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A74716	The last visitation: conflicts and death of Mr. Thomas Peacock batchellor of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose-Colledge in Oxford. Published by E B from the copie of that famous divine, Mr. Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3514A; Thomason E2103_1; ESTC R210121	21,659	90

of God much more should you think so of the children of God that come to you I thank God saith he he hath begun to ease me He will in his good time God grant Thus he took his last farewell Although vve depart from our friends in the way yet vve shall meet at the end One told Master Dod that he had uttered such words Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle Whereupon he counselled one that attended on him to be sparing in admitting commers in or speakers lest his brain should be too much heated A friend of his comming to him asked him Dare you murmure and repine against God Why should I so God be blessed It is a signe of grace But I have no meanes You have had them offered But not given with effect They shall I doubt not God grant but I doe not feel it He received a letter from a friend very respective M. Bolton and much respected of them both wherein were written these very words I heard I know not hovv true that our dear Christian friend Mr Peacock is in great danger which hath much greived and afflicted my heart and vvrung from me very bitter teares If his extremities be such his tentations are very like to be sore Tell him from me as one vvho did ever with dearest intimatenes knovv and converse with him that I can assure him in the word of life and truth frō a most just and holy God whose Minister I am That he is undoubtedly one of his Saints designed for immortality and those endles joyes in another world When it was read to him at those words I can assure him c. he said Oh take heed take heed doe you think he vvould or durst assure you unles he knew on what grounds I did deceive my self now God hath revealed more Another time one requested him that he would make his friends partakers of the least comfort that the Lord bestovved upon him as they had been partakers of his grief If I had it I would willingly communicate it Search and take notice of the least How should I have any since God denyeth the means doe you think sense is a fruit of faith Yes at this season although the husbandman hath sown much yet he seeth nothing above ground Applications doe not prove hold your peace my heart is broken Then the promise is yours I would gladly ask you one thing Now you will ask twenty Doe you seek for grace in your heart I cannot How then can you know whether it be there or no It is dead The Lord in whose hand the disposing thereof is dispose it for your good and his glory I thank you What doe you think of that place Whose sins you remit they are remitted c. You know how farre they may goe Howsoever Sir the bargain is not now to be made between God and you Shortly after came one whom he much esteemed Oh I love said he your company for the graces in you and much more to the same purpose Suddainly he brake out into this ejaculation Oh God reconcile me unto thee that I may taste one dramme of thy grace by which my miserable soul may receive comfort One secretly willed that man to desire him to repeat it again Doe not trouble me with repetitions There being a sermon he bade them about him goe thither After he called one and asked him whether the preacher being acquainted with his course of preaching did use his accustomed divisions He told one Satan had borne him in hand and had deluded him to whō the other answered I hope that God will restore you as before to glorify him here No. No. Yea if you were weaker I would hope notwithstanding I desire nothing more God be thanked you have laboured carefully for his glory I would labour after another fashion In the night he prayed and repeated his belief And after resting a while he called those that watched with him Bear witnesse I said not I believe but in generall and as desiring that I might believe One comming to visit him asked him How is it with you My minde was grievously puZZled with sundry distractions this night but now I feel my burthen more light I thank God He was put in minde of that place Isa 54.8 11 12 c. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours and thy foundations with Saphyrs And I will make thy windowes of Agates and thy gates of Carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones c. For a little while I hid my self from thee but with everlasting kindnes will I have mercy on thee He lifted up his eyes thereupon being asked what the Lord did say to his soul that had long refused comfort Take heed be not to● bold look to the foundation And then prayed Lord grant m● the comfort of thy deliverance and forgive me my foolishnes that I may praise thy name Then he complained of his idle speeches Upon the Sabbath day one came to him willing him to put his hand to a note of certain debts This is not a day for that We will goe to Sermon God spee● you Now you cannot goe to Church to serve the Lord I pray him to come to you Amen He hardly suffered any to stay with him At evening one did read something to him in Master Downams warfare and asked him doe you think it to be true Yes Therefore you must not trust your sense What not such as mine are But I will not now dispute When they were helping him up and putting on his cloathes upon some occasion one said to him to this effect A childe will not much grieve at the laying aside of an old coat when he hath anew made Whē you shall put on that there shall be no longer nakednes the resurrection will amend all To those that die in the Lord. No doubt you will dye in him having lived in him I have answered you before But I would not believe you in that case The next day a friend of his being to goe forth of town asked him whether he would have any thing with him for he was to leave him and knew not whether ever he should see him again here Look to your calling that it be as well inward as outward He counselled another To be stirring for the glory of God To one standing by he said 〈◊〉 am thinking What On a for● to get grace Put your trust in God So I doe I omit how and tell you that with great patience he continually submitted himself to advise in any means fo● his good In putting his temporall estate in order he deal● mercifully with his poorest debtors yea with some which migh● well pay it His worthy patro● for so he often called him whom for honours sake I name Sir Robert Harley sent his man to him with some aurum potabile together with a book which a Doctour had made in the praise

THE LAST VISITATION CONFLICTS and DEATH OF Mr. THOMAS PEACOCK Batchellar of Divinity and Fellow of Brasen-nose-Colledge In OXFORD Published by E. B from the Copie of that famous Divine Mr. Robert Bolton late Minister of Broughton in North-hampton-shire LONDON Printed for William Miller at the guilded Acron near the little North-doore in St Pauls Church-yard 1660. THE PREFACE TO the READER Christian Reader I Had not performed a trust had not I published this ensuing Narrative and I had not paid a debt which I doe and shall ever owe to the Publike had not I made it common Mr Bolton a man of precious memory and famous in his generation desired me upon his death-bed ●o publish such of his papers as I ●hought fit for the Presse which I have already done This copy be●ng found amongst them though penned by another hand I durst not withhold being to my knowledge intended by him for the presse in memory of his familiar friend and spirituall father Mr Thomas Peacock who was a very Godly Minister of Christ and of rare example for humility and holines o● life for a Religious care in educating his scholars and for exceeding charity to the bodies and souls o● poor distressed Christians An● yet this godly man that for piet● had in him the root of an Oak whe● God cast him upon his bed of sicknes and suffered Satan to winno 〈◊〉 him he was no more in his hand then a leaf tossed too and fro wit 〈◊〉 the winde Gods dealings wit 〈◊〉 him in these his last conflicts ar● of singular use in these present times in which the ends of the world an● the dreggs of schisme and sinne an● come upon us at once First for caution to the true servants of God to take heed of small sinnes for from the lesser sinnes and infirmities of Mr Peacock the Devil did thence take a rise to cast him into the most bitter spirituall desertion that we shall lightly read ●f under which he had sunk had not God wonderfully put to his hand by making the issue of his afflictions more glorious and comfortable ●hen the combate was grievous and ●errible It was a memorable say●ng of Francis Spira which he spake to his mournfull children and friends beholding that sad specta●le of his small despaire earnestly wishing them to take heed of committing the smallest sinnes against ●onscience By this means saith he I fell into greater sinnes till I ●ame to deny the Gospel of Christ ●nd after that to renounce it in ●riting and deliberately to subscribe to it with my hand though saith he I hea●d a voice in my conscience telling me Spira doe not subscribe it after which I thought I heard the voice of Christ whom I denyed before men to pronounce the sentence of death upon my soul and to exclude me from salvation And thus he dyed Secondly for confutation of sundry sor●s in Religion in these unhappy dayes of Civill warre as naturally producing them as mud and filth doe toads and vermin Some there are that quite abrogate the Law which Christ came to fulfill and so make the gate of Heaven wider then ever our Saviour made it by admitting lawlesse persons into it Holy Bradford was of another minde who was wont to say that the gate of Heaven was so strait that he which halted could not enter into it and the way 〈◊〉 narrow that he which reeled ●●uld not walk in it Others there ●re who though they doe not whol● destroy the law yet they cast it 〈◊〉 to a dead sleep thinking it un●●wfull in the children of God to be ●●rry or to mourn for sinne con●●ary to the Doctoine of the primi●●ve Fathers teaching this lesson ●emper doleat paenitens de ●olore gaudeat Let the penitent ●erson alwaies mourn and rejoyce 〈◊〉 that mourning agreeing with ●●e rule of our Saviour Blessed are ●hey that mourn for they shall ●e comforted Nay I lately heard it not with●●t horrour that some men in out●ard appearance of great sanctity ●e hold an opinion that it is a ●ult in godly men to pray for par●n of sin all sinnes being pardon●● in Christ before they pray contrary to the prayer of our Saviour Forgive us our trespasses Neither Mr Peacock nor any of thos● godly Divines that came to comfo●● him knew this kinde of Doctrine neither we nor the Churches of Go● till within these few late unhapp● dayes What will become of our reformed Religion streaming down to 〈◊〉 in the blood of so many Martyr●● if God by a miracle of mercy shou●● not shorten these our miserab●● dayes For whiles some are takin● from us the Ten Commandement● others the Lords Prayer there 〈◊〉 scarce any thing left us of Christ●●anity but our Creed and how lo●● we shall enjoy this the Lord in He●ven knowes For so long as t●● civill sword of warre devoures 〈◊〉 much Protestants blood from wit●out and a worse civill warre sinne and separation destroyes many Protestant souls from within ●e may justly feare that we shall ei●her want sound Orthodox Prote●●ants to maintain it or we shall ●●ant a Creed for them to main●ain I shall for conclusion desire that Reader into whose hands this ensu●●g discourse shall fall to observe ●hree things concerning M ● Pea●ock a man whom I well knew ●nd blesse God that ever I knew ●im 1. That the forest and sharpest ●fflictions doe very often befall the ●earest and choisest servants of God I mean not outward and temporall ●fflictions common to good and ●ad but inward and spirituall af●●ictions and the heaviest of these ●pirituall desertions whereby God ●ithdrawes his glorious counte●ance from his children and Sa●an in liew thereof shews them his ugly visage thereby convincing a● secure world That it is no easy matter to goe to Heaven and tha● the safest and surest way to it is to sayl by the gates of Hell If th● righteous can scarcely be save● saith the Apostle where shal● the wicked and sinner appear 2. That the deepest humiliation of Gods children doe usually determine in the highest consolations And hereby the wicked who like ravening wolves hunt after such opportunities doe misse of their prey and returne ashamed when they consider what end God hath made An● thus it fell out with Mr Peacoc● here 3. Lastly Though a spiritua●● desertion be the highest afflictio● that befalls Gods childe yet it discovers in him the greatest sincerit● of an upright heart For at such time he is so farre from hiding h●● sinnes that he cares not what ●ame he puts upon himself so God ●ay have glory For in a spi●●tuall desertion though the soul of Christian be extreamly distressed ●●rough the terrour of sinne yet at ●he same time hath it a true touch 〈◊〉 grace though not of the comforts ●f it like iron touched with the ●oad-stone it stands directly North●ard though with much tremb●ng So doth the soul of a Christi●n stand directly Heaven-ward in ●his hellish agony and the absence ●f God and of