getting the earneft of it. Tis but a little and I'll get himfelf. Light is fown for the righteous and gladness for the upright. O! when will it come that I may win there where I'll conceive aright of glory. 1 cannot order my Jpeech now, because of darkness: But I long to behold it. I have the patience to wait until he come. I have experienced much of his goodness fince I lay down in this bed. I have found that tribulation works patience, and patience experience, and experience hope. And I have found the love of God fhed abroad in my foul. Then turning to his wife, he faid, come away, my dear, and encourage yourself in the expectation, that under the conduct of the fame captain of falvation ye'll come hither, and caft yourself and your family upon the Lord; encourage yourself, God liveth; bleft be my redeemer the rock of my strength.

After that, to his fon, he faid, I'm going to die, I'm to be a bridegroom the day,at least, I'm to be the bride; I'm going home to my God, and I hope your God: And be fure that you be with God oft, and if ye be oft with him, ye'll be where I am. My dear, feek God, feek him, and feek him early, and he'll be found of you. The angel that preferved me, blefs the lad. Mind, David, that I have commended God and his way to you. Then he said, O! firs, if there were a day of the power of God going alongs, and God gripping the hearts of youth. Poor thing, read your book, and be a good scholar yourself, and be fure to feek God, that he may teach you..

Then he said, who is like him? Oh! what he has allowed me this night! I know now the meaning of that word, afk what ye will in my name, and ye fhall receive it. I fay, the Lord has even allowed me to be very homely in every circumstance, and I have thought, I was e'en minting at it.

Then to his daughter he faid, come Margaret, I muft again commend to you my God, and his ways.

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Be an encouragement to your mother: Mind the many exhortations I have given you, and defpife them not, and fave your own foul: And cry, that by a day of his power, he may bring you to found fincerity. You have loft a loving father: It will be God only that can make him up: But God can do more; and indeed we must not compare fathers. Your father and mother have given you to God; do not you give yourself unto the devil. In all things, aim at pleafing God; and, my bird, ye'll never rue it.

After that, he caus'd his fon come to him, and faid, David, keep not near vain perfons, any body that will fwear, or lie, or fpeak any thing that is baudy, or that will break the fabbath-day, come not near them; and pray that God may give you a better memory to mind the fermons, and ftay your heart.

Then he faid, O let us exhalt his name together. O glory dwells in Immanuel's land. I long for the fragrancy of the fpiced wine. Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples; for I am fick of love.' Then he caused a minister to pray.

Thereafter, to a minifter that came in, he said I'm come to Jefus the mediator of the new covenant; I'll be in among the bleffed company that stand by; I'll be in with that affembly above, where the lamb in the midst of the throne, has the precedency: And now I wait for his falvation; glory to him. What full 2 render to God? Let us exa't his name together; he has done wonderful things for me. I've been many a day fear'd, how I should get through the valley and fhadow of death. One faid, 'tis a mercy, fir, the Lord has taken away the fears of death, before death come. He answered, O there's much in this, he has wrought us for the felf fame thing! Since I was laid down here the Lord has carried on a work of fanctification far on my foul, that makes me meet for heaven. After prayer, by fome of the minifters, it was Q

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afked at him, Find you any more ease? He answer ed yea I found eafe in the time of prayer. Then he faid I long to launch out in his praife, 'tis an ocean. If I come not to be like an angel of God, yet the weak will be like David the fweet finger of Ifrael. O be encouraged to follow the Lord every one of you, firs.

Then to one of the elders of the parish he faid, James, ye're an old man; and I'm dying yet I'm dying old, old, and satisfied with days; the child is going to die, a hundred years oid. I'm like a fhock of corn fully ripe. I have ripen'd fast, but O! I've been under a bright fun, a day when the fun of righteoufnefs fhines, and I've brave showers.

After a little filence, he faid, I've been fleeping, and I have wakn'd as refresh'd; and now what shall I fay? I can fay no more to commend the Lord, not for want of what to fay, but for want of words wherewith to exprefs it. We'll firs, ye'll meet with difficulties and difcouragements; but this may encour. age you, ye fee God owns his fervants; and should not his fervants own him, and rejoice in him, and defpife what enemies can do, when the mafter does fo much for them? God has kept my head to me, and my judgment for the best piece of work that ever I had. Bleft be God, my head and my heart are fo found. Tho' many a time, a vain heart has run away, and carried me down the stream, yet I may Jay, the habitually determinate defires of my foul, from the day that God first reveal'd his fon in me, run out after him, and the remembrance of his name. And now I find he meets them that rejoice, and work righteoufnefs; glory, glory to him. O what of God I fee! I never faw any thing like it. The beginning and end, firs, of religion, are wonderfully fweet. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, &c. I'm no calling myself perfect; the Lord knows, I'm far from it; I've found corruption stirring fince you

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came in this morning. One faid, his dealing with you has been very uncommon. He answered, very uncommon indeed, if ye knew all that I know; yea, but therein is the glory of the Lord, that he makes the weak strong; the excellency of the power is the more remarkably feen. The other replyed, there's a borrowed perfection, He answered, yea, yea, that's perfection; glory to him for that perfection. The other adding, and as all our righteousness comes from him, fo does all our ftrength. He faid, yea, yea, now may ye all afcribe to him the honour of his name; may ye be all engag'd by this unto the Lord himself and establifh'd in his way; the glory is his, his only and engagement of heart, as confequent to the discovery, fhould be to him only: Not unto us, not unto us, but to thy name, O Lord be the glory.” O the sweetness of a Creator to a creature!

Having continu'd his difcourfe a while to thofe about him, he faid, O this is the most honourable pulpit that ever I was in ! I'm preaching the fame Chrift the fame holiness, the fame happiness I did before: I have much fatisfaction in that, I'm not ashamed of the gospel I preach'd; I was never afham'd of it all my days, and I'm not asham'd of it at the laft, when I'm put to the trial in the bed of languishing: Bleft be God, we are all agreed in that, that 'tis the power of God to falvation.

After that to a minifter that had come from Edinburgh, he faid, now tell my honeft friends at Edinburgh, tell them what God has done for my foul, and encourage them to hold on their way, they are a bleffed feed, and beside these, to christian acquaintances. I'm very willing it should be told how good God has been to me. Are we afham'd of the gofpel? Will thefe experiences of the reality of religion be blown out of our minds? Here I'm now a mati, a weak man in hands with the king of terrors, rejoicing in the hopes of the glory that's to be reveal'd, and that by

the death and refurrection of a defpifed Chrift, That minifter anfwered, fir, I believe you know that your friends at Edinburgh will be very well fatisfied, that mercy from the Lord has been shown to you. He reply'd, all that fear God may be glad. Indeed I minted, as ftrength would allow, when the beginning of this trouble was on me, at that, fhew me a token for good; and indeed I think God has shown me a token for good.

Then to fome prefent he said, 'tis an ill time this; I'll tell you, fir, it was this ill time that has helped on all this; it has weighted my spirit, the dark profpect was fo uneafy: But may be I took more care than I fhould have done: We truft God too little. I fought my judgment, and he has continued my judgment. Then he defired a minifter to pray, and faid, 'O let us exalt his name: Truly the lines are fallen` in pleafant places, and I have gotten a goodly heritage.' Now pray; but be fhort, because I find a great alteration on my body; and praise him, O praife him; praife is comely.

After prayer he faid, Chrift is exalted; death is not terrible, death's unfting'd; the curfe of the fiery law is done away.

To a gentlewoman he said, I long for his falvation ; I blefs his name I have found him; I'm taken up in bleffing him, I'm dying rejoicing in the Lord: Well, faid he, I long to be in promis'd land.

He apprehending himself very low, said, here I die, faying, Lord Jefus receive my fpirit-come fweet Lord Jefus receive this fpirit* flight

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'ring within my breaft like a bird to be out of a fnare..-When will I hear him fay, 'arife my love, my fair one, and come away, the winter is paft, the rain is gone over,' &c. Come fweet Lord Jefus come and take me by the hand, that I ftumble not in the dark valley of death. One faid, he has been pleas'd to fet his laye upon you, and.

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