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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

Levidensae ad perpetuum in calestibus vestrum Monumentum em●lumentum Theologicâ laureâ minimè Doctoratus suppliciter verecundè nec minùs rubicundè summo candore Offert Addicat Consecratque Decemb. 19. 1642. EDVARDVS TVKE Presbyter Humillimus CHRISTS Lawfull AMBASSADOVR THese meditations Infant-like unable to walke or talke by themselves as Pyrrhus in Plutarch silently and humbly intreate your Attentions I cannot passe the ●●●ing of Rabbin Josibar Iehudah in Pirkabboth he that learnes of young men like a man that eates un-ripe grapes or drinks Wine out of the Wine-presse But hee that learnes of the Ancient is like him that eates ripe grapes and drinks wine that is old And it is Plinies direction for more generous wine of the old Vine Tree Antiquity was famous and had respect in those dayes Ex vetustioribus vitibus vinum melius novellis Copiosius And should I by Synechdochen understand Baptisme for the sum of S. Iohn Baptists Doctrine I hope I could not offend in humility to professe with Apollos Act. 18. 25. That I understand only Iohns Baptisme And therefore I submissively salute you in his Apology unto Christ whom he indeavoured to put of comming to his Baptisme with his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have need to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me but patiently suffer it to be so now Me to preach and you to heare the word of the Lord delivered unto you from the 2 COR. 5. 20. Now therefore we are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God MY Text in its body represents a Church and State in an ordinate unity under one head or Domuni quandam conventionis a certaine House of Parliament the debatements though various yet intend the Churches happinesse and determine in peace The King and Lord Spirituall of the upper House in Heaven intimates the Treaty for the setled blisse of the Soule is content though stabdd and pierced through with the sharp speare of daily transgressions and insufferable injuries to passe his pardon without mans peccavi or demand and not upbraiding our oblivion and want of gratitude endeavours by all continued Clemency to seeke us yea seeke to finds us who first lost him by sending this unparralleld Embassage of peace Now therefore we are Embassadours for Christ c. The Poets faine the Chariot of the sunne in respect of its foure diversities to be drawne by foure horses at his rising it is redd at the third houre bright at noone hot at Evening cold the fiction I stand not to dispute only in this Text I can perceive foure wheeles as of a Chariot running much like those foure last Articles of faith upon which wise men by rumination walke and safely rest whilest fooles runne over and over throwe First Read here the Communion of Saints which may be gathered hence we are Ambassadours sent to that purpose Secondly See the forgivenesse of Sins if ye repent while God beseecheth and we pray in Christs stead Thirdly Expect the bodies resurrection properly and the soules Metaphorically and accidentally from the grave of death sinne and hell which is perfectly assured to the utmost of this lifes capacity if ye be reconciled therefore bee reconciled Fourthly Taste that all good and good of all life everlasting God the rest of the rest therefore be yee reconciled unto God But I have here 4 other wheeles very usefull and not unfitly made fast to this Charriot 1. Is Magnificens Christi in presbyterio Majestus Gods power and Majestie in his Ministery We are Ambassadours for Christ. 2. Affectio providens Gods provident love to his people as though God did beseech you by us 3. Here is Religiose unita societas an unanimous and religious society Christ by his Ambassadours the Ambassadours in Christ request your Christian conjunction unto Christ We pray in Christs stead be reconciled 4. Here is indefatigabilis immutabilit satie as an unwearied and unchangeable saciety of Gods mercy and your peace if ye be reconciled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto God Now therefore wee are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead to be reconciled unto God The first word now stands as Abraham in his Tent dore attending the comming of Angels from God such as these textuary Embassadours and serves now to instruct us of an orderly succession of Legats from God unto a strange people and it opens the doore unto Christ too and signifies his speciall appointment of Shepheards over his flock as Bishops Pastors and Apostles to guide feed and instruct them now therefore we are Embassadours saith Saint Paul And this word now by an holy and Apostolicall derivation is present with us to confirm our office and authority and to injoyn you obedience and submission to the watch man and his word for your soules now therfore we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray in Christs stead be yee reconciled unto God From this Illative 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore I might argue a consequent necessity of the Ambassadours comming and your entertainement of his person and Message as also I might hence yeeld a reason invincible of your spirituall life by dying to the night of sin and rising to the day of righteousnes propounded unto you as a matter of great justice from the death and Resurrection of our Saviour Iesus Christ ver 13. as also the meanes of accomplishing that death and this Resurrection which this therefore seemes to imply as the complement of your salvation when in religious obedience hereto you approve the dignity of the Minister over you to that effect or to effect that excellentiam Ministerij as Beza notes it the excellency of the Ministerie and thence termed the word of reconciliation ver 19. But having more than two words to speak I speak of these two little more though laid in my way like stones not of offence but defence and as the Basis of a chiefe corner stone fetcht hither from the bottome of the earth or Moses rock which being polished fitted and squared by sufficient explication might prove solid grounds for erecting us lively stones in Gods building by faithfull application Now therefore we are Ambassadours In the first five words are five severall parts of speech which Grammatically stood upon would help me to avoyd the tongues confusion by which the whole worke suffers and goes not forward but omitting that as also the subject copulate and redicate which logically this first affirmative proposition affords I will apply my sal●e somewhat to the concurrence of those wheeles on which the Text last ranne and not liking many divisions in the Temple please to observe in the moving of the first wheele Deputationem nostram our Deputation we are Ambassadours 2. Reputationem nostram our reputation for Christ In the turning of the second wheele note 2. First Commissionem our

the Schismaticks in their invective Pamphlets use the words of Isa 62. 1. For Sions sake I will not hold my tongue and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest and are not both our enemies the Papists for tyranny and the other labouring for Anarchy Are not mercenary Levites abounding with us the Devils dawbers preaching placentia and sowing pillowes under mens elbowes speaking good of evill and evill of good men-pleasures blinding Israels sinne and taking a reward for iniquity Doe not Prophets prophesie falsly and men love to have it so and are not the times such I feare not to speake giving God the glory that he that departs from such iniquity maketh himselfe a prey Do not prophanenesse hardheartednesse murmuring contumelies revilings envyings luke warmenesse dwell amongst us Are not these diseases catching Epidemicall Is it not to be feared they possesse the whole body of the land Are not fishers of men turn'd fishers of money fishers of women Did not the Devill tempt Eve first and then overcome Adam Is it not hence that silly women are led captive laden with sinfull lusts are not they first wrought upon by strange doctrines as meanes to trap their husbands what reason can you give for this save that their weaknesse makes way to receive false opinions and gives them more confident to broach them or because they seeke not God in the truth or because their wits are short and their tongues long Are there not a generation of men risen up which our Protestant forefathers never knew whose hearts as if they were hewne out of hard rocks or as if they had suckt the milke of Wolves as it is reported the first founder of Rome did relent not to see their native Country made nothing else but a shambles of butchers and blood Alexander when he saw the dead corps of Darius and Marcus Marcellus Syracusa burne and Titus Jerusalem laid even with the ground though enemies could not abstaine from teares these quite contrary mourne not with Jerusalem nor helpe it with prayers in this sad time of unnaturall calamity Are there not men pretending right to the Ambassadours calling who have none in justice to it men Canon mouth'd and yet living by no Ecclesiasticall rule no Logicians yet full of fallacies right Carters upon Seton whip and goe bellowing like Buls of Basan balls of wild fire downe with her downe with her to the ground Gunpowder arguments against Church and State who in their owne sense notwithstanding will be martyrs Saints Catharists but if those be martyrs who are murtherers if these be Saints who are Scythians and if these be Catharists who are Canibals Lastly this doctrine reflects upon the people and teaches them spirituall obedience Obey them that have rule over you and Saint Paul to the Thessalonians I beseech you know them that labour among you and are over you in the Lord and have them in estimation for their workes sake To this purpose is it that God so dearly accompts them in Scripture that the King is directed to aske counsell of God at the mouth of the Priest and King Salomon termes them the masters of Assemblies to this purpose there preaching is termed prophesiing the hearers are said to sit at their feet and not upon their skirts to teach them lessons of love and religious reverence But alas this kingdome cannot smother it The fathers have eaten sowre grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge In old time it was Ghostly Father but now Baals Priest Jesuits Canterbury whelps none of Gods Priests mans Priests not inspired nor called nor led by the Spirit nay the most Christian and judiciously godly Ambassadours in this City have in their charges and in their occasionall grave walkings beene derided and exploded But if nationall lawes and historicall testimonies produce such examples of cruelties and wrongs for the abuse blood of Ambassadours then I say the Lord cometh even within a little while behold the God of Angels and men cometh with thousands and ten thousands to take vengeance upon the men of this Nation for their barbarous entertainment of many of his Ambassadours coming meekly unto them with Christmas in their mouthes Evangelium gaudii a Gospell of joy Christ Jesus an eternall Saviour borne in the time of peace and for their redemption I will end my Sermon with the prayer of our forefathers in a part of the first English Lytany set out in the dayes of King Henry the eight From all sedition and privy conspiracy from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart from contempt of thy word and Commandements Unto which by the assistance of Gods Spirit I will adde From all Jesuits Brownists Anabaptists Socinians Arminians rebels traitors sectaries and turbulent spirits good Lord deliver us And that Gods glory may for ever shine upon us we pray That it may please him to be still with this Church and Nation that hee would say to the destroying Angell it is enough here and else where That the Gospell of his Sonne Jesus Christ the most holy and just Lord be soundly preached and obediently and purely practised That the true Protestant Religion I meane the whole body of Doctrine revealed in Gods written word absolutely necessary to salvation established in Queene Elizabeth and King James his dayes may yet and ever continue amongst us That such discipline may be used as Gods Saints may serve him in his places of worship in all comelinesse and decency That God would still continue the Kings heart in sincerity to his glory and the true Protestant Religion That God would cover his head in the day of battell and protect him from all his enemies and knit fast in one truth and peace him and his people That we may all keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace That we may enjoy peace supernall with God internall of conscience and fraternall one with another We beseech thee to heare us good Lord. Thus living Angellically in peace on earth we shall by Jesus Christ the Prince of peace pertake of peace with Angels in heaven here by participation there by consummation where is no place for sedition for their blesse is orderly and their happinesse everlasting where we shall sing this unanimous trisagion holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most high God the Father and to Jesus Christ the everlasting soule-saving Sonne and the truly God and blessed and holy Spirit eternally proceeding from both To whom trinity in unity and unity in trinity be ascribed as is most due from the bottome of our hearts all honour glory power praise wisdome righteousnesse mercy and judgement the rest of this Lords day henceforward and for ever and let all that heare me this day say Amen Amen Amen Amen FINIS