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 of death joyful. I could wish to live, to do the church more service; but cannot hope it; for my days are past, as a shadow that returns not."

His worthy Biographer adds—"More he would have spoken, but his spirits failed him; and, after a short conflict between nature and death, a quiet sigh put a period to his last breath, and so, he fell asleepAnd now he seems to rest like Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Let me here draw his curtain, till, with the most glorious company of the Patriarchs and Apostles,