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am now going from a priſon to a palace, I have finiſhed my work, I am now going to receive my wages, I am going to heaven, where are two of my children, and leaving you on earth, where there are three of my babes: Theſe two above need not my care, but the three below need yours; it comforts me to think, two of my children are in the boſom of Abraham, and three of them will be in the arms and care of ſuch a tender and godly mother. I know you are a woman of a ſorrowful ſpirit, yet be comforted, though your ſorrows be great for your huſband going out of the world, yet your pains ſhall be the leſs in bringing your child into the world, you ſhall be a joyful mother, though you be a ſad widow: God hath many mercies in ſtore for you: The prayer of a daying huſband for you will not be loſt: To my ſhame I ſpeak it, I never prayed for you at liberty, as I have done in priſon. I cannot write ſuch, but I have a few practical counſels to leave with you, viz.

1ſt Keep under a ſound, orthodox, ſoul ſearching miniſtery. Oh! there are many deceivers gone out into the world, but Chriſt's ſheep know his voice, and a ſtranger they will not follow. Attend any miniſter that teacheth the way of God, in truth, and follow Solomon's advice, Prov. xix. 37.

2dly, Bring up your children in the knowledge and admonition of the Lord. The mother ought to be a teacher in the father's abſence, Prov. xxxi.1. “The words that his mother taught him," And Timothy was inſtructed by his grandmother, 2. Tim. I. 5.

3dly, Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

4thly, Labour for a meek and quiet ſpirit, which, in the ſight of God, is of great price, 1. Pet. iii. 4.

5thly, Pore not on the comforts you want, but upon the

Chriſtian reader obſerve by the matter, and from the 9 page go to the 10 and come back to the II and look at the 14 and 15 as theſe pages were miſplaced.