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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63830	Iehovah Iireh merito audiens, præco evangelicus An angell from heaven, or, An ambassadour for Christ, descending from God, ascending unto God, lawfully dignified, compleately qualified : heard (vvith religious devotion) reporting his ambassage to the honourable societies of the Inner and Middle Temples, on Sunday the eleventh day of December, 1642 ... / by Edw. Tuke.	Tuke, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing T3224; ESTC R10730	21,383	28

Levidensae ad perpetuum in calestibus vestrum Monumentum em●lumentum Theologicâ laureâ minimè Doctoratus suppliciter verecundè nec minùs rubicundè summo candore Offert Addicat Consecratque Decemb. 19. 1642. EDVARDVS TVKE Presbyter Humillimus CHRISTS Lawfull AMBASSADOVR THese meditations Infant-like unable to walke or talke by themselves as Pyrrhus in Plutarch silently and humbly intreate your Attentions I cannot passe the ●●●ing of Rabbin Josibar Iehudah in Pirkabboth he that learnes of young men like a man that eates un-ripe grapes or drinks Wine out of the Wine-presse But hee that learnes of the Ancient is like him that eates ripe grapes and drinks wine that is old And it is Plinies direction for more generous wine of the old Vine Tree Antiquity was famous and had respect in those dayes Ex vetustioribus vitibus vinum melius novellis Copiosius And should I by Synechdochen understand Baptisme for the sum of S. Iohn Baptists Doctrine I hope I could not offend in humility to professe with Apollos Act. 18. 25. That I understand only Iohns Baptisme And therefore I submissively salute you in his Apology unto Christ whom he indeavoured to put of comming to his Baptisme with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have need to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me but patiently suffer it to be so now Me to preach and you to heare the word of the Lord delivered unto you from the 2 COR. 5. 20. Now therefore we are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God MY Text in its body represents a Church and State in an ordinate unity under one head or Domuni quandam conventionis a certaine House of Parliament the debatements though various yet intend the Churches happinesse and determine in peace The King and Lord Spirituall of the upper House in Heaven intimates the Treaty for the setled blisse of the Soule is content though stabdd and pierced through with the sharp speare of daily transgressions and insufferable injuries to passe his pardon without mans peccavi or demand and not upbraiding our oblivion and want of gratitude endeavours by all continued Clemency to seeke us yea seeke to finds us who first lost him by sending this unparralleld Embassage of peace Now therefore we are Embassadours for Christ c. The Poets faine the Chariot of the sunne in respect of its foure diversities to be drawne by foure horses at his rising it is redd at the third houre bright at noone hot at Evening cold the fiction I stand not to dispute only in this Text I can perceive foure wheeles as of a Chariot running much like those foure last Articles of faith upon which wise men by rumination walke and safely rest whilest fooles runne over and over throwe First Read here the Communion of Saints which may be gathered hence we are Ambassadours sent to that purpose Secondly See the forgivenesse of Sins if ye repent while God beseecheth and we pray in Christs stead Thirdly Expect the bodies resurrection properly and the soules Metaphorically and accidentally from the grave of death sinne and hell which is perfectly assured to the utmost of this lifes capacity if ye be reconciled therefore bee reconciled Fourthly Taste that all good and good of all life everlasting God the rest of the rest therefore be yee reconciled unto God But I have here 4 other wheeles very usefull and not unfitly made fast to this Charriot 1. Is Magnificens Christi in presbyterio Majestus Gods power and Majestie in his Ministery We are Ambassadours for Christ. 2. Affectio providens Gods provident love to his people as though God did beseech you by us 3. Here is Religiose unita societas an unanimous and religious society Christ by his Ambassadours the Ambassadours in Christ request your Christian conjunction unto Christ We pray in Christs stead be reconciled 4. Here is indefatigabilis immutabilit satie as an unwearied and unchangeable saciety of Gods mercy and your peace if ye be reconciled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto God Now therefore wee are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead to be reconciled unto God The first word now stands as Abraham in his Tent dore attending the comming of Angels from God such as these textuary Embassadours and serves now to instruct us of an orderly succession of Legats from God unto a strange people and it opens the doore unto Christ too and signifies his speciall appointment of Shepheards over his flock as Bishops Pastors and Apostles to guide feed and instruct them now therefore we are Embassadours saith Saint Paul And this word now by an holy and Apostolicall derivation is present with us to confirm our office and authority and to injoyn you obedience and submission to the watch man and his word for your soules now therfore we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray in Christs stead be yee reconciled unto God From this Illative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore I might argue a consequent necessity of the Ambassadours comming and your entertainement of his person and Message as also I might hence yeeld a reason invincible of your spirituall life by dying to the night of sin and rising to the day of righteousnes propounded unto you as a matter of great justice from the death and Resurrection of our Saviour Iesus Christ ver 13. as also the meanes of accomplishing that death and this Resurrection which this therefore seemes to imply as the complement of your salvation when in religious obedience hereto you approve the dignity of the Minister over you to that effect or to effect that excellentiam Ministerij as Beza notes it the excellency of the Ministerie and thence termed the word of reconciliation ver 19. But having more than two words to speak I speak of these two little more though laid in my way like stones not of offence but defence and as the Basis of a chiefe corner stone fetcht hither from the bottome of the earth or Moses rock which being polished fitted and squared by sufficient explication might prove solid grounds for erecting us lively stones in Gods building by faithfull application Now therefore we are Ambassadours In the first five words are five severall parts of speech which Grammatically stood upon would help me to avoyd the tongues confusion by which the whole worke suffers and goes not forward but omitting that as also the subject copulate and redicate which logically this first affirmative proposition affords I will apply my sal●e somewhat to the concurrence of those wheeles on which the Text last ranne and not liking many divisions in the Temple please to observe in the moving of the first wheele Deputationem nostram our Deputation we are Ambassadours 2. Reputationem nostram our reputation for Christ In the turning of the second wheele note 2. First Commissionem our

of Gods Divinity then which higher he cannot goe for God is terminus ad quem the most exact indeavour of our conceits infinitely transcending all our ●ast and wisest aymes of mortall perfection every Embassadour apart may augment the Jdea or notion of his Glory according to the predicament of his own abillity But God is above all in Heaven and Earth and the perfect knowledge of him is Essentially Himselfe who being Actu infinitus nonreperitur in ●llo praedicamento as Arist To conclude this Embassador must know God so far as to do him justice by true and seasonable service answerable to his nature which is spiritu et veritate in spirit and truth And the people to whom this Embassadour comes must deale justly with God likewise by receaving his Embassage in purity of heart and spirit Deus est spiritus God is a spirit si Deus est animus sit tibi purâmente Colendus if God be a spirit ye must worship him in spirit yea the Father seeks for such worshippers these are only right Worshipfull a pure spirit is a sacrifice to God an harmelesle life a spotlesse soule optimus animus pulcherrimus Dei cultus a pure mind is the best service to God the most religious worshipping of God is to follow him Amore more ore re and the only true serving and honoring of God in Priest and people is not evill in summe let this Embassadours Justice and the peoples practise towards God meet both in this that it be perfecta pura perpetua perfect that both only love him pure that both wisely feare him perpetuall that both only and firmely beleive in him and rest in him And let the Ambassadour herein be just to himself that he punctually understand the will of his King and the weale of his people In the first wisely and orderly to informe himself In the second soberly and fully to instruct the people his honesty must play the skillfull Organist to touch well and truely according to Art nor may he at all times interweave a discourse of Justice Pharasaicall and legall to the people to whom he comes the Christian only must be his rule and then he is an Embassadour for Christ when he is thus honestly just to Christians I say honestly for herein what health is in the body the same is honestly in the soule Salus animae is honestas corporis And to summe up all the Prophets Basar and the Angells 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good and new joyfull and seasonable Tidings of Christ promised of Christ exhibited must from his mouth dropp like Soveraign oyle of Gladnes to annoint the swelling heart of the miserable wounded man whom the Priest and Levite the Law could not stand to pity or look upon to remedy this oyle thus dropping upon the soule of a Sinner melted and dissolved by sence and sorrowes for sinne to bitter teares will in these liquids appeare uppermost and as the oint ment upon Aarons head will not only supple himself but runne down upon the skirts of his Clothing the meanest of his Auditours Oh the Excellency of such an Ambassadour the measure proportion and Comlinesse of his body is wisdome and spirituall beauty the riches of his spirit are the Gifts of the spirit and his sciences and his Justice to God and man is as that noble Aptnes which disposeth him to all vertues and holines and so much for this Justice from that I have spoken by necessary consequence you may deduce the prime strength of an Ambassadour to depend upon well grounded intelligence and practicall wisedome which Moses such a man of God intimates by his Urim and Thummim so much discipline an ordinary eare might take in from that golden Bell and Pomegranate which surrounded the hem of the Priests robe this is that onely delightfull sound and pleasant tast which through the application of the holy Ghost the voice of the Father the Son is effectuall to preserve the sin-spotted soul dumb sinner unto purity Hallelujahs everlasting I omit the significant illustrations unto this duty which the inseparable and particular ornaments of the Tabernacle might lead me and content my selfe with those rules which Saint Paul applied to Timothy and Titus Hold fast a forme of sound words giving attendance to reading and doctrine exhort and convince be apt and able to teach which doctrine clearly opposeth all unfit quarrelling with words frothy and scummy-jangling language and all peevish theevish treacherous and traiterous documents Thus like the noted Musician I have sate so long upon this Text that I feare I have not kept time I confesse my selfe unprepared for farther prosecution of any part coincident to and with this Text I beseech you suffer my jejune and dry oratory to expresse an application of what hath beene hitherto propounded which through Gods assistance and your patience I shall thus epitomize 1. It instructs the Ambassadour with all meet preparation considerately to undertake his Embassage for they are the savour of life to life or death to death to the people to whom they come and to that office must bee required more then ordinary circumspection the issues whereof are of such extraordinary concernment Hence Moses complaines of his want of utterance and eloquence and S. Paul Who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2. 16. The treasures comprised in the rich Casket of sacred Scripture with which they are by God intrusted to communicate unto the people are for profundity so great and for extent so large that I may resume that of Saint Paul Who is sufficient c. it justly pursues the runners of these times which without mission or commission lay hands on consecrated things whom I lovingly advise to stay at Iericho till their beards be growne for if Deacons must first be tryed and then Minister if they be found faithfull much more should workmen of more eminent faculty not assume unto themselves a calling unlesse some Timothy or Titus duly authorised by a sacred symboll of manuall imposition give them externall appointment to that function Gods holy Spirit must give them primary and private motion their owne consciences evident and certaine justification the Church legall ordination and though at this time there is great question about the forme of ordination yet in all ages and in all well ordered places there have beene certaine constitutions and cannons for admitting of men upon triall into sacred orders and I finde not that ever the setled order of any Church for such purposes hath beene so calumniated and branded as at this time this of ours Hence I shall not feare to conclude that who ever shall prophesie or preach in this Church without examination approbation and faculty by present authority commeth of himselfe and as a false Prophet I take it our duty to beware of him 2. The name of an Ambassadour implies faithfulnesse in the declaration of his Embassage he comes not forth without instructions what he shall say and doe nor