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But while he was in this dismal Prison, some of the Scots of that County, that had retired to two Houses, that were ftrong enough to refift any thing but Cannon, and were commanded by Sir James Craig, Sir Francis Hamilton, and Sir Arthur Forker, now Lord Grenard, finding themfelves like to fuffer more by hunger, than by the Siege that was laid to them, made fo refolute a Sally upon the Irish, that they killed several, took fome Prifoners, and difperfed the reft, fo that many Months paffed before they offered to befiege them any more. Among their Prisoners four were Men of confiderable intereft; fo they treated an exchange of them for the Bishop, with his two Sons and Mr. Clogy; which was concluded, and the Prifoners were delivered on both fides on the 7th of January: But though the Irish promised to fuffer the Bishop with the other three to go fafe to Dublin, yet they would not let them go out of the Country, but intended to make further advantage by having them ftill among them; and fo they were fuffered to go to the House of an Irish Minifter, Denis O Shereden, to whom some respect was fhewed, by reason of his extraction, though he had forfaken their Religion, and had married an English Woman: He continued firm in his Religion, and relieved many in their extremity. Here the Bishop spent the few remaining days of his Pilgrimage, having his latter end fo full in view, that he feemed dead to the World and every thing in it, and to be afting for the coming of the Day of God.

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During the last Sabbaths of his life, though there were three Minifters prefent, he read all the Prayers and Leffons himself, and likewife preached on all those days. On the 9th of January he preached on the whole 44th Pfalm, being the firft of the Pfalms appointed for that day, and very fuitable to the miferies the English were then in, who were killed all day long, as Sheep appointed for Meat. Next Sabbath, which was the 16th, he preached on the 79th Pfalm, the firft Pfalm for the day, which runs much on the like argument, when the Temple was defiled, and Jerufalem was laid on heaps, and the dead bodies of God's fervants were given to be meat to the Fowls of Heaven, and their flesh to the Beasts of the Earth, and their blood was shed like water, and there was none to bury them. Their condition being fo like one another, it was very proper to put up that Prayer, O re member not against us former iniquities: Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us, for we are brought very low. Together with the other. Let the fighing of the Prisoner come before thee, according to the greatness of thy pow er, preferve thou thofe that are appointed to die. On the 23d he preached on the last ten Verfes of the 71ft Pfalm, obferving the great fitness that was in them to exprefs his prefent condi tion, especially in thefe Words, O God thou bast taught me from my youth, and hitherto have I declared thy wonderous works: now al So when I am old, and gray headed, forfake me not. And on the 30th, which was the M

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laft Lord's day in which he had ftrength e nough to preach, he preached on the 144th. Pfalm, the first appointed for that day, and when he came to the Words in the feventh Verfe, which are alfo repeated in the eleventh Verfe, Send thine hand from above, rid me and deliver me out of great Waters, from the hand of frange Children, whofe mouth speaketh va nity, and whofe right-hand is a right-hand of falfehood. He repeated them again and again, with fo much zeal and affection, that it appeared how much he was haftening to the day of God, and that his Heart was crying out, Come Lord Jefus come quickly, how long, how long? and he dwelt fo long upon them, with fo many Sighs, that all the little affembly about him melted into Tears, and look'd on this as a prefage of his approaching diffolution. And it proved too true, for the day after, he fickned; which on the fecond day after appeared to be an Ague, and on the fourth day he apprehending his fpeedy change, called for his Sons, and his Sons Wives, and fpake to them at feveral times, as near in these Words as their memories could ferve them to write them down foon after.

"I am going the way of all flefh, I am "now ready to be offered up, and the time of ແ my departure is at hand: Knowing therefore "that fhortly I must put off this Tabernacle, << even as our Lord Jefus Chrift hath shewed I know alfo that if this my earthly house of this Tabernacle were diffolved, I have a

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"building of God, an Houfe not made with "Hands, eternal in the Heavens, a fair Man"fion in the new Jerufalem, which cometh ❝down out of Heaven from my God. There"fore to me to live is Chrift, and to dye is "Gain; which encreaseth my defire, even now “to depart, and to be with Chrift, which is "far better, than to continue here in all the "transitory, vain, and false pleasures of this "world, of which I have feen an end. Hear"ken therefore unto the last Words of your ❝ dying Father; I am no more in this world, "but ye are in the world; I afcend to my "Father and your Father, to my God and 66 your God, through the all-fufficient merits "of Jefus Chrift my Redeemer; who ever "lives to make interceffion for me, who is a "propitiation for all my Sins, and washed me " from them all in his own Blood, who is wor "thy to receive Glory and Honour, and Pow"er, who hath created all things, and for "whose pleature they are and were created.

"My witnefs is in Heaven, and my record " on high, That I have endeavoured to glo"rifie God on Earth, and in the Miniftry of "the Gofpel of his dear Son, which was com"mitted to my Truft; I have finished the "Work, which he gave me to do, as a faith"ful Embaffador of Chrift, and Steward of "the mysteries of God. I have preached "Righteousness in the great Congregation: Lo "I have not refrain'd my Lips, O Lord,thou "knoweft. I have not hid thy righteouf "nefs within my heart, I have declared thy M 2

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"faithfulness, and thy Salvation; I have not "concealed thy loving kindness, and thy "truth from the great Congregation of man"kind. He is near that juftifieth me, That "I have not concealed the Words of the ho"ly one; but the Words that he gave to me, "I have given to you, and ye have received ❝ them. I had a defire and refolution to "walk before God (in every ftation of

my pilgrimage, from my youth up to this day) "in truth and with an upright Heart, and to « do that which was upright in his Eyes, ແ to the utmost of my power; and what "things were gain to me formerly, thefe "things I count now lofs for Chrift; yea "doubtless, and I account all things but lofs "for the excellency of the knowledge of Je"fus Chrift my Lord; for whom I have fuf"fered the lofs of all things, and I account "them but Dung, that I may win Christ, and "be found in him, not having my own righ"teousness, which is of the Law, but that "which is through the Faith of Chrift, the " righteoufnefs which is of God by Faith; "that I may know him, and the power of "his Refurrection, and the fellowship of his "Sufferings, being made conformable unto his "Death, I prefs therefore towards the mark, "for the prive of the high Calling of God in "Jefus Chrift.

"Let nothing feparate you from the love "of Chrift, neither tribulation nor distress, nor "perfecution, nor famine, nor nakedness, nor "peril, nor Sword; though (as ye hear and

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