Evangelical biography : or, an historical account of the lives & deaths of the most eminent and evangelical authors or preachers, both British and foreign, in the several denominations of Protestants, from the beginning of the Reformation to the present time ... . is irksome and grievous: How much better wereit, if it pleased God, that it might tumble at once ! Butthe will of God be done. When he looked upon hisarms swollen v/ith distemper, and deformed by disease, hewould often cry with pleasure, This corruptible shallput on incorruption. O glorious hope! And when ingreat pain of body, would
Evangelical biography : or, an historical account of the lives & deaths of the most eminent and evangelical authors or preachers, both British and foreign, in the several denominations of Protestants, from the beginning of the Reformation to the present time ... . is irksome and grievous: How much better wereit, if it pleased God, that it might tumble at once ! Butthe will of God be done. When he looked upon hisarms swollen v/ith distemper, and deformed by disease, hewould often cry with pleasure, This corruptible shallput on incorruption. O glorious hope! And when ingreat pain of body, would exclaim, Blessed be Godfor the peace of my mind. He told a particular friend who visited him, That heWas obliged to those who expressed so great a concern forliis life, but it,was not so much as his ov/n desire : Add-ing, If I might be continued, however, for furtherusefulness in the church of Christ, I shall be glad to live,but if not, it is my earnest desire to finish at present. liespent whole nights in prayer to God, when he couldnot sleep, for himself, his family, his friends, and thechurch of God ; for this was the proper breath of hissoul. Upon occasion of the hours of prayer among manyon this account, he said, I heartily wish that my alHic- tioi». Frvm tui vrufiiml Jicliiir . S A U R I N. 247 Mon maybe the means of reviving the spirit of prayer; Ishall not think much of any thing I endure, provided ithave that effect. Some days before his deatl), he began,with a trembling hand, to write some hints of meditationfor the use of himself and his friends : The inscriptionwheieof was, What I am as a creature; as a reasonablecreature; as a sinful creature; as a redeemed creature; asa creature in a state of trial for eternity; as a sociablecreature, and related to other beings a!)out me. Thelast thing remarkable, while he was sensible, and some ofthe last words he was heaid to say, were, lifting up hishands, and crying out, All is well; All is well; andfinished his course with
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