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Rh oblig'd to make water frequently. a year or two before this lat, he had a fitt of the gout: upon wh his friends congratulated him, as an inurance of long life. but I had different entiments: & this event verify'd my preage.

his lat illnes was an inflammation on the neck of his bladder, with the mot excrutiating pain, that can be imagined; & that for everal days continuance. it roe to uch a height, that the bed under him, & the very room hook with his agonys, to the wonder of thoe that were preent. uch a truggle had his great oul to quit its earthly tabernacle! all this he bore with a mot exemplary, & remarkable patience, truly philosophical, truly chritian; & a reignation to the divine will, equal to his other vertues; expiring with oft, & ilent groans: his pirit taking its flight thro the well known tarry orbs: whilt his name lives on earth, till attraction in the planetary bodys exceeds thir impulsive motion; & the un aborbs them, in the lat conflagration.

he dy'd about 2 a clock in the morning, of the 20 march 1726-7. in the 85th. year of his age current. he was bury'd with decent olemnity, in