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( 10 ) guilty of lying. Had you ever any terror of God? Yes, replied the: What made that? ſaid he. I have wanted God then, ſaid the, but I have got him now. Thereafter the lay quiet more than an hour, as if the had been faſt aſleep; and then in a tranſport of wonder and delight, She cried out, O! think I ſee heaven! I think I ſee heaven! that is glorious news indeed, ſaid a perſon that was beſide her at the time. Oh! ſaid ſhe again, if I could tell you what it is like, if I could tell you what it is like! Saw you ever burning gold, ſaid ſhe till another perſon that was alſo in the room? The walls and the ſtreets of the city are like burning gold, and I think I ſee the ſaints arrayed in white there. Having ſpoke theſe words, ſhe was interrupted by a perſon's emering the room whom ſhe did not well know.

After eight o'clock at night, ſeeing her brother Robert in the chamber, the ſaid, Roby, kiſs me, and then added, This may be the laſt kiſs you will ever get from me; I ever loved Roby well; love you Chriſt; I cannot ſpeak much to you now, mind what I ſaid to you before; ſeek the Lord, they that ſeek him early ſhall find him: Seek and ye ſhall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you; for I have fought, and I have found, I knocked and it was opened unto me. Then turning and looking to her father, who was at her other hand, the cried, Oh! ſhall not I love Chriſt? Shall I not love him who hath taken away my hard heart, and given me a heart of fleſh to tremble at his word? To her mother alſo ſhe ſaid, O mother, I will get Chriſt, I will get him, I will get him. Her mother anſwered, you will not miſs your brother then. No ſaid he, will not miſs you, far leſs him. She deſired, that all ſhould joy with her. Being deſired of her mother to go to bed, and a ſervant being deſired to lift her ſoftly, Yes, lift me, ſaid the, within a little Chriſt will come and lift my ſoul to glory.

She lake likewife to Meſſs. John Hamilton and William Cricton, miniſters alſo in Edinburgh, but the relation of her diſcourſe to them being omitted, no particular