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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

have their feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace as it is Ephes 6.15 As therefore wee would doe God service and his Cause honour as wee would be able to be good Souldiers and resolute couragious Champions for Christ and his cause which is the greatest honour in the world so get that taken away that takes away all courage Take away the iniquity of thy servant for that will take away the courage and resolution of thy servant get that off which will cowe thy Spirit the guilt of thy sinne Get the pardon of thy sinne Get thy feete shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace If once thine heart have the peace of the Gospels working have peace from thy pardon it will make thee looke upon prisons scourges rackes strappadoes gibbets stakes fires as at so many flea-bitings It will make a man have an heart like David his heart was as the heart of a Lion Sixthly it is an excellent and speciall preparative for death There is no man but must die and there is nothing so much concernes a man as to be fit and prepared to dye It is appointed to all men once to dye and after death comes judgement Heb. 9. After death comes Judgement and as a mans death is so is his judgement As the tree falls so it lyes Such as a mans death is such is his doome If a man dye with his sinnes pardoned then hee is judged to life if a man dyes without pardon then his judgement is without mercy hee is judged to death and sentenced to Hell Inasmuch therefore as a man is never fit to dye comfortably and happily till death shall make way for him into Heaven and a man cannot looke for any entrance into Heaven till hee be pardoned his sinne therefore till a mans sinne be pardoned hee is never fit to dye See how Job speakes Iob 7.21 Why doest thou not pardon my sin and take away mine iniquity As if hee should say Oh Lord be not hard to be entreated let mee prevaile with thee for the pardon of my sinne But why is Iob so earnest for the pardon of his sinne See what followes for now shall I sleep in the dust As if he should say Now Lord I am upon the point of death and looke for no other but to dye and alas how sad will my condition be if I should dye without my pardon Since I must dye Lord fit and prepare me for a comfortable death by the pardon of my sinne Then is a man fit to dye when the time after death shall prove a time of refreshing Times of refreshing come after the pardon of sinne Act. 3.19 Repent saith Peter to the men of Israel and be converted that your sinnes may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And then the times after death are times of refreshing when the times before death are times of remission Hee hath prepared himselfe well for death that hath taken order that the time after his death shal be a refreshing time and that order onely hee takes that before his death hath taken order for the pardon of his sinnes Then a man is fit to dye and never till then when the sting of death is taken out so as death can doe a man no hurt when death shall not be deadly to him There is a speech Apoc. 2.23 I will kill her children with death Some men are kill'd with death they doe not onely dye but they are kill'd with death Death proves deadly to them All men dye but all men are not killed with death As a godly man said that hee did agrotare vitaliter so godly men they doe mori vitaliter When a man can dye so then hee is fit to dye Now whence is it that death becomes deadly 1 Cor. 15.56 The sting of death is sinne Sinne onely makes death deadly That which armes death to doe hurt is sinne It is as in that case Apoc. 9.10 The Locusts there had a power to hurt men with their Scorpion-like tailes and their stings in those tailes and their power was to hurt men five moneths So death hath a power to hurt men but that power is from men themselves Sinne it is that gives this power to Death to doe a man hurt In Death there be two things First the hand of Death which is the power it hath over all men it hath an hand to lay upon all good and bad Hos 13.14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave I will redeeme them from death Psal 49.15 But God will redeeme my soule from the power of the grave for hee shall receive mee All men must come into this hand of death Now it is sin that gives Death this hand But yet this hand is not deadly it but separates soule and body and but for a time At the Resurrection that hand of death shall be cut off Hos 13.14 O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction Secondly the sting of death That is the power it hath of delivering men over to the curse of God and eternall wrath And it is this sting that makes it deadly It may strike a man with the hand as it doth all godly men and yet not be deadly but then deadly when it strikes with a sting and makes way for a mans separation from God for ever And this power sinne onely gives death It is sinne unpardoned and unforgiven that gives death this power to deliver a man over to wrath to carry him in chaines to Hell This is to be killed with Death Now a man can never be fit to dye but when he is willing And never can hee bee willing so long as hee sees Death with a sting The onely way to fit a man for death so as to be willing to dye is to get out the sting The way to get out the sting is to get sinne pardoned pardoned sinne makes death without a sting and then it is not terrible A Fly makes as great an humming as a Bee and yet wee feare not a Fly as a Bee because a Fly hath no sting Wee are fit to dye when wee feare not Death This of all other should make us very sollicitous for our pardon Death is the King of terrours and it is a sad thing at the time of death to have the heart full of feares the conscience full of horrours to have death looke gastfully in our faces Get pardon and free from all this Dye thou must that 's once Now if one should come and tell us you shall dye in a Gaole you shall dye in a ditch wee should thinke it a sad hearing it would sound dolefully in our eares I but there is a speech of Christs to those Joh. 8.21.24 that sounds more dreadfully then the former Yee shall dye in your sinnes It is a sad thing to dye in a Gaole to dye in a ditch but this is the sad

may not onely have pardon but peace and joy of spirit Doe but consider that Text Zech. 3.3 4. Joshua was there cloathed with filthy garments and stood before the Angel before Christ and vers 4. Christ speakes twice hee speakes to them that stood by and to Ioshua himselfe To them that stood by hee said Take away the filthy garments from him It is my will and pleasure that Ioshua's sins be taken away and pardoned That 's happy for Ioshua But is that all No he speakes a second time And unto him he said not only unto them that stood by but unto him unto Ioshua hee said Behold I have caused thine iniquity to passe from thee So that Christ doth not onely pardon a sinner but gives the pardoned sinner assurance of it There is not onely a sentence of absolution pronounced in the Court of Heaven before those that stand before Christ but a sentence of absolution pronounced in the Court of Conscience Hee not onely sayes to them that stood before him Ioshuaes sinne is pardoned but hee sayes to Ioshua himselfe and unto him he said Ioshua thy sinne is pardoned as to the palsey man Be of good comfort thy sinnes are forgiven thee Therefore should we not onely labour for pardon but for the knowledge of it for thereupon lyes our peace and comfort Quest How may a man know then that his sinne is pardoned Answ Besides the secret testimony and witnesse of Gods Spirit sealing a mans pardon to him in the very acts of holy duties and Ordinances it may be knowne by these things First by the mortification of sinne and the taking away the reigning power thereof There is in sinne a double power There is a condemning power and there is a commanding power by which it rules and reigns in a mans heart so as hee is under the obedience of it There is the guilt of sinne and there is the dominion of sinne that by which it rules in the hearts and lives of men of the first yee have mention Rom. 3.19 That all the world may become guilty before God Of the second Rom. 6.14 Sinne shall not have dominion over you The guilt is the damning power and the dominion is the reigning power Now David here prayes Take away the iniquity of thy servant that is pardon my sinne Now pardon of sinne stands in the taking away of the damning and condemning power and when a man knowes that the damning and condemning power of his sinne is taken away then hee may know that his sinne is pardoned But how shall a man know that the damning power of sinne is taken away Then is the damning power taken away when the reigning power is taken away Then is the condemning power taken away when the commanding power is taken away Then is the guilt taken away when the dominion is taken away Wheresoever sinne is pardoned it is sinne subdued it is sinne mortified it is sinne forsaken and cast off So that if a man know his sinne to be mortified subdued and know himselfe delivered from the reigning and commanding power of it hee may be confident in it that hee is delivered from the damning power of it Justification is called the Justification of life Rom. 5.18 As it is a Justification of life so it may be called a justification of Death A justification of life to a mans person that is pardoned a justification of death to a mans sinne when hee is pardoned because upon the justification of a mans person followes necessarily the mortification of a mans lusts And so pardoned sinne is deaded sinne Sinne no sooner loses the Sword to kill but it loses the Scepter to rule and therefore if the Scepter be lost the sword is lost If the dominion be mortified the guilt is certainely pardoned for all dominion flowes from guilt and it is the condemning power that enables sin with a commanding power So that if the commanding power be taken away it is a sure signe that the condemning power is taken away for otherwise the commanding power would remaine in full force and strength See Mic. 7.18 19. Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy He will turne againe he will have compassion on us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the Sea Marke then where God pardons iniquity and casts sinnes into the depths of the Sea there hee alwayes subdues iniquity And therefore where iniquity is subdued there iniquity is pardoned Lay together those two Texts Rom. 11.26 He shall turne ungodlinesse from Jacob that is hee shall take away and pardon the sin of Jacob. But now Isa 59.20 the words lye otherwise Vnto them that turne from transgression in Iacob This diversifying of the words teaches thus much That where ungodlinesse is turned from men there men are turned from ungodlinesse where mens persons are justified there mens lusts are mortified where God gives men pardon of sinne there God gives power against sinne And so also where God hath given power there God hath given pardon and where men are turned from transgression there ungodlinesse is turned from them Rom. 6.14 Sinne shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the Law and so under guilt but ye are under grace you have your sinnes pardoned through the grace and mercy of God See then that so long as under the Law and under guilt so long under the dominion of sinne That when under grace and sinne pardoned then sinne hath no dominion And that therefore when men are not under the dominion under the commanding power of sinne that that is a sure signe they are under Grace their sinnes are pardoned and they are freed from the condemning power of them Doe but marke that Text Levit. 13.22 23. If it spread much abroad in the skin then unclean it is a plague To teach that if sinne reigne then a man is not pardoned hee must be pronounced uncleane But in the next verse If the spot stay in his place and spread not it is a bile and the Priest shall pronounce him cleane Strange that a man should have a spot and a burning bile and yet be pronounced cleane Why so Because it stayes in its place because it spreads not To teach that though men may have lusts and corruptions which are spots in the soule yea burning biles yet if they spread not reigne not they are not imputed they are pardoned Therefore where the reigning spreading commanding power of sinne is gone there the condemning power is also taken away Wouldest thou then know whether thy sinnes be taken away or no Looke into thine heart into thy lusts into thy life Are thine iniquities subdued Art thou turned from transgression Art thou free from the dominion of thy lusts Lusts thou hast but yet they are but burning biles they be spots