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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