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A41735
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The life and death of Thomas Tregosse late minister of the Gospel at Milar and Mabe in Cornwal with his character, and some letters of his, not long before his death.
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Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.
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1671
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proceeded I am going to my great God to my dear Father to my best Friend to him in whom I have believed His face I hope to see in his bosom I hope to lye down this day Oh! what unspeakable glory is it to see the glory of mine everlasting God O my Friends I must tell you the truth though sometimes there have been upon my phantasie strange black clouds which made me to speak somewhat inconsistent and were suddenly blown off again yet little doth any one know the reviving in-comes I had then even then from my God And the last Lords day at night the Lord gave me sweet turns with himself Oh! it was a pleasant night with me I was up with God and God was down with me Oh! it was to me as the going up to Paradice Oh! how sweet was it to me And now my friends I must tell you that through many tribulations you must enter into the Kingdom of God Some of you have told me your thoughts concerning me that I have walked in all good Conscience towards God and Mâ—â— Oh friends whatsoever things ye have seen in me that were honest whatsoever things were just whatsoever things were pure whatsoever things were lovely whatsoever things were of good report pursue those things Rely not upon the world for the world will leave you could and helpless And now friends I must go to see the Lord and this Body of mine must be laid in the dust and never arise more till the Resurrection-day And must many of you go from this place and come naked before the face of God though I hope better of some of you Oh friends if there be any hope if there be any love if there be any consolation in you think on these things You know I have When I came to this town some may think my design in coming was to fill an empty bagg and to get a livelihood amongst this people but God is my witness I had not this in my eye I sought not yours but you And now friends flesh and bloud will say It is hard to part with dear friends to part with a dear Wife to part with dear Children But as the Lord hath given them to me so I now leave them with the Lord. And I call you to witness that I leave this dear Wife of mine with the Lord and my dear Children with the Lord to be protected by him to be maintained by him to be kept blameless to the day of his appearance Though Men may prove unkind to them as I suppose they will yet I know the Lord will not I must into Eternity the Prophets cannot live for ever neither can they Prophesie for ever I have been but a young branch and you see the Lord is cutting me down this morning O blessed Lord God shall there not be a meeting in Paradice shall not thy servant see thee and love thee ond be embraced by thee O Lord give a good evidence to thy servant that he may know that he belongeth to thee Lord thou hast given him the working of an holy faith and of an heart-purifying spirit And are not these tokens of thy free grace and of thine eternal love in Christ Jesâ—s And now Lord God thy servant must away and be about other work thy servant must away to holy Angels and to the spirits of just men made perfect He must away to serve his Lord in the upper Chambers He must away Lord and never look on these earthy things more And now O friends one thing I tell you I shall come again with my Lord in most excellent Glory and you then must come before him But I fear I fear that some of you will be found then to be in a very low and poor and miserable condition Well I commend you to the love and grace of God the Eternal Father in Jesus Christ And I pray you to get your hearts full of love to God and of the grace of God and full of the holy Ghost And now think on these things that I have delivered to you in the name of the Lord. I must go and deliver up my accounts to God And on that I might deliver them up freely that I may be able to say I have run my race I have finished my course I have fought the good fight I have kept the faith and what remains but that I receive the Crown that the Lord Jesus the righteous Judge hath prepared for me And now I commit my self to the Lord and my Wife and Children to the Lord I commit my spirit to thee O Father of spirits I commit my soul to thee O dearest Lord Keep these that do believe on thee These words he spake with a more audible and plain voice than he was wont to do in his ordinary Preaching And about an hour and half after he had ended his speech he departed this life Jan. 18. An. 1670. SECT V. Mr. Tregosse's Character HAving given some story of Mr. Tregosse's Life and Death it may be not a little Useful to give some Character of his Person Spirit and Conversation Mr. Tregosse was of a middle stature his Hair black his Face palish not perfectly round His Natural capacity nor long His Spirit was Masculine Generous and Great agreeable to the condition of his Ancestors There was a sparkling Vivacity apparent in most of his intense Actions His natural humour was not moross but affable yet was he not without a tincture of darke melancholy which yet his grace improved to a great measure of seriousness He had also some sparks of choller which being spirited by warm affections for God brake forth into a pure flame of Divine zeal His natural Judgment seemed deep and solid his will firm and fixed his memory tenacious and faithful his Affections tender and active And the whole capacity of his soul fit for great exploits But the most Illustrious and bright part of his Character regardeth his gracious capacity and dispositions His universal Holiness His personal holiness was remarkable even unto great visibility And I think few in this age have for so short standing made a larger proficience in the School and service of Christ After Jan. 1664. from whence he dated his conversion he banisht from his heart and life many vanities he had been formerly adicted unto Neither did he gain his godliness at so cheap a rate as most professors do No his heart was first deeply wounded for sin and thence delivered from it He was for some while under many extremities from a Spirit of Bondage and these made way for a Spirit of Adoption He was soundly convinced of his spiritual death by sin and that opened to him a door of life by Christ And the entire change of his heart much appeared in the change of his life and last end Neither had some particular graces only a place in him but a combination and complexion of many amiable graces seemingly opposite seemed visible in him