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She used sometimes to say to her sister, under her
extreme sufferings, It is good to be so! Her sister once asked her, why
she said so; why, says she, because God would have it so: it is best
that things should be as God would have them: it looks best to me. After
her confinement, as they were leading her from the bed to the door, she
seemed overcome by the sight of things abroad, as showing forth the
glory of the Being who had made them. As she lay on her death-bed, she
would often say these words, God is my friend! And once, looking upon
her sister with a smile, said, O sister, How good it is! How sweet and
comfortable it is to consider, and think of heavenly things! and used
this argument to persuade her 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 s
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