Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

At last, he began to fall into the Torments of the Wheel broken at the Cistern: Which yet became not Intolerable, and forced no Ejulations from him, till about Three Weeks before be Died. Under these, about Three Days before his Expiration, coming out of a Dark Minute, he said, It is now Revealed from Heaven to me, That I shall quickly, quickly, quickly be fetched away to Heaven, and that I shall Die in the Arms of my Son. After this, he kept very much calling for me; till Friday, the Twenty Third of August, 1723. in the Morning perceiving the Last Agonies now come upon him, I did what I could after my poor manner, that he might be Strengthened by such Quickening Words as the Lively Oracles of our GOD have provided for such Occasion. As it grew towards Noon, I said unto him, Sir, The Messenger is now come to tell you; This Day thou shalt be in Paradise. Do you Believe it, Sir, and Rejoice in the Views and Hopes of it? He Replied, I do! I do! I do!— And upon those Words, he Dyed in my Arms.—

At last, he began to fall into the Torments of the Wheel broken at the Cistern: Which yet became not Intolerable, and forced no Ejulations from him, till about Three Weeks before be Died. Under these, about Three Days before his Expiration, coming out of a Dark Minute, he said, It is now Revealed from Heaven to me, That I shall quickly, quickly, quickly be fetch'd away to Heaven, and that I shall Dy in the Arms of my Son. After this, he kept very much calling for me; till Friday, the Twenty Third of August, 1723. in the Morning perceiving the Last Agonies now come upon him, I did what I could after my poor manner, that he might be Strengthened by such Quickening Words as the Lively Oracles of our GOD have provided for such Occasion. As it grew towards Noon, I said unto him, Syr, The Messenger is now come to tell you; This Day thou shalt be in Paradise. Do you Believe it, Syr, and Rejoice in the Views and Hopes of it? He Replied, I do! I do! I do!— And upon those Words, he Dyed in my Arms.—

—But when the Physicians came to the Evisceration of the Dead Body, how astonished were they to find, what cause there had been for the Complaints of the last Three Weeks before he died; and it added unto all our Astonishment that they were no Earlier! They found, besides a Polypus on his Bladder, no less than Six Large Stones in it, on several uneven Shapes, and some of them above an Inch Diameter, the least of which was big enough to have made a Giant roar. Some of the Stones being broken, were