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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41728	The life and death of Mr. John Rowe of Crediton in Devon	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing G146; ESTC R18383	49,518	150

yet hath he pardoned me and will ere long receive me to be with Christ which is best of all Pray for me that I may give God his due glory by believing and by holy submission and conformity to his will in life and death Blessed be God I have in my weak measure set my house in order c. As long as ever he was able His unweariedness in the Lords work to the last he continued praying with his family and speaking to them something out of the word and when he found his spirits so low and so much spent that he was not able to do as much as he had done formerly he said it was the grief of his Soul that he could do no more for them His whole carriage during his sickness and at his death His exemplary carrage at his death it was suitable to his life as he had lived exemplarily so he died exemplarily The whole of his carriage at his death was as one who was an eye witness of it and was a judicious person expressed it as if it had been a studied peece his great care was that grace might be seen to act him at his death as his chief care had been to express it in his Life He was naturally a man of a timerous and fearful Spirit but when he came to die the grace of God had so elevated him above his natural temper that he was not only willing to die but he triumphed over death and was no more concerned about it then only that grace might act him at his death as it had done in his life He delighted not to speak much in the time of his sickness but for the most part his time was taken up in a continued Meditation yet something he spake to all that came to visit him and that which he spake it was usually comprized in some short sentence or other His Dying Speeches and Counsels His most usual word to all that came to him was this make sure of Christ remember that one necessary thing At one time when some of the younger sort were come about him he said make sure of Christ and for incouragement I tell you that Religion is no vain thing it is no notion it is a reality I tell you so from mine own experience Another time perceiving some young ones to be talking one to another in a familiar manner he said he knew not what thy were talking about but commended their love only they should be sure to speak something for the edifying one of another and they should have their speeck seasoned with the salt of the word for the Lord he hearkned and heard and there was a Book of remembrance written for them that feared him and thought upon his name At another time when there was a person of Quality came to visit him he said hold on as you have begun make sure of Christ if I had as much gold as would reach up to the sky it would do me no good my interest in Christ is all my happiness Another time his wife and children coming about him he said I hope you have made choice of Christ and he exhorted them to cleave to him withall he added they shyould be diligent in the use of all the means but when all was done they should be sure to depend upon Christ and he added farther take heed of the world for that is your greatest Enemy I have found it to be so And to his children in particular he said deny your selves sinful-self self-pleasure and self\profit and the delights of the world and seek your All in Christ and in him you shall find All-sufficiency When some good people who were wont to meet together to pray and to build up one another in the ways of God came to visit him he said continue in prayer hold on I am confident it is the way of God you are in To the Minister of the place that came to visit him often in his sickness he said Preach to win souls let all your preaching be to win souls And to his own Son a little before his death he wrote to this purpose my Son take heed to the Ministry that thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfil it this will tend to the glory of God the good of souls and to thine account in the day of Christ the great Shepherd of the sheep During the time of his sickness some of his Christian friends kept a Fast for him as also in relation to publick concernments and some being going from him to that exercise he said Pray for me but especially for the Church of God All the time of his sickness he had not the least cloud upon his Spirit The inward Peace and spiritual Comforts which he had in his Sickness neither was Satan permitted in the least to disturb his peace when a Minister that came to visit him asked him whether he had any temptations he answered No blessed be the Lord the had none so that although all his life time he had been full of conflicts yet when he came to die he had the most perfect serenity after he had been sick some weeks he wrote thus to a near Relation I yet live thorough merey and do continue weak but God dealeth very gently with me for my outward afflictions are tolerable and his inward consolations are full of grace and heavenly sweetness These comforts abode and continued with him to the very last for at several times in his sickness and the same day that he died he was heard to say he hath left with me the Comforter and when about an hour before he died his natural Spirits being almost spent he brake forth into this expression my grief is great one of his Relations standing by said to him you do not mean in respect of your spiritual estate Mr. Rowe replied with a little seeming displeasure No no he hath and doth and will support by his eternal Spirit Thus the Lord was pleased to answer him in that which had been his great desire for a long time which was that his Faith might not fail and that he might be kept up in the Faith to the last The night beFore he died he had this expression I have waited upon God for my salvation and blessed be God I shall not be disappointed As his manner was in his life time His Constancy in self-denial so it was observed by those that were most about him at his death He was much in the acknowledgment of his own nothingness and vileness and much in magnifying the free grace mercy of God towards him The Minister that preached at his Funeral had this passage concerning him He was much in self denial even to the last looking on all that he had done as nothing as dross and dung in comparison of Christ At one time when his wife came to him and said she prayed that she might follow his steps he replied Follow Christ follow