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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 our sinnes pardoned so never give wee our soules rest till wee have gotten true faith indeed So long as you live and goe on in your unbeleefe it is impossible to have the pardon of sinne Hee that beleeveth not the wrath of God abideth on him Joh. 3. ult There is no pardon so long as under wrath So long as in unbeleefe so long under wrath Tit. 1. To the unbeleeving all things are unclean their consciences being defiled So long then as a man is in unbeleefe so long hee is defiled because sinne being not pardoned the guilt thereof defiles his conscience and his person How many be there that have had the pardon of sinne preached to them and offered to them in the Gospel in the Name of Christ and yet to this day their sinnes are upon them and not taken away And what is the reason of it Because they are not sprinkled with Christs blood And why not Because they want an hand of faith to take the blood of Christ which is shed and to sprinkle it upon their owne consciences And so for want of faith they have all their sinnes lye unpardoned upon their soules Secondly repentance for sin There is no pardon to be had without repentance As there is a faith unto life Joh. 6.47 Hee that beleeveth on mee hath life And a justification of life Rom. 5.18 So there is a repentance unto life Act. 11.18 And as the Lord Christ is a Saviour so hee is a Prince Act. 5.13 And to what end is hee both A Prince and Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sinne Hee indeede gives forgivenesse of sinne but hee also gives repentance yea and hee gives repentance that he may give pardon And where hee intends the latter hee workes the former David begs to have his iniquity taken away God hee promises to take away another thing Ezek. 36.26 I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh It is a sure thing that they that will have iniquity taken away must have the stony heart taken away they that will have the sting taken out of their heart must have the stone taken out of their heart hee gives repentance and remission of sinnes when he gives remission hee takes away the sting when hee gives repentance hee takes away the stone and he first takes away the stone before hee removes the sting And therefore Christ joynes both these together in the commission hee gives his Apostles Luc. 24.47 And that repentance and remission be preached in his Name They that preach remission in Christs Name and preach repentance in his Name they must first preach repentance before they preach remission All to teach that they must have repentance that will have remission and that repentance is a speciall meanes to get the pardon of sinne And therefore wee shall see that the promises of pardon are made to repentance that when God promises to give pardon of sinne to any hee promises it to such as are so conditioned and so qualified with repentance Zech. 13.1 There is the promise of a fountaine that shall be opened for sinne that is to take away the sinne of Judah and Jerusalem I but that fountaine is yet unto the Jewes a sealed fountaine their iniquity is not taken away they yet lye under their guilt But yet there is a promise of a day when that sealed fountaine shall be broken up and shall be opened But what day is it In that day In what day It hath reference to that which goes before in the former chapter See vers 10 11. c. They shall looke upon me whom they have pierced that is they shall beleeve in Christ whom they crucified And upon it they shall mourne for him c. They shall repent for that sinne of the rejection of Christ and the murder of him In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem c. And in that day shall a fountaine be opened to the inhabitants of Jerusalem In that day then that Jerusalem shall mourne in that day shall the fountaine be opened to Jerusalem for sinne Oh that mine head sayes Ieremy were as a fountaine of teares When their heads and hearts shall be opened as a fountaine of teares to mourne for their sinnes then shall the fountaine of Christs blood be opened for their sinnes When they shall wash themselves in the fountaine of teares of repentance in that day will God wash them in the fountaine of Christs blood The day of repentance is the day of pardon in that day a sinner repents in that day God pardons and takes away iniquity There is no question but the Lord lives by his owne rule which he gives us to live by The rule hee gives us to live by is that Luc. 17.3 4. If hee repent forgive him if hee trespasse against thee seven times yet if he say I repent you shall forgive him As upon a brothers repentance wee must forgive so upon our repentance God will forgive Repent and thy brother must forgive and repent and God will forgive Alas what are our mercies to the mercies of God Gods mercies are an Ocean a boundlesse bottomlesse sea of mercies our mercies are but small drops out of this Sea Now if God do binde us that have but poore small and a few drops to be thus mercifull as upon repentance to forgive them then surely the Lord whose mercies are as the waters of the Sea that cover the earth upon our repentance will give us pardon or else our drops should do more than his Sea and hee should binde us to doe more with our drops of water then hee will doe with his whole Sea Surely as mans power wisdome justice cannot exceed Gods so neither can mans mercies and compassions goe beyond his He that will have a trespasser against man pardoned upon his repentance before man hee will pardon a trespasser against God upon his repentance before him To this purpose also are those promises Isa 1.16 17 18. Come now c. Now When Wash you make you cleane c. and then come and though your sinnes be as Scarlet c. Scarlet is a deepe dye a dye that will hold a dye that will not easily be fetcht out not easily made white And yet God promises to turne scarlet colour into snow colour scarlet into white It is easie to turne white into scarlet but not so easie to turne scarlet into white And yet God will doe it Hee will wash them with the scarlet blood of Christ and that shall turne their scarlet into white Other blood dyes and staines what is washed in it but Christs blood takes out staines and makes white Apoc. 7.14 These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe I but when will God thus change their scarlet white when will hee take away their iniquity Then when they were washed and made cleane c.

impossibility of obtaining it Secondly these false principles removed set upon the meanes by which it may be had And they are these First Faith in the blood of Christ There is no pardon to be had without blood It was the Doctrine of the legall Sacrifices Heb. 9.22 Almost all things are by Law purged with blood and without shedding of blood is no remission And it is not any blood that will serve the turne not the blood of Bulls and Goates Heb. 10.4 It is not possible that the blood of buls and goats should take away sinnes David then might under the Law haue soone had his iniquitie taken away nor yet the blood of men God neuer appointed men to be sacrificed as the Heathens did and as the Idolatrous Israelites did Psal 106.37 38. because as impossible for mans blood as goates blood to take away sin but it must bee the blood of God Act. 20. that is the blood of the Lord Christ who is God Remission of sin is to be had alone by the blood of Christ It is his blood that washes from sinne Apoc. 1.5 yea it is his blood that washes white Apoc. 7.14 God promises to give a white stone to him that overcomes Apoc. 2.17 to give the pardon of sinne A man must be washed in Christs blood and washed white in that before hee can have that white stone given him It is then Christs blood that takes away iniquity But now this blood takes not away unlesse this blood be applyed It washes white but yet there must be washing before there can be whitenesse Therefore the Apostle speakes not onely of blood but of the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1 2. It is not enough that there be the blood of Christ and that hee hath shed it but there must be besides the shedding of it the sprinkling of it Christs blood was shed upon the Crosse and yet all mens sinnes are not pardoned and what is the reason Because though his blood were shed on the Crosse yet that blood is not sprinkled upon their hearts and consciences And pardon must be had not onely from blood shed but from blood sprinkled Therefore David prayes Psal 51. Purge mee with hysope it was the blood that purged but yet it was the hysope that sprinkled the blood It must be sprinkled blood that must be purging blood So it must be Christs blood sprinkled upon the conscience that must take away iniquity Well but how comes Christs blood to be sprinkled upon the conscience It is true that Christ sprinkles his blood upon a sinner Eze. 36.25 I will sprinkle cleane water upon you and yee shall be cleane and Isa 52.15 So shall hee sprinkle many Nations but yet it is as true that a sinner must besprinkle himselfe also Wee must not shuffle off all to Christ and say It is hee that must sprinkle us with his blood and if hee will but sprinkle me then my sinne shall be pardoned But if wee will have our iniquity taken away wee must besprinkle our selves Lay these two Texts together Apoc. 1.6 Hee hath washed us from our sinnes in his own blood Apoc. 7.14 They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lambe So that not onely Christ washes but they also themselves wash with Christs blood And therefore it is that men are called upon to wash themselves Isa 1.15 Wash you make you cleane It is cleere therefore that some way men must have an hand in washing and sprinkling themselves with Christs blood if they will have pardon But now how may a man wash and besprinkle himselfe That is done by faith and by beleeving in Christ Therefore Rom. 3.25 through faith in his blood Faith is the hand of the soule and the soule by faith puts her hand into Christs blood puts her hand into the wounds of Christ takes there of his blood and besprinkles her selfe and washes and wrinces off her guilt and defilement Faith taking Christs blood and besprinkling the soule with it applying it unto the conscience thereby is iniquity taken away and pardoned Zech. 13.1 Christs blood is a fountaine opened for sinne viz. to take away sinne and iniquity God opens that Fountaine and there is an healing vertue in that Bath to purge and cure the soule from guilt But now though there be an healing vertue in the Bath yet a man cannot be healed unlesse hee will goe into the Bath When the Angel moved in the waters at the poole of Bethesda there was some healed but not every one that was diseased but hee that first stept in Men might have lyen long enough in the porches of Bethesda looking on the water and motion and still have beene as leprous and filthy as before but hee that would be healed must step in must plunge himselfe into the poole So Christs blood that fountaine is opened to take away sinne but it is not lying by the fountaine nor looking onely upon the fountaine but it is stepping into the fountaine and wrincing and washing in that fountaine that takes away sinne Now faith is that by which a man goes into that fountaine by which hee washes and wrinces himselfe in that fountaine by which hee plunges and douzes himselfe in the poole and so gets off his guilt Hence it is that in Scripture we are said to have pardon by faith Act. 13.38 Through this man is preached unto you and so offered unto you the forgivenesse of sinnes I it is offered to us in him but how shall we come by it vers 39. And by him all that beleeve are justified from all things c. Matth. 9.2 hee seeing their faith viz. The palsey mans as well as the other said unto the sicke of the palsey Sonne be of good comfort thy sinnes are forgiven thee Luc. 7.48 49 50. And hee said unto her thy sinnes are forgiven And they that sate at meate with him began to say within themselves Who is this that forgiveth sinnes also And hee said to the Woman Thy faith hath saved thee goe in peace There is then the way to get iniquity taken away Faith layes every beleevers sinnes upon Christ as upon the scape goate and he as the scape goate beares and carries them away into a land of separation Thus then remission is had by blood by the blood of Christ by his blood shed by his blood sprinkled upon us by faith in his blood by faith sprinkling and washing us with the blood by faith applying his blood and merit to our selves So then if wee would get sin taken away wee must get faith in Christs blood and strive and wrestle hard to beleeve It is a very hard thing to beleeve in Christs blood A great many thinke it easie to beleeve in Christ and the truth is that it is easie to beleeve as they doe they come easily by their faith that it may well be questioned whether they come honestly by it or not As therefore wee ever desire to

Upon the condition of their repentance hee would give them the pardon of their sinnes And upon the same condition is the same promise Isa 55.7 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and hee will have mercy upon him and to our God for hee will abundantly pardon hee will multiply to pardon And wee finde that God upon such condition hath made good his promise Psal 32.5 I acknowledged my sinne unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne That is I did repent and humble my soule in the confession of my sinne and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne Not that repentance fetches in pardon by way of merit as monie buyes pardons at Rome nor yet that repentance layes hold on pardon which is the worke of faith alone But for two reasons pardon followes upon repentance First Because the faith that lookes on Christs blood lookes at the same time on its owne sinne and every beleeving sinner is at the same time a repenting sinner Zech. 12.10 They shall see him whom they have pierced and they shall mourne So that faith not onely sees Christ but sees him pierced pierced by its owne sinne They not onely see Christ pierced but Christ who they themselves have pierced They see him and mourne Faith lookes upon him with a mourning eye The faith that lookes upon Christ is a repenting faith and never repents and mournes more then when it lookes most on Christ So that repentance being so necessary attendant upon faith therefore the promise of remission is made to repentance Secondly the want of assurance of pardon doth no lesse disquiet the heart then the want of pardon it selfe Now suppose a man upon his faith have his pardon yet hee cannot bee assured of it till hee doe repent Upon repentance God gives the assurance and seales it to the conscience And therefore upon repentance it is that pardon is promised So then would wee have the pardon of sinne would wee have iniquity taken away See then what is to be done As thou wouldest have pardon so fall close to the taske of repentance So humble thy selfe for thy sinnes mourne and be in bitternesse of spirit judge thy selfe and turne from thy sinnes and God will then shew mercy to thee in thy pardon So long as thou livest and lyest in thy sinnes and goest on in thine impenitency and hardnesse of heart thou canst not have the pardon nor the hope of pardon of thy sinne You have many that hope their sins are pardoned and that God hath taken away their injquity and why so Why they thanke God they beleeve in Christ and that with all their hearts It is well if they doe so But yet they that will have pardon must repent as well as beleeve You thanke God you beleeve but in the meane time where is your repentance Though I had all faith so as I could remove mountaines and yet have not love I am nothing 1 Cor. 13.2 So in this case though thou hadst all faith so as thou couldest remove mountaines yet if you want repentance in this case thou art nothing thou hast not nor canst have any pardon at Gods hand Thou sayest thou beleevest and therefore thou hopest thou hast thy pardon I but the faith that helpes to pardon is a repenting and a mourning faith Thy faith is no such faith Thou sayest thou beleevest I but yet thou art a drunkard a swearer an uncleane a covetous person Thy faith is a swearing faith thy faith is a drunken faith thy faith is a whoring faith a covetous faith Now doest thou thinke that a whoring drunken swearing faith is a faith that will help thee to the pardon of thy sinne No such matter In that day a fountaine shall be opened for sinne Zech. 13.1 But in what day They shall see him whom they have pierced and they shall mourne and be in bitternesse Not simply in that day when they have a faith to see him but in that day when they shall see him and mourne for him the promise is not made to any faith but to a mourning faith to a repenting faith Doe but marke that passage Act. 8.13 Then Simon himselfe beleeved also yea and was baptized and continued and kept company with Philip. Here was a faith that Simon Magus had But see vers 22. Repent thee of this thy wickednesse if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee and vers 23. Therefore there is a faith that men may have and yet they may be guilty of wickednesse there is a faith that men may have and yet be in the gall of bitternesse yet be in the bonds of iniquity And such a faith will not serve for pardon but if men will have pardon they must repent of their wickednesse The faith that must helpe to the pardon of sinne must be a repenting faith And though thou talke of faith whilest thine heart akes yet if thy faith be not a mourning repenting faith thy sinnes are not pardoned thine iniquity is not taken away Apoc. 2.17 To him that overcomes I will give a white stone that is I will give him the pardon of his sinne as a white stone was a token of absolution and discharge to a man questioned for his life So long as men live in their sins they are all blacke and filthy they are Ethiopians in their blacke skins Doe you thinke that God will give the white stones to such as have blacke soules They must be white that will have the white stone How shall men become white Dan. 11.39 They shall be afflicted that they may bee brought to repentance and so be made white Repentance makes white and when men are made white by repentance then God gives them the white stone seales to them the pardon of their sinnes Therefore as ever wee desire to get the pardon of sinne so be wee humbled and repent for sinne Vse 2 Secondly if pardon of sinne bee a thing so much to be looked after and of such concernement then give thy soule no rest till thou hast gotten assurance of the pardon of sinne and till thou knowest that thy sinne is taken away For God doth not onely pardon sinne but God assures a sinner of his pardon not onely gives but seales a pardon and this is properly the white stone the seale and token of absolution and pardon What is a man the better for a pardon if he know it not A condemned Malefactor may have a pardon but so long as hee knowes it not he is in as much feare and perplexity of spirit as another Malefactour that hath none There is no difference betweene them in regard of quiet and peace of spirit Therefore the Lord not onely pardons sinners but when hee pardons them hee makes it known unto them and assures their consciences of it that so they

but they stay in their place they doe not spread Are thy lusts mortified be of good comfort thy person is justified Is the commanding power taken away be of good comfort the condemning power is taken away This sayes unto thee as Christ to Ioshua I have passed by thine iniquity But by this may many see that their sinnes are not pardoned If pardoned why under the power of habituall covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleanenesse How is it that thy loose lusts have such command over thee Thy lusts subdue thee they are not subdued therefore not pardoned The spot spreads much abroad in thy skin it is not a large bile it is a plague Thou art undone thou art in thy guilt thy sinne is unpardoned Apoc. 1.5 6. They who are washed in Christs blood are made Kings and Priests They that are pardoned have their iniquities so subdued that they reigne over as Kings and sacrifice the bed of sinne in mortification as Priests But now if sinne and lust be the King and that reigne over thee that be the King and thou be the slave and the drudge then art thou not washed in Christs blood then are not thy sinnes pardoned Take it for a sure truth that sinne unmortified is sinne unpardoned Sinne in the throne is sinne unforgiven Secondly By the sanctification of a mans heart and spirit When God takes away iniquity hee furnishes that man with all sanctifying graces of his Spirit Zech. 3 4. I have caused thine iniquity to passe from thee There is the pardon of sinne And J will cloath thee with change of rayment I will furnish thee with the graces of sanctification That as Ezek. 16.9 10 11. Then washed I thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy blood from thee and anointed thee with oyle I cloathed thee also with broidered worke and shod thee with Badgers skin and I girded thee about with fine linnen and I covered thee with silke I decked thee also with ornaments and J put bracelets upon thine hands and a chaine on thy necke So in this case So that wheresoever a man findes true sanctifying grace in his heart it is an evidence that his sinnes are pardoned The love of Christ and the love of God it is a grace of sanctification and therefore it is a signe of pardon of sin See Luc. 7.47 Wherefore I say unto thee Her sinnes which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Where the particle for is not causall not shewing the cause of her remission but onely a signe of her remission vers 39. The Pharisee findes fault with Christ for suffering a sinner to be so familiar with him Christs answer is shee is no sinner He proves it because her sinnes were forgiven her but how proves hee that For she loved much As if hee should say This grace of love is an evidence that declares her sinne is pardoned So 1 Tim. 1.13 14. Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbeleife And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love in Christ Jesus Therefore as love to God so love to our brethren and delight in their communion and society is made a signe of pardon Zech. 3.9 10. I will take away the iniquity of that Land in one day The iniquity of that Land that is the guilt of the Churches iniquities for by the Land of Canaan was typified the Church or people of God and this I will doe in one day that is by the alone and all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ offered up once for ever In that day saith the Lord of Hosts shall ye call every man his neighbour under the Vine and under the Fig-tree In that day namely when as the people of God should by that onely sacrifice so offered up to God for sinne through the alone justification of faith come to enjoy the true spirituall and inward peace themselves then should they expresse so much love and charity towards others as to call in them who were unconverted to come and partake of the same good with them By this try Is thy love to God and to Christ and to his Saints A good signe But on the contray the unholinesse of mens hearts and lives argues how it is with them To have sinne pardoned is to be under grace Rom. 6.14 For yee are not under the Law but under Grace Can a man bee under Grace and have no grace Can a man bee under Grace and gracelesse Certainely gracelesse persons are not under Grace have not their sinnes pardoned Such have never yet aright sought for much lesse obtained the taking away of their iniquity FINIS THE RIGHT EATING AND DIGESTING OF THE WORD By IER DYKE Minister of Epping in Essex HEB. 4.2 The Word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it ROM 6.17 But ye have obeyed from the heart that forme of Doctrine which was delivered you August in Psal 141. Enarrat Unde admoneamus charitatem vestram ut ea quae audiendo tanquam ventre memoria conditis rursus revolvendo cogitando quodammodo ruminetis LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for L. Fawne and S. Gellibrand at the brazen Serpent in Paules Church-yard 1640. THE RIGHT EATING AND DIGESTING OF THE WORD JER 15.16 Thy words were found by mee and I did eate them c. THE Prophet complaines vers 10. of the course entertainment that he had amongst the people that hee was a man of contention to the whole earth hee was counted a contentious fellow and so hated and cursed as a man contentious That hath alwayes beene the lot of Gods servants and Saints to have that imputation laid upon them A man may strive in his Ministery to bring men to repentance Gen. 6. My Spirit shall strive no longer with man Therefore Gods Spirit strives in the Ministery of his servants whilest hee sets them on to make them strive to bring men to God And men may strive and contend earnestly for the faith once given to the Saints Iude 4. And yet this makes not men men of contention in an ill sense Indeed the world counts such contentious men But who they be that truly deserve that censure wee see Rom. 2.8 But unto them that are contentious and doe not obey the truth but obey unrighteousnesse indignation and wrath Therefore such as doe not obey the truth but obey unrighteousnesse they are the contentious persons Well but yet the Prophet must goe for a contentious man and so a man odious What 's the matter It may be hee was an usurious oppressor and therefore contentious and cursed Hee purges himselfe from that vers 10. I have neither lent on usury nor have men lent to mee on usury Therefore it must be some what else Hee therefore layes downe the true cause why hee was so judged and so hated And that in these words vers 15. latter end