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A36839	The last words of Lewis du Moulin being his retractation of all the personal reflectins he had made on the divines of the Church of England (in several books of his) / signed by himself on the 5th and the 17th day of October, 1680.	Du Moulin, Lewis, 1606-1680.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing D2542; ESTC R25015	6,498	19

Protestants and had no hope of seeing the Church restored and therefore that he ought not to have renewed this ungrounded charge against so manifest a demonstration of its falsity Dr. du Moulin made no answer at all but yielded thus far as to say Well Doctour pray to God to pardon me all my sins especially my want of charity Accordingly the Dean kneeling down by his Bed-side began with the Lord's Prayer and so proceeded to the other Prayers which are appointed by the Order in the Common-Prayer-Book for the Visitation of the Sick In all which the Sick man joined with lifting up his hands often and other expressions of devotion especially at that passage in the Prayer when there appears small hopes of recovery give him unfeigned repentance for all the errours of his life past c. he gave more then ordinary signs of his fervent desire And when the Dean had done gave him most hearty thanks and renewed his expressions of extraordinary affection to him and esteem of him The next day Dr. Burnet made him another visit and having given him an account what the Dean of S. Pauls said concerning him which he received with great sense of his kindness and return of thanks to him for it told him it was fit he should do something for the repairing the injuries he had done in as publick a manner as they were committed To which he readily assented and as he promised never to be guilty of the like again if he should recover so he said he would subscribe a Paper that should give publick satisfaction to all he had offended and desired Dr. Burnet to put him in mind of it Who wrote a Paper and left it with Dr. du Moulin's Wife who carrying it to her Husband he said before Witnesses after he had considered the Contents that he was ready to sign it with his Blood and presently subscribed the same A true Copy whereof followeth As for my Books in which I mixed many Personal Reflections I am now sensible I vented too much of my own Passion and Bitterness and therefore I disclaim all that is Personal in them and am heartily sorry for every thing I have written to the defaming of any person I humbly beg God and all those whom I have so wronged pardon for Jesus Christ his sake and am resolved if God shall spare my life never to meddle more with such personal things and do earnestly exhort all people as a dying man that they will study more love and mutual forbearance in their differences and will avoid all bitter and uncharitable reflections on one anothers Persons And as I earnestly pray those worthy men of the Church of England to have charity and tenderness for the dissenters from them so I beg of the Dissenters that they would have a due regard and respect to those of the Church of England Of many of whom I say now let my Soul be with theirs And that all true Protestants among us may heartily unite and concur in the defence and preservation of the Holy Reformed Religion now by the mercy of God settled among us And that men of all sides may according to S. Paul's rule cease to bite and devour one another lest we be destroyed one of another and that whereunto we have already attained we may walk by the same Rule hoping that if any man is otherwise minded in some lesser things God shall either reveal that to them or mercifully forgive it through Jesus Christ Into whose hands I commend my Spirit and desire to appear before God in and through Him who gave himself for me and therefore do now study to learn of him to be meek and lowly in heart and to love all the Brethren as He hath loved me This in sincerity of heart I Sign Lewis du Moulin Octob. 5. 1680. After he had Signed this Writing he continued very seriously to prepare for his death and told Dr. Burnet next time he came to visit him that he had signed the Paper with Ink but if it had been needfull he would have done it with his Blood And said he would have some Copies written out fair and sign some more that these his Last Words might be published to the world after his death And professed also that he felt great joy and quiet in his mind from his being thus reconciled with those whom he had offended And accordingly the Dean of Peterburgh coming a little while after to see him again he was so affected with his kindness in giving him a new visit that he said Are you come again Sir O how charitable are you This is indeed to return me good for evil And after some discourse with him desired him to pray with him again for your Prayers said he were very comfortable to me the last time And accordingly he did in the same form of words he had used before with which he was so much affected that when the Dean had solemnly commended him to God's blessing in that excellent form unto God's gracious Mercy and Protection we commit thee The Lord bless thee and keep thee c. he laid hold upon his hand which he held up over him and kissed it with an unusual passion At the same time having repeated his thanks to him he told him of the Paper before mentioned and desired his Wife to show it him promising a Copy of it should be sent him signed with his own hand It must be confessed that when the Dean had read it he wished it had been more full and so ordered as to have given satisfaction to the whole Church as well as to particular persons But this being the form he had already signed it was not easy to alter it And he often called upon his Wife to get three or four Copies of it transcribed for him to sign according to the first draught which when she had done and brought them to him and askt him whether he had well considered it and was well satisfied to sign these he answered he was ready to doe it with all his heart if they were the same with that he had already signed Then he heard them examined and corrected with his own hand where there was a fault signing three Copies with his own hand in these words viz. To all these things above set down I heartily assent and consent Octob. 17. 1680. Lewis du Moulin If any one doubt of this they may be fully satisfied by Dr. Patrick the Dean of Peterburgh to whom according to his promise and by his order a Copy was sent so signed in his own hand-writing And he gave a charge the same should be published after his Death which followed on the twentieth day of the same Month and on the twenty second of the same Month the said Dean of Peterburgh expressed his charity to him in performing the Funeral Rites himself I have perused this Relation and as far as I am concerned in it do hereby attest the truth of it S. Patrick