Page:Some ejaculations and dying words of the late Reverend Mr John Willison, late Minister of the Gospel at Dundee, or, His last words to his wife & children.pdf/3

 loving father, who being dead, yet hereby speaketh to you for your eternal good and happiness; may they sink into your hearts: So prayeth.

JOHN WILLISON.

Let me sleep in Jesus! I would not live always in this evil world that has little in it tempting and seems still proving worse, and where the torrent of sin and backsliding seems to grow stronger.

I would desire to depart and to 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 Lord.

Whom have I in heaven but thee, and there is none in all the earth whom I desire besides thee; for though my heart, strength and flesh fail, yet God is 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 lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.

When Christ says,- Surely I come quickly: may my soul 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 thy 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 finished my course; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the righteous Lord will give me at his coming.''

I omam [sic] vile and polluted, how shall I be cleansed? But that is a comfortable promise, The blood of Jesus Christ his Son, cleanseth from all sin. And so is that, Though ye have lien among the pots, ye shall be as doves,