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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

How often doth David chear up himself with this Your Names may lye under a Cloud for a season Psal 37.6 but God will bring forth your righteousness as the light Thus did he with holy Job 2. Against Satan's sore Temptations when he accuseth you to God he will say The Lord rebuke thee Zech. 3.1 2 3 4.1 John 3 26. O Satan He will take away your filthy garments When Satan accuseth you to your selves and Censcience condemns God is greater than your Hearts and will supersede all these Pleas. 3. In the hour of sad desertion when God hides his Face withdraws his Grace this will chear you when you can go to God and say Thou knowest I am not wicked let God carry as he pleaseth to me his Kisses are his own he doth me no wrong I will cling to him still Though he kill me Job 13.15 I will trust in him if he carry strangely to me yet he is good worthy to be follow'd in the dark I will stay my self on the Lord my God Isa 50.10 4. In a dying hour this will be a blessed Reflection when a Soul can say with good Hezekiah under the Sentence of Death Isa 38.3 Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart Oh happy Soul that can look Death in the Face and with confidence approach the tremendous Tribunal under the comfortable fence of this Upright and Scriptural Appeal Yet take a Caution or two 1. Take heed of Ostentation pride not your selves in it Job 9.20 for this is contrary to the nature and ends of this Appeal If I justifie myself Job 46.4 42.6 saith Job mine own mouth shall condemn me Alas I am far from Perfection I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth yea I repent in dust and ashes 2. The Lord Jesus is to be our only Surety Rom. 3.25 26 27. to answer for us where is boasting It is excluded By what law of works nay but by the law of Faith The Gospel-language is In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa 45.25 Thus I have dispatch'd the former part of my Text I proceed to the latter There is none that can deliver out of thine hand What none then our condition were sad as forlorn as the fallen Angels but none here must refer to meer Creatures for Jesus Christ can deliver us out of the hands of Justice from present wrath and wrath to come 1 Thess 1.10 The Hand of God is the Power of God Deliverance is either temporal or spiritual or eternal Deliverance which way soever it be taken it will afford this Doct. That no means on Earth can rescue a Person out of the Hands of the Infinite God Job 9.12 Behold he taketh away who can hinder him who will say unto him what doest thou In opening this Text and Doctrin I shall observe this method 1. Shew the meaning of the Text. 2. In what cases Men are in GOD's Hand 3. What may most likely deliver Men. 4. Why no Creature can deliver So make Application 1. For the sence and meaning of the words Interpreters take them in a twofold sence First Some take it as vox dolentis the Language of Job's Sorrow and Complaint moving God's Bowels of Compassion As if Job should say Lord why dost thou deal thus severely with me Who can rescue me when thou arrests me Thou maist keep me under restraint for ever and take time enough to punish me thou needst not set me upon such a grievous wrack as tho' I were in danger to be rescued or to escape thy hands as men will take their penniworths of Malefactors while they have them so Princes fearing a rescue of the Prisoner send forth a Writ of Execution to dispatch him The tormented Prisoner desiring a dispatch out of his Misery by Death was answer'd by the Tyrant Nondum tecum in gratiam redii I am not so far Friends with thee It may be this Text is parallel to Ch. 7. where Job would be glad to be shut out of his Pain But saith he I see I cannot till God's time but Lord pity me smite me not both sharply and long Secondly Some make it sound as vox profitentis Job's heroick and magnanimous Profession and stout Resolution to adhere to God and Duty tho' he were kept under God's Hand all his days q. d. Lord I have appealed to thee that I am not wicked and I hope hitherto my Integrity hath appeared and by thy Grace assisting me shall further appear th● none should deliver me out of thine Hand I humbly hope thou shalt find me holding mine Integrity as long as Life do what thou wilt with me I will honour thee I hope to prove the Devil a Lyar Job 2.5 who said I would curse thee to thy Face hitherto he is mistaken and I hope shall be by the Grace of God assisting me if I never be deliver'd God shall not be blasphem'd I will for ever have good thoughts of God whatever he do with me If I cannot be deliver'd or satisfied about God's proceedings Jer. 12.1 yet God shall be justified Both these Sences are proper enough we may take it in either 2. What it is to be in God's Hand Ans God's Hand in Scripture-phrase implies these ten several things 1. God's Eternal Purpose and Design Acts 4.28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy councel determined before to be done Psal 33.11 This cannot be altered the councel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations This is a Truth but not pertinent here 2. God's supreme actual Power extended and put forth to do good Acts 4.30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal And this is true when God will help and heal the Devil and his Instruments cannot pluck the Patient out of God's Hand Nor can this be the proper sence here 3. By God's Hand is meant his Provision for his Creatures Psal 104.28 Thou openest thy hand they are filled with good And indeed none can starve those that God will supply In the days of famine they shall be satisfied Psal 37.19 Yet this is not the meaning of the Text. 4. God's disposing ordering Providence is held forth by his Hand Psal 31.15 My times are in thine hand No mortal can lengthen or shorten my days but thy self Man's days are determined God appoints these Bounds Job 14.5 I think Job means not this directly here 5. By God's Hand is meant the Divine Assistance Psal 74.11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand This is either Protection or Help Let thy hand be with the man of thy right hand Indeed none can hinder or weaken if God strengthen Yet this is not the sence 6. By Hand is meant God's special Love and Favour Luk. 1.66 The hand of the Lord is with him

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 LONDON Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1695. To His Worthy Friend Mr. John Denton In Southwark near London Dear Friend THE Conception and Birth of these Two Sermons was short and sudden as the Tydings of the Death of your Dear Brother my Cordial Friend was surprizing to me and the Transcribing of these Notes an unexpected Motion managed something preposterously with a slight Hand snatch●d from my many other pressing Occasions and now sent to you upon the Request of some Relations to you and your dear deceased Brother by his very weak unworthy Pastor who had the Knowledge of him and Inspection over him many Years and can testifie to the Comfort of his surviving Friends that he was a Man of good Vnderstanding solid Judgment savory Spirit and blameless Conversation of good use in the Society where he was a Member beloved of all that knew him and very imitable in his modest humble chaste Conversation in a single Condition his Contempt of the World Mortifiedness to Pleasures and Honours Diligence in both general and particular Calling studying the Word of God reading good Books constant Attendance on Ordinances writing Sermons ingenuous asking Cases of Conscience his Abilities in Prayer Discourse seriousness in the practick part of Religion to which Many will bear their Testimony and are concerned for the loss of him These things I write to you not as informing you nor flattering him which cannot at all add to his present Happiness but to quicken us in our Diligence and as a Memorial of the Dead that dye in the Lord for God hath said The Memory of the Just is blessed and such as have obtained a good Report thro' Faith Prov. 10 7. ●●eb 1● 39 may be presented to surviving Generations for their imitation especially since our dead Friend left us Posterity to bear up his Name Notwithstanding his even Carriage yet his Heavenly Father thought fit to exercise him towards the latter end of his days with Severe Afflictions both in his Body and Spirit His Body was a meer Skeleton worn away decrepit and tho' he had been very active and agile yet had much ado to go upon Crutches thro' a violent Rheumatism seizing his lower parts His Mind was much disquieted with the sense of his own guiltiness great unprofitableness under Means of Grace much Vnbelief Hypocrisie which oft gave him occasion to call his state into question so that he told me he had great Fears upon him about his Sincerity and questioned how matters would prove at last and Satan set in with his violent Temptations and GOD also suspended the Light if his Countenance and Sealings of his Spirit so that he walk'd in darkness for a considerable time Yet before he dyed the Lord scattered his Fears erected his Hopes and shined upon his Soul with the Beams of his Love and the Lord carried him off the Stage comfortably honourably yea triumphantly He slept in the Lord July the Fifth and was interred at Hallifax July the Eighth 1695. The Spiritual Legacies he left were 1. Advice to his Friends 2. This Text. 1. He had given several weighty pieces of his Counsel to several of his Friends and Relations formerly near his End he said to a Young Man that came to visit him Oh Friend now by the Grace of God I am ready come Lord Jesus Oh be sure you get ready for this dying hour see to the getting of the Spirit of God in what you do you may pump for Expressions and Affections but see you get the Spirit of God for where the Spirit is there is Liberty Several things besides he said but the Distemper going up into his Head and he not s●eeping of a long time was not so sensible and capable of Discourse as he had been 2. The other Legacy he left was this Text. A Relation of his apprehending danger of his Death asked him what he would have me to do for him he having given an hint of his Mind before he answered He would desire me to preach a Funeral Sermon out of those words Job 10.7 There is none that can deliver out of thine hand I had notice of it when I was abroad and at my return preached on Lord's Day July 14. 1695 on that second part according to Order but have prefixed something to it on the former part of the Text because I knew it was first proper to him secondly profitable to us all and wish from my Soul we could all appeal thus sincerely to the Heart-searching God who then would transmit our afflicted Souls and Bodies out of the hands of Justice into the hands of Mercy There 's none of the Servants of God but they meet with a severe Purgatory in this Life and pass through Seas of Trouble to the Haven of Rest which make them Sea-sick and did not our blessed Pilot secure them Psal 42. they would split upon dangerous Rocks of Presumption or Despair sometimes Deep calls to Deep which imports Dr. Horton in loc as a learned Expositor observes 1. Variety or plurality of Evils and Evil in one kind to an Evil in another Troubles of Body Mind estate manifold Temptations without Fightings 2 Pet. 1.6.2 Cor. 7. ● within Fears 2. Conjunction of Evils one Evil within another not as in a Channel where Water runs and lessens in running but divers Waters meeting make a vast Flood not successively Job 16.14 but breach upon breach all at once Yea 3. A Connexion or dependance of one Evil upon another one Calamity invites another as if God pursued us till he make an end of us proceeding in Punishments This was the Conception of this good Man that had God's Hand on his Body Soul as is Earth Heaven and Hell conspired to make him every way miserable Desertions from God Temptations from Satan for that cursed Coward sets on God's Children where they are weakest God orders this for wise and gracious Ends partly to try our Spirits exercise Graces prevent worse Evils keep us humble conform us to Christ teach us to live by Faith to long for Christ and Heaven and prepare us for divine Cordials To be sure God's great care is to secure the main Stake in his Children He will not suffer their Souls to miscarry He would rather his Children should go to Heaven maimed than go to Hell with all their Limbs yea it may be they will march on faster lame or see Heavenly Things better when bodily blind or hear God's Voice better when corporally deaf than otherwise And our Blessed Saviour saith It 's better want any Member than be damned Mat. 5.29.32 Strong Humors must have strong