Jeremiah Dyke (baptised 1584, d. 9 April 1639) was an English conforming
Puritan minister.
Life
His father William Dyke was a minister at
Hempstead, Essex, dispossessed for nonconformity, and then a preacher at
Coggeshall; and
Daniel Dyke was his brother. He was educated at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
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, matriculating in 1598, graduating B.A. in 1602 and M.A. in 1605. He then became a Fellow of the College.
After taking orders he was preferred briefly to the living of
Toft, Cambridgeshire
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, and then
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in Essex in 1609, which he held till his death. His name or that of his brother is among those of the ministers who subscribed the ''
Book of Discipline
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''.
Thomas Fuller says he was 'guardian of his brother's works', which he published in 1635.
Works
* 'A Counterpoison against Covetousnes,' 1619.
* 'Good Conscience, or a Treatise shewing the Nature, Means, Marks, Benefit, and Necessity thereof,' 1624.
* 'The Mischiefe and Miserie of Scandals, both taken and given,' &c., 1631.
* 'The Righteous Man's Tower, or the Way to be Safe in a case of Danger,' 1639.
* 'The Right Receiving of and Rooting in Christ,' 1640.
* 'The Worthy Communicant, or a Treatise showing I the due order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper,' 1642.
* 'A Caveat for Archippus' (Republished) London: Harrison and Sons, 1898
He also published works of his brother, Daniel Dyke, B.D.
Notes
References
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1584 births
1639 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
English conforming Puritans
Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge