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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

which did use to feed our Souls this must needs be ground of mourning the Jews had their signs of sorrow upon the death of friends they Rent their Cloaths Deut. 14. ● they cut and prickt and made themselves bald by plucking shaving they went bare-footed and bare-headed and cast dust upon their heads also covered their Lip by casting the Lap of their Cloke over it Micah 3.7 they used Ministrils who with sad tunes inclin'd the people to mourn they had also mourning women who were skilful for Lamentation now it 's no matter for those outward signs Mat. 9.23 if we are but truly affected with the hand of God our loss is a Spiritual Soul-loss our mourning should be suitable to our loss God complains that his dispensation of this nature was not considered Isa 57.1 The Righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart it seems God would have such things laid to heart by those which are alive and there is reason for it if we consider the latter part of the words none considering the Righteous are taken from the Evil to come or from that which is Evil the death of good men seems to be a forerunner of some Judgment therefore God would have us to lay such things to heart Shall a Moses and a Joseph die and shall we not mourn but give God cause to say of us as of old The Righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart God forbid A Word of Consolation The time is a coming when the Prisoners of Christ shall have true Rest and no more hear the Voice of the Oppressor though now it may be said of the Lords Interest as the Prophet Isaiah once said of Gods Heritage Isaiah 42.22 This is a People Robbed and Spoiled they are all of them snared in Holes and they are hid in Prison-Houses they are for a Prey and none delivereth for a spoil and none saith Restore But this shall cease and be over 1 Sam. 28.14 the Prisoners shall in Gods time rest together and then Men or Devils cannot disturb them when once in the Grave From hence we may learn that could not be the Real body of Samuel which the Witch of Endor brought up before Saul for first it s very Improbable that God who had denyed to Answer Saul by Ordinary meanes should now Answer by Extraordinary Secondly Rev. 14.13 no Witch or Devil can disturb their Bodies or Souls which Dye in the Lord Because they Rest from their Labours as saith the Spirit Thirdly had this been Samuel which had been Raised no doubt but he would have Reproved Saul for Consulting with a Witch This Rest in the grave is a Fore-runner of Eternal Rest in the Saints union of Soul and Body with God It s with a godly Man in this Troublesome and uneasie VVorld as it was with the Dove who could find no Rest for the Soul of her foot because of the swelling Waters of affliction what from Sin and hot burning Persecuters in dwelling Lusts and Corruptions Rom. 7.24 which made Holy Paul Cry out O Wretched Man that I am and elsewhere saith We that are in this Tabernacle do Groan b●ing Burdened Add unto all those the accusations of an accusing tempting Devil 2 Cor. 5.2 and it s no wonder a believer hath little Rest in this VVorld if Satan will accuse God to Man as he did God to Adam Gen. 3. in telling him God forbids him Eating of the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil for his hurt to keep him in Ignorance for if he would but Eat he would be as a God knowing Good and Evil so also he accuseth Man to God so he did Job in representing him as an Hypocrite Hence he is called Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth an Adversary an accusing Adversary as Psal 109.20 when this Name is Applied as an Adversary to Gods People it usually meaneth the Devil as Job 1.6 Mat. 4. but being spoken of an Adversary to the Wicked and defender of the Church it s Applyed to a g●od Angel as Numb 22.22 The LXX usually Render it Diabolos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth an accuser so Job 1.6 the Septuagint there Render it so Satan is the great Accuser and Callumniator of the People of God and all that use this Diabolical work are called by this Diabolical Name 1 Tim. 3.11 Women saith the Apostle must not be Slanderous Diabolos not false Accusers this great Adversary doth not a little break the Peace of Gods People but the time is hastening they shall all rest in their Beds Isaiah 57.2 each man which hath walked in his uprightness and after the Resurrection comes the day of Jubile in the Jubile of old upon the sound of the Trumpet they were every man to return to their Possessions so when the great Trumpet shall sound and the Dead in Christ Rise first we shall take Possession of our Eternal Inheritance which Christ is gone to prepare and secure for us this Jubile was to return of old but once in fifty years but in Heaven in glory it 's all Jubile in this year of Jubile the Jews were not to Sow nor Reap but it was to be a year of Rest unto them O! when we enter upon our spiritual one all our labouring under Sin Suffering Satanical Temptations will have an end and we shall Rest from our Labours This Temporary Jubile continued but a year and then to their Toyl and labour again Oh but the Spiritual Jubile will be an Everlasting Eternal one Heb. 4.9 that Rest which remains for the people of God will know no end God promised Israel of old when they were got over Jordan he would give them Rest from all their Enemies so when we are got well through the Wilderness and safely carried through Jordans Swellings we shall come to the good Land and be at Rest where the Inhabitants shall no more say Isai 33.24 I am Sick for all Tears shall be wiped away from our Ey●s and we shall sorrow no more because Sin no more Israel of Old thought it a great Mercy to be quiet and at Rest from their Enemies forty Years Rev. 7.17 but what is that to Eternity To Conclude let us all take the Counsel of the Apostle Paul to the Thessalonians after he had been telling them of the Resurrection of the Saints and that they should Rise first 1 Thess 4.16 17.18 also informing them of the coming of our Lord Christ and that when he comes we shall all be caught up in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and so be ever with the Lord now what is his Exhortation and Conclusion Comfort one another with these Words While Sin Satan and an Unkind World is Discomforting you do you in a lively Hope of the Resurrection of the Body the coming of Christ your Meeting of him and continuing with him cheer up and Comfort one another with these