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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25318	An Account of the last hours of Dr. Peter du Moulin, minister of Gods word, and professor of divinity at Sedan who dyed in the said town, March 10, 1658, stylo novo / translated into English out of the French copy printed at Sedan.		1658 (1658)	Wing A304; ESTC R1231	10,086	32

God thou hast taught me from my youth and hither to have I declared thy wandrous works Now also when I am old and gray-headed O God forsake me not No day past but he prayed for his Children both present and absent saying The Lord blesse them and give them his peace his love and his fear Every hour his family did look that he should expire but he examining his pulse would say You shall see me very sick but I shall not so soon dye The four first dayes of his sicknesse he spake both day and night with little intermission So that it is impossible exactly to follow the sluency of his discourse and the fervency of his expressions especially in his prayers So much wee relate here as wee his diligent hearers can remember for all this was spoken before many and worthy witnesses that resorted to him to hear him and to learn to dye But the six last dayes of his sicknesse he was for the most part of the time in a deep slumber against which he did earnestly strive Prick me said he Now I should watch It is not time now to sleep but to dye Watch and pray said my saviour that you enter not into temptation O great God abandon me not to mine infirmities but so preserve and keep up my Spirit that I may glorifie thee even when I am a dying And though after such expressions he fell presently into his slumber one might see by his gestures and by the words which he spake now and then that one might say of him as the spouse said of her self He was asleep but his heart waked He open'd his eyes He lift up his hands He said often Lord be mercifull to me Be gracious to me Even when he seemed to be deep asleep he would come out with five or six words which shewed what his mind was set upon Death said he is swallowed up in victory And a good space after It is the gift of God It is my hope It is my comfort Sometimes the same thing came often to his mind and mouth For a whole day he would say every time that he awaked The Word was made flesh When he was too long without speaking his friends were carefull to awake him to know whether he had sense and knowledge still Being awaked he was asked whether he did lift up his soul unto God He answered Yes incessantly He was asked again whether he would be glad to go to God O said he when shall I see him that good God! He was not much troubled with his slumber in the morning from seven to nine because then his fever was lesse which used to redouble about nine In that intervall he would speak with facility That intervall was husbanded to comfort him and to pray by him He would then hearken to prayers with great attention and to all the good things that were said to him And it is observable that in this his sicknesse he was lesse deaf then he had been ten years before Many times he would feel his pulse and then said O what a grief is this I cannot dye Good God have mercy upon me Set my soul free I am weary of being absent from my God I desire to depart and to be with Christ O my God come fetch me shorten the dayes of my combat Let me dye I beseech thee Into thy hands I commend my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth His Chamber was full of people day and night Once opening his eyes after a slumber he said Here is a great company One answered him Sir they are your Sheep that desire you to call for Gods blessing upon them The Lord blesse them said he and give them his fear and the promised salvation The two last dayes of his sicknesse added to his burning fever and deadly slumber contractions of sinews and convulsions Every hour was thought to be his last None look'd to hear him speak any more All his friends thought that his deep sleep would end in that of death But about midnight he opened his eyes and said to one of them that stood by I shall soon be eased I am going to my Father and my God He hath heard me indeed And soon after I go to him with confidence for he hath arrayed me with his robe Then being raised into an unexpressible rapture he said I see him and with an exclamation O how beautifull he is Being thus exalted in Spirit far above the world although he was alwayes tenderly affected towards his family he said to them that were there present putting them far with his hand I renounce all earthly affections I will no more love any thing in the World but thee O God who dost alone possesse me After these words he continued a good while in that holy rapture causing more edification in all the standers by which his countenance without words then with all the words which he had spoken before His eyes were clear and sparkling his mouth open and panting after the living God His armes stretcht up to heaven and his body striving wonderfully to rise as it were to meet and to embrace that beautifull object of his love All that were present wisht that God would receive him in that happy instant But his hour was not yet come All the next day which was Saturday the ninth of March he struggled with the agony of death being tormented with frequent convulsions and still fighting the good fight by faith humility and patience Towards the evening the tokens of his approaching death made his assistants to double their endeavours to comfort him He understood all that was said to him and shewed holy elevations in his prayer he gave thanks to those that prayed saying the Lord hear you and the Lord blesse you When he heard the glory at hand extolled in some emphatical termes of Scripture he returned into his former raptures And once more he pronounced those words of Psal 17. I shall be satisfied with thy likeness when I awake And twice or thrice Come Lord Jesu come come Lord Jesu come And for the last time that text which he loved so much He that believeth in Iesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life Then a little after Lord Jesu receive my Spirit He that comforted him said to him Sir you shall see your Redeemer with your eyes To which he answered with an effort laying his hand over his heart I believe it That was the last intelligible word which he pronounced though he made yet great efforts to make himself understood and was a quarter of an hour speaking with a fervent affection But the fleames that filled his throat and palate suffered not the assistants to understant any of his words After this he was half an hour without speaking yet without loosing sense and knowledge His friends made the last prayer during which he did perpetually lift up his eyes and hands to heaven And some moments after he quietly gave up the last breath dying with peace and joy visible on his face It was half an hour after midnight the tenth of March 1658. in the fourscore and tenth year of his age FINIS