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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08178	The treasure of true loue or A liuely description of the loue of Christ vnto his spouse, whom in loue he hath clensed in his blood from sinne, and made a royall priesthood vnto his Father. / By Thomas Tuke, preacher of the word..	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1608 (1608)	STC 24315.5; ESTC S95600	111,562	288

will praise the Lord during my life as long as I haue any beeing I will sing vnto my God This we should all performe but you rather then manie others because the Lord doth drawe you to it with moecords of loue then he doth the most Some furtherance thervnto you may receiue by diligent reading and examining this third part of our Tractate concerning the loue of Christ vnto vs which I dedicate vnto you for no sinister or base respect but to testifie my desire of the constant growth of those Christian vertues which haue begun to shyne and shew themselues in these your younger yeares that growing in grace and in the knowledge of Iesus Christ you may be partaker of his glorie Thus assuring my selfe of your kinde acceptance of these our labours I cease to deteine you longer and leaue you to him that neuer leaueth his but guardeth them by his grace for euer Yours in Christ Iesus to be commanded Thomas Tuke ¶ THE THIRD Part. Rom. 1. 6. And hath made vs Kings and Priests to God euen his Father CHAP. I. Christ is the Auhour of our Royaltie and Priestly dignitie Sixe vses are made of that doctrine IN these wordes is contained the second signe and action wherby Christ 〈◊〉 hath declared his loue vnto vs and in them fiue things are worthie obseruation First the Agent Christ. Secondly the Subiect vpon whome the worke is wrought Wee Thirdly the Act it selfe hee hath made vs kings and priests Fourthly the Time when he hath made Fiftly for whose or glory or ●o whom we are made euen to God his Father First for the Agent For somuch as Christ hath thus aduanced vs wee are taught to be thankfull to him If a man did freely procure his neighbor a farme or lord-ship it deserued a thankfull acceptāce But if he did also giue him true title to a kingdome made him heire to a crowne his obligation shuld be of a far higher nature Beloued Christ hath made vs kings and heires to a crowne not of rusting gold but of eternall glorie not won by tyranny but got by righteousnes 1. Pet. 5. 7. euen by that perfect obedience which he performed for vs and is imputed 2. Tim. 4. 5. to vs. L●t vs therefore be thankfull to him seek to please him And because it is he that hath made vs Priests let vs like Priests present him with the Calues of our lips let vs offer vp vnto him the sacrifice of a thankful hart testified in a thankeful tongue and expressed by our religious righteous and sober conuersations Vnthankfulnes is a poysoned ro●te of wickednes and a fruitfull mother of mischiefe whereof we cannot but be deepely guiltie if we shal either wilfully dishonour or not care to honour him who hath so royally honoured vs. Secondly seeing it was Christ that ●ath brought vs to this honour we see that we come not to it by our birth or bloud by nature or inheritance from our parents and therefore we must not ascribe it to our selues but when like kings we get the conquest in any conflict ouer any ●inne and as Priests do of●er vp vnto God any sacrifice which is accepted we must attribute al to the grace of God in Christ that of his mere good will merit hath made vs both kings and Preists It is God that worketh in vs both the will and the Phil. 2. 13. Certum est nos velle cum v●lumus sed ille facit vt ve limus qui operatur i● nobis velle Aug lib. de lib. A●b c. 2. deed Indeede we will but it is by him And if he did not make vs worke as he maketh vs will to worke the work could not be wrought We may as well say that death can create life and that darknesse may make light as that we can of our selues either make or truely shew our selues to be spirituall kings and priests Thirdly in that Christ hath made vs kings and priests it argueth that he is not without power and authoritie For to create a king and to make a priest are workes of authoritie and power Esay calls him the mighty God Is 9. 6. and the Scriptures shew that we were all redeemed by him that the whole Is 53. 5. 6. Eph. 1. 7. Ioh. 13. World was created by him and therefore he must needs befull of strength and maiestie The consideratiō whereof should strike a terrour into the wicked which are his enemies and moue them to forsake their rebellions least he cr●sh the● with his iron scepter and breake them in peeces like a Potters vessell And it ought to moue all the kings and potentates of the world to vaile their bonnets to bend their scept●rs and to cast downe their crownes before him For he is the Prince of the Kings of the earth and is as able to dismount a king as to make a king And Reu. 15. secondly it should teach vs to seeke vnto him for his grace and to depend vpon him in a●o●r troubles Blessed are all saith Dauid that trust in him Ps 2. 12. Fourthly seing it is Christ that hath thus promoted vs we are taught to esteeme highly of this worke and benefit The excellencie of the work-man doth often commend the worke and make it more regarded The dignitie of the giuer doth moue the receiuer to account more dearely of the gift He that wrought this worke for vs is the Lord of life the father of eter●ie the Is 9. 6. King of glorie the Sonne of God ●nd Iudge of the world He that bestowed this benefit vpō vs is Iesus Christ that Reu. 1. 5. faithfull witnesse and the first-borne of the dead If thy King or thy faithfull and t●●st●e friend did gi●e thee a costly iewell thou wouldest like it somewhat better and wouldest not easily be draw●n to part from it Christ our King and friend so faithful as that he spent his bloud to saue vs hath giuen vs this 〈◊〉 r●yall gift he hath aduanced vs to this kingly condi●●on let vs therefore highly p●iz● i● and by no meanes hazard the p●r●ing from it Fiftly seeing Christ hath 〈◊〉 honored his seruants let all men feare to dishonour them Thou darest not disgrace him whom thy king doth grace and durst thou dishonour him whome Christ thy king that mightie God doth grace and honour Shall ●e escape the wrath of a king that scornes a man because he hath honored him And shall we thinke that Christ that heauenly Monarch and Lion of the tribe of Iudah wil put vp those scornful wrongs that are offered by many wicked wretches vnto his Seruants because he doth grace them and by his grace doth make them flie those sins which they wrth a brazen face and browes of marble commit and blush not at Verily he that dishonours a mā because Christ doth honour him doth dishonour Christ himselfe and carieth a curse about him vnder seale and without serious and timely repentance which is not