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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

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