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but such a pain as shall , I trust , put an end to the battle . I must leave the care of my wife and children to you ( continued he ) , to whom you must be a husband in my tooth" About three o ' clock in the afternoon , one of his eyes
failed , and his speech was considerably affected . He desired his wife to read the fifteenth chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians . ' ** Is not that a
comfortable chapter ? " said he , when it was finished . ' * O what sweet and salutary consolation the Lord hath afforded me from that chapter . "
A little after , he said , " Now , for the last time , I commend my soul , spirit and body ^ touching three of his fing&rs ) into thy hand , O Lord / ' About five o ' clock he said to his wife , ** Go , read where I cast my first anchor ;
upon which she read the seventeenth chapter cf John ' s gospel , and afterwards a part of Calvin ' s sermons on the Ephesians . He then lay quiet for some hours ,
except that , now and then , he desired them to wet his mouth with a little weak ale . At ten o ' clock they read the evening prayer , which they had delayed beyond the usual time , from an
apprehension that he was asleep . After the exercise was concluded , Dr . Preston asked him , if he had heard the prayers . ' ** Would to God , " said he , € C that you and all men had heard them , as I have
heard them : I praise God for that heavenly sound / ' About eleven o'clock , he gave a deep sigh , and said , Now it is come . Richard Bannatyne immediately drew near , and desired him to think of those
Comfortable promises of our Saviour Jesus Christ , which he had so often declared to others ; and
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perceiving that he was speechless , requested him to give them a « ign that he heard them , and that he died in peace . Upon this he lifted up one of his hands , and ? sighing twice , expired without a struggles
He died in the 67 th year of his age , not so much oppressed with years , as worn out and exhausted by his extraordinary labours of
body and anxieties of mind . Few men ever were exposed to more dangers , or underwent such hardships . From the time that he embraced the reformed religion , till he breathed his last , seldom did
he enjoy any respite * Obliged to flee from St . Andrews to escape the fury of Cardinal Beaton , he found a retreat in East Lothian , from which he was hunted by Archbishop Hamilton * He liv « d
for several years as an outlaw , in daily apprehension of falling a prey to those who eagerly sought his life . The few months , during which he enjoyed protection in the castle of St . Andrews , were
succeeded by a long and rigorous captivity . After enjoying some repose in England , he was again driven into banishment , and for five years wandered as an exile on the Continent . After the
reformation was established in his native country , and he was settled in the capital , he was involved in a continual contest with the court —he was repeatedly condemned for heresy , and proclaimed an outlaw ; thrice he was accused
of high treason , and en two of these occasions he appeared , and underwent a trial . A price was publicly set on his head : assassins were employed t < y kill him ; and his life was attempted both with the pistol and the dagger . Yet he escaped all these perils , and
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452 Extracts from M ' Orie ' s Life ofKnox *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 452, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/4/
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