Daniel Dyke (died 1614) was an English academic, a

Puritan The Puritans were English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic Church, Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England had not been fully reformed and should become m ...

of the reign of James I.

Life

He was born at Hempstead, Essex, where his father was a minister and had been silenced for nonconformity. He proceeded B.A. at

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

in 1595–6, and M.A. at

Sidney Sussex College Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife ...

in 1599. He became fellow of Sidney in 1606, when or soon after he proceeded B.D.

Works

Jeremiah Dyke, among those of the ministers who subscribed the ''Book of Discipline'', was his brother, and edited all Daniel Dyke's works for publication. Dyke wrote: * ‘The Mystery of Self-deceiving,’ 1615. * ‘Certaine comfortable Sermons vpon the 124 Psalme,’ 1616. * ‘Six Evangelical Histories: of Water turned into Wine, of the Temple's Purgation, of Christ and Nicodemus, of John's last Testimony, of Christ and the Woman of Samaria, of the Ruler's Son's Healing,’ 1617. * ‘Exposition upon Philemon and the School of Affliction,’ 1618. * ‘Two Treatises: The one, of Repentance; the other, of Christ's Temptations.’ His works were collected and published by his brother in two volumes in 1635.

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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Dyke, Daniel Year of birth missing 1614 deaths 17th-century English Puritans Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge English Calvinist and Reformed theologians 17th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians