oblig'd to make water frequently. a year or two before this laſt, he had a fitt of the gout: upon wh his friends congratulated him, as an inſurance of long life. but I had different ſentiments: & this event verify'd my preſage.
his laſt illneſs was an inflammation on the neck of his bladder, with the moſt excrutiating pain, that can be imagined; & that for ſeveral days continuance.
it roſe to ſuch a height, that the bed under him, & the very room ſhook with his agonys, to the wonder of thoſe that were preſent. ſuch a ſtruggle had his great ſoul to quit its earthly tabernacle! all this he bore with a moſt exemplary, & remarkable patience, truly philosophical, truly chriſtian; & a reſignation to the divine will, equal to his other vertues; expiring with ſoft, & ſilent groans: his ſpirit taking its flight thro the well known ſtarry orbs: whilſt his name lives on earth, till attraction in the planetary bodys exceeds thir impulsive motion; & the ſun abſorbs them, in the laſt conflagration.
he dy'd about 2 a clock in the morning, of the 20 march 1726-7. in the 85th. year of his age current.
he was bury'd with decent ſolemnity, in
