1741. have fought a good Fight, I have finished my Course, I bar kept the Faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crow: Tortola. of Righteousness: Which Words, and moft Part of this laft Sermon, was delivered in great Brokenness; tro: whence I judged that he was fenfible that he had not long to live, though, I believe, he was not afraid to die. On Second-day Morning, the Fever abated a little, and he complied with the Doctor's Prefcription of taking: Vomit, which feem'd to have its proper Effect; but tha: Night the Fever return'd, and continued on him unti he dy'd; which was between two and three o'Clock α Fourth-day Morning, the fourth Day of the Ninth Month, being fpeechlefs about feven Hours before. A general Invitation was given to Friends and other to his Funeral; where three Teftimonies were born, all in great Brokenness, under a juft Senfe of our great Lofs. After which he was decently interr'd on the Evening of the fame Day, in a Piece of Ground which is fince given to Friends for a Burial Place, and on which a Meeting-houfe is built, by John Pickering, the Governor of the Inland at that Time. It is faid in the Scriptures, That the Righteous are ta ken away, and no Man layeth it to Heart; but, I hope, it may be truly faid, this was not the Cafe at this Time; for Friends, in general, much lamented their great Lofs, in being fo foon deprived of fo inftructive a Friend and Elder, whofe Care over us was very great; and who, by his loving and exemplary Life, and Tendernefs to People of all Ranks and Profeffions, engag'd the Love and Refpect of moft of the People in the Inland. We are fully affured, that his Labour among us was not in Vain, and that many have felt the good Effects of it; fo that we believe fome of the laft Words he exprefs'd in Publick, may juftly be apply'd to him, and that he now enjoys a Crown of Righteousness. |