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A21038	Tvvo treatises. The one, of repentance, the other, of Christs temptations. Both penned, by the late faithfull minister of Gods worde, Daniel Dyke, Batchelour in Diuinitie. Published since his death by his brother ID. minister of Gods word	Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1616 (1616)	STC 7408; ESTC S100107	213,745	364

great paine and toyle hee put himselfe vnto in planting Churches was a reuenge vppon the flesh for the pains before taken in persecuting Salomons special sinne was Epicurisme for he euen sold himselfe to carnall and filthy pleasures Therefore repenting hee doth not onely cut the flesh short of those pleasures but in a further reuenge writes a booke against them the booke of his repentance and retractations Ecclesiastes 2. This reuenge consists in conuerting those very things which haue beene the matter or obiect of sinne and abused by the flesh to sinne to the seruice of God and matter of our repentance for example Dauid in his adultery defiled his bed In his repentance he washeth his bed with his tears he turns Psal 6. his bed which he had made a brothell-house into an oratory and an house of prayer That place wherein hee bathed himselfe as it were in the milke of his fleshly pleasure in the same he now baths him-the salt brine of bitter repenting teares So the Ephesians made a sacrifice to the Lord of their bookes of sorcery and Dauid of that water of Acts 19. blood for which his worthies had by his meanes aduentured their liues So the Israelites as they had sinned in offering their eare-rings of golde to Exod. 35. the calfe so repenting they offer likewise gold and ear-rings to the Tabernacle So likewise the Israelitish women offered their looking glasses which they Exod. 38. 8. had abused to the proud prancking vp of themselues to the vse and seruice of the Tabernacle So Tyrus that famous mart-city sinning in the abuse of their goods both in getting and spending of them their Repentance is thus set foorth Her occupying Is 23. 18. and her wages are holy to the Lord it shall not be layd vp nor kept in store but her merchandize shall be for them that dwell before the Lord c. Heere is a lesson for Vsurers Pillers Pollers Receiuers of bribes all such as haue defiled their hands with vnlawfull gaines either getting it by an vnlawfull calling or by the abuse of a lawfull Let them learne of Tyrus Let them not lay vp nor keepe in store the matter of Iames 5. their sinne to testifie and witnesse against them Are yet the treasures of wickednes in your houses oh pluck Mic. 6. 10. from the fleshie those fat collops Better they should serue their gold and siluer so got as Dauid did the water of Bethlem euen spill it and throw it a way then reserue it for their owne priuate enrichment heere and their eternall beggery and endlesse misery heereafter That which before they offered as a sacrifice to Mammon let them now offer it to Gods altar that is the poore who are now come into the roome of the Altar of the old Testamen where Repentance is there is reuenge Hast thou repented for thy couetousnesse for thine vsury bribery c shew thy reuenge vpon them by taking from them the matter they feede vpon and with Tyrus giue it to the Lord with Zaccheus giue it to the poore The example of Bradford that woorthy Repentant whose life death speeches and actions euen breathed Repentance a man that might seeme wholly to be made of Repentance his example I say in this kind is very memorable who hearing a Sermon of Mr. Latymers wherein restitution was M. Samson in his preface to Bradfords Sermon of Repentance vrged he was so stricken to the hart for one dash of a pen which he had made without the knowledge of his Master as full often sayes Mr. Samson I haue heard him confesse with plenty of tears being Clark to the Treasurer of the Kings Camp beyond the seas was to the deceiuing of the King that he could neuer be quiet till by the aduice of the same Mr. Latymer a restitution was made The which thing to bring to passe hee did willingly forgoe all the priuate and certaine patrimony hee had on earth Those that thus offending with Bradford meane not to repent and reuenge themselues on their couetousnes in this manner are not like to come where now Bradford is 3. Another specialty in this Reuenge is when with the very selfe same members and instruments of our bodies which the flesh most of all hath abused to sinne wee in speciall sort glorifie God Zachary that sinned with his mouth in giuing God Luc. 1. the lie repenting as soone as euer he could speake glorified God with his mouth So that woman which had abused her eyes her hayre her lippes to Luke 7. wantonnesse and vncleannesse repenting she reuenges her selfe vpon the flesh Shee takes from the vncleane Diuell all those instruments to spight him the more giues them to his vtter enemy Iesus Christ Her lippes to kisse his feete her eyes to wash them her hayre to wipe them So many delights as she found of the flesh so many burnt offrings shee sacrificed to the Lord. 4. Further we take reuenge on the flesh when we restraine our selues from the vse of things otherwise lawfull because we haue offended therein As if offending in gluttony and drunkennes we should punish our selues with abstinence from wine and fasting If in abuse of mirth and recreations wee then forbeare them If in apparell we then also cut off this our Peacockes tayle Thus we take kniues from children when they cannot vse them without hurting themselues Timothy but liuing amongst the luxurious Ephesians to checke their excesse did 1. Tim. 5. 23. thus tame and subdue the flesh in absteyning from wine How much more if he had so offended himselfe would hee haue done it to haue punished the flesh Ob. But in this doing doe wee not seeme to approue of the popish exercises of pennance Ans No. For 1. Many of these exercises they vse are simply vnlawfull in themselues being breaches of the sixth Commandement as their scourgings of themselues and vsing that roughnes and austerity which takes away health and shortens life The deeds of the flesh must bee mortified by the Rom. 8. 13. spirit in a spirituall manner and not in this forced violent and fleshly fashion 2. Our reuenge is vpon our sins directed against the flesh that is against the corruption of our nature theirs is against their skinnes directed against their persons and their outward man And so indeede it is nothing else but an idle violence offred to the outward man such as that of the Pharisees in fasting till they lost their colour and complexion but that fasting fatted their inward corruptions their pride and their vaineglory For though they pinched their carkasses yet not their corruptions Their leane bodies had swollen soules This reuenge being especially against our sinnes and sin hauing greatest interest in our souls then in our bodies the soule especially should tast of this reuenge Shee should bee broke of her will shee should bee crossed in her affections in her pride and vaineglory As Dauid saide to the Lord smiting the