Daniel Dyke was an English Baptist

Baptist

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 minister.

Life

He was the son of Jeremiah Dyke

Jeremiah Dyke

-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, matriculating in 1598, graduating B.A. in 1602 and M.A. in 1605...

, minister of Epping

Epping

Epping is a small market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the County of Essex, England. It is located north-east of Loughton, south of Harlow and north-west of Brentwood....

, Essex

Essex

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, and was educated first at a private school in the country, and then sent to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance...

. There he matriculated in 1629, graduated B.A. in 1633 and M.A. in 1636. He received episcopal ordination

Apostolic Succession

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, but this was subsequently disputed, and on a marriage performed by him being sought to be set aside he produced his letters of ordination.

He was presented as rector to Eastwick

Eastwick

Eastwick could refer to:Locations*Eastwick, Hertfordshire, a hamlet and civil parish in England. See List of places in Hertfordshire.*Eastwick, London, a new town to be built on the site of Olympic Park, London, east of Hackney Wick...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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, about 1636, and resigned in 1658. In 1645 his talent caused him to be appointed to the valuable rectory of Great Hadham, Hertfordshire, by Parliament. In 1651 he was appointed by Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell

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 one of his chaplains in ordinary, and in 1653 a trier for the approval of ministers, one of a small number of professed baptists on the commission.

He resigned his preferments immediately after the Restoration

English Restoration

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, asserting that however well disposed the king might be towards dissent, the royalists would insist on the expulsion of the nonconformist clergy and their persecution. Edmund Calamy

Edmund Calamy (historian)

Edmund Calamy was an English Nonconformist churchman, divine and historian.-Life:A grandson of Edmund Calamy the Elder, he was born in the City of London, in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury. He was sent to various schools, including Merchant Taylors', and in 1688 proceeded to the university of...

, however, counts him among the ejected ministers. Dyke continued to preach, and, although writs were frequently issued for his apprehension, was never imprisoned longer than a few hours. In February 1668, after preaching for a year on trial, he was 'set apart' as joint elder with William Kiffin

William Kiffin

William Kiffin , sometimes spelled William Kiffen, was a seventeenth-century English Baptist minister. He was also a successful merchant in the woolen trade.-Life:...

 to the baptist congregation at Devonshire Square, London, where he continued until his death in 1688. His remains were interred in the dissenters' burial-ground in Bunhill Fields

Bunhill Fields

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, his funeral sermon being preached by Warner.

Works

• 'The Quakers' Appeal Answered, and a full Relation of the Occasion, Progress, and Issue of a Meeting at the Barbican between the Baptists and the Quakers,' 1674.
• 'The Baptists' Answer to Mr. Wills' Appeal,' 1675.
• 'Recommendatory Epistle before Mr. Cox's Confutation of the Errors of Thomas Collier.'

These were not under his name. He also edited a volume of sermons by his father, Jeremiah Dyke.