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A Narration of the grievous visitation and dreadfull desertion of Mr. Peacock, in his last sicknesse together with the sweet and gracious issue, in his comfortable restauration, to the joy of Gods salvation, before his most blessed end and heavenly death, Decemb. 4, 1611.
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would have believed us Yes Why not now when your judgement is blinded Oh the judgement of God! Call it as He calleth it Correction Oh my miserable heart Oh death A dead man cannot perceive himselfe dead and God quickneth the dead Oh if he would inlarge my soul This desire is good But it is without savour God in mercy will yeeld you a comfortable rellish Consider I pray you whereas you may object the Lord is strong and terrible Exod. 34.6 it followeth Mercifull withall But I am backward in seeking it He is gracious more forward than you can be backward But I have provoked him Hee is slow to anger But my sins are great But he is abundant in goodnesse and truth The Lord hath promised that He on his part will be our God and we on our part shall be his people For a while he commended him to God shortly after returning he prayed with him Cast your burthen upon the Lord. He hath rejected me Who made you his counsellor Deut. 29.29 Secre◠things belong unto God but revealed things to us wil◠you make Almanacks He doth manifest it Oh my abominable bringing up of youth he withall groaned most deeply If you had done as the justest man you should stand need of Christs merits I or another may bring arguments but it belongs unto God to fasten them upon the soule I say to you as Noah said to Japhet Gen. 9.2 God shall enlarge Japhet c. What if your sinnes were as crimson God can make them as snow Isai 1.18 That is true of those that are capable Behold we make your estate our owne we have part of your sorrow who hath thus disposed our soules thinke you God And doe you thinke that he which causeth us to love you doth not love you himselfe I feare I did too much glory in matters of private service to God The nearer we come to God the more we see our owne vilenesse This is the use I make of it Blessed be God who hath not put our estate in the devils hands but kept it in his owne The devill hath now removed you and you thinke that all is gone out but God knows what and who is his An artificer can distinguish drosse from mettall and cannot God his from yours Well with Job lay your hand on your mouth Job 40.4 and hold your peace and so good rest have you Only consider your comfort though it be but small whence it comes from Gods word and servants no otherwise When he returned againe to give and take farewell he began to complaine Oh great and grievous The Lord knoweth what power he hath given you A father will put a greater burden on a stronger son but see the difference First when an earthly father or Master setteth his servant or son on worke they must doe it with their own strength but the Lord setteth on worke giveth strength too Be not discouraged you are now in your calling Oh my soule is miserable What then a father loveth his son as well when hee is sleeping as waking Ioh. 14.26 The holy Ghost calls to remembrance what you have heretofore taught and now heard and although I shall bee absent in body yet shall I be present in minde Be not covetous to seeke abundance by and by If Jacob could say to Esau Gen. 33.10 I have seen thy face as if I had seen the face of God much more should you thinke so of the children of God Christ come unto you I thanke God he hath begun to ease me He will in his good time God grant Thus hee tooke his last farewell Although we depart from our friends in the way yet we shall meet in the end One told Master Dod that he had uttered such words Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle Whereby he counselled one that attended him to be sparing in admitting commers in or speakers lest his braine should bee too much heated A friend of his comming to him asked him Dare you any more repine against God Why should I so God bee blessed It is a signe of grace But I have no means You have had them offered But not given with effect They shall I doubt not God grant but I feele it not He received a letter from a friend very respectively and much respected of them both wherin these words were written I heard I know not how true that our deare Christian friend Master Peacock is in great danger which hath much grieved and afflicted my soule and wrung from me very bitter teares if his extremities be such his tentations sure be like to be very sore Tell him from mee as one who did ever with dearest loving affection know and converse with him that I can assure him in the word of life and truth from a most just and holy God whose Minister I am that he is undoubtedly one of his Saints designed for immortality and those endlesse joyes in another world When it was read to him at these words I can assure him he said Oh take heed take heed Do you thinke that he would or durst assure you unlesse hee knew upon what grounds I deceived my selfe now God hath revealed more Another time one requested him that hee would make his friends partakers of the least comfort that the Lord had bestowed upon him as they had been partakers of his griefe If I had it I would gladly communicate it Search and take notice of the least How should I have any sense God denyeth the meanes Doe you thinke sense is a fruit of faith Yes At this season * For it was in the deepe of Winter Decemb. 4. 1611. although though the husbandman hath sowne much yet he sees nothing above groūd Applications doe not prove hold your peace my soule is broken Then the promise is yours I would gladly aske you one thing Now you will aske twenty Doe you seeke for grace in your soule I cannot How then can you know whether it be there or not It is dead The Lord in whose hands the disposing thereof is disposeth it for your good and his glory I thanke you What do you think of that place Joh. 20.23 Whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them You know how far they may goe The bargaine howsoever is not now to be made betwixt God and you Shortly after came one whom he much esteemed Oh I love said he your company for the grace that is in you and much more to the same purpose Suddenly after he breakes out into this ejaculation Oh God reconcile me unto thee that I may taste one dram of grace by which my miserable soule may receive comfort One secretly willed that man to desire him to repeat it againe Doe not trouble me with repetitions There being a Sermon he bad them about him to goe thither After he called one and asked him Whether the preacher being acquainted with his course of preaching did use his
A NARRATION OF THE GRIEVOVS VISITATION AND DREADFVLL DESERtion of Mr. PEACOCK in his last sicknesse Together with the sweet and gracious issue in his comfortable restauration to the joy of Gods salvation before his most blessed end and heavenly death Decemb. 4. 1611. PSAL. 37.37 Marke the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace PSAL. 37.24 Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast downe for the Lord upheldeth him with his hand PSAL. 71.20 Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me againe and shalt bring me up againe from the depths of the Earth PSAL. 102.18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. LONDON Printed by R.H. for Robert Milbourn at the signe of the holy Lambe in Little Brittaine 1641. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER THose foure leprous men at the gate of Samaria 2 Kings 7.3 When they had eaten and drunke and carried away Silver and Gold and Raiment from out of the forsaken tents of the flying Syrians and had hid the same their Conscience eftsoone gave them the checke for so engrossing to their own use and particular benefit what the God of ISRAEL had in mercy intended and by miracle provided for that whole City and Kingdome Ver. 9 Then they said one to another WEE DOE NOT WELL THIS DAY IS A DAY OF GOOD TIDINGS AND WEE HOLD OUR PEACE Even so this Narration of Mr. PEACOCKS Visitation comming happily to my hands and I upon through-reading and serious perusall thereof finding it to set forth a most singular president and rare example of GODS correcting Iustice in giving over this deare Saint his faithfull servant this MAN OF GOD for so a late reverend Divine * M. Bolton Instruct for afflicted consc p. 84. worthily enstyleth him to the buffettings of Satan terrours of hell conflicts of a selfe-accusing Conscience and likewise to hold forth the tender mercies and melting bowels of the LORDS Fatherly compassion in bringing him even to the suburbs of bell the gates of death (a) Psal 9.13 seemingly yeelding him up into the pawes and jawes of the devill himselfe and yet then plucking him as a brand (b) Zech. 3.2 out of the fire recomforting his dejected soul binding up his broken spirit pouring in a more pretious Balme than that of (c) Ier. 8.22 Gilead into his wounded and bleeding conscience I say hereupon my thoughts forthwith suggested this unto me that I SHOULD NOT DOE WELL to conceale any longer this Mirror of Gods Iustice and Mercy being as well an Antidote against DESPAIRE that dangerous whirle poole and gulfe into which FRANCIS SPIRA seemed irrecoverably to fall to sinke and perish in on the left hand and also to bee a curbe of restraint unto a warning piece and counter-poyson against PRESUMPTION on the right hand the Rocke that so many millions of men everlastingly miscarry and split themselves upon for as the women sang of Saul and David 1 Sam. 18.7 that Saul had slaine his thousands and David his ten thousands so where some few upon an awakened and rouzed conscience die despaireingly infinite is the number of presumptuous sinners who like the Fish in Jordan friske and play and take their pastime in the sweet silver-streames of this lifes comforts till they be unawares suddenly engulfed into the Dead Sea arrested by grimme death Gods Serjeant and haled by devils unto the disobedient soules (d) 1 Pet. 3.19 20. now in prison reserved in chaines under darknesse (e) Iude 6 unto the judgement of the great day without baile or mainprise Doubtlesse whosoever is wise will seriously and seasonably consider of this (f) Psal 107.43 and other like remarkable administrations of divine providence and being carefull of his owne standing in the state of grace will worke out his owne (g) Phil. 2.12 salvation with feare and trembling This surely is the use God would have men to make hereof not to be a nine-daies wonder or a naked subject of fruitlesse discourse but to learne righteousnesse (h) Isa 26.9 thereby for if these things were done in the greene tree (i) Luk. 23 31. what will become of the drie And if the righteous scarcely bee saved (k) 1 Pet. 4.18 where shall the ungodly and sinner appeare It is a fearefull thing (l) Heb. 10.31 saith the Apostle to fall into the hands of the living God That (m) Ioh. 1.29 Lamb of God our blessed Saviour himselfe when he stood in our stead upon the crosse was ready even to sinke under that unsupportable weight and burthen (n) Psal â—8 4 of our sinnes and the feeling apprehension of his Fathers fierce wrath for the same and cries out in that perplexed agonie and dereliction (o) Mat. 27.46 My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Oâ— the terrours and intolerablenesse of a Conscience wounded by sinne The spirit of a man may sustaine (p) Prov. 18.14 his infirmity but a wounded spirit who can beare Not only the desperate cries of Cain Iudas Latomus Bolton p. 83. and many other such miserable men of forlorne hope but also the wofull complaints even of Gods owne deare children discover the unsupportable horrours of a galled Conscience yelling and crying out with the stinging sense of the arrowes of sinne (q) Iob â— 4 the poyson whereof drinks up mens spirits Thus Hezekiah Isay 38.13 Thus Iob Iob 13.26 Iob 6.4.8 Iob 7.14 15. Thus David Psal 32.3 4. And into the like depth of spirituall distresse three worthy servants of God in these later times were plunged and pressed downe under the sense of Gods anger for sinne 1. Blessed Mistris Bretergh upon her last bed was horribly hemmed in with the sorrowes of death See the discourse of the holy life and Christian death of Mistris Katherine Bretergh the very pains of hell laid hold on her soule she said her sinnes had made her a prey to Satan she cryed out Woe woe woe A weake a wofull a wretched a forsaken woman with teares continually trickling from her eyes 2 Master Peacock that man of God in that his dreadfull visitation and desertion recounting some smaller sinnes burst out into these words And for these saith he I feele now an hell in my conscience But thou shalt reade more concerning him in the following Narration 3. What grievous pangs and sorrowfull torments what boiling heats of the fire of hell that blessed Saint of God Iohn Glover felt inwardly in his spirit saith Master Foxe no speech outwardly is able to expresse Acts Mon. in the story of Master Robert Glover pag. 1557. Being yong saith he I remember I was once or twice with him whom partly by his talke I perceived and partly by mine owne eyes saw to be so worne and consumed by the space of five yeares that neither almost any brooking of meat quietnesse of sleepe pleasure of life