Moravian Lives

to the last Hour. He was very much rejoyced  rejoiced about
the pretty Feats in the Congregation on the Accensions-
Day of our Saviours Accension  Ascension to Heaven. And upon
inquiring: if he would not accend  ascend to Day to Heaven?
O said he: that would be a Pleasure to me!
In the following Night as the 13th of May at one a  o' Clock
he begun with a loud Voice to pray to our Savr: O dear
Saviour what has thou done for poor me! thyne Suffrings  Sufferings,
thine Wounds, thine Death & Punishment! O my best
most dear & good Heart! O how will I kiss thine feet & Hands.
O come soon! soon! Then he begun to sing: Deime 
Marter, Angst & Stich, o Herr Jesus trösten mich!
O! myn  mein trauter Herre, gib mir nur was du ver-
dint  deint mehr ich nicht begehre! O thou Lamb of 
God, have Mercy upon me! O so he continued to sing
& pray till about half a Hour before he departed.
They offered him some Medicin  Medicine, but he denyed  denied it
saying: Now I need no more, soon will I be wth
our dear Saviour! Then the 12 hourly ratting
begun to cease & all the Signs of his Desolution  Dissolution
appeareth. He receivd. the Blessing of his Choir & the
Congregation & by them Words: Da dein Mund will er-
bleichen  he expird, in the Morning at 3 aClock   o' Clock,
& his happy Soul accended  ascended in the Arms of his
Braudigroom in the 46th. Year of his Age. 

May 27 1765