he is able, but makest a way to escape, that he may be able to bear it. In dying, joy is a grace which claims peculiar eminence. It clings to the Saviour, and exclaims, “Where thou art, I shall be also; and I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord,” Rom. 8:38, 39. I will, through the grace of God, use all diligence, that I may rightly believe, faithfully live, patiently suffer, and joyfully die. Then shall I bear
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