Caufe, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; a firm belief, and lively faith in our Saviour Jefus Chrift, who died for our fins, and rose again for our justification: "To love our neigh"bours as ourselves, and to do unto them, as we would "they should do unto us." Here he paufed, while all prefent were ftruck with awful aftonishment.

Early on Tuesday morning he defired to fee his mother. The Doctor told him she was too weak to attend him at fo early an hour. He answered, "Take care of her, Doctor; her life is of much more confequence than mine. My lofs can be but little felt, her's a great deal. But I have now a lively hope of a glorious meeting; for yesterday a messenger told me that this day, I fhould be with his Father and my Father, his God and my God.

About fix hours before he died, at his requeft, he was removed into another bed, which feemed to give him cafe ; Dr. W-administered a cordial draught, and proposed reading the 40th Pfalm, in hopes to compofe, and fix his wandering ideas. His fifter read, during which time he lay entirely quiet, and immediately after faid, "I think we fhould join in prayer." His fifter faid, "Shall I go for a book?" he faid, "No, I'll pray," and inftantly began, and prayed for the space of ten minutes, extempore, without the leaft hefitation, or a fingle incoherent word, with great strength of voice, and proper emphafis; praifing God for his goodnefs, praying for his parents and friends, mentioned his difeafe, the means ufed for his recovery, and every other circumftance very diftinctly, and with great compofure. He afterwards faid, "Read me Mr. Newton's hymn on Jehovah Jireh," and at the end of every verfe repeated aloud, "The Lord will provide."

Soon after that, he was feized with dreadful convulfions, and faid, "I am fighting the laft battle, but I fhall be made "a conqueror." His Paftor came into the room for the last time, when this conflict was nearly ended; he was not able to fpeak, but feemed all confufion. "I flood, (fays Mr. M.) for a while and looked with painful and filent astonishment, on his poor afflicted body, fcarcely knowing what to say. We at laft agreed to commend his foul to God in prayer, he joined with us, and at the end of every petition faid aloud, "Amen." Soon as I rofe from my knees he gave me his hand (which was cold as death) and faid, "Now it is over." I faid, "The Lord is with you, and will be with you." He faid, "God grant this may be a useful leffon to you all." These were his laft words; he was now able to speak no more; but his heaven-born foul, ftill triumphing over the

mortal body, (as it had evidently done through all his ficknefs) he lifted his longing eyes to heaven, where all his hopes were manifeftly laid; and with peculiar intenfenefs, continued looking ftedfaftly upward, as though impatient for the coming of his Redeemer's chariot, until the animal frame was quite exhaufted, and the immortal fpirit took flight to the arms of Jefus, where he had long withed to be; and thus he breathed his laft, on the 24th of Auguft, 1790, wanting one month of nineteen years of age.

For fome years preceding his deceafe, this excellent youth kept a diary in fhort hand, which strongly evidences the piety of his life, particularly during the last eighteen months, when, like Enoch, he "walked with God," in a courfe of daily communion. At the fame time he attained a confiderable degree of ufeful knowledge, and was well acquainted with the French and learned languages. His short hand papers have been fince tranfcribed into three volumes folio, and do credit to his induftry, as well as tafle, in felecting whatever ftruck him as peculiarly valuable in his courfe of reading.

Mr. G. was buried in a vault at Budock church-yard, and his name preferved in a plain infcription on his tombflone. On the following Sunday his funeral fermon was preached by Mr. Moore, from which many of the above particulars are taken.

MRS. MARY VOWELL,

THE affectionate wife of Mr. John Vowell, of Castleftreet, in the Borough of Southwark, (the worthy parents of the late Rev. Mr. Geo. Vowell, of whom a memoir was given in the Magazine, in February, and March, 1795), on Friday evening, the first day of November, 1799, in the 50th year of her age, was removed from the prefent world of fin and forrow to the holy and happy regions of immortality.

She was the daughter of Mr. George Peckford, of Berwick, in the county of Somerfet. That all-wife and gracious Being, who can make the greateft apparent evil productive of the richest good, was pleafed fo to fanctify the lofs of both her parents, when fhe was only ten years of age, as to make it the occafion of her becoming truly ferious and

thoughtful. From that early period, fhe attended to thofe things which concerned her everlasting welfare. A complaint in the liver occafioned, in the opinion of the faculty, by fome heavy afflictions, (and particularly by the lofs of an amiable daughter, who, having unhappily married an Irish clergyman, very inconfiderately eloped with him to America), foon terminated in her deffolution. Poffeffing a pleafing talent for writing verfes, and hearing that her daughter was actually embarked-overwhelmed in a flood of anguish, the compofed the following lines.

Increafing grief and heavy woes,

Sit brooding on my troubled mind;
No joy, no peace, my spirit knows,
But what in Thee, my God, I find.

I can rejoice and glory too,

If he be with me in diftrefs:

Pafs through the wintry storms awhile,
In profpect of my heav'nly rest.

Jefus, my Lord, has been my hope,
Or I had fainted in my way:
Oft have I known in adverse state,

His ftrength made equal to my day.

O come, my Lord, fupport me still,
Amidft affliction's darkest hour;
Make me fubmiffive to thy will,

Nor e'er fufpect thy love and pow'r.

My mind withdrawn from things below,
Shall look to brighter fcenes on high;
Where peace and joy eternal flow,

And fprings of comfort never dry.

Apprehending that the time of her departure was not very distant, a few days before the arrival of the awful moment, fhe obferved to her fon, that fhe fhould not be a great while here." I fhall foon leave you-whatever you neglect, my dear, do not be regardless of the one thing needful, both for your own and your children's fake; for you have a great charge committed to you:-as to your poor fifter, I fhould have rejoiced to fee her once more, but as God has ordered it otherwife, I am refigned. I truft we hall meet together in heaven."

Perceiving her husband and fon, and others who were prefent, weeping, he faid, "Do not grieve for me, but

improve your time-it will not be long before, I truft, we fhall meet again."

A friend calling to fee her, fhe took the opportunity of remarking to him, that her whole life had been a scene of trials-wave upon wave, and billow upon billow. He obferved that the highest mountain has a valley at its back; and that while we are in this world, we must expect our troubles. She replied, "fhe had experienced many, but hoped now to be refigned; and trufted the had a good hope in Jefus; and expreffed her confidence of being faved by him, and by him alone."

At another time fhe obferved-"what a mercy it is to enjoy a religious education-what a mercy that I had fuch good examples fet before me in my youth! But it is a painful thought, that all my fins have been committed against light and knowledge."

In the younger part of life, she could repeat from memory the whole of the 119th Pfalm; many paffages of which proved very comfortable to her dying pillow; as the often mentioned confiderable portions of it with great pleasure and delight.

To fome friends who vifited her, she spoke very comfortably of the things of God, and with a compofure of fpirit becoming her fituation; expreffing great thankfulness for all the afflictions fhe had endured from her youth up; and among other things, took occafion to inform them, that, having been bereaved of her parents in early life, fhe used frequently to retire into private places in the fields, for the purpose of prayer, and other devotional exercises. That, during the laft two or three years, fhe had been in great bondage, through fear of death, but, that nevertheless, fhe trufted fhe had a good hope through grace ;-that the fting of death was taken away; and that fhe caft herself on Chrift alone for falvation; adding, that if she perish, she would perish at his feet.

A morning or two before her death, as foon as day-light appeared, the defired the curtains to be undrawn, that the might enjoy the light once more; which being done, she exclaimed, with fome emotion, "O, I truft, I fhall foon fee "the light of the Sun of Righteousness: Subjoining, that the hoped the bitterness of death was paft. "I depend," faid fhe, "for my falvation upon Jefus Chrift alone." In the fame comfortable frame fhe appeared through the remainder of that day, frequently fpeaking of the paffage through which The was to pafs. In the following night, fhe obferved: "It

is a dark valley-I dread to cross it; and yet I long to go. I hope I shall be supported through it."

Two or three evenings previous to her departure, being in a dream, fhe thought fhe was taken up into heaven. Having arrived there, her guide immediately left her. "It was impoffible," fhe faid, "to defcribe the glories fhe there faw; and that the hofl fhe beheld, fang the words recorded in the Revelations," she is come out of great tribulation, "and hath washed her robes, and made them white in the "blood of the Lamb." But, in that inftant, awaking, fhe expreffed great difappointment at finding the delightful objects she had been indulged with a view of, to have been only in a dream.

She told her friends, that she was fatisfied with the means that had been used for her recovery. "But, as to the Doctors, they are of little benefit to me-as Blair fays, they are only doubty keepers from the grave. "What is death," fays Dr. Watts, "but the portal of blifs." She then repeated two verfes of the Doctor's Hymn.

"How fad our ftate by nature is!

Our fin, how deep it ftains!
And fatan binds our captive minds
Faft in his flavish chains.

But there's a voice of fovereign grace
Sounds from the facred word;
Ho, ye defpairing finners, come,

And trust upon the Lord."

Addreffing her fon, about the concerns of a better world, the faid, among other things, "That fin and forrow will be "there forever at an end; and that the pleasures of realizing "the delights and employments of it are unfpeakable, even "in the prefent ftate ;" and added, "I could mention a "great deal more, very fuitable to my prefent condition," -expreffing in very warm and pathetic language, "how "much the wished to find death but only as a fleep." This reminded her fon of the following stanza, which he repeated:

"My foul and body I will trust

With him who numbers every duft;

My Jefus faithfully will keep

His own, for death is but a fleep."

She then prayed that all who were with her might be fo happy as to find it fo. Her fon asking for her bleffing, the replied "O, my child, I wish you God's bleffing; I hope