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and a ſcaffold for a throne; and I might add a third I am changing the preſence of this numerous multitude on Tower hill, for the innumerable company of ſaints and angels in heaven, the holy hill of Zion; and I am changing a guard of ſoldiers for a guard of angels, which will receive me and carry me to Abrahams boſom. This ſcaffold is the beſt pulpit that ever I preached in: in my church-pulpit, God, through his grace, made me an inſtrument to bring others to heaven: but, in this pulpit, he will bring me to heaven.
Afterward, he ſaid, Tho' my blood be not the blood of nobles, yet it is Chriſtian-blood, miniſter's blood yea more it is innocent blood.
I magnify the riches of God's mercy and grace towards me, that I, who was born in Wales, an obſcure country and of poor parents, ſhould be angled out an honourable ſuffering.
For the firſt fourteen years of my life I never heard a ſermon preached; yet in the fifteenth year of my life, it pleaſed God to convert me. bleſſed be God, who not only made me a Chriſtian, but alſo a miniſter, judging me faithful, and putting me into the miniſtry, which I my glory. I would rather be a preacher a pulpit, than a prince upon a throne; I would rather be an inſtrument to bring for to heaven than that all nation ſhould bring tribute to me.
Formerly ſaid he. I have been under a ſpirit of bondage; yea ſometime I have had more fear a drawing out a tooth, than new for eating off my head. When fear was upon me death was not near: now, when death near to me, my fear s evaniſhed, I am comforted in this ho' men I I me they cannot damn me; tho' they thurſt me out of the world yet can they not ſhut me out of
