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kingdom_n	heaven_n	john_n	see_v	1,776	5	3.6685	3	false

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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

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