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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

They devised devices against me saying Let us destroy the Tree with the Fruit thereof It is in the Margent Let us destroy the staff with the bread the Prophets the Ministers of God bring the Bread of Life to you Let us destroy the staff with the bread Hebr. Pane Perdamus culmum cum grano ejus as Junius renders it We render it Let us destroy the Tree with the Fruit. The meaning is this Let us kill the Prophet and there 's an end of his Prophecy But they were mistaken when they had done that God will make his Word to take place There are two things I would open to you 1. That the Prophets of God do not live for ever we are all sensible of it The Lord teacheth us it this day The Prophets do not live for ever But 2. Though they do not live yet the Word of God lives and will have its effect upon men for good or for evil 1. The Prophets do they live for ever Consider two or three things 1. The Prophets of God are subject to the same Law that others are There is a Stature-Law that is not reversed and there are so few I think is never transgressed There have been some few exceptions but it will not be repealed till Christ hath swallowed up Death in Victory The Prophets of God and Righteous men are obnoxious to it as well as others Heb. 9.27 And as it is appointed to men 〈◊〉 to die and after this the judgment It is appointed Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is decreed It is decreed to all it is enacted and the Prophets have no exemption Yea that Man Christ Jesus the Mediator and great High Priest He was under this Law He was made under the Law He was to die And by one offering for ever perfected them that are dedicated to God It is appointed to all men once to die and to die penally by the force of that threatning Gen. 2 17. In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die Christ died Penally He was made a curse and his dying so hath delivered some that they shall not die Penally But to die Naturally that continues to all to the Prophets and them that fear him as well as others Rom. 8.10 If Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of righteousness If Christ be in you though there be that happy union yet he lets the Body be arrested by Death the Body is dead Believers Bodies the Bodies of his Ministers of his Prophets are dead that is Obnoxious to Death I think it hath reference to the second verse The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death How from the law of sin he had shewed before here he come to shew how from the law of Death The Body is dead and that is by sin Sin brought in death Adam had not died if he had not sinned and there being the reliques of sin Sin that dwells in Believers themselves the vitiosity and corruption of nature something of sin found in them they must die there 's no help we must die The spirit I think 't is the soul is life and capable of living with God in a separate state and shall be in the fruition of God and the Body shall at length be joyned with it And as a pledge of it this is added The spirit is life because of righteousness What God doth in sanctifying of his own here is a pledge to them that their whole man shall live with him hereafter 2. The Prophets do they live for ever They are Stewards Ambassadors Labourers and so Christ will not have them live for ever They shall have their Reward They shall come and tell what is the issue of their performing their Embassy in the world What reception they had How they were used 1. We are Stewards of the Mystery and manifold Grace of God 1 Cor. 4.1 2. and Wisdom and Faithfulness are required in a Steward A Steward should be Wise and Faithful the Lord make us so who have a Stewardship from him We must give an account of our Stewardship and you to whom we give a portion of meat in due season should take some care that we give up our accounts with joy and not with grief Christ will call his Stewards to account they must tell what they have done with their Talents how they have improved and gained 2. They are Ambassadors also 2 Cor. 5.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 placed or deposited in us they have the word of Reconciliation committed to them they have it in them and they treat with you about the highest concerns We pray you be ye reconciled to God We pray you in Christ's stead if he had not other work to do in Heaven he would come and Preach to you himself but we do it in his stead Now is it not your advantage to be friends with God But we must go back and give an account what reception we have had in the world Ambassadors will be called home they will not always lye Lieger here below 3. I might shew you this also for Labourers the day declines 1 Cor. 3.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Co-workers God makes use of their labour and a man that hath wrought hard all the heat of the day is willing to go to rest A servant earnestly desires the shadow Job 7.2 And the sleep of the labouring man is sweet to him 3. The Prophets do they live for ever Jesus Christ hath Rewards for them small and great Rev. 11. The time is come that thou shouldest give reward to thy servants the Prophets and to the Saints and them that fear thy name small and great c. which is sometimes the only relief and support we have when we cry out We have laboured in vain Isa 49 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humidum radicale and spent our strength for nought The radical moisture is dried up the Bellows are burnt we have no lungs to speak more to you Well Christ hath rewards for his Prophets and Servants in Heaven Great is your reward in Heaven There 's no getting to Heaven without dying It may be you would be willing to be fetched in Chariots of fire but that is not every man's lot We have our work to do Jesus Christ was his Father's servant an extraordinary one to do extraordinary work he finished it and glorified God on earth and then God glorified him with himself Thus it is with Christ's servants they have their work to do they are to finish it and to glorifie God here below and then God gathers them up and rewards them they have their reward their works follow them They die in the Lord and cease from their labour and their works follow them Rev. 14. in the Reward of them 4. The Prophets die and God will thereby chastise an ungrateful world and punish the barrenness

Rev. 2.13 To see the Funerals of the Conqueror Yet Cambridge know as he said in his days Zech. 1.6 God will deal with you according to your ways E'er lives this Prophet Immortal spirit If ever any I would say there 's merit So richly holy and Angelick Saint Babies and Dwarfs we 're all to this Giant Alas a Prince a King great General Highly Anointed's fallen in Israel He wore out 's body in these holy Wars 'T was bruised wounded full of mortal sears O blessed Soldier hardship did endure Behov'd thy Brethren all not Sine Cure And wholly spent thou was and still did spend Until thy Humour-radical did end We saw's dead Body perfect Skelliton Like that which's tackt up by Chyrurgeon His house of Clay did crumble into mould His Heav'n-born soul no longer dwell in 't could A Glorious House made without hands on high Possess'd he 's of unto eternity 2 Cor. 5.1 His Dying words Deut. 34.1 2 3 4. In this like Moses had Mount Pisgah's Ken A clear and perfect Landskip of Canaan Unlike to Moses he soon went to it When as to Moses the Lord would only show it What Rabbies said of Moses's verifi'd God kissed Francis Holcroft Deut. 34.5 and he di'd As Mother th' Child dandles upon her lap Her Cheek by'ts Cheek until it takes a nap He 's but a sleep i' th morning you 'l him see Heb. 12.23 Phil. 2.20 2 Cor. 3.7 I' th Church of th' first born where he lov'd to be O for such Preachers Lord send thou an host Trebly anointed with the Holy Ghost That Satan lightning he from Heaven be cast Luk. 10.18 Zech 4.11 12. That Cambridge Candlestick in glory last With Golden Oyl through Golden Pipes suppli'd With two anointed ones o' th' left right side From the Olive-tree the most Anointed one And let the Man the Branch build Temple on And let him bear the Glory Zech. 6.12 worthy he God's spotless Lamb slain for Iniquity Father why did thy noble Child of Light In darkness walk Isa 50.10 why cry'd so in the night So long so oft why stood'st behind the wall Thou knewest he would importunately call Cant. 2.9 And give no rest but cry Father Abba More instantly did never any pray How was his Note chang'd he had midnight Song A Philomele tho pricking Thorns among Jayl-birds with Silas in Cambridge Castle sings But in God's Prison his Lark-like warblings Do cease O Jehovah righteous Soveraign To all thy Matters answers not again Why Job why Jeremiah Job 33.13 curse their Birth-day shine Highest Reason's Soveraign Will Divine O deepest Depths of wisest Providence Jonah i' th Whales Belly Jonah 2.1 and prays from thence And was preserved cast alive o' th' Shore O blest be Christ O blest for evermore O blest Martyr beautiful to see Conformed to 'th Pattern in thy Agony Before thy Death in strong Cries and in Tears And thou was heard in thy believing Fears Cease now O Lord a while let ' lone the rest We are sure of Ministers Heb. 5.7 thou hast the best Some Verses made upon the Death of the Eminent and Reverend Servant of Christ in the Ministry of the Gospel Mr. Francis Holcraft ALas the Chariots and the Horsemen's gone How can the War be longer carried on ' Gainst Antichrist Jesus let 's Mantle fall Of Power of Zeal of Gifts of Graces all Which cloathed him upon the Infantry O let Paul's Spirit rest on Timothy We saw him long ascending far above His Brethren thought still that he would remove Out of our sight to Heaven there to view Jerusalem Celestial City new Where he was free born when he Preaches next How sweetly will he Comment on that Text Holcraft and Oddy they neither could The Evangelick Mysteries unfold Until commenc'd they had took a Degree In the Celestial University Both Learning Piety had been withstood But for a Commendamus in Christ's Blood Lord stay thine hand and let alone the rest Thou hast him now I 'm sure which lov'd thee best Luther ne're di'd till now glorious free Grace Engraven was in 's heart in 's head in 's face In broader fairer deeper Characters than can Be found in any preaching praying Man Pope sings Te Deum Oxford and Cambridge Friends Blind Quakers Gifts unto each other sends Atheists make merry Arminians Wills are free Holcraft no Tomb should have but Calumny Darkness that can be felt who can but fear While such a sparkling Star doth disappear As Holcroft was dazling the envious Eye Of spurious Christian Grace's enemy Did we not know 't of Rising Sun a sign When all the Stars i' th' Sky no longer shine O gracious Saint how did thy Count'nance shine Behold Mount Sinai's Preachers great Divine Thy Feet were beautiful I could have kist The Soles thereof O sweet Evangelist How Glorious is that Sun of Righteousness Whose Rays reflected makes a Saint no less Than an Illustrious Conquering Princely King Such Holcraft was Israel in wrastling Who ever did the Spirit of Faith more bold In Prayer with God than in this Man behold Such Liberty such Life such Light he had Weak ones offended wicked says he 's mad Lament you Ministers of Christ he was For Doctrine Paul for Comfort Barnabas He was Apollos so mighty in the Word He was a John for Love unto his Lord A Timothy he naturally did care For Truth while others minded their Affair Boanarges in the Law by dreadful Thunder Struck down his hearers rent their hearts asunder He was a Moses in the Mount did stay I never heard one at that rate to pray Some single Gifts in others may have been But Constellations were in Holcroft seen Perfections take from one then from another They all did Center in this blessed Brother With what great Scripture plainness did he Preach With what Majestick boldness did he Teach He Giant-like came forth to run his Race Being firmly girt with Apostolick Grace He was made of God a fenced Brazen Wall Strong to recieve the Gun-shot great and small His Doctrines Christ his Natures Offices Faith in his Blood and then right Holiness Cambridge Christ lent him for a time to thee A Pattern for thy Preachers he should be Look on this Copy fairly writ and mend Your hands then Christ your Lord will you commend O quit your selves like Men be cloath'd with Zeal Concern your selves with Israel's Commonweal Be strong in power in Love in Gospel-word Cut every Man with that two-edged Sword Be bold as Lyons like this Man of God Dash them in pieces with that powerful Rod. O! let his People know that joyful sound And in their heart and lives let it abound Which like to Aaron's Bells did's feet surround In every place where he did tread the ground This noise of Peace did to the Saints redound Holcroft of Preachers for Faith for Zeal the best I 'll only say he 's Dead and weep the rest FINIS