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A33989	Counsel for the living, occasioned from the dead, or, A discourse on Job III, 17, 18 arising from the deaths of Mr. Fran. Bampfield and Mr. Zach. Ralphson / by Hercules Collins ...	Collins, Hercules, d. 1702.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5361; ESTC R32496	24,906	39

some dark Dungeon this is a part of his Punishment though not as yet tryed judged Condemned nor Executed Eccle. 12.7 only he may have been carryed before some Judge or Justice as the Souls of all men return to God at Death Mat. 25.46 and the wicked receive a Sentence of Commitment to Prison to be bound in Fetters and Chains and put in some dark Dungeon untill his great and Final Tryal and Judgment for Life or Death Eternal Observation 5. Death and the Grave puts an End to all Oppressions They hear not the Voice of the Oppress●r Mat. 5.27 There is Oppression in Voice and Oppression in Intention and Oppression in Act Oppression in Intention and Purpose is accounted so by God as well as Adultery though never Acted as a good Mans Intentions though many times never come into Act is accepted It was well God told Dav●d 1 Kings 19.2 it was in his Heart to Build h●m a Temple so Jezabels Intention to destroy Elijah shall be accounted one day as if it had been done Actually The word for Oppression Nagas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometimes rendred Taskmasters as in Exod. 2.7 Arias Montanus saith Exactors it signifieth in a special use one which Exacteth or Extorteth Money or Tribute to the grievance of a Person 2 Kings 23.35 in the 10. Zachariah 4. It s rendered an Oppressor so Chap. 9.8 No Oppressor shall pass through the Land any more It s so used because those Exactors many times impose against Right and Equity Mulcts and Fines upon the Subjects as to be sin'd for Worshiping God according to the light of our Conscience which is Consistent to a Peaceable and quiet Living in the Land this is Oppression and Sinful Exaction and against the very light of Nature for no man that owns a God Exod. 33.9 and that he ought to be Worshipped would be done so by God prohibited Israel from Oppressing a stranger then to Oppress a Native a Contry-man a Subject yea quiet and Peaceable Subjects Isai 5.7 is far worse May not God Expect in a Land of Gospel-Light Judgment and Justice But if instead thereof there should be a Cry yea a great Cry of Oppression how sad is this For those Cries to Enter into the Ears of the Lord of Sabbaoths James 5.7 or Lord of Hosts Let the Oppressor look into these Scriptures as into a Glass to prevent the Sin of Oppression for the time to come Isa 30.12 Wherefore thus saith the Lord because ye despise this Word and trust in Oppression and perversness and stay there therefore this Iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high Wall whose breaking cometh suddenly on an Instant O how many do trust to nothing else but Oppression Psal 62.10 and the ruining of honest Families contrary to that Prohibition Trust not in Oppression Isai 49.26 Such shall be fed with their own Flesh and made drunk with their own Blood as with sweet wine Zeph. 3.1 Moreover a Woe is denounced against the Oppressing City Psal 72.1 yea Christ shall break in pieces the Oppressor Isa 14.2 in pleading the poors cause They shall take them Captiv●s whose Captives they were and they shall Rule over their Oppressors Let these following Scriptures be as a Comfortable Cordial to all the Oppressed in this day of Jacob's Trouble Psal 9.9 God will be a Refuge for the Oppressed yea 103.6 the Lord will exercise Righteousness and Judgment for all such 12.5 For the oppression of the Poor and sighing of the Needy Job 3.18 now will I arise saith the Lord Isa 14.4 and set him in safety from him which puffeth at him Isa 14.4 The time is coming God hath promised we shall no more hear the voice of the Oppressor 51.13.16.4 Then shalt thou take up this Parable against the King of Babylon Psal 146.7 How hath the Oppressor or Exactor of Gold Ceased And where is the fury of the Oppressor They are Consumed out of the Land God Executeth Judgment for the Oppressed and giveth food to the hungry the Lord looseth the Prisoners 6. Observation An Arrest by death bringeth Rest to Prisoners There the Prisoners Rest together That all must die is the Statute-Law of Heaven it was threatned on Adam Heb. 9.27 and all his Posterity Gen. 2.17 That in the day he did eat of the forbidden fruit he should surely dye or as the Original in dying thou shalt dye certainly and all thy Off-spring for thou art a publick head I spoke in Truth if thou eatest thou dyest and as thou shalt certainly die so thou shalt die perfectly Soul and Body as Austin saith as the Separation of the Soul from the Body is a natural death Eph. 2.1 2. so the Separation of the Soul from God is a Spiritual hence all men by Nature are said to be dead in Trespasses and Sins Chap. 2.17 19. and to be without God in the World yea Strangers and Forreigners in respect of any saving Spiritual Acquaintance Moreover thou shalt die or be in a dying condition as soon as thou dost eat of the fruit subject to sickness weakness Corruption Pain and Death yea thou and all thy Posterity must die Eternally except Grace prevent for as man hath an Immortal Soul if he by Sin brings a spiritual death on the Soul and separate it from God it must for ever remain under Wrath 1 Thes 1.10 and at a distance from him unless he bring it near by the Blood of his Son Gen. 3.15 and this God did promise after the Fall the Messias that is the seed of the woman should break the Serpents head take away his power which he had by the Fall over Adam and his Posterity so that now through Christ death is no loss but a gain to Believers Ye Believing Prisoners 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word which we translate Prisoner Asar signifieth one bound and fastened confin'd Numb 30.3 there it refers to a being bound by a Vow Job 12.18 He looseth the Bonds of Kings c. it 's taken for that binding which is an act of coercive Authority Gen. 40.3.42.17 19 24. Numb 15.34 Levit. 24.12 Death and the Grave will put an end to all Oppressions and usher the Body into Rest the Bodies of all bad Prisoners as well as good shall hear the Voice of the Oppressor no more we shall know no more Apprehendings under the power of no more Witnesses nor hear no more of Take him Jaylor keep him until he be cleared by due course of Law we shall have no more Bolts nor Bars then on us no more looking for the Keeper then nor speaking to Friends through Iron-grates death is a debt we owe and when that is paid we shall receive an acquittance a Quietus est many Captives and Prisoners will have little Rest until they go to their Grave some

COUNSEL For the Living Occasioned from the DEAD OR A Discourse on Job III. 17 18. Arising from the Deaths of Mr. Fran. Bampfield AND Mr Zach Ralphson By Hercules Collins their Fellow Prisoner in Newgate The Lord looseth the Prisoners Psal 146.7 Precious in the Sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints Psal 116.15 And hath brought Life and Immo●●ality to light through the Gospel whereunto I am appointed a Preacher and an Apostle and a Teacher of the Gentiles for the which Cause I also S●ffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed 2 Tim. 1 10 11. LONDON Printed by George Larkin for the Author 1684. Job III. 17 19. There the Wicked cease from Troubling and there the Weary be at Rest There the Prisoners Rest together they hear not the Voice of the Oppressour HOly Job who according to Chronology liv'd Two Thousand Four Hundred Years from the Creation was the Non-such for Affliction and Patience none exceeding him in the former or latter under the Old or New Testament except our Saviour Under his Agonie and Anguish the product of his depressing Trials from God from Satan his Grand Accuser Dear Relations Friends and Enemies for he was the Song and By-word of the Children of fools and base men he interrogates verse 11 12. Why he did not die from the Womb and why the Knees did not prevent him and the Breasts which he did suck which implieth his desire it had been so For then I should have lain still and been quiet with Kings and Counsellers of the Earth who build desolate places for themselves There the Wicked Cease from troubling there the Weary be at Rest there the Prisoners Rest together they hear not the Voice of the Oppressour In these words we consider first the Subjects which are Oppressors and Oppressed Secondly The Predicate They shall Rest Thirdly the Receptacle or place of Rest that 's the Grave I shall note a few things by way of Observation The first is Wicked men are troublesome men The Original Rashagnim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 translated Wicked imports as much and signifieth a great degree of Sin there are other words which signifie a lower degree as Chata 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lowest Expression which imports a missing the Mark 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Glory is that we should aim at in all our Undertakings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now Sin is a misdoing and erring from the Rule There 's another word Pashang signifying Transgression Leigh Critica Sacra Ainsworth on Deut. 4.8 prevarication Prov. 18.19 there taken for an Offence by Transgression in Isa 1.2 Translated Rebellion much like Marah which is generally rendered Rebellion provoking irritating imbittering and Deut 1.26.43 Psal 5.10 Neh. 9.17 It hath properly the signification of changing and bitterness but is applyed to Apostacy and Disobedience Deut. 1.26 and 43. The word Rashagnim Wicked Ones signifyeth Wickedness in the highest it 's used to set forth an Ungodly Man Psal 1.1 For one which departs wickedly from God Psal 18.21 and also signifyeth Restless Turbulent and is oppos'd to quietness Job 34.29 such are without true peace themselves and seek to break the peace of others the Prophet Isaiah 57. ult compares them to the Restless Troubled Sea which cannot Rest and because such men for their evil deeds are often brought to Judgment and Condemn'd therefore is this name given unto Condemned Persons Psal 109.7 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And when he is Judged let him be Condemned or as the Original is go out Rashang Wicked or guilty Let us inquire who they are Wicked Men trouble 1. Themselves their Consciences gripe them galls them and pincheth them for their oppressive acts as Davids did when he Numbred the People 2 Sam. 24.10 and albeit they labour to muzle its mouth and deafen their own ear and seek to stifle its Checks and stop its motions yet God will have a witness for himself in all men and if our hearts condemn us 1 John 3.20 God is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things We know more by our selves then all the world knows by us Prov. 18.14 but God knows more by us then we know by our selves Mat. 27.3 4. now if a Wounded Spirit be intollerable what will the scalding hot wrath of a Sin-revenging God be If a Persecuting Betraying Judas cannot stand before the Judgment Seat of his own Conscience but runs to hang himself under the horrour of it who then can dwell with Everlasting Burnings 2. Wicked men are Troublers of Nations There would be little work for Magistrates were it not for them King Ahab was much out when by his interrogation he supposed Elijah the Prophet to be the troubler of Israel no saith he I am not the man 1 King 18.17 18. but it is thou and thy Fathers House 1 Kings 21.20 21. Chap. 22.8 in that you have forsaken the Commandments of the Lord and followed Balaam because Elijah denounced the Judgments of God on him and his house for his Sin he calls him his Enemy and declares he hates him he would have had him Prophesied Peace when Elijah's Commission was War he was all for tidings of Peace 2 Kings 9.22 but the Prophet might say to Ahab as Jehu to Joram What Peace so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother Jezabel and her Witchchrafts are so many 3. Wicked Men are Troublers of the Church of God and of those we have two sorts First such as are under little or no Profession of this sort was Sanballat Nehemiah 6.1 2. Tobiah Jeshem the Arabian in Nehemiahs time who perplexed the Saints while the Temple was a building Secondly there are others under a Profession of Reliligion of those are two sorts First such as are among the Saints in the true Church of God Joshua 7.25 1 Cor. 5. Mat. 26. Wicked Ones are a great trouble to them Achan was so to the Church of the Jews the incestuous person also to Paul and the Church of Corinth and Christ and his Apostles could not be without their trouble when they knew they had a Traytor among them Corah Dathan and Abiram greatly disturbed the Church of old by their Pride Numb 16. supposing the people were all holy and in their undervaluing Gods Ministers Moses and Aaron but God troubled them as he did Achan for his Wickedness one disorderly Church Member causeth more trouble in a Church then one hundred pious Souls for such are a Comfort and Blessing where they are Phil. 3.5 6. 2. As those before mentioned were Professors and Church-disturbers yet none of them except Judas did it in the way of Persecution but there are another sort of strict Professors in some things who do and have much molested the Church by Persecution Who was a greater Professor then Paul when he was a Pharisee And who a greater Persecutor So the Devout and