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( 46 ) " will let bin take of the water of life freely. And hei " you ſee alſo my Welcome, The Spirit and the Bride o " Come.” Then he ſaid, “I have one Word more! " ſay to my Friends, (looking down to the Scaffold) When " are you? You need neither lament me, nor be aſhame " of me in this Condition ; for I may make uſe of tha " Expreſſion of Chriſt's, I go to your Father and my Fa " ther, to your God and my God, to your King and me "King, to the bleſſed Apoſtles and Martyrs, and to tl " City of the living God, the heavenly Jeruſalem, to at " innumerable Company of Angels, to the general Aſſem- " bly and Church of the Firſt-boru, and to God the Judg " of all, and to the Spirits of juſt Men made perfect, an " to Jeſus the Mediator of the new Convenant; and ſo I bid " you all farewell : For God will be more comfortable to “ you than I could be, and lie will alſo now be more re- "freſhing to me than you can be. Farewell, farewell in the " Lord.” Then the Napkin being put on his face, he prayed a Space within himſelf; after which he put up the Cloth from his Face with his own Hands, and ſaid, “ He had one Word more to ſay, and that was to thew then the Comfort lie “ had in his Death, ſaying, I hope you perceived no Al « teration or Diſcouragement in my Countenance and Carriage ; and as it may be your Wonder; ſo I profess " it is a Wonder to myſelf, and I will tell you the Reaſon " of it: Conſider, the Juſtneſs of my Caufe ; this is my " Comfort, which was ſaid of Lazarus when he died, that " the Angels did carry his Soul into Abraham's Boſom : So " that as there is a great Solemnity here, of a Confluence " of People, a Scaffold, a Gallows, and people looking out " at Windows ; ſo is there a greater and more ſolemn Pre- " paration in Heaven, of Angels, to carry my Soul to ſ Chriſt's Boſom. Again, this is my Comfort, that it is " to come in Chriſt's Hands, and he will preſent it blame- " leſs and faultleſs to the Father, and then ſhall I be ever " with