the words of the
apostle, "We know that if this earthly house of our tabernacle be
dissolved, we have a building of God, which is eternal in the heavens;
for in this we sigh for our house which is in heaven; that we may be
clothed therewith."

30. "There, father, you see that my body is this tabernacle, which now
shall be broken down; my soul shall now part from it, and shall be taken
up into paradise, into that heavenly Jerusalem. There shall I dwell and
go no more out, but sit and sing, Holy, holy, is the Lord God of hosts,
the Lord of Sabaoth!" Her last words were these: "O Lord God, into thy
hands I commit my spirit: O Lord, be gracious, be merciful to me a poor
sinner."

She died the first of September, 1664, between seven and eight in the
evening; in the fourteenth year of her age.

THE MERCHANT'S SON.

JOHN HARVEY was born in London, in the year 1654: his father was a Dutch
merchant: he was piously educated under his mother, and soon began to
hear Divine things with delight.

2. The first thing observable in him was, that when he was two years and
eight months old, he could speak as well as other children do usually at
five years old.

3. His parents, judging that he was then too young to send to school,
let him have his liberty to play about their yard, but instead of
playing, he found out a school of his own accord near home, and went to
the schoolmistress, and entreated her to teach him to read; and so he
went some time to school without the knowledge of his parents, and made
a very strange progress in his learning, and was able to read distinctly
before most children knew their letters.

4. He was wont to ask many serious and weighty questions about matters
which concerned his soul and eternity.

5. His mother being greatly troubled upon the death of one of his
uncles, this child came to his mother and said, "Mother, though my uncle
be dead, do not the Scriptures say he must rise again? Yes, and I must
die, and so must every body, and it will not be long before Christ will
come to judge the world, and then we shall see one another again: I pray
mother, do not weep so much." He was not then quite five years old: by
which her sorrow for her brother was turned into admiration, and she was
made to sit silent and quiet under that trying providence.

6. After this his parents removed to Aberdeen, and settled their child
under a schoolmaster there, whose custom was upon the Lord's day in the
morning,