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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

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

us trembling and fall down and cry out Sirs what must I do to be saved our God whom we serve is able to do this and much more and he can as of old make his people grow so much the more as their afflictions abound thinking people will conclude they must needs be the Lords that suffer patiently under such apparent wrong Again let us bless God though we are in the Prison of man yet that we are delivered from the Spiritual Prison of Sin and Satan into the glorious liberty of the Children of God and out of the Kingdom of darkness into the glorious light of the Gospel Colos 1.13 there is no such Prison as for a man to be bound and fettered by his Lusts and Corruptions that stirs not a foot further then his Corrupt Affections suffer him a man in liberty in honour Zach. 9.11 may be in worse Bonds then a Bodily Confinement le ts bless God for bringing us out of this Pit by the Blood of the Covenant this was the great end of Christs coming into the world and of his Divine Unction to Preach good tidings unto the meek to bind up the broken-hearted Isa 61.1 to proclaim Liberty to the Captives chap. 49.24 25. and the opening of the Prison to them which are bound the Prey shall be taken from the mighty and the lawful Captive delivered or as the Original the Captivity of the Just the Captives of the Mighty shall be taken away and the Prey of the Terrible shall be delivered those that were under the power of Satan that Roaring Lyon that great Red Dragon shall be Rescued Eph. 4.8 for Christ hath led Captivity Captive Col. 2.15 Satan and all Evil Angels Principalities and Powers the Rulers of the darkness of this world and made a shew of it openly in his his glorious Resurrection and Ascension so that now he having obtained the Conquest over Satan Sin the Grave he will say to the Prisoners Isa 49.9 Go forth and to them which are in darkness Psal 1.7 Shew your selves he hath broken the Gates of brass and cut the Bars of Iron in sunder the darkness of a Material Prison is nothing to the darkness of a Spiritual one Material Chains to Spiritual Chains deprivation of the Bodies Liberty is not to be compared to the Souls being shut up from God Psal 16.11 this is far worse then to be shut up from friends being delivered from Spiritual Bonds We may have Liberty in Bonds light in Darkness Peace in Trouble Communion with God by the Spirit is a good Cordial to keep up the heart from fainting in this valley of tears until we come to our Mount of Joy where there is no limits of Joy and Blessedness as the greatest Comforts and Estates of the greatest Monarchs here are there 's no mixture as in this world Gods Providential Dealings with his people in this world is like Chequer-work there is the dark as well as the light side of Providence the most Refin'd and best State and Condition of the best Saints are mixed here if we have some peace we have some trouble if we have large Comforts one day we may expect a great degree of trouble another least we should be exalted above measure we must have a thorn in the flesh now and then but in Heaven there is no mixture 2 Cor. 12.7 for there is all light without darkness all life without death all Riches without Poverty all Content without the least Dissatisfaction because we shall then praise and love God in so perfect a manner Psal 17.15 as God will not demand more perfect Obedience then they will give nor themselves desire to bless God better then they shall for that were to suppose a kind of dissatisfaction in Heaven which is contrary to Holy Davids word Then shall I be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness are we sensible of Gods free grace to our Souls here in delivering us from Spiritual Bonds that is an infallible sign we shall admire free grace hereafter in the glorious Liberty of the Children of God and shall be among that Multitude in Revelations 7.9 10. which none could number of all Kindreds Nations People and Tongues that stood before the Throne and before the Lamb cloathed with white Robes and Palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice Salvation to our God which sitteth on the Throne and to the Lamb. Again This may be a Ground of Lamentation for the Church of God that his Ambassadors which did use to bring us glad tidings of Salvation 2 Cor. 5.20 are not only shut up in Material Prisons for a time the Prisons of men but some of them are lodged in the Grave and their mouths totally stopt so as we shall not hear them sound the Gospel Trumpet any more It 's sometimes a sign of anger when the King calls home his Ambassadors the Apostle saith in 1 Cor. 4.1 Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vperetes Ministers the word imports labour painful labour and signifieth an Under-Rower Gods Ministers are thus called 1 Cor. 4.15 because under Christ the chief Master they do help forward the Ship of the Church toward the Haven of Heaven through the many Rocks and Sands Storms and Tempests Temptations and Persecutions which they meet withal they are called Fathers which signifieth instrumentally their begetting Souls to God they are called Bishops or Overseers this charge hath its name Pakad in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 1.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 13.17 from visiting and in the Greek EPISKOPVS from Over-seeing Applied to any which hath a charge Civil or Ecclesiastical and they are so called of their watchfulness care and labour for the good of his people for they watch for their Souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with Joy and not with grief Again they are called Pastors POIMVN this is taken from Shepherds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and applied to Teachers Mat. 9.36 to Christ the good Shepherd John 10.11 14 the great Shepherd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ARCHIPOIMVN 1 Pet. 5.4 these are some of his honourable Titles this same word is applied to Kings as in Mat. 2.6 Rev. 27.7 19.15 but a word of a double signification is to be understood according to the subject matter spoken of taken in Mat. 2.6 for Ruling as a King but in Acts 20.28 for feeding as a Shepherd Feed the Flock of God over which the Holy Ghost hath made you Over-seers Is not there cause of mourning when God taketh away our Fathers which begat us our Ambassadors which brings glad tidings and good news of Reconciliation and Salvation by the death of the Son of God yea our Ministers which conducts guides and Rowes the Ship of the Church as it were under Christ to Heaven Yea to lose our Pastors and Shepherds

in the place And though the Head hath broken short off from the helve of their sledge yet have not said There is no Hope God we see is against us but rather with Pharaoh will seek to patch on his Charioth-wheels when God takes them off and as it was in literal Babylon they laid their Idols upon their Beasts till they were weary so the imposing of Spiritual Babylon's Inventions on the People of God makes them or is design'd to make them weary either in the Penalties inflicted upon them for Non-Observing them or else to make them weary of the way and VVorship of God Dan. 7.25 as Daniel hath it of a certain King that shall speak great Words against the most High and shall wear out the Saints of the most High and shall think to change times and Laws He shall Endeavour to wear them out either to wear out their Bodies or make them weary of their Country or if possible their Religion wicked Men weary themselves sometimes in one Sinful way sometimes in another some in gaming some in uncleaness some in Drunkeness some in Persecuting as it s observed concerning Antiochus Epiphanus that infamous troubler of the Church that he undertook more Troublesome Journeys and went more hazardous designs to trouble Oppose and vex the Church of the Jews then ever any of his predecessors about any other Conquest or Noble Enterprize he went further to do mischief then some Saints to do good and the story is concluded with this general Truth All such Wicked ones go with more Trouble to Eternal Death then the Saints to Eternal Life Now this ariseth from inconsiderateness Prov. 7.22 Chap. 5.11 12.13 they go on like an Ox to the Slaughter and as a Fool to the Correction of th● stocks till a Dart strike through his Liver as a Bird hasteth to the Snare and knoweth it not that it is for Life Then he Mourneth at the last when his Flesh and his Body is consum'd and says How have I hated Instruction and my Heart despised Reproof and have not Obeyed the Voice of my Teachers nor inclin'd mine Ear to them which instructed me Then they will say as in the Apocripha We Fools accounted his Life madness Wisd 5.4 and his End to be without Honour but how is he Numbred among the Children of God and his Lot is among the Saints then will they see that word fulfill'd in Habakkuk That they Habak 2.13 14. Labour'd in the Fire and wearyed themselves for very Vanity for notwithstanding all we have done the Earth is filled with the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as the Waters cover the Sea the Apostle Paul tells us that he was Injurious and Persecuted the Church of God out of Ignorance Agnoon Ignorantly this with the Seventy is the same with Asham in the Hebrew which signifieth guilt wickedness 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Ignorance is an inlet to wickedness but let all such remember that Christ will take Vengeance by Flaming Fire as well on them which are Ignorant 2 Thessa 1.8 as on them which are Disobedient Psal 9.17 The Wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations which forget God Observation 4. Job 14.1 The most Rest that ever a Wicked man hath will be in the Grave All Mankind are born to Trouble as the Sparks flyeth upward naturally man is naturally born to trouble but as he is a wicked man is obnoxious to more for not only while he is alive is he troubled and tormented in Conscience but after the Resurrection will be tormented Soul and Body for ever In the Grave his Body doth rest Psal 16.9 but it is not in hope as the Bodies of the Saints do who have hope in their Death By Rest here some understand it of the Saints whom the wicked have troubled but forasmuch as the next verse speaketh of the rest or sleep of the Oppressed we may well conclude it s spoken of the Wicked for their Bodies do rest in the Grave also as if the Spirit should say The wicked as long as they live will never rest but be always troubling the Godly they will never be quiet until I bring them to the Grave but then they shall leave and trouble mine no more the Root Nuach here rendred Rest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometimes translated for any thing accepted as Gen. 8.21 Gen. 8.21 God smelled a sweet smell in Noahs Sacrifice or a savour of Rest as it was tipical of the Great Sacrifice Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us this God cannot smell in a wicked mans Death But Precious in the Sight of the Lord is the Death of his Saints 1 Cor. 5.7 It s also taken for the Churches resting from their Enemies Esther 9.22 and for the Souls resting in God Psal 116.7 Return to thy R●st Psal 116.15 O my Soul it s oppos'd to travel and labour Exod. 23.12 Gen. 8.9 the Bodies of the Reshagnim The wicked one shall rest in the grave and be quiet but how as an insensible hardened Malefactor which is bound in Chains and secur'd for Judgment and condemnation and forasmuch as mans Soul is immortal it must have a being and a place after it is parted from the Body and to imagine a wicked mans Soul to be then without any sense of torment is to be in a better case then it was in the World for now and then he had as it were an Hell within him and every where the Scriptures of truth Represents a wicked man after the Death of the Body in a far worse condition then when alive Luke 16. and a good mans far better and that the Souls of Just men are in glory is undeniable from the first of Col●ssians verse 20th And having made peace through the Blood of his Cross by him to Reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether th●y be things in Earth or things in Heaven Mark it seems there are some things in Heaven Reconciled by the Blood of Christ Luke 23.43 now what can or may those things be it cannot be the good Angels there for they never fell so needed not to be Redeemed however they may be Established What then can it be in Heaven Redeemed by Christs Blood Acts 7.59 Truly nothing else but the Souls of Believers If then their Souls be in Heaven while their Bodies are in the Grave it cannot be rationally supposed Mat. 10.28 being Immortal Substances that they can be without some feeling if some feeling it cannot be of Misery none suppose that in Heaven then it must be capable of some Joy and Blessedness from the same Purity of Reason the Souls of the wicked must be in some Misery and far Separated from that place of Joy and under some Impressions of Gods wrath though not to the full as it shall when Soul and Body is Re-united as a Malefactor when Apprehended Imprisoned Fettered and put in