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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