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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

D. P. I have perused this Relation and as far as I am concerned in it do hereby attest the truth of it G. Burnet Would to God that they who still persist in their Invectives and have since this Doctour's death published under his name an additional account of the Church of England's advances towards Popery without the knowledge of his Wife and other Relations would be pleased to consider this Narrative and lay it to heart before they be arrested by Death that grave that wise and faithfull Counseller which deceives no man but sets a Glass before their eyes which flatters not and represents the truth so plainly and sincerely to their minds that did they but take frequent advice of this Counseller and before they venture upon any action would but consider how it would appear were they going to answer for it to God Almighty they would find themselves irresistably restrained in the pursuit of their fiercest passions and desires For even they who can be wrought upon no other way are moved by the approach of death to alter their resolutions The obstinately inflexible who could not be turned out of their way in which they ran with a violent heat by any obstacle have in a moment been cooled and made to yield when they saw death coming to call them before the Judgment-seat of God Upon which account there cannot be more profitable counsel then that of the Son of Sirach which was read in the Church afew days after the Doctour was buried Ecclus. 7. 36. Whatsoever thou takest in hand remember the end and thou shalt never do amiss Therefore if Dr. du Moulin hath left in any bodies hand and they intend to publish an Ecclesiastical History the design of which he hath already published I beseech those persons whosoever they are before they begin to put it to the Press to consider whether it be such as he would have approved of upon his Death-bed or they will be willing to answer for unto Almighty God and to weigh well those words wherewith the famous Sir Walter Raleigh concludes his History of the World Where inquiring after the reason of the boundless ambition which still continues to reign in the breasts of mortal men notwithstanding the sad fates of those that have gone before them gives an answer which may serve for a reason of all other passions wherewith men are madly transported which is this that they lay before them the actions but not the ends of those that preceded them And then follow these memorable words They are alwaies transported with the glory of the one but they never mind the misery of the other till they find the experience in themselves They neglect the advice of God while they enjoy life or hope of it but they follow the counsel of death upon the first approach IT IS HE THAT PUTS INTO MAN ALL THE WISEDOM OF THE WORLD WITHOUT SPEAKING A WORD c. Death which hateth and destroyeth man is believed God which hath made him and loves him is always deferred I have considered saith Solomon all the works that are under the Sun and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit but who believes it till Death tells it us It was Death which opening the Conscience of Charles the V. made him enjoyn his Son Philip to restore Navarre and King Francis the First of France to command that justice should be done upon the murtherers of the Protestants in Merindol and Cabrieres which till then he neglected It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself He tells the proud and insolent that they are but abjects and humbles them at the instant makes them cry complain and repent yea even to hate their forepast happiness He takes account of the rich and proves him a Beggar a naked Beggar which hath interest in nothing but in the gravel that fills his mouth He holds a Glass before the eyes of the most beautifull and makes them see therein their deformity and rottenness and they acknowledge it O Eloquent just and mighty Death whom none could advise thou hast perswaded what none dared thou hast done and whom all the world hath flattered thou onely hast cast out of the world and despised Thou hast drawn together all the far stretched greatness all the pride cruelty and ambition of man and covered it all over with these two narrow words HIC JACET THE END