17Q9 MR THOMAS BOSTON. i63 out of its utter obfcurity, by his bringing me acquainted .IY 1'1r Gordon. y On Tuefday, Nov. H. I finithed the memorial ,concer es perfbnal and family fafting, begun Aug. 5. and confifting of y pages; and laid it before the Lord for acceptance through Je n Chrrft, and a bleffing thereupon*. Having had a fevere cd thefe twò days, and been in a fweat Tuefday's night, I was doubt whether to keep the appointed diet of catechifing at' Calcrabank on the-Wednefday, or not : but I was determined to go, through one's coming to me that morning from the parith of Yarrow, with a line, to get his child baptized there. . So I went off, and mycold was no worfe. But being come homeagain that night, I was feized with a fevere fit of thegravel ; in which vomiting up at length forne blackifh matter, I was deeply im- preffed with a view of the loathfomenefs of this body, bearing the image of the earthly firtt Adam, and what it mutt come to by means of death, till it be reduced to duft again ; out of which it is to be reformed after the image of the heavenly man, the fecond Adam, far removed for ever from that corrupt conftitu- tion. The day had been very bad ; and this feafon I have not hitherto had one good day on that occafion ; but 1 have had a fort of pleafure and fatisfadlion in enduring thefe little hardthitss, for my Mailer and his work's fake. After I had finned the memorial aforefaid, confidering that I had now no more of that kind of work in view, I gave myfelf to fet matters in order for my departure out of this world ; and for proceeding in the effay on the Hebrew text thereafter, while life fhould be lengthened out. Accordingly on the 13th I tranf- cribed a particular will concerning the Latin effay, and a parcel ofmy books, dated April 6. 1728, and figned it,. having made forne addition to the parcel of books. On the 14th, I figned an afl'ignatiori of what fubftance I had, that had been drawn at E- dinburgh, by Mr Young writer there. While I was at the af., fembly in May, I let that matter a-foot with him ; and after- Wards correfponded with him, till it was done with due deli- beration, and feet out : and that good man bellowed that labour, as a labour of love, refuting payment afterward when oared him. On the 15th, I prepared the errata of the fecond edition of the FourfoldState, whichwas publifhed about that time; and that day eight days, letters from Edinburgh and London, fend- ing to Mr G. then at London, a copy of the title and index of the Latin effay. And on the 16th, being the Lord's day I fi- nned my fermons on Mark x. 30. relating to the other world. And that very night I received a letter for the burial of Mr Robert Lithgo minifter of Afhkirk, in whole ordination, anno 1711, I had been adlor. He was a worthy brother; and though * This memorial was all() originally publifhed in 1734, being annexed to the treatife on the covenant of grace. Both the original notes and the MS. here mentioned, are preferred.
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