Wiseman.  “Die! she died bravely; full of comfort in the faith of her interest in Christ, and by him in the world to come.  She had many brave expressions in her sickness, and gave to those that came to visit her many signs of her salvation.  The thoughts of the grave, especially of her rising again, were sweet thoughts to her.  She would long for death, because she knew it would be her friend.  She expressed herself like one that was making herself ready to go to meet her bridegroom.  ‘Now,’ said she, ’I am going to rest from my sorrows, my sighs, my tears, my mournings, and complaints:  I have heretofore longed to be among the saints, but might by no means be suffered to go; but now I am going, and no man can stop me, to the great meeting, ’to the general assembly and church of the first-born which are written in heaven.’  There I shall have my heart’s desire; there I shall worship without temptation or other impediment; there I shall see the face of my Jesus whom I have loved, whom I have served, and who now I know will save my soul.  I have prayed often for my husband that he might be converted, but there has been no answer of God in that matter.  Are my prayers lost; are they forgotten; are they thrown over the bar?  No; they are hanged upon the horns of the golden altar, and I must have the benefit of them myself that moment that I shall enter into the gates, in at which the righteous nation that keepeth truth shall enter:  I say, I shall have the benefit of them.  I can say as holy David—­I say, I can say of my husband as he could of his enemies, ’As for me, when they were sick, my clothing was of sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into my bosom.’  My prayers are not lost, my tears are yet in God’s bottle; I would have had a crown and glory for my husband, and for those of my children that follow his steps; but so far as I can see yet, I must rest in the hope of having all myself.’

“When she drew near her end she called for her husband, and when he was come to her, she told him that now he and she must part; and, said she, ’God knows, and thou shalt know, that I have been a loving, faithful wife unto thee; and as for all the abuses that I have received at thy hand, those I freely and heartily forgive, and still shall pray for thy conversion, even as long as I breathe in this world.  But, husband, I am going thither where no bad man shall come; and if thou dost not turn, thou wilt never see me more with comfort.  Let not my plain words offend thee; I am thy dying wife, and of my faithfulness to thee would leave this exhortation with thee:  Break off thy sins, fly to God for mercy while mercy’s gate stands open:  remember that the day is coming when thou, though now lusty and well, must lie at the gates of death, as I do; and what wilt thou then do, if thou shalt be found with a naked soul to meet the cherubims with their flaming swords?  Yea, what wilt thou then do if death and hell shall come to visit thee, and thou in thy sins and under the curse of the law?’