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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

change our selues which GOD forbid wee shall still embrace and follow it but if wee receiue it for the fauour of men for honours riches credite or because wee would not bee out of the fashion then when these things shall bee separated from the faith and when the confessours of it shall bee dishonoured impouerished disgraced imprisoned Martyred then then wee shall renounce it and giue it our vnfriendly fare-well For our heart will cleaue to the things it takes delight in and will follow no thing longer then those things do follow for which it followed it I doubt not but that some which knew our Religion to bee the truth would haue openly acknowledged it and not haue renounced it in those Marian daies but that they receiued and profest it before not because it was true and holy but because preferment ease and liberty went with it and the sword was for it and when they saw the sword turned against it and fire threatned they turned likewise and set fire on their faith A belly-god will alwaies forsake GOD for his belly The shewes of Hypocrites trencher-friends are but as the light of Meteors the guilt of pot-sheards the paint of harlots and themselues as vapours summer-birds or houses of reed which will endure neither wind nor fire or much like whoores which will shew loue whiles a man hath mony meanes to content their humours but these things and their loue must die together Of Humility and Pride VVEE need not define humility but rather shew it It is an excellent vertue and very comely for vs that are wormes ashes shadowes Mee thinkes the pollutions of our birth the miseries of our life and the putrefaction of vs ensuing death being well considered should make vs truely humble But besides hee whom GOD will honour must bee humble For GOD resisteth the proud but giueth grace to the humble A Bucket is not filled except it bee let downe low in to the Well An house is not strongly mounted vnlesse the foundation bee laid low A Tree sends downe his rootes low that hee may shoot vp his branches high Mountaines are dry and barren when the Vallyes are well watered and very fertile Trees stoope most that are most fruitfull The dore of Life is straite and low a man must stoop and not swell with pride or else he cannot enter This pride is a miserable vice loathed of all men except the proud yea neither can one proud man endure another There was neuer any pride safe though neuer so strongly garded For deuouring all things to vphold her selfe she depriues her selfe of loue and is bereaued of all meanes which may defend it Pride will haue a fall Pride was bread in heauen but shee was throwne out quickely and was neuer so happy as to bee receiued in againe Other vices striue onely to be but pride would corrupt vertues and good workes that they might not bee If a man do good deeds and be proud of them he hath lost his praise If he haue Nobility beauty strength riches credite learning wit valour grauity humanity virginity and be proud thereof hee hath lost the grace of all these things and his reward with GOD. Euagrius being asked what was a proud heart answered it was vertues fanne a cisterne without water and an Inne of Theeues There are some so ambitious of promotion that they cannot tarry oportunity but will forcibly clime vp though sometimes it be to their greater fall Some when they are got vp themselues pull vp the ladder after them that no man shall come vp after except they list Some so they be vppermost themselues are well content with any but loue not any should be aboue them Some perceiuing a man to haue some singular parts in him farre beyond their owne will to their vtmost keepe him vnder fearing least his light should put out theirs or that if hee were any body they should be as no body It is not vnvsuall with sundry sorts of men by their dyet and rich apparell and faire appearances to ●●guile the world One to be counted a better man then he is will ruffle it out in brauery Another will be a Subsidie-man to shift a while with his Creditors or to be reputed some body being no body Another to draw eyes vnto him will turne Pea-cocke and in colours put downe the Rainebow Pambo spying a certaine woman flaunting it in very sumptuous apparell fell a weeping and being asked why he wept so much answered for two causes one the destruction of this woman an other because I quoth he which professe my selfe a Christian do not so much study to please GOD by innocency of life as this woman desires to please men with her vanity Another will vent his pride in ragges hunting after the praise of men being great or rich but sicke of vaine glory thirsting to be reputed humble and contemning the world because he keeps not state as men commonly will Antisthenes may glory more in his worme coate then a modest man will in costly garments For pride lies in the heart and can shew it selfe as well in ragges as in roabes Diogenes seeing certaine yong men of Rhodes very richly clad with laughter said this is nothing but pride Afterwards seeing the Lacedemonians in ill apparell This is quoth hee another kind of pride The man saw that pride did not alwaies shew it selfe in brauery and garish appaparel but sometimes also in very beggery and base aray whiles a rich man being vaine-glorious will affect to go in course or base apparell thereby hawking after the praise of men Others because they would appeare more louely then they are are wont to paint their faces being either ashamed or weary of the faces that GOD and Nature lent them It is true nature may be corrected but that nature must be plaistered that I finde not The sinnefull soule may be amended and refined but that a new face should be giuen it when the old manners and dispositions are retained and that a man would make a glorious profession where he shakes not off his inward rebellions this is nothing but hypocrisie and vaine glory So a man hauing a bad complexion of body or colour of face may lawfully by Art or Industry alter it if he can and make it better but to lay a plaister on his face to lit and paint his skin or haire that he may seeme better coloured then he is indeed his complexion being nothing bettered but rather waxing worser this is very vanity nothing but pride and cousenage Phillip King of Macedony had made one of Antipaters friends a Iudge but vnderstanding he did vse to die his head and beard hee displaced him againe saying there was no reason why he should be trusted in an Office seeing he was not trusty in his haire It being likely that he that would vse deceite in colouring his haire where there was no great gaine to be gotten would much more vse deciept in his Office where deceipt sometimes

are the diuels harbingers for hee lodges not but where they haue taken vp his lodging for him There are some vse to minish their sinnes either they are not great or they are not many Sure it is that the smallest sinne that can bee beeing the offence of the greatest Maiesty deserueth death and therefore is great enough to destroy the soule and though there were but one yet that were one too many For one foote of a bird taken or one wing belimmed may cost her her life One hole in a Ship may sinke her One bullet may kill as well as twenty The smallest sin is in it nature mortall yea the omission of the smallest duety which the Law of GOD requireth deserueth eternall death For cursed is euery one which continueth not in All Things which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them If the smallest curse of GOD bee too great to suffer then the smallest sinne against GOD is too great to doe As I therefore desire to escape all curses so will I by the grace of GOD bee carefull to auoide all causes and will neuer count that little which might make mee sustaine so great a losse as is the forfeite of my soule Of the Gospell THE Gospell is good newes from heauen of remission of sins reconciliation to GOD redemption from hell death and condemnation and of resurrection to life and glory by the merites of our LORD and SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST O happy newes O ioyfull tydings What newes more welcome to prisoners then of a Goale-deliuery What more pleasing to malefactours then to heare of their Princes pardon What would a blind man more willingly heare of then that his eie-sight shall bee restored to him Or what better tydings can bee brought to a man sea-beaten and spent with labour then that hee shall most certainely obtaine an hauen where hee shall most safely rest free from the malice of Pirates and fury of all foule weather Yet for all this the Gospell with many findes but poore acceptance It is because men haue no thorough feeling of their miseries they feele no misery and therefore affect no change What cares a clunch for learning or good manners that blesseth himselfe in his rudenesse and inciuility What cares a man for meate that feeles no hunger What doe you talke to him of cloathes that feeles no cold nor nakednesse The lacke of things causeth estimation the sense of lacke When men haue beene worne with warres how pleasing is the newes of a true and constant peace When a man feeles his disease and sees death staring in his eyes O how welcome is the Physition How welcome should hee bee that would bring him newes of a medicine which hee might easily haue that would cure him and set him vp againe When Sea-men haue beene long at Sea and spent their victuals and water euen a pound of bread would bee worth a pound in siluer and a little fresh water how welcome would it bee vnto them And if men would but duely consider of their captiuity slauery miseries and necessities into which they are driuen by sinne and wherein they are inwrapped they would bee glad to heare of deliuerance And beautifull should be the feete of those which shall bring vnto them glad tydings of peace I will therefore examine my selfe by the Law that I may bee brought to esteeme of the Gospell I will mediate of my slauery which I am brought to by transgressing the Law that I may duely respect the liberty which is Preached in the Gospell Mine owne bitternesse shall make mee delight in this Sweetnesse and mine owne vngraciousnesse in this so great a Grace Of the Law and the Gospell THE Law saith doe this and thou shalt liue The Gospell saith Beleeue in the Lord IESVS and thou shalt be saued In the Law there is seuerity but in the Gospell mercy In the Law there is reserued no repentance but by the sentence thereof hee that sins must die But the Gospell admits repentance and promiseth life to him that turneth vnto GOD. The Law terrifies but the Gospell pacifies The Law discouers sin but the Gospell couers it The Law requires a mans owne iustice but the Gospell Preacheth pardon in the iustice of another to wit of CHRIST The Law is written after a sort in the hearts of all men Pagans and Christians but the Gospell is not so generally knowne to all And the Gospell was not first and then the Law But the Law was first and then the Gospell To finde out my sinnes I will veiw the Law but to reade my saluation I will looke into the Gospell To despaire of my selfe I will weigh the Law but to hope in CHRIST I will receiue the Gospell If I were disposed to stand vpon my good deeds I would sticke to the Law but being desirous of mercy I will flye to the Gospell If I would stand vpon my iustice I wold plead the Law but crauing Grace I go to the Gospell Yet this will I doe because the Law is the rule of good workes I will endeuour to keepe it with care and conscience Yet euery day will I pray and say GOD bee mercifull to mee a sinner Of Good and Euill GOOD is more ancient then euill Sanctity is elder then sinne vice is yonger then Vertue There was first an Angell then a diuell First a Man then a sinner First a True-man then a thiefe In good no man can bee too much in euill no man can bee too little Hee that would encrease in good let him thinke hee hath yet too little Hee that would decrease in euill let him remember still hee hath too much The way to learne vertue is to vnlearne vice Hee taketh the ready course to become good which repenteth of his euils And Hee onely will proue a Saint which feelingly confesses himselfe to bee a sinner Of the Church Vniuersall THE Holy Catholique Church is the Corporation or Communion of Saints Triumphant in Heauen and Militant on earth This is the Mysticall Body of CHRIST who is the onely Head thereof by whose SPIRIT euery Member thereof is animated as euery part of the naturall body is animated of the soule And from which Head euery true mysticall Member deriueth all Spirituall life sense and motion And as the Moone receiueth her light from the Sunne so doth the Church receiue all her brightnesse both of grace and glory from IESVS CHRIST This Church is the Vine of GODS delight the Spouse of CHRIST His Faire One His Wel-Beloued GODS House and Citty the LORD and Keeper whereof is GOD the Wall His omnipotent Grace and gracious Omnipotency the Watch-towers are His Prouidence and Omniscience Her Ensignes or Armes are Faith Righteousnesse Peace Charity and ioy in the Holy GHOST Her foundation is the doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles Her Gate is CHRIST Her Religion is the seruice of the blessed TRINITY Her Citizens are all poenitent and true Beleeuers and all the Saints of GOD. This is the