! O, the admirable love of God in sending Christ and free
grace to a poor lost creature!"

24. Her soul then seemed ravished with the love of Christ. And while she
was engaged in magnifying of God, her father, brothers, and sisters,
with others of the family, were called, to whom she spake particularly
as her strength would give leave. She gave her Bible as a legacy to one
of her brothers, and desired him to use that well for her sake; and
added, to him and the rest, "O make use of time to get Christ for your
souls: spend no time in running up and down, or in playing: O get Christ
for your souls while you are young! Remember now your Creator before you
come to a sick bed: put not off this great work till then, for then you
will find it hard work indeed: I know by experience the devil will tell
you it is time enough; and you are young, and what need you be in such
haste? you will have time enough when you are old. But remember the
words of a dying sister. If you knew how good Christ is! if you had but
one taste of his sweetness, you had rather go to him a thousand times
than stay in this wicked world. I would not for ten thousand worlds part
with my interest in Christ. O, how happy am I that I am going to
everlasting joys! I would not go back again for twenty thousand worlds;
and will you not strive to get an interest in Christ?"

25. After this, looking upon one of her father's servants, she said,
"What shall I do at the great day, when Christ shall say to me, 'Come,
thou blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for thee?' and
shall say to the wicked, 'Go, thou cursed, into the lake that burns for
ever!' What a grief is it for me to think that I should see any of my
friends that I knew upon earth, turned into that lake which burns for
ever! O that word, for ever! Remember that for ever! I speak these words
to you, but they are nothing except God speaks to you too: O pray that
God would give you grace!" And then she prayed, "O Lord, finish thy work
upon their souls: it will be my comfort to see you in glory; but it will
be your everlasting happiness."

26. On Friday, after she had had such lively discoveries of God's love,
she was exceedingly desirous to die, and cried out, "Come, Lord Jesus,
come quickly! Conduct me to thy tabernacle. I am a poor creature without
thee; but, Lord Jesus, my soul longs to be with thee: O when shall it
be? Why not now, blessed Jesus? Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! But why
do I