T. WILSON. 181 his extreme pain with exemplary patience : he mourned, but never murmured. He was willing to drink his heavenly Father's bitter cup. When lying . upon his death-bed he called his family around him. He desired his wife not to be cast down, or to sorrow as those who haye no hope; but to trust in the Lord ; and added, " Though we must now be separated for a season, we shall meet again to part no more for ever." He exhorted his children to fearthe Lord, saying, " Look you to it, that you meet me not in the day of judg- ment in an unconverted state." He praised God, and spoke much of the preciousness of Christ. The prospect of his approaching death afforded comfort to his soul. To a pious lady of his acquaintance, who was leaving Maidstone, he pleasantly said " What will you say, Mrs. Crisp, if I get the start of you and get to heaven before you get to Dover ?" Another person saying, " Sir, I think you are not far from your Father's house ;" he immediately replied, " That is good news indeed, and is enough, to make one leap for joy." To those who mourned over him, he said "I bless God, who hath suffered me to live so long to do him some service ; and now I have finished the work appointed for me, that he is pleased to call me away so soon." Hefought the goodfight; hefinished his Cons'se, he kept the faith, and died iri peace; towards the end of the year 1653, aged fifty-two years. He had a ,clear understanding, ,a quick invention, a sOundjUdg- ment, a tenacious memory, and was a hard student, a good scholar, an excellent preacher,' and clothed with humility.. Mr. Wilson was twice married, and byhis secondwife he had eleven children, ten of whom were living at his death. Mr. Thomas Wilson, ejected in 1662, is supposed to have been his son.t When upon his death-bed he recommended Mr.: JohnCrump, afterwards ejected in 1662, to be his successor.f We are informed that Mr. Wilson was a baptist, and in the year 1638, joined Mr, John Spilsbury's ,church, London ;§ but whether he continued to adhere to the baptists' senti- ments, and acted upon them to the end of days, we are unable to ascertain. He was author of a sermon preached before the house of commons, entitled, " Jerechoe's Down- fall," 1643; and probably some others. sc Life pf Mr. Wilson, p. 34, 18-64. + Palmer's Noncom Mem. vol. ii. p. 182. Ibid. p. 332. Crosby's Baptist*, vol. p. 149.-Neal's Puritans, vol. iv. p.,6g2, 633.
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