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( 47 ) " with the Lord. And now I leave off to ſpeak any more " to Creatures, and turn my Speech to thee, O Lord ! " And now I begin my Intercourſe with God which ſhall " never be broken off. Farewell Father and Mother, " Friends and Relations ; farewell the World and all De- " lights ; farewell Meat and Drink; farewell Sun, Moon and Stars : Welcome God and Father, welcome ſweet " Lord Jeſus the Mediator of the new Covenant, wel- " come bleſſed Spirit of Grace and God of all Conſolation, "welcome Glory, welcome eternal Life, welcome Death." Then he deſired the Executioner not to turn him over, until he ſhould put over his own Shoulders himſelf, which, after praying a little within himſelf, he did, ſaying, " O Lord ! into thy. Hands I commit my Spirit ; for thou haſt redeemed my Soul, Lord God of Truth.” Thus, " in the Twenty-ſixth Year of his Age, he died, as he lived, in the Lord.

The laſt Speech and Teſtimony of Mr. Hew MACKAILE, Preacher of the Goſpel and Probationer for the Miniſtry, at his Death, in Edinburgh, December 22. 1666.

Being, by a great Surpriſal of Providence, thus ſtaged before the World, in a Matter of ſo univerſal Con-cernment to all that fear God and deſire to be ſtedfaſt in his Covenant, I could not forbear to leave behind me this ſtanding Teſtimony, concerning the Occaſion and Uſes hereof, for the Glory of God, in the Vindication of my Profeſſion from the Aſperſions caſt thereon by Men, and the Edification of thoſe, by my Death, to whom I had devoted my Life in the work of the Miniſtry. I have eſteemed the Government of this Church by Presbytery to be among the chief of the Ordinances of Je- ſus