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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

learning nay though there shutle tongues we aver like Iigg into the tumult of discourse and stray into the timelesse wast of words against their own science or capacity yet though many their are blessed be God which cry such out too too many there are which cry up such for the only zealous teachers and commend in them Gods power with a digitus Dei because such a Mechanicall Enthusiast hath it ad unguem as he hath at his fingers end What otherwise can be expected for event then making of Schismes and rents in Gods Church when a the theevish tailour who but now hath robbed his neighbour of his goods in his Stall shall leap up into Moses Chaire and straite way robb God of his honour in the pulpit which of you ever heard of any King that tooke a Cobler hatter tailour or such like and sent him an Embassadour and will the King of Kings judge you allow of such these like Apes shew their uglinesse by climbing up these like horsleeches suck up that blood unnaturally which nature and Art as Parents Have bestowed upon lawfull Children these like snap-dragons live upon the Almsbaskett of the Countrey their title to the Office and honour of the true Ambassadour sutes well with the harlotts claime who when she had overlaid here own Child with a bold and uncontracted for-head pretended an interest in anothers perswade your selves that even by such instrument the Divell may delude to destruction whom ye reporte to have a Cloven foot but think not of his Cloven tongue yea my friend to heare such tautologicall fellowes is unprofitable for you saith Saint Paul elswhere and since you heare his limitation heare a little more from this text even your Imitation for we are Embassadours for Christ I need not here further dispute our primitive Installment into this Sacred function being Confident that no truely affected Sonne to the Church of England can be seduced by such sencelesse insolency to deny or doubt so possitive a truth as is here uttered we are Embassadours for Christ. But not being such or in case there be such this text will better informe both in which there are credenda agenda matters of faith that we are Embassadours and such Embassadours and this respects our selves and you to beleive and matters of fact and this concerns us first to approve our selves Embassadours and such Embassadours and then it calls upon you to incline to our Embassage The words respectively considered may be compared to an Image of Iuno in Lucian de Dea Syria which looks this way and that way and every way for they have an eye to us and an eye to you to us as Activi Doctores to you as passivi discipuli to us as Embassadours faithfully to reporte our Embassage to you as persons to whom we are sent fruitfully to receave our errand they view us Embassadours as we are dignified with honour and they look upon us as we performe our Office But committing the honour and worth of an Embassadour to the wise estimation of those persons whom justly it may respect I should passe to his work save that the Course might seeme preposterous except I touch a little upon some qualifications proper to an Embassadour and such an Embassadour in this transition The Persians named there King and Priests Magos neither do the Dignity of this Embassadour nor the Excellency of his Office lie obscure under this Appellation since the Hebrew gives it a Meditando docendo from his Meditation and Instruction for which two he should be ably quallified The five Intellectuall vertues Intellectus Sapientia Scientia Ars and Prudentia Intelligence Sapience Science Art and Prudence which Arist Ethic. 6. terms Arma Spiritualia Spirituall Armour or weapons must never be wanting to this Embassadour nor must he need that lac Philosophia milke of Philosophy Grammar Logick and Rethorique by which soft nutriment the Ancient aswell as youth sucking may be nourished and by these his tender Documents growing up may in time more freely and with lesse Crudities digest his stronger Oratory But for his more solid and prompt expressions of those Metaphysicall and Theologicall Essayes it will not dishonour him yea much inable him to incline a regular observation of Prudence Justice Fortitude and Temperance 4. Cardinall vertues so called as in respect of the matters Dignity about which they treate so of that certaine and definite Principality which they not improperly assume to themselves as Boelius de Consol 1. hath it The Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 originally issues from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is asmuch is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to serve and labour in tho dust so radically and in genere understood we are servants toylers and tillers of the Ground And so Patheticall a power hath each word in his sence as if the earthly hearted hearer should necessarily and effectually be moistened by the plentoous dropps of the head sweating preacher Here the sunne bakt vulgar whose Envy hath made them look a squint upon the work of the Minister and whose busy Idlenesse finde fault which his labours conceaving the Curse in sudore vnlous c. in the sweat of thy browes shalt thou eate bread not to reach his head or that like an usurer he lyes sleeping in security and therefore that his maintenance takes him napping here such may receave an infallible Conviction Pierius Hieroglyphically designes and sindes out a true Scholler by the Hare which sleeps waking with her eyes open and wakes sleeping with her oyes shutt that is one who seemes to contemplate Acting and to Act in contemplation Pitty it were to start this Hare from the forme But alas how subject howerly is this poore Hare to a suddaine surprize yea without faire law shott at and with such Greedines as scarce mist an Hare In what danger sits this Hare to be torne in Peeces flesh yea Skinne and all nor will this alwayes suffice seldom suffocate Praeda Canum lepus est vasto non implet Hiatus the hare is a dish for hounds but grosser Paunches she cannot satisfy Neither have other Emblemists dealt penuriously in their Annotations upon the serious Student which discern him by one eye shutt and another open Phosphorus in his right hand and the word of observation vigilo I watch Hesperus in his left hand and the word Dormio I sleepe hence I collect they Argue his just division of the day and night for theoricks and practicks for Meditation and Application See how he walks obstipo Capite with his head awrie his eyes perceing the earth Heare but his silent murmuring how his Spirits are gnawn asunder and divided into peeces by the worm of revolving invention Perceive the worke of his Judgment by his two lipps out stretcht which are as Balances to weigh his sententious and ponderous expressions yea think how neere he consumes himself when spider like he is ever

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