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A21041	Tvvo treatises. The one, a most fruitfull exposition vpon Philemon: the other, the schoole of affliction. Both penned, by the late faithfull minister of Gods Word, Daniel Dyke, Bachelor in Diuinitie: published since his death by his brother, I.D. minister of Gods Word	Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1618 (1618)	STC 7410; ESTC S100162	203,709	388

To stop the fowle mouths of such persons that Vse 1 cry downe the Ministry for an idle calling and account Ministers of all other men to liue the most easie liues It is to bee confessed that of many Ministers it may bee sayd as our Sauiour speakes of the lillies Matth. 6. 28. They labour not But the poynt is not what is the labour of some persons but of the calling and office And yet indeede many may bee sayd to labour hard enough and yet are guilty of idlenesse wee laboured day and night viz. euen with our hands So farre goe many with PAVL that well may take vp that speech of themselues Zach. 13. 5. I am no Prophet I am an husbandman but yet they leaue him in that which followes And preached vnto you the Gospell of God 1 Thess 2. 9. They labour indeede but in their owne fields more then in the Lords We haue therfore a right to meanes and maintenance for the labourer is worthy of his hire It is vile Vse 2 iniustice to deny the labourer his wages It is a crying sinne Iam. 5. It is a sinne that brings a curse Ierem. 22. 13. Woe vnto him that vses his neighbour without wages and giueth him not for his worke Vpon the heads of how many must this woe needes light who are guilty not onely of iniustice but of sacriledge also in detaining and withholding the wages of Gods work-men and labourers Why should Gods Ministers be worse dealt with then our oxen why should they worke muzzell'd a plaine signe that men are as horse and mule in that they preferre the labour of their oxen before the labour of the Ministry 1 Tim. 5. 17. They that labour in the word and doctrine are worthy double honour the honour of countenance the honour of maintenance Some will giue their countenance to the Ministry so they may be spared in matter of maintenance Some the Law forces to giue maintenance therefore with CAIN Gen. 4. 6. they cast down their countenance Some will giue neither countenance nor maintenance How single a number is there of those that will giue the double honour of countenance and maintenance Let not such as vndertake that calling dreame of ease pleasure and of an idle life 1 Thess 3. 2. These Vse 3 two are ioyned together a Minister and a Labourer in the Gospell Prepare for and buckle to thy labour that intendest and entrest into the Ministry How many are Ministers that yet no labourers and so occasion the world to iudge Ministers as PAVL the Cretians to be flow bellies If they were so taken vp that were idle in the market place why stand yee heere all the day idle what sharpnesse must they look for that stand idle not in market-place but in the vine-yard It is ill being idle in the market-place it is worse in the vine-yard Alas for vs that wee should bee so dainty to shed a few drops of sweat for those for whom Christ sweat drops of bloud yea shed his heart-bloud Arrant shame for vs that LABANS sheepe should bee more painefully attended then CHRISTS The second part of the conclusion is in prayer The grace of our Lord Iesus c. In which prayer we may consider 1. The person prayed to 2. The thing prayed for The person praied to our Sauiour described by three titles 1. Our Lord. 2. Iesus 3. Christ The three titles which were in the glad tidings of the Angell Luk. 2. 11. A Sauiour which is Christ the Lord. 1. Of the title Lord before verse 3. 2. Title IESVS that is a Sauiour The reason of which name we finde Matth. 1. 21. Thou shalt call his name IESVS for he shall saue his people from their sinnes Quest How is he our IESVS and how saues hee vs Answ 1. By satisfying GODS wrath and iustice Christ is our Iesus and Sauiour in fiue respects for vs and vndergoing that curse which was our due Acts 20. 28. CHRIST hath purchased his Church with owne bloud By his death and bloud-shed hee hath saued redeemed vs from the curse Gal. 3. 13. Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the Law when he was made a curse for vs. 2. By his obedience to the Law and fulfilling of it And thus CHRIST may be sayd to bee the end of the Law Rom. 10. in regard of that perfect obedience he yeelded thereunto And so hee tells IOHN that it became him to fulfill all righteousnesse Matth. 3. for saluation stands in two things 1. In a freedome and deliuerance from hell 2. In the possession of heauen and eternall life CHRIST by his death merits the first and by his obedience in fulfilling the Law merits the second For though CHRISTS death had deliuered vs from death yet if obedience had not been yeelded to the Law still the curse would haue beene vpon vs excluding vs out of heauen in regard of the Lawes transgression Wheras now the Law being translated from our persons to the person of our Mediatour he hath perfectly fulfilled it and so is our IESVS by his obedience both in his sufferings and in our doings 3. By the remission of our sinnes He saues vs by pardoning vs 2 Cor. 5. 19. and Col. 1. 14. In whom we haue redemption by his bloud that is the forgiuenesse of sinne 4. He saues vs by destroying the Kingdome of sin in vs and by dis-throning our corruptions so that wee are no longer seruants to sin but to him Hee saues vs from the commanding power as well as from the condemning power of sinne Hee saues vs from the dominion and seruice of it See Rom. 6. 11. 12. and 8. 2. 5. Hee saues vs not only from the dominion of sinne in this life but from the very presence and inhabitation of it in the life to come Heere hee saues vs that it raignes not there hee will fully saue vs that it shall not so much as haue a dwelling in vs. All these may be reduced to two heads namely that CHRIST saues vs. 1. By his merit he meriting by his death freedom from the curse and remission of sinne and by his obedience eternall life for vs. 2. By his efficacy whereby in this life hee daily mortifies the body of sinne and wholly in the life to come abolishes the same Acknowledge we then CHRIST for our IESVS The Papists are like the Iewes they trust in Moses Ioh. 5. 45. They would come into Canaan by MOSES as well as by IOSHVA and so make themselues their owne Iesusses while they will be saued partly by CHRIST partly by themselues CHRIST will bee IESVS alone or not IESVS at all The third title is CHRIST a Greeke word the same with the Hebrew MESSIAH signifying Annoynted So that IESVS CHRIST is as much as a Of the name Christ and what it signifies Sauiour annoynted And so this name comprehends all his three offices of King Priest and Prophet inasmuch as all these three vnder the Law were inuested into their offices

were not onely almost but altogether euen such as I am Christians except these bonds But yet a more speciall loue which therefore hath a speciall name of brotherly loue is due vnto those which are alreadie effectually called and so made members of Christ This loue also commeth from faith which causing vs to loue God must needes also force vs to loue all those in whom wee shall see the very face and liuely Image of God himselfe so clearely shining First By this then once againe wee may trie our Vse faith A working faith hath laborious loue euen to our brethren annexed 1. Thess 1. 3. If then thou art of a hard and implacable nature of a memorie fastly retayning iniuries of affections vindicatiue which the Scripture cals Feet swift to shead bloud this bloudie nature of thine shewes thou hast no part in the bloud of Christ by faith The like is to be thought of those which are moued with no compassion towards the soule of their brethren sitting in darknesse and the shadow of death but can suffer them to pine and perish away in their sinnes and neuer reach forth the hand to pull them out of the ditch Certainly if thou hadst euer felt the gaine of godlinesse thy selfe thou wouldest perswade others to deale with this so gainfull a commoditie They that are conuerted of God confirme their Brethren being passed ouer the bridge they will wish others to follow them so farre will they be from plucking vp the bridge The same sentence also is to be passed vpon them that doe not feele their hearts enlarged towards Christians more then to others that are none If the Image of God by Faith were repaired in our selues wee could not but be delighted with those that are like our selues But on the contrarie if thou feelest these effects of loue in thy selfe vndoubtedly thou hast Faith For it is the loue of Christ only felt by Faith which is able to soften and melt our hard and frozen hearts When wee shall see how great a debt hee hath forgiuen vs this will make vs willingly to forgiue small ones to our Brethren yea and to bury all iniuries in the graue of forgetfulnesse neuer to reuiue againe euen as Christ hath done all ours to him though neuer so indigne and contumelious hee lodged them in his owne graue not to rise againe with himselfe the third day though many of vs raise vp our owne iniuries farre sooner out of their graues but to be left behind him in that Den of darknesse to sleepe an eternall sleepe So when Faith shall cause vs to consider how that the Lord Iesus being rich became poore that wee might be made rich this will make vs to earne in the bowells of compassion towards our poore and distressed Brethren and to reach forth our releeuing hand towards them But the most euident demonstration of our Faith is that brotherly loue wherewithall we loue a Christian as a Christian and because a Christian 1. Ioh. 3. Wee know that we are translated from death to life because we loue the Brethren for none can loue any good thing vnknowne Loue presupposes knowledge of the thing loued hee then that loues the Image of God in his Brother sees it But none can see it but by the eye of Faith He that loueth his Brother for his Faith must needs know Faith but no man can know it but hee that hath it Faith is onely knowne by our owne experience Secondly this Doctrine serueth not only for the tryall of our Faith but also of our loue to our Brethren for as that Faith which is without this Loue is an idle and emptie and imaginarie faith so that loue of our Neighbour which commeth not from Faith is blind and foolish and in the end will proue a deceitfull and vnfaithfull loue Naturall men that seeme to loue very dearly to day to morrow are at deadly feud The reason hereof is because their loue comes not from Faith Therefore amongst the true children of God yee shall neuer see such bitter fallings out as amongst worldly men In naturall men and the vnregenerate besides naturall affections which they haue as Fathers Husbands Wiues Children yee shall find further many times a kind and courteous nature to strangers a liberall and free heart to the poore But that which the Apostle speaketh of Faith void of Charitie 1. Cor. 13. is true also of Charitie void of Faith It is worth nothing before God Let vs not then deceiue our selues either trusting in the loue of others or glorying in that loue which is in our selues not proceeding from Faith for the former if wee rely too much vpon it it will giue vs a shrewd fall in the end and the latter will make vs but ashamed when it shal come to be scanned before Gods Tribunall who will esteeme most vilely and basely of all thy kind-heartednesse of all thy almes and liberalitie vnlesse Faith did wring them from thee Thus wee see how Faith when once it raigneth in the heart begetteth both these loues both to God and our Neighbour in vs and so how true that of the Apostle is Rom. 3. in the end By Faith we establish the Law For whereas the summe of the Law is loue of the first Table to God of the second to man Faith as we haue shewed very effectually worketh both Hence PAVL giueth the name of a Law to Faith calling it the Law of Faith because it succeedeth into the roome of the Law commanding the same things that the Law does and so is in stead of Law to the regenerate that are freed from the Law So farre is it as the Papists slander vs for giuing any licence to breake the Law Thirdly here it may be asked How could others Quest declare to PAVL the Loue and Faith of PHILEMON which are secret and hidden Vertues that be in the innermost corners of the heart farre from the sight of the eye They saw not PHILEMONS faith but his outward Answ works and by them they iudged and so did PAVL too of his faith discerning the Tree by the fruit Hence obserue First when we see in any the fruits of Faith and Doct. 1 Loue wee in Charitie are to iudge that there is true Faith and Loue indeed for howsoeuer Hypocrisie may Apishly counterfait the fruits of true Faith yet we are to suspend our iudgement till God shall haue vncased the Hypocrite And it is farre safer for vs to erre of Charitie then of malice and sinister suspition Secondly in that PAVL by a Metonymie of the Doct. 2 efficient giueth the name of Faith and Loue to the outward works of PHILEMON which were reported vnto him Wee learne the manner wherein euery good worke must be done namely in Faith and Loue. The very Spirits and quintessence of our Faith and Loue must be in euery good work else they are but dead works vnlesse they be built vpon the foundation of Faith and Loue easily will they be shaken First