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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50962	A funeral sermon preached upon the death of the reverend and godly divine, Mr. Francis Holcroft, late pastor of a congregational church in Cambridgeshire. Who deceased Jan. 6. 1691/2, aged 63. By T.M. preacher of the Gospel.	Milway, Thomas, congregational minister.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2188; ESTC R214187	17,984	32

ye not as your Fathers Verse 4. to whom the former prophets cried So in the New Testament Hebr. 3.7 To day if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as your fathers did in the day of temptation altho they saw my works so we should read it Altho they saw his works yet they provoked him Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former prophets have cried saying Thus saith the Lord of hosts Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the Lord. The Words the 5th and 6th Verses some apprehend are brought in by way of Dialogue God speaking by the Prophet to the People Where are your fathers They are not their Carkasses fell in the Wilderness and they died under the Displeasure of God in the Captivity In the second Verse The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers Where are your fathers Numb 32. Hath not Moses said in another Case You are risen up in your Fathers stead a Generation worse than them They do as it were retort it upon God And where are the Prophets do they live for ever Our Fathers indeed are dead but yet God doth not keep his Prophets alive But saith God Tho they dye my Word lives and shall have its effect and certain accomplishment There are two or three things in the Words I. A Concession that God's Prophets do not live for ever The Prophets do they live for ever They are mortal Men corruptible So that in this case I may say as in Hebr. 7.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They truly the priests were many because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death They were prohibited to go on in the discharge of their Office Death superseded them So the Prophets of God they were not suffered to continue by reason of Death Aaron was a great Man employed of God in the Priesthood but Numb 20.25 26 saith God to Moses Let Aaron go up to mount Hor and there let him dye A while after the same Fate took hold on Moses Deut. 32.49 Get thee up into this mount and dye in the mount whither thou goest up as Aaron thy Brother died in Mount Hor. Yet this Moses it is said of him Chap. 34.10 There arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses If you would out-do him turn your Eye upon Christ There arose not a Prophet in Israel like him And yet both he and his Brother Aaron died under some displeasure of God Deut. 32.51 Because ye trespassed against me at the waters of Meribah because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel The Prophets do they live for ever 'T is well that they die their fair Death O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets how oft would I have gathered your children and ye would not Some wrest this Scripture for the maintenance of Arminianism but if you observe it the Text is a plain Text How oft would I have gathered your children and you would not you Jerusalem you great Men. I believe it hath been some complaint of Jesus Christ against this Land And sometimes the Difficulties that attend the Service of God's Prophets make them covet Death 1 Kings 19. When Jezabel sware by her Gods that she would have the Life of Elijah he said Lord let me die He was a Man of like Passions with us and we with him II. Tho the Prophets die and do not live for ever yet the Word of God does not die the Word of God lives and abides for ever But my word and my statutes which I commanded my servants did they not take hold of your fathers The Prophets die but my Word lives faith God and hath strength and can apprehend you and slay you thou hast slain them with the Word of thy Mouth The Apostle saith The word of the Lord is not bound the Ministers of it are bound but the Word of the Lord is not bound The Prophets die but the Word of the Lord retains it strength and force Did not my words take hold on your Fathers The Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 attigit apprehendit Is to overtake and catch as Huntsmen the Prey or one Enemy another in flight Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Did they not find them out Your Sins will find you out and so will God's word find you out and the Word of God pursues you at the heels and lays hold on you If you do not lay hold on God's strength and make Peace with him there will be a hand stretcht out to apprehend you Psal 40.12 where the word is Did not my words take hold on your Fathers The Prophets die 1 King 13. There came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Bethel and cried against the Altar in the word of the Lord and said O Altar Altar thus saith the Lord Behold a child shall be born unto the House of David Josiah by name and upon thee shall he offer the Priests of the high places c. Notwithstanding this Prophet was killed before he got home the word of God lived and took place and took hold on him 2 King 23.17 Saith Josiah Josiah by name God can name a man 300 years before he raiseth him up saith he What Title is this that I see And the men of the City told him It is the Sepulchre of the Man of God which came from Judah and proclaimed these things which thou hast done against the Altar of Bethel The Word of God lives and hath an Infallible accomplishment III. The Lord doth extort an acknowledgment of this Though the Prophets die yet my words live and are quick and powerful they take hold on men An Acknowledgment of it And they returned and said Like as the Lord of Hosts thought to do unto us according to our ways and according to our doings Josh 23.14 15. so hath he dealt with us God will magnifie his Word 1 Sam. 2.30 and assert the honour and reputation of his Prophets Now that that I would teach you is Observ Though the Prophets of God die though the Ministers of Christ do not live for ever yet the Word of God dispensed by them lives and will have its certain infallible accomplishment upon Nations Churches and Persons Those that God calls to and makes use of in the Ministry about Holy things they differ in their Gifts in their Graces in their Judgments sometimes in their service and usefulness in the Church of God but they all agree here they die as others do Ye build the Tombs of the Prophets The Prophets have their Tombs and Righteous men their Sepulchres saith Christ Matth. 23. Ye build and garnish them and there is a Generation of men that love God's Prophets best when when they are dead And ye are the children of them which killed the Prophets that is ye imitate them Jer. 11.19