She made me get by heart, many of Dr. Watts' hymns, which were, and have been often sweet and refreshing to my foul. With what facred pleafure have I feafted on the heavenly manna, when attending the ordinances, both under the worthy Dr. Guyfe, and your miniftration, my dear husband." Here she was interrupted by another convulfion fit, and, when fhe came out of it, proceeded: "O the dear people, with whom I have often taken fweet counfel, and gone up to the house of God together: and fometimes when I have been with them at the communion table, and my heart was fo full of the love of God, that with difficulty I could refrain from fpeaking aloud what I felt, what I faw, what I handled, and what I tafted of the word of life: but thefe were only foretaftes of the entertainments of heaven; a rill iffuing from the fountain of life, in the paradife of God: come Lord Jefus, come quickly." She then faid to her husband, "My dear, help me to repeat the dying Chriftian's Soliloquy, which you know I was always fond of. He repeated the first line, and fhe then went on,

"Vital fpark of heavenly flame!" &c.

When he had done, fhe faid, "What excellent verses are thefe! They are admirably fuited to one in my circumstances: every fentence is the language of my heart, and experience." After laying compofed for fome time, fhe faid, "Surely the Lord doth all things well: I used to repine at the death of fome of my children, and thought God dealt hardly by me; but now I know affuredly that he orders all things wifely and graciously for his people." To her hufband fhe faid, "You may live many years, and I hope you will find them years of comfort; but I must leave you, and the places which once knew me, fhall know me no more; but though I am gone, I am not loft; though I am parted from you, it is only for a season: God will raife us up at the last day, and we shall be for ever with him.

She

She called for the young child, and looking at it tenderly, faid, "Poor dear little creature, you are not for this world: perhaps you may die at the fame time with myself; or you will not furvive me long." To her two eldeft fons, the faid, "You are going to lofe your mother: O feek the Lord, while you are young. I fought him when I was at your age, and I blefs his name for it now: beware of the tollies of this giddy age; and of bad company in this wicked place. I befeech you not to go to plays, and places of idle diverfions, thofe dange rous traps for poor, inconfiderate, inexperienced youth. Follow the advice and example of your worthy father, and I trust you will be growing comforts to him." When fhe faw her daughter, about eight years of age, the faid with great emotion, “O my Betfey, my dear Betfey, my fweet creature!" She wanted to fay fomething to her, but was too much affected to utter a word. Tears flowed from her eyes, and fhe fell into another convulfion fit, which lafted fome time. After recovering from it, fhe faid, "O this poor afflicted body! In a little time I fhall be delivered from it, and all its incumbrances. But I know that my Redeemer livetb, and that he will change this vile body, and make it like his glorious body; fo that it fhall fhine forth as the fun in the kingdom of his Father. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Being defired to compofe herself to reft, fhe faid, "Do not defire me; my dear, how can I fleep, when I fee death and glory so near? O death, how serious a thing, and how awful! Nature shrinks at the profpect of the cup. Awful indeed, to appear before an infinitely holy and jealous God; but yet a view of my Lord by faith brightens the fcene, and difpels my fears. Oh glory, how delightful, even in contemplation! Death is but a bridge, a ftep, when I look at the land of glory on the other fide: come, Lord Jefus, come quickly make no long tarrying, O my God!" Soon after, fhe fell into a fwoon: her husband apprehenfive fhe was near death, kneeled down and began to pray; but had not fpoken many fentences, when Gge

his well known voice in that duty roufed her from the fit, She caught the words from his lips, and prayed with him; and when he was done, fhe faid, "My dear, it was cruel, it was cruel; I was juft entering the threshold, and you have prayed me back to life." For three hours before she died, she spoke little; but what words fhe dropped, breathed the same heavenly temper, and after laying fweetly compofed, fhe fell asleep in Jefus with a fmile upon her countenance, about half an hour after one o'clock on Monday morning, the 29th of April 1771.

4 COMPARISON of Ancient FABLE, with the SACRED WRITINGS,

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N the divifion which Noah made of the earth between his

three fons, the Poets have made their divifion of the univerfe between the three children of Saturn. Thofe who have examined the accounts of this, have found, that of Cham they have made their Jupiter, the governor of the heavens and earth, of gods and men; of Japhet Neptune, who had the empire of the fea; and of Shem, Pluto, the governor and god of the fhades and the dead.

This is evident from all we learn from antiquity, and from the different names which they have given to Jupiter; drawn in part, not only from the different functions which they attributed to him; but also from the different names of Cham or Ham, which he had in his divifion of Egypt and Lybia; from whence this country, and particularly Egypt, is called in the Scriptures, the land of Cham, Pfalm lxxvii. 105. and by Plutarch, Chemia, and by the Egyptians, the land of Ham.

Alexan.

Alexan. Polyh. terms all Africa the land of Hamon, and the Egyptians called Jupiter, Hammon, the celebrated temple of whom (vifited by Alexander) was in Lybia, and another of the fame name at Meroe in Ethiopia. Plutarch fays in the beginning. of his treatise of Ifis and Osiris, that the proper name of Jupiter was Amoun, or Hammon and Ammon.

Berofus, a Chaldean fays, "that Ammon was a king of Lybia, who married Rhea the daughter of Calum; and was the father of Bacchus, who being in danger of perifhing through thirft in the defarts of Lybia, difcovered a fountain by means of a Ren, in remembrance of which he built there a temple to his father Hammon, whofe ftatue had the head of a ram, with the horns in the forehead."

This they drew from the hiftory of Mofes, intermingled with that of Noah, when he defcended from the mountain where God had given him the two tables of the law; his vifage fhone with rays of light which refembled horns, (Vulgat. Exod. xxxiv. 35. effe cornutam.) Thus he appeared to the people, and it is thus that he is generally painted. The learned believe there was only one Jupiter; but as they have united in him the power of divers functions, they have thereby made many of him, and given him divers names.

Cicero reckons three, one born of the air, another of the heavens, and the third, the fon of Saturn, whofe tomb is to be feen in the ifle of Crete, where he reigned. He was thought to be the firft of the gods; as Nimrod, or Belus, a defcendant of Cham, was the first man adored as a god. Belus was also the Jupiter of the Babylonians and Syrians.

Jupiter was called Aratrius, (i. e. the ploughman or labourer) and by the Phenicians Dagon, which fignifies the fame; because the family of Noah fpread the method of tilling the earth, which they had learnt from him, as appears, Gen. ix. The titles of Elutherius and Soter, (Redeemer and Saviour) under which they dedicated temples to him, are properly applicable to Noah,

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the father of Cham. They have given him divers other names, taken from the places where he was worshipped, and the fubjects for which he was honoured and invoked.

Of NEPTUNE.

Of Japhet, the fon of Noah, the Neptune of Fable was made, who was god of the feas, because a great part of the lot of Japhet, was the ifles, peninfulas, fea coafls, and maritime places, on the coaft of Afa, Greece, the Archipelago, and Europe. They have taken alfo from the family of Japhet the Fable of Prometheus, whom they have made the fon of Japhet under the name of whom they have always acknowledged Japhet, very little disguised, although they have made him the brother of Saturn, through the eafinefs of confounding fome degrees in very ancient genealogies, taken from altered traditions!. They gave him to wife one of the daughters of Oceanus, because the ifles had been given in lot to Japhet.

Diodorus Siculus relates, that in the time of Prometheus there happened a great deluge in Egypt, in which almost all the people in that country perifhed. The name of Prometheus fignifies forefight, which was a ftriking character of Noah, and by which he faved in his family all the human race. It is faid that Prometheus formed the fift man, alluding to the re establishment of mankind, by, or under Noah: that he brought fire from heaven to animate him, alluding to the fire that defcende from heaven on the facrifice which Noah offered after the deluge, God giving him this teftimony that he ac cepted it. The Poets feigned that Prometheus was bound to mount Caucafus, which is part of the mountains of Armenia, where Noah refled after the deluge.

[To be continued.]

A SERMON