of affliction, and objects of compassion, may I take under my particular care? And what shall I do for them!" And his Saturday morning question, relating more immediately to himself, was, "What more have I to do for the interest of God in my own heart and life?" He was an illustrious imitator of his glorious Pattern; and the whole aim and labour of his life was to do good. His application, and the labours he went through, are almost incredible. He wrote and published three hundred and eighty-two books, reckon ing essays and single sermons; and several of the books are fer of considerable size. He had the honour of an epistolary correspondence with several persons of eminent character he for piety and learning in other countries; as the late lord chancellor King, the late reverend and celebrated Dr. Franck, professor of divinity in the university of Hall in Saxony, and many others.

While he was expecting death, in a fit of sickness some his time before his last, he expected it not only without terror, rebut with full assurance of hope. "Lord, said he, thou art with me, and dost enable me to sing in the dark valley of the shadow of death. I perceive the signs of death upon me; and am I not affrighted? No; not at all. I will not so dishonour my Saviour, as to be affrighted at any thing that can befal me, while I am in his blessed hands."

To some gentlemen who visited him, he said, "I hope I shall not be found a fool, though here I lie and sing,"Soul, take thine ease; thou hast goods laid up for many years;" yea, for endless ages: but they are another sort of goods than those, which this vain world put off its idolaters with." From the beginning of his last sickness, which was about six weeks before he died, he had the sentence of death in himself, as appears by a note he sent to one of his physicians; in which he told him, "My last enemy is coine; I would say, my best friend," When one of his people asked him, whether he was desirous to die? he answered, "I dare not say that I am; nor yet, that I am not. I would be entirely resigned to God." When, at another time, he was mentioning some matters he had on the carpet, and which he would willingly have lived to finish, he checked himself for harbouring any desire of life, and said, "But if the God of my life hath ordered otherwise, I desire to have no will of my own." When the physicians hinted to him, that his sickness was like to be VOL. III.-No. 64.

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unto death, he lifted up his hands and eyes to heaven, and said, "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." And a few hours before he died, he said, "Now I have nothing more to do here: my will is entirely swallowed up in the will of God." To a young minister, his nephew, he said, "My dear son, I bless you. I wish you all manner of blessings. May you be strong in the grace, with which our Lord Jesus Christ will furnish you. And may you be an instrument of displaying his beauties and glories to others. Let it be your ambition to bring forth much of that fruit, by which our heavenly Father is glorified. May you be fruitful in good works. You have been intimately acquainted with my poor manner of living: follow whatever you have seen in it, that is agreeable to the pattern of a glorious Christ. My dear son, I do with all possible affection recommend you to the blessing of our dear Lord Jesus Christ. Take my hand, with my heart, full of blessings." To his own son he said, "You have been a dear and pleasant child to me, and I wish you as many blessings as you have done me services, which are very many. I wish and pray, that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob may be yours; and that his blessing may rest upon you. I wish, that as you have a prospect of being serviceable in the world, you may be considerable and great as the patriarchs were, by introducing the further knowledge and enjoyment of Christ into the world. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen." Dr. Mather died February 13, 1727-8, aged sixty-five.

He published (as we have observed) in his life time no fewer than three hundred and eighty-two books. Many of these indeed are but small, such as single Sermons, Essays, &c. but yet there are some among them of considerable size, viz. 1. "Magnalia Christi Americana."-2. “The Christian Philosopher."-3. "Ratio Disciplinæ Fratrum Nov-anglorum."-4. "Directions for a Candidate to the Ministry."-5. "The Life of his Father."-6. "Psalterium Americanum."-And he left behind him in MS. among other Books, 7. "Biblia Americana, or, Illustrations of the Sacred Scripture:" This work was proposed to be printed in three folio volumes; but, I helieve, it has never appeared.

MAUDUIT, JOHN, was son to Mr. Isaac Mauduit, a respectable merchant in the city of Exeter, and was edu

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cated at Exeter College, Oxford. Mr. Wood, in his Fasti Oxonienses, mentions him as being senior Proctor of that university in the year 1649. He was ejected from Exeter College upon the visitation of the parliament, his name being crossed out of the buttery-book Oct. 20, 1648. He preached however publicly at Oxford before the lord general Fairfax, at whose desire the sermon was published. He afterwards had the sequestered living of Hammond at Penshurst in Kent. Being obliged to quit it at the Restoration, he went to his relations at Exeter, and preached occasionally about the country: probably more frequently at Ansty, in Devonshire, than at other places. He afterwards continued at Exeter till the Corporation Act drove him and other ministers from thence. He then removed his family to St. Mary Ottery, ten miles from Exeter, and frequently preached as he had opportunity at several places; freely giving his labours to those who were not able to maintain a minister. Upon the Indulgence in 1672, he licensed a meeting house, and preached in it as long as liberty for so doing was continued. On Saturday, March 4, 1674, he told his family that he should die on the Monday following; which accordingly he did, with full assurance of faith, triumphantly entering on another and happier life, after he had with holy longings expressed his joyful waiting for the Lord Jesus to receive his spirit. He was a man of an exemplary conversation, and of a very chearful disposition; and for his learning and affability he was much respected by the gentry of his neighbourhood. His son died pastor of a congregation of Protestant Dissenters, in Southwark. He was the father of the late worthy Jasper Mauduit, esq. of Hackney, chairman of the committee of deputies for managing the affairs of the Dissenters; a zealous friend, and a distinguished ornament to the dissenting interest. It deserves to be mentioned here, that he always observed Bartholomew day with some special marks of veneration and grief.

He was author of, 1. "A Sermon at Oxford," mentioned above.-2. "A Warning Piece to afflicted England," 1659.3. "Letter to Gen. Monk on the Causes of the Ruin of Governinents and Commonwealths.'

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berty: upon which he lived in Shrewbury a considerable time, and then removed to Abergavenny. He was soon after chosen pastor to a considerable body of people, at Llanigon and Merthyrcynnog, within a few miles of that town: but his services were not confined to them. His capacious soul moved in a much larger sphere. From the time of his coming into these parts, as long as he was able, he spent his time in travelling all over Wales; where preaching the Gospel of Christ in those dark parts was his daily work and God blessed his endeavours to the conviction and conversion of many souls. The poor people travelled far to hear the word, and attended it in vast numbers, with extraordinary earnestness. He endured many hardships from travelling in all weathers in those mountainous places, and being often but poorly accommodated, both in respect to diet and lodging. He was often way-laid by his enemies, but was "hid in the hollow of God's hand." They once searched his house for him, when he had been preaching; but he was hid in a closet, adjoining the room where the meeting was held, and they could not find the door. Another time a constable came into the room where he was preaching, commanding him to desist; when, with an undaunted courage, he charged him in the name of the great God, whose word he was preaching, to forbear molesting him, as he would answer it at the great day. The man hereupon sat down and trembled, heard him patiently till he had done, and then departed. Mr. Maurice was taken but once, and then he was bailed; and upon appearance discharged by the favour of some justices of the peace, who were his friends and relations. He was sometimes reduced to great straits whilst he lived at Shrewsbury, but was often surprizingly relieved. One time when he had been very thoughtful and was at prayer with his family, suiting his petitions to their necessitous case, a carrier knocked at the door, enquired for Mr. Maurice, and delivered to him a handful of money untold, as a present from some friends, but would not tell who they were. The same person also another time brought him a purse of money very seasonably in a like necessity. His wife became entitled to forty pounds per aun. soon after his leaving Stretton; but it was unjustly alienated for ten years. However, she was chearfully industrious in mean employments, and contented with the coarsest fare; being ambitious only, if possible,