rious as the dispensation must appear to them, and awfully afflictive. Thus my views of God in Christ delivered me from depression of mind; from all fear that hath torment; and from apprehension of evil of every kind, both with respect to mind, body, and estate.

"The glory of Christ and of his kingdom occupied my thoughts. My heart prayed thus, Thy kingdom come! Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive all glory and honour and power. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly, with power and great glory. Come to be glorified in thy saints, and to be admired in all them that believe. Thus have I been supported and cheered during the whole period of my failing strength. O give thanks unto the Lord, for his mercy endureth for ever.

My excessive weakness, and subsequent trial, commenced on Palm Sunday, and continued all the week. The Saviour's progress through the week of his Passion, was the comforting subject of my meditations. I thought over all the circumstances of the Gospel History with thankfulness. Every fact, every word, and the work of every day, was interesting to me; and I kept my thought; to the business of each day, particularly to the transactions of Thursday and Friday. The Supper; the Agony; the Cross! O how precious are the thoughts of these things! The Lord Jesus, the Son of God, died for sinners, that he might take away the sting of death, and procure for us the hope of a joyful resurrection unto eternal life.. "March 29, Easter-day. My strength sensibly returned. My heart rejoiced in him, who is the Resurrection and the Life. My only prayer was, that I might see his glory, and speak of him; and that he would glorify himself in me,-in my soul and body, living and dying.

"March 30, Easter Monday.-I was asked if I could bear good news, and was told of the formation of a Bible Society at Ceylon. I could not refrain from tears of joy Called for the Hebrew Psalter-Heard the ciii. Psalm deliberately read over. Then I returned back to the twentieth verse: Bless the Lord, O ye angels of his, that excel in strength. There I reposed the whole day, calling on the angels who excel in strength, for as yet I had little or none, to praise Jehovah *.

This weakness is very apparent in the tremulous, irregular lines of the manuscript. These reflections are the genuine effu

"The Hebrew Psalter has been very precious to me; but, above all, the cxliii. Psalm. I paused at verse the eighth, Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my soul unto thee..

"My prayer through my sickness has been, that, if my life be spared a little longer, it might be wholly consecrated and devoted to the glory of God. But I knew not the way, and could promise nothing of myself, but only in the strength and grace of Christ. At length I discovered the way, in which if God enable me to walk, then will my prayer be answered, and my petition granted. Psalm xxxvii. 31: The law of his God is in his heart: none of his steps shall slide. This I perceive to be the only infallible rule for safe and sure walking, namely, the law of holiness in the heart,-the law written in the heart by the Spirit of the Lord. All must be a heavenly gift coming down from the Father of Lights, and the Father of Mercies."

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In another paper, written also in pencil, about a week after, he observes; I have said nothing about the comfort which some profess to derive from the reflection of their having done well, God has not put it in our mouths to say, Here I am, a profitable servant, worthy of eternal glory:' but has taught us to smite on our breasts, and cry, God be merciful to me, a sinner. We have been unprofitable servants. When, Lord, have we come up to our duties, loved thee as thou requirest, served thee as we ought, or done any thing worthy of thy notice or reward?""

These passages are abundantly sufficient to shew you the strong consolation which your dear Minister enjoyed; and also, that it was derived, not from any thing which he saw in himself, but from the sovereign and free_and unbounded mercy of God to him in Christ Jesus. During his whole illness he maintained the same humble and cheerful dependence upon Christ,

But here let me read an extract of a memorandum with which I have been favoured by one who had the

sions of a heart strongly imbued with the Gospel, and elevated by the consolations of the Holy Spirit above the present state of things. The most prejudiced must give a dying man credit for what he asserts in a state of extreme weakness, and evidently intended for no other eye but his own.-NOTE PREACHER.

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tenderest interest in the deceased, and was a sorrowful eye-witness of his sufferings.

"During the early part of his long and distressing illness, he greatly desired to live. He knew, not only, that his life was of great importance as the means of support and protection to his parents and his own family dependent upon him; but he saw much delightful work before him, which his soul loved, in aiding with all his strength to promote the circulation of the Scriptures. However, as the will of God became clearer to him respecting his great change, he appeared no longer to cherish the desire of the life of the body; but turned all his attention, and desired to direct the attention of all who loved him, to the life of the soul. When the time approached that he should depart hence, he evidently desired earnestly to keep his soul with all diligence in the state expressed in a diary written on his birth-day, when he had completed his fortieth year: Let me prepare my soul for adversities, unload the ship, and free myself as fast as possible from every earthly tie. And when my hour is come, may it find me like my now dying friend *; the world having nothing to do with me, nor I with the world. May I have nothing then to do but to die!' This state of mind was peculiarly manifest, at the latter end, after his return from Saugor. He kept a watchful eye over his own spirit, lest it should yield to earthly attractions: he desired to be out of the body even before he' was separated from it; and, on hearing some reflections of Bishop Hall on preparedness for death, he checked the reading as being unsuitable to him who no longer desired to hear the word of man, but that his soul should live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. I will only add, That, when he could no longer attend to set prayer, or even to the words of Scripture, still was he able to dedicate the departing strength of his mind to ejaculatory addresses to his Redeemer; his moving lips and upraised hands testifying the employment of his spirit, even after his eyes had closed for ever on earthly. objects.

The following is an extract of a Sermon preached on the same occasion, at the Presidency Church,

* Mr. John Obeck of Calcutta, who bad been, in early life, an associate of the venerable Swartz.

Calcutta, 21st June, 1812, by the Rev. Daniel Corrie :

His attachment to our common faith appeared in his gratuitous labours in behalf of our native Christian Brethren; and especially by more than twenty years' labours in the other church, without fee or reward. He was, ac cording to the scripture character of a Bishop (Titus i. 8), a lover of good men. Not disposed to consider salvation as confined to any one sect or denomination of Christians, he gave the right hand of fellowship to the good of all persuasions. At the same time, it is the most entire conviction of my mind, that his decided preference was in favour of the Church of which he was a Minister. His private conversation could not be mistaken on this subject; and his dying testimony to the excellency of our Liturgy could not be feigned. He declared, that, the longer he lived, the more he was satisfied with our Church Establishment, and the more beauty he discovered in the Book of Common Prayer.

Dr. Buchanan, speaking of some who had not fulfilled their obligations, says, "I mention these things to warn you. But I have more pleasure in directing your view to other servants of Christ, whose bright example has illumined the East,-who have been patterns of faith, diligence, prudence, and fortitude. From the ministers of the two churches to which you respectively belong, I shall select two illustrious characters, who have left a great example for them that follow; I mean, the venerable Swartz of the Lutheran Church, and the late Rev. David Brown of the Church of England. These men did not deny Christ. They did not love father and mother more than Christ. They took up their cross and followed Christ. If you knew as well as I do, the conflicts which they were called to sustain in the East, you would see how fitly the words of our Lord might be applied to them: Behold, I

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send you forth as lambs among wolves. But beware of men. If you knew, again, the conjoined wisdom and innocence which they manifested in these conflicts, you would acknowledge that they studied to obey our Lord's admonition: Be ye wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. The character of both was marked by an extraordinary liberality of sentiment in regard to the differences in religious profession; -a liberality, which others, in a confined sphere; could not well understand. In a word, They endured unto the end; and both of them were enabled to glorify God in their deaths, by a manifestation of a joyful hope in the view of their dissolution. And, after death, God was pleased to honour their faithfulness. The East-India Company erected a Monument as a testimony of their reverence for the Apostolic Swartz, and engraved on it a record of his labours; and to their late Senior Chaplain, Mr. Brown, they have rendered a tribute of respect yet more munificent, by providing for his numerous family."

Dr. Buchanan adds, in a note,-"The patronage of individuals in the Court of Directors to Mr. Brown's family, has not been less conspicuous than that of the public body. Mr. Grant has given a writership in the service of the Honourable Company to James Brown, the eldest son; and Mr. Parry has bestowed a similar appointment on Charles Brown, the second son; and both youths have, in consequence, been nominated as students at Hertford College. Their father's premature death has frustrated the design of their entering the Church. But they may have it in their power to be of yet more extensive service to the cause of religion in India, in the respectable situations to