I should like to make my will," and informed her friend of every particular refpecting it. She was then asked if the had any thing else upon her mind, or any meffage to fend to her minifter? the faid "Yes, I with him to preach a funeral fermon from fome words my mind has been exercised with fince I came home, and will foon be fulfilled to me, and are very pleating as well as very ftriking: the words are, "Thou shalt die, and not live." She then asked for Dr. Watts's Hymns, referred them to the 110th in the fift, and hymn 66 in the fecond book, and expreffed much fatisfaction while they were being read. After this her will was made, and her friends were all amazed at her recollection and compofire; her parents then took leave of her for the night; her friend from Kimbolton fat up with her, and the converfed about the things of God and eternity with great pleasure. Part of the night was fpent in reading the Scriptures, particularly the 91ft pfalm, which fhe faid fuited her experience above all the others. After a little while the feemed to be dozing, but presently was rather reftlefs, then again compofed, and dropping into a fweet ferenity of mind began to lift up her heart and voice to the Lord; and in a low foft ftrain was diftinctly heard to fay, "Oh, dear Jefus, how I long to fee thee! oh when thall I come and appear before thee! admit me into the blissful regions; fend thy kind angels to convey me home; grant me the loweft place at thy right hand; yes, the very lowest. Smile upon me, oh bleffed Redeemer! fet me free, keep me from the power of the enemy. Oh bleffed Lamb! draw me out of the enemy's net, my feet are entangled in it; oh draw me out of the mirey clay, fet me on the rock. Oh thou enemy! I fhall foon be out of thy reach-I fhall foon tread thee under foot-fin fhall not have dominion over me-I am not under the law, I am under grace. Oh, dear Lord, thou haft faid "I will be with thee,' be with me through the dark valley as thou haft promifed; oh lead me by the fill waters; oh take me to thyfelf, take me this night, if it were thy pleafure; but oh that I may be like Job, wait patiently till my change come—don't let a murmur come from my lips-bleffed angels ye are come to take me home, where I fhall fee all my dear departed friends furrounding the throne of God and the Lamb-I fhall be no longer under the power of the enemy, but free from fin." After this fhe was filent a little while, then again broke out and faid, "Oh, bleffed Lamb, do I fee thee? oh glorious fight! fuch a worthlefs worm as I am to behold the beauties of thy face for evermore !" She went on for near an hour in the fame way, which was very delightful to the hearers, and they began to think the would go off in that rejoicing manner. After a while the lay ftill, then again was combating the enemy; when at laft her friend fpoke to her, and the faid, "I fhall come off more than conqueror through him that hath loved me."-The time drew near when her friend was obliged to leave her, they were grieved to think they must part; but at laft the faid, "It is a joyful parting to me--we shall meet again-I would not have left you if I had known my time would have been fo fhort-adieu my dear, dear friend!" This was Wednesday morning, and the changed for death a few hours after, and was fenfible only at intervals. She furvived till Sa turday evening, when she was taken (o enjoy what she had so long wished for. Sabbath day fennight after Mr. Nichols preached her funeral fermon at Kimbolton, where he was a member, from the aforefaid words, Ifaiah xxxviii 1. She died Oct. 7, 1797, aged 22 in August latt.

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SIR,

MR. ISAAC UPSDALE.

Extract of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C.

AS you intend to preach at St. Pancras next Lord's day, be pleafed to permit me to give you a fhort account of a poor man who lately died in that parifh workhoufe, his name was Ifaac Upfdale. He was for very many years a near neighbour of mine, having lived in great credit and reputation. This I mention to fhew the inftability of all earthly enjoyments and poffeffions. I vifited friend Upfdale at the request of Mrs. Upidale. When I entered the room he seemed to caft a wishful look towards me; I faid "Mr. U. you appear to be very ill." "Yes, Sir (faid he with a faint voice), I am very ill, I can keep nothing upon my stomach." I replied, "I hope you have turned your thoughts towards the falvation of your foul."O yes," he replied, "I have long been the happy partaker of Chrift's falvation." "Pray Mr. U. have you any truft in any thing you have done for falvation?" Oh no," faid he, "all my confidence is in Chrift. As to my own conduct, I see my most spiritual actions defiled by fin-all my righteoufnefs is but as filthy rags-I have nothing to truft to-I am a poor finner, and have got a wicked heart. You see me, Sir, in this afflicted ftate, with all my outward mifery about me (alluding to the dirty fituation in which he lay), and I have nothing, as you fee, but Chrift; yet let me tell you, Sir, my wicked heart would leave Chrift was I left to myself even now." These words were uttered apparently with very great concern; but I replied, "God will not fuffer you to go from him." He faid, "Bleffed be God, he knew that." I then asked him how he came by fuch precious experience of the love of Chrift? He faid, he hoped God had in covenant love directed his feet to Tottenham Court Chapel; it was there the Lord had met with him, and blessed him, a poor unworthy creature. He was, he confeffed, in himself con fidered a hell-deferving finner; yet, faid he, "though I feel this to be true, I alfo feel Chrift to be infinitely precious." I defired him not to speak too much left it might weaken him, and then read the eleventh chapter of St. John's Gofpel, from which I endeavoured to make fome fuitable remarks. Among other things I obferved, that where the Lord had begun a good work he would never leave it until it was confummated. Sir," faid he, "I believe it-I have now fenfible believing views of Chrift, and I pray and defire to hold him faft; yet my comfort arifes from the hold I know he has of me in covenant tranfactions, and not from my hold of him." Finding this dear man in fuch a frame, waiting patiently for his difiniffion,

Clad with his ftarry pinions on,

Dreft for his flight and ready to be gone-"

On perceiving I had quite exhaufted his little strength by talking so long with him, I went to prayer, and recommending him to the Divine protection I left him. He lived but a few days after, dying Nov. 12, 1797, aged about 60.

MRS. LEVETT.

ON Tuesday, the 28th of Nov. last, Mrs. Levett, of South Cave, Yorkshire, concluded her Chriftian courfe with compofure and fatisfaction, chearfully expecting, through her Redeemer, the poffeffion of the kingdom promised to them that love him. Her exemplary condu&t during a

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long profeffion of religion; her love to, her conftant and serious attend. ance upon the house and ordinances of God, juftly intitle her memory to the attentive regard of furvivors. During her laft illness, which was of long continuance, fhe was for fome time exercised in a very painful manner with diftreffing fears, left the should be rejected as an hypocrite. Hereby occafion was given her in the most explicit manner to examine the foundation of her hope. To fome who remarked, that a perfon who had walked fo regularly and exemplary as fhe had, could have no ground to fear, the replied, "You hurt me much; for if that was all that I had to depend upon, I fhould be undone for ever." To which another friend replied, "Your faith and hope are fixed upon what Jefus Chrift did and fuffered for finners." "Yes," faid he," that is the foundation on which I reft, and there I am happy." Jefus Chrift was much endeared to her foul; in him the found all the could defire, and determined there to reft her all. He was faithful to his engagements, for when she was tried, she came forth as gold; her doubts were happily refolved, her fears entirely conquered; and her foul, with placid ferenity, in the exercise of a hope full of immortality, waited its difmiffion from the body. In the courfe of her illness the frequently repeated verses and whole hymns, several of which were from authors with which, furrounding friends were unacquainted.

Near the close of her pilgrimage, fhe became fo weak, that for near two days the lay in a praying pofture, her hands clafped together, and her lips moving, but scarcely a found could be heard; at last the exclaimed, "Blef fed hope! bleffed hope!" When the moment of her diffolution arrived, almost without a figh, she gently breathed out her life, as on the bosom of her dear Lord. Thus evidencing in her death, as well as in her life, the excellency of that religion which makes it gain to die.

The Lord's-day following, the Rev. W. Tapp preached a funeral fermon to furviving friends and a large congregation, from Proverbs xiv. 32. "The righteous hath hope in his death."

MARY FORISTER.

M. FORISTER, of Hanley, Staffordfhire, died November 29, 1797, after great affliction for more than twelve months. She has left behind two finall children, being herself no more than 23 years of age. She had been a member of the Independent Church in Hanley for ten years; in which period he gave fufficient proof that he was a plant of the Lord's right hand planting. During the long time of her affliction fhe was greatly refigned to the will of God: but for fome part of it the feemed much alarmed at the thought of death. This, however, was quite removed from her mind, on hearing an account of a Minister, who, when he came to die, exclaimed to another Minifter- Oh, what will you fay to me now? I am just going to leave this world, and not one comfort!" The other Minifter replied "What would you think of Jefus Chrift, who, when hanging on the crofs, cried out—“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The dying Minifter's mind was greatly relieved by this; and fo was our dear fifter's, on hearing this relation. Towards her last moments, the seemed to view death not as an enemy, but as a friend: and though the fuffered much in body, was ever ready to fay" Good is the will of the Lord:" but when drawing nigh to death, the had great confolation from thofe precious words" When heart and flesh faileth, God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever." She died with great calmness of mind; and the laft words the uttered where-" Come, Lord Jefus, come quickly!"'.

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MRS. MARY CHADWICH

DIED December 14th, 1797, at Burgh, in Lancashire. She has left to bewail her lofs a mournful husband, fix children, and a number of sorrow. ful christian friends. Her life and death recommend the chriftian religion to others, and fhew its infinite fuperiority to infidelity. Her first abiding religious impreffions were received in a neighbouring parish church, under a fermon preached from Matt. iv. 2. "But unto you that fear my name, fhall the Sun of Righteousness arise," &c. From the account the gave of herself at that time, fhe was in fome meafure prepared for the reception of the word. Her curiofity doubtless had been raised by hearing fomething of the preacher, (the Rev. J. Bayley, Vicar of Little Stewart, in Cambridgeshire) but the defire to hear which the manifefted, seems to have been fomething more than mere curiofity. The precious feed was depofited in her heart, and by the genial influence of the Sun of Righteousness it now fprung up. Her husband on fome account or other wifhed her not to go till the afternoon, when he with some other friends would accompany her. But the time was now come, and he could not stop. In the morning the went alone-she faw-fbe felt. Had fhe not gone then, fhe would have been difappointed, as the minifter did not preach in the afternoon: this fhe has been heard to relate many times with admiration and gratitude, wondering at the providence and grace of God therein difplayed. She now began to feek the Lord in earnest, and after fome time obtained the knowledge of falvation by the remiffion of fins. She for some time attended among Mr. Wefley's people, but her experience and views of Divine Truth induced her to caft in her lot among the Independents, who then occafionally had preaching in that neighbourhood. She had enlarged views of the deep depravity of human nature, and the deceitfulness of the heart. Salvation by grace was a theme upon which the dwelt with much pleasure. The imputation of the glorious righteousness of Jesus Christ, God- Man, was the only foundation of her hope. Her moral and religious conduct was a comment upon the doctrines the imbibed. She had an habitual relifh for religion, and found it good to wait upon the Lord. In her commerce with the world the ftudied to keep a conscience void of offence towards God and man, Imperfections doubtless the had, but he was the firft to acknowledge them: perhaps we may fay not many have fewer. One fin which easily befet her was unbelief: the often mourned when the ought to have rejoiced, But within three months of her death the was in a great measure delivered from this. The means under God was an attentive perufal of Mr. Romaine's Life of Faith.-Her death at this time was what The expected during a confiderable part of her pregnancy. By habitually viewing the king of terrors, he was in fome degree become familiar to her. During the time of nature's forrow the remarked the had peculiar fupport from the Lord, fuch as the never remembered to have had before, and (as the obferved) had she died then, she would have died very comfortably. But the hour was not yet come, Her faith and patience was to have a further trial. On the two following days the was fo much better than the expected, that the w as not without hopes of recovery. The phyfician who had attended her on like occafions before, it feems had ever confidered her death at this time as inevitable; but the fpirits of her friends were elevated fuppofing all danger paft. But, alas, on the Wednesday evening, (the fourth day after her delivery of a fine boy) they were quite alarmed. She continued to grow worse and worse, and death now became evident. In the extremities of pain the faid, "It is painful to die, but fweet." She spoke of herself as a poor unworthy finful creature, but the encouraged fe

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weral chriftian friends around her not to fear or distrust the Lord, if fuch a poor finner as she was faved." Jefus," faid fhe, died for finners, and if I had never come, yet I have a right to come to him now. I will take him at his word."-When the continued to speak of death as certain, her hufband, who would fain have hoped the contrary, faid, "I fear you let down your fpirits."-"No," faid he, "I cannot let them down." She feveral times repeated the following lines emphatically:

"Tell it unto finners, tell,

"I am, I am out of hell."

Her addrefs to her husband was truly affecting. The weighty charge which devolved upon him the defcribed, and pointed out what ought to be his conduct as a parent, and the head of a family. On Mr. Ch's faying they had lived together very happily, that she had discharged her duty, &c. The interrupted him by saying, "Amongst many duties, many defects." Her laft address and dying charge to her children will long be remembered by those who were prefent. After requiring and receiving from them promifes of duty to their father, and obedience to God, the raised her hands, and in a manner worthy the patriarchal age, prayed for and blessed them. She then repeated the following lines:

"Farewell, my flesh and blood most dear,

"I leave you all behind,

"Unto the God of Ifrael's care,

"Who's merciful and kind.

An undue affection to objects below, though near and dear to her, was now taken away. She faw them for the last time leave her chamber with out emotion. She had committed them into the hands of God. She then affectionately remembered her relations and friends, expreffing her defires for their falvation. She now addreffed her God in the language of the Pfalmift-"And now, Lord, what wait I for? truly my hope is in thee;" which words the wished to be improved by a fermon after her death. All her defires seemed now to be accomplished, just upon the threshold of her clay tenement, now no longer habitable, but waiting the coming of her Lord, fhe cried, "Come, Lord Jefus, come quickly:"—but as if she had expreffed some degree of impatience, the repeated the term quickly, and then added, "Hold out, faith and patience." About three o'clock on the Thursday morning the obtained the final object of her faith and hope.

A fermon on Lord's Day, the 24th, was preached by the Reverend Charles Ely, from the above-mentioned words, to a crowded audience, whofe behaviour evinced their concern, and how much he was refpected.

ANN OAKLEY.

SINCE fhe came from the country (April 1797) she had been a conftant hearer of the word at Tottenham-court chapel. Going thither on Dec. 10, fhe was taken ill by the way, obliged to return home, and was not able to go there any more. She had from her infancy been a child of many prayers, from her grandfather and grandmother with whom the lived, but who never perceived that the had, witile in health, any experi mental knowledge of the truths of the Gospel.

The two laft days of the old year the feemed to lie in private meditation, but more fo on the laft day while we were at prayer by her, in which the joined. In the night of New Year's Day the Lord was pleased to break in upon her foul, by causing her to fing praifes to his name. The next day in the morning the called for her brother, fifters, and father to come