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<P>THE Pathway to Eternal Life: BEING The La&s;t SERMON of that Eminent Divine Mr. <HI>T. WILLIAMS.</HI> B. D. lately decea&s;ed</P>
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<FIGDESC>depiction of Mr. T. Williams, B. D. giving a sermon to the congregation</FIGDESC>
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<Q><BIBL>Heb. chap. 9. ver. 27.</BIBL>
<P>And it is appointed unto Men once to die, bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> after this the Judgment.</P></Q>
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<P>MY Beloved, feeling my own decay I have cho&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n this &s;erious and &s;ea+&s;onable Text, which perhaps ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> be my la&s;t, to mind you of your latte<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ends, that you may reflect on the &s;hortne&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Life, and the uncertainty thereof, as to its continuance; and to prove it &s;hort and momentary, we find it in many re&s;pect<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> compared to things of the lea&s;t duration things that as it were only appear, and then &s;uddenly fade away and vani&s;h from our &s;ight. Holy <HI>David</HI> &s;ays, <HI>Thou ha&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> made my li&s;e as it were a &s;pan long, and min<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Age is nothing, in compari&s;on of thee.</HI> In other Places it is compared to Smoak that vani&s;heth away; to the Flower that fa|deth; and to Gra&s;s that is cut down, and withereth; and St. <HI>James,</HI> who &s;pake by an excellent Spirit, &s;ays, <HI>Our Life is but a vapour;</HI> and yet this &s;hort momentar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Life, is, by the Creator of all things in h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> Eternal Wi&s;dom, given us as a Talent to improve on this &s;ide the Grave; that in doing well we may purcha&s;e Crowns o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="3" REF="2">Glory and Immortality, and a Life that ne|ver &s;hall have end, in which we &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> enjoy <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lea&s;ures, pure, and unmixed with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">or|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ows; Joys that fade not away, but abide <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">or ever; though here we are Strangers <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Pilgrims, and have no tarrying City, out travel through a Wilderne&s;s and Vale of Tears; yet beyond the Grave, when Time &s;hall be with us no more, we &s;hall have fixed and durable Habitations, Man|&s;ions not made with hands, in the highe&s;t Heavens, &s;hining with Honour and &s;park|ing Glory, which Chri&s;t, who laid down his precious Life, and &s;hed his rich Re|deeming Blood for mankind, is gone before to prepare for all tho&s;e that love his Name, and obey his Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>That Death is the certain Lot of all Man|kind, daily Experience &s;hews us, by the dropping off of our Friends and neare&s;t Re|lations, one where or other, unto the Grave, adding a new Cau&s;e of Sorrow to mournat their Funeral, and &s;pread doleful Cyprus over their Her&s;es, till it comes to our own <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">urns, when matured by time to follow <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hem, lie down within the Chambers of Du&s;t, there to remain till the Morning of the Re&s;urrection, when the loud Arch-An|gel's Trumpet &s;hall rou&s;e us from our long
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<PB N="4" REF="4">&s;ilent Re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, to meet the Lord of Glory coming in the Clouds of Heaven to judge us, and accordingly pronounce the Sen|tance of Reward or Puni&s;hments, as we have done Good or Evil in the Fle&s;h.</P>
<P>Death is intailed on us for the Sin and Di&s;obedience of our fir&s;t Parents, and there is no Pledge nor Reprieve from it, nor do we know any certain limit of time when it will &s;natch us hence. The tender Blo&s;&s;oms as often fall, as the ripe mellowed Fruit; the Lamb as &s;oon as the aged Sheep, goes to the Slaughter, and however it falls out, we mu&s;t at one time or other all pa&s;s through the Valley of the Shadow of Death.</P>
<P>Now &s;ome who have heard of the un|&s;peakable Joys of Heaven, may &s;ay I am de&s;irous to depart, and be with Chri&s;t; but yet the grim King of Terrors, &s;tanding be|tween, &s;tartles and amazes them into this farther Con&s;ideration, how to come to the ble&s;&s;ed Shore, where there is &s;o great a Gulf between them and it, as to be lead Captive unto his gloomy Chambers, and in their fright, &s;ay with the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>My Heart is &s;ore pained within me, and the pains <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f Death are fallen upon me; fearfulne&s;s and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">embling are come upon me, and horror,</HI> P&s;al. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> 4,5. I &s;ee the Shore where I willingly
<PB N="5" REF="4">would be out of the Troubles, Sorrows, Cares, and Vexations of this tempe&s;tuous World which is at enmity with me; but Oh! here is a great Gulf between me and that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;&s;ed Elizium; I mu&s;t be to&s;&s;ed on a boi|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">terous Sea, and be wrecked by dreadful Waves and Tempe&s;ts: Is there no way to <HI>Canaan,</HI> but through the de&s;olate Wilder|ne&s;s? Mu&s;t I go through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, to the Land that flows with Milk and Honey; the new and hea|venly Jeru&s;alem, which is above? The&s;e are things contrary to Fle&s;h and Blood, and &s;uch as will make the &s;toute&s;t Courage faint and tremble.</P>
<P>Yet certain it is, &s;ay what they will, the way to true Life lies through the Gates of Death; it is irrevocably appointed unto Man once to die; and therefore, to anti|dote our &s;elves again&s;t the Fears and Hor|rors of Death, and the Confu&s;ion and Per|plexity of a Dying State, is &s;o to live al|ways, as if we were knocking at the Gates of the Grave; and then the Grave &s;hall ne|ver have power to prevail again&s;t us to our hurt; always con&s;idering, when we come to die, it is the determinate Order and Ap|pointment of God, in whom we live, and move, and have our Being; he places our
<PB N="6" REF="5">Souls in the&s;e earthly Tabernacles of Clay and we are only here Tenants at Will, lia+ble to be di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;ed at Plea&s;ure; <HI>it is ap|pointed for all Men once to die,</HI> and that it is an irrevocable Decree of Heaven, that we mu&s;t all walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Why &s;hould we, like Men without Hope, fear any Evil? For the Lord is with the Righteous, and will guide them &s;afely through the Terrors and Affrightments that they are naturally atten|ded with: Then &s;hall they re&s;t from their Labours, and their Works &s;hall follow them, to crown them with everla&s;ting Joys, and a peaceable Serenity to all Eter|nity; then &s;hall they look back on the Dan|gers they have pa&s;t. with Joy, and &s;ing Prai&s;es and Hallelujahs to him that liveth for ever and ever.</P>
<P>Let us not then look upon Death, as &s;ome &s;trange unexpected Accident befel us; for may we not hereupon &s;ay with the Apo&s;tle St. <HI>Paul, That no man &s;hould be moved with th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e Afflictions; for your &s;elves know that we are appointed hereunto,</HI> 1 The&s;. 3.3.</P>
<P>It is an undoubted Mitigation of any Sorrow or Affliction, to know that God hath appointed it as an unavoidable Lot and Portion of all Man Living; &s;o that on this
<PB N="7" REF="5">Account we may &s;ay with the P&s;almi&s;t, <HI>I <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ill fear no Evil, for thou art with me;</HI> for <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ertain it is, all the Evil in Death proceeds only from an evil Life: For a good Life <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">akes away the Sting of Death, and makes his cold Embraces ea&s;ie and tollerable; but <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> bad Life gives him double Arms again&s;t us; Power over us here and hereafter, in a more terrible and fearful &s;econd Death, a Death to all Eternity, though living to bear the un&s;peakable Terrors of it; exclu|ded for ever from all that is God, except his Anger and fiery Indignation; the Con&s;ide|ration of which made the Prophet cry out, <HI>Who can dwell with the everla&s;ting Burnings?</HI> and &s;uch mu&s;t do it, who ta&s;te of the &s;econd Death, by falling into God's Di&s;plea&s;ure by &s;inning, and heaping up wrath again&s;t the Day of Wrath; for our God, when he is angry, is a con&s;uming Fire; nay, if his Anger be but a little kindled in his Brea&s;t, ble&s;&s;ed are all they that tru&s;t in him; and if Sin makes the fir&s;t Death &s;o unea&s;ie, it mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily render the &s;econd infinitely more intollerable.</P>
<P>For indeed, the Sting of Death is Sin, and no Terror is in this State like that which doth redound to us from a guilty Con&s;ci|ence, which has got us under hold, and will
<PB N="8" REF="6">cha&s;ti&s;e us; for though in our Health an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Jollitry we may pa&s;s it over lightly, yet o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> our Sick-Beds, when Death &s;tares us gha&s;t|ly in the Face, then the pains of Hell, as i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> were, gets hold on us, we are in Troubl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Heavine&s;s, our Souls are as re&s;tle&s;s and unea&s;ie as our Bodies; then, as the Prophe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> &s;ays, <HI>We are like a troubled Sea, that cannot re&s;t, who&s;e waters cast up dirt and mire;</HI> and again, <HI>there is no peace,</HI> &s;aith my God, <HI>to the wicked;</HI> for in &s;uch a State, when we come to die, the greate&s;t Melancholly that &s;hall then &s;eize our Spirits, will be from the heavy Load and Burthen of our Sins, that will be ready to oppre&s;s and &s;ink our Souls.</P>
<P>Then we &s;hall find that Threatning ve|rifi'd in us, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 50.21. <HI>I will reprove th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and &s;et them in order before thine Eyes;</HI> and what Grief or Angui&s;h can be comparable to that which redounds from this, when we are going hence? and when God, by vi&s;iting Sickne&s;s, as his Me&s;&s;enger, gives us warning to remove, Mu&s;t it not con|cern and afflict us, beyond all Thought and Expre&s;&s;ion, to con&s;ider, in &s;uch a Ca&s;e, what Danger our Sins have brought us to? They hide God's Face and Mercy from us, and in our greate&s;t need of Comfort and Support, threaten us with utter Ruin and
<PB N="9" REF="6">De&s;truction, and nothing now can be &s;o &s;harp and intollerable, as the Thoughts of a di&s;pleas'd and angry God; and well may that be &s;o to us, which was the greate&s;t of our Saviour's Troubles; for at his Dying Hour, the Guilt of all our Sins, pre&s;&s;ing heavy upon his Soul, occa&s;ioned a bitter Agony, and that bitter Exclamation, <HI>viz. My God! My God! Why ha&s;t thou for&s;aken me?</HI> And mo&s;t certainly, at the Dying Hour of all wicked Men and Women, the Sen&s;e of Guilt will be the bittere&s;t Potion, and the very Dregs of the Cup of trem|bling; their Hearts will faint, and their Souls will &s;ink within them; it will be with them, as with <HI>Felix,</HI> when <HI>Baul</HI> preached of Judgment to come; his Guilt through the fear of it, made him tremble. They &s;hall &s;hake and fear, and cry mightily, and have on them &s;uch pa&s;&s;ionate Concernment as is inexpre&s;&s;ible, from the di&s;mal Appre|hen&s;ions of the Divine Wrath and Indigna|tion which their Sins have kindled and pro|voked again&s;t them, even to cry out with <HI>Cain, Their Puni&s;hment is greater than they can bear.</HI></P>
<P>Then whil&s;t it is to day, Let us hear God's Voice, Calling to us to repent; Let us be up and doing his Will, lea&s;t the night
<PB N="10" REF="7">of Death &s;uddenly overtake us, in which no Man can work; for in the Grave there is no Repentance; as the Tree falls, &s;o it lies; as Death leaves us, &s;o will Judgment find us: Which is the next and la&s;t thing pur&s;u|ing my Text I propo&s;e to treat on, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><HI>After this, the Judgment:</HI> We have a &s;ure word for it, that after Death there is a Judgment.</P>
<P><HI>I am, &s;aith the Lord, the Re&s;urrection and the Life, he that believeth in me, though he were d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ad, yet &s;hall he live: And who&s;oever liveth and believeth in me, &s;hall never die,</HI> St. John 11.25, 26. And Holy <HI>Job</HI> &s;ays, <HI>I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he &s;hall &s;tand at the latter day upon the Earth; And though after my skin, worms de&s;troy this body, yet in my fl<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;h &s;hall I &s;ee God; Whom I &s;hall &s;ee for my &s;elf, and mine eyes &s;hall be|hold, and not another,</HI> Job 19.25, 26, 27.</P>
<P>This plainly proves, that after Death the Soul &s;hall de&s;cend and unite again with the Body, and both at the &s;ound of the la&s;t Trump &s;hall ari&s;e together, to receive their Rewards for the works done in the Fle&s;h, whether it be Good, or whether it be Evil; for St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;ays, 1 Cor. 15.52, 53. <HI>The trumpet &s;hall &s;ound, and the dead &s;hall be rai|&s;ed incorruptible, and we &s;hall be changed; for
<PB N="11" REF="7">this corruptible mu&s;t put on incorruption, and this mortal mu&s;t put on immortality.</HI></P>
<P>The Earth, Sea, and Hell &s;hall be com|pell'd to give up the Dead that are in them, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd they &s;hall be gathered from the Four Winds under Heaven, and be caught up to meet the Lord, Coming in the Air, ac|companied with Ten Thou&s;and Angels, to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">udge the Inhabitants of the Earth, at who&s;e Pre&s;ence its Foundations &s;hall tremble, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;hall be di&s;&s;olved; the Elements &s;hall melt with fervent heat; the Stars &s;hall fall; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Sun be darkned, the Moon turned into Blood; and the Heavens rowled up toge|gether like a &s;crole, in that great and terri|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le Day, when the Book &s;hall be opened, wherein all our Actions &s;hall be written, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd we &s;hall be judged out of it, according <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o the things that are written therein; then <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">appy is it for him who has well improved <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">is Talent in this Life, he &s;hall enter into <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he Joy of his Lord with Prai&s;es, and clad <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n &s;hining Robes, crowned with Glory and Honour, in everla&s;ting Life, where all Tears <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hall be wiped away from his Eyes, and he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll &s;ee the abundant Recompence of his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">bour in his Spiritual Warfare; for he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">at is faithful has promi&s;ed it.</P>
<P>But tho&s;e that have been &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">oathful and
<PB N="12" REF="8">unprofitable Servants, &s;hall call in vain to the Rocks and Mountains to fall upon them to hide them from the Face of the Lamb, and from the Face of him that &s;itteth on the Throne, but no hiding Place &s;hall &s;hield them from his Wrath and fiery Indignati|on, which &s;hall pur&s;ue them to Eterna<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Torments, upon pronouncing, <HI>Go ye cur|&s;ed into everla&s;ting fire, prepared for the de|vil and his angels, where &s;hall be woes and lamentations, angui&s;h and gna&s;hing of teeth where the worm never dieth, and the fire i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> not quenched.</HI></P>
<P>From which Torments God of his infi|nite Mercy deliver us all, by giving us Hearts for a timely Repentance, before we go hence; for the &s;ake of his well-beloved Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who &s;hed his precious Blood, that redeemed us from Sin and eter|nal Death, that we might live and reign with him evermore. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>His la&s;t Speech, or pious Exhortations to his Pari&s;hioners on his Death-Bed, Exhorting them to a Godly Life.</HEAD>
<P>AT the Clo&s;e of this Sermon, a faint|ne&s;s &s;eized this good Divine, and as he had predicted, it proved his la&s;t, and &s;erved as a Comfortable Mourning-Dre&s;s
<PB N="13" REF="8">for his Funeral; for being led home, he found his Illne&s;s increa&s;e, and in a Day or two, perceiving his Di&s;&s;olution drew nigh, he &s;ent for the chief of his Pari&s;hioners, who &s;tanding about his Bed, he made the following Speech, or Farewel Exhortation to them.</P>
<P>My Beloved Pari&s;hioners, Finding by my Age, and more by a &s;en&s;ible decay of Na|ture, I have not long to &s;tay with you, but mu&s;t follow, as I hope, tho&s;e ble&s;t Souls that are gone to the Bo&s;om of Bli&s;s before me. In the fir&s;t place, to do all the Good I can whil&s;t I live, I commend the peru&s;al of my La&s;t Sermon to you, to which end I have given order it &s;hall be printed for the general Benefit; and particularly of you that have heard it delivered from my Mouth; and being &s;o &s;uitable to the Occa|&s;ion, I may well term it my <HI>Funeral Ser|mon.</HI> In the next place, I de&s;ire you ear|ne&s;tly to repent you of your Sins, and bring up your Children in the fear of the Lord. In the third place, Let your dying Pa&s;tor prevail with you to live in Love and Unity with one another, and be charitable to the Poor, comfort the Afflicted, and &s;o you will bring down a Ble&s;&s;ing on your &s;elves, and your Po&s;terity. Fourthly, Put
<PB N="14" REF="9">not Death far away from your Thoughts as a thing at a di&s;tance, but &s;trive to be al+ways prepared for it, for we know not th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Hour of its Coming; &s;eeing when w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> think it farthe&s;t off, it often is neare&s;t a hand, and too &s;adly &s;urprizes many, like a Thief in the Night. And now what el&s;e remains, I hope a good Man &s;ucceeding me in this Cure, will not fail to in&s;truct every|one of you, as occa&s;ion &s;hall require.</P>
<P>And now the Ble&s;&s;ing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, Three Per&s;ons, and One God, be with you, and remain with you, to your Lives ends, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>This he expre&s;&s;ed &s;o affectionately, as made them weep over &s;o good a dying Man. After the&s;e Exhortations he pro|ceded to repeat the following Prayer.</P>
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<HEAD>His Prayer.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O Eternal God! Father of Spirits, Ever|la&s;ting King of Glory, look down with the Eyes of thy infinite Goodne&s;s and Mercy, to me thy poor and unworthy Servant, lying on my Bed of Sickne&s;s, preparing to come un|to thee; &s;trengthen me again&s;t the Faars and Terrors of Death, and give me a &s;tedfa&s;t Faith and Hope to overcome all the &s;ubtle Temptations of Satan, that in this la&s;t En|counter
<PB N="15" REF="9">he &s;ugge&s;ts to stagger my Confidence in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hee. O let me remain &s;ure grounded, and &s;uffer me to place it no where el&s;e but in thee; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat living I may be thine, or dying I may be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hine; and ever prai&s;e and magnifie thy Holy Name, for all thy Mercies; through the Me|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">its and Mediation of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, my ever <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le&s;&s;ed Saviour and Redeemer.</HI> Amen.</P>
<P>After this, fetching &s;ome Sighs, with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">fted up hands, he put up the following <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">jaculations.</P>
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<HEAD>His la&s;t pious Ejaculations.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord! thou ha&s;t been my Refuge from my Youth, and under thy everla&s;t|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ng Arm is my Covering and my Salvation. As the Hart panteth after the Water-brook, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> my Soul thir&s;teth for the Living God.</P>
<P>I am in a &s;traight between two, but my <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;ire is to be di&s;&s;olved and be with Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>O how amiable are thy Tabernacles; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ou Lord of Ho&s;ts! and how ble&s;&s;ed are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">l they that dwell therein.</P>
<P>Why art thou &s;o heavy, O my Soul! <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d why art thou &s;o di&s;quieted within me! <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> put thy Tru&s;t in God, and he &s;hall deliver <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ee from the Power of the Enemy.</P>
<P>Death is &s;wallowed up in Victory. O <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eath! Where is thy Sting? O Grave! <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">here is thy Victory? Thanks be to God,
<PB N="16" REF="10">who giveth me the Victory, through ou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>I have fought the Fight, I have fini&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> my Cour&s;e, I have kept the Faith, and from this Day is laid up for me a Crown of Glory&punc;</P>
<P>The&s;e la&s;t words he brought forth with a plea&s;ing &s;mile, and then fainting, he &s;aid Lord Je&s;us into thy hands I commend my Spirit, and &s;o &s;weetly died; at the Depar|ture of who&s;e Soul, there was &s;uch a har|monious Sound heard, as made tho&s;e pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ent fall on their Knees and give Prai&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> God for all his Mercies.</P>
<P>As for the Sermon before &s;et down, th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pari&s;hioners were earne&s;t to have it prea|ched from his Notes at his Funeral, before it came abroad, and prevail'd with his Re|lations accordingly, the Auditors being ve|ry numerous: and thus pa&s;&s;ed this painful Pious Divine, from this trouble&s;ome Life, to an endle&s;s one in Glory,</P>
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