,1719 MR THOMAS BOSTON. 287 Edinburgh, and the congregation. And I came away with con- fidence in a prayer-hearing.God. It: was but a little after this, that having clofed that exercife, and fat down to dinner, an exprefs from Edinburgh,' arrived, calling me thither ; for that my daughter. Jane was dangeroufly Fick of a high fever, and roving. This furprifing alarm touched me to the quick.. Prefently the caufe was manifeft. I had taken her and her brother John toEdinburgh, and left her uneafy with the colds as he alto was ;'and juft at my coming home on the 14th, being attacked with a certain temptation, which often has been ruining to me, I was thereby carried quite off my feet ; my heart in the mean time fearing my dear children, whom I bad left, might fmart for this. It was ground of comfort, that the Lord had begun early to deal with her foul; and, by good providence, about an hour ere the exprefs came, I had caft my eye on the paflàge of Dec. 21. 1718, above, p..350. At five o'clock I took my horfe, and journeyed all the night. Many thoughts about her went through my heart like arrows, while I was by the way ; but ftill.I held firm by this, that whatever the Lord lhould do in her cafe, it would be well done, it would be belt done, and roy foul would approve it as fuch. And' the faith of this was my anchor. I conlideréd all my children ; and, if any of them was to be removed bydeath, I was fati'sfied it lhould be her, though the has had a very particular room in mÿ affection : for I looked oh her as the fitteft -for that change. At Peebles, the paffage concerning. Peter's wife's mother com- ing befo e me in. prayer, I was helped to pray that God would rebuke the fever. Betwixt eight and nine next morning I arrived in Edinburgh ; and having alked if flue was alive, my trembling heart was eared, with the;anlver, that the was better; and I found it was fo when I faw her. I continued in Edin- burgh from that Wednefday till the Fridaywas eight days after, December 4. ; and flue was ftill`better. During that time, 'I wás willingly employed in private houfes, in the Lord's wórk, fïiuce the melancholy work of burying }ley daughter, which J had feared, was taken out of my hand. She had got out of the bed fix days before I left her. This was a great mercy in my eyes ; and I was oftenmade to thank my God, for the kind rebuke he had given me ; for while he fmote with the one hand,, he embraced with the other. It was kindnefs, that the alartn found the as I had been employed that day. John Currie was to have gone to the Merfe that day, and I,thought he had been gone; but Providence had ftópped him, that hé might go with me. There being a fick.man in the Crofslie, I thought it belt to vifit him as 1 gaffed, rrot.withttanding my _ hafte, and the occafìon of it ; and 'God moved the heart of one of the fervants there to guide us over the hills : the night being fo dark, that, going up the hill, I could not difcern'thehorfe that rode before me, I caured one put on his fhoulder a.white'linen cloth for that end ; but to, No. G. N n
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