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themselves secure from danger: Pray, let this part of my charge be particularly remembered by all of them! Having finished what he intended, he immediately vanished and I awaked; and thus, dear friends have I faithfully declared to you what I have seen and heard, desiring you to communicate it to the world, that the people of this nation may see what wonderful favours Providence has ordained for them, if their repeated wickedness do not frustrate the inestimable blessings appointed for their preservation.

After having declared the above particulars with much chearfulness she desired her loving parents who continually attended her, not to be troubled about her hidden departure from them by reason she had such an heavenly warning to prepare for it: She continued praising Almighty God, for his wonderful goodness to her, till the day of her departure, which happened the third day after she came out of her Trance, being all that time in as perfect health as ever she was in her life, and appeared with a fairer countenance than ever

The morning before she died, she wrote the following paper with her own-hand, which she left as a legacy to all young women to take a pattern thereby.

THE PRAYER BEFORE HER DEATH.

O Father of heaven, and God of all mercies, I humbly thank thy divine

goodness