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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

thoughtfull and painefull about that businesse and wonders that after all his endeavour hee cannot get his pardon sealed As if hee should say Lord what is the matter that I cannot get my pardon Now if many of us should put Jobs question to God and say And why doest thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity might not God answer us And why doest thou not seeke for thy pardon and why doest thou not labour for the taking away of thine iniquity Why should I pardon your iniquity that take no care for your pardon Why should I forgive your iniquitie that seeke not for the forgivenesse of it Let us therfore make it a matter of greater care and thoughtfulnesse than ever yet wee have done Martha Martha thou cumbrest thy selfe about many things but one thing is needfull and thou takest not the care for that thou shouldest doe So it may be said of most men We cumber our selves with thoughts for food for rayment for our selves and for our children for our backes and our bellies for wealth and for riches and all these cares are but cumbers But there is one thing necessary one thing so necessary as that ye are undone and perish for ever unlesse you get it viz. The pardon of your sinne and as if it were a trifle a matter scarce worth the looking after as if it were that which hung upon every hedge you never minde it nor once looke after it That therefore men may bee awakened out of this grosse supine negligence and be stirred up to looke after this so great a matter Consider these motives following First our very life lyes upon it Every sinner in his guilt having his sinne unpardoned let him be what he will hee is no better than a dead man That as God spake to Abimelech Gen. 20.3 Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken So behold thou art but a dead man and a dead woman for the sinne which thou hast committed if thy sinne be not pardoned An unpardoned sinner is but a dead man Ephes 2.1.5 Wee use to say of a condemned person that hee is a dead man But now when a mans sinne is pardoned then hee hath his life as when the King gives a condemned man his pardon wee say hee gives him life Our Justification is called Justification of life Rom. 5.18 A maine part of our Justification is the pardon of sinne So that pardon of sinne it is our life I said unto thee in thy blood live c. Ezek. 16.6 and Ephes 2.5 Wee which were dead in sinnes hath hee quickned made alive How come wee to be made alive for by grace wee are saved God of his free grace hath pardoned us our sinnes and thus are wee quickned that are dead Now if our life lies upon our pardon and wee be no better than so many dead men without it doth it not concerne us to looke about us and to get our pardon Is there any thing of that concernement that our life is Therefore as Moses in that case urges them Deut. 32.46 47. And hee said unto them set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you this day which yee shall command your children to observe to doe all the words of this Law For it is not a vaine thing for you because it is your life and thorow this thing yee shall prolong your dayes in the land whither yee goe over Jordan to possesse it So in this set your hearts upon this businesse and make it the greatest of all your care to get pardon of sinne it is not a vaine thing nor a trifling businesse it is your very life If yee get not your pardon yee dye yee perish yee are undone unto eternity When a man is condemned to dye if he have any friends that can doe any thing with those about the King hee sets them all on worke and there is great mediation great and earnest suing no paines nor cost spared riding and poasting to and againe Now what is the reason of all this adoe Because the mans life lyes upon the Kings pardon if that businesse be not plyed and effected the man dyes and is sure to be executed And therefore life lying on it no marvell hee bestirres himselfe and sets his wits and his friends on worke with all their might It is our case if sinne unpardoned wee are but dead men and undone men our life lyes upon Gods mercy in our pardon And our life lying upon it how doth it concerne us to bestirre our selves and to give our hearts no rest till wee have prevailed with God for this favour the taking away of our iniquity Our life stands in our Salvation our life stands in our Redemption our life stands in our Reconciliation to God And all these stand in the pardon of our sinnes Our Salvation stands in it Luc. 1.77 Where the end of John Baptists going before the face of the Lord is said to be To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sinnes As a man is said to bee saved when the Kings pardon comes Our Redemption stands in it Ephes 1.7 In whom wee have redemption through his blood the forgivenesse of sins We may talke of Christs blood and redemption by him but redemption wee have none and benefit of Christ wee have none till wee have the pardon of our sinnes Our Reconciliation with God stands in it 2 Cor. 5.19 God was in Christ reconciling the World not imputing their sinnes And therefore since our Salvation our Redemption our Reconciliation stands in it our life stands in it And since our life lyes upon it it ought to be our greatest care above all things to get the pardon of our sinnes Secondly it is the in let to all other mercy and that which ushers in all other good Hos 14.2 Take away all iniquity and give us good They must pray for good to be given I but your iniquities with-hold good things from you Jer. 5.25 Therefore their first petition is Take away all iniquity So that wee can looke for no good to be given till sinne be forgiven And when sinne is forgiven then that is removed that with-holds good from us and then way is made and the passage cleered for the entrance of good And therefore when God intends any mercy or a speciall good to a people hee first makes way for it by the taking away their iniquity Hee prepares a way for his blessings by the pardon of our sinnes So when God intended the mercy of peace and liberty to his Church deliverance from the sorrowes see what hee doth withall Isa 40.1 2. Speake comfortably to her that her warfare is accomplished all her troubles and afflictions shall have an end I but alas might they say wee have so many sinnes and so great guilt upon us that wee cannot hope to have that comfort Therefore see what followes an answer to that objection That

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

thing indeed yee shall dye in your sinnes In a Gaole in a ditch a man may dye and yet goe to Heaven but the man that dyes in his sinnes a dead Dogge is better then he It had beene good for that man that hee had never beene borne To dye in ones sinnes it is to drop downe right into Hell It is dangerous to live in ones sinnes because a man may dye in them but it is more dangerous to dye in them because no way but Hell with such a man Take heede what ever ye doe and looke to it that when you come to dye yee doe not dye in your sinnes And the way not to dye in your sinnes is not to live in your sins but to get the pardon of them while yee live This is the happinesse of a man whose sinnes are pardoned that being once pardoned as hee will not live in them so being once pardoned hee shall never dye in them It is a sweet thing to dye as Stephen did Act. 6.56 to see Heaven opened c. to dye with the sense of Gods love and favour Some when they dye they see Hell opened and the Devils standing about their beds ready to drag them to the place of torment It is hideous dying so which of these two deaths would wee now choose If yee would not dye the last get sinne pardoned that yee may not dye in your sinnes None can at their death with Stephen see Heaven opened that have not first gotten their sins pardoned It is impossible that a man should have peace and comfort in his end that dyes without sinne taken away and pardoned When death once arrests a man then conscience if it be awake will bring in and lay to a mans charge all his sinnes and Satan will be busie to lay on loade and to affright a man with Hell and damnation If a debtor be arrested and cast into prison it is no sooner heard of but every creditor comes in and brings in his severall actions and loades him with executions Such is the case of an unpardoned sinner at his death So soone as death doth arrest him Satan comes in conscience comes in yea and God himselfe comes in all come in with their actions against him and what peace or comfort can there be in such a condition But if sinne before-hand be pardoned all this trouble is prevented and a man dyes in peace It is a rule that such as are about dying persons live by that when a man is dying nothing should be done that might trouble him in his departure that there be no shrieking or crying out none will offer to pull off the clothes to plucke away his bed from under him because they will have him dye quietly wee will not have a dying man disturbed and disquieted Now how much more should every one have a care that when hee comes to dye hee may dye quietly that hee may not heare the cryings and shriekings out of conscience nothing will disturbe a dying man as will they If then men would goe quietly out of the world let them get the pardon of their sinne If that be not pardoned there is little hope of departing in peace Quest Since therefore it is a thing so much to be looked after how may a man get his iniquity taken away and pardoned Answ Two things must be done to get pardon First wee must be taken off from such false principles as make us regardlesse of pardon that keepe us from looking after and labouring for pardon Two false principles there are that kill endeavours after pardon and make men carelesse in looking after it First that it is an easie thing to be had at pleasure a man may have it with a wet finger at any time when wee will that it may be had at the low rate of a Lord have mercy upon mee when there is scarce breath enough in a mans body to speake these five words Secondly that it is an impossibility to get pardon of sinne and that it is a thing cannot be had Both these principles though contrary to each other make men carelesse in looking after pardon and in taking paines to get iniquity taken away Who will be anxious sollicitous industrious who will take care and paines all the dayes of his life to be getting that hee may have when he will for five words speaking Who againe will bestow time and paines about that which hee conceives impossible to bee effected No man will set a teame of horse to remove a feather because when hee list hee can remove it with a slight puffe of his breath No man also will set a teame of horse to remove a mountain because he knowes it is an impossibility So that whilest men either conceive it so easie to bee had or so impossible to be had it layes a bed all cares and endeavours after pardon Therefore on the contrary we must know these two things First that it is not so easie a thing to get pardon as men imagine it is an hard thing to get pardon Secondly that though it be hard yet it is possible and may be had It is hard yet possible it is possible and yet hard and hardnesse of obtaining and possibility are the two quickners of cares and endeavours to obtaine any good thing First then wee must learne that it is not so easie a thing to get a pardon but that the worke is a difficult and an hard worke A worke that a man must tug and sweat at that will cost him a great deale of care a great deale of trouble and contention of spirit a great deale of paines and diligence before it can be brought about That it is not so easie a thing as men dreame of to get the pardon of sinne appeares by that speech of Peters to Simon Magus Act. 8.22 Repent thee of this wickednesse if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee Hee doth not intimate an impossibility of getting his pardon for then why should hee prescribe him a course to seeke it if hee had meant it had beene impossible in vaine had hee advised him to repent but his meaning is to shew him that his pardon would not easily be had but that it would bean hard a very hard thing though a possible thing to be obtained As if he should say I will not deny but it is possible but yet if thou wilt ever have it it will cost thee tugging and sweating for it Simon Magus indeede was naught and therefore his pardon might seeme the harder to be gotten but yet if wee looke upon good men wee shall finde that they have found it hard enough to obtaine See how David labours and wrestles for it Psal 51.1 2. Have mercy c. blot out Wash mee Cleanse me This iteration and ingemination of his suite that hee thus pulls and tugs for it implies how hard hee found it to get pardon Lesse labour and contention of spirit would have served the turne

if it would so easily have beene had See how difficult a work Job found it Job 7.20 21. I have sinned and what shall I doe unto thee O thou preserver of men I have done what I can to get my pardon and I am willing to do any thing in the world what shall I doe more than I have done And why doest thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity Hee had done what hee could hee had confessed prayed hee had laboured and striven with all his might and as yet hee could not get his pardon and the assurance of it Job then found it not so easie a matter to get pardon as many doe imagine it to be Prov. 30.7 8. Agur would beg for his pardon and labour to get that even to his dying day It is a thing a worke that will take up all a mans life it will finde him businesse to his dying day to get the pardon of sinne It is a mans whole life time well spent too if hee speed in that businesse Alas if it were a work so easily done as many dreame what needed Agur have spent so much time about it why could hee not follow the world and follow his lusts and take his pleasure as hee saw good and then when hee was ready to dye when hee was at his last gaspe have fetcht his pardon from Heaven with a Lord have mercy upon mee why sayes he not One thing I would have of thee which I will beg when I dye when I am dying Remove from mee all my guilt No Agur knew that pardon was not so easily purchased hee knew it was a great worke and an hard work and therefore would be sure to take time enough to doe it hee saw it was worke enough for his whole life and therefore would not make it his worke at his dying day but till his dying day This one thing shewes the difficulty of the pardon of sinne to consider what God doth on his part On Gods part for our pardon is required First not onely mercy and grace but great and wonderfull grace and mercy Psal 51.1 Mercy tender mercies multitude of tender mercies Psal 86.5 Ready to forgive I but it is out of mercy that hee forgives And what will any mercy serve the turne No ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy So that unto forgivenesse is required not onely mercy not any ordinary and common mercy but plenty of mercy The Apostle speakes of the riches of Gods grace and Ephes 2.1 You hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses and in sinnes But whence was it vers 4. From God who is rich in mercy Therefore to the pardon of sinne is required not only grace and mercy but riches of Grace riches of Mercy And God in the pardon of a sinner layes forth the riches of his mercy the riches of his grace When a rich man gives a poore man an almes hee gives him somewhat of his riches but brings not out his whole riches layes not out his treasures upon him Riches is an abundance of things pretious But now God in pardoning a sinner layes out his treasures and riches Ephes 2.7 That hee might shew the exceeding riches of his grace Now some pence some shillings are not so hard to be had common mercies of food and rayment preservation these be but penny mercies shilling mercies but pardon of sinne that is riches of Grace And it is not so easie to get riches of mercy in pardon as it is to get the penny mercies of food and rayment Is it thinke wee so easie a thing to get multitude of mercies plenty of mercy riches and treasures of grace which are to be brought forth and laid out in the pardon of sinne Secondly not onely power and might but his infinite power his Almighty power Psal 99.8 Deus fortis condonans eis not onely is hee a mercifull God forgiving but hee is a strong God in forgiving not onely his infinite mercy but his infinite power is required and hath a concurrence in the pardon of sinne And therefore see Psal 86.5.8 No God like him no works like his as being of God of that infinite power as to pardon sinne And therefore hence that same Mich. 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage hee retaineth not his anger for ever because hee delighteth in mercy So that to pardon sinne is as great a worke as to shake heaven and earth yea as to make heaven and earth Is it an easie thing to shake heaven and earth It cannot be done but by an Almighty power because it cannot be done but by an Almighty power Therefore it is not an easie worke and therfore by the same reason no easie worke to have sinne pardoned because an Almighty power is required thereto So then wee see that it is no such easie thing to get pardon Now these things are not spoken to discourage and dishearten men from seeking pardon but to quicken and awaken men to take paines for it Slothfull and lazie endeavours will never get things that be hard and difficult The harder things are to be gotten the harder must men labour to get them There is no discouragement in the difficulty of obtaining pardon because though it be hard yet Secondly it is possible and the worke feasable All the paines in the world will not effect impossibilities But though things be hard and difficult yet so long as possible there is roome for and encouragement to endeavours There is therefore a possibility of pardon David that so struggles for it Psal 51.1 2. Hee else-where blesses God for it Psal 103.2 3. Blesse the Lord O my soule saith hee and forget not all his benefits Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases And so that iniquity for which hee had beg'd pardon so hard Psal 51. was then forgiven So that the work was done hardly but yet it was done Pardon came hardly but yet it came There was a time when David roared was disquieted in his spirit and hee could have no quiet Psal 32.3 4. But yet there came a time when David could say Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne vers 5. Hezekiah chatters like a Crane or Swallow mournes as a Dove his eyes faile with looking upward Isa 38.14 But vers 17. Thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe David here prayes that God would take away his iniquity It is idle to pray for impossibilities if it had beene an impossible thing it had beene weakely done of David to have prayed for that which could not have been Prayer is grounded upon promises all things promised are things possible So then though it be an hard thing yet being possible it being a possible thing yet an hard thing Let it make us shake off both all slothfulnesse out of a conceit of easinesse and all despondencie of spirit out of a conceit of the