it is gone, and his place knows him no
more."

18. She added, "My life shall not continue long. I feel much weakness: O
Lord, look upon me graciously, have pity upon my weak distressed heart.
I am oppressed, undertake for me, that I may stand fast and overcome."

19. She was very frequent in spiritual ejaculations, and it was no small
comfort to her that the Lord Christ prayed for her, and promised to send
his Spirit to comfort her. "It is said," continued she, "'I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter.' O let him not
leave me! O Lord, stay with me till my battle and work is finished!"

20. Soon after, she said, "None but Christ; without thee I can do
nothing! Christ is the true vine! O let me be a branch of that vine!
What poor worms are we! O dear father, how lame and halting do we go on
in the ways of God and salvation! We know but in part, but when that
which is perfect is come, then that which is imperfect shall be done
away. O that I had attained to that now! But what are we ourselves? Not
only weakness and nothingness, but wickedness: for the thoughts and
imaginations of a man's heart are only evil, and that continually. We
are by nature children of wrath, and are conceived in sin, and born in
unrighteousness! O this wretched and vile thing, sin! But thanks be to
God, who hath redeemed me from it. O Lord, take me to thyself. Behold,
dear mother, he has prepared a place for me."

21. "Yea, my dear child," said her mother, "He shall strengthen you with
his Holy Spirit until he hath fitted and prepared you fully for that
place which he hath provided for you."

22. "Yea, mother," replied she, "it is said in the 84th Psalm, 'How
lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul doth thirst and
long for the courts of the Lord: one day in thy courts is better than a
thousand: yea, I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than
dwell in the tents of the wicked.' Read that psalm, dear mother,
wherewith we may comfort each other. As for me, I am more and more
spent, and draw near my last hour."

23. Then she quoted Job's words, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though, after
my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God."

24. Then she said, "'Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which
all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and come forth; those
that have done good unto the res