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A13993	The Christians looking glasse wherein hee may cleerely see, his loue to God liuely expressed, his fidelity truely discouered, and pride against God and man, anatomised. Whereby the hypocrisie of the times is notoriously manifested. By Thomas Tuke, minister of Gods word at Saint Giles in the Fields.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1615 (1615)	STC 24304; ESTC S102478	58,392	160

they bee called Christians and called godly the truth is they are not faithfull vnto God but false-hearted wretches On the contray those are truly faithfull which truly feare God which counsell and encourage their fellowes to bee faithfull to him and which doe truly hate Sinne Sathan and the World and are at no league or couenant with them but keepe continuall watch and ward ouer their hearts lest they should bee surprised and drawne away And thus we haue seene the first reason that Dauid vseth to moue vs to the loue of God because he preserues them that are faithfull to him and therefore if we desire his preseruation or if we will shew our selues thankfull to him for preseruing vs or if we doe take delight in that his so sweet good disposition who is by nature prouident ouer and carefull for those that loue him and are faithfull to him it behoues vs much to loue him and let vs bee assured that except we loue him truly we do not t●uly loue our selues but certainly we doe cleane forget our selues if we fo●get to performe this duety to him yea wee haue lost our selues vnlesse wee haue him to liue in our hearts by loue O Loue what shall I spe●ke i● thy commendation Magnaes pr●uales thou art great in power and preuailest Thou art str●ng as Death powerfull as the graue thy coles are fiery thy fl●mes v●olent the waters cannot quench thee the flouds cannot drowne thee thou doest subdue mine vnde●standing for God thou bringest mine ambitious and vnruly conceits into bondage vnder Christ thou leadest me Captiue yea thou kilst me that he may liue within me Thou art a Fire to purifie my minde from drosse by meditation on him Thou art a Light to comfort and enlighten my soule with those louely vertues that waite vpon thee Thou art Hony to sweeten my soule with the feeling of Gods fauour and to make sweet vnto my soule those ordinances of life and godlinesse which hee hath erected in his house Thou art Wine to make my soule glad by enioying my God my Sauiour whose goodnesse is equall to his greatnesse both of them infinite and vnmatchable If I loose thee I loose my selfe my soule my Sauiour If thou liue in me I liue my selfe nay I dye but God my Lord and Sauiour doth liue within me And this is the Psalmists first reason to incite vs to the loue of God The second is taken from his seuere iudgments against the Proud which will not stoope to God and his Law but are disobedient to him and by their pride and insolency trouble and misufe other men better then themselues The Psalmist saith God Rewardeth aboundantly the proud doer that is hee punisheth him for his pride with manifold and grieuous puishments Pride which is hatefull before God and Man as Syracides speaketh is a certaine vice or swelling of the heart whereby we count our selues worthy of more honour and dignity then there is reason by reason of an ouer-weening opinion of our selues imagining that we haue those good things which we haue not indeed or that we haue them in greater measure then we haue Now a man may shew pride either against God or against man Against God pride is shewed many waies some whereof I will declare that the madnesse of men may appeare vnto you As first when a man imagines himselfe to be God and would be so conceited of men as Caligula who being an open mocker of all religion at length fell to thinke there was no other God then himselfe Secondly when men imagine that what they haue they haue it of themselues or that if God giue them any thing it is for their deserts Thirdly when men in their hearts say He shall not raigne ouer vs who shall controll vs and so contemne the ordinances of God his Word his Sacraments his Ministers their Work their power Fourthly whē a wan shal thinke he is perfect breakes not the Law and is able to do good deeds whereby he shall merite euerlasting life for the worthinesse of them Fiftly when men imagine they can doe good workes by their owne strength or when in heart they say we will do this and this who shall let vs we will goe thither or thither who shall hinder Sixthly when men will disobey the will of God vnder pretence of humility as they that plead for their prayers to the Saints in heauen because they say it is a point of humility to come to so great a King by such meanes whereas God saith Call vpon me in the time of trouble And Christ accordingly Come vnto me yee that are heauy lad●n and I will ease you Lastly when men will murmure against God and are angry with him when he doth afflict them Pride against Man discouers it selfe many wayes for the proud person enuies the good of another as if he deemed himselfe either onely worthy or else the greatnesse of others to hinder his He will acknowledge no superior nor equall by his good will as Agamemnen and Pomp●y he vseth his equals as inferiors his inferiors as seruants his seruants as beasts hee thunders lightens crackes threatens his words are great his lookes bigge he is mad if he be not applauded and as for humling himselfe to any man sincerely he knowes not how if hee giue backe it is but to fetch a better leap if hee stoope a little it is but to vant and climbe the higher If he be below he will not patiently tarry till one come and bid him sit vp higher but he will worke by indirect courses as by bribes or slanders or it may be poysons nothing being so horrible in his eye as a meane or low degree And when he is climbed vp he pluckes vp the ladder after him if he can that no man shall come vp after or but such as he pleaseth To these proud and haughty persons God opposeth himselfe these he resisteth these he throweth from their pinnacles and tumbles downe head-long shakes with his whirle-windes strikes with his lightnings beats with his thunder-claps turnes vp their roots and punisheth them when he pleaseth very seuerely openly and as Dauid saith here Abundantly But let vs see some iudgements of God vpon the Proud The wicked Angels for their pride were banisht out of heauen and are vnder wrath When our first Parents would haue been check-mate with God by pride they brought a downfall of themselues and children The builders of Babel for their pride were scattered and their tongues confounded Haman by pride brake his necke God ouerthrew that vaunting Giant Golias by Dauid then when he was in the top of his iollity God threatned to visit the fruit of the proud heart of the King of Ashur Senacherib and his glorious and proud lookes because he said By the power of mine owne hand haue I done it and by my wisedome because

with him in Aegypt did not loue him as their brother till hee had made himselfe knowne and till they were verily perswaded that hee was their brother so wee shall neuer loue GOD as his children till wee acknowledge him for our Father and bee by faith perswaded of his loue Fourthly I said that loue was Kindled in the soule For the loue of GOD is a Coelestiall Fire seruing to comfort and refresh the heart and to inflame it with an holy zeale and to consume these filthy vapours of malice enuy pride treachery and such other noysome lusts as ar● within him Fiftly I say it is kindled by th● HOLY SPIRIT therefore Sai●● Paul cals it the Fruit of the Spirit for if the hatred of GOD be a worke of the flesh and from the motion of the Deuill then the true loue of GOD must needes bee the worke of the Spirit who enlightens the minde inspireth faith and perswades the heart to loue and delight in GOD How much are wee bound to GOD of whose pure loue to vs it is that wee haue any loue to him He comes downe to vs before we go vp to him Hee drawes vs before we run and lookes vpon vs before we turne our eyes to him LORD what is man that thou regardest him or the sonne of man that thou so thinkest on him What shall I render vnto the LORD for all his benefits towards mee O my GOD and my King I will extoll thee and will blesse thy Name for euer and euer Finally I said that loue doth knit our hearts to GOD and makes a man take him for his chiefe contentment For as hatred doth rend disioyne and separate So loue doth vnite knit and tye together Loue married Iacob and Rahel loue vnited Dauid and Ionathan and so our hearts by loue are wedded and vnited to GOD and for GOD to one another That they might bee knit together in loue saith Saint Paul 'T was Loue that made our Sauiour pray that all his Members might bee One with Him and his Father and it is loue also that makes vs deny our selues and the world and study to liue so as if wee were not ours but GODS 'T is hatred that breeds dislike auersation and discontentednesse And so it is loue that causeth ioy delight contentment When loue hath once possest the soule it moues it to ioy in GOD to make him her prime contentment and to exclaime with the Psalmist Whom haue I in heauen but thee and I haue desired none on earth with thee GOD is the strength of mine heart and my portion for euer And vndoubtedly what thing soeuer a man doth best loue that to him is his best contentment for loue causeth content as the light doth comfort and contentment is imbarked and enbotled in it as a Tree in a Barke as water in the clowdes Therefore the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying to loue signifies to rest in or to bee contented And thus wee haue seene what loue is The Obiect on whom this loue heere spoke of should bee fixed is the LORD euen hee who is gracious and mercifull slow to anger righteous in all his waies and holy in all his workes Euen he whose greatnesse is incomprehensible and whose wisedome is infinite which made heauen and earth the sea and all that is therein and keepeth his fidelity for euer which executeth iustice for the oppressed giueth bread to the hungry loueth the righteous healeth those that are broken in heart preserueth all that loue him fulfill the desires of all that feare him releeueth the fatherlesse and widdow and sheweth mercy vnto thousands to them that loue him Euen hee I say that remembred vs in our base estate cut the cords of the wicked rescued vs from our oppressors deliuered vs from our sins brought vs from our errours translated vs out of Babylon saued vs from that Purple Harlot shewed vs his Word giuen vs his Gospell honoured vs with peace deliuered our Rulers rescued his Annointed and saued vs all both Church and Kingdome from that Hel-made horrid and prodigious Powder O LORD how great is thy loue vnto vs how amiable is thy Name in all the world Blessed bee thy Name for euer and let all thy people say Amen The Person● who are exhorted to this Loue are All GODS Saints euen all they that haue tasted of his loue and which in mercy hee hath hallowed for himselfe euen All of them yong and old rich and poore high and low men women and children for in saying All hee ex●epteth None the Yong men for their strength Old men for their wisedome the Rich for their wealth the Poore for their correction the High for their greatnesse the Low for their meanesse with which vertue and piety commonly cottens best with Men for their supereminent honour Woemen because hee hath graced their Sex by bringing forth of a Sauiour and Children for his great care and manifold protection of them and all in generall for their Sanctification by grace on earth and eternall Saluation in immortall glory in the Heauens But are none bound to loue the LORD but his Saints Yes without doubt the Law ties all for all are of his making his goodnesse reacheth vnto all and hee is the Sauiour of all But Dauid heere speakes vnto Saints onely being such as himselfe most delighted in and of whom hee best hoped being best affected and such also as whom GOD doth most deerely loue and honour with his greatest fauours Our lesson then from hence is this All of vs euery mothers child without exemption of any should loue the LORD But because as hee that speakes Greeke or Lattine to him that is no Grecian or Latinist is but as a Barbarian to him and does but beate the aire So the Language and discourse of loue to him that loues not is but barbarous and vnpleasing as sounding Brasse and a tinckling Cymball T●erefore that wee may conceiu● and reape profite by these things which shall bee deliuered concerning our loue of GOD it behoues vs to blow vp the dying and fainting coales of this heauenly and holy fire within our breasts And seeing that the eare tasteth words as the palate doth meate let vs haue vnderstanding and attentiue eares that discerning the things we shall heare to bee good wee may receiue and digest them and like prudent hearers shewforth the fruits therof in our liues conuersations First then I say Necessity lies vpon vs to loue the LORD Woe vnto vs if wee loue him not For first it is GODS expresse commandement Thou shalt loue the LORD thy GOD and now Israel saith Moses what doth the LORD thy GOD require of thee but to feare and loue him This our Sauiour calleth a Great Commandement the Commander is great the Obiect is great the vse of the duety is great and their reward is great that take care to do