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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

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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