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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