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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

things Reader I will here adjoyn an Elegy on the Deaths of Mr. Bampfield and Mr. Ralphson which for the Subst●●ce of it was first compos'd by a Friend of Mr. Ralphsons design'd on him alone but forasmuch as the preceding Discourse was occasion'd from both their Deaths I have put it into that Order as the whole Elegy may be applicable to both in all Respects First As they were Ministers of Christ Secondly As they were Sufferers for Christ Thirdly As to their Zeal against Anti-Christ Fourthly In Respect of their longing for Sions Welfare and their mourning under Sions Calamities Fifthly In Respect of Soul-seedings and Soul-supportings by all the ways and means they were capable of in their Confin'd Estate An Elegy on the Deaths of Mr. Bampfield and Mr. Ralphson who Dyed Prisoners for Christ in the Press-yard Newgate May not all fear when Heaven denounceth woes Aloud by Signal and by Fatal blows Smiting the Shepherds Calling Guides away That Flocks are left to wander starve and stray Even when the Wolves the Foxes and the Boar Rage for the Prey and harmless Lambs devour Was it for nought that Blustring Sparkling Rays Of strange stupendious Comets did the Eyes Of Earths Inhabitants so long detain In times but lately past who can refrain Considering our Stroaks so great so sad Heightned with Circumstances dark and bad All saying Sure these wonders did Presage Some Future Tragedy to this poor Age It s Progress now makes many People think The following things will make mens Spirits shrink Since many splendid Lights Extinguish'd are As now those Stars those lovely shining Pair These are put out and we Depriv'd of Light And left to stumble in so dark a Night By Tongue I cannot nor by Pen Express My Thoughts of them and their great Worthiness Of their Refined Zeal their Heart Contrite Of their Compassions with a publick Sp'rit Their Liberal Souls were highly to be Priz'd Also their Stedfastness some Magnifies O Zealous ones who in the Gap did stand True wrestling Watchmen to preserve the Land Striving with all the Gospel to promote Whose Trumpet sounds a true and certain Note In Faithfulness they duely warned all As did that Hand by writing on the wall Show Belshazzar his Sacriledge and fall Those Seers are both removed from their Station A signal Loss both to the Church and Nation Leaving now off their Cry'd their Sighs and Groans Petitions Pleadings Tears Complaints and Moans Their sublime Souls in Prison Languishing Groan'd for Relief Cries to their Heavenly King Help Sio● Lord her Controversy Plead Remove her Sorrow and increase her Seed How long O Lord when when wilt thou relieve Thy tossed Church when wilt thou Freedom give VVhen men those Seers from Preachings did Restrain Their Meeting-Houses clos'd up did remain Through Watch and Ward then none could entry take They thus depriv'd by Life and Pen did make Apologies and worship true defended Which still doth Preach although their Preaching's ended After that they to Prison both were sent And finding divers Dishes were content To distribute what in their Basket came From their Kings Table and divide the same Gave through the Grate that hungry Souls might share With them partaking of their Prison-fare What double Grief to their Seraphick mind Was it to be Imprison'd and Confin'd And so Restrain'd from serving of their Lord From Publishing and Preaching of his word While many Souls were crying out aloud Starved almost for want of Heavenly Food Of Gospel Springs and Ordinances pure The sadest loss that any can endure Come join and mourn with me O come O come And help me to express now sitting dumb In Melancholy Muteness and in Tears Sob forth our present loss and ground of Fears But stop a little though there 's Cause to weep That those great Seers are both fallen asleep Yet they Transported in Triumphant Fame Rejoicing praise the great JEHOVAHS Name Free from all Cares have now Eternal rest With such Delights as cannot be exprest Let none grudge this praise to their Memory No Pen is fit to write their Elegy Their works are finish'd they have run their race And who 's behind for to supply their place Since those Elijahs Heaven have ascended Convoy'd with Holy Angels who attended Their Souls to Glory since they did defend The Cause of Sion to their very End By Tongue and Pen the Deluge sought to stop And in ascending did their Mantles drop Let all her Children pray yea plead and call For some Elishas to appear who shall Their Mantles take and with a double measure Of Holy Wisdom and Celestial Treasure Supply their place Truth teach and Truth defend And haste the Scarlet Whore to her last end That so all these Terrestrial Kingdoms may Christs Kingdoms be let Sions Children pray For their work 's finished they 're both set free Call'd from a Prison to Felicity To Heavens rich Mansions to Salvations wells To Gods right hand even where all fulness dwells Their Gracious Lord mov'd by their Sighs and Groans Their Grievances their Tears and bitter Moanes Sends speedy Help his Prisoners relieves And calls them thence out of a Den of theives So Graciously Conveys their souls above To full fruition of his Matchless Love Where they enjoy what no man can express Celestial Joy Perpetual Happiness VVith Living Streams Solac'd without Cessation Triumphant Glory Endless Consolation Joyning in Praises Songs and Heavenly Hymns VVith Angels Saints Arch-Angels Seraphims FINIS

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

Honourable Women of Old were stirr'd up by the Jews together with the chief men of the City of Antioch Acts 13.15 to raise Persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their Coasts The Devout must do this that their wickedness might be the more latent and hidden VVho was it that John Bap●ist and Christ called a Generation of Vipers but such a sort of people the Devout Pharisees As a Serpent begets a Serpent Mat. 3. so you are the successors of wicked Parents ye are the Seed of the Old Serpent Crafty Deceivers full of poyson and infect others Ye fullfil the Measure of your Fathers Wickedn ss Mat. 23. as the Viper killeth its Mother so have you the Prophets by whom ye ought to have laboured to be begotten to God as the Viper swells with poyson so do you with Pride and Envy against God and his Children as this Creature will stick on a man to his hurt and kill with his tongue Job 20.16 so do you as it loveth none but his own kind so you none but such as will agree with you in killing the Lords Prophets and as some write this Creatures Teeth is buryed in its Gums that one might think them harmless so seem you Pharisees but full of Cruelty you will make many and long Prayers and yet devour VVidows Houses you Cleanse the outside of the Cup and Platter but within full of Extortion and Excess as the Viper is beautiful without as it were painted yet full of venom within so you Pharisees for all your long Robes your Phylactaries your many Prayers and compassing Sea and Land to make one Proselyte all this makes you but as whited Sepulchres which appear beautiful outwardly but within full of dead mens bones and all uncleaness you are a company of Hypocrites For you build the Tombs of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchres of the Righteous and ye say If we had been in the days of our Fathers we would not have been Partakers with them in the Blood of the Prophets yet when I send Prophets and wise-men and Scribes some of them you kill and crucifie some you Scourge and Persecute from City to City that upon you may come all the Righteous Blood shed upon the Earth from the Blood of Righteous Abel to the Blood of Zacharias Son of Barachias whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar That wicked men are troublers of the Church appears from the sad complaint the Church makes in many places Psal 129.2 3. The Plowers have Plowed on our back as they out up and open the bowels of the Earth so wicked men afflict Gods People sometimes to the opening their very Bowels so Asaph Thou feedest us with the Bread of Tears Psal 80.5 and givest them Tears to drink in great measure 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hebrew word is Shalish a threefold measure so that they were fed with Tears in the Plural and that in a treble or large measure As the Church was in Aegypt among the Pots in the midst of the Fire and Smoak Psal 69.13 in extream heat and burning affliction as the very brick pots of old was burnt yet shall not the Church be scorched but shall come out of Trouble as those did out of Aegypt with much beauty and glory As the Wings of a Dove covered with Silver and her Feathers with yellow gold when God gives but the word for deliverance in the conquest of the adversary Psal 68.30 then many shall publish the praises of God when he Rebukes the Multitude of Spear-men or as the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chajah Kaneh the Beast of Reeds Spear-men or men of Armes they are no more to God the most valiant company of Spear-men which the Reeds in the water do resemble then those weak Reeds for God can as easily bow them as a company of weak Reeds according to the words of Solomon All K●ngs shall bow down before him Psal 72.11 and his Enemies shall lick the Dust so low shall they bow they shall seem to lick the dust 4. Wicked men are troublers of God God-provoking Sinners Ezek. 16.43 not that there are passions in God as that he is capable of joy or grief Isaiah 63.10 as man but God is said to be Provoked and to Repent Ezek. 6.9 when he doth such things as men do when they are Provoked or Repent Eph. 4.30 The wicked are said to fret God elsewhere it 's said they Rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit and God is said to be broken with an whorish heart Acts 9.5 hence the Apostle exhorts not to grieve the Holy Spirit It is the hardest and painfullest work men can go about to grieve God and his Church Job 15.26 it 's worse then to kick our naked Heel against the Pricks it 's to run against the thick bosses of his Buckler Job 9.4.5 6. none ever hardened himself against God and prospered for he shaketh the Earth out of its place and the Pillars thereof tremble our hearts cannot indure nor our hands be strong Ezek. 22.14 if God contend with us Shall we now provoke the Lord to Jealousie Are we stronger then he 1 Cor. 10.22 That will put fear into the Nations that they may know they are but men Enosh weak sickly mortal men Gen. 35.5 God can put his Enemies in fear as he did the Shechemites that they pursued not Jacob God made a noise in the Ears of the Host of the Syrians 2 Kings 7 7.6 like the noise of a great Host of Chariots and Horses which filled them with fear so as they left their Tents their Horses their Silver and Gold Who will adventure to set the Briars and Thorns against God he will go through them all and burn them together Wicked Men are compared to thorns Isaiah 27.4 He will take them away as with a Whirlwind as living as wrath so the Original Psal 58.9.10 11. By way of Vse If Wicked men are troublesom men then we may be informed such are Strangers to Gospel Principles to a Gospel Spirit and Gospel Teachings Rom. 12.14 for that teacheth to follow peace with all men and holiness Mat. 7.12 to do by all men as we would they should do to us the Gospel Spirit is full of meekness quietness Mat 18.3 4. humility like our Lord who taught us that except we are Converted and become as little Children Luke 9.54 55 56. in peaceableness humility and without Revenge we cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Our Lord as readily reproved James and John when he saw a hot spirit of Revenge in them against the Samaritans in desiring fire might come from Heaven to destroy them but he turned and rebuked them and said You know not what manner of spirits ye are of for the Son of Man did not come to destroy mens lives but to save them our Lord doth