Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	justice_n	prudence_n	temperance_n	1,847	5	10.3903	5	true

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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

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

of Gods Divinity then which higher he cannot goe for God is terminus ad quem the most exact indeavour of our conceits infinitely transcending all our ●ast and wisest aymes of mortall perfection every Embassadour apart may augment the Jdea or notion of his Glory according to the predicament of his own abillity But God is above all in Heaven and Earth and the perfect knowledge of him is Essentially Himselfe who being Actu infinitus nonreperitur in ●llo praedicamento as Arist To conclude this Embassador must know God so far as to do him justice by true and seasonable service answerable to his nature which is spiritu et veritate in spirit and truth And the people to whom this Embassadour comes must deale justly with God likewise by receaving his Embassage in purity of heart and spirit Deus est spiritus God is a spirit si Deus est animus sit tibi purâmente Colendus if God be a spirit ye must worship him in spirit yea the Father seeks for such worshippers these are only right Worshipfull a pure spirit is a sacrifice to God an harmelesle life a spotlesse soule optimus animus pulcherrimus Dei cultus a pure mind is the best service to God the most religious worshipping of God is to follow him Amore more ore re and the only true serving and honoring of God in Priest and people is not evill in summe let this Embassadours Justice and the peoples practise towards God meet both in this that it be perfecta pura perpetua perfect that both only love him pure that both wisely feare him perpetuall that both only and firmely beleive in him and rest in him And let the Ambassadour herein be just to himself that he punctually understand the will of his King and the weale of his people In the first wisely and orderly to informe himself In the second soberly and fully to instruct the people his honesty must play the skillfull Organist to touch well and truely according to Art nor may he at all times interweave a discourse of Justice Pharasaicall and legall to the people to whom he comes the Christian only must be his rule and then he is an Embassadour for Christ when he is thus honestly just to Christians I say honestly for herein what health is in the body the same is honestly in the soule Salus animae is honestas corporis And to summe up all the Prophets Basar and the Angells 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Good and new joyfull and seasonable Tidings of Christ promised of Christ exhibited must from his mouth dropp like Soveraign oyle of Gladnes to annoint the swelling heart of the miserable wounded man whom the Priest and Levite the Law could not stand to pity or look upon to remedy this oyle thus dropping upon the soule of a Sinner melted and dissolved by sence and sorrowes for sinne to bitter teares will in these liquids appeare uppermost and as the oint ment upon Aarons head will not only supple himself but runne down upon the skirts of his Clothing the meanest of his Auditours Oh the Excellency of such an Ambassadour the measure proportion and Comlinesse of his body is wisdome and spirituall beauty the riches of his spirit are the Gifts of the spirit and his sciences and his Justice to God and man is as that noble Aptnes which disposeth him to all vertues and holines and so much for this Justice from that I have spoken by necessary consequence you may deduce the prime strength of an Ambassadour to depend upon well grounded intelligence and practicall wisedome which Moses such a man of God intimates by his Urim and Thummim so much discipline an ordinary eare might take in from that golden Bell and Pomegranate which surrounded the hem of the Priests robe this is that onely delightfull sound and pleasant tast which through the application of the holy Ghost the voice of the Father the Son is effectuall to preserve the sin-spotted soul dumb sinner unto purity Hallelujahs everlasting I omit the significant illustrations unto this duty which the inseparable and particular ornaments of the Tabernacle might lead me and content my selfe with those rules which Saint Paul applied to Timothy and Titus Hold fast a forme of sound words giving attendance to reading and doctrine exhort and convince be apt and able to teach which doctrine clearly opposeth all unfit quarrelling with words frothy and scummy-jangling language and all peevish theevish treacherous and traiterous documents Thus like the noted Musician I have sate so long upon this Text that I feare I have not kept time I confesse my selfe unprepared for farther prosecution of any part coincident to and with this Text I beseech you suffer my jejune and dry oratory to expresse an application of what hath beene hitherto propounded which through Gods assistance and your patience I shall thus epitomize 1. It instructs the Ambassadour with all meet preparation considerately to undertake his Embassage for they are the savour of life to life or death to death to the people to whom they come and to that office must bee required more then ordinary circumspection the issues whereof are of such extraordinary concernment Hence Moses complaines of his want of utterance and eloquence and S. Paul Who is sufficient for these things 2 Cor. 2. 16. The treasures comprised in the rich Casket of sacred Scripture with which they are by God intrusted to communicate unto the people are for profundity so great and for extent so large that I may resume that of Saint Paul Who is sufficient c. it justly pursues the runners of these times which without mission or commission lay hands on consecrated things whom I lovingly advise to stay at Iericho till their beards be growne for if Deacons must first be tryed and then Minister if they be found faithfull much more should workmen of more eminent faculty not assume unto themselves a calling unlesse some Timothy or Titus duly authorised by a sacred symboll of manuall imposition give them externall appointment to that function Gods holy Spirit must give them primary and private motion their owne consciences evident and certaine justification the Church legall ordination and though at this time there is great question about the forme of ordination yet in all ages and in all well ordered places there have beene certaine constitutions and cannons for admitting of men upon triall into sacred orders and I finde not that ever the setled order of any Church for such purposes hath beene so calumniated and branded as at this time this of ours Hence I shall not feare to conclude that who ever shall prophesie or preach in this Church without examination approbation and faculty by present authority commeth of himselfe and as a false Prophet I take it our duty to beware of him 2. The name of an Ambassadour implies faithfulnesse in the declaration of his Embassage he comes not forth without instructions what he shall say and doe nor