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 and angels in heaven, the holy hill of Zion; and I am changing a guard of ſoldiers for a guard of angels which will receive me, and carry me to Abraham's boſom. This ſcaffold is the beſt pulpit that ever I preached in; in my church pulpit God through his grace made me an inſtrument to bring others to heaven, but in this pulpit he will bring me to heaven.

Afterwards he ſaid, though my blood be not the blood of nobles, yet it is Chriſtian blood, miniſter's blood, yet more, it is alſo innocent blood I magnify the riches of God's mercy and grace towards me, that I who was born in Wales, an obſcure country, and of obſcure parents, ſhould be ſingled out an honourable ſuffering. For the firſt fourteen years of my life I never heard a ſermon preached; yet in the fifteenth year of my life, it pleaſed God to court me, Bleſſed be God, who not only made me a Chriſtian but a ſo a miniſter judging me faithful, and putting me into the miniſtry, which is my glory I had rather be a preacher in a pulpit, than prince upon a throne: I had rather be an inſtrument to bring ſouls to heaven, than that all nations could bring tribute to me.-Formerly (ſaid he) I have been under a ſpirit of bondage; yea, ſometime I have had more fear in drawing out a tooth than now I have for cutting off my head When fear was upon me, death was not near; now, when death is near to me, my fear is evaniſhed.

I am comforted in this, though men kill me they cannot damn me, though they thurſt me out of the world, yet can they not ſhut me out of heaven. When I have ſhed my blood I expect the full declaration of the remiſſion o' ſins through the blood of Jeſus Chriſt. I am going to my long home, and you to you ſhort homes; but I ſhall be at my home before ye be at yours.-He prayed, that feeling he was called to do the work which he never did he might hate the ſtrength which he never had.