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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14003	The picture of a true protestant: or, Gods house and husbandry wherein is declared the duty and dignitie of all Gods children, both minister and people. Written by Thomas Tuke.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1609 (1609)	STC 24313; ESTC S102480	87,646	261

the Lord and he shall nourish thee The wicked that are strangers and enimies vnto his Church from the wombe he will surely punish He will breake their teeth and crack their iawes They shall melt like ice and cons●me like snailes He will carry them away as with a whirlewind in his wrath Thou O God shalt bring them downe into the pit of corruption the bloody and deceiptfull men shall not liue out halfe their daies Finally seeing we are Gods field building we are al taught to loue one another We are not two houses but one we are not two fields but one And therfore as one we ought to loue and embrace one another It were a prodigious sight to see one stone in a building to iustle with another We are as Liuing stones in Gods spirituall building let vs therefore by loue lie close by one another let vs not iustle one another If an house be deuided against it selfe how shall it stand We are Gods house houshold-seruants therefore we must not be diuided against our selues lest his house fall downe vpon our heads Diuision is a forerunner of destruction Therefore as one stone in a building beareth vp another somtimes a little one bearing a greater and sometime the greater bearing a lesser euen so let vs beare vp and beare with one another let vs not fly out of the wall let vs not stomacke enuy one another alwaies remembring that we are the stones of one building and all laid by one Maister-mason Corne in one field plants in one Orchard trees in one wood flowers in one garden and vines in one vineyard do grow together without molesting and hindring one another They stand together without discontentment they shroud and harbour one another We are the corne of Gods field the plants of his orchard the trees of his wood the flowers of his garden and the vines of his vineyard and therefore we should stand together without contempt discontentmēt we ought to shroud and shilter one another Now therefore as the elect of God holy and beloued put on the bowels of mercy kindnesse humility meekenesse long suffering Put away wrath anger malice cursing and hate not one another For he that hateth his brother is in darkenes But let vs loue one another for loue cōmeth of God and euery one that loueth is borne of God Wouldest thou know that thou art in the state of life Then loue thy brethren We know saith Iohn that we are translated from death to life because we loue the brethren he that loueth not his brother abideth in death Wouldest thou know that thou louest God Then loue the children of God For euery one which loueth him that did beget loueth him also which is begotten of him Wouldest thou abide in the true light Then loue thy brother For he that loueth his brother abideth in the light there is none occasion of euill in him Wouldest thou be like the Lord that did beget thee Then loue for God is loue Wouldest thou be obedient vnto God Thē loue thy neighbour for his commandement is that thou shouldest loue thy neighbor as thy selfe Finally wouldest thou shew thy selfe a true disciple of Christ thy Sauiour Then loue thy fellowes For by this shall all men know saith Christ that ye are my disciples if ye haue loue one vnto another Let vs therefore affect one another with true loue We are the sons of one father the children of one mother the tēple of one God the field of one husbandman the house of one inhabitant the branches of one vine the stones of one bilding and the plants of one field let vs therfore keepe peace with our selues embrace one another in the armes of amity So shall Gods house continue his throne shall endure his field shall prosper we our selues shall flourish our ioys shall be increased and our enimies shall be defeated of much aduantage Thus much concerning the instructions which arise out of the consideration of these two titles together It remaineth now to set downe those that may be gathered from thē being distinctly considered by themselues And of the former first CHAP. 4. We must keepe our selues wholly for God We must be content with his husbanding We must striue to be fruitfull in good things They are to be dispraised that are barren FIrst forsomuch as we are GODS field we must beware that we giue not our selues to any from him We are not our own to dispose of as we list our selues but his that hath bought vs and taken vs in for himselfe Let vs therefore take heed that we suffer not our selues to be sowne with corrupt seed to be set with the plants of wickednesse Let not the diuell sow the tares of wicked errours and filthy sinnes within thee Thou art Gods keepe thy selfe cleane and pure for God Secondly seeing we are Gods field let vs be content with his husbandnig of vs. The ground doth patiently beare the Plowman and his Plow the sower and his seed without the least resistance So let vs be content to beare with meekenesse Gods plough and his ploughmen his seed and sowers Let vs endure all things which he hath in his wisdome ordained to breake vs vp to make vs faire and fertile his Word his Sacraments his Ministers his Orders Let vs not repine and storme against them but subiect our selues and beare them meekely without resisstance Thirdly we are taught to be fruitful vnto God in faith loue repentance and obedience The good ground which receiueth good seed is very profitable to the owner sending forth plenty of fruit Euē so we being sowen with the good and wholesome seed of Gods word we ought to bring forth fruit aboundantly that our owner may haue a plentiful crop It is a cursed ground that receiues seed yet affoordeth either nothing or nought but weedes We are Gods field a●d therefore we should not be like the field of the sluggard that is ouergrowne with thornes nettles If a field be broken vp with the plough and if good seed be not sowen therein it will bring forth more store of weeds then if it had laine vnplowed So if the seeds of Christian vertues be not sowne in our heartes and fructify in our liues now that we haue ben broken vp with the plough of Gods word we shall more abound with the stinking weedes of wickednesse then if we had neuer felt that plough Let vs therefore looke to our selues and labour to be fruitfull in good thing Apply thine heart to instruction and thine eares to the words of knowledge He that followeth after righteousnesse and mercy shall find life righteousnesse and glory Now that we may be fruitfull we must performe these duties following First we must roote those sinfull weedes out of our hearts which oppresse and choke them Breake vp your fallow ground and sow not among the

them in some slead but they vse to reade by snatches here and there euery where and no where like the Dogges of Nilus that dranke running taking here and there a lap as they went Or if they reade without skipping it is then with such fury like Iehues marching as that they swallow downe their bookes without chewing and so let their good digesting The fourth are they that preferre the shell before the kernel and the dish before the meat regarding the sound rather then the sence the outward shape of the worke more then the inward substance as if a man should delight more in the colour then in the corps and not much vnlike to children that turne ouer their bookes but please themselues best with the painted Babies in them A fift kind there are that reade much but practise nothing as if a man should take meat into his mouth to please his tast but let none goe downe into his stomack to comfort nature Or if they do practise any thing it is worse then nothing base and sinfull like a filthy Chanell that receiues the sweet light and heate of the Sunne but affoords nothing but stinking fumes and infectious smels The sixt are they that had rather reade naturall or humane and ciuill histories and treatises of arts and sciences liberall and mechanicall then Ecclesiasticall and diuine discourses it seemes esteeming more of the Maide then of the Mistris of humanity more then of diuinity of the body more then of the soule like Aesops Cocke that set more by a barly corne thē by all the gemmes and iewels in the world besides The seauenth are they which reade to talke and talke to shew themselues and yet we know that empty barrels and the hollow Drums do make the greatest sounds as if they read for nothing but to know to talke and that by talking they might be knowne regarding more it seemes the floating knowledge of the braine then the soundnesse of the heart and life and affecting rather to seeme to be then to be indeed vsually dealing with their bookes as ful-fed children do with their bread which either play with it or cast it to the Dogges So all their religion is placed in their tong and their substance is but shews and shadowes like that counterfait of Samuel and stuft vp with wind like a bladder Though they deuoure whole bookes yet are they like Pharoahs kine as ill fauoured and as leane lank for true grace as by their liues appeareth as they were before and worse thē many of the heathen which neuer truly knew what Christian vertue meant There are others that reade much and profit nothing but cast vp their morsels like a crazy stomack They come to the well without their pitchers or else with riuen vessels having their thoughts distracted and ●heir head fraught with impertinent studies like Table-bookes which ●eing written ful already wil receiue ●o new letters till the old be razed ●ut in whole or in part Or else it is because they run on and neither looke backe nor minde their way but onely labour to ridde ground nor ●hew their cadde nor call on God for ●is benigne assistance which of all ●en ought in all holy enterprises to be desired with earnest suite vpon the ●●nces of their soules The ninth which are the onely good are they that reade attentiuely throughly and discreetly to reap some good whereby they may do good to themselues and other also as occasion their calling serueth and to these I do propose this booke If thou wouldest behold the office of Gods Workmē the honour which of duty ought to be performed to them if thou wouldest know the resemblance betwixt the Church and a Field House if thou wouldest see the office and honour of all her children or wouldest learne how thou maist be rich in the fruits of righteousnesse how to giue the Lord such entertainement as is well pleasing to ●im thou maist if it ple●se thee to reade reuolue and ponder these few instructions which were summarily not long since deliuered to a few by word and now more largely published to the common view of all by writing VVherein I do professe plaine dealing and the profit of the simplest rather then obscure and curious exactnesse euer iudging it better to walke in the open aire then to run inuisibly in the clouds to leaue some milke in the brests then to sucke them dry or presse them till they bleed The God of heauen and earth make them profitable to th●e that walking by thē in this vale of misery through the wildernesse of this wofull world thou maist one day come and that in season into celestiall Canaan the Land of promise and rest vpon his holy mountaine Amen Amen Thine in Christ THOMAS TVKE 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ambrosij Fisheri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●allere narramus Colubris seruare Ministrum Autorum la●inus n●mpe minister agit Findicat Aegypto Moses dat clara Mehushtan Iumina sic anima● Iordanis vnda lauat ●nsif●r ipse serit rigat facundus Apollo Quemlibet imbri-●oten sruge maritet agrum Ne● vult ang●licis molem sibi surgere templi Malleolis vafer hanc condit Iesse satus Ambrosius Fisher GODS HOVSE And Husbandry 1. Cor 3.9 For we together are Gods Laborers ye are Gods Husbandry ye are Gods Building CHAP. 1. The drift of the Apostle is declared Gods mercy is exemplified We must neither presume nor despaire Our iudgement concerning sinners must be very sparing THE Apostle hauing reprehended the foolish and factious estimation of Ministers a disease dangerous and not dead hee doth in this verse shew what they are how they are to bee estemed to wit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as labor with God for God and vnder God in the tilling and husbanding of his Ground in the planting and dressing of his ●ineyard and in the building repairing of his House or Temple And hauing briefly dispat●hed this he doth also briefly shew what those Christians are which be not of the Ministery and what they are to be reputed to wit the Field and House of God And thus he hath shewed himselfe a faithfull Shepheard and an honest Surgeon Hee doth not onely seeke to preserue his Sheep from danger but hee brings them into their walke and pasture He doth not only let his Patients see their soare but he giues them a salue He doth not only taxe their fault but he doth also teach thē their duty Thus we see the meaning of the text in generall it remaineth now to discusse it in the particulers and first we will treat of the office and honor of Ministers conteined in the former words We together are Gods Labourers And afterwards of the duty and dignity of the people inclosed in the words ensuing Yee are Gods