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perfectly liquid and but very little of that, with
great and long strugglings. That which she took in fled out at her
nostrils, till at last she could swallow nothing at all. She had a
raging appetite for food; so that she told her sister, when talking with
her about her circumstances, that the worst bit would be sweet to her;
but yet, when she saw that she could not swallow it, she seemed to be as
perfectly contented without it, as if she had no appetite. Others were
greatly moved to see what she underwent, and were filled with admiration
at her unexampled patience. At a time when she was striving in vain to
get down a little of something liquid, and was very much spent with it;
she looked upon her sister with a smile, saying, O sister, this is for
my good! At another time, when her sister was speaking of what she
underwent, she told her, that she lived a heaven upon ea
th for all that. 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
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