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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

Conviction in respect 1. of Publick 2. Personal Cases 1. As to Publick Affairs that refer to Church and State ●f God deliver us over into the hands of our Enemies tho' they be but wounded Men they shall prevail if Men re●use to drink of this Cup the Lord of Hosts saith Jer. 25 28. Ye shall ●ertainly drink It 's not valiant Armies numerous Forces or ●igh Fortifications that can secure us from Inundations of Divine Wrath Jer. 8.14 God puts a People to shame and silence for their Sin we may please our selves with Power and Poli●y they are insignificant things against Divine Vengeance There is a season when a Nations Iniquity is full Gen. 15.16 then they must be destroy'd and none can deliver Zech. 5.6 11. When the Ephah ●s full the talent of Lead is clapt on its mouth and the wings ●arry it into its proper place of irrevocable Destruction Alas Iniquity abounds Love decays there 's few Interces●ors much Confidence in an Arm of Flesh great Ingratitude ●nder former Deliverances God may justly say I will deli●er you no more we may be very jealous Josh 10.13 2. As to particular Souls let graceless Sinners tremble O consider Psal 50.22 Heb. 10.31 poor Sinner that forgettest God lost he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver it 's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of flaming Justice There are these ten considerations that look in the unconverted Sinner under Wrath. 1. Adam's Sin left you Prisoners in the Hand of Justice By Nature you are children of wrath 2. Every Act of Sin sink● you deeper Eph. 2.3 binds you faster in this low Dungeon The pages of sin is death 3. Satan is God's Jaylor dragging you to Sin Rom 6.23.2 Tim. 2.26 Heb. 2.14 15 and executing the Sentence of Death at last 4. The righteous Law of God confirms the Sentence and Executi● on we are shut up and kept prisoners under the law 5. Gal. 3.22 23 He● is the Goal where Sinners are kept as tormented Prisoner● till they have paid the utmost Farthing Mat. 5 25 26 Mat. 25.10 6. Death opens th● Door to Sinners admission into that woful state and shut the Door of Hope 7. Souls in that state are together with Devils reserved in chains of darkness to the judgment of th● great day Jude 6. 8. Sinners may be cast into this miserable Du●geon un●wares and die with a lye in their right hand 〈◊〉 Non● but Christ can rescue Sinners out of the hands of Justice Isa 44.20 an● translat● us into glorious liberty 10. None are redeemed b● Christ Col. 1.13 but such as are sanctified and purified to himself a p● culiar people Tit. 2.14 zealous of good works Oh then if all this be tru● what will become of poor graceless Christless Sinners Heaven is shut upon you Hell is gaping for you and ● once damned Luke 16.26 for ever damned for there 's a great gult ●●ed and there 's no escaping out of that infernal Lake O th● stu●ers in Zion were afraid that fearefulness would surprize th● hypocrites Isa 33.14 which may prevent their falling into this devou●● fire these everlasting burnings Lord open Sinners Eye● and turn them from darkness to light and from the power 〈◊〉 Satan to God Acts 26.18 that they may receive forgiveness of sins and et●●●nal inheritance 3ª Use is of Instruction Exhortation a to Sinners 2. Sain● 1. Examin your state O consider whose hands you are i● you are in the hands either of God or the Devil of Merc● 〈◊〉 Justice Lord open the eyes of these men that they may see 2 Kin. 6.20 Oh that ●●ou could see your danger and escape it the discovery of danger 〈◊〉 a step towards a Remedy Poor Sinner thou art in invisible ●hains Satan holds his black hand over thine Eyes Awake thou 〈◊〉 sleepest and Christ shall give thee light 2 Cor. 4. Eph. 5.14 2. Observe the Spirits motions operations when a light shines ● the Prison observe if whether the Angel of the Lord do not ●nite thee on the side and raise thee up oh follow him Acts 12.7 8 and thy ●hains will fall off Who can tell but if thou own the next graci●us motion but it may set thee a step nearer God Oh quench not ●●e spirit comply with divine calls put your hand into God's hand 1 Thess 5.19 ●d he will lead you towards himself 3. Renounce all Sin Psal 94.20 Isal 1.16 1● The throne of iniquity hath no fellowship 〈◊〉 God●wash you make you clean put away your doings out of his sight ●en come near to God and you shall be familiar with him and be ●cured in the hollow of his hand shall a soul sin in God's hand ●e endeavours to cut down the Bough whereon he stands you ●nnot serve two Masters 4. Give up your selves to the Lord 2 Chron. 30.8 Rom. 6.19 yield your selves to the ●ord first your souls then your bodies as Instruments of Righte●sness you cannot expect that God should take you into his hands ●ll you have put your selves into his hands David practiseth it ●o thy hands I commend my spirit Peter requires it Psal 31.5 1 Pet. 4.19 Let them that ●●ffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to ●m in well doing as to a faithful Creator II. A word or two to God's Children 1st such as are under ●od's Hand 2dly or delivered 1st If you be under God's Hand of Affliction and see not how ●ou can be delivered 1. Do not despond say not as David I shall one day perish put on ●atience let it have its perfect work look through the thick Cloud 1 Sam. 27.1 ●st tenebras spero lucem 2. Own God's Hand lay it not on Instruments so did Job ●he Lord hath given and taken away justifie God in all Job 1.21 it is fit it ●ould be so 3. Desire rather God's Hand may be sanctified than removed ●ay more to be fitted for deliverance than released from the ●ouble precipitate not your Mercies 4. Get faster hold of God by Faith and Prayer say as Job Job 13.15 Tho' 〈◊〉 kill me yet I will trust in him still own him as a Father and He ●ill own you as a Child Glorifie God in the fire Isa 24.16 2dly To you that are delivered I might add 1. Give God the Praise of your deliverance so did David Ps 30. 1.12 return back to give thanks 2. Love God more for himself Benefits may be inducement but God himself is the only adequate Object of your dearest Affect●●ons P●l 18.1 116.1 Psal 66.16 David twice professed his strong intense love after Affliction 3. Tell others what God hath done for you in a suitable La●●guage and Carriage let your Lives be walking Bibles live 〈◊〉 Persons raised from the dead 4. Long to be with God in Heaven not so much to be total● freed from the Lord's Hand of Affliction as to be in his Bosom 〈◊〉 immediate communion 4th Use is of Consolation to God's Children tho' God's Han● be heavy upon you and none can deliver you out of it yet 1. He 〈◊〉 a Father still tho' offended not a sin-revenging Judge in this lat● case it 's dreadful in the former it's eligible Compare 2 Sam. 24 1● with Heb. Psal 89.31 32 16.31 His whipping as a Father is a Branch of G●spel-Covenant 2. As none can deliver you out of his correcti●● Hand so none can pluck you out of his affecting Hand Our Lo●● Jesus testifies this both of himself and his Father who is great●● than all John 10.28 29.3 While you are in His Hand you are his Eye he never looks off you You are graven upon the palms of 〈◊〉 Hand Isa 49.16 God takes special care of you in his Providen● 4. If you never be delivered out of God's Hand of Affliction dea● will set you at liberty there 's two choice Cordials in 1 Cor. x. 〈◊〉 1st That you shall be inabled to bear your affliction 2dly That in d● time you shall have a way to escape To conclude then You Children of God be animated and great encourag'd in your Sufferings by God or for God tho' they 〈◊〉 sharp and long and no human help can avail to rescue you God c● and will and you may say as the three Children Dan. 3 17. If be so our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fu●● furnate and he will deliver us out of thine hand O King Yea the Lo● will deliver you by his Hand of Mercy out of the Hand of Justic● yea 2 Tim. 14 18. from every evil work of sin in your souls damning Sin and sins● Contrivances of Men and will preserve you unto his heavenly king do● Study the Promises reflect on Experiences live by Faith be much ● Prayer sanctifie God's Name and learn Obedience by what you su●fer under God's Hand and you will find all things working for yo●● good Rom. 8.28 tho' you can't discern it at present Happy Souls who trust 〈◊〉 God and live by Faith in evil times for the Distich of honest M●●culus is verified Est Deus in Coele qui provictus omnia curat Credentes nusquam deseruisse potest There is a God in Heaven who 'll not leave Such-Souls on Earth as to him ever cleave THE END

How often doth David chear up himself with this Your Names may lye under a Cloud for a season Psal 37.6 but God will bring forth your righteousness as the light Thus did he with holy Job 2. Against Satan's sore Temptations when he accuseth you to God he will say The Lord rebuke thee Zech. 3.1 2 3 4.1 John 3 26. O Satan He will take away your filthy garments When Satan accuseth you to your selves and Censcience condemns God is greater than your Hearts and will supersede all these Pleas. 3. In the hour of sad desertion when God hides his Face withdraws his Grace this will chear you when you can go to God and say Thou knowest I am not wicked let God carry as he pleaseth to me his Kisses are his own he doth me no wrong I will cling to him still Though he kill me Job 13.15 I will trust in him if he carry strangely to me yet he is good worthy to be follow'd in the dark I will stay my self on the Lord my God Isa 50.10 4. In a dying hour this will be a blessed Reflection when a Soul can say with good Hezekiah under the Sentence of Death Isa 38.3 Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart Oh happy Soul that can look Death in the Face and with confidence approach the tremendous Tribunal under the comfortable fence of this Upright and Scriptural Appeal Yet take a Caution or two 1. Take heed of Ostentation pride not your selves in it Job 9.20 for this is contrary to the nature and ends of this Appeal If I justifie myself Job 46.4 42.6 saith Job mine own mouth shall condemn me Alas I am far from Perfection I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth yea I repent in dust and ashes 2. The Lord Jesus is to be our only Surety Rom. 3.25 26 27. to answer for us where is boasting It is excluded By what law of works nay but by the law of Faith The Gospel-language is In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa 45.25 Thus I have dispatch'd the former part of my Text I proceed to the latter There is none that can deliver out of thine hand What none then our condition were sad as forlorn as the fallen Angels but none here must refer to meer Creatures for Jesus Christ can deliver us out of the hands of Justice from present wrath and wrath to come 1 Thess 1.10 The Hand of God is the Power of God Deliverance is either temporal or spiritual or eternal Deliverance which way soever it be taken it will afford this Doct. That no means on Earth can rescue a Person out of the Hands of the Infinite God Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him who will say unto him what doest thou In opening this Text and Doctrin I shall observe this method 1. Shew the meaning of the Text. 2. In what cases Men are in GOD's Hand 3. What may most likely deliver Men. 4. Why no Creature can deliver So make Application 1. For the sence and meaning of the words Interpreters take them in a twofold sence First Some take it as vox dolentis the Language of Job's Sorrow and Complaint moving God's Bowels of Compassion As if Job should say Lord why dost thou deal thus severely with me Who can rescue me when thou arrests me Thou maist keep me under restraint for ever and take time enough to punish me thou needst not set me upon such a grievous wrack as tho' I were in danger to be rescued or to escape thy hands as men will take their penniworths of Malefactors while they have them so Princes fearing a rescue of the Prisoner send forth a Writ of Execution to dispatch him The tormented Prisoner desiring a dispatch out of his Misery by Death was answer'd by the Tyrant Nondum tecum in gratiam redii I am not so far Friends with thee It may be this Text is parallel to Ch. 7. where Job would be glad to be shut out of his Pain But saith he I see I cannot till God's time but Lord pity me smite me not both sharply and long Secondly Some make it sound as vox profitentis Job's heroick and magnanimous Profession and stout Resolution to adhere to God and Duty tho' he were kept under God's Hand all his days q. d. Lord I have appealed to thee that I am not wicked and I hope hitherto my Integrity hath appeared and by thy Grace assisting me shall further appear th● none should deliver me out of thine Hand I humbly hope thou shalt find me holding mine Integrity as long as Life do what thou wilt with me I will honour thee I hope to prove the Devil a Lyar Job 2.5 who said I would curse thee to thy Face hitherto he is mistaken and I hope shall be by the Grace of God assisting me if I never be deliver'd God shall not be blasphem'd I will for ever have good thoughts of God whatever he do with me If I cannot be deliver'd or satisfied about God's proceedings Jer. 12.1 yet God shall be justified Both these Sences are proper enough we may take it in either 2. What it is to be in God's Hand Ans God's Hand in Scripture-phrase implies these ten several things 1. God's Eternal Purpose and Design Acts 4.28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy councel determined before to be done Psal 33.11 This cannot be altered the councel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations This is a Truth but not pertinent here 2. God's supreme actual Power extended and put forth to do good Acts 4.30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal And this is true when God will help and heal the Devil and his Instruments cannot pluck the Patient out of God's Hand Nor can this be the proper sence here 3. By God's Hand is meant his Provision for his Creatures Psal 104.28 Thou openest thy hand they are filled with good And indeed none can starve those that God will supply In the days of famine they shall be satisfied Psal 37.19 Yet this is not the meaning of the Text. 4. God's disposing ordering Providence is held forth by his Hand Psal 31.15 My times are in thine hand No mortal can lengthen or shorten my days but thy self Man's days are determined God appoints these Bounds Job 14.5 I think Job means not this directly here 5. By God's Hand is meant the Divine Assistance Psal 74.11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand This is either Protection or Help Let thy hand be with the man of thy right hand Indeed none can hinder or weaken if God strengthen Yet this is not the sence 6. By Hand is meant God's special Love and Favour Luk. 1.66 The hand of the Lord is with him

i.e. John Baptist some peculiar Indulgence and visible Tokens of God's Respect to him This is a Mercy that none can deprive the Saints of Yet this is not meant 7. The operation and working of the Holy Spirit Ezek. ● 3 The Hand i. e. the Spirit of the Lord was there upon him Ch. 2.2 And whether this be extraordinary motions or ordinary there 's none can hinder or obstruct these This is 〈◊〉 Truth but not the meaning of this Text. 8. By Hand is meant any providential Dispensation wheher good or bad Job 2.10 Shall we receive good at the and of God and not evil This is only God's Prerogative 〈◊〉 kill and I make alive This may be included in this Text. Yet it 's not all 9. Yet more particularly by Hand of God is meant an land of Affliction So saith David Thy hand presseth me ●re Psal 38.2 Be it inward or outward this I conceive to ●e the meaning as Job saith Have pity upon me Job O ye my ●riends for the hand of the Lord hath touched me 10. Or lastly by Hand of God is meant Death Psal ●9 15 God shall redeem my Soul from the power or hand of the Grave To God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68.20 If God ●ill who is he that can preserve alive or raise from the Grave Deut. 32.39 I kill saith God and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand This last and the former of Affliction I conceive are meant by the Hand of God in my Text and where are Men or Things that can secure us from Death or Trouble What Power or Policy can prevent or remove by force or cunning that Hand of God that He thinks good to bring upon us Suppose God take away Estate Friends Relations Health Peace Liberty or Life who can forbid him Where lives that man that can rescue these out of God's Hands● If God stop the Breath who can hold it The whole World must yield 3. The next Head to be handled is Who or what in Men● Opinion is judged most likely to deliver Persons out of the Hand of God 1st Men expect that their Riches and Honours and grea● Friends should deliver them as that wretched Prelate tha● cried out when dying Will Money do nothing will my Prince's Favour avail nothing why must I dye that ca● command the greatest part of the Kingdom No no Riches profit not in the day of wrath Prov 10 2. Psal 49.6 7 8 9. no nor Treasures no●● of them can by any means redeem his brother or give to God 〈◊〉 ransom for him Men are mistaken if they think to purcha● a Reprieve or Exemption from Death or any other Trouble Here Money bears no mastery a golden Key will not ope● God's Prison-door there 's no Bribe admitted in this case that can convey us from the Stroke of Justice Alas if God take Men away with his Stroke Job 36.17 18 19. then a great Ransom cannot deliver them Will God esteem mens Riches No no. 2dly Some have great confidence in an Arm of Flesh they think natural Health Vigor Fortitude will stand the● in stead but alas what 's become of the most vigoro● Spirits and Constitutions Where is Xerxes's Army of million of Men with all their fortitude and magnanimity No man hath power over the spirit Eccl. 8.8 to retain it there 's no d●●charge in that war The Forces of Strength cannot with stand Assaults from Heaven no more than Men can hinder drops of Rain from falling Where 's the doughty Champion that can meet Arms with Jehovah John 9 4. Who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered Are men yea 1 Cor 10 22 Job 34 29 33 all men stronger than God When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble So on the contrary He will recompence whether men chuse or refuse There is none that can deliver out of my hand saith God I will work Isa 43.13 and who shall let it All Attempts are in vain to keep off a Cross be it publick or personal to Soul or Body 3dly Men make great reckoning of Wit Parts Learning or politick Stratagems Men dig deep to hide their counsels from the Lord Job 5 12 13. but God disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprize The learnedst Physicians cannot find out an Antidote against Sickness or Death If men say thus we will do Isa 7.6 7. if God say it shall not stand he tumbles down the Babel of mens Inventions He saith Take councel together Isa 8.10 and it shall come to naught A whole College of Physicians with all their Art and Learning cannot cure so much as an Ague which is called Ludibrium Medicorum bids defiance to the Skill of the most learned yea the most contemptible Disease shall be the Door to let in Death if God open the Door for he alone keeps the Key And so in all other cases the great God can and oft doth knock the Pates of the wisest Politicians together and maketh their Counsels of none effect Prov. 21.32 for there is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. Caesar Borgias little thought of his own Sickness and Death when he had laid a design of managing all things to his own advantage after his Father's death Eccl. 8.7 for man knoweth not that which shall be 4. But there 's one thing which is most likely to deliver out of the Hand of God and that is true Religion Piety Holiness Righteousness delivereth from death Prov. 10 2. and that in two respects 1. The Piety and Prayers of others Job 22.30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent and it is delivered by the pureness of thy hands The poor wise man by his wisdom delivered the city Ec●l 9.15 God would have spared Sodom for ten righteous persons in it Jer. 5 1. and saith of Jerusalem If you can but find a man that executeth judgment and seeketh the truth Psal 106.23 and I will pardon it Moses prevailed for all Israel of an Army of Six hundred thousand men then surely this will do No Jer. 15.1 sometimes it will not Though Moses and Sumuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight Yea tho' these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should but deliver their own soul● by their righteousness Ezek 14.14 If all the holy men on Earth should interpose for one man they cannot deliver him in some cases Nay 2. A man 's own Holiness Prayers Piety in some cases cannot deliver a choice Saint out of God's Hands especially as to temporal deliverance Moses himself must not go in Canaan not Aaron Some make this to be the sence of this Text Non mea quidem integritus facit ut hac plaga