19. Three of the leaders of classes coming in, he said, “We have been neglectful in one thing, in not going more diligently after backsliders, and bringing back the sheep that were lost. O it is a great thing, to bring one soul unto the Lord! Let me desire you to remember it for the time to come.” One of them asked, “Shall I pray for you?” He said, “Yes: but do not pray for my recovery.” After praying, he asked, “How do you find yourself now?” He said, “Clear of doubt: full of God.” 20. The man coming to him who used to work with him in the shop, he said, “_John_, how is the case between God and your soul? Of late you have not been so earnest as you was. Why do you not join in the society? I believe you are kept from outward sin. But that will not do.” A few days after the man came to me, desiring to be admitted into the society, and saying, “He hoped the words would never go out of his mind, and that he should never rest till he knew the Lord.” 21. Speaking of some who were intangled with inordinate affection, and talked of their “wanting to know the will of God,” he said, “When we can give up our own wills, then we shall know the will of God. And when that is known and carefully followed, all temptations of this kind are at an end.” 22. He asked one¹ who was much with him, “Are you willing to die?” And on her saying, “If I knew it was the will of God, I could lie down and not leave a wish behind:” He answered, “I think I am drawn two ways. I have a strong desire to _depart and to be with Christ_; but sometimes I am drawn a little backward, not knowing whether my _abiding_ awhile _in the flesh_, may not be for the glory of God. These are two opposite points. When they are brought to meet, my way will lie strait before me.” ¹ The same person who wrote part of this relation. 23. He often made her repeat those lines of Dr. _Watts_’s: “Say, live for ever, glorious King, Born to redeem and strong to save!” And catch’d the two next from her, repeating with triumph, “Then ask the monster, Where’s his sting? And where’s thy victory, boasting grave?” 24. Those three verses in one of the funeral hymns he was almost continually repeating, “Thou know’st, in the spirit of prayer, We groan thy appearing to see, Resign’d to the burden we bear, But longing to triumph with thee. ’Tis good at thy word to be here, ’Tis better in thee to be gone, And see thee in glory appear, And rise to a share of thy throne.