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A63254	The triumphs of grace: or, The last words and edifying death of the Lady Margaret de la Musse a noble French lady, who died in May 1681. Aged but sixteen years. Englished by P. L.	La Musse, Margaret de, Lady, 1664 or 5-1681.; P. L.	1687 (1687)	Wing T2296; ESTC R220913	33,954	149

the Pit do go Have mercy upon me Psal 15.1 O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy merccies blot out mine offences v. 12. O restore unto me the comfort of thy salvation and stablish me with thy free Spirit IT cannot be describ'd how great her grief and disquiet was when she reflected upon her weaknesses and the little care she conceiv'd she had taken in the performance of her Duty to God and in this doleful condition she cry'd out Lord God of health Psal 88.1 2 3. Old Transl the hope and stay Thou art alone to me I call and cry throughout the day And all the night to thee O let my Prayer soon ascend Vnto thy sight on high Incline thine ear O Lord attend And bearken to my cry For why with wo my heart is fill'd And does in trouble dwell My life and breath almost does yield And draweth nigh to Hell. O Lord Jer. 14.7 though my sins witness against me yet do thou pardon and put away mine iniquities for thy Great Names sake which I invoke For thy wrath endures but a moment Psal 30.5 and in thy favour is life Behold my troubles Lord How they with baste advance Psal 70.1 Patr. O do not stay but come as fast To my deliverance Like Psal 42.1 as the Hart pants after the Water brooks so longs my Soul after thee v. 2. O God! My Soul is athirst for God yea even for the Living God When shall I come and appear before God Look dawn to me and be the same Psal 119. v. 132. Woodford As thou art us'd to be to them who love thy Name 'T is for thy favour that I sue Psal 119.57 Woodf And hastning of that promise which thy Word makes due ALL the night long she was rehearsing the most pathetical Verses of the Psalms and in the morning being Munday a Roman Catholick being come to see her about nine of the Clock and expressing his grief upon the score of her sickness she answer'd his Civility and withal gave him an account of her Faith and the Hope that was in her assuring him she was resolv'd to die in that Religion which she was brought up in and always had profess'd Some few days after this a Divine by name Monsieur Boursault being come to visit her discoursed her a little while and then pray'd with her she instancing to him after his Prayer was ended what part of it had most affected her This whole day as the foregoing she pass'd in continual sighs and tears often crying out Oh! how much weakness and infirmity O my God am I sensible of Oh! how unworthy am I to appear before thee If thou O Lord mark my transgressions I shall not be able to abide it But O my God I beseech thee speak peace unto me and say to my Soul I am thy Salvation Incline thine ear to hear my voice Psal 119.149 Old Transl And pity on me take As thou wast wont so help me Lord Lest life should me forsake Since my sins do abound Rom. 5.20 O Lord so make thy Grace much more abound towards me Psal 69.16 Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindness is good turn unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies v. 17. And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble O haste thee and hear me Draw nigh unto my Soul v. 18. and save it for thy mercies sake WITH these she rehearsed also several admirable Sentences she had learn'd out of a Book intitul'd Comforts against the Terrours of Death which being slipt out of our mind are not mentioned here SHE having been from the Sunday-morning in continual frights and disquiets occasion'd by the sense of her sins and her apprehension of God's Judgments found her Spirit calmed and her mind much compos'd about seven of the Clock in the Evening when she felt the Comforts of the Holy Ghost and was fill'd with that unspeakable Joy and Glory which God diffuses in their hearts who are struck with a lively sorrow for having offended him NOW at the time of these happy Inspirations it was that she hearing them who were about her talk of giving her something to refresh her body said to them All that is done to me is to no purpose for from my God I have receiv'd the onely Remedy my Soul so much long'd for Psal 118.5 I called upon the Lord in my trouble and the Lord heard me at large I feel my God is on my side v. 6. therefore I will fear no evil v. 16. For the right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord brings mighty things to pass Psal 116.2 The Lord has inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I breath v. 3. The snares of death compassed me about and the pains of Hell gat hold of me v. 4. I found trouble and heaviness but I will call upon the the Name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my Soul. Gracious is the Lord v. 5. and righteous yea our God is merciful v. 6. The Lord preserves the simple I was in misery and he helped me v. 7. Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord has dealt bountifully with thee HERE she making a stop they gave her that which was prepar'd for her and some of the Company telling her she should endeavour to take some rest she answer'd That the Rest and Peace she felt in her Soul was her sole joy and happiness And when it was farther said to her that she ought to take courage there being yet hopes of Recovery Ah! reply'd she tell me no more of living here on Earth again now all my thoughts are fix'd upon Heaven Neither does death affright me at all Rom. 6.23 for though I know it is the wages of sin I know also that the Gift of God is Eternal Life Onely pray to God for me that he would be pleas'd to strengthen me more and more against the fears which the sense of my sins may raise in me to the end I may be enabled to fight the good fight 2 Tim 4.7 and so obtain the Crown of Life UPON which one saying to her that the fears occasioned from sin ought to be much less in her than any body else she having always liv'd a most pious retired life she made this answer How do you know I would not have loved the World if I had been brought up as other people of my Quality are Am not I more happy now that my Saviour will take me from it Let us therefore pray him that be would so dispose my Heart that I may go to him with a full assurance of his Mercy O Lord this is the needful time help me my God hast thee to my relief THEN another saying to her But Madam suppose God would

was the lost Piece v. 9. Then a little while after this she with a loud voice cry'd out as one coming out of a deep Meditation Luk. 23.31 For if these things be done in the green tree what shall be done in the dry WHICH having said she now spoke no more to any body onely she once cried out O how much sorrow and joy how much grief and comfort do meet together in me and then lay down and fell into a slumber In which she had not long continu'd but the Pangs of Death came upon her she had vehement risings at her Stomach her Countenance was fallen sweat proceed from her Body in abundance the Ratling in her Throat increased and her Eyes grew dim and were distorted And being in this condition one of her Acquaintance by name Madam Herault touch'd her arm thinking she was a departing But she recover'd of this Fit and these Agonies being somewhat over her Eyes reassumed the same briskness and liveliness as before she rubbing them with both her hands to disperse the Clouds that had begun already to cover them Her Countenance also was restored to its former gaity and chearfulness and she was heard to make a Melody in singing the 84th Psalm How beauteous is the place where thou Patr. Thy presence Lord dost grant O how long t' approach thy Courts Impatient of restraint And so on THIS was a great surprize to many of them that were there and yet that was not all For after she had took a little breath and slumber'd as before a very little while she stirr'd up her self anew and began to sing the LXXXXII Psalm O what a pleasant task it is Patr. To praise the Lord above Morning and Evening to proclaim His faithfulness and love THUS far onely she went tuning it to the Treble of Claudin with all the Ornaments and Graces that could be And then falling again into the like slumber she remain'd in it as long as the first time after which she tun'd the LXXX Psalm whereof she sang these following Verses onely Thou Shepherd of thy ISRAEL Sandys That Flock-like leadest Joseph's Race Who 'twixt the Cherubims dost dwell O hear shew thy inlightning Face Exalt thy saving power before Manasseh Ephraim Benjamin O from Captivity restore And let thy beams upon us shine Great God of Battel wilt thou still Be angry and our Prayers despise Bread steep'd in tears our stomachs fill We drink the Rivers of our Eyes Our scoffing Neighbours fall at strife Among themselves to share our Right Great God restore the dead to life And comfort by thy quickning Light. AFTERWARDS being seized the fourth time with the Pangs of Death she so remain'd for the space of four hours and then being come to her self again she sang this Stanza Into thy hands Lord I commit My Spirit which is thy due Psal 31.5 Old Transl For why thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true THE Lady her Mother hearing her sing with so much strength said to her My dear Child since I have by God's Grace put the first word into thy mouth wherewith thou hast prais'd Him let me put in the last also I shall ever hear thee speak in this World And so she rehearsed these Verses God who my kind Preserver is I will for ever bless Psal 34.1 Patrick My tongue and lips shall be employ'd His Goodness to confess Which the Patient sang with a strong voice her Eyes being open and her looks smiling all the while Then her agonizing fit coming again upon her and the Lady her Mother not being able to see her expire bad her farewel with a most wonderful strength of mind Adieu said she dear Daughter 2 Sam. 12.23 adieu I shall go to thee but thou shalt not return to me We shall see one another again in that Blessed Day of the Resurrection of the Just And thereupon she withdrew and went and lay down upon her own Bed till her dying Daughter had given up her Soul into the hands of her Heavenly Father But above three hours after this the Chaplain Monsieur De Malnoe being desirous to see whether she had any sense left in her took her by the hand shook her arm and called to her to clinch his hand if she heard still and with that prickt her with a Straw but she gave no sign of life But as he was going out of the room her Body was re-animated on a sudden and sitting up again in her Bed she sang the second time Into thy hands Lord I commit My Spirit which is thy due For thy thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true THEN he drew near again and laying his Ear to her mouth heard her say to God Luk. 2.29 Lord now lettest thou shy servant depart in peace according to thy Word v. 30. For mine eyes have seen thy Salvation Which having utter'd she without stirring in the least breath'd forth three Sighs and so gave up the Ghost there being seen at the same time both in her Countenance and Eyes which remain'd half open a signal impression of Joy that shew'd her Soul had a taste of the Celestial Bliss even before the Bonds wherewith it was ty'd to the Body were wholly dissolv'd THE END Here follows the PRAYER Taken out of Mons Drelincourt's COMFORTS Against the Terrours of Death Which is mention'd in the 55th Page of this Book O GOD of all Flesh and Father of our Spirits I know that any Death of thy Beloved Ones is precious in thy sight and that whatsoever mine may be thou wilt take care of my Salvation I weighing every thing in the Balance of the Sanctuary do find it very little imports me whether my Life be taken away by a Disease or forc'd from me by Violence provided my Soul enter into thy Glory and be made Partaker of those unutterable Felicities that are with thee To me it must be all one whether my Lamp go out of it self or be blown out by any contrary wind so it be but kindled again at the Beams of the Sun of Righteousness and shine in the highest Heavens for evermore Whatsoever Death I die I shall be happy provided I die in the Lord and enter into that Eternal Rest from all my Labours O Lord thou knowest all thy works from everlasting Thou with one glance discoverest the deepest Abyss and seest to the very bottom of Eternity As thou hast precisely appointed the Hour of Death so hast thou been pleas'd also to determine the manner of it O Great and Living God! it is my Duty wholly to acquiesce in thy Adorable Providence and absolutely submit my self to thy wise Decrees But O my God my Heavenly Father if thou wilt vouchsafe me who am but dust and ashes the liberty of speaking to thee and permit thy Child to pour his / her heart 's desire into thy Fatherly Bosom I do with all the powers of my Soul humbly beseech