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so he finished his course, and the ministry that he had received of the Lord.
Take his character from Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who was his contemporary. He was affectionate, affable, and tender-hearted, to all such as he thought had any of the image of God in them; sober and temperate in his diet, saying commonly, It was well won that was won off the flesh, generous, liberal and most charitable to the poor; a great hater of covetousness; a frequent visitor of the sick; much alone, loving to he retired; but when about his Master's public work, laying hold of every opportunity to edify; in conversation, still dropping what might minister grace to the hearers: his countenance was edifying to beholders; often sighing with deep groans: preaching in season, and out of season, upon all hazards; ever the same in judgment and practice. From his youth, he was much given to the duty of secret prayer, for whole nights together; wherein it was observed, that, both in secret and in families, he always sat straight upon his knees, with his hands lifted up; and in this posture (as some took notice) he died with the rope about his neck.
Besides his last speech and testimony, and several other religious letters, with the lecture, sermon and sentence of excommunication at Torwood, whieh, are all published, there are also several other sermons, and notes of sermons, interpersed among some peoples hands, in print and manuscript, some of which have been published. Yet if we may believe Walker, in his remarkable passages, &e. who heard severals of them
