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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

of them that have enjoyed their Ministry You had need fear and tremble before him lest he do so by you When the Vineyard is barren God will either take away the hedge and fling it up to be a prey to the beasts of the wood else he will take away the dresser he shall no more dig and prune it no more labour shall be spent upon it no more cost and pains shall be taken with it Saith God the rain came oft upon it and it brought forth briars and thorns such are nigh unto cursing and their end is to be burnt The Prophets live not for ever God will teach you by it that your season will not always last Know your time as Christ said Job 12.35 Yet a little while is the light with you Walk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you For he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth The next step may be Hell While ye have the light believe in the light that ye may be the children of light But I will go off that and give a little account of the second and so come to the Use 2. Though the Prophets live not for ever yet the Word of God lives Do but consider a little 1. The Prophets of God use to come with their Menaces the threatning part of God's Word and though the threatning you think is always Conditional and leaves space for Repentance this made the Prophet Jonah refuse to go on his Errand I knew saith he that thou art a gracious God and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and wouldst repent thee of the evil and so I should have my Reputation stained Go and preach to Niniveh and say Yet forty days and Niniveh shall be destroyed and then God repent They will say There 's a lying Prophet Yet let me tell you when God denounceth his Judgments sometimes he puts his Oath to the Threatening swears to the matter and then it is irreversible As I live saith the Lord my heart cannot be towards this people And as the Ministry of the Prophets had a Minatory part so truly the Gospel hath Threatnings most severe ones Mark 16.16 He that believeth and is haptized shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned Words that came out of the gracious mouth of the Son of God Hebr. 2.3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation There 's no escaping Damnation The Word of God lives The very Threatning lives Though the prophets die God will take care to make good his threatning be sure he will do it when he swears in wrath we shall never enter into his rest 2. The Word of God abides too as it comprizeth the Promises which are a declaration of God's Grace and good will towards men This was part of the Prophets Office to publish the Promise Luk. 1.69 He hath raised up an Horn of Salvation for us as he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets since the world began to perform the mercy promised to our Fathers c. So the Apostle Peter saith he The spirit of God spake by the Prophets concerning Christ his Sufferings and the Glory that should follow So the Ministers of the New Testament O how they love to Preach the New Covenant and all the Promises for the relief of distressed sinners It is the most pleasing part of their work 2 Cor. 1.20 For all the Promises of God in him in Christ are yea and in him Amen to the Glory of God by us God glorifies himself by us God glorifies his faithfulness in performing his Promises by our Ministry The Promise lives for God lives whose the Promise is He cannot lye nor cannot change He shews by it the Immutability of his Counsel that the heirs of Salvation may have strong consolation God's Prophets and Ministers they die but the Word dispensed by them that lives it hath its fulfillment Our work is to declare the whole counsel of God to you that concerns your Salvation and God doth cause his Prophets to stand in his Covenant and the secrets of God are with them Saith the Apostle Acts 20. I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God and have kept back nothing that was profitable for you Preaching Repentance towards God and Faith towards the Lord Jesus His Counsel shall stand You shall see my face no more saith he to them verse 38. But this whole Counsel of God which I have declared shall be fulfilled and there is no Person no Churches that do reject the Counsel of God but it is against themselves i. e. to their own ruin Luke 7.30 The Word of God lives the Prophets dye but the Word of God lives The Word of God dispensed by us is as seed sown though it seem to dye under the Clods yet it will live again the Lord gives it a Body or rather a Spirit And so l Peter 1.23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever In all Productions there is some Seed out of which the Creature is brought forth so it is in the new Creature Born of the incorruptible seed the word which we Preach to you and this Word lives and abides for ever and if it be turned into a vital Principle in your Souls that will abide too it will be the Seed of God that remains And though in our sowing we go forth with precious Seed we wish it might alike prosper but we do not always meet with good Ground that which falls into good Ground by the blessing of God brings forth Fruit some more and some less The Word of God lives the Prophets dye the Ministers of Christ dye but their Word lives and will take place Now I would make some Application The Prophets do they live for ever No they do not live for ever they are Mortal and Frail they dye sooner than other Men their Labours are great and that they do not live for ever I would have you make these two or three Uses of it 1. Think with your selves God's Prophets and Ministers dye It becomes us to have our hearts affected with it to put our hearts to this matter Isaiah 57.1 The righteous perish 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to perish here is to dye he is taken away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In unum collegere He is gathered to his Fathers and no Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ponens super Cor. 1. qui caret Schindler and no man lays it to heart The Lord will take notice how you are affected this day for this Prophet The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come he shall enter into peace Blessed be God for that Admission into Peace God hath given his Servant He shall enter into peace they shall rest in there beds the Grave is a