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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

bee appropriated by particular application application As heere Sathan applies this promise to Christ in speciall and the tenour of the words of the promise shew as much Hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee speaking particularly to euery faithfull Christian So Galat. 4. 7. Thou art no Gal. 4. 7. more a seruant but a sonne God would not speake thus particularly if hee would not haue vs apply particularly Thus we see what is right See wee now what is naught in this Allegation 1. This is naught That the Scripture is alledged in a peruerse apish imitation because Christ had alledged Scripture before Thus hath the Diuell The Diuell Gods Ape alwayes been Gods Ape as in sacrifices washings tithes priests altars oracles of the heathen all which hee did apishly imitate and counterfet the like to those in the Church of God thinking by this meanes to disgrace the ordinances of God Pharaoh hardened his heart when he saw his sorcerers to doe the same things seemingly which Moses did truely And so when other nations should haue rites and ceremonies of diuine seruice as well as the Iewes and other sects should alleadge Scripture aswell as the orthodoxe Christians this might harden many either in wrong religion or else in a neutrality This imitation the Diuell also practises in his instruments All those courses the seruants of God at the first restoring of religion vsed for the furtherance of the Gospell haue the Papists since taken vp for the stablishing of their Kingdome As first preaching specially in great cities and pallaces of Princes though otherwise they iudge of preaching as of a matter of complement 2. Bookes of piety and deuotion 3. Seasoning and affecting youth be times by carefull instruction 4. Offers of disputations 5. Translations of Scripture with comments common places histories of the Church 6. Discouery of their scandalous liues 7. Martyrologies In all these haue they affronted vs. 2. This also is naught That the Scripture the most holy word of God by writhing wresting and The Scripture made a patron of sinne falsification is made a patron of sinne Heere the Diuell by Scripture corrupted encouraged Christ to tempt God So Epicures belly-gods drunkards fornicators couetous worldlings will alledge Scripture for themselues which I spare to recite remembring what Pliny beginning to relate some trickes of drunkards but calling himselfe presently backe saith Quae referendo pudet decere least his taxing should be a teaching Iulian the Apostata spoyling the Christian souldiers alleadged that Matth. 5. Blessed are the poore for theirs is the Kingdome of heauen Matth. 5. saying that he spoiled them to make them blessed So with the like Spirit hee alleadged another sentence out of the same chapter when thou art smitten on the one cheeke turne the other also to disgrace Christ for that being wrongfully smitten he spake in his owne defence The Popes and Papists hane excelled in this kinde The next sentence in the 91. Psalme to this sentence heere alledged by the diuell did that guilty Innocent the third alledge when hee trode vpon the Emperours necke Thou shalt walke vpon the Aspe and the Basiliske And the like is that God made two lights the greater and the lesse to shew that the Pope was aboue the Emperour And that in the Gospell Behold heere are two swords with Christs answer It is enough to prooue the Popes right to both the swords Vse This must teach vs neuer to alleadge Scripture but with reuerence and to the right ends A fault in many Preachers euen in the pulpit vsing them euen as a nose of wax and playing with and descanting vpon them We see heere it is the diuels property to corrupt the Scripture Marke then whose Church the Church of Rome is that obtrude vpon vs their vulgar latin edition for the onely authenticall which deales with the originall copies as the diuell doth with this place falsifies them somtimes by false interpretations sometimes by adding and sometimes by clipping and paring away as the Papists Index expurgatorius doth in other authours More remarkable examples heereof are these Rom. 11. 6. If it be of grace then not of workes for then grace Rom. 11. 6. is no more grace And if of workes then not of grace or else were worke no more worke The latter member of the opposition a notable inforcer of the Apostles argument against merit is quite left out So Heb. Hebr. 1. 3. 1. 3. where it is said that Christ by himselfe hath purged our sinnes that clause by himselfe forcible against our owne satirfactions is left out So Genes 3 for hee shall breake the serpents head they read shee Gen. 3. 15. which they would haue to be meant of the Virgine Mary See how they imitate the arch-corrupter of Scripture 3. This also is naught that the diuell leaues out that clause which is in the Psalm In thy wayes which Some part of the Scripture omitted is very materiall and quite against that to which he tempted our Sauiour For as Bernard hath noted the Angels shall beare vs vp in our wayes not in casting our selues downe head-long What kinde af way is this to cast a mans selfe downe from the pinnacle The In vijs nostris non in praecipitijs Qualis haec via descendere de pinnaculo via Luciferi caedentis de coelo Bern. way of Lucifer falling from heauen That which the Diuell hath left out let vs put in that which he concealed let vs specially remember for if there were not some speciall treasure inclosed in it hee would neuer haue concealed it Doct. This clause omitted by the Diuell teacheth vs that Gods good prouidence and the Angels protection Gods prouidence can only then be expected when we walke in the wayes appointed can onely then bee expected when wee are in the wayes he hath appoynted vs that is within the compasse of our generall or speciall callings Otherwise it is with vs as with the deere when they leape ouer the pale of the parke straggle into the fields Prou. 27. 8. As a bird that wandreth from her neast so Prou. 27. 8. is a man that wanders from his owne place While the bird keepes her neast she is safe from the kite from the snare the ginne and the fowler whereas out of her neast she is in danger of all these So it is with a man in or out of his calling It cost Shimei his life when he passed his bounds set him by the King and so it is dangerous to be out of the bounds and waies set vs by God Examples we haue in Balaam met by the Angell with a naked drawen sword Numb 22. Numb 22. he was out of the way of the Lord God had forbid him to goe So Moses was met by the Archangell Christ himselfe when circumcision was neglected Exod. 4. And Iaakob met with many crosses when Exod. 4. 1. King 13. his vow was neglected So the Prophet

religion And seeing no possibility to quench this fire he will throw his gunpowder into it Hee will deceiue them vnder the colour of zeale and bring them to preposterous indiscretion yea to a blinde and bolde madnesse as in the common people to reforme publique abuses without the Magistrates authority as in throwing downe images and the like Contrarily seeing others to bee wiser and moderater hee abuses their wisedome and moderation to make them remisse and carelesse dead and heartlesse Thus he abuses our care of prayer and seeking Gods Kingdome to be negligent in our callings and contrarily our consciences of our callings to the neglect of Gods kingdome So he abuseth our commendable custome of giuing our selues to good meditations and stirring vp good affections in our selues in our solitarinesse to distract our mindes in the publique exercises of the word and prayer The diuell sees that against Gods children oftentimes hee can haue no other aduantage then that which they had against Daniel Dan. 6. in the Law of his God in the graces of Gods Dan. 6. Spirit and therefore hee dies his bad cloathes in good colours and paints the foule faces of sinne with the colours of graces and vertues to deceiue vs As heere he presents presumption to Christ vnder the colour and in the habit of faith and so now couetousnesse of frugality and good husbandry drunkennesse and carowsings of healthes of good fellowship sottish sloath of quietnesse Eccles 4. 3. Eccles 4. 3. vnlawfull sports both in regard of the nature of the games as dice and in regard of the time spent in them as when men lie at their recreations from morning to euening this he will present to vs vnder the name of honest mirth and recreations Oh then what neede haue we to fly to Iesus Christ who dwelleth with prudence Prou. 8. What neede haue wee Prou. 8. not to be carried away with euery thing that hath a shew of goodnesse or of indifferency but to bring these painted strumpets of the diuell to the light yea and to the heat of the word of God and then their painting shall melt away and we shal see their beauty came onely out of the diuels boxe Take heede least we be hardened with this deceitfulnesse of sinne This hardens a man in sinne when hee apprehends it as a vertue or a thing lawfull Doctr. 2 2. The Diuell when he cannot draw vs to one extreame labors to draw vs to another As here when The Diuell when he cannot draw to one extreame seeketh to draw to another Ioh. 13. Numb 14. he could not get our Sauiour to distrust he labours to rush him vpon presumption So Peter Ioh. 13. from refusing to haue his feet washed to offer feet head hands and all to the washing And the Israelites Num. 14. from denying to goe towards Canaan when God commanded to be hot vpon going when God forbad them So the Papists from the extremity of the Corinthians 2. Cor. 10. 9. 10. ctc. to 2. Cor. 10. 9. 10. magnifie the writings of the Apostle in the contempt of his vocall ministry are fallen into the contrary extreame of magnifying that which the Apostles deliuered by word of mouth vnwritten tradition to the disparagement of their writings So Luther from rhe indiscreete zeale of the people at Wittemberg in throwing down images to the retaining and maintaining of images and Austin from carnall singing to no singing at all many of vs from the false religion in Popery to no religion from workes without faith to faith without workes from zeale without knowledge to knowledge without zeale from the tyranny of Popish disciplin to the neglect of Christs holy discipline This then must teach vs not to be too proud or secure if we preuaile against Sathan in one temptation to this or that extreame for easily may wee bee foyled in another extreame As our hatred of prodigality may make vs couetous and our hatred of couetousnesse may make vs prodigall So that in ouercomming Sathan in one temptation we are so much the neerer being ouercome by him in some other if we look not well to it Reason 3 3. Reason From that credit and glory he should haue by the throwing downe himselfe and yet being safe namely hee should with all applause and admiration bee receiued of the Iewes in Ierusalem beholding this miraculous descent Doctrin 1 1 See how the Diuell vses to tickle vs with the delight of praise and glory and puffes vs vp in pride The Diuell vseth to puffe vs vp with the delight of praise and glory When we feele such thoughts know that they are of the diuell who goes about to exalt vs that hee might humble vs to set vs vpon high pinnacles that hee may lay vs flat on the earth as hee did our first parents Gen. 3. whereas on the contrary God vses Gen. 3. to humble vs that hee may exalt vs. If Christ had hearkened vnto Sathan he had cast himselfe downe indeed as he himselfe was once cast downe out of the heauens into the lowest hell Pride goes before destruction Prou. 16. 18. Prou. 16. 18. Doct. 2 2. See how much the Diuell trusts to this temptation of vaine-glory thinking heereby to draw The danger of vain-glory Christ to this so dangerous an attempt to hazard the breaking of his necke And thus for a little vain-glory in the world how many are there that breake their neckes and crush their estates in proud and pompous prodigality that they may haue a name and we well spoken of 2. Argument that Sathan vfes in this tempation The second argument followes For it is written He will giue his Angels charge euer thee and with their hands they shalt lift thee vp lest at any time thou shouldest dash thy foote against a stone The argument is drawen from assurance of safety in casting downe himselfe and this he would confirme by Scripture Doct. Heere generally we may see how the diuell misapplieth The Diuell misapplieth Gods promises mercies and prouidence Gods promises mercies and prouidence As sometimes he denies vnto vs the application of these when we are interested in them as when wee walke vprightly with God so contrarily hee applies them strongly and earnestly when they belong not vnto vs as heere the promise of protection by Angels to Christ though hee should tempt God And so hee ordinarily applies the promise of mercy to most desperat wretches though they lie wallowing in their mire and neuer wash themselues in the waters of repentance Cast thy selfe headlong into this sin saith he and Gods mercy shall keepe thee from falling into hell In good things he seuers the means from the end telling vs we may haue the end without the meanes heauen without repentance and obedience a plentifull haruest without sowing the seed In euill things he seuers the end from the means hell and destruction from sin and disobedience as Deut. 29. 19. quite contrary to that