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A73885	Divers select sermons on severall texts Viz. 1. Of quenchiug [sic] the spirit. I Thessalon. 5.16. 2. Of the sinners suite for pardon. 2 Sam. 24.10. 3. Of eating and digesting the Word. Ier. 15.16. 4. Of buying and keeping the truth. Prov. 23.23. Preached by that reverend and faithfull minister of the word, Ier. Dyke, late preacher of Epping in Essex. Finished by his owne pen in his life time, and now published by his sonne Dan. Dyke Master of Arts.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.; Dyke, Daniel, 1617-1688.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Heart-smitten sinner's suite for pardon.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Of quenching, and not quenching of the spirit.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Purchase and possession of the truth.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639. Right eating and digesting of the Word.	1640 (1640)	STC 7414; ESTC S124520	150,541	441

have their feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace as it is Ephes 6.15 As therefore wee would doe God service and his Cause honour as wee would be able to be good Souldiers and resolute couragious Champions for Christ and his cause which is the greatest honour in the world so get that taken away that takes away all courage Take away the iniquity of thy servant for that will take away the courage and resolution of thy servant get that off which will cowe thy Spirit the guilt of thy sinne Get the pardon of thy sinne Get thy feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace If once thine heart have the peace of the Gospels working have peace from thy pardon it will make thee looke upon prisons scourges rackes strappadoes gibbets stakes fires as at so many flea-bitings It will make a man have an heart like David his heart was as the heart of a Lion Sixthly it is an excellent and speciall preparative for death There is no man but must die and there is nothing so much concernes a man as to be fit and prepared to dye It is appointed to all men once to dye and after death comes judgement Heb. 9. After death comes Judgement and as a mans death is so is his judgement As the tree falls so it lyes Such as a mans death is such is his doome If a man dye with his sinnes pardoned then hee is judged to life if a man dyes without pardon then his judgement is without mercy hee is judged to death and sentenced to Hell Inasmuch therefore as a man is never fit to dye comfortably and happily till death shall make way for him into Heaven and a man cannot looke for any entrance into Heaven till hee be pardoned his sinne therefore till a mans sinne be pardoned hee is never fit to dye See how Job speakes Iob 7.21 Why doest thou not pardon my sin and take away mine iniquity As if hee should say Oh Lord be not hard to be entreated let mee prevaile with thee for the pardon of my sinne But why is Iob so earnest for the pardon of his sinne See what followes for now shall I sleep in the dust As if he should say Now Lord I am upon the point of death and looke for no other but to dye and alas how sad will my condition be if I should dye without my pardon Since I must dye Lord fit and prepare me for a comfortable death by the pardon of my sinne Then is a man fit to dye when the time after death shall prove a time of refreshing Times of refreshing come after the pardon of sinne Act. 3.19 Repent saith Peter to the men of Israel and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And then the times after death are times of refreshing when the times before death are times of remission Hee hath prepared himselfe well for death that hath taken order that the time after his death shal be a refreshing time and that order onely hee takes that before his death hath taken order for the pardon of his sinnes Then a man is fit to dye and never till then when the sting of death is taken out so as death can doe a man no hurt when death shall not be deadly to him There is a speech Apoc. 2.23 I will kill her children with death Some men are kill'd with death they doe not onely dye but they are kill'd with death Death proves deadly to them All men dye but all men are not killed with death As a godly man said that hee did agrotare vitaliter so godly men they doe mori vitaliter When a man can dye so then hee is fit to dye Now whence is it that death becomes deadly 1 Cor. 15.56 The sting of death is sinne Sinne onely makes death deadly That which armes death to doe hurt is sinne It is as in that case Apoc. 9.10 The Locusts there had a power to hurt men with their Scorpion-like tailes and their stings in those tailes and their power was to hurt men five moneths So death hath a power to hurt men but that power is from men themselves Sinne it is that gives this power to Death to doe a man hurt In Death there be two things First the hand of Death which is the power it hath over all men it hath an hand to lay upon all good and bad Hos 13.14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeeme them from death Psal 49.15 But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the grave for hee shall receive mee All men must come into this hand of death Now it is sin that gives Death this hand But yet this hand is not deadly it but separates soule and body and but for a time At the Resurrection that hand of death shall be cut off Hos 13.14 O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction Secondly the sting of death That is the power it hath of delivering men over to the curse of God and eternall wrath And it is this sting that makes it deadly It may strike a man with the hand as it doth all godly men and yet not be deadly but then deadly when it strikes with a sting and makes way for a mans separation from God for ever And this power sinne onely gives death It is sinne unpardoned and unforgiven that gives death this power to deliver a man over to wrath to carry him in chaines to Hell This is to be killed with Death Now a man can never be fit to dye but when he is willing And never can hee bee willing so long as hee sees Death with a sting The onely way to fit a man for death so as to be willing to dye is to get out the sting The way to get out the sting is to get sinne pardoned pardoned sinne makes death without a sting and then it is not terrible A Fly makes as great an humming as a Bee and yet wee feare not a Fly as a Bee because a Fly hath no sting Wee are fit to dye when wee feare not Death This of all other should make us very sollicitous for our pardon Death is the King of terrours and it is a sad thing at the time of death to have the heart full of feares the conscience full of horrours to have death looke gastfully in our faces Get pardon and free from all this Dye thou must that 's once Now if one should come and tell us you shall dye in a Gaole you shall dye in a ditch wee should thinke it a sad hearing it would sound dolefully in our eares I but there is a speech of Christs to those Joh. 8.21.24 that sounds more dreadfully then the former Yee shall dye in your sinnes It is a sad thing to dye in a Gaole to dye in a ditch but this is the sad

with a great deale of anguish And what will a man doe in such a case The first thing hee will doe for his ease is to plucke out the sting the Hornet hath left behinde For if a man apply medicines for ease yet if the sting be still sticking in his flesh medicines are in vaine So when the conscience is stung and throbs and rages the way is first to plucke out the sting out of the conscience Nothing can take away the sting out of the conscience but pardon Pardoning grace onely can fetch that out therefore when thy conscience is stung and doth paine and vex thee let that be the first thing and let is bee done speedily too to seeke to God for the pardon and remission of thy sinne That will take out the sting and when the sting is out there will follow present ease Secondly marke what Davids suite Doct. 2 to God is Take away I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant Learne then what is a maine thing that concernes every sinner to looke after and labour for A maine thing that above all others a sinner should looke after and take thought and care for is the pardon and remission of his sinnes Our Saviour in the forme of prayer by him prescribed teaches us to pray but sixe petitions and amongst those sixe the fift is forgive us our trespasses and observe with what petition it is coupled Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us Two things may be there observed 1. First hee subjoynes petition for pardon to petition for bread 2. Secondly hee couples and conjoynes them In the three first petitions one petition is subjoyned to another but not conjoyned to the other Hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdome come c. hee saith not And thy Kingdome come And thy will be done But here these are coupled Give us c And forgive us And this to teach us that there is as great necessity of pardon for eternall life as of bread for temporall That we stand in as much need of a forgiving God for our soules as of a giving God for our bodies So also that wee should bee no lesse thoughtfull and carefull for pardon of sinne than men are for bread That wee should beg as hard and toyle as hard for the pardon of sinne as for bread to maintaine life The Lord Hos 24.2 prescribes his people a prayer and that hath but two petitions and this is not onely one of them but the first of them Take away all iniquity and give us good Agur put up but two petitions to God and these were the petitions that he meant to put up to his dying day Prov. 30.7 Two things have I required of thee deny them mee not before I dye that is two things I have beg'd and will not leave begging to my dying day and one of these two and the first of these two things that he would beg to his dying day was the pardon of his sinnes v. 8. Remove farre from me vanity and lyes As if he should say Lord be mercifull unto mee in the pardon of my sinnes So that there is no thought nor care that should take up a mans time and paines all his life long as this how to get the pardon of our sinnes It is the greatest mercy that can be showne us It is true that wee live wholly upon mercy that we have a being it is mercy that wee have any comfortable being it is mercy mercy that we have food to put into our bellies mercy that wee have clothes to put upon our backs mercy that we are freed frō many sorrowes sadnesse and heavy crosses that others lye under all is mercy but yet lay all together and they are nothing to the mercy that is in pardon of sinne that is the greatest mercy that can be shewed Psal 51.1 According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions See then that it is mercy that must blot out transgressions nay it is tender mercy nay it is a multitude of tender mercies that blots out and forgives sinne And therefore it being so great a mercy our cares should be suitable and proportionable to it The greater the mercy is the greater should a mans care be to get a share in that mercy Vse 1 First if pardon of sinne be a thing of such concernement the maine thing that a sinner should looke after then let us make it our great care and the great endeavour of our lives to get the pardon of our sinnes It is wofull to see our negligence and security in this point What is there in all the world that concernes men to looke after more and yet what is there that men looke after lesse than the pardon of their sinnes No care no thought no time no paines too much or enough for getting goods riches and the necessaries of this life but how rare and infrequent are mens cares thoughst for the pardon of sin All our cares are wasted and expended upon these trifles but for this one thing that is necessary scarce one serious thought in the whole yeere Who will shew us any good that string men harpe upon But who will shew us the way to get the pardon of our sinnes that 's a question rarely asked It is too true that men have not that care for their soules they have for their bruit beasts for their very Hogs and Dogges Luc. 14.5 Which of you shall have an Asse or an Oxe fallen into a pit and will not straight way pull him out Nay if it were a Swine nay if a Dogge hee should be pul'd out and pull'd out straight way Such care and such compassions would wee with haste shew unto these vile and base creatures But how often doe mens soules fall into the pit even into the pit of Hell and Death by their sinnes and yet no care nor compassion to pull them out much lesse to pull them out straightway But for any care or conscience is taken there their poore soules may lye and rot in the pit A miserable thing that a man should shew more care and pitie to his Swine than to his soule It being therefore the maine thing a sinner should labour for to get his sinne taken away be we exhorted in Gods fear to make this our maine care Spend lesse time and care upon the world upon your profits and your pleasures squander not out your cares time and paines upon these vanities these nothings Spend some time spend some care some paines upon your poore soules in getting their sinnes pardoned Let Job's thoughts be ours Job 7.20 21. So say wee Alas I have sinned and am a guilty person before God What shall I doe unto God What course shall I take that my sinne may be pardoned Oh Lord that I had an heart to seeke out for my pardon Sayes Job And why doest thou not pardon my transgressions and take away mine iniquity Hee speakes as if hee had beene

heavie judgement upon a Nation when they sell God and they that sell truth sell God See how God threaens Tyre and Zidon Joel 3.6 7 8. The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will returne your recompence upon your owne head And I will sell your sonnes and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah and they shall sell them to the Sabeans to a people farre off for the Lord hath spoken it It was an hainous sinne to sell the children of Jerusalem to the Grecians God would be quit with them for it And how heinous is it then to sell truth which is the Daughter of God Surely when men doe sell truth and a Nation doth apostatize from God God will be quit with them hee will sell them into the hands of their enemies they and their children Thirdly such as sell the truth sell their owne soules Get what yee can by selling the truth yet what shall a man give in exchange for his owne soule What if by selling the truth a man could gaine the whole world yet what shall it advantage a man to gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule It is ill selling when a man shall sell to losse but specially it is ill selling when a man shall lose his owne soule by the bargaine Hee loses his soule that sells it hee sells it that sells the truth See Prov. 19.8 He that getteth wisdome that buyes the truth loves his owne soule I but a man may buy truth and sell it away againe may get wisdome and lose it And what then is his soule the better for it Therefore marke what followes He that keepes understanding shall finde good As if he had said Hee that gets wisdome and keepes it hee that buyes truth and sells it not hee loves his owne soule hee saves his owne soule therefore hee that gets it and keepes it not that buyes it and sells it againe hee hates his owne soule hee loses hee damnes his owne soule Iudas hee sold Christ for thirty peeces it was the deerest bargaine that ever man made in selling of Christ hee sold his owne soule hee damned his owne soule by that sale It is the case of every man that sells truth hee that sells truth Iudas-like hee sells Christ and Iudas-like hee loses his owne soule It was death by Law to sell some things as to steal a man and sell him Exod. 21.16 Deut. 24.7 And it is death eternal death to sell the truth They that sell the truth sel God sell Christ and so sell their souls They sell Heaven and buy Hell Quest How may a man keepe himselfe from selling the truth Answ First get the love of the truth into thine heart That man that loves the truth wil never sell the truth and the truth is never sold but it is sold for something that is loved better than the truth A man that sells it for preferment and gaine loves gaine and preferment better then the truth that sells it for life or liberty loves these better then truth Now let a man learne to love the truth better than all worldly things and hee will never sell it for them Psal 119.127 I love thy Commandements above gold yea above fine gold Therefore to be sure hee would rather sell gold for truth then truth for gold Therefore they sold the truth and beleeved lyes 2 Thess 2. Because they received not the truth in love A man that is in love with his house with his land no price will tempt him to sell it If a man have but an horse that hee loves though hee be offered more then hee can be worth yet because hee loves him hee will not part with him Prov. 7.4 Say unto wisdome Thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman A man will not sell his sister because hee loves her Say in in this case as Nehem. 5.8 Wee after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Iewes which were sold unto the Heathen and will you even sell your brethren Our fore-fathers the Martyrs after their ability bought the truth and gave their lives to buy and redeem the truth and we wil even sell the truth which should be as deere to us as our brethren as our sisters Secondly take heed and make conscience of selling Truthes of lesser moment that are not so fundamentall and so necessary Be not over easie to part with them Hee that will over easily part with smaller truthes is in a dangerous preparation to sell maine and substantiall Truthes Hee that will not be brought to sell some small field that lyeth far off from his house hee will never be brought to sell all his whole inheritance But when men begin once to sell here a peice and there a piece it comes to passe at last that the whole followes after the inheritance and mansion house goes and is sold at last Hee that will sell and part with little truthes and not sticke close to them hee will if neede be sit as loose from maine fundamentall Truthes FINIS ERRATA PAge 3. line 22. for this read that p. 11. l. 26. r. the joy of thy salvation p. 18. l. 20. f. both r. holy p. 21. l. 9. f. prayer r. Christ p. ibid. l 24. f. of r. by p 25. l. 25 f. the r. your p. 26 l. 25. f. our r. the. p. 31.22 f. these r. this p. ibid. l. 25. f. where r. when p. 36. l. 2● dele for p. 38. l. 9. r. to do some good p. ibid. l. 10. f. know r. leave p. 52 l. 8. f. desire r. degree p. 53. 14. 16. f. great r. greater p. 57. l. 18. f. certainely r. contrarily p. 65. l. 14. f. Heb. r. Isay p. 74. l. 14. f. danger r. dampe p. 86. l. 23. f. he made it r. as the word is p. 91. l. 11. f. brazen r. barren p. 117. l. 8. f. their r. these p. ibid. l. 9. f. these r. their times p. ibid. l. 16. f. God r. Gods p. 119. l. 14. f. that r. then p. 147. l. 20. f. fire r. five p. 148. l. 2. f. urged r. grieved p. 157. l. 18. f prickes r. pinches p. 165. l. 26. r. is in debt p. 168. l. 7. f. so r. goe p ibid. l. 8 f. see r. goe p. 169. l. 1. f. that r. all p. 185. l. 14. f Oh. r. Object p 188. l. 19. f. with that of Haman r. in that with Haman p. 203. l. 22. f. the r. his p. 208. l. 1. r. to lay hold p. 215. l. 9. f. learne r. know p. 242. l. 8. f. vers 39. r. 35. p. 250. l. 26. f. loose r. base p. 251. l. 11. r. raigne over them p ibid. l. 12. f. bed r. body p. 261. l. 18. f. disperse r. dispense p. 273. l. 17. f. was r. or as p. ibid. l. 18. f. rules r. reades p. 276. l. 7. f. as r. that is p. 279. l. 5. r. so a signe of spirituall life p. 282 24. f. wasted r. marred p. 284. l. 11. f. cherish r. nourish p. 287. l. 10. r. men say as they Mal. 1.12 p. 291. r. a deceived heart p. 296. l. 2. f. fitted r. filled p. 297. l. 17. r. long coopt p. 306. l. 9. f. time r. two p. 307. l. 26. r. the knowledge of the truth the love of the truth p. 313. l. 13. f. dispersing r. dispensing p. ibid. l. ibid. f. many r. Mary p. 343. l. 14. f. pinne r. piece p. 347. f. good r. goods p. 348. l. 20. f. elleemisynary r. eleemosynary p. 50. l. 2. f. goe r. goes Imprimatur Tho. Wykes September 12. 1639.