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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

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

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.

fore-fathers godly christians before Luthers time here in England when there was some glimpse of the light of the Gospel they bought the truth though at an high price It is memorable which Mr. Foxe speakes of them They did sit up whole nights in reading and hearing good Bookes read That was one part of the price they gave But they did not onely buy with their paines but with their purses with their goods being at great cost and expences in buying Bookes in English They gave sometimes five markes and more for a good Booke they gave a loade of hay for a few chapters of Saint James or Saint Paul in English It was more money five markes then then ten pound is now What a deale of cost was it to buy such bookes I but it was to buy the truth and good men they thought truth deare at no price nor the meanes of truth too high at any rate It was Gods price then and they shukt not at it Thus is truth to be bought Buy the truth lay out money and stick not at it to maintaine preaching to buy a Bible c. Alas I want money I have so many occasions and the world so hard I cannot be at the charge of maintaining preaching buying Bibles c. Those be the shuckings of earthly hearts that are of Judas minde that the oyntment was wasted that was bestowed upon Christ But suppose there be truth in it yet I say buy the truth and rather then not buy it doe as our Saviour advises Luc. 22.36 He that hath no sword let him sell his coat and buy one So sell thy coate and purchase a Preacher sell thy coate and buy a Bible Thou must come to Gods price if buy Thirdly Our comforts of this life as peace liberty houses lands husbands wives children life it selfe Sometimes truth is at dearer rates then at other times God sometimes raises the price that truth cannot be bought nor had but at these high rates That if a man will have it it may cost him his deerest comforts his very blood and life it selfe Truth was very deare at very high prices in Queene Maries dayes It pleased God that by the raising up Queene Elizabeth a nursing mother in Israel that the prices fell and truth was had at easier and lower rates But yet when truth was at these deare prices in Queene Maries dayes we see the servants of Christ did not sticke to give the price of their blood for it And though it were as much as their lives were worth to be medling with the Truth and the Gospel yet they were content to come to Gods full price to the very highest price of all to part with all the comforts of this life and life it selfe for the truth when God pitched that price And though it be sometimes at lower prices yet that is a price that must be pitcht upon and wee must be willing to give it if God call for it Joh. 8.31 32. Yee shall be my Disciples and yee shall know the truth The knowledge then of the Truth and being a Disciple are both of a price Looke what it will cost to be a Disciple that it may cost to get the truth At what price then is it to be a Disciple Matth. 16. If any man will be my Disciple let him take up his crosse and follow mee So that hee that will bee a Disciple must reckon upon the price of the Crosse and so must hee that will buy the truth for a man must bee a Disciple that will have the truth I confesse this is a sharp price when God calls for it and yet this price must then be given Wee saw before that it is a commodity royally worth what ever God askes for it This men count too high a price and so start at it that they let the bargaine goe They deale just in this case as Boaz his kinsman did in the buying of Naomies land Ruth 4.3 4. Hee said I will redeeme or buy it I but vers 5. Boaz tells him of a condition that goes with the bargaine What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi thou must also buy it of Ruth c. thou must take her to wife c. The man had a good minde to buy the field but when hee heares of that condition hee starts at it vers 6. by no meanes can I buy it lest I marre mine inheritance So when truth is offered unto men to buy it God offers to sell truth to you say his Ministers Buy it therefore and let not such a commodity goe Oh say men wee will buy it with all our hearts I but what day you buy the truth you must make account to take up the crosse make account of losse of liberty c. when men heare that and see the price so high oh say they wee cannot buy it lest wee marre our credit our liberty our houses and lands and our very lives This price is thought too high and thereupon men breake off Those in the parable the stony ground seemed to be very forward to buy the truth but when persecution and tribulation arises because of the Word they are offended they cease trading any longer they like not the buying truth at such smart rates as those If men might have the truth and their credit the truth and their peace ease liberties they could be well content to buy it but if it cannot be bought but upon such hard termes they will none they will stay till it may bee had better cheape And this is the second thing in which is the full price of Truth a willingnesse for truths sake to part with any thing that is deere and pretious The third thing in which this buying stands is in paying current money for it Hee that buyes a commodity and comes with false coyne hee doth not buy but hee cheats Hee is a cheater not a chapman When Abraham bought the field of Ephron the Hittite Gen. 23.16 Hee weighed him foure hundred shekels of silver current money with the Merchant So must God be dealt with all men that will buy his commodity and trade with him must pay him current money Now money that is current must first bee good mettall secondly it must bee weight If a man pay gold the mettall is currant but if gold want weight and be light it will not passe and proves not currant for want of weight If money be weight yet if it be not good mettall be false and counterfeit coyne be brasse and copper be gilded or silver'd brasse that 's not currant But when money is good for the materiall is true silver and true gold and when it is good for the weight then it is currant money And such money must they buy withall that will buy truth and will trade with God for this commodity Now this currant money is not onely to use the meanes and to use them with industry but to use the meanes with industry in sincerity out