1701. MR THOMAS BOSTON. 131 TJ'ntil the 15th of'Auguft, the weekly fermon was continued in the kirk ; at which time, being intermitted becaufe of the bar- veil, it 'was begun again on the 7th of November in the houfe, and that in the night. And after that manner that exercile was managed during the remaining time of_my minifiry in that place. Nov. t4: This has been a time of many troubles to me, fo that I have fometirnes wondered what the Lord minded to do with nie. Now I had a very (harp one, but was quickly delivered : fo on the morrow I (pent; fotne time ixï failing and prayer, and renewed my covenant with the Lord; and it pleafed the'Lord- to let out fomething of himfelfto me, fo that, refleóting on my trou- bles, I clearly law the need of Them, with a deal of convincing power, and my foul was made to fee .God's love in them all, and from my heart I was made to fay, he had done all things. well. The fruit of them is, that I have thereby feen the vanity of all things betides Chrift, and that there is no rest but in .him alone, and to delire to be with him, which is belt ofall. In April 1701, my dear father ficlened again : and death ap- pearing on its way, the reft of his children were font for. They being come, he, on Sabbath the'13th of that month, after a fore tots of ficknefs, efpecially after fermons, died that night, in the 70th year of his age, having been born in December 163 t . This.- lharp rod the Lord had fhaken over my head that time twelve months before, for my warning. However, being laid on, it went to the quick with me. It was a heavy death to me, the (hock of which I had much ado to ftand. He was a man ofa low nature, of a freth and lively complexion ; nimble, ftrong, and vigorous ; aétive, and given to application in buínefs; one A who, in the worn of times, retained his integrity, beyond Many; and, in view ofdeath, gave comfortable evidences of eternal life to be obtained through the Lord Jefus Chrìft. His body lies in- terred in the church-yard of Simprin, in the burial-place of the mini-tiers there, whereofI thereby took poffeffion, and foon had more occafion for. On the 4t.h of May, about twoor three o'clock in the morn- ing, my wife, after tong and fore labour, brought forth her firft child, a daughter, called Kcat/urine; having, at the holy and,juft pleaíure of the fovereign Former of all things, a double harelip, whereby the was rendered incapable of fucking. My wife, hav- ing a great terror of the pains of child - bearing, had before-hand laid her account with death ; as the always, I think, did on that occafion thereafter ; having, at the fame fovereign pleafure, an uncommon (hare of thefe pains, the remembrance whereof to this day makes my heart to (brink. W lien I; underfianding her to be delivered, and preferved, was coming towards the chamber to fee her ; Mrs Dawfbn above mentioned meeting me, intimated to me the cafeof the child : with which my heart was (truck, like a bird (hot and falling from a tree. Howbeit I bore it grave- ly ; and my aftlióted wife carried the trial very chriftianly and
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