to recover strength, he called for pen and ink; but when it was brought he could not write. Dr. Whitehead said, "Let me write for you, Sir: tell me what you would say.' say." He replied, "Nothing, but that God In the forenoon he wished to rise. While

is with us.'

his clothes were preparing, he sang,

"Ill praise my Maker while I've breath,

And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers:

My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,

Or immortality endures !".

Having seated him in his chair, his friends observed him change for death. But he, regardless of his dying body, said with a weak voice, "Lord, Thou givest strength to those who can speak, and to those who cannot. Speak, Lord, to all our hearts, and let them know that Thou loosest tongues." He then sung,

"To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

Who sweetly all agree,"

Here his voice failed. After gasping for breath, he said, "Now we have done all." He was then laid on the bed, whence he rose no more. After resting a little, he called to those who were with him, "To pray and praise." Presently he added, "Let me be buried in nothing but what is woollen, and let my corpse be carried in my coffin, into the Chapel." He again called upon them to "pray and praise," and taking each by the hand, and affectionately saluting them, bade them farewell. Attempting afterwards to say something which they could not understand, he paused a little, and then with all the remaining strength which he had, said, "The best of all is, God is with us." And, lifting his hand, he repeated the same words in a holy triumph, "The best of all is, God is with us." Something being given him

to moisten his lips, he said, "It will not do; we must Never mind the poor carcase."

take the consequence.

Being told that his brother's widow was come, he said, "He giveth his servants rest ;" thanked her as she pressed his hand, and affectionately endeavoured to kiss her. His lips being again moistened, he repeated his usual address after a meal; "We thank Thee, O Lord, for these and all thy mercies: grant us truth and peace, through Jesus Christ our Lord." After some pause he said, "The clouds drop fatness. The Lord is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." He again called them to prayer, and appeared fervently to join in their peti

tions.

During the following night, he often attempted to repeat the psalm before mentioned; but could only utter," I'll praise, I'll praise." On Wednesday morning, his end drew near. Mr. Bradford, his old and faithful friend, who, with the affection of a son, had attended him many years, now prayed with him; and the last word which he was heard to articulate, was "Farewell."-A few minutes before ten, on the second day of March, 1791, while a number of his friends were kneeling around his bed, died Mr. John Wesley, without a groan, in the eighty-eighth year of his age, and entered into the joy of his Lord.

March the 9th was the day appointed for his interment. The intention was to carry the corpse into the chapel, and place it in a raised situation before the pulpit during the service. But the crowds who

visited the body while it laid in the coffin, both in the private house, and especially in the chapel on the day before the funeral, were so great, that his friends were apprehensive of a tumult. It was therefore resolved to bury him between five and six in the morning. Though the time of notice to his friends was short, and the design itself was spoken of with great caution, yet a considerable number of persons attended at that early hour. The late Mr. Richardson, who

now lies with him in the same vault, read the funeral service. When he came to that part, "For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother, &c." he substituted, with the most tender emphasis, the epithet father instead of brother; which had so powerful an effect on the congregation, that from silent tears, they seemed universal-ly to burst into loud weeping. The discourse was delivered in the chapel at the hour appointed in the forenoon, to an astonishing multitude of auditors; among whom were many ministers of the gospel, both of the Establishment, and Dissenters.

The following Inscription has since his Interment been placed on the Tomb.

To the Memory of

THE VENERABLE JOHN WESLEY, A M.
Late Fellow of LINCOLN College, OXFORD.
This GREAT LIGHT arose

By the singular Providence of God,.
To enlighten THESE NATIONS,

And to revive, enforce, and defend,

The Pure, Apostolical DOCTRINES and PRACTICES of THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH:

Which he continued to do, by his WRITINGS and his

LABOURS,

For more than HALF A CENTURY:

And, to his inexpressible Joy,

Not only, beheld their INFLUENCE extending,
And their EFFICACY witnessed,

In the Hearts and Lives of MANY THOUSAND
As well in the WESTERN WORLD, as in these
KINGDOMS:

But also, far above all human Power or Expectation, Liv'd to see PROVISION made, by the singular Grace

of GOD,

For their CONTINUANCE and ESTABLISHMENT,

TO THE JOY of FUTURE GENERATIONS !

READER, If thou art constrained to bless the INSTtrument, GIVE GOD THE 'GLORY!

After having languished a few days, he at length finished his COURSE and his LIFE together: gloriously triumphing over DEATH, March 2, An. Dom. 1791, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of his Age.

MR. JOHN WESLEY'S WILL.

"In the Name of God. Amen!

I JOHN WESLEY, Clerk, some time fellow of Lincoln-College, Oxford, revoking all others, appoint this to be my last will and testament. I give all my books now on sale, and the copies of them, subject to a rent charge only of 851. a year to the widow and children of my brother, to my faithful friends, John Horton, merchant, George Wolff, merchant, and William Marriott, stock-broker, all of London, in trust for the general fund of the Methodist conference in carrying on the work of God, by itinerant preachers, on condition that they permit the following.committee, Thomas Coke, James Creighton, Peard Dickenson, Thomas Rankin, George Whitefield, and the London assistant for the time being, still to superintend the printing-press, and to employ Hannah Paramore and George Paramore, as heretofore, unless four of the committee judge a change to be needful. I give the books, furniture, and whatever else belongs to me in the three houses at Kingswood, in trust to Thomas Coke, Alexander Mather, and Henry Moore, to be still employed in teaching and maintaining the children of poor travelling preachers. I give to Thomas Coke, doctor John Whitehead, and Henry Moore, all the books which are in my study and bed-chamber at London, and in my studies elsewhere, in trust for

the use of the preachers who shall labour there from time to time. I give the coins, and whatever else is found in the drawer of my bureau at London, to my dear grand daughters Mary and Jane Smith. I give all my manuscripts to Thomas Coke, Doctor Whitehead, and Henry Moore, to be burnt or published as they see good I give whatever money remains in my bureau and pockets at my decease to be equally divided between Thomas Briscoe, William Collins, John Easton, and Isaac Brown. I desire my gowns, cassocks, shoes, and bands may remain at the chapel for the use of the clergymen attending there. I desire the London assistant for the time being to divide the rest of my wearing apparel between those four of the travelling preachers that want it most; only my pellise I give to the Rev. Mr. Creighton; my watch to my friend Joseph Bradford my gold seal to Elizabeth Ritchie. I give my chaise and horses to James Ward and Charles Wheeler, in trust, to be sold, and the money to be divided, one half to Hannah Abbott, and the other to the poor members of the select society. Out of the first money which arises from the sale of books, I bequeath to my dear sister Martha Hall, if alive, 401. to Mr. Creighton aforesaid 401. and to the Rev. Mr. Heath 601. And whereas I am empowered by a late deed to name the persons who are to preach in the new chapel at London, the clergymen for a continuance, and by another deed to name a committe for appointing preachers in the new chapel at Bath, I do hereby appoint John Richardson, Thomas Coke, James Creighton, Peard Dickinson, clerks, Alexander Mather, William Thompson, Henry Moore, Andrew Blair, John Valton, Joseph Bradford, James Rogers, and William Myles, to preach in the new chapel at London, and to be the committee for appointing preachers in the new chapel at Bath. I likewise appoint Henry Brooke painter, Arthur Keen, gent. and William Whitestone,