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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

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may be called a sacrifice not because any corporall propitiatory or applicatory sacrifice is offered vnto God in it but because at the celebration 4. And it is a momoriall of Christs ●a●rifice therof we offer vp our prayse our selues and seruice vnto God in testimonie of our thankfulnesse to God for the death of Christ set forth and signified in that sacrament And therefore it is called the Eucharist or Thansgiuing And because also they did in the church vse at the receiuing of this sacrament to offer their gifts for the reliefe of the poore in witnesse of their thankfull hearts vnto God Which custome is yet religiously continued in some places Fightly Gods Ministers in his church haue a speciall kind of sacrifice in offering vp those whome they do couuert vnto God The Minister beeing as the priest the word of God preached as the sacrificing knife and the conuert is the sacrifice So Paul offered Rom. 15. 16 the Gentiles to God as a sacrifice A ninth sacrifice is when we offer vp vnto God his honour our selues soule and bodie Paul saith Giue your selues vnto God and giue your members Rom. 6. 23. as weapons of righteousnesse vnto God And againe he saith I be seech you Brethren by the mercies of God that ye Rom. 12. ●● giue vp your bodies a liuing sacrifice holy acceptable vnto God which is your reasonable seruing of God We ought to offer vp our whole bodies and our whole soules For as euery sonne oweth honour vnto his Father as euery subiect oweth homage vnto his prince and as euerie seruāt oweth obedience vnto his Master euen so euerie soule and euerie bodie euerie power of the soule and euerie part of the bodie oweth honour and seruice vnto God who is the Lord the king the father and preseruer of it And we offer vp our bodies to God as a sacrifice first when we make them the instruments of our soules to execute the works of holinesse vnto God of righteousnesse to our neighbours and of temperance sobrietie towards our s●lues Secondly when we morifie suppresse the sinnes of the bodie as anger bitternesse wantonesse sloth drunkennes When we sacrifice our sinnes as Iosiah did the I●olatrous Priestes of 2. King 23. 20. the high places then do we performe a notable sacrifice well beseeming our Priesthood Now these beeing our sacrifices The second thing to be considered is the Altar whereō we ought to lay them and that is Christ Iesus as he is God and Man For he is our Mediatour he maketh vs and all our sacrifices acceptable vnto his father For he couereth all their imperfections with his blood and v● with his righteousnes Whatsoever 〈◊〉 the sanctified altar Ex 27. 37. Math. 23. 19. was holy euen so whatso●uer sactifice we offer vpon this Altar shal be accepted The Altar did sanctifie the offering ●uen so Christ our Altar doth sanctifie commend al our offerings which in themselues are verie lame and faultie But he remoueth their blernishes and makes them sound and as Salt he sea so ●eth them all and makes them sauour and realish well in his fathers tast The third thing is the time when they should be offered and that is continually vpon all occasions from the morning of ou● age euen to the euening thereof They were commanded Leu. 2. 14. in the time of the Law to offer vp eares of come dried by the fire and wheate beaten out of the greene eares euen so we should offer vnto God the Primrose of our life our tender and greene yeares Salomon aduiseth young men to Ecc. 11. 10. 12. 1. cause eutll to depart from their flesh and to remember their Crcator in the dates of their youth Abel offred to the Lord the Gen. 4. 4. first fruits of his sheepe and of the fat of them so let vs offer vnto God the first fruites of our age the fat of our life The lame and the torne will not go for curran Shall we giue the Diuell the Mal. r. 13. strength of our daies and offer God our old bones May he not in iustice repell vs and re●ect our offerings And as we must beginne betimes to shew our selues Priests vnto God so must we continue constant vnto the end ● Thes 5. 17 Therefore Paul saith Práy continually And againe Let vs offer vp the sacrifice Heb. 13. 15. of praise alwaies vnto God The Law Et. 29. 36. 38. appointed certain sacrifices to be offered day by day continually so we haue some sacrifices which we should daily and humbly offer vp vnto God as a contrite heart prayer praysing of his name workes of charitie and such others We must not be wearie of well doing but perseuere in the cōstant executing of our office And i● any thing trouble vs we must repell it as Abraham Gen. 15. 11. did the birdes which hindred him in his businesse Constancie is an argument of fortitude and sinceritie The fourth thing to be considered is our preparation which consisteth in two things First in repenting of sinne and clensing the heart and life of wickednesse Ps 26. 6. Therefore Dauid saith I will wash mine hands in i●nocencie O Lord and then will I compasse thine altar Whē Iosehp was to appeare before the king of Aegypt he shaued him and changed his garments came to h●m so when Gen. 14. 14. thou a●t to appeare before the king of heauē and earth with any gift or sacrifice change thy rayment of wickednes shaue away thy superfluous corrupt affections wash thine heart and thine hands in innocencie and then lay thy sacrifice vpon the altar and offer it They which send presents vnto great men will looke that they bee as pure and good as may bee so wee that are to present our selues vnto the great God should labour to be inwardly neat and holy The Prophet saith that Is 66. 3. hee that killeth a bullock is as hee that slue a man and he that sacrificeth a sheepe is as he that cut off a dogges head meaning that their sacrifices were abominable in Gods sight because they offere their bullockes but not themselues but delighted in their owne wicked wayes But let vs by repentance first sacrifice and slay our sins and then sacrifice and offer vp our selues Salomon saith take P 10. 25. 4. the drosse from the siluer there shall proceede a vessell for the Finer euen so say I purifie thine heart and purge out the drosse of sinne from the mettall of thy soule and there wil be a gift which the Lord will like of Secondly pray to God that he would accept of thy sacrifice and pardon all the blemishes in it Dauid saith O Lord I beseech thee accept the free offerings Ps 119. 108. Ma● 3. 3. of my mouth Malachy saith that Christ shall refine the sonnes of Leui purifie them as golde that they may bring offerings vnto the