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6 face to face. O should I be satisfied to stay behind, when my friends are gone! Shall I wander here in a hungry desart, when they are triumphing above, and dividing the spoil? O help me to look after them with a shedrast eye, and cry, O Lord how long : O heavenly Father, draw me after Jesus, for none can come to him without thy aid. O Father draw me up there where he is, and i will mount up as on eagle's wings. O draw me, and when thou seemest to fly from me, Lord enable me to follow hard'after thee. Lord give me the staff of promise in my hand, that I may go over Jordan with it O give me such a promise as that, When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee: When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.' Lord, my experiences are small, my, manifestations are few; these I will not lean to; yet I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, from the Hermonites, and from the hill of Mizar. Why art thou cast down O my soul, and why disquieted within me! hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. O thou who remembered the dying thief, when on the way to thy kingdom, O remember me when now defeated in thy kingdom, and say to my soul when I am dying 'This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Lord I am called to the work I never did, O give me the strength I never had. srengthen me like Samson for once when at death, to pull down the strong holds of sin in me. Lord wash away my sins in the blood of Christ, and then my soul shall not in the ocean of thy wrath. O what is my life but a vapour! a sand glass of 60 of 70 years! O how fall does it run down ! how soon runs it out! Wait vain is the love of life, and the sea of death. O for more patience and less fretting. I damned had hope of being saved from hell alter