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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

68.11 The Lord gave the Word great was the company of them that published it Wee have had preaching and Preachers and this spirituall food Gods plenty wisdome cryes out to men as Prov. 9.5 Come eate of my bread And Christ calls upon men as Cant. 5.1 Eate O friends and fall to and take your filles And yet men sit and looke on and regard neither this food nor these invitations but deale with the Lord as Salomon wishes men to deale with a churle Prov. 23.6 7. Eate not the bread of him that hath an evill eye neither desire his dainty meates eate and drinke saith he but his heart is not with thee Just so deale men with the Lord when he calls upon them to eate the Word as if God had an evill eye as if his heart were not with them whereas as the Word and food is good so also is his eye good and his heart is with us and it would be meate and drinke to him to see us fall to and eate heartily Such carriage at our Neighbours Tables would be construed a discurtesie and men would force themselves to eate against their stomackes rather then to give their discontent at his Table And yet wee stand not upon giving the Lord such grosse disgusts as not to eate when he layes and sets meate before us There is much preaching and yet but little eating Many instead of eating the Word could finde in their hearts to eat the Minister And what thinke we is the reason that men eate the word no more then they doe It is from these three causes First from fulnesse The full soule loathes the honey combe Prov. 27.7 When a mans belly is full hee hath not onely no minde to eate but hee loathes to eate and that not onely course and common foode but the daintiest and sweetest food hee treadeth under foot the honey combe The Word is honey and this honey is to be eaten when it is found Prov. 24.13 And yet when men finde it they eate it not but loath it and tread upon it And the reason is because they are already full Such a fulnesse as that Rom. 1.29 Being filled with all unrighteousnesse fornication wickednesse covetousnesse maliciousnesse full of envy murther debate deceit malignity wh●sperers Their hearts are cram'd full of their lusts And their hearts being already filled with carnall and worldly lusts they loath these honey combes Some feed so full upon that hony Pro. 5.3 The honey which drops from the lips of a strange woman that they tread this honey combe under foot There be a great many that eate as the Serpent doth Gen. 3.14 Dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life All worldly hearts are of the Serpents dyet they eate dust and so fill themselves with the dust of the earth that they loath to eate the Word Because mens hearts are stuft with this baggage and base food therefore will not men eate this Angels food this bread of Heaven Secondly from lingring and hankring after some other food Such a disposition takes off the stomack from wholsome food The Israelites had Angels food the bread of Heaven and yet at last this food would not down with them nay they loathed their Manna And a man will not eate what hee loathes But what was the cause that they cared not to eate manna See Numb 11.4 They fell a lusting or they lusted a lust and said who shall give us flesh to eate and vers 5. fish to eate and they long after the garlicke and onyons of Egypt and therefore now this Manna will not downe with them So men when once they begin to lust a lust after novelties in doctrine the wholsome savoury truth of God they begin to loath they are weary of it quite cloyed with it then no wonder it is not eaten When once mens lippes hang after Egyptian food popish and corrupt doctrine then truth will not downe by any meanes Isa 44.20 He feedeth on ashes That is but strange food a mad dyet for a man to live and feed on ashes But what makes him feed so fondly A deceived heart hath turned him aside So with many deceived heart hath turned them aside and then they fall to eating of ashes and therefore like those that have the greene sicknesse their mindes hang after ashes and such trash and so no mind to the wholsome food of sound Doctrine See the case cleare 2 Tim. 4.3 4. They will not endure it therefore not eate it not indure it as a man cannot indure the meate he loathes But why not indure it They have itching eares that itch after novelties and therefore shall turn away their eares c. Thirdly from sicknesse or if yee will from deadnesse Sicke men forsake their meate and refuse their meat Men are spiritually sicke and have some diseases upon them that make them eate nothing at all or else they doe but piddle and trifle as good never a whit as never the better Nay men are dead void of the life of God and that 's a maine reason that they eat not Dead men cannot eate Secondly since it is a duty that must be done therefore let people examine themselves whether they doe it or not whether the Word be eaten by them or not Quest How may one know whether he eates the Word or not Answ By these things First By spirituall cheerefulnesse livelinesse and quickning When a man hath eaten it makes him cheerefull and lively Act. 14.17 He fills our heart with food and gladnesse A man when hee hath fasted and long forborne his meate his spirits waste and decay but when hee eates that repaires his spirits and renewes them and so makes a man come to himselfe and makes him fresh and lively See Jonathans case 1 Sam. 14.27 29 30. Hee was faint and his spirits spent so that his eyes began to grow dimme through faintnesse and want of spirit and he doth but eate a little honey and his spirits are refresht and repaired that his eyes were enlightned And if but a taste of the honey did so much How much more sayes Jonathan if the people had eaten freely had they beene cheered and repaired Wee finde a man 1 Sam. 30.12 that had eaten nothing in three dayes and three nights by reason of which his spirits were quite gone and hee was even a dead man But see vers 11. 12. And when he had eaten his spirit came againe unto him It was in a manner gone from him before but now hee had eaten hee was so refresht and cheered that hee was alive againe his spirit came againe So it is in this eating it fills the soule with cheerefulnesse and livelinesse A man that eates the Word indeed findes his heart finely cheered filled with spirits Thy words were found by me and I did eate them How did that appeare And it was unto me the joy and rejoycing of mine heart Oh how mine heart was cheered within mee oh how my spirit was refresht Prov. 24.