fhine! and all join in the song of Mofes and the Lamb. Harmony indeed! extafy divine! now I fweetly join the heavenly hoft; and my foul is fixed, without a wandering thought. O! I now know experimentally the meaning of that wondrous phrafe, that I once but faintly guessed at, even the far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Some Account of Mr. MARY HUTSON, in her Departing Moments, D The death-bed of the Juft is yet undrawn NIGHT-THOUGHTS. the day broke, Many very comher dying lips, When one, URING the former part of her illness, Mrs. HUTSON Complained much of darkness and defértion; but before he died, and the dark shadows fled away. fortable expreffions dropped from fome of which were as follow. viz. whose tenderness for her would hardly fuffer him to mention it, told her, he apprehended fhe was very near her diffolution, fhe afked what made him think fo? (for, though the apprehended the fhould die, fhe did not think herfelf dying just then) for fhe faid the found no great alteration in her cafe at that time: He told her, it was too evident to him; upon which the broke out in these expreffions, Is it poffible? Am I 1 fo near my father's houfe? Methinks 'tis too good news to be true! and my clouds begin to wear away too! Methinks I am unworthy to go to heaven! I have never done any thing for God; but he has mercy on whom he will have mercy! Death comes, not as a murderer. I hope, but as a porter to open the door. He is a little rough and rude, 'tis true, but his door · opens into endless life. The Lord is my righteousnefs and strength. When Christ who is our life fhall appear, then shall we also appear with him in glory. If I fhould lie fpeechlefs any time, faid fhe, be fure to whisper Jesus in my ears." children were called in to fee her, When her fhe faid to them, My dear children! be fure to get an intereft in Chrift; if you die without it, 'twould be better for you never to have been born. ' Looking at her nails when the blood was fetled under them, fhe faid, See here the marks of death,' turning to a friend that fat by, who replied, See the difference between a chriftian and a carnal perfon! what terrifies the finner pleafes her. Yes, fays fhe, bleffed be God it does 6 please me: This flesh fhall rest in hope." In a word, fhe talked with the greatest composure of her approaching diffolution, and gave particular directio about the plainnefs of her, coffin, and funeral, &c. with as much freedom and ease, as if he had been fpeaking about any of the com P 3 mon affairs of life; and at length, without fo much as a groan, or figh, fell asleep in Jefus, between three and four o'clock in the morning, on Monday the 21st of November, 1757. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my laft end be like her's! A P APPEND I X. AVING laid before the public the diaries and HAV letters of the above mentioned excellent perfons, the editors think it not improper, as they have introduced them with a preface, to close them with the following obfervations, which they efteem neceffary and ufeful, and a suitable appendix to the preceding memoirs. I. The perfons whose diaries and letters are here prefented to the public view, bore, not only an unfpotted, but an eminent character for true piety and virtue, as amply appears from the teftimonials already produced on their behalf, and of which we have even further evidences than what have been given. We frankly own that if their profeffion of religion, and the accounts of their experiences had not the fuperadded weight of an holy and exemplary life, we should not pay any regard to them ourselves, nor invite others to a serious attention to the papers they have left behind. But when their behaviour before men shone with a permanent and attractive beauty of holiness, and when their unblameable and edifying walk attefted to all around them that they were the children of God, and the true difciples of Jefus Chrift, we cannot but apprehend that what they declared they felt and experienced in their own fouls fouls deferves the most serious regard, and may well be improved by all as an incentive to an happy refemblance of them in the internal difpofitions of their hearts, and their amiable and useful examples. II. The perfons, whofe memoirs are here publifhed, imbibed a powerful fenfe and favour of the doctrines of the gospel, especially fuch as relate to the guilt and pollution of fin, the atonement and righteousness of Jefus Chrift for our juftification, the influences of the fpirit in con verfion, fanctification, and fpiritual peace and joy, together with the great articles of the final judg ment, the refurrection of the body, and the everlasting states both of happiness and mifery. These fentiments feem to be inwrought into their very fouls; they believed them, they embraced them, they lived upon them; they confidered and improved them as the basis of their hopes, as the ground of their comfort, and as their incitements and attractives to holiness; and, in a word, it was from the power of these doctrines they were enabled to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk_humbly before God*, to glorify him in life, and pass thro' the valley of the fhadow of death it felf not only without amazement and terror, but even with a chearful confidence, and the opening dawn of the heavenly glory in their hearts. Such pious lives and fuch happy deaths under the efficacy of thefe principles may tend to confirm our faith, * Micah vi. 8, (as |