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your joy no man taketh from you. In that hour God broke into my soul, delivered me from all sorrow, and filled my heart with joy ; and, blessed be his name, I never have lost it, from that hour to this.' " For the first ten years, she was sometimes in transports of joy, carried almost beyond herself; but for these last ten years, she has had the constant witness that God has taken up all her heart. He has filled me,' said she, ' with perfect love ; and perfect love casts out fear. Jesus is mine ; God, and heaven, and eternal glory, are mine. My heart, my very soul is lost, yea, swallowed up, in God.' " There were many of our friends standing by her bedside. She exhorted them all, as one in perfect health, to keep close to God. You can never,' said she, ' do too much for God : When you have done all you can, you have done too little. O, Aug. 1775.1 who that knows Him, can love, or do, or suffer too much for Him!' " Some worldly people came in. She called them by name, and exhorted them to repent and turn to Jesus. She looked at me, and desired I would preach her funeral sermon on those words, ' I have fought the good fight ; I have finished my course ; I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day.' " She talked to all round about her in as scriptural and rational a manner as if she had been in her full strength, (only now and then catching a little for breath,) with all the smiles of heaven in her countenance. Indeed several times she seemed to be quite gone ; but in a little while the taper lit up again, and she began to preach, with divine power, to all that stood nearher. She knew every person, and if any came into the room whom she knew to be careless about religion, she directly called them by name, and charged them to seek the Lord while he might be found. At last she cried out, ' I see the heavens opened ; I see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with numbers of the