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 opportunity, but be ſure you marry in the Lord, and one of a good diſpoſition that he may not grieve you, and of a comfortable livelyhood in the world.

Farewel, dear love, and again I ſay, Farewel the Lord Jeſus be with your ſpirit, the Maker of heaven and earth be a huſband to you, and the Father of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt be a father to your childrenso prays.

our daying, yet moſt affectionate

friend till death.

From the Tower of London, Auguſt 22d, 1651 the day of my glorification.

(ſaid he) there be but little between me and death, yet this bears up my heart, there is little between me and heaven. It comforted Dr Taylor the martyr, when he was going to execution, that there were but two ſtiles- between him and his father's houſe; there is a leſſer way between me and my father's houſe, but two ſteps between me and glory. It is but lying down upon that block, and I ſhall aſcend upon a throne, I am this day ſailing towards the ocean of eternity through a rough paſſage to my heaven of reſt through a red ſea to the promiſed land. Methinks I hear God