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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

the heauens to vanish with a great noise The Elements with feruent heat to be dissolued and the earth in a fierie flame Tell mee what holy thoughts and chast conuersation would then possesse you Saint q A●●●arrat i● Psal 49. Augustine expounding those words of the Psalme Our God shall come fire shall goe before him and in his presence a mighty tempest Doth saith he the fire and tempest fright vs let vs be changed and there is no cause of feare ignem palea timet auro quid facit The Chaffe of sinne shall be consumed the gold of piety shall be refined stipulas ad te congeris veniet ignis Why heapest thou to thy selfe combustible matter Cast away thy sin the fire hath not whereon to burne wherewith to worke T is very obseruable Christ neuer treats of this subiect but he addes a speciall caueat In Saint Mathew hee concludeth with the good r Math. 24 45. and bad seruant the one expecteth his Masters comming and is blessed Th' other smites his fellows eates and drinkes with the drunken and is accursed And in this Chapter Remember ſ Luk. 17.32 Lots wife desist not in doing good lest in looking backe to Sodome Thou art intercepted thy affections metamorphosed and thou neuer turne from Sodom Forget not the sodainnesse of his comming as a thiefe in the night nothing more vnexpected as the Lightning nothing more swift as the twinckling of an eye nothing more speedy t Luk. 17.26 As it was in the daies of Noah so shall it be in the daies of the sonne of man Noahs time and ours alike in sinne alike in eating drinking alike in chambering and wantonnesse The Preachers tongue would be defiled Christian eares would be offended at the nomination of those things that are done in secret The face of the world in Noahs time was growne so filthy with sin that the Lord was constrained to wash it with a flood The drosse of sinne in our time doth so abound that it must be purified with fire And as then the vnexpected flood came and swept them all away so the vnlooked for fire shall come when many least dreame thereof Noahs Fabricke was a reall Sermon therefore Saint Peter stiles him the Righteous Preacher How many Noahs Math. 3. and Iohn the Baptists cry vnto vs Now is the axe laid c. Me thinkes I heare the sons of Lamech scoffing at Noah and his Arke saying what meaneth this fellow to saile on drie land yet they could not laugh him out of his faith we daily heare the scoffes of the insensible wicked at religious exercises but Woe vnto you that laugh now for you shall howle and lament Me thinkes I see the sonnes of Lamech how they came wading to the Arke middle-deepe crauing admittance but were denied Methinkes I foresee the Hic-scorners of this age knocking at Heauen gate crauing an entrance but are repelled with a Depart from me ye workers of iniquity Is then the houre so sodaine and nigh at hand what meaneth sinne thus to flourish still gluttonie still carnality sensuality still still pride still vsury oppression grinding of the poore still all and more then all I say no more but with Iohn the Baptist Repent and amend for the kingdome of God is at hand When these Eagles shall be gathered together The fourth Exposition THere is yet the fourth sense of these words which I haue reserued for a conclusion of all and that is Gregories anagogicall sense who interpreteth them of the life to come Christ with his body is corporally ascended into heauen thither shall the Eagles bee gathered v Q●ia ●oe●est● sedi incarnatus ve●er redemptor praesideo electorum animas cum ca●ne soluero ad coelesti quoque s●b ●ua●● Greg. mo●al in Iob. lib. 39. cap. 14. Hee is enthronized in the heauenly seat thither will he lift vp his chosen also This is that which hee speaketh in x Ioh. 12 26. Iohn Where I am there shall my seruant be and in the Apocalyps To him that y Reu. 3. last ouercommeth will I giue to sit with mee in my throne Our throne Christs and Christs the Fathers throne where we shall sit not without him but with him with me in my throne None shall bee with him but his seruant none shall sit on his throne but he that ouercommeth none shall be gathered but the Eagles There shall our Eagles eyes behold him face to face The Angels see him and yet desire to see him Satiantes desiderant desiderantes satiantur Greg. they behold him their fill yet stil desire to behold him and in his sight there is fulnesse of Ioy. This Pomgranate without dead seeds this Rose without prickles this wine not mingled with water In Gods presence the Seraphims burne with charity the Cherubims are splendent with knowledge The Quire of Saints and Angels sing Lauds Hymnes and spirituall songs Peter at a glimpse of this glory in the holy Mount cryeth out Bonum est it is good for vs to be here then Ecce quam bonum how good a thing it is to bee here for euermore Philip by a heauenly instinct saith Ioh. 14.8 Lord shew vs the Father and it sufficeth God is all-sufficient to suffice Honours riches c. are insufficient They that haue mounted to the top of thē thinke still vnum deest one thing is wanting to perfection Oh miserable men how gape we after transitory and insufficient glory and neglect that onely which is immortall You haue your fruit in holinesse saith the Apostle but the end is eternall life Rom. 6. Bonus finis vita aeterna quae finem non habet a good end indeed of whose goodnesse there is no end there ioy without sorrow clarity without obscurity securitie without wauering plenty without surfet Who will not mount with the Eagles to bee gathered to this glory Infuse infuse into our hearts thy grace ô Lord that with the wings of Faith Hope and Charity we may flie vnto thee that we with all thy Eagles may be gathered to thy Kingdome with thy Sonne there to liue for euermore To whom and vnto thee ô Father with thy blessed Spirit three persons one inuisible and indiuisible God be praise and glory for euermore AMEN Laus Deo qui dedit velle perficere FINIS

's a louing call Come ye a diuine blessing Come yee blessed a fatherly affection Come yee blessed of my Father a retribution of reward receiue yee an assignment of a kingdome Receiue you the kingdome a preparation of glory prepared for you eternall predestination from the beginning of the world I haue chosen you from the beginning of the world therefore haue prepared you glory haue prepared glory therefore haue assigned you a kingdome haue assigned you a kingdome for you are my sonnes and I am your Father I am your Father therefore you are blessed you are blessed therefore come yee What a Iubilee of ioy will this cause in their blessed hearts They cannot but say within themselues Thy word O Lord is sweeter vnto vs then the honie or the honie combe Ve● 4● And in the sentence of condemnation euery word striketh dead vnto the heart First a separation from God Goe yee a malediction Goe yee cursed a prison Goe yee cursed into the sharpnes of the paine Goe yee cursed into fire The durance of the same into eternall fire the grim societie with the deuill and his angels This is durus sermo a hard speech who can endure it No repealing of this sentence no appealing from this Iudge Now the Lambe speakes in mercy who will not heare it Then the Lyon shall roare in iustice who will not feare it Remember this remember thine end and thou wilt not sinne Dauid made Gods iudgements his obiect his eyes were neuer off them h Psal 18.22 all his iudgements are in my sight And Solomon the sonne trode his fathers footsteps i ●●●●s 3.17 I said in my heart God shall iudge the righteous and the wicked So all the Saints with S. Hierome seeme to heare alwayes the trump to sound with arise yee dead and come to iudgement Here is a memento for all great and small shall arise great and small are to remember it to both of which I am a debtor and now with Gods permission my debt I will discharge First you whom the Lord hath made great 1. To great ones An exhortation to the Iudges by communicating a parcell of his Regiment looke vpon him who is vnto you author exemplum he that did erect you is a patterne to direct you your authority is great your place eminent your charge is great and let me speake it with your fauour your account shall bee great Cum crescunt dona crescunt rationes donorum Greg. when our talents are enlarged our account is increased the beasts and such vnreasonable creatures non iudicantur quia non iudicant Ber. They are not iudged because they cannot iudge it is not so with man whom he hath indowed with reason to discerne and so made euery priuate man a priuate Iudge much lesse with those whom hee hath set apart to be Iudges S. Bernard to k Lib. 1. de Consid Eugenius Papa Blanditur cathedra sonat tibi officium non otium doth the chaire flatter thee it cals to mind thy duty not idlenes What though thou art seated in an eminent place where thou ouerlookest all Enim vero prospectus iste procinctum parit non somnium it tels thee thou hadst need to looke about thee what place left for retired thoughts where causes and cases non leges sed lites Solicitudes and vexations of minds and spirits are still before you Et finis horum quid nisi aranearum telae Vt supra The same Father demands of the same man when art thou free Vbi tutus Vbi tuus where art thou safe where art thou thy selfe Are not you alwaies possessed with cares troubles tumults whither will you turne you from them l Cicero pro Archia Poe●a pernoctant vobiscum peregrinantur rusticantur day and night at home and abroad they euer attend you Certainly to a man that soberly considereth these things Your Honours are rather to be pittied then enuied And he rather commiserateth your daily incumbrances then repineth at your splendent dignities My Reuerend Lords though these cares continually beat at your doores yet let contemplation of spirituall things modestly prompt you That withdrawing your selues from the sea of worldly affaires you may with the Israelites m Exod. 14.13 stand still vpon the shoare and see the saluation of the Lord. St. Agustine spends a noble Chapter n lib. 10 de ciuitate Dei cap. 9. of a noble worke wholly vpon this subiect Though many are tyed so to attend worldly affaires that in neglect thereof they should neglect their duty to Prince and Countrey yet none are so to bee oppressed with businesse as to forget their duty to God He is not worthy to bee a Bishop qui praeesse dilexerit non prodesse that loueth more to command then to be commodious He is not worthy to be a Iudge that loueth more the praeheminence of his place then to doe good in his place Wherefore Ocium sanctum quaerit charitas veritatis Loue of heauens truth desires a holy leisure Negotium iustum suscipit necessitas charitatis necessity of earths charity vndertakes iust affaires So carry your selues betwixt contemplation and action Vt nec subtrahatur ista suauitas nec opprimat illa necessitas that the necessity of your actions doe not eclipse the sweetnesse of your meditations nor your meditations cause you to slacke your iust occasions Giue me leaue to commend vnto your thoughts two things The first the greatnesse of your authority as God hath lent you part of his power so part of his title o Psal 82. I haue said you are gods and hee hath an eye after you for it is in the same Psalme He iudgeth in the midst of gods or in the middle he iudgeth the gods as * Hieron expos Psal 81. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hierome reades it and the Originall Hebrew will beare it Awake then ye men of God that are placed in the presence of God how dares corruption approach bribery draw neere peruerting of iustice enter into the presence of the all-seeing eye thinke on this The Lord doth behold your actions The 2. thing to be remembred is that you haue this treasure in earthen vessels A strange and true Epithite you are mortall gods Be not puffed vp with your high authority and title you shall dye like men you shall rise like men you shall giue an account like men you shall bee iudged like men your now ouer-seer shall be then your Iudge and who is present at your actions shall sentence you accordingly Remember you amongst these Eagles shall be gathered together Secondly to the small to all remember that of Saint Peter p 1. Pet. 3.10 When the heauens shall passe away with a great noise the elements shall melt with feruent heat and the earth burne vp what manner of men ought you to be in holy conuersation and godlinesse Suppose now you should see as God knoweth how soone you shall see