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sister to be much in such meditations.

She expressed, on her death-bed, an exceeding longing, both for persons
in a natural state, that they might be converted, and for the godly,
that they might see and know more of God. And when those who looked on
themselves as in a Christless state came to see her, she would be
greatly moved with compassionate affection. One in particular, who
seemed to be in great distress about the state of her soul, and had come
to see her from time to time, she desired her sister to persuade not to
come any more, because the sight of her so wrought on her compassions,
that it overcame her nature. The same week that she died, when she was
in distressing circumstances as to her body, some of her neighbors who
came to see her, asked if she was willing to die! She replied, that she
was quite willing either to live or die; she was willing to be in pain;
she was willing to be so always as she was then, if that was the will of
God. She willed what God willed. They asked her whether she was willing
to die that ni