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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96977	A collection of several passages concerning his late highnesse Oliver, Cromwell, in the time of his sickness; wherein is related many of his expressions upon his death-bed. Together with his prayer within two or three dayes before his death. Written by one that was then groom of his bed-chamber.	Walker, Henry, Ironmonger.; Harvey, Charles, 17th cent, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing W370; Thomason E985_22; ESTC R207875	11,611	25

of the world It is holy and true it is holy and true it is holy and true Who made it holy and true who kept it holy and true the great Mediatour of the Covenant The Covenant is but one Faith in the Covenant is my onely support yet if I beleeve not hee abides faithful Is there none that will come and praise God * Whatsoever sins thou hast doest or shalt commit if you lay hold upon free Grace you are safe but if you put your self under a Covenant of works you bring your self under the Law and so under the Curse then you are gone Is there none that saies who will deliver mee from the peril man can do nothing but God can do what hee will Lord thou knowest if I do desire to live it is to shew forth thy praise and declare thy works It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God Heb. 10. 31. This was spoke three times his Repetitions usually being very weighty and with great vehemency of spirit All the Promises of God are in him Yea and in him A men to the glory of God by us by us in Jesus Christ The Lord hath filled mee with as much Assurance of his Pardon and his Love as my soul can hold I think I am the poorest wretch that lives But I love God or rather am beloved of God 1 John 4. 10 19. Herein is love not that wee loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins We love him because he first loved us I am a Conquerour and more than a Conquerour through Christ that strengtheneth mee Rom. 8. 37. Nay in all these things wee are more than Conquerours through him that loved us Children live like Christians and I leave you the Covenant to feed upon 1 John 2. 1 15 28 29. cap. 3. 7 18. 5. 21. My little Children these things write I unto you that yee sin not And if any man sin wee have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him And now little Children abide in him that when hee shall appear wee may have confidence and not bee ashamed before him at his coming If yee know that hee is righteous yee know that every one which doth righteousness is born of him Little Children let no man deceive you hee that doth righteousness is righteous even as hee is righteous My little Children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth Little Children keep your selves from Idols Amen Love not this world I say unto you it is not good that you should love the world 1 John 2. 15 16 17. Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that doth the will of God abideth for ever Thus wee see not onely his clearness in the Covenant of Grace but the strength of his Faith even unto a high pitch of Assurance and triumph with exceeding spiritual joy and rejoycing And yet with a deep and soul-debasing sense of his own sinfulness and unworthiness thereby magnifying to much the more the Riches of Gods Grace with his deep apprehensions of the dreadful consequence of despising the same or turning it into wantonness or by drawing back from our holy profession and obedience after Conviction Illumination and some taste of the heavenly Gift so falling into the hands of the Living God which is a fearful thing But as to his Faith had it not been great considering the many trials and afflictions terrours and temptations hee was under before these times upon and after his turn to God And the difficulties and dangers hee encountred with with continual ha●●ard of life in his military employments Besides much more than ever since called to the Government of these Nations a burden of its self too heavy for any man or men to bear without a mighty power of God I say considering all this had hee not been strong in Faith hee had sunk long ago In the next place let us consider the exercise of his Faith in a few experiences of many wherein hee was Rich declared by himself and which were not ordinary But such as few I think of the choicest Saints have attained unto one whereof was as followeth Being at Edinborough in Scotland it pleased the Lord to exercise him with sore sicknesse a high and dangerous Feavor whereby hee was brought so low that his Physicians and others had little or no hopes in reason of his recovery For one fit of his distemper having lasted about twelve hours Immediately a second fit returned upon him without any intermission for as long a time and likely to have continued in that extremity until thereby hee had expired But behold this was Gods opportunity to shew his Power and to magnifie his Word a Portion whereof by the hand of the Spirit of the Lord was then given in unto him not onely to feed his Faith and revive his heart but also to rebuke his Disease which immediately left him to the astonishment of himself and others it being little less than a miracle For his Distemper returned no more upon him but the Lord raised him up intending further to use and honour him as hee hath done The Scripture is Psal. 91. 14 15 16. Because hee hath set his love upon mee therefore will I deliver him I will set him on high because hee hath known my Name Vers 15. Hee shall call upon mee and I will answer him I will bee with him in trouble I will deliver him and honour him Vers 16. With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation Which Promises as then his Relief so all along in every condition have been eminently made good unto him in his own experiences and would bee of good use to others had not his own backwardness in uttering any thing wherein hee might seem to glory for the most part concealed them But as in sickness so also in the high places of the field as at Dunbar Worcester and elsewhere when hee carried his life in his hand ready to offer up the same as a willing Sacrifice in the great Cause of God and his People Did not his Faith then work at a more than ordinary rate insomuch that successe and victory was in his eye whilst fears and despondencies did oppresse the hearts of others and some good men too when great discouragements and that not groundless as to the strongest reason did lye in the way I say was hee not like another

David not fearing the face of any Goliah nor the over-matching numbers and strength of Enemies Yea like those Worthies Heb. 11. did hee not by Faith suddue Kingdomes work Righteousness obtain Promises stop the mouths of Lions quench the violence of flames escape the edge of the sword out of weakness made strong wax valiant in fight and turn to flight the Armies of Aliens Although I will not say that his Faith alone had a hand in these successes yet not the least but all the people of God by Faith and Prayer had a great share therein which must vigorously bee kept up still if wee desire to prosper But this by the way being of publick concernment and better known to many others than my self And therefore to come nearer a few daies after the death of the Lady Elizabeth his Daughter at Hampton Court which toucht him nearly being then himself under bodily distempers forerunners to his sicknesse which was to death and in his Bed-chamber hee called for his Bible and desired a person honourable and godly then with others present to read unto him Phil. 4. 11. 12. 13. Not that I speak in respect of want but I have learnt in whatsoever state I am therewith to bee content I know both how to bee abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to bee full and to bee hungry both to abound and to suffer need v. 13. I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth mee Which read said hee to use his own words as near as I can remember them This Scripture did once save my life when my eldest Son died which went as a dagger to my heart indeed it did And then repeating the words of the Text himself declared his then thoughts to this purpose reading the 10th and 11th verses of Pauls Contentation and Submission to the Will of God in all conditions said hee 't is true Paul you have learnt this and attained to this measure of grace but what shall I do Ah poor creature it is a hard lesson for mee to take out I finde it so But reading on to the 13th verse where Paul saith I can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth mee Then Faith began to work and his heart to finde support and comfort saying thus to himself Hee that was Pauls Christ is my Christ too And so drew waters out of the well of salvation Christ in the Covenant of Grace But a little nearer yet after his return to White-Hall his sicknesse increasing upon him hee was observed to bee in a very spiritual frame of heart and full of holy expressions catched up by one or other fearing God that were present as a hungry man doth meat A little whereof it was my comfort to meet with the very night before the Lord took him to his everlasting rest which were to this purpose following viz. Truly God is good indeed hee is hee will not there his speech failed him but as I apprehend it it was hee will not leave mee this saying that God was good hee frequently used all along and would speak it with much chearfulnesse and fervour of spirit in the midst of his pains Again hee said I would bee willing to live to bee further serviceable to God and his People but my work is done yet God will bee with his People Hee was very restlesse most part of the night speaking often to himself And there being something to drink offered him hee was desired to take the same and endeavour to sleep unto which hee answered It is not my design to drink or to sleep but my design is to make what haste I can to bee gone Afterwards towards morning using divers holy expressions implying much inward consolation and peace among the rest hee spake some exceeding self-debasing words annihilating and judging himself And truly it was observed that a publick spirit to Gods cause did breath in him as in his life-time so now to the very last which will further appear by that Prayer hee put up to God two or three daies before his end which was as followeth LORD Although I am a miserable and wretched Creature I am in Covenant with thee through Grace And I may I will come to thee for thy people thou hast made mee though very unworthy a mean Instrument to do them some good and thee service And many of them have set too high a value upon mee though others wish and would bee glad of my Death But Lord however thou dost dispose of mee continue and go on to do good for them Give them consistency of Judgement one heart and mutual love and go on to deliver them and with the work of Reformation and make the Name of Christ glorious in the world Teach those who look too much upon thy instruments to depend more upon thy self Pardon such as desire to trample upon the dust of a poor worm for they are thy People too And pardon the folly of this short Prayer then for Jesus Christs sake and give us a good night if it be thy pleasure Some variation there is of his Prayer as to the account divers give of it and something is here omitted But this is certain that these were his Requests wherein his heart was so carried out for God and his People yea for them who had added no little sorrow to his grief and afflictions that at this time hee seems to forget even his own Family and nearest Relations And thus wee see in part something of the clearnesse and strength of his Faith in the Covenant of Grace and some tasts of the exercise thereof in a few of his experiences with the excellency of his spirit in prayer And that spiritual and publick frame of heart breathing forth in him even to the last period of his life whose name shall and will bee as ointment poured out notwithstanding the mouth of envy But further that we may see his Faith was not alone nor an idle Faith let us consider him in his other Graces and Excellencies in some observations of his Conversation in general which was worthy Imitation of the most eminent Saints And that since he arrived at that greatness unto which God raised him which caused no abatement in him considerable as usually it doth in men But rather as his power and opportunity was increased so his talents were drawn into exercise and usefulness 1 And first his Zeal for God his Cause his Truth his People and the good of men which in a manner as it was said of Christ did even eat him up Insomuch that he did not count his life dear to him nor any thing else so he might be usefull What else engaged him in and carried him through the great Work of God as a prime and choice Instrument for so many years together with so much stediness and constancy as to the true aim and scope thereof viz. Gospel liberty and Civil Right c. Notwithstanding many difficulties and