pretty easy and cheerful, with no unfavourable symptoms, except that large eruption appeared.

Seventh-day, the 16th. The fore part of the last night, and this morning, our dear friend slept finely. In the course of the day he said to Ann Tuke, "I have seen the magnanimity of a true believer, and how one that is really so would bear all the trials permitted to attend him." And, by way of illustration, added very forcibly, "Dost thou believe in God? Thou must also believe in the justness of all his dispensations. It is a comfort to me that thy lot is cast among us. This is a service, if I had not any other in Ireland. Death is a service we all owe to our great Creator; and sickness is a service required of many. O Ireland! Ireland! the Lord thy God hath service for thee in Ireland!' often sounded in the ear of my soul, before I left home, as distinctly as you now hear me speak it."

In the morning, when speaking to the doctor who attended him, he said to this purpose: "I believe my having the disorder, and being here, is in the ordering of Providence. It is not given me to know the event; but if there be a field of future labour for me to enter into, it is as possible for the Master to raise me up now, as it was for him to create me at first. But I have no will in it I think.”

The fore part of this day he seemed easy, and walked down stairs, expressing that he could do it nearly as well as ever. The fever came on towards evening, and he became very restless; his swallowing was also very difficult, but there was no other unfavourable symptom, and this was not deemed more than usual in this afflicting disorder. In the night he got some uneasy sleep; but swallowing and expectoration were painful and difficult.

First-day morning, the 17th, on being asked how he rested, he replied, "I have got through with what we call much difficulty, to obtain a little relief." He desired his affectionate love to M. Bewley, the family, and Friends in Dublin; intimating the weight of the disorder, and his escape from many trials, if he should be removed; yet said, “ The Lord is able to raise me up; his arm is underneath: but from my present feeling, it is

very uncertain." And he seemed not to have any conclusion how it would terminate. He desired to be remembered to dear Mary Ridgway and Jane Watson, in the love of the everlasting gospel.

At another time he said, "I am in a very low way; cannot see about the event, but must leave all to the Lord. The strength of nature seems very doubtful." He continued all this day under much oppression, from the load of matter; took wine and bark every hour, but no alarming symptoms appeared. In the evening he expressed that, if he ever rose above the present weight which he felt, and seemed to be sinking under, it would be through the marvellous display of eternal power and influence, and requested that if he should be removed, some further particulars might be transmitted to his friends at home; adding in substance, "The Lord's will is blessed, and I feel no controversy with it. It is the Lord that enables us to coincide with his will, and say amen, to all the trials and conflicts he permits to attend us. I do not expect to have much lively matter to communicate in the course of this disorder, or that my strength will admit of it; but my mind is centred in that which brings into perfect acquiescence. There is nothing in this world worth being enjoyed out of the divine will. It is his will which brings us into a state of existence, and it is for a purpose of his glory; and if we have answered the purpose he designed us for, he has an undoubted right to dispose of us as he pleases."

"When my mind is abstracted, and capable of deriving satisfaction from any thing outward, it is an inexpressible satisfaction to me that my lot is cast here, and that I am surrounded by such near and dear Friends, both from within this family and those without "who have accompanied me." The fore part of this night he slept more than usual, and remained through the whole of it tolerably easy.

Second-day, the 18th. He frequently expressed that nature had a hard struggle, and his getting through was very doubtful. The symptoms, considering the load of matter, continued favourable. He gave directions that, if he should go hence, every thing about his interment should be plain and simple; and said, that He who raised up Lazarus could, if he had further labour

for him to do, break his bands asunder: but that when he reasoned upon the nature of the disorder, and his own constitution, and felt the conflicts of nature, it seemed as if he was gradually advancing towards his everlasting home.

To two Friends from Mountmelick, he expressed his entire resignation to the divine disposal, and that he found nothing to stand between him and the Fountain of everlasting love. He said he knew many Friends in Ireland loved him, and he loved them in the Lord Jesus, and desired to be affectionately remembered to such as might inquire after him.

This night, and till three o'clock in the morning of third-day, the 19th, he patiently and quietly suffered much, yet got several naps. About seven the following evening, his stomach, too weak to bear the bark and wine, discharged the last potion. He remarked these efforts to support nature failing, and added, “There are many resources in nature; but if the great Author of nature does not see fit that any of them should be for me, all is well. I could not desire to have such another struggle to go through; and I think if you can part with me, I can with you with a degree of cheerfulness."

The fore part of the night he was quiet and patient as usual, though much oppressed and worn down with this grievous malady. He said, "I have no fear, for perfect love casteth out all fear, and he that feareth is not perfected in love."

20th. About five o'clock on fourth-day morning he supplicated thus: "O Lord, my God, thou that hast been with me from my youth to this day, if a man, who hath endured, with a degree of patience, the various turnings of thy holy hand, may be permitted to supplicate thy name, cut short the work in righteousness, if consistent with thy will. Thou, who hast wrought deliverance for Jacob, evince that thou art able to break my bonds asunder, and show forth thy salvation; that so my soul may magnify thy name forever and ever." And after a pause, wherein he seemed to feel the earnest of his petition, he added, "So be it, saith my soul."

He got sleep at times, but seemed greatly oppressed; was moved, early in the day, near the window, to get all the air that could be procured. Calling P. Johnson to him, he said, “At

tend to that which leads to settlement; guarding against the right hand and the left." And again to the same," Be not overanxious for illumination, nor give way over-much to depression." After two o'clock his stomach refused all nourishment, and a hiccough came on: he said, "Do not force nature. Let me pass quietly away to the eternal inheritance, to which I have no objection to go, and the sooner the better, if the work be done. I have no wish to lay here. It is a tremendous state I am in, as to bodily feelings, though the mind is quiet.”

To J. C. he said, "I love thee in that which changes not. Love the Lord, and keep to him, all the days of thy life, and nothing shall be able to harm thee." His oppression seemed to increase, and in a little while he said, "I am waiting patiently to see the salvation of God: do you wait patiently with me. I have no desire, nor the shadow of a desire, to be restored. I hope the doctors will soon find that they have done their part."

The fore part of this night he could take little except water; slept, at times, pretty easy to appearance; at others, his breathing very difficult. On P. Johnson's assisting him, he said, "I am no flatterer, but thou art one I depended on for outward assistance. Thou hast contributed much to the relief of this body; and thy being here has been an inexpressible satisfaction to me."

21st. At three o'clock, on fifth-day morning, he said, "You have seen the awful progress of this disorder; as to me, it matters little, only present pain. May the Lord release me shortly." He complained of the want of more air, and seemed declining fast. Towards evening, he said, "You may tell my friends in New England, and every part of the word, that never did my soul bless the Lord, on account of any worldly enjoyments, as I do now in the blessings felt by me to be contained in the prospect of a very speedy release." To a person who came to see him, he said, "O Charles! Charles! an inheritance in the eternal truth, is infinitely superior to all the enjoyments this world can afford. Remember it as long as thou livest." Some time after said, "I do not wish hastily to make my escape; but if the Lord will be pleased to release me from the bonds of mortality, and struggles of life, and to cut the work short, con

siderably short, in righteousness, I think I shall be willing to enrol it in the list of his unspeakable favours." To the aforesaid, "Farewell, Charles: let no possible consideration divert thee from a close attention to that, without which life must be lived in vain." At another time he said, "Some of my wishes for myself are centred in as speedy a release, as may be consistent with the will of our Heavenly Father, and an admission, which I have no doubt at all, not in the least degree, of obtaining, into that glorious kingdom, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary soul is eternally at rest." In a while after, "I think I have not, for several years past, known much, or any thing, of boasting; I have known something of that law of grace, whereby all boasting is entirely excluded; but I may say, through that which has supported me under all the trials and conflicts which have attended me through life, to you, my beloved friends, as to dear children, Follow me, as I have endeavoured to follow Christ Jesus, the Lord of life and glory, and the rock of my eternal salvation."

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At another time he said, "It would have been desirable to me, to have been favoured with a clearer, and more certain prospect, respecting the termination of this event; yet, if I should be continued a while longer, I do not dispute, that my end would be unspeakably glorious. It would be painful to me to have to return again to combat the trials and conflicts of mortality; but if the Lord should see meet to continue me a while longer, I must submit; after having in humility and resignation, put up my intercessions, to be released from the struggles of nature. To have had prospects of further labour is not uncommon. has happened to many: and the Lord can raise up, and qualify others, for his own work and service; and he will send, by whom he will send, and is able to save, by many, or by few. I feel, and I wish you to feel for and with me, after the Rock of eternal life and salvation. For, as we are established thereon, we shall be in the everlasting unity, which cannot be shaken by all the changes of time, nor interrupted in a never-ending eternity. I do expect considerable derangement will now take place; but it is no discouragement to me; and ought to be none to those who trust in the Lord, and put no confidence in the