A good man making a good end. The life and death, of the Reverend…

I do more see, into the Great Mystery of our Justification by Faith, merely of Grace. There is no Respect in it, unto This, or That; but Jesus Christ having wrought out a Redemption for us, and by His Active and Passive Obedience procured a Sufficient Righteousness, and making a Tender of it in the Gospel, it becomes Mine, by my Accepting of it, and Relying on it alone, for Salvation. And shall I not Accept of it? God forbid!

I do more see, into the Great Mystery of our Justification by Faith, meerly of Grace. There is no Respect in it, unto This, or That; but Jesus Christ having wrought out a Redemption for us, and by His Active and Passive Obedience procured a Sufficient Righteousness, and making a Tender of it in the Gospel, it becomes Mine, by my Accepting of it, and Relying on it alone, for Salvation. And shall I not Accept of it? God forbid!

I see (saith he) there are Two Things, wherein I can't easily Exceed: viz. In Ascribing to the Grace of God, the Freeness and Richness of it, in mans Salvation; And in Ascribing to the Righteousness of Christ in mans Justification.

At Length, Dismal Pains of the Gout, with a Complication of other Maladies, confined him, for a Quarter of a Year together, Under the Pains of his Confinement, he took an Extraordinary Contentment in the Fifty Third Chapter of Isaiah, which represents the Sorrows of our Lord ⟨p. 53⟩Jesus Christ, whereby all ou• […] are Sanctified: And he would […] ever those words of our Saviour, else-where occurring, They pierced my Hands and my Feet. When the Remainders of his Flock, which waited on him to New England, Visited him, his usual and Solemn Charge unto them was, I Charge you, That I find you all safe at last! My Brethren, God make the charge of your Dead Pastor abide upon you. For some Time in his last Sickness, his Heavenly Soul was harassed, with terrible Discouragements: Under all of which, it was yet a common Expression with him, The Master hath done all things Well! But at last, he arrived unto a Blessed Satisfaction, That the Lord Jesus Christ, had made his Peace in Heaven, and that he was going into Eternal Peace. Yea, at the worst, he would say, That his Fear was not so much about the End of all, as about what he might meet withal in the way to that End. He had begun to prepare a Sermon for our South Church, upon those words, Who is this that comes up from the Wilderness, Leaning on her Beloved? And he now spoke of it, as Expressing his own Condition; Thus am I going (said he) out of the Wilderness of all my Temptations, Leaning on my Blessed Jesus! When his Affectionate Friends, were weeping about him, he bestowed this Rebuke upon them, Away with your Idols! Away with your Idols! It was not very long before he fell Sick, that he wrote this passage