Memorials of early piety. Occurring in the holy life & joyful death of Mrs.…

The Lord grant, that Death may find me in Christ, and Enable me to be often Thinking upon Death, and upon Heaven. I know I must Dy. The Lord grant that I may so Live, as that I may have nothing to do, but to Die, when the Appointed time of my Death does come. The Lord grant, that the Experience I have had of the Vanity of Earthly Things, [Now being Seventeen Years Old,] may Learn me to set my Heart upon Heavenly Things. And grant, that the Experience I have had of the Certainty of Death, and of the Uncertainty of the Time of it, may learn me to be continually preparing for Death. The Lord Enable me to Live as a Stranger on the Earth, and Enable me to make sure of an House not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens; and Pardon my too much setting my Heart upon Earthly Things. It is a great Mercy, that I may Read the Scripture every day. The Lord make me very Thankful for that great ⟨p. 35⟩Mercy! And Enable me, to have Recourse unto the Scripture, as unto a Weapon that will Vanquish my Temptations. Enable me to Love, & Prize, and Search the Holy Scripture! The Lord Sanctify to me, all the Afflictions that I have met with; and that I do, or am yet to, met with; And grant that my Desires to get Good by Affliction, may be more, and greater than my Desires to be Delivered from Affliction. The Lord give me an Heart set upon Doing Good, and Pardon my not Doing so much Good, as I ought to do. Grant that I may be careful to improve all my Talents unto the Glory of God; and that the Consideration of the Littleness of my Time on Earth, may quicken me to do all that I can! That I may be often thinking; How I may Glorify God? And that I may Endeavour, that Others may Glorify God; And be earnest in Prayer, That I may know wherein I may Glorify God. The Lord give me an Heart, willing to Submit unto the Will of God in ⟨p. 36⟩every thing; and Enable me, when I am under Affliction to be Patient and Thoughtful. Enable me to bear, whatever Crosses my Saviour shall please to send upon me; and when I am under Affliction, to be very Humble, and Fruitful, and Prayerful. And Pardon my not getting that Good by Affliction, that I ought to have got by it. The Lord Pardon all my Sin; and Enable me to see what Sin it is, that I am most apt to fall into; and Enable me to watch against that Sin, and to mourn for that Sin, in a peculiar manner.

The Lord grant, that Death may find me in Christ, and Enable me to be often Thinking upon Death, and upon Heaven. I know I must Dy. The Lord grant that I may so Live, as that I may have nothing to do, but to Dy, when the Appointed time of my Death does come. The Lord grant, that the Experience I have had of the Vanity of Earthly Things, [Now being Seventeen Years Old,] may Learn me to set my Heart upon Heavenly Things. And grant, that the Experience I have had of the Certainty of Death, and of the Uncertainty of the Time of it, may learn me to be continually preparing for Death. The Lord Enable me to Live as a Stranger on the Earth, and Enable me to make sure of an House not made with Hands, Eternal in the Heavens; and Pardon my too much setting my Heart upon Earthly Things. It is a great Mercy, that I may Read the Scripture every day. The Lord make me very Thankful for that great