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A56902	The dead prophet yet speaking a funeral sermon preached at Plaisterers-Hall, Feb. 15, 1690, to the Church of Christ there, upon the sad occasion of the decease of their late Reverend Pastor, Mr. John Faldo / by John Quick ...	Quick, John, 1636-1706.	1691 (1691)	Wing Q206; ESTC R38018	15,021	42

The Dead Prophet yet Speaking Being A Funeral Sermon Preached at Plaisterers-Hall on the Decease of their late Reverend Pastor Mr. John Faldo By J. Q. The Dead Prophet yet Speaking A Funeral Sermon Preached at Plaisterers-Hall Feb. 15. 1690. to the Church of Christ there upon the sad Occasion of the Decease of their late Reverend Pastor Mr. John Faldo By JOHN QVICK Minister of the Gospel in London Infoelix de quo clamabitur Tollatur impius ne videat gloriam Dei. Vtinam nihil unquam vidisset oculus meus si illâ quod avertat Deus frustrandus est visione Bernhardus de verbis Esaiae Sermone 2do p. 61. The Voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All Flesh is Grass and all the goodliness thereof as the Flower of the Field The Grass withereth the Flower fadeth but the Word of our God shall stand for ever Isa 40.6 8. LONDON Printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Philips at the Seven Stars in St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. For the very Honoured Madam MARY WILLET Madam THE Death of God's Saints and Faithful Ministers is not at all considered by the careless World Little do they know how much they be beholding to their Lives and what Loosers they are by their Death Lot was a burden to them so thought the wicked Sodomites whilst he lived among them and therefore would fain have rid their City of its best and greatest Blessing But no sooner was he gone than wrath came upon them to the uttermost We have lost of late too many of God's Favourites who stood in the Gap and had power with God to keep off Judgments from us And when as any one of these Men of God Powerful in Prayer and mighty Wrestlers with Heaven are taken from us we may well cry out with the Psalmist Help Lord for the Godly Man ceaseth and as that Prophet seeing his Master Translated into Glory My Father My Father The Chariots of Israel and the Horsemen thereof Blessed be the Lord there be yet some Pious and Devout Souls in our Nation and in this City that when the Righteous perish do lay it to Heart and when the Merciful are taken away do consider that they be taken from the evil to come and are therefore weeping over their own and the Churches weakness which hath lost so many Stakes out of her Hedge so many Pillars out of her Temple so many Buttresses out of her Wall that should support and sustain her so many Sons and Fathers that should instruct cherish and comfort her You Madam have enroll'd your self among the Mourners in our Zion and have been deeply affected with the Deaths of Godly Ministers and private Christians which tho' timely to them being gathered in respect of their Age as Corn in due Season into the Granary yet to us that survive them must needs be very unseasonable Who were it the good will of God so to order it can hardly spare them and would most unwillingly part with them in such a day as this is But it is from the Lord the Sole and Soveraign Disposer of us and of all our Comforts and we must acquiesce Reverend Mr. Faldo whilst living was very Dear to your Godly Parents who are now reaping the Fruit of their Great and Ample Charities and was as much prized and honoured by your self This makes me to address his Funeral Sermon to you and once more to offer that to your Eyes which you twice heard in one day with your Ears I surprize you with the Dedication But that hove and Value you have for all that fear God and for the Ambassadors of our Lord Jesus and which you have abundantly expressed to me the least and meanest of them all an Hereditary Vertue in you moves me to it The Lord give you to be a Follower of them who through Faith and Patience have Inherited the Promises I am Most Honoured Madam Your very Humble Servant in the Lord John Quick Zachariah 1. ver 5. Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever 'T IS an unexpected Providence and undesired that hath brought me into this Assembly and put me upon this Service A very Dear Brother upon whom this Work lay earnestly desired me to do it for him he being necessitated to be elsewhere and I could not well deny him Yet little did I imagine that the last time your Reverend Deceased Pastor and my self were together in another place and familiarly discoursing each with other that it would fall to my Lot to Preach his Funeral Sermon But the Holy Wise Providence of God hath so brought it about that I must do him this last Office of Love which may the Great God in whose Hands are all our Lives all our Times by his Holy Spirit make useful and beneficial to your Souls Your Fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever These words were spoken by the Prophet Zachary We read in Scripture of three Zachary's 1. There was Zachariah the Son of that good High-Priest Jehojada Murdered by his Unnatural and Ungrateful Kinsman Joash King of Judah who ill requited his Father that sav'd his Life by taking away that of his Godly and Zealous Son You may read the Story 2 Chon 24.21 But this was not our Prophet he was Stoned to death about four hundred and twenty one years before the Son of Iddo Prophesied 2. There was Zachariah the Father of John the Baptist but he liv'd about four hundred years after our Zachary 3. There was Zachary the Son of Barachias the Son of Iddo Iddo his Grandfather return'd from the Captivity of Babylon with Zerubbabel Nehemiah 12.4 The Jewish Rabbins say That where the Father and Grandfather of a Prophet are mentioned in Scripture it denotes they were also Prophets It was a great Honour to the Family of the Piso's at Rome that for three Generations successively they had been Princes of the Senate And 't was a very great Honour to Zachary that his Father and Grandfather had been Prophets before him The Spirit of Prophecy seemed to run in his Blood and the Prophetical Office to be entail'd upon him as an Inheritance Yet did he excel his Fathers in true Honour If they liv'd Prophets so did he also They liv'd Prophets but he liv'd a Prophet and dy'd a Martyr He was slain by his ungodly Countreymen for his free Rebuking of their sins between the Temple and the Altar whither he fled for Sanctuary No place so Holy no person so Sacred but the wicked will profane and violate in pursuit of their Brutish Lusts and Malice Matth. 23.35 How long he Prophesied is not certain when he began to Prophecy the first verse of this Chapter tells us It was in the eighth Month in the second year of Darius Nothus He was contemporary with Haggai the Prophet who began his Ministry but two Months before him See Hag. 1.1 The parts of his Prophecy are four 1. Doctrinal in the six first

verses of this Chapter 2. Visional from the seventh verse to the end of the sixth Chapter 3. Casuistical in the seventh and eighth Chapters 4. Lastly Purely Prophetical from thence to the end of his Book The Text is fallen under the first Head In which we have 1. The time of his Prophecy two Months after his Colleague in the same Work and Ministry Haggai Haggai begins in the sixth Month of the second year of King Darius Zachary follows him in the same Work and Office two Months after God keeps an exact faithful Register of all the Ministers he sends of all their Sermons he orders them Preach unto a people and of the times and to places when and where and of the beginning duration and continuance of their Ministerial Labours among them Look to it Sirs you may take no notice of this You may forget when and where and whom you heard But so doth not God He Records all in his Book of Remembrance and you shall be accountable for it another day O that you may be able to yield up your Accounts with Joy and not with Sorrow 2. We have the subject matter of his Sermon And there lye before us but brief Heads short Minutes of it and we shall as briefly run them over 1. In the second verse we have a Narration of God's just anger against their Ancestors The Lord hath been sore displeased with your Fathers 2. In the third and fourth verses we have God's summons unto their Children for Repentance Conversion and Reformation Therefore say thou unto them Thus saith the Lord of Hosts turn ye unto me saith the Lord of Hosts and I will turn unto you saith the Lord of Hosts Be ye not as your Fathers unto whom the former Prophets have cried saying Thus saith the Lord of Hosts turn you now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear nor hearken unto me saith the Lord. 3. In our Text we have a Dialogue for so many Expositors read it between the Prophet and his wicked Auditory 1. The Prophet first Queries Where are your ungodly Fathers What 's become of them Did not God's Vengeance light upon them as he had threatned them They would not believe nor obey but rebell'd against his Word spoken to them by former Prophets yet did they feel the Verity and Majesty the Truth and terrible Power thereof in their own persons for were they not cut off by Deaths Whence by the way note That Judgments upon the Fathers do not always work Repentance and Reformation in the Children they be as bad as they 2. We have his Auditory's reply by way of Expostulation with the Prophet And you Sir pray Where are the Prophets Do they live for ever You throw in our Teeth the death of our Ancestors and we will also as justly retort upon you What is become of those busie censorious Fellows their Prophets Are not they gone to their long Home You see God's Judgments Doctrinal and Providential on the Parents do find the Children bad and leave them worse greater Atheists and Despisers of God his Word and Ministers than themselves But tho' the Text may be thus read Dialogue-wise yet I humbly conceive It is an Argument urg'd by the Prophet to inforce his Doctrine asserted before in the third and fourth verses Your Fathers where are they And the Prophets do they live for ever This double Interrogation must be answer'd negatively No your Fathers are not Your Prophets are not They do not live here for ever They be dead But tho' they die yet the Word of God preached by your Prophets that dieth not it liveth and will live and take hold of all stubborn unbelieving and disobedient sinners As verse 6. Whence observe these two Points of Doctrine Doctrine I. That Vngodly Persons and Godly Ministers are all alike Mortal Creatures Doctrine II. Tho' Ministers die yet God's Word from their Mouths never dieth it lives for ever Tho' these Points shall be opened distinctly yet I shall apply them jointly in case time do permit us Doct. I. Vngodly Persons and Godly Ministers are all alike Mortal Creatures I need not stand to prove this Point 't were but to abuse your time and patience Who needs a Candle to see the Sun at Noonday The truth of the Doctrine is visible and notorious to all the World Eccles 8.8 There is no Man that hath power over the Spirit to retain the Spirit neither hath he power in the day of death And there is no discharge in that War neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it Besides there are in both the Godly and Ungodly the Natural and Moral Causes of Mortality this is also undeniable The matter of our Bodies is made up of contrary humours and qualities and when their Balance is turn'd their Temperament broken the whole Frame and Compages must be dissolv'd and moulder into dust Besides sin is in the best and its wages is death 'T is appointed to all Men to the worst and to the best once to die and then to Judgment But yet there is a vast difference between the Wicked and the Godly in their death We see that Wise-men die likewise the Fool and the brutish person perish But dieth Abner as a Fool The Saint as the Sinner No The two Poles are not at a greater distance than these are in their deaths That wretched South-sayer will assure you of it He who never cared to live as the Saint is yet afraid to die as the Sinner Numb 23.10 Let me die the death of the Righteous and let my last end be like unto his Quest But wherein lyes the difference Ans 1. The one dieth in his sins and in his infidelity and impenitency without a Pardon His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself Prov. 5.2 23. and he shall be holden with the Cords of his sins Sins shall Arrest the dying sinner as so many Bayliffts and Serjeants and drag him as a Prisoner to God's Tribunal He shall be Fetter'd Hamper'd and Manacled by them so that tho' he would fain as it may be no wicked man would willingly be found in his sins in the hour of death but be rid of them yet he shall not For sin as an Officer or Bayliff will keep his Prisoner He shall die without Instruction without Conversion in all his filth and guilt and be so hurried unto the Bar of Christ Oh! how uncomfortable must this needs be unto the sinner But so doth not the Saint die None of God's Elect but are either sooner or later sometime in their life and before death either at the sixth hour in the dawn of their Youth or at the ninth in the Flower of their Strength or at the eleventh the last Hour of their Life effectually called and savingly converted 2. The Saints are in Life and Death united unto Christ He is their Head they his Members he their Root they his Branches and the Axe