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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not reversed and there are so few I think is never transgressed There have been some few exceptions but it will not be repealed till Christ hath swallowed up Death in Victory The Prophets of God and Righteous men are obnoxious to it as well as others Heb. 9.27 And as it is appointed to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

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