92 BAXTER'S DYING THOUGHTS. man be well that can always have his will let this always be thy will, that God's will may be done, and thou shalt always have it. Lord, let thy servant depart in peace ; even in thy peace, which passeth understanding, and whichChrist, the Prince of peace, doth give, and nothing in the world can tike away. O, give me that peace which beseemeth a soul, which is sg near the harbor, even the worldof endless peace and love, where perfect union (such as I as capable of) will free me from all the sins and troubles which are caused by the convulsions, divulsions, andconfusions, ofthis divided, selfish world. Call home this soul by the encouragingvoice of love, that it may joyfully hear, and say, ' It is my Father's voice.' In- vite it to thee by the heavenly messenger. Attract it by the to- kens and the foretastes of love. The messengers that invited me to the feast of grace, compelled me to come in without constraint. Thy effectual call did make me willing ; and is not glory better than preparing grace? Shall I not come more willingly to the celestial feast.? What was thy grace for; but to make me willing of glory, and the way to it ? Why didst thou dart down thy beams of love, but to make me love thee, and to call me up to the everlasting centre? Was not the fast of grace as a sacrament of the feast of glory? DidI not take it in remembrance of my Lord until he come ? Did not he that told me, " All things are ready,", tell me also that "He is gone to prepare a place for us ? " And it is his will that we shall be with him, and see his glory. They that are given him, and drawn to him by the Father, on earth, do come to Christ. Give, now, and draw my` departing soul to my glorified Head; and, as I have glorified thee on earth, in the measure that thy grace bath prevailed in me, pardon theisins by which I have offended thee, and glorify me in the beholding and participation of the glory ofmy Redeemer. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly,. with fuller life, and light, and love, into this too dead, and dark, and disaffected soul, that it may come with joyful willingness unto thee. Willingly depart, O lingering soul ! Itis from a Sodom, though in it there be righteous Lots, who yet are not without their woful blemishes ! Hast thou so oft groaned for the general blindness and wickedness of the world, and art thou loath to leave it for a better? Howoft wouldst thou have rejoiced to have seen.but the dawningof a day ofuniversal peace and reformation ! And wouldst thou not see it where it shineth forth in fullest glory ! Would a light at midnight have pleased thee so well? Hast thou prayed and labored for it so hard? And wouldst thou not see the sun? Will the thingsof heaven please thee no where but on earth, where they come in the least and weakest influences, and are terminated
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