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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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earth to Heaven and is departed out of this world to the father She has left these bottoms of death and this low valley of misery and tears and is now gotten to those regions of joy and triumph to those mountains of myrrhe and hills of frankincense those mountains of spices or sweetnesses which are cloathed with everlasting joys and delights and on whose wealthy brows nothing ever springs but life and glory and where never any clouds or storms do once ever arise interpose or interrupt where like a thirsty Roe or Hart she was still aspiring and panting to be and where now she is got and where we leave her even there where is nothing but rest and light and love and delights and fulness of joys and crowns of life and glory perfect peace and pleasures for evermore incense praises and hallelujahs to him that sits upon the throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever Amen And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me Write blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them Rev. 14.13 Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised Prov. 31.30 Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates Prov. 31.31 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pro Rosis deciduis coronam immarescibilem Death puf'd this light and its earths banish'd flame Flew up to Heaven and as a Sun became Soli Deo gloria in eternum Some Breathings upon the Decease of Mrs. Luce Perrot December 14 1678. O What a change hath this bless'd morning made To thee bless'd soul who now hast past deaths shade Now no more sorrows pains nor doleful cries But all tears quite are wiped from thine eyes How much afflicted in this vale of Tears But how refreshed now above the Sphears Thy way unto thy Fathers House was rough But now thou hast got thither 't is enough Thy stormy passage now thou art arriv'd At Heavens bless'd Haven makes but more reviv'd Thy pains and ails with which thou wast so prest Do now but so much more sweeten thy rest And though some months yea years they did extend One moment now in Heaven doth make amends And now that thou hast gotten to thy Lot Of bliss assign'd thee they are all forgot Thy pains thy conflicts combats here were many But now thou know'st not what belongs to any But of thy sorrows all thou hast release And now thy Soul is fill'd with blissful peace In bottoms here of death thou did'st reside But now the Spicy Mountains thee abide Thus every way thy change is for the best For Grace 't is Glory and for Labour Rest Thy sins now past and all thy sorrows gone And nevermore thou shalt experience one Thy faith and patience now are at an end Which though long exercis'd did still exten Faith now is turn'd into fruition Into possession expectation Thy Cabinet's dissolv'd thy Jewel 's gone To Heaven and there made up a glorious one Thy earthly house is fall'n that down doth lye But thy Soul 's mounted far above the Sky To th' highest Heaven where true felicity And Glory do it cloath eternally Thou long since weaned wast from all things here And now th' hast got where thy delights still were Thy earnest pantings longings for to be With Christ now fully satisfied hath he Sabbaths below how greatly did'st thou love And one eternal now thou keep'st above Thou feard'st not Death that Messenger so grim But saidst I can I bless God smile on him Yea though so grim sweet Messenger didst call And saidst if come thou 'dst welcome him withal And being so far onward in thy way How troubled wast to hear of further stay Is this saidst thou the night I must depart Oh! with what joy would such news fill my heart Lord Jesus come come Lord come speedily Make hast make hast How oft was this thy cry And when wilt come my God oh hasten thee And Charets of Aminidab like be Of Death I am no more afraid at all Than for to take the choicest Cordial Which is to do me good and Death doth so For through it and beyond it look I do And of my Burial-cloaths more joyfully Than of my Wedding-cloaths discourse can I. My Burial-cloaths My Wedding-cloaths they are And now my blessed Bridegroom is not far Farwel vain world for so I judg'd of thee And never other found thee for to be And that which others so much doted on As poor and pitiful I look'd upon My joys delights were higher fix'd above On God on Christ on 's Word and on his Love His Ways his Ordinances where to be One day than Thousands better was to me Oh! how dejected have I thither gone But how refreshed have returned home Bless'd Soul to thee Christ was to live the main And Death it self is now become thy gain Here he upheld thee in integrity Now sets before his face eternally Here with his counsels guided thou would'st be And thee to Glory now receiv'd hath he And though thy body left behind is here T is but to sow and when Christ shall appear Glorious shall rise and joyn'd unto again Thy Soul thou ever with him shalt remain And in thy flesh then for thy self shallt see God and thine eyes behold eternally THE EPITAPH THE Body here of her interr'd doth lye Who was a pattern of true piety Submissive humble meek and patient Grace and sweet nature in her eminent A loving faithful careful Wise also A Mother such her Children dear unto FINIS
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