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A29132	The last conflicts and death of Mr. Thomas Peacock, batchelour of divinity, and fellow of Brasen-nose Colledge in Oxford published by E.B. from the copy of that famous divine Mr Robert Bolton, late minister of Broughton in Northhampton-shire.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1646 (1646)	Wing B414A; ESTC R34191	21,040	82

have the means of his salvation neglected then the Lord dishonoured Suffer us to pray for our selves Look to it you would now shew your faculty in praying Can you say Amen No but in a certain gerall fashion One prayed and in the mean time he rested most quietly I pray you saith he when prayer was ended Goe hence to bed doe not trouble your selves in vain Let not the Devil delude you abusing your minde and tongue I know you speak not these words I wonder that intelligent Scholars should speak thus We are perswaded you are in as good estate as our selves Look how it is with your selves in truth One that watched with him asked him Sir how can you discern this change by the absence of God if you never enjoyed his presence I thought I had it once but now I see it is farre otherwise But God deals with you as he dealt with the Church Isa. 54.7 He forsook it a while and hid his face from it but he returned to it again and so no doubt the case stands with you Never add not affliction to the afflicted Oh me wretch groaning pitifully Hope no worse of your self then we doe of you All of us have seen cleerly which way your carriage was still sent after the spirit and we are assured that you will come to the spirit howsoever you seem to have lost your way To all particulars he would answer I desire grace generally I did good outwardly all hypocritically One asked him Doe you love such an one his most dear and worthy to be dear friend Yes Why For his goodnes Why then you are Gods childe for by this we know we are translated from death to life because we own the brethren Many like forcible proofs he would shift off with his former evasions and afterwards became more wary against himself either loth to grant any thing or granting it staggeringly or what then fearing lest he should be pressed he wished that some were put in minde 1. Of their great care for building and too small care for Scholars in them 2. Their giving so long leave of absence from the Colledge and desired amendment After noon came a worthy Governour of a Colledge in our University and requested him to be of good comfort and to pluck up his spirit I cannot Why can you not Because I have no grace no more then a Backstock Why doe you think so By this affliction Doe you desire grace I cannot He spake most strongly I can as well leap over the Church But are you not sorry that you cannot desire it I cannot Would you not be in Heaven I would not One standing by said The Devil himself would if he could. By the way you shall have the opinion of a much respected Minister apposite hereto which he gave in private A proud man saith he will scorne to seek any good from his enemy so the Devils pride will not let him think himself beholding to God for Heaven if he might get it You have said one the testimony of faith you love the Brethren I did not Doe not you love us No * The Devil now seeth he should be cast into straits if you should grant this what is it that doth most trouble you I undertook too much upon me foolishly I had gotten a little Logick and Greek and meanly instructed in the rules did set my self to read to Scholars and afterwards undertook other busines which distracted my minde and body from them I have destroyed a thousand souls You may see the falsehood of him that suggesteth this unto you you never had a thousand he puts a false glasse before you The good effects of your pains appears in many of your Scholars Oh they were of themselves capable Name one in whom they doe not There is one pointing at a Master of Arts there present He justified his care of him and gave thanks to God that ever he came to him It is not so I did foolishly You confesse you did foolishly therefore not of malice Again cōsider what would have become of many of them if you had not taken them Better farre better All in the Colledge know the contrary But I feel it It is false believe not the Devil It is too true When vvill you make amends God will give you your hearts desire Never Are you sorry that he vvill not No there is no grace in my heart it is dead Such was Davids case What doe you compare me with him Behold Christ himself Nothing to me God can make his death available He cannot He is omnipotent In me he cannnot because it stands with his purpose Whom God loveth once he loveth to the end But he did never love me You have tasted of his love I deceived my self in a certain vain-glory I exposed my head to many things outwardly all You could say the Lords Prayer and therein call him Father Hypocritically I was wont to enquire of Master Mason what was meant by Abba-father rather in curiosity then truly to be edified God will give a good issue Never I have no sense We will pray with you Doe not dishonour God It is well that you will not have God dishonoured here he sticked saying I pray trouble me not with distinctions After came one who with vehement action of body pressed and urged him to trust in God I cannot said he I cannot he will not have me saved his sentence is passed Doe you desire to be saved No. Do you desire to desire No Would you be damned No. Look at the sinnes of other men as great as yours and yet they are saved They were good and godly they found grace here is the difference my sinnes are horrible he repeated that towards his Scholars All of us know you took pains Outwardly you did your best No. I see novv what it is you strictly look back to your own actions as a Justiciary who will none of Gods mercy and now he hath justly met with you your judgement is just These words affected him strangely another willed him to look to it it seemed neer Popery Doe you hope to be justified by your merits I fear to be damned for my sinnes The other asked whether he could say Amen No. Have you no tongue What is that to the purpose Name Jesus I cannot If I had your tongue in my hand I would make you speak Turning his speech to a friend present Oh saith he if you did but feel my greif but an houre you would have compassion The other replyed If you were in the fire you would wish to get out I had rather be in the fire then here I will pray for you Sinne not Let the fault be mine Although my purpose was barely to relate the passages of this gracious mans visitation and to referre to your spirituall eye what you could tracke and finde therein yet let your gentle construction withhold from me the deserved censure of bold blindnes in that now and then I

He will in his good time God grant Thus he took his last farewell Although vve depart from our friends in the way yet vve shall meet at the end One told Master Dod that he had uttered such words Now the Lord hath made me a spectacle Whereupon he counselled one that attended on him to be sparing in admitting commers in or speakers left his brain should be too much heated A friend of his comming to him asked him Dare your murmure and repine against God Why should I so God be blessed It is a signe of grace But I have no meanes You have had them offered But not given with effect They shall I doubt not God grant but I doe not feel it He received a letter from a friend very respective and much respected of them both wherein were written these very words I heard I know not hovv true that our dear Christian friend Mr Peacock is in great danger which hath much greived and afflicted my heart and vvrung from me very bitter teares If his extremities be such his tentations are very like to be fore Tell him from me as one vvho did ever with dearest intimatenes knovv and converse with him that I can assure him in the word of life and truth frō a most just and holy God whose Minister I am That he is undoubtedly one of his Saints designed for immortality and those endles joyes in another world When it was read to him at those words I can assure him c. he said Oh take heed take heed doe you think he vvould or durst assure you unles he knew on what grounds I did deceive my self now God hath revealed more Another time one requested him that he would make his friends partakers of the least comfort that the Lord bestovved upon him as they had been partakers of his grief If I had it I would willingly communicate it Search and take notice of the least How should I have any since God denyeth the means doe you think sense is a fruit of faith Yes at this season although the husbandman hath sown much yet he seeth nothing above ground Applications doe not prove hold your peace my heart is broken Then the promise is yours I would gladly ask you one thing Now you will ask twenty Doe you seek for grace in your heart I cannot How then can you know whether it be there or no It is dead The Lord in whose hand the disposing thereof is dispose it for your good and his glory I thank you What doe you think of that place Whose sins you remit they are remitted c. You know how farre they may goe Howsoever Sir the bargain is not now to be made between God and you Shortly after came one whom he much esteemed Oh I love said he your company for the graces in you and much more to the same purpose Suddainly he brake out into this ejaculation Oh God reconcile me unto thee that I may taste one dramme of thy grace by which my miserable soul may receive comfort One secretly willed that man to desire him to repeat it again Doe not trouble me with repetitions There being a sermon he bade them about him goe thither After he called one and asked him whether the preacher being acquainted with his course of preaching did use his accustomed divisions He told one Satan had borne him in hand and had deluded him to whō the other answered I hope that God will restore you as before to glorify him here No No Yea if you were weaker I would hope notwithstanding I desire nothing more God be thanked you have laboured carefully for his glory I would labour after another fashion In the night he prayed and repeated his belief And after resting a while he called these that watched with him Bear witnesse I said not I believe but in generall and as desiring that I might believe One comming to visit him asked him How is it with you My minde was grievously puzzled with sundry distractions this night but now I feel my burthen more light I thank God He was put in minde of that place Isa. 54.8 11 12 c. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempests and not comforted behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours and thy foundations with Saphyrs And I will make thy windowes of Agates and thy gates of Carbuncles and all thy borders of pleasant stones c. For a little while I hid my self from thee but with everlasting kindnes will I have mercy on thee He lifted up his eyes thereupon being asked what the Lord did say to his soul that had long refused comfort Take heed be not too bold look to the foundation And then prayed Lord grant me the comfort of thy deliverance and forgive me my foolishnes that I may praise thy name Then he complained of his idle speeches Upon the Sabbath day one came to him willing him to put his hand to a note of certain debts This is not a day for that We will goe to Sermon God speed you Now you cannot goe to Church to serve the Lord I pray him to come to you Amen He hardly suffered any to stay with him At evening one did read something to him in Master Downams warfare and asked him doe you think it to be true Yes Therefore you must not trust your sense What not such as mine are But I will not now dispute When they were helping him up and putting on his cloathes upon some occasion one said to him to this effect A childe will not much grieve at the laying aside of an old coat when he hath a new made Whē you shall put on that there shall be no longer nakednes the resurrection will amend all To those that die in the Lord No doubt you will dye in him having lived in him I have answered you before But I would not believe you in that case The next day a friend of his being to goe forth of town asked him whether he would have any thing with him for he was to leave him and knew not whether ever he should see him again here Look to your calling that it be as well inward as outward He counselled another To be stirring for the glory of God To one standing by he said I am thinking What On a form to get grace Put your trust in God So I doe I omit how and tell you that with great patience he continually submitted himself to advise in any means for his good In putting his temporall estate in order he dealt mercifully with his poorest debtors yea with some which might well pay it His worthy patron for so he often called him whom for honours sake I name Sir Robert Harley sent his man to him with some aurum potabile together with a book which a Doctour had made in the praise thereof Comming to him and asking him how he did Oh said he if it would please God that I might live with him Anon after he said to one