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"(tho' I may be mistaken) which are, to go home to my
"dear Saviour before the end of the year, and I can only
"say: Here is a sinner who would fain through the Lamb's
"Ransom entrance gain, He is my constant and most faithful
"friend and confident, and is dearer to me than my own life.
"I feel and enjoy to my great abasement his near presence
"and friendly looks in my heart, and when I think of it,
"what he has done for me, and how he has led me from my
"infancy to this day, and all his unspeakable love and
"faithfulness towards me, <emotion>my eyes overflow with tears, and
"my heart might break for love and thankfulness to him.</emotion>
"I have nothing to bring before him, but a sure confidence
"that he has atoned for, and forgiven me all my sins, this
"and this alone is all my plea, and where he is, there I shall
"be also." ---- On the <date>4</date><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi></hi><date> of May</date> he felt himself no more able
to sit up, so that he was obliged to take to his Bed. He said
to his Son who helped him into his Bedroom, "I shall soon
"go to our d<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r</hi></hi> Saviour, when I go it will be like a very poor
"sinner, but <emotion>I am comforted overall.</emotion>" He was very loving
and said with a <emotion>remarkable serenity of mind,</emotion> "I shall go
<emotion>with very great pleasure</emotion> to my dear Saviour, as a very poor
Sinner who wishes to gain entrance for his blood's sake,
And this serenity of mind was never, not even for a single
moment clouded <sic>untill</sic> <corr>until</corr> his happy departure, which proved
a very great blessing to all those B<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">rn</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> & S<hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript">r's</hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> who visited
him on his sick-bed.
<date>May 6</date><hi rend="underline"><hi rend="superscript"><date>th</date></hi></hi><hi rend="superscript"></hi> finding his illness increasing very fast, and in-
-dulging a hope, that he would soon be called to enter
into the joy of his Lord, he requested that he might receive
