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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43580	Job's appeal Being a funeral discourse delivered at Northonnam in York-shire, upon occasion of the death of Mr. Jonathan Denton, wherein a Christian's state is stated before God, and his sufferings from the hand of God cleared. Grounded upon Job X.7. By Oliver Heywood, minister of the gospel.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1769; ESTC R216792	23,707	37

JOB's Appeal BEING A Funeral Discourse Delivered at NORTHONNAM in York-shire Upon Occasion of the Death of Mr. JONATHAN DENTON WHEREIN A Christian's State is stated before GOD and his Sufferings from the Hand of GOD cleared Grounded upon JOB x. 7. By OLIVER HEYWOOD Minister of the Gospel LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1695. To His Worthy Friend Mr. John Denton In Southwark near London Dear Friend THE Conception and Birth of these Two Sermons was short and sudden as the Tydings of the Death of your Dear Brother my Cordial Friend was surprizing to me and the Transcribing of these Notes an unexpected Motion managed something preposterously with a slight Hand snatch●d from my many other pressing Occasions and now sent to you upon the Request of some Relations to you and your dear deceased Brother by his very weak unworthy Pastor who had the Knowledge of him and Inspection over him many Years and can testifie to the Comfort of his surviving Friends that he was a Man of good Vnderstanding solid Judgment savory Spirit and blameless Conversation of good use in the Society where he was a Member beloved of all that knew him and very imitable in his modest humble chaste Conversation in a single Condition his Contempt of the World Mortifiedness to Pleasures and Honours Diligence in both general and particular Calling studying the Word of God reading good Books constant Attendance on Ordinances writing Sermons ingenuous asking Cases of Conscience his Abilities in Prayer Discourse seriousness in the practick part of Religion to which Many will bear their Testimony and are concerned for the loss of him These things I write to you not as informing you nor flattering him which cannot at all add to his present Happiness but to quicken us in our Diligence and as a Memorial of the Dead that dye in the Lord for God hath said The Memory of the Just is blessed and such as have obtained a good Report thro' Faith Prov. 10 7. ●●eb 1● 39 may be presented to surviving Generations for their imitation especially since our dead Friend left us Posterity to bear up his Name Notwithstanding his even Carriage yet his Heavenly Father thought fit to exercise him towards the latter end of his days with Severe Afflictions both in his Body and Spirit His Body was a meer Skeleton worn away decrepit and tho' he had been very active and agile yet had much ado to go upon Crutches thro' a violent Rheumatism seizing his lower parts His Mind was much disquieted with the sense of his own guiltiness great unprofitableness under Means of Grace much Vnbelief Hypocrisie which oft gave him occasion to call his state into question so that he told me he had great Fears upon him about his Sincerity and questioned how matters would prove at last and Satan set in with his violent Temptations and GOD also suspended the Light if his Countenance and Sealings of his Spirit so that he walk'd in darkness for a considerable time Yet before he dyed the Lord scattered his Fears erected his Hopes and shined upon his Soul with the Beams of his Love and the Lord carried him off the Stage comfortably honourably yea triumphantly He slept in the Lord July the Fifth and was interred at Hallifax July the Eighth 1695. The Spiritual Legacies he left were 1. Advice to his Friends 2. This Text. 1. He had given several weighty pieces of his Counsel to several of his Friends and Relations formerly near his End he said to a Young Man that came to visit him Oh Friend now by the Grace of God I am ready come Lord Jesus Oh be sure you get ready for this dying hour see to the getting of the Spirit of God in what you do you may pump for Expressions and Affections but see you get the Spirit of God for where the Spirit is there is Liberty Several things besides he said but the Distemper going up into his Head and he not s●eeping of a long time was not so sensible and capable of Discourse as he had been 2. The other Legacy he left was this Text. A Relation of his apprehending danger of his Death asked him what he would have me to do for him he having given an hint of his Mind before he answered He would desire me to preach a Funeral Sermon out of those words Job 10.7 There is none that can deliver out of thine hand I had notice of it when I was abroad and at my return preached on Lord's Day July 14. 1695 on that second part according to Order but have prefixed something to it on the former part of the Text because I knew it was first proper to him secondly profitable to us all and wish from my Soul we could all appeal thus sincerely to the Heart-searching God who then would transmit our afflicted Souls and Bodies out of the hands of Justice into the hands of Mercy There 's none of the Servants of God but they meet with a severe Purgatory in this Life and pass through Seas of Trouble to the Haven of Rest which make them Sea-sick and did not our blessed Pilot secure them Psal 42. they would split upon dangerous Rocks of Presumption or Despair sometimes Deep calls to Deep which imports Dr. Horton in loc as a learned Expositor observes 1. Variety or plurality of Evils and Evil in one kind to an Evil in another Troubles of Body Mind estate manifold Temptations without Fightings 2 Pet. 1.6.2 Cor. 7. ● within Fears 2. Conjunction of Evils one Evil within another not as in a Channel where Water runs and lessens in running but divers Waters meeting make a vast Flood not successively Job 16.14 but breach upon breach all at once Yea 3. A Connexion or dependance of one Evil upon another one Calamity invites another as if God pursued us till he make an end of us proceeding in Punishments This was the Conception of this good Man that had God's Hand on his Body Soul as is Earth Heaven and Hell conspired to make him every way miserable Desertions from God Temptations from Satan for that cursed Coward sets on God's Children where they are weakest God orders this for wise and gracious Ends partly to try our Spirits exercise Graces prevent worse Evils keep us humble conform us to Christ teach us to live by Faith to long for Christ and Heaven and prepare us for divine Cordials To be sure God's great care is to secure the main Stake in his Children He will not suffer their Souls to miscarry He would rather his Children should go to Heaven maimed than go to Hell with all their Limbs yea it may be they will march on faster lame or see Heavenly Things better when bodily blind or hear God's Voice better when corporally deaf than otherwise And our Blessed Saviour saith It 's better want any Member than be damned Mat. 5.29.32 Strong Humors must have strong