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An account of several observable speeches of Mrs. Luce Perrot the late wife of Mr. Robert Perrot of London, minister. Spoken by her chiefly in the time of her sickness, and a little before her death; and taken immediately from her own mouth, though unknown to her. And now published for the comfort and benefit of her near relations, and some other of her friends.
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Perrot, Luce, d. 1678.
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governed by him c. In hearing the Word I have been glad of rebukes as well as promises I love all the people of God even those I never saw I am sometimes much troubled for my lukewarmness that I do no more honour God c. but this upholds me I look upon it with grief I would more honour God and do him better service and I dislike it I do no more I have been ready to think sometimes I do not love God because I am no more in communion with God I love thee and delight in thy Company but thus I recover my self That I desire to have more communion with God and I am still lifting up my heart to him and I love those that are his and when nothing else yet love to the Saints stays me We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren c. 1 John 3.14 I shall not change my company though my place but those I delighted in here I shall go to when I dye Having little opportunity of communion with the Saints I was once ready to think if I had more communion with them it may be I should have less communion with God but going abroad God convinced me of the contrary for I found my self much quickned by that Christian communion I had and it made me to delight more in communion with God She was very desirous and sollicitous of Sions welfare the Church of God bore much upon her spirit she much rejoyced she lived to hear of the discovery of the late hellish Plot of the Papists She said she had earnestly prayed that God would discover the plots of his enemies and now he hath heard my prayers and if she said we had but more faith and could but more trust in God it would be better Our sins indeed are great but Gods mercies greater She had still a firm confidence God would bring down his enemies c. Let us pray earnestly and wait patiently and Stons deliverer will appear in due time c. 14. As concerning what it was which comforted her in all her afflictions and in and under all her pains sicknesses and weaknesses 1. Her interest in God THis is my comfort That I have an interest in God who is Allsufficient Unchangeable The God of all comfort and that comforteth those that are cast down He hath said to me I am thine and thou art mine and though I fail he hath made an everlasting Covenant with me and that fails not I am a poor changeable creature but he is unchangeable My flesh and my heart fails but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever Psal 73.26 Creature-comforts fail but God never fails He is my strength and my stay and my all and the little interest I have in God is better than a Kingdom of ease and my God my God in Christ will comfort me I had so much comfort my Dear the other night that I could have found in my heart to have wakened thee to have told thee but that thou wast weary but I can't express it now Asking her what it was wherein she had so much comfort she replied not in any thing here but in God and in Jesus Christ and the things of God c. Thus that the Lord was her God this was to her a choice Cordial and soveraign ground of comfort in all her affliction as it hath been to others as to David Psal 31.14 But I trusted in thee O Lord I said thou art my God c. And Psal 63.1 O God thou art my God c. So Psal 42.5 c. And God himself so propounds it Isa 41.10 Be not dismayed for I am thy God c. And indeed what greater or more soveraign ground of comfort is or can there be than this To have the Lord who is so infinite and allsufficient a God to be our God and what can be wanting where Allsufficiency is He is the very sum and center of all our happiness and good and to have this God our God what ever he is or has ours to be for our comfort and benefit all his excellencies and perfections his Wisdom Power Goodness Mercy c. Surely no greater nor more soveraign ground of comfort can there be for God contains all and that God my God surely all that is truly good and comfortable must needs be wrapt up in this My God it is more than my Kingdom my World my Heaven and Earth yea many Heavens and Earths were they extant This comprehends at once all good and all 's concenter'd here more cannot be said and truly less will not serve our turn In God as in a Crystal fountain is and resides for ever all the refined goodness and sweetness of all the creatures in Heaven and Earth here 's all we want would have or reasonably can desire and therefore this must needs be the very foundation of all true comfort and consolation and this was that which was in a special manner the comfort and support of this preciâ—ous soul She often would say My God my God And except he be our God the greater good he is the greater is our misery Tolle meum tolle Deum Take away my and take away God as to comsort And surely therefore if there be any thing under Heaven truly worthy our labouring after and laying out our utmost endeavours for it is this the getting upon good grounds sound evidence to our souls that God is ours 2. The Love of God in Christ his loving-kindness and the assurance thereof Oh! the meditation and contemplation of the love of God in Christ it is the sweetest Cordial and hath amidst all my pains been my Cordial day and night And she told a friend that came to see her That was it not that she had a comfortable assurance of Gods love to her in Christ she could not tell how to bear up under one of those pains which indeed were very sharp but the contemplation of that made her bear up under all Oh there are heights and depths and lengths and breadths in the love of God in Christ It passes knowledg Ephes 3.18 19. And eternity will be little enough to praise God and that which exceedingly comforts me is the everlastingness of that love that he will never take away his loving-kindness from me Once formerly after long trouble God gave me a glimpse of his love and though I was very sick and weak and could neither stand nor go yet then methoughts I was not sick I did not feel it c. Being asked if she would have some Cordial she replied Oh! the favour of God is the best Cordial Better than Life Psal 63 3. Oh! pray I may be more and more reconciled to God and have clearer evidences he is my God Another time being very faint and asked what she would have she replied more of Gods favour and to do his will I have so rejoyced in Gods goodness that I
meet again Resign thy will up to Gods Will be willing to part with me that is the way still to have me c. I am in a streight this was many years since willing to leave a world of sin and a body of sin and willing to be in Heaven where I may sin no more nor sorrow no more but sorrow no more that 's the least where I may serve God without distraction and always be in his presence and among the spirits of just men made perfect O it is sweet being there and yet I am willing to stay knowing the need my dear Husband and Children will have of me c. Indeed I have been able to do little for them but my earnest prayers have been for them and my tender affections towards them especially for their eternal wellfare and happiness and though I have not done so much as I would have done and desired to do yet this is my comsort I did what I could yea more many times than this poor carcass could well indure and this is my comfort I bless God Before ever I first came to thee I sought God to direct me and desired it might not be if it was not for his glory and both our comforts and that which made me willing to enter into that condition it was because God would have it so otherwise I considered what might have discouraged me from it as hindrances in the service of God losses and crosses care to bring up Children and then grief to part with them c. The first time I went to speak with her I found she was at prayer as to that great concern to that God who makes all meetings and relations happy by the enjoyment of himself The Lord will provide for thee and will not leave thee nor forsake thee in nothing be careful with any distracting care faith leaves Christian nothing to do but to pray and give thanks if I leave thee God will not leave thee but visit thee with his loving-kindness if he take away a crazy broken Cistern he will be a fountain of living waters Fear not but God will tread down thy spiritual enemies and therefore cease not to wrestle and strive and watch and pray O that we could always remember we are born Soldiers the good Lord help us to fight the good fight of faith that we may lay hold on eternal life c. God hath blessed thy ministry to me and what thou didst Preach as concerning the loving-kindness of God as being better than life it was very sweet in the Preaching of it and it is so now in my own experience and it was not in vain that God put thee also upon that subject Psal 73.26 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever For when is a time to make use of God as our portion but in a time of affliction then to trust in his all sufficiency to submit to his will c I love thee dearly I love thy soul and pray for the good of it as much as my own I can say more than my own God is thy God and will be thy God and the God of thy seed I trust my dear Children and Husband with him he will take care of them and provide for them I am going home going home to my Fathers house I must go c. Where are my dear Children will they not follow after me to Heaven Wait on God God is good to them that wait for him c. he is a God at hand c. he will make thy Children blessings to thee labour to bear up thy spirits the Lord help thee so to do and cast thy self and thy affairs upon the Lord. c. The Lord counsel comfort support and direct thee in all thy ways The Lord do thee and thine good and multiply on you his blessings spiritual and temporal and give thee to submit to his will The Lord help thee in thy work and make it prosperous and successful and prepare us for the doing and suffering of his most holy will whatever it be The Lord prepare thee to part with me and me to resign my self up to him as into the hand of a faithful Creator The Lord make our souls prosperous the outward man is but for a little while Lord keep my dear Husband by thy power c. and my dear Children that they may walk uprightly before thee and do thy pleasure and submit to thy will and whatever they do here Heaven will be enough hereafter The Lord recompence all thy labour of love to me c. The good Lord bless you and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you and give you inward joy and peace the light of his countenance which is better than any thing here c. And Lord keep thy Ministers hold them fast in thy hand and tread their enemies down as mire preserve the Gospel O the Gospel for my poor Childrens sake that though I go that may continue still to mine c. O that we may be kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation The good Lord still follow thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies all thy days c. 20. Some of her Speeches and Prayers very lately and a little before her Death MY Dear I have but a few days now to be with thee and when by reason of thy being abroad I cannot see thee nor injoy thy Company so much as I would I comfort my self with this I shall one day injoy thee again and we shall ever be together I must declare this That thou hast been a dear loving faithful Husband to me and I have received much comfort by thy Preaching Praying and what thou hast spoken to me and God hath a blessing in store for thee for many are blessing God for thee c. And I bless God for thee but can't speak much now the Lord hath made thy ministry abundantly comfortable to me abundantly abundantly and I have come home full of joy and I have told thee one shove more would have put me into Heaven c. But since I came to London and could not have the opportunity to hear thee as formerly God hath made others ministry especially Dr. Jacombs very comfortable to me Why art thou so sad thou shouldest rejoyce count it all joy when ye fall into diverse temptations cast thy care upon God and in nothing be troubled he will provide he will not leave thee c. wouldest have me continue still in this misery and pain We came together to part and therefore let us part comfortably we shall meet again where we shall never part I go a little before thou lovest me and wilt thou not let me go to my first Husband I have another Husband and if he send a Messenger for me I must go though I leave never such dear Relations here Do as much work as thou canst for God but do not over