20. Thus lived and died M. _de Renty_, one of the most glorious lights God hath bestowed upon his church in our age. He died at _Paris_, in the 37th year of his age, the 24th of _April_ 1649, about noon. We have great reason to admire the secret counsels of God, in taking out of the world, in the flower of his age, a man so qualified to advance the honour of God, and the good of his neighbour. But when we say, it was the hand of God, all things are therein concluded. Hereby he is pleased to let us know, that he hath no need of us for the advancing his glory; and that when he does use us as instruments therein, we ought to behave with all humility in his presence. He hath translated him to another place, where he glorifies his majesty with greater perfection; and where he waits for us to glorify and love, together with him, God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, to all eternity! _Amen!_
An EXTRACT from the LIFE and DEATH of THOMAS WALSH.