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death_n	day_n	die_v	eat_v	5,786	5	6.8715	4	false

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

and he caused me to eate the roule Well but would the opening of his mouth and eating it with his mouth serve the turne No vers 3. Sonne of man cause thy belly to eate fill thy bowels with this roule that I give thee So in the eating of the Word delivered to us it is not enough to take it into our mouths but we must swallow it downe cause our belly to eate it and not onely fill our eares our heads memories but we must fil our bellies and our bowels with it This is done when wee not onely heare and meditate upon it but when it is so digested and concocted by us that wee by obedience and conformity to it even become one vvith it As vvhen meate is eaten and digested it becomes one vvith the substance of the body This point of eating is that Rom. 6.17 Yee have obeyed from the heart that forme of doctrine whereunto ye were delivered That looke as meate eaten becomes one with the body and takes the same forme with it so then is the Word eaten when we yeeld such obedience to it as that we are delivered into the forme of the Word And this is indeede the maine and principall thing in this eating And till this be done the Word is not eaten Many have a conceit that they eate the Word because they heare take some delight in it c. but in the mean while they yeeld not obedience to it bring it not into practise it is in their eares it is in their mouthes it is in their note Bookes but it is not in their bellies and bowels It is just with them as in that case with those Jsa 29.8 As an hungry man dreames and behold he eates as in his dreame hee dreames he eates but he awakes and his soule is empty And so many they dreame they eate because they heare c. but yet their soule is empty and their belly is empty because they never caused their belly to eate they never filled their bowels the Word never yet sanke into their hearts to worke them to obedience to it And thus in these things stands this duty of eating and this is the duty that wee are to doe And that we may be stirred up to it consider these motives First eating the Word it is both the meanes and the signe of spiritiuall life It is the meanes of life Eating maintaines life let a man give up eating and hee must give up living no eating no life Gen. 47.15 Give us bread for why should wee dye in thy presence And if they had bread yet if they did not eate it if they had kept it in their cupboords laid it by and lookt on it they had dyed neverthelesse It is not the having but the eating of bread that makes men live Nehem. 5.2 We tooke up corne that we may eate and live Men may have meat and may have bread and yet if they eate it not they may dye And when once men leave eating it is a signe they are neere dying Psal 107.18 Their soule abhorreth all manner of meate and they draw neere to the gates of death It is a signe men are in a dying condition when once they are past eating because eating is the meanes of preservation of life So it is here eating the Word is the meanes of spirituall life The Word is called the Word of life It is called our life Deut. 32.46 47. and so eating the Word is the eating of that which is life and eating of life the meanes of life There was an eating by which death entred into the world Gen. 2.17 In the day that thou eatest thereof surely shalt thou dye But this eating is that by which life comes to us and in the day that we eare the Word living wee doe live we have hereby the life of grace and shall be assured of the life of glory They that eate of this bread sh●ll live for ever and not dye at all That as Joh 6.48 49 50. I am that bread of life Your Fathers did eate Manna in the Wildernesse and are dead This is the bread which commeth downe from heaven that a man may eate thereof and not dye So in this case And looke as Christ againe speakes of eating himselfe Joh. 6.53 54. Then Jesus said unto them Verely verely I say unto you Except ye eate the flesh of the Sonne of man and drinke his blood ye have no life in you Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day So here also for Christ is eaten by eating the Word Isa 55.1 Buy and eate vers 3. Heare and you shall live Blessed are they that eate bread in the Kingdome of God No eating bread in Gods Kingdome unlesse fitst wee eate the Word here And so blessed are they that eate the Word for they shall eate bread in the Kingdome of God They shall eate and live for ever And as it is a meanes so a spirituall life When men doe eate the Word it is a signe they are alive and and in spirituall health A dead man cannot eate onely living men eate and when men eate and fall hard to their meate it is a signe that they are alive and their health good When men can eate and fall hard to the Word it is a signe that they are in life and health Therefore as yee would use the meanes as have a signe of spirituall life so eate the Word Secondly That which moved Eve to eate the forbidden fruit should move us to eate the commanded fruit Gen. 3.6 And when the Woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she tooke of the fruit thereof and did eate and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eate So here the word is good good for food it is that which is to be desired to make one wise therefore let us take thereof and eate heartily of it The goodnesse of the Word is that which should move to eate Good meate tempts men to eate and though men have no great stomacke yet if they heare meat commended for good meate they will eate of it Isa 55.2 Hearken and eate that which is good And it is Salomons argument Prov. 4.1 2. Heare yee children the instruction of a father and attend to know understanding For I give good doctrine Yea and hee presses this duty of eating upon this ground Prov. 24.13 14. My sonne eate thou hony because it is good and the hony combe which is sweet to thy taste So shall the knowledge of wisdome be unto thy soule when thou hast found it then there shall be a reward and thy expectation shall not be cut off The summe is As when men finde honey they doe not forbeare but will fall to and eate because they know it is so sweet and good So when thou findest the Word fall

to and eate that also for that is good and that will be as good and sweet to thy soule when thou ea●est it Thirdly Men stand much upon the taking and eating the Sacramentall bread and put not a little in the eating of it but in the meane time make little regard of eating the Word They would take it very ill if they should be kept from eating Sacramentall bread and yet in the meane time willingly and voluntarily abstaine from eating the bread of the Word Therefore let men know that there is a greater necessity of eating the Word then is of eating the Sacrament A man may be saved if hee eate not the Sacramen but a man cannot be saved if hee eate not the Word It may fall out that a man cannot have the Sacrament but yet if a man doe eate the Word in such a case the not eating of the Sacrament shall be no prejudice to him And besides how ever men conceive of their eating bread in the Sacrament yet the truth is that a man is never fit nor prepared to eate the Sacrament till hee doe first eate the Word The Word not first received beleeved and obeyed a man hath no right to and shall have no benefit by eating the Sacrament for he that eates not the word cannot eate Christ in the Sacrament and what is a man the better for eating the Sacrament if hee eate not Christ They did all eate of the same spirituall meat and yet with many of them God was not well pleased And why so because though they did eate Manna a Sacramentall bread yet they did not eate the Word and yeeld obedience from the heart to that 1 Cor. 10.3 5. Fourthly that which David did wee ought all to doe Psal 119.11 I have hid thy Word in mine heart It is to be hid and kept safe There is no such way to hide it and lay it up safe indeed as to eate it Bodily bread as Bernard sayes when it is in the cupboord it may bee taken away by theeves eaten of mice may mould and be wasted but when it is eaten it is safe from all such danger So the Word is never so safely hid as when once it is eaten After the miracles of the loaves our Saviour bids gather up the fragments and see sayes he that nothing be lost The onely way to see that nothing of this bread be lost is to eate it It is never lost that is eaten First for Ministers Vse 1 First if people must eate the Word then they must give them to eate How can they eate that have nothing to eate Lam. 4.4 The young children aske bread and no man breaketh it unto them In such a case they might aske bread but they could not eate bread where bread was not given bread could not be eaten Many would eate bread if they had it And that people have it not and eate it not it is the fault of such Ministers as give it not and breake it not Many keepe their people at such short commons that they have not to eate so farre from having their bellies full that they get not so much as a mouthfull Secondly if people must eate then as Ministers must give them to eate so so they must give them such as they may eate A man may give bread and meate to be eaten and yet it may be such stuffe as cannot be eaten Luc. 11.11 12. If a son shall aske bread of any of you that is a father will he give him a stone That were the way to choake him and not to feed him Or if he aske a fish will he for a fish give him a Serpent That were the way to poyson him and not to cherish him Men cannot eate stones mens teeth are not able to chew and grinde them nor their stomackes able to digest them A man may preach and yet preach so as people can finde nothing in it that they may eate Schoole points and quiddities that transcends vulgar capacities are stony food not stones turned into bread as Satan would have Christ have done but rather bread turned into stones Jer. 3.15 That shall feed you with understanding Therefort that which must be eaten must be understood Men dare not eate Serpents and Scorpions who can blame them if they feare to be poysoned See how Christ was used Psal 69.21 They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vineger to drinke And therefore when it was tendred unto him Mar. 15.23 They gave it him but he received it not And what wonder if people receive not and eate not meate mingled with gall when they are fed with bitter invectives Hold fast the forme of sound or wholsome words Now many doe set before people such rotten and unwholsome food such trash and unsavoury food and such poysonous stuffe that it is with people as it was with them 2 King 4.40 As they were eating of the pottage they cryed out O man of God Death is in the pot And they could not eate thereof So it is here there is coloquintida and wilde goards in the pot many times a whole lap full and when there is death in the pot what wonder that people cannot eate thereof Or if men preach truth yet it is done with such unbeseeming levity and vanity after such a stage fashion that there is no nourishing substance in it Jer. 3.15 shall feed you with knowledge with that which shall edifie and build you up in knowledge not with huskes as the prodigall was fed Or if truth propounded yet it is meate so negligently drest so sluttishly cooked that the very sight of it takes away mens stomackes that as Hophni and Phineas in another case made the people abhoorre and loath the Lords offerings so many so marre the meate in the dressing that men can have no stomacke to eate it So that it may bee said of many Sermons as the Prophet speakes of those Figges Jer. 24.2 And the other basket had very naughty Figges which could not be eaten they were so bad And as your proverbe is God sends meat and the Divell sends Cookes So it may be more truely said in this case God sends meate and gives his Word but there be many Cookes not of his sending that make such rotten meate such slovenly meate such trashy meat such bitter meat such unsavoury loathsome meat that it cannot be eaten for badnesse Therefore since people must eate let us be carefull to give them to eate and to give them that they may eate sound and savoury food and well and handsomely drest Secondly For people Vse 2 And so the use is diverse First to condemne people for the Vse 1 neglect of this duty that they doe not fall to and eate when it is set before them Mal. 1.12 Yee say as you the Table of the Lord is polluted and the fruit thereof even his meat is contemptible God hee deales bountifully with men it may be said here as Psal