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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

with a great deale of anguish And what will a man doe in such a case The first thing hee will doe for his ease is to plucke out the sting the Hornet hath left behinde For if a man apply medicines for ease yet if the sting be still sticking in his flesh medicines are in vaine So when the conscience is stung and throbs and rages the way is first to plucke out the sting out of the conscience Nothing can take away the sting out of the conscience but pardon Pardoning grace onely can fetch that out therefore when thy conscience is stung and doth paine and vex thee let that be the first thing and let is bee done speedily too to seeke to God for the pardon and remission of thy sinne That will take out the sting and when the sting is out there will follow present ease Secondly marke what Davids suite Doct. 2 to God is Take away I beseech thee take away the iniquity of thy servant Learne then what is a maine thing that concernes every sinner to looke after and labour for A maine thing that above all others a sinner should looke after and take thought and care for is the pardon and remission of his sinnes Our Saviour in the forme of prayer by him prescribed teaches us to pray but sixe petitions and amongst those sixe the fift is forgive us our trespasses and observe with what petition it is coupled Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us Two things may be there observed 1. First hee subjoynes petition for pardon to petition for bread 2. Secondly hee couples and conjoynes them In the three first petitions one petition is subjoyned to another but not conjoyned to the other Hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdome come c. hee saith not And thy Kingdome come And thy will be done But here these are coupled Give us c And forgive us And this to teach us that there is as great necessity of pardon for eternall life as of bread for temporall That we stand in as much need of a forgiving God for our soules as of a giving God for our bodies So also that wee should bee no lesse thoughtfull and carefull for pardon of sinne than men are for bread That wee should beg as hard and toyle as hard for the pardon of sinne as for bread to maintaine life The Lord Hos 24.2 prescribes his people a prayer and that hath but two petitions and this is not onely one of them but the first of them Take away all iniquity and give us good Agur put up but two petitions to God and these were the petitions that he meant to put up to his dying day Prov. 30.7 Two things have I required of thee deny them mee not before I dye that is two things I have beg'd and will not leave begging to my dying day and one of these two and the first of these two things that he would beg to his dying day was the pardon of his sinnes v. 8. Remove farre from me vanity and lyes As if he should say Lord be mercifull unto mee in the pardon of my sinnes So that there is no thought nor care that should take up a mans time and paines all his life long as this how to get the pardon of our sinnes It is the greatest mercy that can be showne us It is true that wee live wholly upon mercy that we have a being it is mercy that wee have any comfortable being it is mercy mercy that we have food to put into our bellies mercy that wee have clothes to put upon our backs mercy that we are freed frō many sorrowes sadnesse and heavy crosses that others lye under all is mercy but yet lay all together and they are nothing to the mercy that is in pardon of sinne that is the greatest mercy that can be shewed Psal 51.1 According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions See then that it is mercy that must blot out transgressions nay it is tender mercy nay it is a multitude of tender mercies that blots out and forgives sinne And therefore it being so great a mercy our cares should be suitable and proportionable to it The greater the mercy is the greater should a mans care be to get a share in that mercy Vse 1 First if pardon of sinne be a thing of such concernement the maine thing that a sinner should looke after then let us make it our great care and the great endeavour of our lives to get the pardon of our sinnes It is wofull to see our negligence and security in this point What is there in all the world that concernes men to looke after more and yet what is there that men looke after lesse than the pardon of their sinnes No care no thought no time no paines too much or enough for getting goods riches and the necessaries of this life but how rare and infrequent are mens cares thoughst for the pardon of sin All our cares are wasted and expended upon these trifles but for this one thing that is necessary scarce one serious thought in the whole yeere Who will shew us any good that string men harpe upon But who will shew us the way to get the pardon of our sinnes that 's a question rarely asked It is too true that men have not that care for their soules they have for their bruit beasts for their very Hogs and Dogges Luc. 14.5 Which of you shall have an Asse or an Oxe fallen into a pit and will not straight way pull him out Nay if it were a Swine nay if a Dogge hee should be pul'd out and pull'd out straight way Such care and such compassions would wee with haste shew unto these vile and base creatures But how often doe mens soules fall into the pit even into the pit of Hell and Death by their sinnes and yet no care nor compassion to pull them out much lesse to pull them out straightway But for any care or conscience is taken there their poore soules may lye and rot in the pit A miserable thing that a man should shew more care and pitie to his Swine than to his soule It being therefore the maine thing a sinner should labour for to get his sinne taken away be we exhorted in Gods fear to make this our maine care Spend lesse time and care upon the world upon your profits and your pleasures squander not out your cares time and paines upon these vanities these nothings Spend some time spend some care some paines upon your poore soules in getting their sinnes pardoned Let Job's thoughts be ours Job 7.20 21. So say wee Alas I have sinned and am a guilty person before God What shall I doe unto God What course shall I take that my sinne may be pardoned Oh Lord that I had an heart to seeke out for my pardon Sayes Job And why doest thou not pardon my transgressions and take away mine iniquity Hee speakes as if hee had beene

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

if it would so easily have beene had See how difficult a work Job found it Job 7.20 21. I have sinned and what shall I doe unto thee O thou preserver of men I have done what I can to get my pardon and I am willing to do any thing in the world what shall I doe more than I have done And why doest thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity Hee had done what hee could hee had confessed prayed hee had laboured and striven with all his might and as yet hee could not get his pardon and the assurance of it Job then found it not so easie a matter to get pardon as many doe imagine it to be Prov. 30.7 8. Agur would beg for his pardon and labour to get that even to his dying day It is a thing a worke that will take up all a mans life it will finde him businesse to his dying day to get the pardon of sinne It is a mans whole life time well spent too if hee speed in that businesse Alas if it were a work so easily done as many dreame what needed Agur have spent so much time about it why could hee not follow the world and follow his lusts and take his pleasure as hee saw good and then when hee was ready to dye when hee was at his last gaspe have fetcht his pardon from Heaven with a Lord have mercy upon mee why sayes he not One thing I would have of thee which I will beg when I dye when I am dying Remove from mee all my guilt No Agur knew that pardon was not so easily purchased hee knew it was a great worke and an hard work and therefore would be sure to take time enough to doe it hee saw it was worke enough for his whole life and therefore would not make it his worke at his dying day but till his dying day This one thing shewes the difficulty of the pardon of sinne to consider what God doth on his part On Gods part for our pardon is required First not onely mercy and grace but great and wonderfull grace and mercy Psal 51.1 Mercy tender mercies multitude of tender mercies Psal 86.5 Ready to forgive I but it is out of mercy that hee forgives And what will any mercy serve the turne No ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy So that unto forgivenesse is required not onely mercy not any ordinary and common mercy but plenty of mercy The Apostle speakes of the riches of Gods grace and Ephes 2.1 You hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses and in sinnes But whence was it vers 4. From God who is rich in mercy Therefore to the pardon of sinne is required not only grace and mercy but riches of Grace riches of Mercy And God in the pardon of a sinner layes forth the riches of his mercy the riches of his grace When a rich man gives a poore man an almes hee gives him somewhat of his riches but brings not out his whole riches layes not out his treasures upon him Riches is an abundance of things pretious But now God in pardoning a sinner layes out his treasures and riches Ephes 2.7 That hee might shew the exceeding riches of his grace Now some pence some shillings are not so hard to be had common mercies of food and rayment preservation these be but penny mercies shilling mercies but pardon of sinne that is riches of Grace And it is not so easie to get riches of mercy in pardon as it is to get the penny mercies of food and rayment Is it thinke wee so easie a thing to get multitude of mercies plenty of mercy riches and treasures of grace which are to be brought forth and laid out in the pardon of sinne Secondly not onely power and might but his infinite power his Almighty power Psal 99.8 Deus fortis condonans eis not onely is hee a mercifull God forgiving but hee is a strong God in forgiving not onely his infinite mercy but his infinite power is required and hath a concurrence in the pardon of sinne And therefore see Psal 86.5.8 No God like him no works like his as being of God of that infinite power as to pardon sinne And therefore hence that same Mich. 7.18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage hee retaineth not his anger for ever because hee delighteth in mercy So that to pardon sinne is as great a worke as to shake heaven and earth yea as to make heaven and earth Is it an easie thing to shake heaven and earth It cannot be done but by an Almighty power because it cannot be done but by an Almighty power Therefore it is not an easie worke and therfore by the same reason no easie worke to have sinne pardoned because an Almighty power is required thereto So then wee see that it is no such easie thing to get pardon Now these things are not spoken to discourage and dishearten men from seeking pardon but to quicken and awaken men to take paines for it Slothfull and lazie endeavours will never get things that be hard and difficult The harder things are to be gotten the harder must men labour to get them There is no discouragement in the difficulty of obtaining pardon because though it be hard yet Secondly it is possible and the worke feasable All the paines in the world will not effect impossibilities But though things be hard and difficult yet so long as possible there is roome for and encouragement to endeavours There is therefore a possibility of pardon David that so struggles for it Psal 51.1 2. Hee else-where blesses God for it Psal 103.2 3. Blesse the Lord O my soule saith hee and forget not all his benefits Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases And so that iniquity for which hee had beg'd pardon so hard Psal 51. was then forgiven So that the work was done hardly but yet it was done Pardon came hardly but yet it came There was a time when David roared was disquieted in his spirit and hee could have no quiet Psal 32.3 4. But yet there came a time when David could say Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sinne vers 5. Hezekiah chatters like a Crane or Swallow mournes as a Dove his eyes faile with looking upward Isa 38.14 But vers 17. Thou hast cast all my sinnes behinde thy backe David here prayes that God would take away his iniquity It is idle to pray for impossibilities if it had beene an impossible thing it had beene weakely done of David to have prayed for that which could not have been Prayer is grounded upon promises all things promised are things possible So then though it be an hard thing yet being possible it being a possible thing yet an hard thing Let it make us shake off both all slothfulnesse out of a conceit of easinesse and all despondencie of spirit out of a conceit of the