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Nevv essayes: meditations, and vowes including in them the chiefe duties of a Christian, both for faith, and manners. By Thomas Tuke, minister of Gods Word, at S. Giles in the Fields.; New essayes: meditations, and vowes.
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Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.
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Hee is a Surgion If thou beest sicke Hee is a Physition If thou burne Hee is a Fountaine If thou beest cold Hee is a Fire If thou beest a sinner Hee is Sanctity If thou beest laden with iniquity Hee is Iustice If thou wantest helpe Hee is a Succour If thou beest weake Hee is Strength If thou beest weary Hee is a Shadow If thou fearest death Hee is Life If thou hatest darkenesse Hee is Light If thou wouldst see GOD Hee is thy Glasse If thou wouldst haue accesse to GOD Hee is the Way If thou wouldst enter into heauen Hee is the Dore the Key the Keeper O LORD how sweete is Thy Name How pleasing is Thy Seruice How easie is Thy Yoke In truth he is worthy death who refuseth to liue to Thee Hee is a foole that is not wise to Thee Hee is iust nothing that would bee something out of Thee It is meete that hee should wither that will not grow in Thee Hee deserues to perish wandring that will not walke in Thee Misery bee his end that seekes not Blisse in Thee Death bee his Destiny that seekes not life in Thee And Hell his heritage that seekes not Heauen in Thee Thou mad'st all things for thy Selfe Hee that will bee some-thing to himselfe nothing to Thee amongst all things hee beginnes to bee nothing and of things euill hee deserues the worst Keepe mee therefore in Thy loue that I may not leaue Thee Preserue mee in Thy Breast and doe not loose mee If I leaue Thee I loose Thee in loosing Thee I loose my soule my selfe and all things with mee Of the Holy Ghost THE third Person of the blessed Trinity is called the Holy SPIRIT because Hee hallowes vs and being Himselfe Spired doth also inspire good things into vs. The scholler learnes quickely when the Holy GHOST is his Teacher The eye sees distinctly when the Holy GHOST doth enlighten it A man iudgeth truely when Hee doth direct him and liueth holily when Hee doth dispose him The SPIRIT is but one In Person yet seuen yea seuenty times seuen in His gracious Operations Hee hath Wisedome for thee against thy folly Vnderstanding against thy dulnesse Counsell against thy giddinesse Courage against thy cowardice Cheerefulnes against thy sluggishnesse Tendernesse against thy hardnesse Comfort against thy feares Light against thy darkenesse Truth against thy lies Humility against thy pride Faith against thy dissidence Hope against thy desperation and Charity against thy cruelty Hee is giuen vnto men for saluation when their heart returnes vnto GOD for succour when in our agonies Hee relieues our infirmitie for solace when Hee whispers into our hearts that we are GODS Children and for heate when Hee kindles in our soules the zeale of GOD and Charity to our neighbour for CHRIST His sake Thinke wee well it is of Him Will wee well It is by Him Affect wee well It is His worke Or liue wee well It is by His direction Hee lightens our mind giudes our reason strengthens our memory moues our will and rules our affections But because a man sees Him not therefore shall hee deny his Essence or his Presence Thou seest not Aire the Wind thine Heart thy Braines thy Soule The operations of the Aire doth shew it the noise and whirling of the Wind doth proue it the panting of the heart doth expresse it the thoughts and imaginations of the Braines doth declare them and life sense and motion doth shew thy soule is in thee Euen so spirituall motions and an holy conuersation doth argue the presence and presidence of the SPIRIT in vs. The Holy GHOST appeared in a Doue and in fiery tongues Hee dwels in them that are innocent meek and constant and whom Hee fils Hee makes them seruent and likewise eloquent Hee inflames their hearts with the heauenly fire of an holy zeale and makes them speake the praises of GOD Hee therefore hath the Holy GHOST who with his mildenesse and simplicity quenches not his zeale nor with bitternesse of zeale looses not his mildensse but harboureth both together in a discreet pious and peaceable Spirit Of the Holy and Indiuiduall Trinity THREE are better then One but here Three are One and One is Three and hee that hath One hath All and hee that wants One wants All. What One is All are What One hath None lackes All Three are one GOD all Three haue one LORDSHIP Amongst Them there is distinction but not diuision a plurality of Persons but a singularity of Nature Consubstantiall Coëternall and Co-aequall To bee busy in inquisition about the TRINITY is wicked curiosity to bleeue It soberly is faithfull security but to see It as It is is perfect and full felicity Nature cannot match this Mystery therefore the similitudes vsed to expresse It must bee warily considered and not strained too farre As that of the Sunne and Fire which haue three things motion light and heate of the Iewish Ephah a measure of three bushels of the Soule which is furnished with Memory Vnderstanding and Will of Water in the Spring Riuer and Pond or of the Finger Hand and Arme. Then here there can bee no where more dangerous crring nor more painefull seeking not more profitable finding It shall not grieue mee if I doubt to aske It shall not shame mee if I faile to learne O Verity Charity Eternity O Blessed and Blessing TRINITY Holy Holy Holy LORD GOD of Hosts Heauen and Earth are full the Maiesty of Thy Glory Whiles I thinke of Three I shut vp my thoughts in One and whilst I muse on One mine eies are dazeled with the sight of Three It is my misery that I am a stranger from Thee I shall bee happy when I shall bee with Thee see Thee and enioy Thee Of Christ OVr blessed LORD and Sauiour is called IESVS CHRIST The former Name is Hebrew the latter Greeke the one signifying a SAVIOVR the other ANNOINTED for Hee is both to Iew and Gentle an Annointed Sauiour Annointed with the oile of gladnesse aboue his fellowes to be a King Priest and Prophet vnto his Body His Person is but one but his Natures are two One Diuine and Vncreated the other Humane and Created Hee must bee man that Hee might bee able to die Hee must bee GOD that his death might bee Meritorious Hee must bee Man for man had finned and Man must therefore suffer Hee must bee GOD that in suffering Hee might ouercome and that dying Hee might raise Himselfe to life Man indeed could suffer but GOD alone could vanquish and ouercome O inestimable fauour GOD would become Man that wee men might bee reconciled vnto GOD. The Sonne of GOD was made the sonne of Man that the sonnes of men might bee made the sonnes of GOD. Hee became a Seruant to make vs free Hee would bee inglorious that wee might bee glorious and being LORD of Life Hee would suffer death that wee which had deserued death might haue by Him eternall Life LORD IESVS whom haue I to intercede for mee with
NEW ESSAYES MEDITATIons and Vowes Including in them the Chiefe Duties of a Christian both for Faith and Manners By Thomas Tuke Minister of Gods Word at S. Giles in the Fields LONDON Printed by N. O. and are to be sold by William Bladon at his Shop in S Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1614. To the Right ver tuous and Honourable Lady the Lady Alicia Dudley MADAME AFter I had written these lines for I know not well how to call them I long discoursed with my selfe whom to I might present them At length I bethought my selfe of your Ladiship whom I deemed very worthy of them and am bold vnder your Name to publish them vnto the world If herein or by any other meanes I may further your knowledge or deuotion in true Christianisme I shal reioice I seek for nothing but your soule for Christ that in him it may be presented pure and perfect vnto God Your Wisedome and not your Wealth that you may bee wise in Christ Iesus according as S. Paul doth teach you If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world let him become a foole that hee may bee wise for the wisedome of this world is foolishnesse with God To know Christ well is the chiefest learning and to serue him truely is the greatest freedome Mary was happy in bearing him more happy in beleeuing in him in that shee bare him in her breast whom she bare before in her belly And though euery Lady cannot be a Mary a Mother to him in the flesh yet euery true Christian Lady is a kinne to him in the faith flesh of his flesh and bone his bone a very member of his body in a spirituall sence Whosoeuer saith he shall doe the will of my Father which is in heauen the same is my Brother and Sister and Mother And this is the better for the Christian blood as Christian is the best blood in the world A man in any other blood may perish but he that hath this blood in his heart shall neuer perish If a Christian during a Christian may bee damned then say that Christ himselfe may be damned also VVhich what religious eare can endure to heare But I will detaine you no longer but leaue you to those things which I haue prepared for you If they shall finde your kinde acceptance they haue what they come for and I that for what I sent them Vse them and peruse them at your leasure and God giue them fauour in your heart The great God of heauen and earth protect and blesse you and all your children and keepe you all for euer in his faith and feare that yee may see his face to the eternall comfort of your soules in heauen Saint Giles in the fieldes October 5. 1614. Your Ladiships in Christ Iesus Thomas Tuke To the Courteous Reader GEntle Reader I haue written this booke for thee if thou vse it it is thine if thou abuse it it is not thine but mine Quarrell not with the name if thou dislike not the nature As children so bookes which are the birth of mens braines haue not euer the fittest names It is oftentimes as God-fathers please If thou dislike the name call it what thou wilt Wonder not that new bookes doe still flye abrode the world is full of new braines Wherefore not of new Bookes They that are of actiue spirits were beter do this then nothing As for my selfe I bring with me no nouelty as I thinke but that that is old and true though it may be cast in a new mold I suppose both yong old helpt forward the Tabernacle and after that the Temple and it is my ioy to do any thing I can for the Church of Christ If I can bring but one Lace or Pinne to the trimming of His Bride Reade and consider what thou readest Let mee finde thy louing and vnsparing censure in discretion If I shall perceiue any thing to be amisse it shall hereafter bee corrected If it shall finde entertaiment with thee I may bee encouraged to prepare more of this kind hereafter for thee Thus I commend my booke to thee and both it and thee to God From my Study in Saint Giles in the fields this 5. of October 1614. Thine in CHRIST THOMAS TVKE ESSAYES Of God WHILES I thinke of GOD my thoughts are swallowed vp as of a gulfe and I loose my selfe rather then finde Him His brightnesse dazeleth mine eyes and I cannot reach Him with my Line and sound Him with the Plumet of mine Vnderstanding Hee is so deepe that I cannot goe downe vnto Him Hee is so high that I cannot mount vp vnto Him Hee is so great that I cannot comprehend Him Hee is so large that I cannot measure Him Hee is so Wise as I cannot conceiue and so Good as I am not able to expresse Alas How shall a Bushell containe all the World How can a Bucket hold all the Ocean or a Spoone lade out all the Water that is therein How can a Foole diue downe into the depths of Wisedome or hee that is euill fully vnderstand Him that is an infinite and inexplicable Good Yet this haue I learned Hee is Great without Quantity Hee is Good without Quality Hee sees all things without Eyes Hee heares all things without Eares Hee knowes all things without discourse Hee made all things and yet hath neede of nothing Hee fils all things but is fil'd of nothing Hee giues all things but taketh nothing Hee is in all things but is polluted of nothing No thing can helpe Him nothing can hurt Him nothing can adde to Him nothing can be taken from Him O GOD Thine Execellency doth surpasse mine infirmity Thy Beauty drawes mee Thy Fulnesse contents mee Thy Mercy staies mee I would bee Thine euen Thine and none but Thine I desire nothing against Thee nothing besides Thee nothing with Thee O LORD nothing but Thee Thou art my Lot my Loue my Portion my prime Content If I haue Thee I haue All if I lacke Thee I lacke All If Thou beest with mee I care not though men though diuels though all the world should bee against mee LORD now lift vp the light of Thy Countenance vpon mee and grant mee Thy peace Amen Of Christ CHRIST is the Way the Truth and the Life Which way wouldst thou goe Hee is the Way Whither wouldst thou goe Hee is the Truth Where wouldst thou remaine Hee is the Life Wouldst thou walke Hee is the Way Wouldst thou not bee deceiued Hee is the Truth Wouldst thou not die He is the Life CHRIST was Poore to make vs Rich Hee was made a Sinner that wee might bee made Saints Hee was made a Curse that wee might obtaine a Blessing Hee Dyed that wee might liue Hee Descended into Hell that wee might Ascend into Heauen In Him wee haue all things and Hee is all things in vs. If thou beest hungry Hee is Meate if thou thirstest Hee is Drinke If thou beest wounded