Page:Some ejaculations and dying words of the late Reverend Mr. John Willison, Minister of the Gospel at Dundee.pdf/3

 eth to you for your eternal good and happening they link into your heart: So prayeth, JOHN WILLISON, Some of his DYING EJACULATIONS. Let me sleep-in Jesus ! I would not live always in this evil world, that has little in it tempting, and seems still to grow worse, and where the torrent of sin and backsliding seems to grow stronger. I would desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better than to be here. I am willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the word. Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is uone, upon earth I desire besides thee for tho' my heart, Strength and flesh fail, yet the Lord will be the strength, of my heart, and my portion for ever. Now, Lord, what wait I for, my hope is in thee, I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord. O for Simeon's frame, to be saying, Lord lesteft thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine-eyes have been thy salvation.' When Christ says, surely I come quickly; may my foul answer, - Even so come Lord Jesus. I am living on the righteousness of Christ, yea, dying in the Lord. Even so come. I am detained here upon the shore, waiting for a fair wind to carry me over this Jordan. I have waited and will wait for my salvation, O Lord. The Lord is a rock, and his work is perfect: Lord, perfect what concerneth me. O that I could say with Paul, The time of my departure is at hand. I have kept the faith, I have run my race, I have finshed my course; henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the righteous Lord will give me at his coming. I am vile and polluted, O how hall I be cleansed! But that is a comfortable promise, The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanfeth us from all fin. And so is that, Though ye have lain among the pots, ye shall be as doves, whose wings are covered with silver and their feathers with yellow gold.'