make choyce of it Answ by allusion to which hee might shadowe to the Iewes the day of iudgement One the freshnes of that famous deliuerances memory which the Lord had wrought in it for theÌ„ Another the great resemblance that will be betweene that generall and that particuler iudgement of his For from the time of this Prophet yet had there not a mans age passed since without stroke of theirs the Lord had in this valley within the sight of this City dispatched three whole Armies which had ioyned forces to beleaguer them and further in such sort as in that generall iudgement hee will dispach the wicked For as here though the Moabite the Amonite the inhabitant of Seyre bounde themselues against Iuda Yet cannot they preuaile So there though the Moabitish flesh the Amonitish world the sauage inhabitaÌ„t of Seir the Diuel enter a league against th'elect yet shall they haue no hand at them As theirs had so shall these their complices haue swords of their owne consciences accusing them to turne into their owne bowels And as the same place was to them a valley of iudgement which to the Iewes was a valley of blessing 2. Chron. 20.26 so shal the great day be to the wicked a day of iudgement for they shall receiue that heauie doome go you cursed which to the godly shall be a day of blessing for they shall heare that ioyfull voice come you blessed c. Here therfor let proud flesh take warning to giue ouer inquiry after this secret of God let careles flesh take aduice to looke into the secret of his own heart Let it not busy thee to know where thou shalt be iudged but how thou maiest answere at iudgedment Knowest thou the place yet canst thou not withdraw thy selfe froÌ„ it appeare thou must And knowest thou not thy selfe ill canst thou answere for thy selfe defenceles wilt thou be coÌ„demned Bethinke thy selfe whether if here in earth thou wert to come to thine answere for a crime pretended to be committed by thee it were wisdome to spend thy time in harkning after the place of execution and not rather to imploy it in prouiding thy selfe of friends answers against the day of thy triall And then say how much better thou shalt be then madde if knowing that thou must once render an answere of thy life past thou yet wearie thy witte onely in search after the place where neuer bethinking thy selfe so much as how thou maiest render thy account Luk. 10.42 Thinkest thou not thou shalt at last haue Marthaes checke for troubling thy selfe about many thinges where as thou mightest with more case haue purchased many commendations by offending but that one thing which is necessarie haue one of the three which witnesse in heauen giue thee testimonie of so much discretion as to chose the better part which shall not bee taken from thee Iohn 21.22 This question thou seest likes thy Sauiour as ill as that of Peters did what should become of Iohn and therefore propose it when thou list vnto him his reply to thee is like to bee as then was to him busie bodie what is that to thee follow thou mee This of the Snib the first of those two notes in this Wheresoeuer now a worde of the other that is the comfort Flesh and bloode is naturally wont in a calme to heed to hope So in a storme to abiect to despaire and like a Bladder that swels indeede with a puffe but irrecouerably shrinks with a pricke Bee wee confronted with no temptation and assaile there neither persecution our constancy nor crosse our patience nor guiltinesse our peace of conscience On scowre wee and so high a top beare wee as to deuoure no lesse than heauen in expectation But hap there either the smallest trouble to fall fowle of vs or our selues a farre off to descry the Iustice of God with the hiddeousnes of our owne sinne Straight vaile wee Bonnet and scarce haling on looke for naught but when wee should wracke Then can we not heare of a Sauiour the voice of an accuser rings so lowde in our cares then can wee not see to heauen the steeme of hell hath so blinded our eyes then seeme wee still to strike eyther vpon the sandes of some secret or the rocke of our
THE EAGLES FLIGHT Or Six principall notes or sure markes for euery true Christian to so are vp to the euerlasting nest of Gods Eternall kingdome AS IT WAS DELIVERED in a most godly and fruitfull Sermon at Paules Crosse By Maister Price of S. Iohns in Oxford ¶ Imprinted at London by RICHARD BRADOCKE for Iohn Busbie and are to be soulde at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Crane 1599. THE EAGLES FLIGHT Luk. 17 37. Wheresoeuer the deade bodie is thither shall the Eagles bee gathered together WEre that fruit a grape as some scholemen holde or a fig as with Moses Barcepha Theodoret resolues or an apple as some other suppose for a taste of which our first Parents Esau-like sould their birthright in Paradice Sure I am that in that there was not Iuice enough to quench that thirst after higher knowledge which the heate of Ambition had bred in the roote of mankinde But that draught which in his infancie but like a corne of salt a little distempered Adam his tast since rysing to a greater growth like an habituall salt phlegme hath bred the passion of dropsie in his posteritie that now the more they do know the more they may know and the admitâ—ing them to one secret is but the hartning them to challendge to be made partakers of another So itcheth both the eye after the varietie of sightes and the care of soundes that as the wise man saith neither is the one satisfied with seeing Eccl. 1.8 nor the other with hearing Christ no soner tooke occasion by a bold question which a Pharise asked him of the time of the day of iudgement to disclose vnto his disciples the signes which might giue them warning of the approch of it and the suddaine seperation of the elect from the reprobate but one pressed him and as it were setting shoulder to the Portall of Gods very priuie Chamber in they must and bee tolde they must where also this greate Sessions should be held Our Sauiour to leaue a testimonie in the worlde how well curiositie pleaseth him shaps them a kinde of answere which might so farre resolue them as their saluation needed though not so fully as their humors desired and in a prouerbiall kinde of speach taken from the flight of Fowles vnto their prey giues them to vnderstande that the distinct place of this appearance was not to bee enquired after But a place there shoulde bee in which it shoulde bee made and towardes it should all flesh as assuredly flocke to receiue their doome as euer Flowe did to gorge themselues with their prey Here therefore is a flight of Fowle to a marke the Fowle that must flie are Eagles the marke at which the flight must bee is a bodie the manner in which this Fowle shall flie is they shall bee gathered togither And the place where the marke or bodie shall be set is yet vnknowne to these Fowles but wheresoeuer it is thither shall they make repaire By the bodie is ment Christ Iesus who at the fulnesse of time shall appeare glorious in that bodie in which hee once conuersed with vs contemned By the Eagles are vnderstoode the elect faithfull seruants of God who at this appearance shall as Dauid saith Ps 36.8 bee not onely banketed but euen to the fulnes satisfied or as the original worde signifieth in a sort surcharged with the fatnes of his howse By the gathering togither of these Eagles is shadowed the resurrection of the iust in which the Trumpe shall blow and the deade shall rise incorruptible and they who haue falne asleep in Christ shall from all the quarters of the worlde bee summoued to meete him in the Clowdes By this little therefore that hath beene â—â—oken some small glimse being giuen of me naturall meaning or drift of this scripture let vs I pray you for the better conceiuing of it enter into a more particuler viewe of the seuerall parts of it taking them in order as they lie Wheresoeuer This wheresoeuer of our Sauiour is a reply vpon a Where of his disciples whereby in the wordes next before my Text they had made bolde to demaund of him of the place in which that seperation should bee of two in one bed and two in one fielde and two at one mill whereof hee had tolde them that the one should bee receiued the other refused The originall greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where Lord though it more ordinarily import but the places and bee englished where yet also sometime signifying the motion to a place and being fitly translated whither as it appeareth by that one verse of Sophocles into which in both these sences hee hath contriued it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 makes it probable that they made two demaundes in one worde one after the place in which this sentence of separation should passe another after the place into which they that were thus seperated shoule passe In effect first to what barre should all flesh repaire for their doome then whither they should bee directed by that doome Duo quaerentibus vnum respondet saith one Christ shapes them but one answere to two questions True but such an one for an answere as the Perspectiues say it is one for a Sunbeame which is made of two beames gathered into one or such a one as you vse to say two friendes make which are one in deede in hearte but two in strength For it cannot bee but the Epitomizer of Ten in Two the digester of so large a volume as the whole lawe into so briefe a summe as Loue God aboue all things and thy neighbour as thy selfe shoulde bee as plentifull in his answere as flesh and bloode should bee in a question Is their question where they should make their appearance see his answere wheresoeuer hee shall keepe his Court. Is there question whither they shall bee translated See his answere whither hee hath gone before to prepare them a place In fine see in one wheresoeuer both a snib for the curious a coÌ„fort for the fainting First a word of the Snib theÌ„ a word of the comfort Wheresoeuer The diuine nature as it is very mercy it selfe so it is also very wisdome it selfe and as in mercy it hath vouchsafed to impart vntoman that hee shall one day bee brought vnto iudgement so it hath in wisdome thought good to conceale from him when shall be this day where this iudgement into which he shall be brought For as the assurance of a iudgement to bee indured cannot chuse but worke a feare of often or grieuous offending in a reasonable man So it is not vnliklie but that so greate fauour as to bee made priuie to the time place of this iudgement would breed a securitie in the heauie hart a pride in the swelling heart of wicked men Hereupon th' eternall wisdome by whome the world was made fore seing how much more conuenient the ignorance than the knowledge of these two circumstances would proue