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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 ...
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and rejoiced at their Death and Calamity sending Gifts to one another and Feasting each other because these their Tormentors were now dead tho' yet 't was but a civil death a Bartholomew Act that disabled them from their Work which was their Life yet the voice of God bids them in the sight and hearing of their very Enemies to come up unto him into Heaven Come up hither my dear Saints my faithful Witnesses Come up unto your God in Glory The World is weary of you That Dunghil is not worthy to have you Come up unto your God in Glory 2. As soon as their Work is done God will call them home After Work Rest after Labour VVages There remaineth a Rest an Everlasting Sabbatism for God's Saints VVe have a little Type and Shadow a poor Picture-pledge and Earnest of it in this holy day of rest O! but when all our VVork is done then an Eternal rest then God will call upon his Servants Come enter into your Rest into your Master's Joy my dear Saints There is a Twofold VVork that God's Ministers have to do 1. A VVork of Conviction and Condemnation This is a very sad burdensome and uncomfortable VVork that instead of Preaching Souls out of their sins we shall only shew them to them make them see them but not leave them Our Sermons shall awaken and startle them but not renew nor reform them we shall give them a Pisgah view of Heaven but they shall nevertheless because of their unbelief never enter into it To some we shall be the savour of death unto death They shall be convinced of their sins hardned in their sins and by those self-same Sermons condemned for their sins Noah that Preacher of Righteousness did thus convince and condemn the old World Heb. 11.7 O! Sirs it affrights me to think I should Preach any of you into Hell and that my self and Sermons should witness to your condemnation in the last day 2. There is a Work of Conversion and Edification God sometimes sends us about this Work this is pleasing delightful and exceeding comfortable Go saith God to Paul and preach at Corinth for I have much people there Acts 18.10 Seedsman saith Christ unto his Minister go scatter the good Seed of my Word in such a Soyl and it shall yield thirty sixty and an hundred fold Fisherman let down thy Net in yonder Pool and thou shalt take many a Fish a multitude of precious Souls O! Sirs if we can but gain you to Christ and as his Ambassadors reconcile you to God we have our ends we have done our Work our Masters Work to our great Joy and Consolation Now when we have done this Work fill'd up our number of Converts as Spiritual Fathers begotten many a Child for God and built them up in Faith and Holiness we shall hear our Great Lord say unto us Well done good and faithful Servants enter into your Masters Joy 3. The sins of their Hearers of their people do oftentimes shorten the days of their Ministers and many Churches are real Murderers of their most Faithful Pastors You will say possibly this is an hard word and who can bear it How do Churches Murder their Ministers Why Sirs 1. Not only by exacting Work from them above their Ability 2. Nor only by denying them due incouragement and a competency for their subsistance Nor yet 3. By downright killing of them in Persecution as both the Zachary's were and an infinite number of other Faithful Prophets of the Lord were But 4. By your sins The sins of the Hearers are our Murderers But what sins I answer 1. Your Non-proficiency by our Ministry You be God's Husbandry and Garden we are to Manure and Dress you you be God's Building and Temple we are to repair beautifie and adorn you 'T was said of Augustus Caesar that he found Rome Brick but left it Marble O! what a comfort will it be to our Souls to have found you Earthly and left you Heavenly To have found you Sinners and leave you Saints We have digg'd about you we have manur'd and drest you studied for you preached to you admonished you in publick and private and what Shall we have labour'd in vain When you have been a sleeping in your Beds and Sins at midnight possibly your Faithful Ministers have been upon their Knees weeping and mourning for you strugling and wrestling with God in Fervent Prayers for your Souls and shall all these Pains and Labours be lost Shall we Meditate and Study Preach and spend our Spirits in Prayer in vain and not for your good Shall the Lord say unto us as to Moses in another case Speak to me no more move me no more in this matter for these Souls for these Sinners They be Reprobate Silver dross and lost Creatures whom the Lord hath rejected for their unprofitableness under all the Means of Grace Brethren this cutts us to the quick and helps to break our Heart Your Eternal Happiness would be our Life The fear of your being undone Eternally is as death unto us it is killing to us 2. The Pragmaticalness of Church-members who take upon them to contradict and controul their Ministers Preposterous courses God hath made us Teachers and our People will teach their Instructors God hath made us Guides and Lights unto you in the way to Heaven but pragmatical Hearers take upon them Magisterially enough to direct dictate and prescribe unto their Ministers what Doctrine they shall Preach and what not The Lord takes notice of these by the Prophet Isa 30.8 9 10 11. Now go write it before them in a Table note it in a Book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever That this is a Rebellious people lying Children Children that will not hear the Word of the Lord which say to the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not right things unto us speak unto us smooth things prophesie deceits When a Godly Minister had preach'd of Hell unto his Parishioners a great Lady takes him up sharply enough What! Do not you know that my Lord cann't indure to hear speak of death and are you so unwise as to preach of the Torments of Hell unto him Pray learn more wit next and deliver in publick a Doctrine that shall be more edifying and pleasing to him Again Christ hath made us by vertue of our Pastoral Office Rulers in the House of God and committed the Keys of Doctrine and Discipline to us but sorry Mechanicks take upon them to over-rule and correct their Pastors We be Watchers for your Souls and some watch for our failings Jesus Christ hath positively commanded you Heb. 13 7. to remember them which have the rule over you who have spoken to you the Word of God to follow their Faith considering the end of their Conversation And again Obey them that have the Rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give account that they may do
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