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A Narration of the grievous visitation and dreadfull desertion of Mr. Peacock, in his last sicknesse together with the sweet and gracious issue, in his comfortable restauration, to the joy of Gods salvation, before his most blessed end and heavenly death, Decemb. 4, 1611.
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your selfe No. You would amend if you had space Oh if I had certainly Thinke on this the Lord hath heard the ejaculations of your spirit in your infirmities So he will now If he will be glorified by your life submit your selfe to him Let him chuse for you My saith is weake All you know here are but in part sanctified You desire now notwithstanding to come to that which is perfect for you may see how many have beene brought home to the Lord. Some have beene Idolaters was not Manasseh such a one 2 Chro. 33.12 13. Yes And behold Gods servants from the beginning of the Bible to the end have slipped Gen. 19.33 35. Lot had shrewd slips but yet heare the testimony of the Apostle concerning him 2 Pet. 2.7 8 He was just and righteous c You have been weary and heavy laden Yes For such is the end of Christs comming Come unto mee all that are weary Mat. 11.28 c. Your desire is a token of favour for by how much the nearer we come to Christ the more we thirst Thinke now of his loving kindnesse he that began he will finish Phil. 1.6 whom you have served I did But with what vile imperfections It is the greatest perfection here to see your imperfections Shortly after came to him many young Gentlemen to whom he said Live in Gods feare that you may die in his favour otherwise the Oxe and the Asse will condemne you I spent my time foolishly and prodigally You have said and remembred that sufficiently remember also Christ That is true Christ is to bee remembred and our sins to be remembred also Then he told us also that the use of reason did begin to faile him The night following which was Wednesday at night the Sun of Righteousnesse spread gracious beames at his setting Mal. 4.2 which were comfortable tokens of a glorious rising This last Swan-like-Song as he uttered it was penned by some as he uttered it One comforting him by his bed-side some two houres or more before his death he brake out into these speeches Quid de salute measentiam expectatis explicarem usque adeo indulget Deus iis quos semel dilexerit ut eos nunquam deserat atque ideo in coelos me transiturum pro certo habeo foelicissima sunt ea vincula in quibus me confixit Deus meus benignissimus Doe you expect to heare from me what I believe concerning my eternall salvation Truly God doth for ever so endearedly tender and is so unconceivably mercifull to all those whom he hath once loved that he never finally doth forsake them and therefore I am most assuredly confident that I shall depart from hence into heaven Happy thrice happy be those cords of affliction in which my most gracious God hath tyed and bound me One telling him You have fought a good fight Expedit expedit ut contendam ad coelum tollite tollite eripite ut coelum adeam Deâ—â— indulget ingenuitati bonorum It behoves it behoves me to strive for heaven Lift me up help me out rid me hence that I may passe straight to heaven God favourably accepts the endeavours of his Saints Being put in minde of Gods mercy towards him he answered Oh the sea is not so full of water nor the Sun of light as God of goodnesse His mercy is ten thousand times more Being likewise remembred of Gods goodnesse toward him in filling his soule with such comfort after so great tentation he said I doe God be praised feele such comfort from that what shall I call it Agony saith one that stood by Nay that is too little that if I had five thousand worlds I could not make satifaction for such an issue Being moved to lift up his soule in token of thanksgiving to his God he uttered these words What should I extoll the magnificence of God which is unspeakable and more than any soule can conceive Nay rather let us with humble reverence acknowledge his great mercy What great cause have I to magnifie the goodnesse of God that hath humbled nay rather that hath exalted such a wretched miscreant and of so base condition to an estate so glorious and stately The Lord hath honoured me with his goodnesse I am sure he hath provided a glorious Kingdome for me The joy that I feele in my soule is incredible Hee made like use of that which he alwaies before taught touching Justification by imputed righteousnesse and appealing to the knowledge of some there present what he continually maintained in that saith he I still remaine a Protestant After three Chapters read to him in Revel 19.20 21. and the eighth to the Romanes Oh said he they be glorious comforts Will you have any more read Yes A Psalme if you please and named the hundred three and twentieth One beginning to reade it he desired that it might be sung One asking him will you sing Yea said he as well as I can The Psalme being sung afterward the seventeenth of S. John was read unto him One comforting him in applying that in particular which Christ in generall performed for the good of the faithfull hee said Blessed be God! often I am a thousand times happy to have such felicity throwne upon me a poore wretched miscreant After a little rest Lord Jesus said he into thy hands I commit my spirit Lord receive my soul Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me and be mercifull unto me Then very weake he repeated the Lords prayer twice and his Beliefe once very plainly and distinctly with a strong voice to the great admiration of the hearers And so hee slept in the Lord. December 4. 1611. FINIS IMPRIMATUR Johannes Hansley Martii 14. 1640.
A NARRATION OF THE GRIEVOVS VISITATION AND DREADFVLL DESERtion of Mr. PEACOCK in his last sicknesse Together with the sweet and gracious issue in his comfortable restauration to the joy of Gods salvation before his most blessed end and heavenly death Decemb. 4. 1611. PSAL. 37.37 Marke the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace PSAL. 37.24 Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast downe for the Lord upheldeth him with his hand PSAL. 71.20 Thou which hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me againe and shalt bring me up againe from the depths of the Earth PSAL. 102.18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. LONDON Printed by R.H. for Robert Milbourn at the signe of the holy Lambe in Little Brittaine 1641. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER THose foure leprous men at the gate of Samaria 2 Kings 7.3 When they had eaten and drunke and carried away Silver and Gold and Raiment from out of the forsaken tents of the flying Syrians and had hid the same their Conscience eftsoone gave them the checke for so engrossing to their own use and particular benefit what the God of ISRAEL had in mercy intended and by miracle provided for that whole City and Kingdome Ver. 9 Then they said one to another WEE DOE NOT WELL THIS DAY IS A DAY OF GOOD TIDINGS AND WEE HOLD OUR PEACE Even so this Narration of Mr. PEACOCKS Visitation comming happily to my hands and I upon through-reading and serious perusall thereof finding it to set forth a most singular president and rare example of GODS correcting Iustice in giving over this deare Saint his faithfull servant this MAN OF GOD for so a late reverend Divine * M. Bolton Instruct for afflicted consc p. 84. worthily enstyleth him to the buffettings of Satan terrours of hell conflicts of a selfe-accusing Conscience and likewise to hold forth the tender mercies and melting bowels of the LORDS Fatherly compassion in bringing him even to the suburbs of bell the gates of death (a) Psal 9.13 seemingly yeelding him up into the pawes and jawes of the devill himselfe and yet then plucking him as a brand (b) Zech. 3.2 out of the fire recomforting his dejected soul binding up his broken spirit pouring in a more pretious Balme than that of (c) Ier. 8.22 Gilead into his wounded and bleeding conscience I say hereupon my thoughts forthwith suggested this unto me that I SHOULD NOT DOE WELL to conceale any longer this Mirror of Gods Iustice and Mercy being as well an Antidote against DESPAIRE that dangerous whirle poole and gulfe into which FRANCIS SPIRA seemed irrecoverably to fall to sinke and perish in on the left hand and also to bee a curbe of restraint unto a warning piece and counter-poyson against PRESUMPTION on the right hand the Rocke that so many millions of men everlastingly miscarry and split themselves upon for as the women sang of Saul and David 1 Sam. 18.7 that Saul had slaine his thousands and David his ten thousands so where some few upon an awakened and rouzed conscience die despaireingly infinite is the number of presumptuous sinners who like the Fish in Jordan friske and play and take their pastime in the sweet silver-streames of this lifes comforts till they be unawares suddenly engulfed into the Dead Sea arrested by grimme death Gods Serjeant and haled by devils unto the disobedient soules (d) 1 Pet. 3.19 20. now in prison reserved in chaines under darknesse (e) Iude 6 unto the judgement of the great day without baile or mainprise Doubtlesse whosoever is wise will seriously and seasonably consider of this (f) Psal 107.43 and other like remarkable administrations of divine providence and being carefull of his owne standing in the state of grace will worke out his owne (g) Phil. 2.12 salvation with feare and trembling This surely is the use God would have men to make hereof not to be a nine-daies wonder or a naked subject of fruitlesse discourse but to learne righteousnesse (h) Isa 26.9 thereby for if these things were done in the greene tree (i) Luk. 23 31. what will become of the drie And if the righteous scarcely bee saved (k) 1 Pet. 4.18 where shall the ungodly and sinner appeare It is a fearefull thing (l) Heb. 10.31 saith the Apostle to fall into the hands of the living God That (m) Ioh. 1.29 Lamb of God our blessed Saviour himselfe when he stood in our stead upon the crosse was ready even to sinke under that unsupportable weight and burthen (n) Psal â—8 4 of our sinnes and the feeling apprehension of his Fathers fierce wrath for the same and cries out in that perplexed agonie and dereliction (o) Mat. 27.46 My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Oâ— the terrours and intolerablenesse of a Conscience wounded by sinne The spirit of a man may sustaine (p) Prov. 18.14 his infirmity but a wounded spirit who can beare Not only the desperate cries of Cain Iudas Latomus Bolton p. 83. and many other such miserable men of forlorne hope but also the wofull complaints even of Gods owne deare children discover the unsupportable horrours of a galled Conscience yelling and crying out with the stinging sense of the arrowes of sinne (q) Iob â— 4 the poyson whereof drinks up mens spirits Thus Hezekiah Isay 38.13 Thus Iob Iob 13.26 Iob 6.4.8 Iob 7.14 15. Thus David Psal 32.3 4. And into the like depth of spirituall distresse three worthy servants of God in these later times were plunged and pressed downe under the sense of Gods anger for sinne 1. Blessed Mistris Bretergh upon her last bed was horribly hemmed in with the sorrowes of death See the discourse of the holy life and Christian death of Mistris Katherine Bretergh the very pains of hell laid hold on her soule she said her sinnes had made her a prey to Satan she cryed out Woe woe woe A weake a wofull a wretched a forsaken woman with teares continually trickling from her eyes 2 Master Peacock that man of God in that his dreadfull visitation and desertion recounting some smaller sinnes burst out into these words And for these saith he I feele now an hell in my conscience But thou shalt reade more concerning him in the following Narration 3. What grievous pangs and sorrowfull torments what boiling heats of the fire of hell that blessed Saint of God Iohn Glover felt inwardly in his spirit saith Master Foxe no speech outwardly is able to expresse Acts Mon. in the story of Master Robert Glover pag. 1557. Being yong saith he I remember I was once or twice with him whom partly by his talke I perceived and partly by mine owne eyes saw to be so worne and consumed by the space of five yeares that neither almost any brooking of meat quietnesse of sleepe pleasure of life