Daniel Dyke (died 1614)

Daniel Dyke (died 1614) was an English academic, a Puritan of the reign of James I.

Life

He was born at Hempstead, Essex, where his father William was a minister and had been silenced for nonconformity.[1] He proceeded B.A. at St John's College, Cambridge in 1595–6, and M.A. at Sidney Sussex College in 1599. He became fellow of Sidney in 1606, when or soon after he proceeded B.D.[2]

Dyke was also appointed as Princess Elizabeth’s Puritan chaplain.[3]

Family

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.[4][5][6]

The preacher Daniel Dyke (1617–1688) the younger was his nephew.[7]

Works

Dyke wrote:

  • ‘The Mystery of Self-deceiving,’ 1615. [8][9]
  • ‘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.’ [10]

His works were collected and published by his family in two volumes in 1635.[11]

References

  • "Dyke, Daniel (d.1614)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Notes

  1. ↑ Nuttall, Geoffrey F. (1964). ""The Beginnings of Nonconformity" (online copy)" (PDF). UK Unitarian. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Dyke, Daniel (DK593D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Gibson, Jonathan R. D. (2016). "Sir Arthur Gorges (1557-1625) and the Patronage System" (PDF). University College London. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "Dyke, Jeremiah" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  5. ↑ "The Percival J. Baldwin Puritan Collection" (PDF). Tyndale University. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Dyke, Daniel, 1617-1688". Oxford University Bodleian Library. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Bickley, Augustus Charles (1888). "Dyke, Daniel (1617-1688)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. pp. 127–128.
  8. ↑ Potten, Edward (2024). "Dis Köstliche Büchli': the books of the Dünz, Wyss, and d'Hervart families at Nostell Priory". Women’s History Review, 33(6), pp. 829–856. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  9. ↑ "The Percival J. Baldwin Puritan Collection" (PDF). Tyndale University. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  10. ↑ "Jeremiah Dyke". Oxford University Bodleian Library. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  11. ↑ "Daniel Dyke". Open Library. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
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