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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

as the fish drinketh in water neuer saying so much as What haue I done Assuredly they are out of the fauour of God An humbled heart for sinne is the first step to the fauour of God Secondly thou must shrowd thy selfe vnder Christs wings Clothe thy selfe with his righteousnesse and the precious Robes thereof that so thou mayest appeare amiable and louely in the eyes of the Lord for in Christ only is the Father well pleased and so if thou wouldest haue him well pleased with thee thou must become a member of him bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh This thou doest when by Faith thou layest hold vpon Christs righteousnesse and gripest the promises of the Gospell And this act of Faith sheweth it selfe most of all in earnest Prayer and Deprecation when thou cryest with strong cryes Forgiue me my trespasses According to the multitude of thy mercies blot out my offences These be the wrestlings of IACOB who would not let the Lord goe till he had blessed him If thou wouldest find grace thou must come and in this manner knocke at the gate of Grace and it shall be opened vnto thee How can wee looke to haue grace with God when he offring vs his Sonne as a meanes thereof wee will not reach forth the hand of our Faith to take him Thirdly by Faith hauing clad thy selfe with the Robes of Christs imputed righteousnesse thou must be clothed vpon with the garment of thy own righteousnesse and obedience which howsoeuer being in it selfe a menstruous cloth as it comes from vs yet being of the Spirits owne weauing in that regard is acceptable to God and causeth him to take a further delight in vs. Pro. 3. 3. Let not Mercy and Truth depart from thee so shalt thou haue fauour with God and man Pro. 11. 20. They that are vpright in their way are his delight If then we would be Gods Fauoured and Beloued we must put on that party-coloured Coate of the Apostle Col. 3. 12. consisting of many parts Of Humblenesse Mercy Kindnesse and long Suffering c. then shall that be verified Psal 45. 11. The King shall delight in thy beautie and that Cant. 4. 9. My faire One thou hast wounded my heart with one of thine eyes and with a chaine about thy neck Looke how the Spouse that being beautifull of her selfe is withall set forth and decked with precious ornaments is gracious in the eyes of her Louer so shalt thou be in Gods when thou appearest before him in the beautifull face and pleasant rayment of a new creature in Christ Iesus for then thou art made partaker of the diuine Nature And God in thee seeing himselfe an Image of his owne Holinesse and Righteousnesse thou being with DAVID a man after his owne heart how can hee but take great pleasure in thee if so bee hee take pleasure in himselfe Thou then who hast not this pleasant rayment of the new man but the torne rags of the old man thou that lyest wallowing in the mire of sinne a forlorne nasty creature thou that still retaynest the old Ethiopian hide and Black-mores skin these foule Leopard spots how thinkest thou that the pure and cleere eyes of the Lord can abide the sight of so filthy and deformed an obiect Hee that can performe these three duties may assure himselfe of Gods fauour Thus much for the first thing desired namely Grace The second followeth and Peace I doe willingly assent to those who by Peace doe vnderstand all prosperitie and felicitie both earthly and heauenly in this life and that to come In the ordinary salutation among the Iewes wherein they wished peace to the saluted Luk. 10. I thinke only outward prosperitie was meant by peace But as the Apostles augmented the ordinary forme of salutation by adding Grace to Peace because they preached in the Gospell the free Grace of God for our saluation so by the same reason may it well be thought that they inlarged the signification of this word Peace euen to inward peace as well as to outward specially their Gospell being the Gospell and glad tydings of that Peace Extending therefore the signification Foure things comprehended vnder Peace of this word in this Apostolicall salutation further then it was taken in the common greetings of the Iewes it may comprehend all these things within his circuit First the inward peace of Conscience with God which springeth out of the grace and fauour of God Rom 51. A mans conscience will neuer be at quiet within him till it feele this grace There will bee nothing there but the vncomfortable darknesse of terrors and astonishments till the light of Gods countenance arise and shine vpon it Secondly The peace of Charitie among our selues of which the Apostle Be at peace among your selues Let the peace of God rule in your hearts This also is an effect of Gods grace which as it maketh a man at peace with himselfe and God so with his Brethren The loue of God shed into our hearts will make vs loue our Brethren also There can be no true loue then among those that are not in fauour with God but they liue together like Wolues Beares But when our God hath vouchsafed vs his grace he changes our Woluish and Tygrish natures accomplishing that which is prophesied Esai 11. Thirdly The peace of Amitie and a holy kind of League with all Gods creatures Iob 5. The stones of the field shall be at peace with thee This also is an effect of grace for when we haue his fauour who is the Lord wee haue the good will also of his seruants the creatures Rom. 8. If hee bee with vs who can be against vs for all things are at his command who is the Lord of Hosts Nay who shall not be for vs On the contrarie Oh the miseries of the man in disgrace with God! all the creatures are at enmitie and at variance with vs being out of Gods fauour The senselesse creatures themselues in their kind rise vp against vs to fight the Lords battails against vs as the heauens did fight against SISERA Iudg. 5. Fourthly Outward Prosperitie and good successe in our wayes so it is commonly taken in all their salutations as 1. Chron. 12. 18. Peace be vnto thee O sonne of ISHAI And 2. King 9. Is it peace the salutation of IEHORAM to IEHV Hence it is euen from this manner of saluting all kind and good dealing is set out in the Scripture by this phrase of speaking peace as Psal 85. God sayes I will speake peace to my people Now the reason why outward prosperitie is signified by this name of peace is first because to the godly they are Pawnes and Pledges of that sweet Peace they haue with God Secondly they are notable Maintayners of the peace and quietnesse of our affections for in the want of outward things how are we disquieted and vnsettled But Peace in this fourth signification is so taken for outward prosperitie that which all this

of Israel and to bee without God in the world But when once we come to haue fellowship in one and the same Common-wealth of the Communion of Saints then thorough Christ wee haue accesse by one spirit vnto the father euen vnto one and the same father 2. They haue one common mother the Church Gal. 4. 26. Ierusalem which is aboue is free which is the mother of vs all So are they fellow-brethren both by fathers and mothers side Fitly therefore are these two articles ioyned together I beleeue in the holy Catholique Church the Communion of Saints By vertue of the Communion of Saints wee challenge a freedome in that holy incorporation 3. They haue one common elder brother IESVS CHRIST Heb. 2. 11. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren This Communion stands not onely in a brotherhood among themselues but in a common brotherhood betweene CHRIST and the faithfull As the head is not onely the head of the shoulders but of the feet of the leggs and all other parts of the body They haue all one cōmon head 4. They haue all one common inheritance So that this partnership and fellowship doth not onely make them brothers but heerein it goes further for many brethren haue common parents a common elder brother but not the inheritance common their common elder brother makes that proper and peculiar to himselfe But heere there is a communion in the inheritance it being alike common to euery one Hence the faithfull are called fellow-heires Ephes 3. 6. and Fellow-citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of GOD Ephes 2. 19. And IOHN writes himselfe a brother of the Churches and a companion or co-partner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Kingdome of IESVS CHRIST Apoc. 1. 9. Hence in CHRIST neither bond nor free c. but hee hath made vs all Kings and Preists to God his father Apoc. 1. 6. Hence IVDE calls it the Common saluation Iude 3. The Saints of God haue all communion in one and the same saluation and Kingdome of God So PETER speakes of himselfe I a witnesse and a partaker 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of glory 1 Pet. 3. 1. 5. They haue all one common profession of the same faith Therefore howeuer faith in regard of the beleeuers application is proper and particular yet in regard of the profession thereof it is called the common faith Tit. 1. 4. To Titus mine owne sonne after the common faith This is that fellowship PAVL mentions Philip. 1. 5. your fellowship in the Gospell Their fellowship stood as in other things so in the common beleeuing receiuing and professing the Gospell Thus are they fellow-beleeuers and fellow-professours 6. They haue all the same ordinances of Gods worship in common and haue a ioynt fellowship and communion in the vse and exercise of them fellow-hearers of the same Word and Gospell Hence that phrase of the fellowship of the Mystery Ephes 3. 9. fellow-partners and fellow-partakers of the same Sacraments Hence the Supper called the Communion The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the Communion of the bloud of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the body of Cbrist 1 Cor. 10. 16. and see the reason vers 17. for we being many are one bread and one body for wee are all partakers of that one bread The Ministers and their Ministry is not their owne nor any mans peculiar goods but the common goods of the Saints in which they are all fellow-partners It was a misse in the Corinthians when they sayd I am Pauls and I am Apollos I am Cephas 1 Cor. 1. they are as farre awry that say PAVL is mine APOLLOS mine CEPHAS mine for all things are yours whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas c. all are yours and you are Christs and Christ is Gods There are but three Lords of all things GOD CHRIST and the Saints and these subordinate each to other So then PAVL and APOLLOS and the Ministers and Ministry of the Gospell the Word and Sacraments are the common goods of the whole Church in which all the Saints are fellow-partners 7. They haue the prayers each of other in common Therefore our Sauiour teaches vs to pray Our father Giue vs this day our daily bread forgiue vs our trespasses Teaching vs an exercise of this fellowship in prayer we are bound to pray for others therfore others haue a partnership in our prayers Heerein is the poorest and meanest Saint of God happy that as he hath the benefit of Christs intercession in heauen so hath he also the benefit of the prayers of all Gods Saints on earth 8. They haue the graces and gifts each of other in common In Grace there is not this meum and tuum we haue no grace hut by vertue of this communion wee are bound to communicate it and to make it common to others what gifts wee receiue others haue a right in them 2 Cor. 1. 11. the gift bestowed on vs for many As once of goods Acts 4. 32. so euer of grace none must say of the grace hee possesses that it is his owne Conduits are not any ones proper goods but are common to the whole towne And PAVL sayes of the Philippians Philip. 1. 7. That they were all partakers or fellow-partners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of his grace All the graces and gifts that any haue they are but the Church-stocke and part of their treasury in which the whole Church hath a partnership Graces who euer is berusted with the keeping of them are Church-goods in which all the Saints are fellow-partners 9. They haue a partnership in their affliction so that one Christian suffers not without the fellowship of another as the members of the same body haue all communion in the same greefe If one member suffer all suffer with it 1 Cor. 12. 26. Remember those that are in bonds as though yee were bound with them and them which suffer aduersity as being your selues of the body They haue as well a partnership in the crowne of thornes as in the crowne of glory as well in the sufferings as in the Kingdome of CHRIST Reuel 1. 9. I Iohn who am also your brother and companion or co-partner in tribulation and in the Kingdome and patience of Iesus Christ This partnership in afflictions stands both in a fellow-feeling and a fellow-suffering both are ioyned together Heb. 10. 33. 34. Partly whilest yee became companions or partners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with them that were so vsed Now marke wherein they shewed themselues partners with those that were so hardly vsed in afflictions For yee had compassion on mee in my bonds there is a fellow-feeling and tooke ioyfully the spoyling of your goods there is a fellow-suffering Hence vers 23. of this Epistle calls EPAPHRAS his fellow-prisoner fellow-prisoner not in regard of place but of cause and affection yea so neere is this partnership that in regard of their fellow-feeling each in others crosses euen