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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

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

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