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A14001	Nevv essayes: meditations, and vowes including in them the chiefe duties of a Christian, both for faith, and manners. By Thomas Tuke, minister of Gods Word, at S. Giles in the Fields.; New essayes: meditations, and vowes.	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.	1614 (1614)	STC 24312; ESTC S105349	74,323	307

requires fine apparell at thy hands It is a good heart that is exacted of thee Grace not garments thy soule within thee not thy cloathes about thee And why wantest thou leasure Thou hast leasure to eate to drinke to play to sleepe to be vaine and idle Why hast thou no leasure to feede thy soule to refresh thy spirit to receiue thy Sauiour Thou hast leasure but it is not thy pleasure Thou canst not come nay thou wilt not come Thou canst not because thou lists not If thy profite call thee thou goest if thy pleasures call thee thou followest if thy flesh call thee thou mak'st hast If thy companions whistle thou trudgest But CHRIST cals thee thou tarriest thou findst excuses there is a bone in thy legge thou canst not come Must the horse bee forced to the Manger must a Sheepe be compelled to graze must the hungry and almost starued Oxe be entreated to eate his Hay Surely thou art not hungry thy soule is not a thirst thou art so maydenly that thou must bee entreated thou art so wanton thou must bee compelled vnto thy food Yea but thy dost imagine that thou canst haue CHRIST without the Sacrament this is thy fansie but thy fansie is no faith If thou contemnest the Sacrament thou contemnest CHRIST Contempt of the Law doth argue contempt of the Law-maker neglect of the ordinance bewrayes neglect of the Ordainer And hee that will not receiue CHRIST as Hee doth offer Himselfe to be receiued is like to loose Him for ought that can bee knowne And hee that will not when hee may it is very probable when hee would hee shall haue nay But thou wilt hereafter put off excuses thou wilt bee wiser thou wilt not deferre to come Come then but come prepared Come in charity for he that hateth a Christian shall neuer bee loued of CHRIST neither shall any man enioy the LORD but he that is in charity with his seruants What hath hee to doe with the bread of CHRIST that contemneth the least Member of His Body Come in repentance with washed hands and heart for these holy things belong not vno Dogs nor Swine Come in humility acknowledging thy selfe vnworthy of the least crumme vpon the LORDS Table not relying vpon thine owne merites but vpon the LORDS mercies not vpon thine owne dignity but vpon His Dignation Finally come in a good beleefe beleeuing onely in the LORD IESVS CHRIST and that by these outward things Hee with all His Merites are represented sealed and exhibited vnto thee and not imagining that the Bread is turned into the Body of CHRIST and the Wine into His very Bloud but knowing that these things do in their substance still continue withall desiring that thou thy selfe mightst be truely transformed and turned into Him that thou maist be able to say with Saint Paul I liue yet not I but CHRIST doth liue within mee Of the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist THE Bread and Wine in the LORDS Supper is holy Bread holy Wine turned in vse but not in shape but not in substance remaining what they were yet being what they were not They haue eyes and see not eares and heare not touch and feele not mouthes and taste not noses and smell not reason and vnderstand not which say it is not Bread it is not Wine when once the words of Consecration are pronounced Yet are they truely but Sacramentally the Body and Bloud of our LORD and SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST Euen as the Circumcision was the Couenant as the Paschall Lamb was the Passeouer As the Rocke was CHRIST Parchment and the Waxe sealed put vnto it in a Bond Lease or Deed of Conueyance wherein is made an assurance of money goods or houses or a Collation and Conueyance of Lands in Lincolneshire to a man in London is still Parchment and Waxe yet more then Ordinary in respect of vse and hauing these things in his hand he can say here is my mony House or Land not that they are turned into money Houses or Lands but because by them he hath assurance or an assured conueyance of these things vnto him And so is it with Sacramentall Bread and Wine Yet here our Assurance is firmer the Conueyance is more vndoubted because man may deceiue and the greatnesse or malice of aduersaries may oppresse but GOD who by these things doth offer and exhibite CHRIST and His benefites to vs cannot deceiue will not falsifie His Couenant but will most certainely performe all His promises prouided that we stand vnto the conditions to which we are tyed Neither man nor diuell nor any creature can hinder or keepe vs from receiuing CHRIST in the Sacrament if we stand not in our owne way and let our selues Of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ DIVERSE in the Scriptures haue beene called by the name of IESVS as Iesus the sonne of Nun Iesus the High Priest the son of Iosedeck and Iesus which was called Iustus But CHRIST hath this Name with a maine difference from them all For whereas they were no more then men our IESVS is GOD and Man in one and the selfe-same Person They came into the world by an ordinary generation as we do now but Hee was borne of a Virgin pure that knew no man They had not their name giuen them expresly by GOD but by men but Hee had His name from GOD by the mouth of an Angell GODS Messenger They all had need of this IESVS that they might be saued by Him otherwise they had perished all They were the sons of men but Hee is the Son the eternall Son of the eternall GOD. They might be meanes to saue others especially from exterior dangers and enemies but this IESVS by His owne Personall Power and Merites hath saued all true beleeuers from their sinnes Hee hath deliuered them from sathan Hee hath redeemed their soules from death and hath purchased for them the glory of the Kingdome of heauen This Name He had from all eternity as GOD but Hee receiued it in the womb as Man and in and at His resurrection Hee made manifest the truth therof most fully This name of a Sauiour for so IESVS signifies is a name aboue all names For it is the name of GOD I am saith he and besides Mee there is no Sauiour None of all the Titles of GOD are so precious with Him as this of Sauiour in which with his glory is ioyned our saluation Euen the very name of GOD without this Name hath no comfort in it Shut out this IESVS and GOD is a consuming fire and there is no dealing with Him But in this IESVS GOD hath reconciled the world to Himselfe who without Him is an enemy to it The name CHRIST which signifies Annointed is not equall vnto the name IESVS for the end is aboue the meanes Now Hee was Annointed to be our Sauiour Princes are called the LORDS Annointed but saluation is of the LORD that is proper to Him Hee Hee is the Sauiour and besides Him there

Mother of vs all hee that hath not Her for his Mother hath not GOD for his FATHER This is GODS Family hee that serues not Him in it serueth the diuell out of it This is the Court of the great King Hee that is not New-borne in it is some base-borne caitiffe and not counted among the Sons of the King Of the Militant Church CHRIST hath a part of His Mysticall Body triumphing with Him in the heauens and He a part warring vnder Him heere on earth This is a Spirituall Building made of liuing Stones hewen out of the Rocke CHRIST IESVS This is Noahs Arke out of which there is no meanes to scape the flouds of vengeance This like a Ship is weather-beaten with the raging winds and waues of worldly troubles yet is not swallowed vp This Church though farre and wide dispearsed is yet but One as many Members make but one Body many Branches make but one Tree many Riuers make but one Sea many People make but one Kingdom And One shee is because shee acknowledgeth but one GOD confesseth one Faith is ruled by one Head animated of one SPIRIT participateth of one Baptisme and is gouerned by one Law This Church Militant is the Sub-vrbes of the Church Triumphant None must enter into This but hee that hath first passed That None shall triumph like a Victor but hee that hath fought like a Souldier And hee that would weare a Crowne in This must first take vp His Crosse in That The proper and essentiall Members of this Church are all of them holy by the imputation of the Merites of CHRIST their Head and by the powerfull operation of the Spirit of CHRIST which is within them And all these are infallibly knowne onely vnto GOD who seeth the secrets of the heart and can certainely iudge of inward vertues As for the iudgement of men which may bee deceiued with shewes as the Birds were with those artificial grapes of Zeuxis it is vncertaine if of others except there bee some singular reuelation and rather an opinion of charity then a conclusion of certainety This Church Militant is in the world but not of the world All her Members are strangers in the earth but descended from heauen generated not of man but regenerated by the Holy Ghost not begotten of mortall bloud by the appetite of the flesh or will of man but of Immortall Seed by the Word of GOD according to His Will The onely Husband of this Church is CHRIST IESVS For Hee onely hath her holds her leads her To Him alone shee owes her loue her loyalty and fidelity The Friends not the Husbands for shee hath but One of this Bride and Bridegroome are all true Christians specially Pastors which heare the Voice of the Bridegroome and take great delight therein eschewing the voice of strangers The common condition of this Church and all her Members is affliction and persecution But shee counteth nothing more glorious then to beare the reproach of her Husband who is troubled in all troubles remembers all her sighes and enbottles all her teares And shee hath this property that like a Garden shee is greenest after a shower like Camomill shee is most odoriferous being troden on like Spices Shee is most fragrant being rubbed or bruised Whiles shee is persecuted shee flourisheth whiles shee is pressed shee spreadeth whilst shee is iniured shee vanquisheth whilst shee is corrected shee learneth and then gets vp when shee seemeth to bee beaten downe Then is shee most valiant in the Truth when shee is most oppugned for the Truth Being laden with tribulations she gathers strength being watered with the bloud of Martyrs shee taketh Spirit in sorrow shee reapeth solace being straited she is enlarged her very teares doe feed her her fastings do refresh her and those things doe make her floate aloft like corke which make worldlings like lead sinke downe vnto the bottome This Church is the pillar and ground of the Truth so termed of her seruice because shee doth by her Ministery Keepe Confirme and Preach the Truth not that shee hath authority ouer the Truth for the Truth is the ground and pillar of the Church But shee hath authority ouer her children and against all Heretiques from the Truth with which shee is betrusted to preserue and Preach I will therefore enquire for the Scriptures in the Church and for the Church in the Scriptures For the Church sheweth the Scriptures by her Ministery and the Scriptures demonstrate the Church by their Authority Of particular Churches THE Sea is one yet by reason that it washeth on many Countries it obtaineth many names as Brittish Spanish Adriaticall Mediterranean So all true Particular Churches in the world make but one Catholique Congregation though by reason of the Countries States or Nations in which they are dispearsed or else because of diuerse outward formes of gouernment they are called by sundry names These Churches by reason of their open profession of the Gospell and by reason of their outward formes are called visible and may bee seene though which of the Professours in them be truely Saints and appertaine to GODS Election and which are onely guilded pot-sheards and not truely sanctified no man can define precisely These Churches are like the Arke in which were all kind of beasts cleane and vncleane like a Barne where there is wheate and chaffe like a Garden where is flowers and weedes an Army where are men and milk-sops a Net wherein are good fish and bad a Kingdome or Citty wherein are good Subiects and false or vnworthy varlets Now these Churches are then reputed true and counted the daughters of the Catholicke when they professe the true faith of CHRIST and maintaine the true worship of GOD For there is the Church where there is true Faith saith Hierome where GOD is feared and praysed saith Austen where the Sacraments of CHRIST are rightly celebrated and His Word heard and conserued saith Beda Where there is consent in the Faith and consanguinity of the Apostles Doctrine saith Tertullian Where GOD appeareth and speaketh with his seruants saith Ambrose Into what Church therefore soeuer I shall come and shall perceiue the soundnesse of worship and the Faith of CHRIST Preached and maintained in the same I will liue peaceably and submit my selfe to the ordinances of GOD therein most willingly Of Christians CHRIST is the King of Kings and LORD of Lords and Christians of all men are onely of His Royall Bloud bone of His Bone flesh of His Flesh animated with His SPIRIT sprung from His Loynes swayed by His Scepter and partakers of His Glory Christians are not vnder the Law but delight in the Law For he that delights in the Law studies to deale according to the Law but hee which is vnder the Law is dealt with according to the law Euery Christian as hee is a Christian must say with Christ My Kingdome is not of this world And though it bee his destiny for a time to liue in this world