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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

Iehovah Iireh Merito Audiens praeco 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 Sonday the Eleventh day of December 1642. The substance whereof is commended to publicke view By Edw. Tuke LUKE 2. 13. And suddenly there was with the Angell a multitude of the heavenly Hostes praising God and saying 14. Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth peace good will towards men London printed for T. W. 1642. To the Worshipfull well devoted his much Honoured friend M. Iohn Cave Councellor at Law and of the Inner-Temple Worthy Sir THE Rabbins to maintaine Tradition usually distinguish Gods Holy Law into the Law written Torah she baccathubh and Torah she begnah Peh and their Talmud or Doctrinall is no other then an elucidation or exposition on Gods Law written saith Elias Levila in Tisbi And to take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Traditioe as we use the word in the Church pro quavis Iustitutione quae ecclesiâ traditur it may as justly referre to Propheticall and Apostolicall Truths and by consequence not to be Abrogated 2 Thes 2. 15 1 Cor. 2. 15. 3 4 As to those things whose circumstances make them mutable and whose observations is therefore free and not of absolute necessity as Act. 15. 28 29. 1 Cor. 11. 2. Of this Sermon you had first an unwritten Tradition or as the Iews say the Law spoken The errors which may be found in it are with tolerable modesty better to be answered in that it was given me as they say their Tradition in the Night for I thinke there is no man that shall attempt and act matters of high and usefull consequence from houres stollen from his pillow but may now and then be taken napping But such as it was being given me to deliver it was more then Reasonable I should deliver to them for whom it was Given yea to do that was Causa sine quâ non besides Gods providence and spirituall permission Your Patience an particular Admission There was law to command me the law of necessity and necessity of preaching against which I know no law and I must aknowledge I had a conscionable Motion to it at that time It appertaines to all lawfully called and duly authorized to preach Gods word And though I am yet by Gods will Fortunes Dwarf 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religiously be it spoken and so not commended to any proper Pastorall cure Yet in Saint Pauls first chapter to the Romanes verse 14. I can read my Duty To which the Syrian gives a word of such Important obligement as may supply others aswell as those of necessary invitation with a paraphrasticall Commentary upon this subject mehhaicbh euoleakr●z I am indebted to the pulpit or in Duty to the office of a Preacher From this Ground I spake and spake my Conscience God bearing me witnes and from Gods Bearing me witnes I writ and Here you have the Law written I must note unto you Sir that I do not with reall Freedome expose my self to the presse much lesse to the Torturing Rack of the worlds harsh Censure learning it self stands in White sheets and I think no publick penance is voluntary Mine is not such yet if it suffer such and look not too pale the matter is lesse White is a Symboll of Innocency and Purity and these is some comfortable mitigation to be perswaded It doth penance The Sinfull Censurers of the Times are as Locusts in Aegypt I speak not double when I say Arbeh is nor strained from Rabah Multitudes from Numbers Some for Paul some for Apollos some for Lephas From the increase of these Numbers are drawn many Heads which some call Divisions These like wormes live upon the Government and eat out the very Hart of the Tree or as Flies in summer putrify the sweetest sustenance Sir These send me to you for the Declension of an age from primitive vertue could not suffer me to come forth without Protection an hundred to one These are many you may please in this matter to be all one to me That one is that I wish for my singular esteem of you makes me account these Pluralists nullius numen nothing To be short Your Love next unto Gods Hand lead me to the Temple at that Time and your Approbatory Testimony compells me to prize my poor Fortunes dexterity that hath fitted a Dedication correspondent to my desires Direction at this Time The Almighty God of heaven and earth whose property in Divine Nature is to be mercifull above offences quicken you by his Spirit to an heavenly Emulacia to study the Principles and Desires of his Truth and as farr as concernes you the Churches safety inclose you in the volume of his Book and Gather you into the Bosome of his Son in whom is only True Blisse and of whom By Faith and Holines in this life you shall be assured at the Resurrection of the Just when God by his Spirit or soft and still voice in a lesse minute then any man dies here shall unite the Spirits and Bodyes of all When and Where God is All in All. And though his Church on Earth as at this time never so militant be sad round about and his Children under Clouds and pillars of fire yet Sursum Corda lift up your hart and eyes unto the Hils those mountaines of Deliverance above Take every day two or three Turnes up and down Iacobs ladder by humble Meditations and Faithfull Ejaculations Trusting unto your Redeemer with Godly perseverance And let the Troubles be what can be for Condition and Duration so long as there is Elijah an holy and devout soule God will be in the Cave It is my security in this Busines to have thought upon your Candour when you have kindly accepted this you free me not of all for in Gratitude I owe you service and in Duty prayer Whilest I am a lawfull Ambassadour for Christ EDVARD TVKE From my Study December 19. 1642. HOnoratissimis sagaciter per sapientibus literis mansuetioribus Disertissime locupletibus sacrosanctâ Doctrinarum veritate Anglicanae Ecclesia fideliter extru●tâ Accuratissimè Fundatis Roberto Berkley Roberto Foster Francisco Crawley Iurisprudentibus militibus Iudicibus omni observantiâ colendis venerandis Et claritate virtutis excellenti ingenuè Dapsili Arte legibus comptismè integerrimèque valenti Regales causas scientissime Oranti Radolpho Whitfield militi Necnon Generosi sanguinis utriusque Templi Iuris Candidatis culti oris facundiâ venustissimo Ciceronis lepôre Relucentibus Fragrantibus suaviloquentiâ Festivissimâ uberrimâque sententiarum supellectile aurei instar Fluminis exuberantibus Humanitatis laude urbanioris antecellentibus officiorum studiosioribus Iuvenibus Hunc suum Meritò Audientem Praeconem Evangelicum In Concione oratione impolitâ apud vos praelectâ Decembris undecimo Dominico habitâ Munusculum