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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

the Schismaticks in their invective Pamphlets use the words of Isa 62. 1. For Sions sake I will not hold my tongue and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest and are not both our enemies the Papists for tyranny and the other labouring for Anarchy Are not mercenary Levites abounding with us the Devils dawbers preaching placentia and sowing pillowes under mens elbowes speaking good of evill and evill of good men-pleasures blinding Israels sinne and taking a reward for iniquity Doe not Prophets prophesie falsly and men love to have it so and are not the times such I feare not to speake giving God the glory that he that departs from such iniquity maketh himselfe a prey Do not prophanenesse hardheartednesse murmuring contumelies revilings envyings luke warmenesse dwell amongst us Are not these diseases catching Epidemicall Is it not to be feared they possesse the whole body of the land Are not fishers of men turn'd fishers of money fishers of women Did not the Devill tempt Eve first and then overcome Adam Is it not hence that silly women are led captive laden with sinfull lusts are not they first wrought upon by strange doctrines as meanes to trap their husbands what reason can you give for this save that their weaknesse makes way to receive false opinions and gives them more confident to broach them or because they seeke not God in the truth or because their wits are short and their tongues long Are there not a generation of men risen up which our Protestant forefathers never knew whose hearts as if they were hewne out of hard rocks or as if they had suckt the milke of Wolves as it is reported the first founder of Rome did relent not to see their native Country made nothing else but a shambles of butchers and blood Alexander when he saw the dead corps of Darius and Marcus Marcellus Syracusa burne and Titus Jerusalem laid even with the ground though enemies could not abstaine from teares these quite contrary mourne not with Jerusalem nor helpe it with prayers in this sad time of unnaturall calamity Are there not men pretending right to the Ambassadours calling who have none in justice to it men Canon mouth'd and yet living by no Ecclesiasticall rule no Logicians yet full of fallacies right Carters upon Seton whip and goe bellowing like Buls of Basan balls of wild fire downe with her downe with her to the ground Gunpowder arguments against Church and State who in their owne sense notwithstanding will be martyrs Saints Catharists but if those be martyrs who are murtherers if these be Saints who are Scythians and if these be Catharists who are Canibals Lastly this doctrine reflects upon the people and teaches them spirituall obedience Obey them that have rule over you and Saint Paul to the Thessalonians I beseech you know them that labour among you and are over you in the Lord and have them in estimation for their workes sake To this purpose is it that God so dearly accompts them in Scripture that the King is directed to aske counsell of God at the mouth of the Priest and King Salomon termes them the masters of Assemblies to this purpose there preaching is termed prophesiing the hearers are said to sit at their feet and not upon their skirts to teach them lessons of love and religious reverence But alas this kingdome cannot smother it The fathers have eaten sowre grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge In old time it was Ghostly Father but now Baals Priest Jesuits Canterbury whelps none of Gods Priests mans Priests not inspired nor called nor led by the Spirit nay the most Christian and judiciously godly Ambassadours in this City have in their charges and in their occasionall grave walkings beene derided and exploded But if nationall lawes and historicall testimonies produce such examples of cruelties and wrongs for the abuse blood of Ambassadours then I say the Lord cometh even within a little while behold the God of Angels and men cometh with thousands and ten thousands to take vengeance upon the men of this Nation for their barbarous entertainment of many of his Ambassadours coming meekly unto them with Christmas in their mouthes Evangelium gaudii a Gospell of joy Christ Jesus an eternall Saviour borne in the time of peace and for their redemption I will end my Sermon with the prayer of our forefathers in a part of the first English Lytany set out in the dayes of King Henry the eight From all sedition and privy conspiracy from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart from contempt of thy word and Commandements Unto which by the assistance of Gods Spirit I will adde From all Jesuits Brownists Anabaptists Socinians Arminians rebels traitors sectaries and turbulent spirits good Lord deliver us And that Gods glory may for ever shine upon us we pray That it may please him to be still with this Church and Nation that hee would say to the destroying Angell it is enough here and else where That the Gospell of his Sonne Jesus Christ the most holy and just Lord be soundly preached and obediently and purely practised That the true Protestant Religion I meane the whole body of Doctrine revealed in Gods written word absolutely necessary to salvation established in Queene Elizabeth and King James his dayes may yet and ever continue amongst us That such discipline may be used as Gods Saints may serve him in his places of worship in all comelinesse and decency That God would still continue the Kings heart in sincerity to his glory and the true Protestant Religion That God would cover his head in the day of battell and protect him from all his enemies and knit fast in one truth and peace him and his people That we may all keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace That we may enjoy peace supernall with God internall of conscience and fraternall one with another We beseech thee to heare us good Lord. Thus living Angellically in peace on earth we shall by Jesus Christ the Prince of peace pertake of peace with Angels in heaven here by participation there by consummation where is no place for sedition for their blesse is orderly and their happinesse everlasting where we shall sing this unanimous trisagion holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbath heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most high God the Father and to Jesus Christ the everlasting soule-saving Sonne and the truly God and blessed and holy Spirit eternally proceeding from both To whom trinity in unity and unity in trinity be ascribed as is most due from the bottome of our hearts all honour glory power praise wisdome righteousnesse mercy and judgement the rest of this Lords day henceforward and for ever and let all that heare me this day say Amen Amen Amen Amen FINIS

to whom the Embassadour comes may receave sincere edification the Embassadour religious estimation Gods Ambassage deserved exaltation and God himself an uniforme Glorification and for this we are Ambassadours Here is Officium Beneficium Ambassadour 't is nomen oneris aswell as honoris a name of Office aswell as benefice of sedulity aswell as utility of service aswell as ceremony We exercise an Eldership and discharge the work as truely as legatione fungimur we are charged with the Embassage by the authority of Christ we are invested and inducted into one and by the same vertue in nomine Christi in the name of Christ we effect the other Dignitas honoris the worthinesse of this honour falls out according to the power of this Gift and the Gift had not been sufficient except God had indued it with power Whence our Deputation first issued and what it may understand Saint Paul as cōmenting else where upon this text unfolds by the word of Eternall truth He that descended is the same also who ascended up farre above all heavens that he might fullfill all things 1. Ephes 4. 10. and v. 11. He gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ But this deputation is no lesse then a work of the sacred Trinity for the blessed Trinity which by one consultation in word created man do now in the word by one work recreate him in this last quotation you read Donum Filij the gift of the Sonne and 1. Cor. 3. 6. you may read Donum Patris the gift of the Father I have planted Apollo watered but God gave the increase and 1. Cor. 12. 28. And God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly teachers after that Miracles then Gifts of Healings Helps Government diversities of tongues And Act. 20. 28. see Donum Spiritus sancti the Gift of the holy Ghost Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God Learned Calvin particularly interpreting Saint Pauls order of Apostles Prophets Evangelists shepheards and teachers doth summarily concorporate them into the office and honour of an Apostolicall Pastour such as this Embassadour himself was By shepheards and teachers some understand those whose charge extended to the care of a particular Nation and such fell somewhat short of that accompt which they receaved who spared no paines to preach every where By Evangelists some intimate those who walked not abroad and yet preached as Priscilla Act. 18. 26. or those who wrot the Gospell By Prophets some meane certaine which were not Apostles and yet were Prophets as Agabus Act. 11. 28. By Apostles there are who understand such as had all things for an Apostle is a vessell of the body more principall and lively receaving all things from Christ himself so saith Saint Chrysostome in Ephes 5. And the before cited judicious Calvin puts betwixt the orders some difference but that in very modest discretion By teachers he will signifie such as applied their whole diligence to the sound interpretations of Divine writ and whose care it was to preserve the purity of Doctrine amongst the faithfull and t is his observation that such teachers intermedled not with any Discipline or Ministrations of Sacraments to the people By Evangelists he meanes an order in Dignity somewhat inferiour to the Apostles yet not without some relations to them in office such as Saint Luke and Timothy and perhapps those 70. Disciples appointed by Christ By Prophets he intends not all interpreters of the Divine will but such as by singular Revelation excelled others of which kind we have now none Extant for so he argues quales nunc vel nulli extant vel minus sunt conspicui But the power Apostolicall he confines not to any other bounds then the whole Vniverse alluding to their Commission granted from the Lord Governer and Commander of the whole world Saint Mark 15 16. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospell to every Creature And the Pastorall and Apostolicall charge not admitting the least difference betwixt them in substance or service He concludes comprehends all these for thus he resolves Pastorale autem mumus haec omnia in se continet and now by consequence it is manifest but what relation is or could be in honour and office betwixt our teachers and the old Prophets the same more fully authorized and exemplified have our Pastours with the Apostles and so in the duties of preaching praying praising baptizing breaking of bread administring of the Cup and in all other holy actions grounded on Gods word as apperteining to the Ministery our succession is Apostolicall for Saint Paul ingrosseth not the office to himself but verifieth an equality of execution to all such succeeding Ministers and Ambassadours Let a man so esteeme of us as of the Ministers of Christ and stewards of the Mysteries of God 1. Cor. 4. 1. that hence we be esteemed as Ambassadours for Christ sent by Christ and that the people to whom we are sent may as from our hand receave the rich treasure of Salvation gathered for them and distributed unto them from the holy Scriptures and Mysteries of God And in this sense is my thesis in the text we are Embassadours Here is honour indelible dignity indamnable reward interminable dignatio magna here if I could build Tabernacles the glory of the Lord would suddainly fill them We are Embassadours here is or should be our Unity and we are all Embassadours here is or should be our holy Community Legatione fungimur we are all Embassadours but all are not we he mistaks the place qui tibi hūc assumit honorem who takes this honourable Office upon him not being called of God as was Aaron there are which runne whom God hath not commanded to go but interpreting Saint Pauls marke sett before them to be a pulpit presse forward in their sencelesse performances without authenticall Ordinations O monstrum horrendum Informe ingens cui lumen ademptum O head and body without eyes unparalleld wonder here let Admiration seale up every lipp that any people should conceave that way best profitable to mend their aberrations and steppings awry by hearing and seeing a Cobler who perhaps would delight more to be Solus cum sola wax a Preacher nay t is causa capitis and head Busines which moves my more then ordinary invectives against such prophanation and profaners when a dresser of Hatts will seeme a redresser of hearts what can such polluted hands work save gum into mens Heads and gall into there minds they may presume to make Sermons as good as ever was felt though never so true as to be understood such take not a book in hand without some coulour and though there utterance exceed there entrance their going out there

weaving curious webbs for your soft and durable wearing out of his own Bowells Consider that the firmament the world and all creatures in heaven and earth are arguments proposed for his understanding and disputation together with that principium primum causa prima ens entium that essentiâ and trinus personis God that one eternall Essence of three persons the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost and his will to be revealed unto Christians for the disposing and effecting whereof as there is little need of mundane Impediment or the peoples discouragement so great cause for the exercise of his prudence which opportunely I trust with your patience I may consider and that very briefly Cicero saith it is scientia cl●ctio rerum quas cupimus auf fugimus the Apprehension and Election of those things which we are bound to seek or avoid or it is Approbatio causarum effectuum experientia the Experience and accompt of causes with their Effects doubtlesse it is the hand that layes out for all the foot that walkes for all the eare that heares for all and the very eye that constitutes all It is Ars vitae saith Tully as Physick is the Methodicall preservative of our health it is the Alarm of the Army the Monitour of the School The watch in the Pockett it is the predominant morall in mans Affections Actions that whereas other vertues do Inclinare move men to Civility and their passions to Regularity this doth Imponere im●ose a necessity of wise Government in the soule for no prudent man as good no man Nor is the vertue to be nicely disliked because Cardinall or Confind to one office and Action of the Ambassadour but generally to all To his first Admission into this holy Dignity to his setting forth yea it is his Companion in his journey betwixt earth and heaven it comes along with him to the people to whom he is sent and to summe up all It is his eye his Eare his mouth his bracelett It is every where not circumscribed but as infinite as the individualls For since morall vertue is an habit created in mans will by the holy Ghost moving him to honest Actions agreeable to the line of Gods Law and that prudence is one cheif Pillar of mans reasonable understanding this Prudence wanting or not practised it must follow A mans passions do subvert his reason wisdome is infatuated His Affections contemning a judicious Government and prudent moderation expose him violently to unbridled courses irregular exorbitant and dissolute demeanours or as the Schooles have it per actus remissos habitus virtutis corrumpitur I cannot stand upon the varions distinctions of this prudence as that personall oeconomicall politicall nor that of Cicero's pura impura propria impropria The first shewing a respective wisdome when a man feeles his own pulse and consults himselfe The second more common when hee sends to the Physition and is advised by another that which this hand leades mee to at this time is to those effects singular and observable in a religious prudence and are as attendants upon this AMBASSADOVR and they are these The first is Perfectè considerare To consider throughly God themselves their Ambassage and the world For as he well replied to an ignorant admirer of the ill successe of those things which with such deliberations were at tempted and acted so here it may make our answers Consultationum Domini Erant they were Masters of their deliberating consultations but not of the comming successe The second is perfecte determinare to determine throughly Deo fidelitate seipso sinceritate populo sobrietate with GOD by his fidellitie with himselfe by his sincerity with the world by discretion and sobriety First That God bee not dishonoured for his want of judgment nor himselfe neglected for want of due examination nor the world abused and blinded in a matter of such importance as the Ambassage of there owne salvation The third is perfecte applicare throughly to apply himselfe to God and His Word his Doctrine to Gods people his life for their example and his patience for their patterne so that the people may joyfully receave the Ambassadour and hearken his Ambassage That they may prudently embrace it in its purity obey it as there line of godly life in its sanctity And that they may bee wrought to an invincible courage against all false Ambassadors and Ambassages And all gaine-sayers of this Gospell of Jesus CHRIST under what species of fained holinesse and seeming reformation whatsoever yea Contra Angelum descendentem against an Angell comming downe to such a purpose and so much for the first vertue his prudence He that is justly prudent is prudently just for that is not distinctions a badge by which the true Ambassador is knowne But upon that Iustice Quae sibi unicuique suum tribuit morally I insist not nor upon that Originall Iustice reason over sensuality which Socrates pretily taught going thirsty to the wel there drawing the first bucket to power downe and the next to drinke of by which he shewed the appetites submission to reason neither upon that naturall universall and Phylosophicall Iustice which being insensible and imaginary We contemplate by inward notions as the Ideas of Plato nor that other artificiall particular and polliticall Iustice which as the leaden Lesbian Rule is made flexible to times persons and accidents vet this way were I to walk upon any distinction of Iustice in an Embassador I should render the devision in Iustitiam c●mutativam et distributivam The first practised betwixt themselves and others privately and by proportion Arithmeticall the second measured and done publikely by Geometricall proportion whose direct ayme is praemium et supplicium reward and punishment But not to prejudice my text You nor my selfe by injustice in digression I shall observe for my purpose three speciall notes which as debts doe ingage the Embassador to a Religious justice Deo sibi suis To God to himselfe to the world Our blessed Saviour Bipartires them Thou shalt love the Lord with all thy heart thy God and with all thy soule and with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe The Ambassage in my Text comes not short of the Angells doxology and tydings to the Shepheards Saint Luke 2. Here is glory to God peace on earth good will towards men And the Iustice of this Ambassador must bee Evangelically Angelically as was that Angelically Evangelicall Hee must know God His maker that sent him his Lord that intrusted him and his Law-giver that invested him that as in other matters from their knowledge issueth their honour done unto him so in this in them who are sent and them to whom they are sent by such knowledge in the one and revelation to the other there must be mutuall honour justly given unto God and instructions of piety d●e●y one to another But this Iustice in the Ambassadour must reach higher by raising his devoutest thoughts to the contemplation