NEWMAN-STONE. 423 Ireater fear of displeasing God than all the world.-I find a love to such christians as I never saw, or received good from.-I find a grief when I see the commands of God broken.-I find a mourning when I do not enjoy the assu- rance of God's love.-I find a willingness to. give God the glory of all my ability to do good.-I find a joy in the com- pany and conversation of the godly.-I find a grief when I perceive it goes ill with christians.-I find a constant love to secret duties.-I find a- bewailing of such sins as the world cannot accuse me of.-I find I constantly choose suffering to avoid sin." ' This method did Mr. Newman daily observe betwixt God and his own heart. Towards the close of his life he became more and more watchful. He became more fruitful towards God, as he approached nearerhis heavenly Father's kingdom. His last sermon was from Job xiv. 4. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, until my change come. He fell sick immediately after his sermon, and in a few days closed his eyes in peace, saying, " Now, ye angels of the Lord Jesus Christ, come, and do your office." He died July 5, 1663, aged sixty-three years. He was a hard student, a lively preacher, remarkably charitable to the poor ; and a person of invincible patience and constancy under numerous and painful trials.+ He was author of "A Concordance to the Jible," a work well known at the present time. SAMUEL STONE.-This very pious divine was born at Hertford, and educated in Emanuel college, Cambridge. Hav- ing finished his studies at the university, he sojourned for some time in the house of the excellent Mr. Richard Blackerby. Here, while hereceived useful instructions from his venerable tutor, he imbibed his excellent spirit and principles. After- wards, he became minister at Towcester in Northampton- shire, where his superior accomplishments and great indus- try were manifest to all. This, however, would not screen him from the oppressions of the times. He was an avowed, but modest nonconformist to the ecclesiastical impositions; and having no prospect of enjoying his liberty in his native country, he resolved to withdraw from the scenes of persecu- tion, and retire to New England. Hewent in the same ship with Mr. Cotton and Mr. Hooker, and 'arrived in the year 1633 ; when he was chosen colleague to Mr. Hooker over Mather's Hist. of New Eng. b. iii, p. 115, 116. 4 Ibid. p. 114. A111.111.41,71
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