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truth_n	believe_v	faith_n	salvation_n	4,849	5	7.2836	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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