She then faid, "I have alfo feen the place of torments! O the thousands who are howling and yelling there! and I deferve to be there alfo!" Then expreffing much gratitude to Christ for delivering her from that place, she added, "When we are about yonder throne, we fhall be freed from all the arrows of death!" Then fhe lifted up her dying voice and fung,

"Who in Jesus confide,

We are bold to outride

The ftorms of affliction beneath :

With the Prophet we foar

To the heavenly fhore,

And outfly all the arrows of death."

She then faid, "I have been taken into a very green meadow, the moft beautiful I ever faw. Thousands of thousands were there walking in white, with crowns on their heads! One of whom beckoned to me to come to him."

Some time after, she called her children; spoke to them one by one, and prayed that the Lord would give them grace to love, and fear, and ferve him. When Mr. P. came to fee her, fhe cried out, "O the thorns and pincers that tore his hair!" (meaning Chrift's.) Then burfting into tears, fhe faid, "All this he bore for me! all this he bore for me!" Then, on a fudden, she was fo filled with joy, that she laughed, and fighed! and fighed, and laughed again! Being asked the reafon, fhe faid, "To think of the throne I am to fit in! I fcarce deferve to fit at the feet of the meanest faints; and yet I am to fit on That Throne !"

When any came to fee her in coftly drefs; fhe fpake of the evil of Pride, warned them of the dreadful confequences, and intreated all that came to see her, to come to Chrift for life and falvation. When a carnal acquaintance came to see her, who asked how fhe did? She faid, "Very ill in body; but happy in my foul." She then exhorted her to feek redemption

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in the blood of Chrift. On the other anfwering, I hope I hall, he replied, The hope of the hypocrite fhall perish, when God taketh away the foul." Then turning from her she faid, "Farewel, for ever and ever."

Some time after, when five or fix friends were prefent, she fhewed fuch gratitude to Chrift, as amazed them all.

A perfon, who is a Player, fending her a fhilling, her husband faid, My Dear, God can open the mouth of the Raven, as well as the Dove, to feed thee. On hearing this she said, “ Ask him to ftep in: who knows but the Lord may give me a word to fpeak for his glory." Her husband answered, he will not come to fuch a poor place as this. "O then, faid fhe, Go and afk his fifter." When fhe came, fhe exhorted her to feek the Lord Jefus; adding, "It is not a fall thing to die without an interefl in Him!" She spoke with fuch earneftnefs on this occafion, that when she had done. The fainted away.

When the came to herfelf fhe lifted up her eyes to heaven! and threw her arms wide open; then clafped them together, as if the had grafped fome body. Being asked what the meant by that? fhe faid, " My Jefus! Oh, my Jefus !"

For three weeks before she died, her youngest child (two years old) and her husband lay very near her heart. But at length fhe freely gave them up into the hands of God.

July 15th, She would have none to fit up with her: faying, Jefus Chrift fhall be my Nuife." On the fixteenth (at night) fhe faid, "Nurfe, take that candle away." Her husband alking, My Dear, do you think we have a candle?"Yes, faid fhe; for I fee a fhining light all around!" The next night, about twelve o'clock, fhe fell asleep, in the arms of Jefus, without a fingle groan.

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A Short Account of the Death of a daring Sinner: by Mr. J. F.

of Leeds.

Leeds, May 4, 1786.

OMETIME ago, a farmer had been drinking for feveral

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days and nights together. Rifing carly, the next morning after his return home, his wife fearing he was going to the Alehouse again, faid, My dear where are you going? He anfwered, "I am going to hell, if the Devil can find room for me!" So faying he immediately went out with his cart, which was waiting for him in the yard. He had not gone far before he fell down on which the wheel went over him, and killed him on the spot!

[How dreadful is it, that Beings who are to spend Eternity, either in the joys of heaven, or the flames of hell, fhould thus provoke the Lord to jealousy! fhould thus dare him to the very face!

But, "I am going to hell, faid he, if the devil can find room for me!" Undoubtedly there will be room enough, for every daring finner, who fhall die without repentance. For, as wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to deftruction, and many there be that go in thereat; fo Tophet is prepared of old, deep and large: and the pile thereof is fire and much wood, and the breath of the Lord, as a ftream of brimftone doth kindle it!]

A Short Account of a Yorkshireman, who dug a pit for his Wife, and fell into it himself: by Mr. J. F. of Leeds. Leeds, May 5, 1786.

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Few weeks ago, a man in this neighbourhood, who was weary of his wife, after buying a piece of beef, and rubbing it well over with Arfenic, ordered her to roaft it for dinner.

While it was roafting, the woman was taken fo ill, that though he preffed her much, fhe could not eat a morfel of it: and he making fome excufe for not eating of it himself, it was put by for the next day.

But the next day he brought home fome fifh, and ordered his wife to drefs them for his dinner. This being done, he fat down and ate heartily. But before he had done, he was taken very ill. On afking his wife what fhe had fryed the fish with? fhe faid, With the dripping of the beef I roasted yesterday. On hearing this he cried out, "Then I am a dead man!" Then throwing down his knife and fork, he confessed what he had done, and died in about two hours!

[Who that reads this Account can help admiring, on the one hand, The providence of God, in preferving the life of this injured woman? and, on the other, His juftice, in 'caufing the very evil to fall on the head of this hard-hearted finner, which he fo cruelly intended fhould fall on his wife !]

An Extract from a JOURNEY from Aleppo to Jerufalem; at Eafter, A. D. 1697.

By HENRY MAUNDRELL, M. A. late Fellow of Exeter College, and Chaplain to the Factory at Aleppo.

[Continued from Vol. IX. page 658.]

SUNDAY, May 2.

We went, as many of us as were difpofed, to Sydonaiia, a Greek Convent about four hours diftant from Damafcus, to the Northward, or North by East : the road, excepting only two fteep afcents, is very good. In this ftage we paffed by two Villages, the firft called Tall, the fecond Meneen. At a good diftance on the right hand is a very high hill, reported to be the fame on which Cain and Abel offered their facrifices; and where alfo the former flew his brother, fetting the first example of blood-fhed to the world, Sydonaita

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Sydonaiia is fituated at the farther fide of a large Vale on the top of a Rock. The Rock is cut with fteps all up, without which it would be inacceffible. It is fenced all round at the top with a ftrong wall, which enclofes the Convent. It is a place of very mean ftructure, and contains nothing in it extraordinary, but only the wine made here, which is indeed moft excellent. This place was firft founded and endowed by the Emperor Juftinian. It is at prefent poffeft by twenty Greek Monks, and forty Nuns, who feem to live promifcuously together, without any order or feparation.

Here are upon this Rock, and within a little compafs round about it, no less than fixteen Churches or Oratories, dedicated to feveral names. Many of these Churches I actually vifited; but found them fo ruined and defolate, that I had not courage. to go to all.

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Monday, May 3. This morning (being returned to Damafcus} we went to fee the ftreet called Straight, A&ts ix. 11. about half a mile in length, running from Eaft to Wefl through the city. It being narrow, and the houfes jetting out in feveral places on both fides, you cannot have a clear prospect of its length and ftraightnefs. In this fireet is fhewn the house of Judas, with whom St. Paul lodged; and in the fame houfe is an old tomb, faid to be Annanias'; but how he fhould come to be buried here, they could not tell us, nor could we guefs; his own house being fhewn us in another place. However the Turks have a reverence for this tomb, and maintain a lamp always burning over it.

In the afternoon, we took our leave of Damafus, and fhaped our course for Tripoli; defigning in the way to fee Balbeck, and the cedars of Libanus. In order to this, we returned the fame way by which we came; and crofling the river Barrady again at the bridge of Dummar; came to a Village of the fame name a little farther, and there lodged this night. We travelled this afternoon three hours.

Tucfday,