urrection of life.' See, father, I shall
rise in that day, and then I shall behold my Redeemer: then will he say,
'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the beginning of the world.' Behold, now I live, yet not I, but
Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh, is by
faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I am
saved, and that not of myself, it is the gift of God; not of works, lest
any man should boast."
25. "My dear parents, now we must part, my speech fails me: pray to the
Lord for a quiet close to my combat." Her parents replied, "Ah, dear
child! how sad is that to us, that we must part?" She answered, "I go to
heaven, and there we shall find one another again: I go to Jesus
Christ."
26. Then she comforted herself to think of her precious brother and
sister. "I go to my brother Jacob, who did so much cry and call upon God
to the last moment of his breath: and to my little sister, who was but
three years old when she died: who, when we asked her whether she would
die? answered, 'Yes, if it be the Lord's will.' I will go to my little
brother, if it be the Lord's will, or I will stay with my mother, if it
be his will. But I know that I shall die and go to heaven."
27. After this, her spirit was refreshed with a sense of the pardon of
her sins, which made her to cry out, "Behold, God hath washed away my
sins, O how I do long to die! The Lord is my shepherd: although I pass
through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear, for thou art
with me: shall I not suffer, seeing my glorious Redeemer was pleased to
suffer so much for me? O how was he mocked and crowned with thorns, that
he might purchase a crown of righteousness for us! Must I not exalt and
bless him while I have a being, who hath bought me even with his blood!
Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world! That
Lamb is Jesus Christ, who hath satisfied for my sins.
28. "My end is now very near; now I shall put on the white raiment, and
be clothed before the Lamb, that spotless Lamb, and with his spotless
righteousness. Now are the angels making ready to carry my soul before
the throne of God. 'These are they who have come out of great
tribulation, who have washed their robes, and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.'" She spoke this with a dying voice, but full of
spirit and of the power of faith.
29. Her lively assurance she farther uttered in
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