True saints, when absent from the body, are present with the Lord. A sermon…

And as his Desires and Labours for the Advancement of CHRIST'S Kingdom were great, so was his Success. GOD was pleased to make him▪ the Instrument of bringing to pass the most remarkable Things among the poor Salvages, in enlightening, awakening, reforming and changing their Disposition and ⟨p. 34⟩Manners, and wonderfully transforming them, that perhaps any Instance can be produced of, in these latter Ages of the World. An Account of which has been given the Public, in his Journals, drawn up by Order of the Honourable Society in Scotland, that employed him: Which I would recommend to the Perusal of all such as take Pleasure in the wonderful Works of GOD's Grace, and would read that which will peculiarly tend both •o entertain, and profit a Christian Mind.

And as his Desires and Labours for the Advancement of CHRIST'S Kingdom were great, so was his Success. GOD was pleased to make him▪ the Instrument of bringing to pass the most remarkable Things among the poor Salvages, in enlightning, awakening, reforming and changing their Disposition and ⟨p. 34⟩Manners, and wonderfully transforming them, that perhaps any Instance can be produced of, in these latter Ages of the World. An Account of which has been given the Publick, in his Journals, drawn up by Order of the Honourable Society in Scotland, that employed him: Which I would recommend to the Perusal of all such as take Pleasure in the wonderful Works of GOD's Grace, and would read that which will peculiarly tend both •o entertain, and profit a Christian Mind.

No less extraordinary than the Things already mentioned of him in Life, was his constant Calmness, Peace, Assurance and Joy in GOD, during the long Time he looked Death in the Face, without the least Hope of Recovery; continuing without Interruption to the last; while his Distemper very sensibly preyed upon his Vitals, from Day to Day, and often brought him to that State, that he looked upon himself, and was thought by others, to be dying. The Thoughts of approaching Death never seemed in the least to damp him, but rather to encourage him, and exhilarate his Mind. And the nearer Death approached, the more desirous he seemed to be of it. He said, not long before his Death, that the Consideration of the Day of Death, and the Day of Judgment, had a long Time been peculiarly sweet to him. And at another Time, that he could not but think of the Meetness there was in throwing such a rotten Carcass as his into the Grave: It seemed to him to be the Right Way of disposing of it. He often used the Epithet Glorious, when speaking of the Day of his Death, calling it that glorious Day. On a Sabbath-Day-Morning, Sept. 27. feeling an unusual violent Appetite to Food, and looking on it as a Sign of approaching Death, he said he should look on it as a Favour, if this might be his dying Day, and that he longed for the Time. He had before expressed himself desirous of seeing his Brother again, whose Return had been expected from the Jerseys; but then (speaking of him) he said, I am willing to go, and never see him again: I care not what I part with, to be forever with the LORD. Being asked, that Morning, how he did; he answered, I am almost in Eternity: GOD knows, I long to be there. My Work is done: I have done with all my Friends: All the World is nothing to me. On the Evening of the next Day, when he thought himself dying, and was apprehended to be so by others, and he could utter himself only by broken Whispers, he often repeated the Word Eternity; and said, I shall soon be with the holy Angels. —