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An account of several observable speeches of Mrs. Luce Perrot the late wife of Mr. Robert Perrot of London, minister. Spoken by her chiefly in the time of her sickness, and a little before her death; and taken immediately from her own mouth, though unknown to her. And now published for the comfort and benefit of her near relations, and some other of her friends.
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Perrot, Luce, d. 1678.
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governed by him c. In hearing the Word I have been glad of rebukes as well as promises I love all the people of God even those I never saw I am sometimes much troubled for my lukewarmness that I do no more honour God c. but this upholds me I look upon it with grief I would more honour God and do him better service and I dislike it I do no more I have been ready to think sometimes I do not love God because I am no more in communion with God I love thee and delight in thy Company but thus I recover my self That I desire to have more communion with God and I am still lifting up my heart to him and I love those that are his and when nothing else yet love to the Saints stays me We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren c. 1 John 3.14 I shall not change my company though my place but those I delighted in here I shall go to when I dye Having little opportunity of communion with the Saints I was once ready to think if I had more communion with them it may be I should have less communion with God but going abroad God convinced me of the contrary for I found my self much quickned by that Christian communion I had and it made me to delight more in communion with God She was very desirous and sollicitous of Sions welfare the Church of God bore much upon her spirit she much rejoyced she lived to hear of the discovery of the late hellish Plot of the Papists She said she had earnestly prayed that God would discover the plots of his enemies and now he hath heard my prayers and if she said we had but more faith and could but more trust in God it would be better Our sins indeed are great but Gods mercies greater She had still a firm confidence God would bring down his enemies c. Let us pray earnestly and wait patiently and Stons deliverer will appear in due time c. 14. As concerning what it was which comforted her in all her afflictions and in and under all her pains sicknesses and weaknesses 1. Her interest in God THis is my comfort That I have an interest in God who is Allsufficient Unchangeable The God of all comfort and that comforteth those that are cast down He hath said to me I am thine and thou art mine and though I fail he hath made an everlasting Covenant with me and that fails not I am a poor changeable creature but he is unchangeable My flesh and my heart fails but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Psal 73.26 Creature-comforts fail but God never fails He is my strength and my stay and my all and the little interest I have in God is better than a Kingdom of ease and my God my God in Christ will comfort me I had so much comfort my Dear the other night that I could have found in my heart to have wakened thee to have told thee but that thou wast weary but I can't express it now Asking her what it was wherein she had so much comfort she replied not in any thing here but in God and in Jesus Christ and the things of God c. Thus that the Lord was her God this was to her a choice Cordial and soveraign ground of comfort in all her affliction as it hath been to others as to David Psal 31.14 But I trusted in thee O Lord I said thou art my God c. And Psal 63.1 O God thou art my God c. So Psal 42.5 c. And God himself so propounds it Isa 41.10 Be not dismayed for I am thy God c. And indeed what greater or more soveraign ground of comfort is or can there be than this To have the Lord who is so infinite and allsufficient a God to be our God and what can be wanting where Allsufficiency is He is the very sum and center of all our happiness and good and to have this God our God what ever he is or has ours to be for our comfort and benefit all his excellencies and perfections his Wisdom Power Goodness Mercy c. Surely no greater nor more soveraign ground of comfort can there be for God contains all and that God my God surely all that is truly good and comfortable must needs be wrapt up in this My God it is more than my Kingdom my World my Heaven and Earth yea many Heavens and Earths were they extant This comprehends at once all good and all 's concenter'd here more cannot be said and truly less will not serve our turn In God as in a Crystal fountain is and resides for ever all the refined goodness and sweetness of all the creatures in Heaven and Earth here 's all we want would have or reasonably can desire and therefore this must needs be the very foundation of all true comfort and consolation and this was that which was in a special manner the comfort and support of this preciâ—ous soul She often would say My God my God And except he be our God the greater good he is the greater is our misery Tolle meum tolle Deum Take away my and take away God as to comsort And surely therefore if there be any thing under Heaven truly worthy our labouring after and laying out our utmost endeavours for it is this the getting upon good grounds sound evidence to our souls that God is ours 2. The Love of God in Christ his loving-kindness and the assurance thereof Oh! the meditation and contemplation of the love of God in Christ it is the sweetest Cordial and hath amidst all my pains been my Cordial day and night And she told a friend that came to see her That was it not that she had a comfortable assurance of Gods love to her in Christ she could not tell how to bear up under one of those pains which indeed were very sharp but the contemplation of that made her bear up under all Oh there are heights and depths and lengths and breadths in the love of God in Christ It passes knowledg Ephes 3.18 19. And eternity will be little enough to praise God and that which exceedingly comforts me is the everlastingness of that love that he will never take away his loving-kindness from me Once formerly after long trouble God gave me a glimpse of his love and though I was very sick and weak and could neither stand nor go yet then methoughts I was not sick I did not feel it c. Being asked if she would have some Cordial she replied Oh! the favour of God is the best Cordial Better than Life Psal 63 3. Oh! pray I may be more and more reconciled to God and have clearer evidences he is my God Another time being very faint and asked what she would have she replied more of Gods favour and to do his will I have so rejoyced in Gods goodness that I
me if my work was done to be gone c. I am afraid lest I should desire to dye to be freed of my pains but I would desire to dye out of love to God and that I may injoy him and be rid of sin more than sorrow and then our graces shall be perfect knowledg perfect love perfect c. 17. As concerning her being above the fears of death SOmetimes formerly she has not though seemingly near to death been so willing to dye but would say Will not God make me more willing to dye before I dye Surely he will I have been more willing c. And so he did in this her last sickness whereby we might have foreseen her death to have been near Asking her whither she was not afraid of death she replied no I am not I do not look upon death singly but as it brings me to rest I must go through that dark entry before I can get to my Fathers house I shall go to my first husband c. Methoughts I saw death as a Messenger coming for me and I told him I would go with him I thought I should have died such a day and methoughts I was troubled to think of living When she was in pain she used to say Is not the sound of his Masters feet behind Physick won't do c. And this she speak as being little concerned therewith She said of her sickness these are but Messengers to bid me prepare c. I bless God I can smile on that grim Messenger God will send his Angels to conduct me safe through that dark entry to my Fathers House A Child is afraid to go through a dark place by himself but God says Fear not for I am with thee c. I am not afraid of death but my passage to my fathers House is rough But having gotten so far onward in my way I am loath to go back again If that sweet Messenger come I will bid him wellcome and shall rejoyce and if you love me indeed you will rejoyce too I am no more afraid of Death than to take the choicest Cordial that is for my good for so is death and I look through it and beyond it and long to be with my dear Lord and Saviour My Children are loath to look out my burial-clothes but they are my wedding-clothes and I hope my Bridegroom is not far of c. Telling her of a friend that would come to see her she replied she will come to my burial Why said I saist thou so She answered why should I not comfort my self that I am going home I long to be at home we shall meet again How sweet will that sleep be when I shall wake in Heaven Seeing one of her Daughters weep why says she weep you would you not have me go to my Father He is sending his holy Angels for me Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be beirs of salvation Heb. 1.14 I have one night less I bless God to be here where is sin and sorrow Seeing Cordial-water brought for her she said she hoped she should not live to drink up half that water and being to take a Powder she asked if it was to sweeten her passage then she would take it but not to stay it but what God will I can scarce swallow my spittle a comfortable forerunner I hope of death And her pains falling into her joynts she rejoycingly said there was something further to help her forward to her journeys end Death is indeed a sowre Messenger but my Fathers Messenger to fetch me home She speaking of her death and how she would have things ordered at her Funeral she spake thereof with a great deal of joy and rejoycing but perceiving me to be troubled she looked smilingly upon me and said I can with as much joy yea with more joy speak of my burial-clothes than ever the day before I was married I could of my wedding-clothes I shall be cloth'd with the White Robe of Christs righteousness and have a Diadem upon my head c. 18. Some few of her breathings as in reserence to her self SHould I not make my moan to my God The Lord give me more patience that I may not dishonour him now at last my God teach me teach me as well as correct me strengthen me c. I want nothing but a thankful fruitful heart an heart more humble holy and more to honour God I would have more grace more faith patience meekness humility more of Heaven more holiness more likeness to God and I beg praiers that the Lord would fit me for what his will is concerning me and inable me to bear what he is pleas'd to lay upon me I am weak but he is strong my strength fails but his never fails Good Lord help me to be still carrying on my great work c. And oh that I might lose nothing in this hot furnace but dross But why say I hot It is no other than what my Father sees good and all shall work together for my good if my corruptions hinder not I am so afraid they should but I earnestly desire they may not and I hope the Lord will rather answer my desires than let it be according to my fears Lead me to the rock that it higher than I. The good Lord fiâ— us for what his good pleasure is and for the greatest trials that can come Here we have no continuing City the good Lord help us to be seeking one to come a City that hath foundations c. The Lord fit us for the day of our death that it may be a good day to us The good Lord sanctifie all his fatherly corrections to me and grant I may by all be made the more meet to partake of the inheritance of the Saints in light that we may live to honour our good God all our days that so when our Lord comes we may be found of him in peace The Lord help us to get our hearts into an heavenly frame that our meditations may be more of those things that concern our souls and will sland us in stead to all eternity c. 19. Some of her Speeches to and Prayers for her Husband as in reference to himself and Children formerly MY Dear be not melancholly but still wait upon God rest quietly upon him he that hath fed us cloth'd us and provided for us will still I hope do it My Dear be not sad or troubled but cast thy burdens upon the Lord he will sustain thee The good lord help us to exercise faith and patience O that we could live more a life of faith and holiness and more sweetly and freely depend upon our good God who never fails his poor Children in any time of need O let us cast all our care upon God who hath and will care for us and ours God hath been a long while weaning thee from me we must part but we shall after a little while