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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

may he adde or diminish from Gods word he must not create unto himselfe a fools paradise and walke up and downe there set up a throne and judge there he must fish in Gods Sea and World not lanch into another of his owne making nor saile with pleasure in old wives fables or issues of his owne braines if he have an itch within him to long for that which neither the place nor season affords some unheard of unparalleld perfection in Utopia it must be carefully adverted unto and cured before it spread or the people smell it Gods true Ambassadour must content himselfe with the wonders of God discovered in the depth of his word and the height of his works for the blessed Spirit reveales nothing but that which is the will of the Father and Sonne John 16. 14. and Gods Angells we may imagine in old time spake neither more nor lesse then what they had declared unto them in heaven and an Ambassadour on earth must not dare to transgresse that celestiall proportion 3. The fanaticall Zelots of our times judge all learning but Scripture the language of the Beast and that there is no use of Latin except ordinary or as much as will keepe the necke from an halter and there can bee no pure preaching of the word with them except Universities downe and they come up not directed by the letter but Spirit they object the Apostles were illiterate men and yet by the Spirit they understood all mysteries and knowledge and I would have them without education to their tongues in Apostolicall manner speake to the Jewes and Indians and other like with us and it should be to me a probable inducement sooner to confide in their abilities to direct us in that truth in our owne tongue which they fondly pretend Academicks misse of and I dare safely question whether such by their presumptuous spirit can effect more without artificiall instructions then such as with the knowledge of Arts have the assistance of the true Spirit of God Thence I conclude though Gods sacred Word should especially have precedency in all learning and all Gods Ambassadours yet how shall this word be safely interpreted the sense truly rendred without knowledge in the Originalls Translations ancient Commentaries therefore to use humane learning as Hagar to attend Sarah and Arts and expositors assistance the monuments of learned men as Joshua the Gibeonites who upon the grounds and landmarkes of antiquity old bootes old shooes moulded bread were admitted to carry water for the Israel of God is lawfull and for ought I read not in any age before gainsayed in such vulgar impudencies and frequent insolencies as in this 4. But how ashamed is a learned and wise King of a foolish and ignorant Ambassadour and how God suffers in his glory when Ministers want knowledge to instruct the people Because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee thou shalt bee no Priest to mee saith the Lord by the Prophet Hosea these are the dumbe Dogs spoken of by another of his Prophets unto whom if the booke be tendred may be answered non legit ut clericus he dreams and sees visions bookes sealed and his profitablest document is the peoples nocument his best doctrine is the peoples scandall wherein he must acknowledge that he is no Prophet nor Prophets sonne he never saw the Schooles of the Prophets he is some husbandman herdman or at best a cobler hatter horserubber leatherseller or tailor and so skipping up to reforme the magnificat in the City or Country before he had his nunc dimittis in the University his doctrine is ignorance his use error the Pulpit the true seat of spirituall judgement and divine oratory is stuffed with old saddles empty pictures brainsicke and railing superfluities and hence it is that the hearers Camelion like live upon aire and winde But considering the weight of this spirituall Ambassage in all actions and circumstances thereto pertinent The Tables of the Law in the discussing whereof large Volumes will not containe the Cases of Conscience thence still emergent considering the Ambassadours skill required in Ethickes Oeconomiques Politiques Histories Chronology Geography Philosophy Tongues Rhetorique Logique holy Scripture mysteries of Prophesie Fathers Schoolemen Polemicall Divinity and Controversie The Arguments of Papists Atheists Turkes and Sectaries to bee resolv'd and refell'd Misprisions in History Prophesie Tongues Cases of Conscience which arise to the great disturbance and unhinging of Christian truth to be confuted Many divine sentences and other passages without conference inexplicable Considering these and infinite more of this nature individuals to his function what use should the true Church make of arrogant ideots and peremptory illiterates whose zeale without knowledge like mettle in blinde horses destroy the riders stumbling upon they care not know not whom Why doe we put children to remove great timber blinde men to conduct us in unknowne paths Doth a mans curiosity restraine his wearing Apparrell from a Botcher and his distrust preserve his dying body from a Mountebank and shall not true zeale to his soules eternall life warrant his speciall care to what doctrine and whose spirituall oversight he submits himselfe If wee make no conscience of this we make conscience of nothing and conscience nothing And by this meanes the Ambassadours ignorance and the peoples prophanenesse sedition and heresie takes place of religion and piety and as well sound doctrine as ancient discipline is transformed into a fable and scoffe and the people having cast off all true obedience to Gods law benummed conscience and rejected right judgement and true holinesse make nothing true doctrine but what pleaseth them But if antiquity for doctrine and discipline shall beare no authority with them if they will not follow Moses advice inquire of the dayes before them even from one end of heaven to the other if they account not the Doctors and Histories of the Church unpartiall which lived before such ignorance in the one and licentiousnesse in the other were so open and impudent such blasphemies questions were moved as are now too frequent to the dishonour of God Jesus Christ and his Word and the offence of good men and if they will circumcise the Church to themselves onely and not to the rules of the ancient Scriptures Apostles and Teachers damning all but themselves I hope you cannot be offended if I deliberate whether I would be of such a Church whereof for ought I know never any were before themselves wee may gird on our swords of knowledge to help us in these perillous journies but the best accessory for protection and direction is Gods providence and wisdome to his servants which is timely and needful Having in the last use left lawlesse Ignorance in the Pulpit of godly knowledge what ungodly and improbable deductions wil thence be compelled is easie though dismall io conceive For doth not the Papist preach hence infallibility and with Campian cry Templum Templum the Church the Church and

Iehovah Iireh Merito Audiens praeco 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 Sonday the Eleventh day of December 1642. The substance whereof is commended to publicke view By Edw. Tuke LUKE 2. 13. And suddenly there was with the Angell a multitude of the heavenly Hostes praising God and saying 14. Glory to God in the Highest and on Earth peace good will towards men London printed for T. W. 1642. To the Worshipfull well devoted his much Honoured friend M. Iohn Cave Councellor at Law and of the Inner-Temple Worthy Sir THE Rabbins to maintaine Tradition usually distinguish Gods Holy Law into the Law written Torah she baccathubh and Torah she begnah Peh and their Talmud or Doctrinall is no other then an elucidation or exposition on Gods Law written saith Elias Levila in Tisbi And to take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Traditioe as we use the word in the Church pro quavis Iustitutione quae ecclesiâ traditur it may as justly referre to Propheticall and Apostolicall Truths and by consequence not to be Abrogated 2 Thes 2. 15 1 Cor. 2. 15. 3 4 As to those things whose circumstances make them mutable and whose observations is therefore free and not of absolute necessity as Act. 15. 28 29. 1 Cor. 11. 2. Of this Sermon you had first an unwritten Tradition or as the Iews say the Law spoken The errors which may be found in it are with tolerable modesty better to be answered in that it was given me as they say their Tradition in the Night for I thinke there is no man that shall attempt and act matters of high and usefull consequence from houres stollen from his pillow but may now and then be taken napping But such as it was being given me to deliver it was more then Reasonable I should deliver to them for whom it was Given yea to do that was Causa sine quâ non besides Gods providence and spirituall permission Your Patience an particular Admission There was law to command me the law of necessity and necessity of preaching against which I know no law and I must aknowledge I had a conscionable Motion to it at that time It appertaines to all lawfully called and duly authorized to preach Gods word And though I am yet by Gods will Fortunes Dwarf 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religiously be it spoken and so not commended to any proper Pastorall cure Yet in Saint Pauls first chapter to the Romanes verse 14. I can read my Duty To which the Syrian gives a word of such Important obligement as may supply others aswell as those of necessary invitation with a paraphrasticall Commentary upon this subject mehhaicbh euoleakr●z I am indebted to the pulpit or in Duty to the office of a Preacher From this Ground I spake and spake my Conscience God bearing me witnes and from Gods Bearing me witnes I writ and Here you have the Law written I must note unto you Sir that I do not with reall Freedome expose my self to the presse much lesse to the Torturing Rack of the worlds harsh Censure learning it self stands in White sheets and I think no publick penance is voluntary Mine is not such yet if it suffer such and look not too pale the matter is lesse White is a Symboll of Innocency and Purity and these is some comfortable mitigation to be perswaded It doth penance The Sinfull Censurers of the Times are as Locusts in Aegypt I speak not double when I say Arbeh is nor strained from Rabah Multitudes from Numbers Some for Paul some for Apollos some for Lephas From the increase of these Numbers are drawn many Heads which some call Divisions These like wormes live upon the Government and eat out the very Hart of the Tree or as Flies in summer putrify the sweetest sustenance Sir These send me to you for the Declension of an age from primitive vertue could not suffer me to come forth without Protection an hundred to one These are many you may please in this matter to be all one to me That one is that I wish for my singular esteem of you makes me account these Pluralists nullius numen nothing To be short Your Love next unto Gods Hand lead me to the Temple at that Time and your Approbatory Testimony compells me to prize my poor Fortunes dexterity that hath fitted a Dedication correspondent to my desires Direction at this Time The Almighty God of heaven and earth whose property in Divine Nature is to be mercifull above offences quicken you by his Spirit to an heavenly Emulacia to study the Principles and Desires of his Truth and as farr as concernes you the Churches safety inclose you in the volume of his Book and Gather you into the Bosome of his Son in whom is only True Blisse and of whom By Faith and Holines in this life you shall be assured at the Resurrection of the Just when God by his Spirit or soft and still voice in a lesse minute then any man dies here shall unite the Spirits and Bodyes of all When and Where God is All in All. And though his Church on Earth as at this time never so militant be sad round about and his Children under Clouds and pillars of fire yet Sursum Corda lift up your hart and eyes unto the Hils those mountaines of Deliverance above Take every day two or three Turnes up and down Iacobs ladder by humble Meditations and Faithfull Ejaculations Trusting unto your Redeemer with Godly perseverance And let the Troubles be what can be for Condition and Duration so long as there is Elijah an holy and devout soule God will be in the Cave It is my security in this Busines to have thought upon your Candour when you have kindly accepted this you free me not of all for in Gratitude I owe you service and in Duty prayer Whilest I am a lawfull Ambassadour for Christ EDVARD TVKE From my Study December 19. 1642. HOnoratissimis sagaciter per sapientibus literis mansuetioribus Disertissime locupletibus sacrosanctâ Doctrinarum veritate Anglicanae Ecclesia fideliter extru●tâ Accuratissimè Fundatis Roberto Berkley Roberto Foster Francisco Crawley Iurisprudentibus militibus Iudicibus omni observantiâ colendis venerandis Et claritate virtutis excellenti ingenuè Dapsili Arte legibus comptismè integerrimèque valenti Regales causas scientissime Oranti Radolpho Whitfield militi Necnon Generosi sanguinis utriusque Templi Iuris Candidatis culti oris facundiâ venustissimo Ciceronis lepôre Relucentibus Fragrantibus suaviloquentiâ Festivissimâ uberrimâque sententiarum supellectile aurei instar Fluminis exuberantibus Humanitatis laude urbanioris antecellentibus officiorum studiosioribus Iuvenibus Hunc suum Meritò Audientem Praeconem Evangelicum In Concione oratione impolitâ apud vos praelectâ Decembris undecimo Dominico habitâ Munusculum