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to the
Chief
of
Sinners
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things
to
the beft, for
acco~modation,
re-
turning
to
],on4on,
and.
betng.
overta~en
·
- \l:ith exceffive
Ra1ns,
~omtng
to hts
Lodgtng
extream
·wet, fell
fick
of
a violent
Feavor,
which
he bore
vvith m·uch conftancy.
and
patience,and
expreifed
himfelf,as if
he defirea
nothing [nore than to
be diffolved,
and to be
with Chrift in that cafe, efteen1ing Death as
· gain,and Life
only
a tedious
delayirrg
felicity
expeeted;. and
find~ng
.his .v·it1l
fi~ength
decay, hav·1ng fetled
h1s
mtnd and
affaus,.
as
well as the
fhortnefs
of his time, and the
violence
of
the difeafe would permit, with
a Conftant
and
Chriftian Patience,he refign'd
his
Sour
into the hands of
his n1ofl:
merciful'
Reedemer,
foUowing
his
Pilg.rim
from
tpe
City of
DeftruB:ion,
·to
the
new
Jerufalem
;
his
better
part
having
been all along there,
in holy
Con~emplation,
pantings and
brea•
things
after
the
hidden
M~nna,
and Wat€r
oi
Life, as
by
many holy and humble Gonfola-
.tions expreft in his ·Letters, to
feveral
Perfons
in Pri,fon., and out of
Prif<;>n,too many
to
be–
here inferted at prefent. He
died at the
Hou(e of
one
Mr.
Straddocks a· Grocer,
at
the
Star
on
Snow hill,
in the Parifh of St.
Sepulchers , London,
on the
I2ofAttguft
t688.
an
in the
6
o
Year of his
Age,
after ten
days
Sickaefs; and \.x;as
buried
in
theNew burying·
Place,
near
the
Artillery Ground, where he
fleeps to the Morning of the RefurreB:ion,
in
~o_p~s
of a
gl~~~o.usl~ifw~.,
to an incorrup-
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