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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

Gods love the coales of it are as coales of fire the flame of Jah Cant. 8.6 The fire of God the fire of the spirit Now marke then where the fire of the spirit is and the fire of the love of God there will bee pillars of smoake there the Affections Desires Thoughts of the heart will bee rising and reeking heaven-ward This a discription of a Christian he is one cum elationibus fumi But yet marke when these pillars of smoake rise and so marke when the fire of Jah burnes Who is this that comes up that ascends out of the wildernesse therefore then this fire burnes this smoake ascends in pillars when a man comes up ascends out of the wildernesse Then the spirit of God and the fire of God burnes when a man hath his heart comming out of the world forsaking and renouncing the world If then a man descend into the wildernesse the pillars of smoake fall because then the fire goes out A descent into the wildernesse takes away the pillars of smoake puts out the fire Cant. 8.3 much waters c. that is many afflictions tribulations and persecutions cannot quench the love of God nor abate it That is meant oftē in Scripture by waters But yet many times a little earth may doe that which many waters cannot doe A little inordinate love of the World may doe more mischiefe in abating cooling and quenching the love of God then all the malignity of the world can doe The hatred of the world against a Christian is not so dangerous to quench the love of God as is our owne inordinate love of the world Persecutions kindle the spirit Whilest the persecutors in Queen Maries dayes kindled the fires it did withall kindle the fire of the Spirit in love and zeale the more in their hearts But the loving of the world that damps and extinguishes this fire As therefore wee would take heede of quenching the Spirit so take we heede of the love of the world if once that creepe upon you and get hold on you you are in great danger of quenching the spirit What is the reason that it is with many Christians as it was with Nebuchadnezzars Jmage Dan. 2.32.33 This Jmages head was of fine gold his feete part of yron part of clay a great deale of difference betweene the head of the Jmage and the feete of it So you have many in their young time in their first beginnings that seemed to bee golden Christians full of life full of zeale full of good But in their elder age are cold dead brazen little life or vigour in them their feet part of yron part of clay What is the reason that they that began with a golden head have feete of clay Because they came to have hearts of clay and they did loade themselves with thick clay Hab. 2. They by degrees suffered the earth and the love of it to creepe into their hearts And so having clayie hearts their golden heads have had clayie feet The love of the world being therefore gotten into their hearts hath quencht the Spirit of God in them and they have growne cold and dead hearted in their old age in which the trees of Gods plantation use to bee most fruitfull Therefore as we would take heede of quenching the Spirit so take wee heede of an earthly heart of the besotting and bewitching love of the world Formality in Religion a quencher of the spirit 2. Secondly Formality in Religion and holy performances God requires in all duties of religion and holy performances that wee doe them as David danced before the Arke 2 Sam. 6.14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might If in such a service David put forth himself with all his might how much more think ye would he do it in other cases If he danced before the Lord with all his might how much more thinke we did he pray unto the Lord with all his might Hee that sets all his limbes on worke and puts forth the utmost of his strength in dancing before the Lord how much more would hee set all the powers and faculties of his soule on worke and put out the strength of them all in praying in hearing c. So should men pray heare receive the Sacrament doe duties of obedience to God as Sampson bowed himselfe in pulling downe the house Judg. 16.30 He bowed himselfe with all his might So when men pray they should pray with all their might Psal 119.58.145 So when men heare they should doe it with all their might Ezech. 40.4 And of all duties of Religion and obedience that may goe for a rule Eccles 9.10 Whatsoever thine hand findes to doe doe it with thy might Though it be spoken in an ill sense of the Epicure yet it is a good rule to live by in holy performances what ever duties wee have to doe doe them with all our might And that is a speciall meanes to make the Spirit kindle glowe and burne in our hearts that preserves and keepes alive the vigour of the Spirit in us Judg. 5.31 Let them that love the Lord bee as the sunne when he goes forth in his might When the sunne breakes forth and shines in his strength and full force what a deale of heate there is And so they that love the Lord they are like the Sunne shining and going forth in his might because they doe all they doe with all their might and that fills them with heate But on the other side when men pray heare c. and doe duties slothfully sluggishly and with formality of Spirit that quenches and damps and cooles the spirit of grace in a man Formality is slothfulnesse and slothfulnesse is a quencher Rom. 12.11 Not slothfull in worke fervent in spirit Fervency of Spirit and slothfulnesse in holy businesse stand in opposition and it implies thus much That where men are slothfull there will not they be fervent in spirit that slothfulnesse will quench the spirit and where men are formall in duties they are slothfull for formality is spirituall slothfulnesse The Apostles counsell to Timothy is to stirre up the grace of God that was in him 2 Tim. 1.7 so long as it is stirred up it is out of danger of quenching and dying There is a complaint Is 64.7 There is none that calleth upon thy Name and that stirres up himselfe to lay hold upon thee There were that did call upon God but did not stirre up themselves in the performance of the duty They prayed but they did it sluggishly and formally Now when men doe pray and stirre not up themselves to prayer they pray formally And when men pray and doe not stirre up themselves and stirre not up their affections they stirre not up the grace of God in them and when they stirre not up the grace of God in them they quench the Spirit Fire stirred up gives the greater heate but fire not stirred up cooles and quenches There is no stirring in formality and so

but they stay in their place they doe not spread Are thy lusts mortified be of good comfort thy person is justified Is the commanding power taken away be of good comfort the condemning power is taken away This sayes unto thee as Christ to Ioshua I have passed by thine iniquity But by this may many see that their sinnes are not pardoned If pardoned why under the power of habituall covetousnesse drunkennesse uncleanenesse How is it that thy loose lusts have such command over thee Thy lusts subdue thee they are not subdued therefore not pardoned The spot spreads much abroad in thy skin it is not a large bile it is a plague Thou art undone thou art in thy guilt thy sinne is unpardoned Apoc. 1.5 6. They who are washed in Christs blood are made Kings and Priests They that are pardoned have their iniquities so subdued that they reigne over as Kings and sacrifice the bed of sinne in mortification as Priests But now if sinne and lust be the King and that reigne over thee that be the King and thou be the slave and the drudge then art thou not washed in Christs blood then are not thy sinnes pardoned Take it for a sure truth that sinne unmortified is sinne unpardoned Sinne in the throne is sinne unforgiven Secondly By the sanctification of a mans heart and spirit When God takes away iniquity hee furnishes that man with all sanctifying graces of his Spirit Zech. 3 4. I have caused thine iniquity to passe from thee There is the pardon of sinne And J will cloath thee with change of rayment I will furnish thee with the graces of sanctification That as Ezek. 16.9 10 11. Then washed I thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy blood from thee and anointed thee with oyle I cloathed thee also with broidered worke and shod thee with Badgers skin and I girded thee about with fine linnen and I covered thee with silke I decked thee also with ornaments and J put bracelets upon thine hands and a chaine on thy necke So in this case So that wheresoever a man findes true sanctifying grace in his heart it is an evidence that his sinnes are pardoned The love of Christ and the love of God it is a grace of sanctification and therefore it is a signe of pardon of sin See Luc. 7.47 Wherefore I say unto thee Her sinnes which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Where the particle for is not causall not shewing the cause of her remission but onely a signe of her remission vers 39. The Pharisee findes fault with Christ for suffering a sinner to be so familiar with him Christs answer is shee is no sinner He proves it because her sinnes were forgiven her but how proves hee that For she loved much As if hee should say This grace of love is an evidence that declares her sinne is pardoned So 1 Tim. 1.13 14. Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbeleife And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love in Christ Jesus Therefore as love to God so love to our brethren and delight in their communion and society is made a signe of pardon Zech. 3.9 10. I will take away the iniquity of that Land in one day The iniquity of that Land that is the guilt of the Churches iniquities for by the Land of Canaan was typified the Church or people of God and this I will doe in one day that is by the alone and all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ offered up once for ever In that day saith the Lord of Hosts shall ye call every man his neighbour under the Vine and under the Fig-tree In that day namely when as the people of God should by that onely sacrifice so offered up to God for sinne through the alone justification of faith come to enjoy the true spirituall and inward peace themselves then should they expresse so much love and charity towards others as to call in them who were unconverted to come and partake of the same good with them By this try Is thy love to God and to Christ and to his Saints A good signe But on the contray the unholinesse of mens hearts and lives argues how it is with them To have sinne pardoned is to be under grace Rom. 6.14 For yee are not under the Law but under Grace Can a man bee under Grace and have no grace Can a man bee under Grace and gracelesse Certainely gracelesse persons are not under Grace have not their sinnes pardoned Such have never yet aright sought for much lesse obtained the taking away of their iniquity FINIS THE RIGHT EATING AND DIGESTING OF THE WORD By IER DYKE Minister of Epping in Essex HEB. 4.2 The Word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it ROM 6.17 But ye have obeyed from the heart that forme of Doctrine which was delivered you August in Psal 141. Enarrat Unde admoneamus charitatem vestram ut ea quae audiendo tanquam ventre memoria conditis rursus revolvendo cogitando quodammodo ruminetis LONDON Printed by Tho. Paine for L. Fawne and S. Gellibrand at the brazen Serpent in Paules Church-yard 1640. THE RIGHT EATING AND DIGESTING OF THE WORD JER 15.16 Thy words were found by mee and I did eate them c. THE Prophet complaines vers 10. of the course entertainment that he had amongst the people that hee was a man of contention to the whole earth hee was counted a contentious fellow and so hated and cursed as a man contentious That hath alwayes beene the lot of Gods servants and Saints to have that imputation laid upon them A man may strive in his Ministery to bring men to repentance Gen. 6. My Spirit shall strive no longer with man Therefore Gods Spirit strives in the Ministery of his servants whilest hee sets them on to make them strive to bring men to God And men may strive and contend earnestly for the faith once given to the Saints Iude 4. And yet this makes not men men of contention in an ill sense Indeed the world counts such contentious men But who they be that truly deserve that censure wee see Rom. 2.8 But unto them that are contentious and doe not obey the truth but obey unrighteousnesse indignation and wrath Therefore such as doe not obey the truth but obey unrighteousnesse they are the contentious persons Well but yet the Prophet must goe for a contentious man and so a man odious What 's the matter It may be hee was an usurious oppressor and therefore contentious and cursed Hee purges himselfe from that vers 10. I have neither lent on usury nor have men lent to mee on usury Therefore it must be some what else Hee therefore layes downe the true cause why hee was so judged and so hated And that in these words vers 15. latter end

our eyes see not our teachers we cannot expect wee should heare the voyce behind us The way to have the spirit follow us with his motions and worke of grace is for us to follow the word The hearing of the word then is a speciall meanes to cherish the spirit of grace in our hearts It is the oyle and the wood that keepes this fire burning It is also the bellowes that blowes and stirres up this fire in our hearts When a man would kindle a firc hee takes the bellowes and by their helpe hee makes the fire burne with a great flame and heate that before burnt little or nothing When a fire is quencht and is almost out the bellowes will quickly raise the flame againe The ministry of the word is the bellowes that blowes up and kindles the fire of the Spirit in us and makes it flame Ier. 6.29 All the preaching of the Prophets is in vaine it will not prevaile with them Therefore when the word is preached then the Bellowes blowes to kindle the fire Now when there is fire and fuell and bellowes blowing there is no danger of the fyre going out there is no question but that the fire will burne and be kept alive And the ministry of the word being fire fuell and bellowes it must needs bee a speciall meanes to keepe the Spirit from quenching to kindle and keepe it alive in us And therefore such as would take heede of quenching as would kindle and preserve this fire burning they must come to this fire and catch fire at it must lay on this wood must come under the blast of these bellowes that is they must come to and attend upon the ministry of the word And what is it that more and sooner quenches the Spirit then the want and neglect of the ministry of the word Many that have had faire lamps blazing faire fires burning yet it comes to passe that it may be said of them as Isa 43.17 They are extinct they are quenched as towe When wood burnes after quenches yet for some good time after there remaine some coales and some fire still but when burning towe quenches it leaves no fire or heate at all it goes suddenly quite out So many not onely quench in degree but quench altogether quench as towe Quench so as God in another sense threatens to quench the wicked Iob 18.5.6 Their light is quenched and the sparke of their fire doth not shine So quenched that all sparkes of goodnes are quenched in them Now whence came this mischiefe and where began this evill let it be considered if it had not its first rise from the neglect of the ministry The taking away and the losse of the ministry must needes bee a great cause of Quenching the Spirit in mens hearts When the lampes in the Temple are quencht 2 Cron. 29.7 the lampe of the spirit must needes quench in mens hearts Heb. 30.20.21 Thy teachers shall not be removed any more into any corner but thine eyes c. and thine eares c. Therefore when teachers are removed into corners then no voyce of the Spirit is to bee heard then the spirit is quenched As the quenching of the spirit is the cause sometimes of the quenching the fire of the word Apoc. 2. Thou hast left thy first love I will remove the candlesticke Thou hast left thy love There is quenching of the Spirit I will remove the candlestick there is the quenching of the light of the Gospel Thou hast quenched the fire of thy zeale I will quench the fire of the Gospel I will remove the candlesticke and quench and put out the candle the striving and burning light of the Ministry So also the quenching of the candle and light of the Ministry is infallibly a cause of quenching the spirit in mens hearts When once Preaching is taken frō men there must needes be a decay and a languishing of grace without wood the fire must needes goe out The want or losse of the meanes is a quenching But now when men shall voluntarily of themselves through negligence and disrespect of the meanes slight them this is a farre more dangerous cause of quenching the spirit for then there is a double cause of quenching First The want of fuell the withdrawing of the wood And Secondly Gods Justice who when hee sees men begin to neglect and shift the meanes hee will in his wrath smite them with the losse of those gifts and graces they had As ever therefore thou wouldest keepe the Spirit from quenching as ever thou wouldest kindle it and keepe it flaming and burning so diligently and conscionably attend upon the Ministry of the Word 2. Communion of Saints Communion of Saints a meanes to keep the Spirit frō quenching and the exercise of the duties of that Communion in mutuall exhortation mutuall provocation to love and good workes mutuall quickning and exciting each other unto good This is a speciall meanes to keepe the Spirit from quenching to keep the spirit burning and flaming and to increase the gifts and graces of the Spirit in us As of contentious men so is it true of gracious men and godly men in this sense Prov. 26.21 As coales are to burning coales and wood to fire so is a godly and gracious man to kindle the spirit Coales laid to burning coales doe mutually communicate heate each to other and make each others heate the greater A few stickes laid on the fire and that lye asunder too they make but a poore fire it gives but little heate but when a good company of stickes are laid on together and laid on close then the fire burnes to the purpose Wee see that smal stickes will kindle great ones In blowing of the fire the smaller wood takes fire first and that being fired it fires the greater wood Many times men that have greater measures of gifts and knowledge may want heat and be short in their fervour and zeale and they by their communion with Christians of meaner ranke and meaner gifts than themselves may bee warmed and heated and have the fire of love and zeale kindled in them We see that greene wood will hardly burn alone lay that on the fire alone and what a deale of blowing and stirring must there be ere it will take fire and if it doe take fire it will hardly burne any longer than it is blowne and but poorly then neither But now lay green wood on the fire with dry wood and the dry wood not onely burnes it selfe but sets the greene wood on fire also and makes it burne to the purpose Some mens hearts are exceeding dead and cold and it may be they use all private helpes by themselves and blow what they can but their solitary indeavours will not doe it If once they doe but joyne themselves in society with such as are godly and hold communion with them that will get heate into their hearts and those burning coales will set them on fire A live cole thrown out

of the fire dies and quenches presently A dead cole cast into the fire amongst coales that are alive presently is on fire And this very thing Salomon intends Eccl. 4.11 If two ly together then they have heat There is a mutuall contribution and communication of heate from each to other One gives heate to another Alter caelidus alter frigidus Calidus frigidum accendat qui parum ardet optet augmentu Aug. de divino serm ser 87. and one receives heate from another each are the better and the warmer by the others society But how can one be warme alone especially if hee be naturally cold and withall the weather and the time be cold A man that is then alone must needs be cold Wee see when David grew old his naturall heate abated and decayed and hee grew cold withall 1 Reg. 1.1 And they used meanes to make him hot they covered him with clothes but yet he gat no heate clothes must bee first heated from a principle of heate in the body before they can heat and warme the body But vers 2.3 Abishag lying in Davids bosome hee gat heate and warmth Cloathes were dead cherishers they could not warm David but Abishag having naturall and living heat this helpt David to warmth So here if men doe use meanes in private by themselves and have not exercise nor communion with others all meanes so used will be but covering with clothes by which wee shall neither get nor keepe heate Holy conference a duty of this communion It kindles and stirres up the spirit it refreshes it cheeres the spirit in us Ephes 4.29.30 Corrupt communication grieves him And whatsoever grieves doth quench the Spirit Now as evill speech and communication grieves and quenches so holy speech and conference it cheeres and so kindles the Spirit in us But if a man have communion with such as have spirituall life in them the fire of the Spirit in them the vigour and warmth of Grace in them have society with them in prayer conference mutuall excitations unto God this will be an excellent meanes to keepe our heate from cooling and quenching yea to increase and adde to it Me thinkes there is somewhat in that Act. 2. If wee consider when the Holy Ghost came upon them and that there were cloven tongues of fire upon them And when was it vers 1. they were all with one accord in one place met together in an holy communion and about duties of holy communion And then followed that vers 2 3 4. How much mutuall communion of Saints quickens the life of Grace and the heate of it we may see in one particular 2 John 12. That our joy may be full An Apostles graces furthered and quickned by the graces of a woman When such Grandies in grace have benefit by communion of Saints how much more may they whose measures are lesse It is certaine that the neglect of this communion and the duties of it is a great quencher of the Spirit When men fall off by Apostacie that is a quenching of the Spirit The highest degree of quenching the Spirit is in the great sinne against the Holy Ghost And it is a cleere case that the letting fall of this communion and the neglect of that is one of the first steps to Apostacie and the sinne against the Holy Ghost Heb. 10.23 24 25 26. By which he implyes that as a speciall meanes to keep men from such a quenching of the Spirit as makes way to the sinne against the Holy Ghost is to uphold the practise of the duties of the communion of Saints so a speciall cause of such quenching as makes way unto that sinne is the neglect and throwing up of the practise of the duties of the communion of Saints 3. Thirdly the duty of meditation Though there be wood and fire yet if they be not laid one to another there will be no flame nor heate but when they are laid and applyed each to other that kindles and makes the fire burne especially when the fire is blowne upon the wood being laid on Meditation layes wood and fire together it blowes the fire also and raises the flame All the prodigall sonnes graces began at this I will arise said hee he said it in his heart in his thoughts in his meditations and goe to my Father He was in serious meditation what a great man his Father was what an excellent house he kept what a miserable case he himselfe was in and this meditation quickned his heart to this I will arise and goe to my Father So mens bethinking themselves is made an excellent helpe unto repentance 1 Reg. 8.47 That is when men seriously use to meditate and use to thinke with themselves what they have done how God is offended with them how great their misery is where remedy is to be had c. This is an excellent helpe to make way for the spirit of repentance It is a great measure of grace the godly man attaines to Psal 1.3 But marke what is a great meanes conducing to these measures of grace and the spirit verse 2. To bee spiritually minded is life Rom. 8.6 This is in one sense to be spiritually minded when the mind is imployed in spirituall meditations and this is life also in this sense in that it breedes and maintaines the life of grace and the spirit in us The want and neglect of this duty doth exceedingly chill and coole and danger the graces of the Spirit in us therefore as we would not quench but keepe alive the graces of God in us so exercise we our hearts often in the duty of meditation Prayer a meanes to keepe the spirit from quenching 4. Fourthly the duty of prayer It is a speciall meanes to keepe the Spirit from quenching ye to cause the spirit to kindle and increase in us to bee frequent and feruent in prayer It is that by which we get the Spirit encreased in us Luke 11.17 how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that aske him which is not to bee understood so much of the first infusion and gift of the Spirit as of the increases of the graces of this Spirit For a man to speake properly cannot pray till he have the Spirit and then when a man hath the Spirit and sets that Spirit on worke in the duty of prayer then the spirit which was given before is given in a larger measure in greater abundance in the graces thereof The Apostles had the spirit of God in them before Christs death and after his resurrection Iohn 20. he breathed upon them and sayd Receive ye the Holy Ghost And yet after this it is said that they were filled with the Holy Ghost that is at that time the Holy Ghost came upon them afresh But when was it that they were afresh filled with the Holy Ghost Prayer brought downe a fulnesse of the Spirit That speech Cant. 4.16 is conceived to bee the speech of

for it So I may say of Gods Spirit yet a little while he is with thee yet a little while hee is striving with thy conscience and urging thee seriously to labour for grace yet a little while he is with thee knocking and rapping at the doore of thine heart yet a little while he is with thee to woe thee to allure thee to worke on thee in the Word and the rest of the ordinances But if thou quench him in these his gracious dealings with thee hee will goe unto him that sent him And then thou shalt seeke him oh that I had but one of those gracious motions I was wont to have that I might but once more once more heare the voyce of Gods Spirit thus shalt thou seeke him but shalt not finde him for ever a world if thou couldst give it shall not purchase one whisper more not a syllable more from the Spirit of grace so unkindly quenched Consider now how dangerous such a case will bee and as thou wouldest feare it should be thy case so feare to quench the Spirit It is a great mercy of God to give us his Spirit in this kinde to have these Eagles wings fluttering over us Nehem. 9.19 20. Why then for God to call home his Spirit and to forbid him to strive with us to call upon us to instruct us how heavie a judgement is it It is a judgement to have a good Minister silenc'd what is it then to have the Spirit of God silenc'd It is a sad thing to have Ministers mouthes stopped what is it then to have the Spirits mouth stopt Quenching the Spirit will prove silencing the Spirit Quenching the Spirit will prove the stopping of his mouth So much for the danger of quenching the Spirit in the motions 2. Second danger of quenching the Spirit The Spirit being quenched in the graces thereof is quenched in the offices therof is in quenching the graces of the Spirit And the dangers of quenching in this kinde are many 1. The Spirit quencht in the graces thereof is quēcht in the offices therof The spirit of God doth us many good offices which hee will cease to doe if hee be quencht 1. First the Spirit of God is a spirit of prayer Hee is called the Spirit of grace and supplications The Spirit helpes to pray Zech. 12.10 Jude 20. praying in the Holy Ghost and Rom. 8.25 26. It helpes our infirmities it makes intercessions for us with groanings c. Prayer is a worke which cannot bee done without helpe not without the helpe of the Spirit 1. The Spirit affects our hearts with the sense of our own wants 2. It sheds Gods love into our hearts that so with boldnesse wee may appeare before him 3. It excites and confirmes those graces in us which are required in prayer as faith humility fervency zeale by this his work assistance inlarges our hearts 4. Hee suggests holy meditations and kindles holy desires in the act of praying 5. It restraines Satan and the flesh that they molest interrupt and distract us not All these helpes wee have from the Spirit of God in prayer Therefore saying v. 17. Pray continually he addes vers 19. Quench not the spirit Now quench the spirit and all this helpe is lost and this assistance is lost Hee is a spirit of grace and supplications Zech. 12. Quench him as a spirit of grace and you quench him as a spirit of supplicaon Quench him and you quench him from making intercessions quench him and you quench him from crying Abba father and stop his mouth from crying And if he cry not we cannot cry and if wee cry not wee pray not So dangerous a thing in that respect it is to quench the spirit 2. Secondly The Spirit assures us of audience the acceptance of our prayers the spirit of God doth not onely help us to pray and doe us that good office but he doth us another gratious office in assuring us of audience and the acceptance of our prayers 1 Joh. 5.15 Therefore Gods people may know that God heares them and accepts their services David Psal 6. begins it with a sad complaint but yet see how on a sudden his heart cheeres vers 8 9. and that upon this that he knew God heard and accepted his prayers So then men may come to know that God accepts their prayers Now how come men to know it Answ I finde that God hath assured his servants of the hearing of their prayers these severall wayes 1. First sometimes by the testimony of an Angel sent from heaven Luc. 1. Zachary thy prayers are heard Acts 10. Cornelius thy prayers are come up in remembrance c. 2. Secondly sometimes by the testimony of a Prophet Isa 38.5 Goe and say to Hezekiah J have heard thy prayer 3. Thirdly sometimes by a visible sign as Act. 4.31 And whē they had prayed the place was shaken That was a signe from heaven assuring acceptance of prayer And so God did assure by fire comming downe from heaven So God gave evidence of acceptance when the first sacrifice was offered on the Altar in the Tabernacle Levit. 9.12 And thus it is thought that God by fire from Heaven did shew his acceptance of Abels offering before Caines And to that former alludes that prayer for the King Ps 20.4 The Lord turne thy burnt offering into Ashes which is translated The Lord accept c. because God had sometimes witnessed his acceptance by sending downe fire to burne the Sacrifice Now wee must not thinke that God deales not as well with his people now as hee was wont hee is still as gracious as ever in assuring his people of his Acceptance Now looke what God was wont to doe by Angel Prophet or visible fire hee now doth the same by his spirit His Spirit sayes as the Angel and the Prophet thy prayers are heard God sayes to his Spirit Goe to such a man and say I have heard thy prayer God assures men of his acceptance of their prayers by fire sent downe from heaven When a man in prayer feeles his heart mightily inlarged when hee feels his heart set on fire with fervency of holy affections this is the fire of the spirit And this fire this fervency and heate of the spirit with which the heart burnes in prayer is fire that comes downe from Heaven a sensible testimony of Gods acceptance thus God turnes our Sacrifices into ashes And when it is thus with a man how comfortable a condition it is Thus David knew that God heard him Psal 6.8 9. Fire came downe from Heaven and burnt his Sacrifice and by that inward fire in his heart he as well knew that God accepted his prayer as Abel by that visible fire knew that God accepted his Sacrifice Surely when a man feeles this fire burning in his heart in prayer well may it be said unto him as Eccles 9.7 But now on the other side when a man shall pray and shall have

one that sinnes against the Holy Ghost begins his sin at quenching the spirit These five bee the five stayres downe to Hell and to damnation unquestionable And this sinne of the quenching the spirit is the first stayre of the fire A danger able to make our hearts tremble Is it not dangerous to step one stayre downe towards Hell If thou wilt adventure to goe downe one step what canst thou tell but thou mayst goe downe the second the third c. If thou wilt adventure to quench the spirit thou mayst come to the sinne of grieving the spirit and when thou hast urged it thou mayst come to despight the spirit of grace And when thou art there where art thou then As surely damn'd as irrecoverably gone as if thou wert in Hell already Would we then avoid the danger of that sinne of despighting why then take heede of vexing if not vex take heed of resisting if not resist take heede of grieving if of grieving take heede of quenching Hee that keepes himselfe from quenching shall never come to a despighting of the spirit of grace But if thou wilt be too bold to meddle with the first take heed that thou come not to the last 5. Fifthly the quenching of Gods spirit and the fire of it will prove the kindling of the fire of GODS wrath 1. First it may kindle the fire of his wrath to bring temporall judgements As when a Nation and a Church shall quench the spirit shall forsake the truth of God and the zealous profession of his Name such a quenching will kindle a fire that will not be quenched See 2 Reg. 22.17 Because they have forsaken mee and have burnt incense unto other gods that they might provoke mee to anger with all the workes of their hands therefore my wrath shall bee kindled against this place and shall not bee quenched Gods Spirit you may quench but yee cannot so easily quench the fire of his wrath that will consume a Nation with temporall judgements 2. Secondly it may kindle the fire of his wrath to bring spirituall judgements in the removall of his Ordinances of his Ministers Ephesus quenched the spirit Apoc. 2.4 I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love Thou hast quenched the spirit in that thou hast not that zeale and fervency in the profession of the Gospel c. Well what followes Lest I come and remove thy Candle-sticke vers 5. As if hee should say Because thou hast quenched the spirit therefore I will quench the Candle and the light of the Ministry Hezekiah complaines that the Lampes of the Temple were quencht 2 Chron. 29. God doth it often hee causes the Lampes and lights of the Temple to be quencht and people they complaine of it and finde fault with it But let them consider whilst they complaine of others whether they have not most cause to complaine of themselves Have not they quencht the spirit have not they quencht their love to and zeale for the truth therefore it is just with God to quench light as you quench heate You put out the Lampe of the spirit therefore God puts out the Lampes of the Temple As you feare this so look that you keep the spirit burning and you shall keepe the Lampes burning But quench the spirit and looke for it and bee sure of it God will quench the Candles and remove the Candle-sticke 3. Thirdly it may and will kindle the fire of his wrath in eternall judgements Did yee never reade of a fire that shall never be quencht that can never be quencht If not see Mark 9.43.46.48 into the fire that shall never be quencht Now then if ye will make no conscience of quenching the Spirit yet remember there is a fire that shall never be quencht And that the quenching of the fire of the Spirit puts you in danger of bringing you into the fire of Hell that shall never be quencht If you can quench the fire of Hell then quench the spirit and feare not But if when you have quencht the fire of the Spirit you cannot quench the fire of Hell then as you feare the vnquenchable fire of Hell so feare the Quenching of the Spirit FINIS THE HEART-SMITTEN SINNER'S SVITE FOR PARDON By IER DYKE Minister of Epping PSAL. 21.1 For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquitie for it is great Rogandus est deus ut nos aspiciat avertat autem faciem suam a peccatis nostris ut deleat ea Quae enim non aspicit delet quae deleverit ea a memoria sepelientur Ambros Lib de Apolog. David cap. 8. LONDON Printed by Tho Paine for Iohn Rothwell and are to be sold at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard 1640. THE HEART-SMITTEN SINNERS SVITE FOR PARDON 2 SAM 24.10 And now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquity of thy servant WEE read in these two Books of Samuel that Davids heart twice smote him once 1 Samuel 24. and another time in this 2 Samuel 24. there before here after the Lord had set him upon the Throne of his Kingdome there for cutting off the skirt of Sauls garment here for the numbring of the people And Davids heart smote him saith the Text after that hee had numbred the people Which smiting of Davids heart here is me thinks most like to the smiting of Moses when hee smote the Rocke Numb 20.11 whereupon the water came out abundantly so here Davids heart had no sooner smote him but the water came out abundantly hee thereupon First confessing his sinne when hee said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done Wherein you see First peculiarity in respect of the object person to whom hee made confession which was not Gad though a Prophet and his Seer but the Lord And David said unto the Lord I have sinned Secondly Particularity in respect of the object thing the sinne hee made confession of when hee said unto the Lord I have sinned in that I have done Thirdly impartiallity towards himselfe the delinquent in the thing And David said unto the Lord not I have sinned only or I have sinned in that I have done but I have sinned greatly Secondly upon such his confession hee falls immediately to deprecation and begging pardon of sinne the second thing that his hearts smiting of him wrought upon him here And now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquity of thy servant Where you see the substance of his deprecation is the taking away of his iniquity Take away that is Lord pardon and forgive the sinne of thy servant His heart smites him his conscience accuses and prickes him and hee falls to begging of pardon and forgivenesse Whence learne First Doct. That the onely thing that can give ease and quiet to a smiting accusing troubled conscience is the pardon and forgivenesse of sinne Nothing can ease and quiet a troubled and a smiting heart but pardon of sinne As nothing can trouble and pinch the conscience but sinne

of a love and with a love of the Truth for it selfe To use meanes and use them industriously for the getting of the truth and not sincerely out of a love of the truth but for other ends this is to offer copper and counterfeit coyne and God will not part with his commodity for such coyne Hee will not part with it but for currant money Hee will buy and weigh every peece of our money and when hee findes that men goe about to cheat him with false and counterfeit coyne they shall none of his commodity I consell thee to buy of me gold tryed in the fire We must not thinke to buy gold with copper and brasse but men must give good gold for this gold if ever they meane to have it As hee offers gold tryed in the fire so hee requires gold tryed in the fire 2 Pet. 3.1 2. To stir up your sincere mindes that yee may bee mindefull of the words c. And so men must come with sincere mindes if they would understand the words of the Prophets and come to the knowledge of the truth in the Scriptures Yea when men will be buying with false coyne they shal not only not buy what they would have but they shall forfeit and lose what they seemed to have bought Matth. 13.12 that which hee had seemed to have bought They shall misse of what they would buy and they shall lose what they have bought And therefore David desires of God that hee may have the Truth and the knowledge of it because hee dealt honestly with him paid him current money Psal 119.10 With my whole heart that is with a single and sincere heart have I sought thee and thy truth Oh let mee not wander from thy Commandements let mee not misse of the knowledge of thy Truth Lord here is current money let mee have the commodity Simon Magus offered money for the gift of the Holy Ghost Hee is denyed it because he thought to buy it that way But if hee had offered to buy it another way hee should have beene also denyed it upon that ground Act. 8.21 Thine heart is not right in the sight of God Hee would have had that gift onely to have made an advantage of it to have brought him in money and therefore he offered money therefore he desired not that gift sincerely for the gifts sake So when mens hearts are not right in thē they use meanes and take paines to get knowledge of the Truth not for the love of the Truth but for other by and base ends that they may have credit or advantage by it this is to offer false coyne and their heart is not right and Gods Truth and Grace shall never be bought for false coyne But when the meanes are used used industriously and sincerely it is much to see how freely God will part with his cōmodity to such sincerity will bring in great encreases of the knowledge of the Truth and all other graces The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him Psal 25. When God sees mens hearts sincere in the seeking of the Truth hee will liberally communicate his gifts and graces to them nothing helpes a man to buy such great penny worths as sincerity doth For as men so God loves to trade and deale with such as will deale honestly and will be currant pay-masters will pay currant coyne The fourth thing in which this buying stands is To buy in time and whilst the commodity is to be had A man that meanes to buy a commodity will take his time and his season will be sure to be at the Market and the faire when the commodity is to be had A man that meanes to buy will not misse nor lose the Market day nor the market time Hee will make haste to the market and be sure to take his time because if hee come too late the commodity will be gone and then he cannot buy that hee wants If a man come the day after the fayre and the morrow after the market hee may goe home as wise as hee came Nay if a man come to the market to buy and walke up and downe talke with this body and that If hee goe and sit and talke away the market time in the Ale-house bibbing and twatling with this and that idle companion before hee mindes it the market is over and done and hee cannot buy because the commodity is all gone Hee cannot buy because through negligence and idlenesse hee lost this market time But hee that meanes to buy will doe that first will waite upon his market time will doe that businesse first and then if hee have any spare time hee can spend it upon other lesse necessary imployments So here hee that will buy truth must watch and take his market time must be buying truth whilest truth may be bought There is a buying time and a trading time for truth Eccles 3.1 To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under Heaven And there is a time and a season in which God offers Truth to bee sold in which men may buy it and obtaine it Luc. 19.42 If thou hadst knowne at least in this thy day c. vers 44. Thou knowest not the day of thy visitation This thy day that is this market day in which truth and grace might have beene bought The time of thy visitation that is the market time of Grace There is then a day and a time a market day and a market time a day and time in which Grace and Truth are to be bought 2 Cor. 6.1 2. Wee then as workers together with him beseech you that yee receive not the grace of God in vaine For hee saith I have heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee behold now the accepted time behold now the day of salvation Now then they that will buy the truth must be buying whilest it is market time must be trading for Truth and Grace whilest they may be had must ply their market whilest the market lasts To day if yee will heare his voyce Luc. 12.56 Yee can discerne the face of the skie how is it that yee doe not discerne this time This buying time this selling time this market time It must be a man care that will buy to discern the buying time and to lay hold upon that time and to follow his market close whilest it lasts If men will buy the truth let them not neglect buying whilest God offers to sell doe not trifle away the market time of Grace in following the world and thy lusts First make thy market and when thy market is made and thou hast bought this commodity that spare time thou hast bestow that upon secular businesse of lesse moment A man that will buy the truth when hee sees it is market time must doe as hee speakes Ezra 7. 16 17. And all the silver and gold c. That thou mayest buy speedily with this money

heavie judgement upon a Nation when they sell God and they that sell truth sell God See how God threaens Tyre and Zidon Joel 3.6 7 8. The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will returne your recompence upon your owne head And I will sell your sonnes and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah and they shall sell them to the Sabeans to a people farre off for the Lord hath spoken it It was an hainous sinne to sell the children of Jerusalem to the Grecians God would be quit with them for it And how heinous is it then to sell truth which is the Daughter of God Surely when men doe sell truth and a Nation doth apostatize from God God will be quit with them hee will sell them into the hands of their enemies they and their children Thirdly such as sell the truth sell their owne soules Get what yee can by selling the truth yet what shall a man give in exchange for his owne soule What if by selling the truth a man could gaine the whole world yet what shall it advantage a man to gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule It is ill selling when a man shall sell to losse but specially it is ill selling when a man shall lose his owne soule by the bargaine Hee loses his soule that sells it hee sells it that sells the truth See Prov. 19.8 He that getteth wisdome that buyes the truth loves his owne soule I but a man may buy truth and sell it away againe may get wisdome and lose it And what then is his soule the better for it Therefore marke what followes He that keepes understanding shall finde good As if he had said Hee that gets wisdome and keepes it hee that buyes truth and sells it not hee loves his owne soule hee saves his owne soule therefore hee that gets it and keepes it not that buyes it and sells it againe hee hates his owne soule hee loses hee damnes his owne soule Iudas hee sold Christ for thirty peeces it was the deerest bargaine that ever man made in selling of Christ hee sold his owne soule hee damned his owne soule by that sale It is the case of every man that sells truth hee that sells truth Iudas-like hee sells Christ and Iudas-like hee loses his owne soule It was death by Law to sell some things as to steal a man and sell him Exod. 21.16 Deut. 24.7 And it is death eternal death to sell the truth They that sell the truth sel God sell Christ and so sell their souls They sell Heaven and buy Hell Quest How may a man keepe himselfe from selling the truth Answ First get the love of the truth into thine heart That man that loves the truth wil never sell the truth and the truth is never sold but it is sold for something that is loved better than the truth A man that sells it for preferment and gaine loves gaine and preferment better then the truth that sells it for life or liberty loves these better then truth Now let a man learne to love the truth better than all worldly things and hee will never sell it for them Psal 119.127 I love thy Commandements above gold yea above fine gold Therefore to be sure hee would rather sell gold for truth then truth for gold Therefore they sold the truth and beleeved lyes 2 Thess 2. Because they received not the truth in love A man that is in love with his house with his land no price will tempt him to sell it If a man have but an horse that hee loves though hee be offered more then hee can be worth yet because hee loves him hee will not part with him Prov. 7.4 Say unto wisdome Thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman A man will not sell his sister because hee loves her Say in in this case as Nehem. 5.8 Wee after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Iewes which were sold unto the Heathen and will you even sell your brethren Our fore-fathers the Martyrs after their ability bought the truth and gave their lives to buy and redeem the truth and we wil even sell the truth which should be as deere to us as our brethren as our sisters Secondly take heed and make conscience of selling Truthes of lesser moment that are not so fundamentall and so necessary Be not over easie to part with them Hee that will over easily part with smaller truthes is in a dangerous preparation to sell maine and substantiall Truthes Hee that will not be brought to sell some small field that lyeth far off from his house hee will never be brought to sell all his whole inheritance But when men begin once to sell here a peice and there a piece it comes to passe at last that the whole followes after the inheritance and mansion house goes and is sold at last Hee that will sell and part with little truthes and not sticke close to them hee will if neede be sit as loose from maine fundamentall Truthes FINIS ERRATA PAge 3. line 22. for this read that p. 11. l. 26. r. the joy of thy salvation p. 18. l. 20. f. both r. holy p. 21. l. 9. f. prayer r. Christ p. ibid. l 24. f. of r. by p 25. l. 25 f. the r. your p. 26 l. 25. f. our r. the. p. 31.22 f. these r. this p. ibid. l. 25. f. where r. when p. 36. l. 2● dele for p. 38. l. 9. r. to do some good p. ibid. l. 10. f. know r. leave p. 52 l. 8. f. desire r. degree p. 53. 14. 16. f. great r. greater p. 57. l. 18. f. certainely r. contrarily p. 65. l. 14. f. Heb. r. Isay p. 74. l. 14. f. danger r. dampe p. 86. l. 23. f. he made it r. as the word is p. 91. l. 11. f. brazen r. barren p. 117. l. 8. f. their r. these p. ibid. l. 9. f. these r. their times p. ibid. l. 16. f. God r. Gods p. 119. l. 14. f. that r. then p. 147. l. 20. f. fire r. five p. 148. l. 2. f. urged r. grieved p. 157. l. 18. f prickes r. pinches p. 165. l. 26. r. is in debt p. 168. l. 7. f. so r. goe p ibid. l. 8 f. see r. goe p. 169. l. 1. f. that r. all p. 185. l. 14. f Oh. r. Object p 188. l. 19. f. with that of Haman r. in that with Haman p. 203. l. 22. f. the r. his p. 208. l. 1. r. to lay hold p. 215. l. 9. f. learne r. know p. 242. l. 8. f. vers 39. r. 35. p. 250. l. 26. f. loose r. base p. 251. l. 11. r. raigne over them p ibid. l. 12. f. bed r. body p. 261. l. 18. f. disperse r. dispense p. 273. l. 17. f. was r. or as p. ibid. l. 18. f. rules r. reades p. 276. l. 7. f. as r. that is p. 279. l. 5. r. so a signe of spirituall life p. 282 24. f. wasted r. marred p. 284. l. 11. f. cherish r. nourish p. 287. l. 10. r. men say as they Mal. 1.12 p. 291. r. a deceived heart p. 296. l. 2. f. fitted r. filled p. 297. l. 17. r. long coopt p. 306. l. 9. f. time r. two p. 307. l. 26. r. the knowledge of the truth the love of the truth p. 313. l. 13. f. dispersing r. dispensing p. ibid. l. ibid. f. many r. Mary p. 343. l. 14. f. pinne r. piece p. 347. f. good r. goods p. 348. l. 20. f. elleemisynary r. eleemosynary p. 50. l. 2. f. goe r. goes Imprimatur Tho. Wykes September 12. 1639.