3. WHITAKER. 1911 how long, shall I not be remembered ? Yes, I am remem- bered ; blessed be thy name. This is a fiery chariot, but it will carry me to heaven. Blessed be God, who has hitherto supported me ; who has delivered me, and will deliver me." As the agonizing fits of pain were coming upon him, he usually said, " Now, in the strength of the Lord God, I will undergo these pains. Oh ! miGod, put underneath thine everlasting 'arms, and strengthen me." Notwithstanding all his pains and roarings, he often told his friends, that he would not, for a thousand worlds, exchange states with any man on earth whom he looked upon as living in a state of sin. The grand adversary of souls could never shake his confidence. He often said, " Through mercy, I have not, one repining thought against God." As he felt the fits coming on, he requested his friends to with- draw, that they might not be grieved by hearing his groan- ings ; and he blessed God they were not obliged to hear his doleful lamentations. As the period of his dissolution approached, his agonizing fits became more frequent and more painful ; but the Lord was, at length, pleased to deliver him out of them all. He died June 1, 1654, aged fifty-five years , and his mortal remains were interred in Bermondsey church, when vast numbers of people honoured his funeral by their attendance.. His funeral sermon was preachedby Mr. Simeon A she, and afterwards published, entitled, " Living Loves betwixt Christ and Dying Christians. A Sermon preached at M. Magdalene, Bermondsey in South- wark, near London, June 6, 1654, at the Funerall of the faithful Servant of Christ, Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker, Minister of the Gospel, with a Narrative of his exemplary Life and Death," 1654. After Mf. Whitaker's death, his body was opened in the presence of several physicians ; when they found both his kidnies full of ulcers, and one of them swelled to an enormous size, and filled with purulent matter. In the neck of his bladder, they found a stone about an inch and half long, and an inch broad, weighing about two ounces, which is supposed to have occasioned his racking pains.t " He was a constant and an excellent preacher, an universal scholar, an eminent theologian, an able disputant, and much given to acts of charity and liberality."4: Mr. Leigh says, " he was a pious and learned divine, mighty in Clark's Lives, p. 267-272. + Ibid. p. 273.-Ashe's Fun, Ser, for Mr. Whitaker. Clark's Lives, p. 266. VOL. III. 0
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