474 hear it ?" His brother anfwered, "No: it is not for us, it is. for your encouragement. The angels wait to conduct you safe to the heavenly manfions." He cried out, "O the pearly gates of the New Jerufalem! How I long to behold them, and fee God in glory!" A nephew of his coming in, he exhorted him not to spend his time as he had done; but to remember his Creator in the days of his youth, and faid, “God may call upon you before you are aware: go into the Church-yard and look round the graves, and fee how many youths are laid in the duft; and who can tell but it may be your turn next: therefore feek the Lord while he may be found." He fpake much to the fame purpose to fome more that came to fee him, who were much affected. To a neighbour that called to fee him and afkep how he did? he answered, "I am dying." When the other replied," Poor creature!" He immediately informed him, "I am not poor. The Lord hath given me a kingdom, which fadeth not away; and he hath given me the seal of my eternal inheritance." He was foon feized with a convulfion fit. When it was a little abated, and one afked if he would take a little wine? he answered, "I will drink no more wine till I drink it new in my Father's kingdom." A little after, he expreffed his fears left he should flumber; and when one advised him to take a litle fleep, that he might be refreshed; he answered, "No, I will praife God while I have breath, as well as I can, unti! I fhall praise him as I ought." A little before eight o'clock I vifited him, as I had done the evening before. I have feen many happy fouls in their laft illness; but never one fo triumphant under fuch torturing pain in the jaws of mortality. About noon, the friends about him thought he was going to depart. He lay quiet, and very attentive for fome time with his face towards the wall, and then turned his face toward the company and faid, "O the heavenly mufic! It is the fweeteft I ever heard!" When one enquired enquired what it was like? he faid, "It resembled trumpets and harps, but exceeded any he had ever heard before." He then cried out, "O, what glory do I behold! I have had a view of the unfeen world! Come, Lord Jefus! Come quickly! I am ready, I have fought the good fight: I have just entered the field of battle, and conquered my enemies! The fight is over; and I fhall foon hear the Lord fay, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world?" After he had breathed a little he faid, Bleffed are the dead that die in the Lord, even fo faith the Spirit, for they reft from their labours, and their works do follow them." 66 Towards the evening, as death began to make fwift advances, he said, “My hands are dead, I cannot shake hands with you any more. My head is dying alfo: my eyes grow dim all feems dead but my tongue and my heart. O! my dear friends, I fhall foon be in paradife! O! may I meet you all in the kingdom of my Father!" His wife coming in, he faid, "My dear, you was almost too late: I shall not speak many words more; can you give me up?" She anfwered, "Yes, I think I can: how do you find your mind?" He faid, "I am happy! God is love!" Perceiving her weep, he faid, "Why weepest thou?" She replied, “I am glad to fee you so happy." He then exhorted ber, and the rest of the company to follow him; and faid, May I meet you all around the throne, to fing redeeming love through the countless ages of eternity!" this will heighten my joy. His weakness increafing towards the night, he could speak but little; but he lay quiet with a heavenly fmile upon his countenance: he whispered, "O, I hear that heavenly mufic again! Do you not hear it also ?" When one answered, No; he replied, "The angels are waiting to conduct me to the heavenly manfions. O! come Lord Jefus! I fhall foon fup with him in paradife." The last words he was heard to 30 2 fpeak fpeak were, "Come, Lord Jefus, my heavenly Physician." A few minutes after, he fell asleep in Jefus about eight o'clock at night the 25th of January, 1789, in the 28th year of his age. W. H. An Extract from a SURVEY of the WISDOM of Gep in the CREATION. GENERAL REFLECTIONS. DR Of Metals, Minerals, and other Fofils. [Continued from page 419.] R. Boarlafe ranges Chrystal itself and all gems under the head of Spar, which, fays he, are only finer and purer fubftances of the Spar-kind. All Spar has been in a state of fluidity. In fome are found straws and other light bodies. Yet time adds nothing to their firmness: but they are as hard when firft confolidated, as ever they will be. But why do we find no Spars in their Auid ftate? Because while the matter of them remains incor. porated with the water, it is not to be diflinguished from it, and as foon as it is deferted by the water, wherein it fwims, it commences flone. It is by water that the Sparry atoms are washed out of their repofitories, and collected into a transparent or opake juice. As foon as the redundant water is drained off or evaporated, the ftony parts accede to a closer union. They are affifted therein, either by cold, compreffing the parts, or by fudden evaporating heat. Thus the ftone is formed, fo much water refting in the pores, as is necessary to fix it into a confiftency. Hence may arife fome queries. 1. Whether Spar is not the universal gluten of Stones diftinguished from each other, by various mixtures of earthy, mineral, mineral, or metallic particles, but all united by the Sparry liquor? Perhaps there is fcarce any fand, ftone, or ore, which either by the naked eye or glaffes, may not be difcerned to have a portion of Spar, clearer or opake, in its compofition. 2. Whether these and all other fort of flones are not continually forming in the earth? 3. Whether there are not quarries of ftone, which when left unwrought for a confiderable time, yield a fresh supply of ftone, in those channels, which had been before thoroughly cleared? A very peculiar kind of precious ftone is what is termed a Turquois. It is of the opake kind, and commonly of a beautiful blue colour. And yet it has lately been made very probable, that these fhining ftones are originally no other than the bones of animals. In the French mines they are frequently found in the figure of teeth, bones of the legs, &c. And Turquoifes half formed are compofed of lamina, like thofe of bones, between which a petrifying juice infinuating, binds them close together. And the more imperfect the ftones are, the more diftinguishable are the different directions of the fibres and their laminæ, and the nearer refemblance they bear to fractured bones. The Blue Turquois, is indeed no other than foffil bone, or ivory saturated with copper diffolved in an alkaline menfruum; the Green Turquois is the fame fubftance, intimately penetrated by a cupreous matter diffolved in an acid menftruum. The Loadstone is found in iron mines, and resembles iron both in weight and colour. Its most remarkable properties are, turning to the pole, and attracting iron. As to the former, when it moves without hindrance, it conftantly turns one end to the north, the other to the fouth: only declining a little to the eaft or weft. If two loadftones are brought within a certain diftance of each other, that part of one which is toward the north pole of the earth, recedes from that that part of the other which refpects the fame pole. But it accedes to it, if the fouthern pole of the one, be turned toward the fouth pole of the other. The needle touched with the Loadstone, when on this fide the equinoctial line, has its northpoint bending downward, on the other fide, its fouth-point: under the line, it turns any way, and is of no use. As to its attractive power, it not only fuftains another Loadstone, (provided the north pole of the one be opposed to the fouth pole of the other) but iron alfo. Likewife if fteelduft be laid upon a Loadstone, it will so dispose itself, as to direct its particles ftraight to the poles, whence they will be moved round by little and little, till they are parallel to the axis of the Loadftone. It communicates its virtue to iron, and if it be armed with (that is, fixed in) iron, its force is greatly increased. It lofes its force either by fire, or by letting two Loadftones lie together, with the north pole of one oppofed to the north, or the fouth pole of one to the fouth of the other. Thefe plain phænomena we know: the cause of them we know not. A full Account of the ATTEMPT to Affaffinate the KING "THE of POLAND. [Extracted from a late Author.] [Concluded from page 424.] HE confpirators had no fooner croffed the ditch, than they began to rifle the king, tearing off the Order of the Black Eagle of Pruffia, which he wore round his neck, and the diamond crofs hanging to it. He requested them to leave him his handkerchief, to which they confented; his pocket-book efcaped their rapacity. A great |