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A21041	Tvvo treatises. The one, a most fruitfull exposition vpon Philemon: the other, the schoole of affliction. Both penned, by the late faithfull minister of Gods Word, Daniel Dyke, Bachelor in Diuinitie: published since his death by his brother, I.D. minister of Gods Word	Dyke, Daniel, d. 1614.; Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1618 (1618)	STC 7410; ESTC S100162	203,709	388

paying those though no better then those Iewes Malac. 3. 8. how richly think they that they haue discharged their debt due to their Ministers But bee it that thou indeede doest faithfully discharge the debt of maintenance and art not therein wanting yet one thing is yet wanting Thou owest euen thine owne selfe Thou art still in debt Therefore the Galatians would haue plucked out their eyes to haue done PAVL good Gal. 4. 15. And no maruell good reason that men should owe themselues to those who spend euen themselues for them And I will gladly spend and bee spent for you 2 Cor. 12. 15. And so deare are people to their carefull pastours that they could bee content not onely to spend their paines and bodies in preaching but if it were possible euen to deale their very soule vnto them 1 Thess 2. 7. 8. So being affectionately desirous of you we were willing to haue imparted vnto you not the Gospell of God onely but also our owne soules because yee were deare vnto vs. Is it not reason that so much should be owing as was lent If they lend spend so much no maruell if peoples debt bee so great Nay yet more Ministers doe not onely giue themselues vnto and spend themselues for their people thereby engaging them to the debt of themselues but euen doe giue people themselues vnto themselues We say of mad men They are not themselues and being recouered they are come to themselues So may it bee sayd of persons vnconuerted that they are not themselues they are both out of their way and out of their wits and therefore of the repenting Prodigall it is sayd Luk. 15. 17. And when hee came to himselfe Now what brings men to themselues but the ministry of the word which brings men to repentance If then Ministers bring men to be themselues good reason that men should owe euen themselues vnto them If the debt so great the more shame for people Vse the performance and payment is so poore If thou owest thy selfe then much more thy goods The body is better then rayment a mans selfe greater and better then all his outward goods If then thou owe the greater why doest thou withhold the lesser The acknowledgement of the greater debt is in the payment of the lesser I seeke not yours but you 2 Cor. 12. 14. but yet Ministers should finde both vs and ours vs in our obedience ours in our recompence The Galatians that would if it had beene possible haue plucked out their eyes for PAVL would neuer haue stucke to haue pluckt out their purses to doe him good Neuer thinke that they will plucke out their eyes for their Ministers that will not so much as open their eyes to looke compassionately vpon their necessities They haue great cause to suspect that the Ministry hath not wrought vpon their hearts who acknowledge not the debt of their persons they acknowledge not that that being taught make not him that teaches partaker in all their goods The drift of this Reuocation being a full remission Doct. 3 on PHILEMONS part to ONESIMVS teaches Mercy to bee vsed in exacting of debts mercy in exacting debts where no ability of payment If ONESIMVS had been able to haue restored or repaied or repaired the losse dammage his master sustained by him PAVL would not haue thus pleaded for remission and offered himselfe a surety for the payment Euen the conscience of GODS dealing with vs should as well teach vs moderation to our poore brethren in forgiuing their debts or forbearing at least as well as in forgiuing offences How many mercilesse creditors are there that take the poore debtours by the throat with rigid arrest Pay mee that thou owest mee and hath no more mercy to forbeare then the debtour hath ability to pay It would goe hard with thee if the Lord should imprison thee till thou hadst payd the vtmost farthing Bee yee mercifull as your heauenly father is mercifull Luk. 6. 36. Euen thy pecuniary debts are but penny-debts to those talents which hee hath pardoned thee It is indeede a Parable which we finde Luk. 7. 41. 42. but yet that creditors fact should bee exemplary who when his creditors had nothing to pay he forgaue them both If morgages in cases of extreame necessity ought to bee released as we haue a cleare case Neh. 5. 3. 11. then much more ought rigorous exaction of debts to be forborne VERS 20. Yea brother let me haue ioy of thee or let mee enioy this fruit from thee in the Lord refresh my bowells in the Lord. THis verse containes a most emphaticall repetition of his former petition with the strength of a new argument thus That which will reioyce refresh mine heart thou oughtest to doe but this the receiuing and remitting of PHILEMON will doe Therefore oughtest thou to doe it Which reason being full of holy passion may bee more largely thus amplified Howbeit as an Apostle a father I might enioyne thee as a sonne yet as a brother I doe entreat thee doe this for mee as thou tendrest my comfort and ioy in thee doe this refreshment to mee an aged and toyled prisoner of CHRIST IESVS euen for his sake I beg it refresh my bowels in the Lord. Christians should be carefull to do those things Doct. which might reioyce the hearts each of other from Christians should aime at the ioying the hearts each of other this ground doth PAVL vrge PHILEMON to this duty of receiuing ONESIMVS So euery member of the same body not onely reioices at the good of his fellow-member but aimes at that which may be for the comfort of his fellow-member It is vnnaturall for one member to vex and greeue another GOD threatned the Israelites for sparing the Canaanites that they should be pricks thorns in their sides It better becoms Canaanites to be thorns to Israelites then Israelites to be thornes in each others sides In the world yee shall haue affliction Ioh. 16. 33. yea and from the world shall wee haue sorrow but from the Saints of GOD should wee haue refreshment and reioycing They shall haue cause of sorrow enough from the worlds malignity the rather therefore should euery one study how to asswage those sorrowes by ministring mutuall comforts each to other It is a great ioy to one Christian to see another religious 2 Ioh. 4. 3 Ioh. 3. 4. It is a great ioy to one Christian to see another zealous and forward in the seruice of GOD Psal 122. 1. I reioyced when they sayd Let vs goe vp to the house of the Lord. It is a great ioy to one Christian to see another forward in the workes of bounty to GODS house 1 Chron. 29. 9. The people reioyced when they offered willingly and Dauid the King also reioyced with great ioy It is a great ioy not onely to the Angells in heauen Luk. 15. but euen to the fellow-members on earth when wee turne from any sinne by repentance 2 Cor.

therefore that make this the only end of their Ministerie that they may warme themselues with the fleece of their Sheepe setting the Church at sale for their owne lucres sake are not in any wise to be called Fathers of the Church Are Children thus dealt withall by their Parents The true Fathers of the Church preferre the good thereof before their owne liues these men their owne priuate commoditie before the very life of the Church it selfe Secondly Parents nourish their children at their owne Table and that they may be able so to doe they are content to take any paines whatsoeuer So must and doe Ministers that are faithfull prouide Spirituall nourishment for the Church And for this purpose are alwayes and plentifully furnished with store both old and new which they may bring forth for the benefit of the Church as need shall require Therefore idle and ignorant Ministers killing the people with the Famine of the Word are iustly depriued of the honour of this name Parents lay vp for their children 2. Cor. 12. sayth the Apostle These men lay vp no Spirituall Treasures for the Church therefore the Church cannot acknowledge them as their Fathers Thirdly They resemble Fathers in that they doe not only giue their people Spirituall food but with a fatherly and motherly affection 1. Thess 2. 10. As you know how we exhorted and comforted euery one of you euen as a father his child It is not ynough to exhort to admonish to teach and instruct but all this must be done with the affection of the Father so that we may giue them their Spirituall sustenance as Nurses doe little children their bodily This is that in his owne example the Apostle commendeth vnto vs 1. Thess 2. 7 8. We were gentle among you euen as a Nurse cherisheth her children Thus being affectioned towards you our good will was to haue dealt vnto you not onely the Gospell of God but also our owne soules because ye were deare vnto vs. This phrase of dealing his owne Soule signifieth that effectuall affection wherewithall he deliuered the Word vnto them as Esa 58. God commaunds to giue Almes to the Poore with feeling and compassion vseth the same phrase Thou shalt powre out thy selfe to the hungry So Phil. 1. 5. God is our witnesse how we long after you from the very heart root Fourthly They resemble naturall Fathers in this that as there so here likewise Loue descends rather then ascends The naturall Parent cannot blot out naturall affection no not towards vntoward and rebellious children as wee see in DAVIDS mourning for ABSALOMS death Can a Mother forget the fruit of her Wombe sayes the Prophet Esay 49. No certainely she cannot though the degenerating child should forget her Here then doe good Ministers shew themselues true Fathers when yet they continue to loue them that are wicked and vnthankfull yea iniurious towards them Thus it was with PAVL 2. Cor. 13. 15. We will willingly be bestowed for their Soules though the more we loue you the lesse we be loued of you Now the ground of this so strange and strong affection in the former verse he made to be this that he was to them a Father and they to him in stead of Children If Ministers are thus Fathers and must thus behaue Vse themselues to their people as to sonnes then it becommeth them to put vpon them the disposition of sonnes and to carry themselues to their Ministers as towards their Fathers If then Ministers be Fathers where is the filiall reuerence of their Flockes Where is the reciprocation of like affection Where is the imitation of the Storke nourishing his old Damme 2. Cor. 6. 3. After the Apostle had most liuely deciphered and as it were in an anatomie layed open and naked his fatherly bowels inferreth forthwith thus I speake vnto you of like recompence as vnto children Be ye also enlarged Idolatrous MICAH shall iustly condemne many of vs who entertaining that rouing Leuite into his house promised vnto him the honour of a Father Iudg. 17. Thou shalt be said he vnto me as a Father Thirdly obserue in that PAVL saith he begat that Doct. 3 is conuerted ONESIMVS that the Scripture vseth sometimes to giue that to the Instrument of God which properly belongeth to the Lord God himselfe for the Apostle speaking of our Regeneration calleth vs Gods owne Creatures his Workmanship Eph. 2. 10. Therefore we are not in regard of our Conuersion the Creatures of any Minister yet because God doth it not without the Ministerie of his Seruants therefore this blessed worke is oftentimes giuen to them also This PAVL telleth TIMOTHY He shall saue those that heare him And all Ministers of the Gospell are called Sauiours Obadiah the last and yet properly Christ is our Sauiour This may serue to checke the Papists vrging against vs these places of Scripture which seeme to ascribe some vertue to the Sacraments as Titus 3. He saued vs by the washing of the new Birth 1. Pet. 3. Baptisme saueth If they can vnderstand how TIMOTHIES preaching may saue the hearers after the same manner let them know that Sacraments doe conferre grace not as in themselues not by the worke wrought but because without them God ordinarily vseth not to worke Fourthly Note the Dignitie of the Ministerie Doct. 4 Whom I haue begot Properly God onely is the Father The dignitie of the Ministerie of Spirits Heb. 12. Call no man Father yee haue but one Father that is in Heauen Matth. 23. And yet we see in some sort how God taketh the Ministers into the Societie of the same Honor with himselfe Naturall Parents count it a blessing to haue faire and well-fauoured children but the Sunne neuer saw so goodly and so glorious a Creature as is this new Creature in Christ the workmanship of the Ministerie If then vnto naturall Parents hauing store of children that of the Psalmist may truly be said Blessed is the man that hath his Quiuers full of such Arrowes certainely much more fitly may it be applyed to those Spirituall Fathers for naturall children oftentimes proue those fooles SALOMON speakes of that are a shame and discredit to their Parents and that euen in the Gate opening the mouthes of the aduersaries to triumph and insult But these Spirituall children cannot proue such fooles therefore they cannot disgrace their Parents but doe offer iust matter vnto them of stopping the mouth of their aduersaries For this did that famous Father of our restored Church IOHN CALVIN of blessed memorie answer the Papists vpbraiding him with his want of children in marriage Oh said he God hath in stead of such children giuen me many thousands of farre more excellent kind of children through the whole world Since then God hath vouchsafed so great an honour to the Ministerie that he will vse their helpe in this Spirituall Generation goe to then let vs that are Ministers labour that we may attaine to this so high an honour accounting this barrennesse no

into this Sea of affliction oh they see feele many wonderful and glorious works of the Lord many heauenly and vnspeakeable comforts ioyes in the holy Ghost that they neuer knew before in the day of their prosperity For God by his promise hath tyed his presence to vs at that time Esay 43. 2. When thou passest thorow the vvaters I will be with thee c. But especially this priuiledge belongeth to such afflictions which we suffer for righteousnes sake as the example of the Apostles singing in prison and the Martyrs skipping for ioy in the midst of the fiery flames doe manifestly declare 3. Good in respect whereof afflictions make vs happy is the good confirmed vnto vs by them This good is either present or future 1. The present good is our Adoption whereof they are assured pledges and badges vnto vs. Heb. 12. If you suffer affliction God offers himselfe vnto you as vnto sonnes When two children fight together in the street and one comes and takes the one and whips him and leaues the other who will not say that the child taken and corrected is that mans sonne or pupill and the other left is none of his but a strangers Againe afflictions are the high beaten way to heauen Acts 14. 22. in which onely the sonnes of God walke Neither doe afflictions onely assure vs that we are the sonnes of God but sonnes growne to some strength and ripenesse for young babes and infants are not able to beare affliction This priuiledge also more specially belongs to such affliction as wee suffer for the truths sake and is a speciall point of their blessednesse 1. Pet. 4. 11. If yee bee railed on for the Name of Christ blessed are ye for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth on you which on their part is euill spoken of but on your part is glorified Phil. 1. 28. And in nothing feare your aduersaries which to them is a token of perdition but vnto you of saluation and that of God for vnto you it is giuen not onely to beleeue in him but also to suffer Marke how sufferings are made speciall gifts of God and aboue the gifts of beleeuing He that beleeueth setteth to his hand and seale that God is true Ioh. 3. 33. but when we suffer wee come with a second and that a farre stronger seale Therefore such are called Martyrs that is witnesses by way of excellency 2. Good which afflictions confirme vnto vs is future And that two-fold 1. In this life an enlargement of comforts both inward and outward euen answerable to the measure of afflictions And in this regard are the afflicted pronounced blessed Mat. 5. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted They that sowe in teares shall reape in ioy Affliction is the very seed of comfort And therefore as seed cast into the ground promiseth an haruest so do our afflictions promise comfort both bodily and spirituall Yea the longer and stronger our afflictions be the longer and stronger comforts are thereby promised For herein also is the Prouerbe true He that sowes liberally shall reape liberally Hence Moses prayes Psalm 90. 15. Comfort vs O Lord according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted vs and according to the yeeres wherein we haue seene euill But afflictions doe not onely promise comforts euen and answerable to themselues but farre exceeding as the encrease of good seede is oftentimes an hundred-fold Thus was it with Iob Iob 42. He had twice so much giuen him as he lost and his last daies were better then his first And the aduantage of an hundred-fold is promised by our Sauiour euen in this life Math. 19. 29. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in vs so our consolation also abounds by Christ 2. Cor. 1. 5. 2. In the life to come The afflictions of this life confirme vnto vs the hope of eternall life For if we suffer with him we shall also raigne with him 2. Tim. 2. 12. The afflictions and troubles of this life are happy assurances of the rest of a better See 2. Thessal 1. 4. 5. 6. 7. And not onely so but the Apostle goes yet further 2. Cor. 4. 17. For our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for vs a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory What makes a man more blessed then to haue that massy and weighty crowne of glory vpon his head Blessed is the man that is afflicted for blessed is the man that shall be crowned This is also more specially the priuiledge of such afflictions which we suffer for the truths sake Math. 5. 11. Blessed are yee when men shall persecute you for my sake Reioyce and bee exceeding glad for great is your reward in heauen Thus were the Martyrs blessed in their afflictions blessed in their Martyrdome God honouring them like Elias sending for them as M. Bradford speakes to heauen in a fiery chariot Thus we see how in euery respect the afflicted are to bee accounted blessed Why then should wee feare afflictions before they come or faint vnder them after they Vse become or be impatient till they be gone If they were curses to vs or wee cursed in them then no wonder at our feare and fainting But sith wee may be blessed in them why should we so start at them Who would not willingly goe where a blessing goes And goe to that Schoole where hee shall learne that which will make him blessed Goe wee then cheerefully to the Schoole of afflictions and not like loytring trewants when in that Schoole ply wee our busines with that diligence that when we are come thence we may be able in our owne experience and out of our owne learning to say with Dauid here Blessed is the man whom thou afflictest O Lord and teachest in thy Law FINIS

7. 9. It is great ioy to good hearts to see others orderly and constant in holy seruices Coloss 2. 5. reioycing and beholding your order and the stedfastnesse of your faith in Christ To all these particulars are we bound therfore because we are bound to reioyce not only our owne but the hearts of all GODS people Heere particularly it bindes people to obey those that haue the ouersight of them that they may doe it with ioy and not with greefe Heb. 13. 17. It binds children to be wise and gracious For the father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce and hee that begets a wise childe shall haue ioy of him Prou. 23. 24. and my sonne if thine heart be wise mine heart shall reioyce euen mine Prou. 23. 15. Thus should children doe that which might reioyce the hearts of their parents people that which might the hearts of their Ministers and one Christian that which might reioyce another But farre are they from this that rather Minister Vse cause of greefe both to all in generall and especially to such to whom neerer bonds haue obliged them How many by their coldnesse deadnesse inordinate and scandalous walking doe greeue the hearts of GODS people That complaint of EZEKIEL against the false Prophets of his time Ezek. 13. 22. That they made the hearts of the righteous sad may be truly taken vp against many priuate people who by forsaking their first loue and returning to their first sins and by carelesse vnconscionable courses causing the Gospell to bee euill spoken of doe greeue and make sad the hearts of all good people Wee must not greeue the good spirit of GOD Ephes 4. 30. wee greeue him not onely then when we greeue him in our selues but when we greeue others in whom the spirit of GOD is so are greeuers of the spirit when we greeue the spirits of the righteous Might but this one thing bee thought vpon it would be a good stay in time of temptation Am not I bound to refresh the bowells of GODS Saints and shall I pierce their bowells Am I not bound to reioyce their hearts and shall I now giue my selfe liberty in these follies which will sad their soules If thou regardest not thine owne peace yet regard their ioy Or if thou wilt not reioyce yet doe not greeue them or if thou wilt not ioy them ioy not theirs and thine owne enemies They were wicked ones that greeued the hart of DAVID Psa 119. 158. I beheld the transgressions and was greeued because they kept not thy word It best becomes such persons to greeue GODS Saints No lesse culpable in this kinde are many people in the sadding of the Pastors heart not onely by their non-proficiency and vnfruitfulnesse but by their obstinacies and crosse carriages when on set purpose they will doe such things as they know will greeue their Ministers PAVL glories of his Thessalonians that they were the crowne of his reioycing 1 Thess 3. 19. these are also crownes not of reioycing but crownes of thornes which peirce the heads yea the hearts of their faithfull Ministers PAVL here vrges PHILEMON to do the thing hee requested because it would reioyce him these will doe the cleane contrary things to those they required because they know it will bee matter of greefe and vexation and take more delight in ripping vp and rending then in refreshing their Ministers bowels Learne what should be the speciall ground of our Doct. 2 ioy in others PAVL desires PHILEMON to gratifie him in this businesse that he might haue ioy of him in his obedience Nothing should more ioy our hearts then the spirituall good of our brethren But of this before v. 7. Refresh my bowells The same petition in another phrase Refresh my bowells that is refresh mee and doe this kindnesse to me howeuer it may also be applied to ONESIMVS as before v. 12. ONESIMVS being his owne bowels in receiuing ONESIMVS hee shall refresh his bowels But I rather take the former to be the true sense See what great comfort and content Ministers Doct. receiue in obedience and subiection to their doctrine Peoples obedience how great a refreshment to Ministers It is as their meat and drinke Meats and drinks doe not more refresh and content the hungry and thirsty mans bowels then the obedience of people refreshes the hearts of Gods ministers Great is the labour of the ministery full of sore toyle and paines but yet all the paine is swallowed vp with that ioy peoples obedience yeelds My meat is to doe my fathers will Ioh. 4. It is meat and drinke to good hearts not onely to doe but also to teach the will of GOD. But when they teach it and see others thereby brought also to doe it this goes as a refreshing oyle into their bowells Me thinks this might somewhat mooue people to yeeld obedience to the Ministry of the word Many would often seeme to pity vs and doe acknowledge the toile of this Ministeriall businesse Doest thou pity the Minister indeede Doth it pity thee to see his wearinesse and how his spirits and strength are spent out of thy pity then refresh his bowells Refresh him with thine obedience This will reuiue him after all his wearinesse this will put life and vigor and spirits afresh into him againe when hee shall see his labour well bestowed The ioy in the successe of their labours fills them with more spirits then the labours of their body spent Then is the Ministry a wearisome worke indeede when after a great deale of sore labour a man hath no recreation or refreshment but is more wearied and tyed with the sight of mens hardnesse then with the hardnesse of the labour The onely cordiall and sweet refectiue after the wearisome worke of the Ministry is the successe of our labours Why then will men deale thus vnkindely with vs thus hardly and cruelly with vs to denie vs our refreshings after our labours why deale men worse with vs then ordinary seruants yea then their beasts Thy beast after his day-labour wherewith hee is wearied and tired hee shall haue his bait and lodging to refresh him and wilt thou not vse thy Minister as kindely as thy beast pity his great paines and wearinesse and recreate and refresh him with thine obedience Many when they see the labour of the Ministry would giue ease to the paines therof with that speech of PETERS to our Sauiour in another case Matth. 16. Master pitie thy selfe what neede you take so great paines But to let passe that answer giuen to PETER fitly suiting with their counsell Thou sauourest not the things that be of God but those that be of men wee desire them to pity and refresh vs by their taking of more profit and not to bee pitied or refreshed by our owne taking lesse paines Their profit would ease and refresh vs against all our paines This was CHRYSOSTOMES refreshment after his paines Propterea non Ad pop hom 9. sentio docendi