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your soul.——Farewel world! Farewell wife and children! Farewel vanity, sin and sorrow!——Lord Jesus receive my spirit.

My dear wife and Children, I have laboured with my pen for your salvation. I could die with the pen in my hand. But since I can do nothing, may the Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead direct your mind. Oh! Peggy dear, do not charge the holy and just god foolishly:—He has said, Leave (illegible text) fatherless children, and let thy widow trust in me. My dear, be earnest (illegible text) your crying to god. Put not your trust in an arm of flesh; but O pray night