and enemies, and pray God to forgive them. I leave my dear wife and my six sweet children on the Lord, the Father of the orphans and the widow's husband! And now, farewell all worldly joys, farewell sweet Scriptures, and preaching, and reading, and praying, and singing! Welcome, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! I desire to commit my soul to thee in well-doing! O Lord, receive my spirit!" Thus fell one of the most gallant officers of the Scottish army.

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42. CLAUDE, whose fame is in all the churches, was exiled from France by the ferocious bigotry of Louis XIV. His closing scene was truly affecting and instructive. Having pronounced his solemn benediction on his spouse and his son, (an able minister of Christ,) and on an aged domestic, all kneeling at his bed-side; and having committed them to the God of the widow and fatherless, he uttered these his last words: "I am so oppressed that I can attend only to two of the great truths of religion, namely the mercy of God, and the gracious aids of the Holy Ghost! I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day! Our Lord Jesus Christ

is my only righteousness!"

43. The pious HERVEY thus closed his life, pouring out his soul in prayer:-"How thankful am I for death! It is the passage to the Lord and Giver of eternal life! O welcome, welcome death! Thou mayest well be reckoned among the treasures of the Christian: to live is Christ, to die is gain! Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation!"

41. Dr. LEECHMAN, the venerable Principal of the University of Glasgow, when dying, thus addressed a young nobleman: "You see my tranquillity and composure it is joy, it is triumph; it is complete exultation! And whence does it spring? From the blessed Gospel contained in the Holy Bible. It is that, it is that which makes us certain that this mortal shall put on immortality!"

45. The venerable RALPH ERSKINE, a faithful and devoted minister of the Church of Scotland, was for a

few hours preceding his dissolution in great darkness and mental distress. But, shortly before he died, he raised his hands, and clapping them, he exclaimed, "Victory, victory!" and soon after expired.

46. The pious BISHOP BEDELL, who has been styled "the scourge of corruption, and the great luminary of the Irish church," died as a man of God dies. Having blessed his family, and addressed godly admonitions and instructions to his sons, he said, "I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord!" "I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course.' " "Grievous wolves have crept in upon us; but the good Shepherd will take care of his sheep, and they shall dwell safely. I have kept the faith; for which cause I have suffered: but I am not ashamed: I know who I have believed; he will keep that which I have committed to him against that day." Soon after he fell asleep in Christ.

47. The immortal JOHN LOCKE applied himself closely to the study of the Holy Scriptures for the last fourteen years of his life. To a young gentleman he said, “If you would attain the true knowledge of the Christian religion, study the Bible, especially the New Testament. The Bible has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter!" On his death-bed he exhorted all about him to study the word of God. "Blessed be God," said he, "for what the law has shown to man; blessed be his name for justifying him through faith in Christ; and thanks be to thy name, O God, for having called me to the knowledge of the DIVINE SAVIOR!"

48. BAXTER closed his course full of the joys of the Holy Ghost. To some ministers who were comforting him he said, "I have pains; there is no arguing against sense; but I have peace, I have peace!" "You are now drawing near your long-desired home," said one. "I believe, I believe," was his reply. When the question was put to him, "How are you?" he promptly answered, "Almost well!" To a friend who entered the chamber he said, "I thank you, I thank you for coming." Then fixing his eye on him, he added, “The Lord teach you how to die!" These were his last words.

49. JOHN JANEWAY, a young minister of England, died a triumphant death. Not a word dropped from him which did not breathe of Christ and heaven. 66 "O my friends, stand and wonder: was there ever greater kindness? were there ever more sensible manifestations of grace? O why me, Lord, why me? If this be dying, dying is sweet! Let no Christian be afraid of dying: O, death is sweet to me this bed is soft: Christ's arms, his smiles, his visits, sure they would turn hell into heaven! What are all human pleasures compared to one glimpse of his glory, which shines so strongly on my soul! I shall soon be in eternity: I shall soon see CHRIST himself, who died for me, who loved me, and washed me in his blood! I shall soon mingle in the halleluiahs of glory! Methinks I hear the melody of heaven, and by faith I see the angels waiting to carry me to the bosom of JESUS! And I shall be for ever with the Lord! And who can choose but rejoice in all this?"

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50. MATHEW HENRY. This famous and excellent divine said to a friend a short time before his sudden death, You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men this is mine that a life spent in the service of God and communion with him is the most comfortable and pleasant life that any one can live in this world!"

51. PRESIDENT EDWARDS died with as much calmness and composure as if going to sleep. He was in the full possession of reason to the last, and looked into eternity as into his Father's house in the heavens. "Never did any one more fully evidence the sincerity of his profession by one continued, universal, calm, cheerful, and patient resignation to the divine will, than he," said his physician. "Not one murmur, not one whisper of his was heard indicating discontent. When some were deploring his departure as a frown on the college, and as a heavy stroke on the church, not being sensible that he heard them, he turned his dying eyes on them and said, 'Trust in God, and you need not fear!" These were the last words that this great and pious divine spoke on earth.

52. The apostolical WHITEFIELD uttered this noble

sentiment when a Christian friend asked him what his dying testimony would be: "My dying testimony is this: I HAVE PREACHED CHRIST A LIVING TESTIMONY!" a sentiment perfectly in keeping with his zeal, his piety, his fervor, his incessant labors in the ministry, and his wonderful success in winning souls to Christ.

53. Dr. CONDICT, the President of Queen's (now Rutgers) College, New-Jersey, was known to be much afraid of death. But he died triumphantly. Feeling his end approaching, he raised himself up from his pillow. and stretching out his quivering hands he said, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me." He then added, "Let us pray;" and having uttered a brief and solemn prayer, he gently leaned back on his pillow, and closing his eyes with his own hands, he soon after fell asleep in Jesus.

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54. Dr. DWIGHT, the President of Yale College, closed a most useful and Christian life by a peaceful and happy death. He requested his brother to read to him the 17th chapter of John. While listening to the latter verses of that chapter, he exclaimed, "O what triumphant truths!" Some one recited to him a part of the 23d Psalm, and asked him, Can you now say, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me?" He replied, "I hope so." He was occupied a great part of his time in speaking: from what could be gathered, it appeared that he was constantly engaged in prayer and adoration. He expired in peace, without a struggle or a groan.

55. The Rev. THOMAS SCOTT, the commentator, died in 1821. As a faithful minister, a judicious writer, and a holy man, he had few equals. His dying bed may be said to have been sublimely Christian! He exhibited an awful sense of divine things, of the evil of sin, of the purity and holiness of God. And notwithstanding his progress heavenward, what self-abasement he ever manifested! "O Lord, abhor me not," said he in fervent prayer," though I be abhorrible, and abhor myself: say not, 'Thou filthy soul, continue to be filthy still;' but ra

ther say, "I will, be thou clean." He longéd much to be gone: "I am weary of my journey, and wish to be at home, if it be God's will." "Ah! I had thought that I should close the sacred services of this day (the Sabbath) in heaven." A great part of his time he prayed and thought aloud. On one occasion he said, "Posthumous reputation! the veriest bubble with which the devil ever deluded a wretched mortal! But posthumous usefulness -ay, in that there is indeed something: that was what Moses, the prophets, and the apostles desired; and most of all, the Lord Jesus Christ." Among the last words he uttered were these: " Lord support me-Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" To his weeping wife and children he said with tenderness, "Can any rational being grieve at my departure? Well, nature will have its first burst of sorrow, but you will soon learn to view it in its true light." "Christ is my all! He is my only hope!" "O to realize the fulness of joy; O to have done with temptation!" "This is heaven begun: I have done with darkness for ever! Satan is vanquished! Nothing remains but salvation with eternal glory, ETERNAL GLORY!"

56. JEREMIAH EVARTS, SO well known and beloved by every friend of Missionaries, died a triumphant death. When nearly exhausted, he expressed with great tenderness his affection for his Savior; and soon after broke out into rapturous expressions: "Praise him, praise him, praise him in a way which you know not of." Some one said to him, "You will soon see Jesus as he is, and know how to praise him." He replied, "O wonderful, wonderful, wonderful glory! We cannot comprehend...wonderful glory! I will praise him, I will praise him! Wonderful.... glory.... Jesus reigneth!"

57. Mr. HALYBURTON was one of the most learned divines of Scotland, and professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrew's. The ablest of his writings is his "Natural Religion insufficient, and revealed necessary to man's happiness." He wrote against Lord Herbert, the father of the English deists; and was the first who carried the war into the enemy's camp, showing the absurdity and futility of the deist's system. The chief of his practical works is his "Great Concern." He was a truly devoted