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A10062	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.	Price, Henry, 1566 or 7-1600.	1599 (1599)	STC 20307; ESTC S100876	32,251	86

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 admit●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 ●●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 cōfort for the fainting First a word of the Snib thē 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

sentence shall passe and it Go you cursed It is so seuere There is their Thither Where an execution is done and the officer the Diuell And the Instrument of Fier and the kind Burning and the measure eternitie There is their Thither O then how cursed they who shal bee gathered thither But who they All saue so many as shall be gathered to that other Thither But who they Harken and hee will tell you who must bring you thither Eagles not a wing of other male shall bee gathered thither For it is like lightning that this Iudge toulde you hee will come And lightning you know Mat. 24.27 no bird but the Eagle will broake Now shoulde you doubt who these Eagles bee and aske first of Origen hee will answere in generall Qui in passionem domins credunt They which Iay holde vpon Christs passion Then of Hiero and hee will returne Sancti The same but in fewer wordes Then of Cyrill and hee will iumpe with Ierome both in sence and wordes Sancti the Saints Then of Ambrose and he will tell you in effect as much 2 Chro. 5.13 Instorum Animae the soules of the iust Thus like Salomons noise of Priests which sounded trompets at his bringing in the Arke into his temple they were of the citie of Dauid as these are that is of Hierusalem which is from aboue were there no fewer than 120. of them yet such an Vni-sound would they all keepe that you would say they were as one blowing Trompets that they sang and made but one sounde in singing But would you in particuler knowe whether you be anie of those Eagles yea orno And by consequent whither you shall be gathered togither Take of mee 6. notes of an Eagle that will not faile you 1 Your Nest 2 Your eye 3 Your Flight 4 Your Foe 5 Your Age 6 Your witte 1 If it be on the Rocke 2 If it can broke the Sun 3 If it be high and swift 4 If it be the Dragon 5 If it be well renewed 6 It it bee first to pease then to carie what you seaze on By each of which that you may be better able to examine your selues I will by God his assistance speake a worde of each Be you right bred therefore Iohn 309 1.30.31 First you will not build but vpon the rock for so saith Iohn The Eagle makes her nest on high she abideth on the rock euen vpon the toppe of the rocke So farre will you bee either from the negligence of some who pearch they care not where or the pride of other some who builde high enough but not sure enough or the stifnes of other some who nest in the ruines of the rocke There is a first kinde of men who hauing caught Iustus ex fide sua vinet the iust shall liue by faith by the ende runne away counter with Pythagoras his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they haue founde and flatter themselues with a conceipt that the waie forsooth to heauen they cannot loose follow they the trace of Arrius yea almost of Mahomet himselfe For the iust that is saie they the morrallie-honest man shall liue that is shall bee admitted into the ioyes of heauen by his faith that is in the lieu of that kinde of deuotion or religion whereto he addicted himselfe be it whatsoeuer it will Be any of you of this fether so headdie as to take that way which commeth next to hande for the next way to heauen 1. Cor. 10.4 hee is no Eagle he buildeth not on the Rocke For the Rocke is Christ Iesus and besides him there is not giuen a name by which they may bee saued As it fared with Paules fellow-passengers in their wracke the shippe continued they in it woulde saue them all but the shipboate were it kept in to it would loose all So fareth it in this wrack of saluation Bee this rocke Christ built vpon hee will secure all But bee any other Sauiour relyed vpon hee will no lesse than faile all As of the priuiledge his death had in sauing alone it is excellently saide multorum c. Many a Saints death hath beene pretious in the sight of the Lord but neuer a one to bee so innocent as the ransome of the whole worlde Solus dominus noster Iesus Christus extitit in quo omnes crucifixi omnes mortui omnes sepulti omnes etiam suscitati One Christ Iesus is found through whose side all men are crucified with whose last gaspe all men gaue vp the ghost in whose graue all men are buried by whose resurrection all men are quickned Euen so of the priuiledge his faith hath may it bee as truely added Multorum inconspectu hominum speciosa fides many another religion hath beene a faire shewe in the sight of men but none of them could iustifie before God Onely a true faith in Christ Iesus hath beene able to crucifie the heate of lust to kill the heate of concupiscence to bury the memorie of sinne to quicken to the life of righteousnes The life which is gained by knowing him hath a singling Haec in the foreheade of it Haec est vita aeterna Iohn 17.3 this is the eternall life indeede to know thee and the Iesus thou hast sent And this is that one faith which is compassed in with so glorious a couple as one God before and one Baptisme behind There is a Second kinde who build Ephes 4.5 super altitudmem too indeede aloft but it is cordis sui as Iust saith the loft of their owne prowde he art And this hart of theirs as in an Anatomy you know it is like the Poets Pernassus being Biceps double-ridged hauing a left knoll puffed vp with the conceipt of innocencie in abstayning from euill and a right and yet wrong swollen with opinion of desert by doing good hath giuen site to two other mis-builders neither of which can make good that they are Eagles for they builde not on the rocke The one sort our young Angelicall maisters whome Donatus hath had the scowring of and left them nothing but puritie The other our old Meritours who are so farre before-hand as to haue made euen with God for the purchase of heauen The former would be reputed ready in the Text were they so they coulde not mee thinkes but meete with that Rebater at least would they marke it in the fourth of Iames we offende who not only a few worldlings which will heare a sermon at the Crosse but all new recusants too and that not in one or two but in many things In many things wee offende all Or that through-cooler in the 65. of Esay 5. where they heare better newes of these perfect on s who were so much holyer than the rest Esay 65.5 that none must presse into their company then that they were as smoake in the wrath of the Lord and a fire that burneth all the day long The latter would be esteemed as pregnant in