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not reversed and there are so few I think is never transgressed There have been some few exceptions but it will not be repealed till Christ hath swallowed up Death in Victory The Prophets of God and Righteous men are obnoxious to it as well as others Heb. 9.27 And as it is appointed to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

cold Bed but really ever since Christ lodged in it it is so perfumed that we need not be afraid to lie down and sleep each one walking in his uprightness But saith he The righteous perish it is Dying Lord we perish saith the Disciples and no man lays it to heart It is the Complaint of God that we are not duly affected when he causeth a righteous Man to perish Now the dying of a Prophet is more than the perishing of a righteous Man He that gives to a Righteous Man a Cup of Water in the Name of a Righteous Man shall have a Righteous Mans reward And he that receiveth a Prophet in the Name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward Shall a Prophet dye and shall not we put our heart to it O! to think such a one is removed who use to give us such Instruction such Reproof such Consolation to give Milk to Babes and strong Meat to Men that had the Tongue of the Learned to speak a word in Season to them that are weary but now we shall hear him no more nothing will drop from his Lips any more He is gone into his Bed and as to any use he can be of is perished Let us lay our hearts to it 2. If the Prophets dye and do not live you that have enjoyed their Ministry Oh! how highly doth it concern you to follow their Faith observing the end of their Conversation Hebr. 13.7 Remember them that have the rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation He speaks of them that had been guides to them and had spoken the word of God but they were dead and gone the Lord had removed them and gathered them up to himself they have spoken to you the Word of God Now saith he whose Faith follow That glorious Gospel of the Blessed God that they preached to you that Faith follow and imitate it that your hearts may be established in the true Grace of the Gospel And remember bear in mind how they used to live by Faith and vigorously to act it upon the Son of God do you imitate it follow the steps of their Faith observing the end of their Conversation Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The end of their Conversation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signifies an end accompanied with deliverance from and Conquest over Difficulties and Dangers what God hath brought them to what issue and period God hath put to them and their days observing the end of their Conversation 1 Cor. 10.13 God makes a way of escape out of temptation God delivers them from all their Sins and Sufferings wipes all Tears from their Eyes makes a good End with them Mark the perfect Man and observe the Upright the end of that Man is Peace This is your Duty And there is one thing more and that is When the Prophets dye do you take care that when the Prophets of God are admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven that you be not shut out It will be a very great Aggravation it will aggrandize your Misery to enjoy such Prophesy such Preaching and then the Prophets dye and go to Heaven when you come to dye to go to another place Luke 13.28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of heaven and you your selves thrust out O think with your selves what will be the anguish of those that perish from under such a Ministry What shall I perish now from under such a Ministry That 's one Use Have a care you be not thrust out The Prophets come and Preach the Kingdom of God to you and having the Key of Knowledge they open the Door Come say they enter the kingdom take it by violence And it may be many will neither go in themselves nor suffer others to enter in When the prophets go to heaven have a care lest you should be shut out Vse 2. Tho the Prophets dye yet the Word of God lives Remember that God will make you to remember it And your Business is to enquire what hath been the quickning and enlivening Verture and Power of the word upon your Souls We Preach the Gospel and we are not ashamed of it for it is the Power of God unto Salvation to every one that believes Hath it been productive of such a thing as Faith in your Souls that purifies the heart apprehends Christ and all that is in Christ Hath the word come with Life and Power to you and caused Life in your Souls 1 Thess 1.5 Our Gospel saith he came not in word only but in power c. Pray inquire into that And if the word of God lives tho the Minister dye then really it will be of some effect or other to you all either a savour of life unto life 2 Cor. 2.14 15 16. or of death unto death Thanks be to God that makes us to triumph The Gospel will be of some use when we are gone either a savour of life unto life or of death unto death Nay let me say this Because the Word lives tho the Prophets dye the Word of God will follow you to Judgment and there will meet you when you come up from the dead and it may be God's Prophets will be a Cloud of Witnesses against you John 12.48 He that rejecteth me and receives not my words there 's one that judgeth him the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day The word lives till you come to Judgment and then will decide your Condition Christ will do it according to the word Vse 3. One thing more The Prophets dye I will speak one thing for your Comfort and that is Christ lives Ministers dye but Christ lives He was once dead but he is alive and lives for evermore And he lives as the great Prophet raised up by God As one said of the Prophets Who is their Father He that is the Father of Eternity Isaiah 9. He is alive Hebr. 7.23 They were not suffered to continue by reason of death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But this Man because he hath an unchangeable Priesthood lives for ever He hath an Office that doth not pass from him to another The Prophets dye Ministers dye that that is the Spring of Consolation is Christ lives He lives to reward your Faith and Perseverance You that have believed upon hearing the word of Truth the Gospel of Salvation he lives to reward that Faith and your persevering in that Faith Come hold on in Faith in Holiness in the Order and Fellowship of the Gospel that which this Servant of Christ so much desired in his going off Christ lives to reward your Constancy Receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls 1 Peter 1.9 And then that he lives too it is to give us more Prophets to raise up more Prophets for us and to make