1618 DANIEL DYKE. Exposition of Philemon & The School of Affliction - Mayflower Provenance - Spurgeon Recommend!

In need of rebinding, but an exceptionally rare work [two actually] by early puritan, Daniel Dyke.  Daniel Dyke [c.1530's-1614]. Born sometime in the 1530's, Dyke's father was silenced for non-conformity during the latter part of the English reformation. Daniel, after attending Cambridge, that "nursery of the puritans," he was installed at St. Albans. He was forever under scrutiny. He was repeatedly disciplined, suspended, and at last deprived of his living in 1589 for not wearing the suprlice and "troubling the established doctrine" with his puritan views. When his congregation sought his restoration, he was framed for adultery. This ultimately came to a public hearing and the woman who made the accusation, so overcome with shame, confessed in open court she had charged him falsely and sought his forgiveness. His works are of durable value and his "mystery of self-deceiving" was a standard among the 17th century puritans in America.  The present copy is signed on the title, Willm Swif