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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.
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of his power and faithfulnesse Where sin aboundeth his grace aboundeth much more It is not for the righteous but for repenting sinners that he hath given his Son that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have life everlasting Lord I believe help thou my unbelief Increase and strengthen my fuith It is now weak and small but it is true and unfained and stayeth upon Jesus Christ onely There is no salvation in any other he is the way the truth and the life None can come to the Father but by him Away with all other intercessions Away with all merits of works all our righteousnesses are but pollutions Ah my God! I have no righteousness but thine for I am conceived in sin I never did any work so good but it needs pardon Mercy Lord Mercy Pardon me my sins Pardon me my righteousnesses Wash me throughly from mine iniquity cleanse me from my sin Purge me with Hyssope but let it be dipt in the blood of the Lamb without blemish and without spot which taketh away the sins of the world Thou knowest Lord that I have loved thy holy truth and that I have believed thy promises They are the joy of my heart They are the comforts which have kept up my soul from being cast down with sorrow O God perfect thy work within me Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit When by too long a bending of his Spirit and voice he found himself spent and constrained to intermit these elevations he would say or cause to be read before him some Psalmes and chose them himself leaving out those verses which were not for his present use As when he said the 6. Psalme he would goe no further then the 4. verse Return O Lord deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake then came to the 9. verse The Lord hath heard my supplication the Lord will receive my prayer then said All the rest of the Psalme is not for me For death is not my fear but my joy and deliverance from a languishing life and I have no enemies He that read Psalmes to him would also skip over that which was not for the Doctor 's use And if sometimes he did forget some text fit for his turne he would presently take notice of it As when the 31. Psalme was read to him He said to the Reader you have omitted the fatâ—est and most convenient text for me into thine hand I commit my Spirit Thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth and you have omitted something about the 11. Verse I left it out purposely said the Reader because you are not a reproach among your neighbours nor a fear to your acquaintance neither do they that see you flee from you You see that all your Sheep are flocking about you They blesse you and they crave your blessing I am not sorry said the Doctor That my Ministery leaves a good savour after me I beseech God with all my heart that he send faithfull labourers into his harvest which may do that holy work better then I O Lord I have not been diligent as I should have been but I have obtained grace to be faithfull For with all the affection of my heart I have studied to speak and to defend the truth and I have been grieved with the affliction of the Church O Lord purifie her from all scandall Let her be blessed and let not the adversaries of thy truth triumph over her for ever So humble he was and such a contemner of himself that he could not abide those that exprest before his face the great value which they set upon him or said any thing to his commendation And when they came out with some praises he rejected them with a kind of indignation Away said he with that flattery pray to God that he have mercy upon me His sickenesse was an inflammation of Lungs with a burning Feaver which redoubled every day at the same hour Once comming out of a strong fit which had handled him very sore he said My God how weary how tired I am When shall I rest in thy bosome When shall I be filled with the true goods When shall I drink in the River of thy pleasures I am unworthy of it O my God! but thou art glorified by doing good to the unworthy It is not for them that are whole but for them that are sick that thy Son the great Physitian was sent Who so believeth on him is past from death to life He was compassed about with his family and his chief friends Every one comforted him according to his Talent Being asked by one of them whether he did not perfectly hope in the grace of God which was presented to him I hope said he but not perfectly yet as much as I am able I suffer now the pains of death But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave for he shall receive me When some comfortable place of Scripture was brought to him whereby he found himself strengthened He would rise to embrace him that spake it and being too weak to doe it he would take his hand and kisse it giving him some blessing and saying It was the Spirit of God that spake by your mouth The Lord blesse you and increase his graces in you Another time after an exhortation which had affected him very much he said These are excellent words The Lord by his grace deeply print them in my heart This text of Eph. 1. was alleadged to him Blessed be God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us in all spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Christ He added the following verse According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the World Sometimes he was in such a rapture hearing them that spake to him of the excellency of that glory which he was going to possesse that he opened his mouth and his eyes in an exstaticall countenance pronouncing but few words with great intervalls between as O what is it to see Gods face in righteousnesse O when shall I be satisfied with his likenesse Many times he would say these words of Psal 36. How excellent is thy loving kindnesse O God! Therefore the Children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures And these again For with thee is the fountain of life and in thy light shall wee see light And out of the Psal 67. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy Courts Wee shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy holy Temple Very often he would repeat the 27. the 63. and the 71. Psalme In the last staying especially upon these words O
An ACCOUNT OF The last hours Of Dr. PETER du MOVLIN 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 Numb 23.10 Let me dye the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his OXFORD Printed by A. L. Printer to the University for Rich. Davis 1658. An account Of the last houres of D R. PETER du MOVLIN Minister of Gods word and Professor of Divinity at SEDAN SINCE his great hurt by a fall from his horse about three yeares and a halfe before his death he enjoyed no health Yet did he not give over the exercise of his charges either in the Church or in the Schooles and very seldome mist preaching once a weeke and reading two Divinity Lectures All his life time he was much given to devotion but in that last sickly time he was so extraordinarily taken up with holy private exercises that he did almost nothing else but pray and meditate He kept to the last houre that neatness of language wherein he was so eminent and the readinesse of his memory which afforded him matter of solid discourses upon any subject offered to him in questions Vpon Tuesday Febr. 26. he awaked in the morning so weake and opprest in his breast that he thought himselfe not able to preach that day yet taking heart he was led and helpt up to the Church Being got into the pulpit with much difficulty he fainted and some wine being brought to him he would not taste it chusing rather to expect Gods help then to doe any thing which might seeme to border upon indecency And he was not disappointed of his hope for after he had read his text which was Ps 16.9 My flesh shall rest in hope he spake with more vigour then he had done of a long time before and applied the doctrine to himselfe giving an account of his faith and hope to his hearers taking his leave of them in a manner and preaching his owne funerall Sermon as if he had a prophetical knowledge that he spake the last time to his people in the Church Vpon Thursday the last day of Febr. he found his oppression so much increased in the morning that there was no small feare of a suddaine death Being then visited by his colleagues who prayed by him he desired them to remember him that day which was a Sermon day in the prayers of the Church After the Sermon a great company flock'd to him to bid him farewell and to receive his blessing He look'd upon them all and spake to them with much facility presence of mind To such as he knew to be of an exemplary life he gave praises and incouragements to vertue and piety Those in whose life he knew there was matter of blame he would not in down-right termes rebuke before that great company but going about in a discreete way he would adressing his speech to them commend those vertues that were opposite to their vices and would say to them that were somewhat given to tricks that of all crafts the master-craft was to be an honest man Seeing a blind woman in the company he told her You want the eyes of the body but you have the eye of faith penetrating as farre as heaven You see not the light of the Sunne but God will let you see the brightness of his face Then turning his eyes upon a Gentleman who was a Roman Catholique he said This is a worthy Gentleman and speaking to him he said Sir I suffer great paines but God will have mercy upon me I have many wayes offended him Yet my conscience beares me witness that I never preach'd or writ any thing but what I beleeved to be consonant unto the word of God Next he applyed himselfe to his colleagues and said Fare you well my Masters I have that satisfaction in my mind that I leave this Church in the hands of persons whom God hath endowed with great gifts and above all with an exemplary piety I make no doubt but that you will carefully looke to the conduct of the flock committed unto you One of them having answered The Lord grant Sir that we may imitate you for you are that good servant who not only have not buried your Talent but have very much improved it You have done good service in your time and your labours will live and doe good when you are gone He replied Ah Sir you know not how much you grieve me by speaking so for I have not done all the good that I should have done that little benefit which the Church hath reaped by my labour is not from me but from the grace of God in me as it is usuall with him to doe a good effect by a weake instrument I am conscious to my selfe that I have neglected my duty in many things and that I have offended my God but I have loved his holy truth and I hope in his mercy He is my Father and my God and Iesus Christ is my Saviour Whosoever beleeveth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life His friends told him that he did himself harme by speaking so much It is true said he but I will dye glorifying God The four or five first dayes of his sickness he spent in expressions of deepe humiliation His prayers were vehement fervent and full of penitent sorrow He acknowledged himselfe the greatest of sinners and the most unworthy of the graces which he had received of God He abhorred his owne ungratefullness aggravating his faultes and despising all that others commended in him Lord said he I have done nothing but deserveth punishment Thou hast heaped blessings upon me thou hast honored me with a holy calling but I have not laboured according to the great worth of it I have mingled mine owne glory with thine I have often neglected thy service to seek my particular interest O how much self love how many perverse affections have opposed the Kingdome of thy Son within me How many times have I grieved thy good Spirit by a thousand idle thoughts and carnall affections But though it had been but justice in thee to have crusht me in thy wrath yet thou hast alwayes shewed thy self a mercifull and gracious Father unto me In very faithfulnesse thou hast afflicted me Indeed thou hast sometimes beaten me with thy most terrible rods thou hast hid thy face from me for a moment but thou hast remembred me in thy great compassions His devout expressions suffered but little intermission his holy meditations none at all For if sometimes he was kept silent by a drowzy fit one might see by the lifting up of his eyes hands that his heart was with God And every time that he resumed his discourse it was evident that his speech was but the attendence of a longer meditation As when he began thus Lord thou wilt do it thou art faithfull in