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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	holy_a	lord_n	spirit_n	8,095	5	5.0560	4	true

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

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