“ I have been longing to see you, and to tell you the happy state of my mind. I believe I shall soon die: but death now has no terrors in it. The sting of death is sin; but, thanks be to God! he has given me the victory through Jesus Christ. I am going to heaven! O! what has Jesus done for me, one of the vilest sinners of the human race!"—A little before he died, when he thought himself within a few hours of dissolution, he said, "I have often thought it was a hard thing to die, but now I find it a very easy thing to die. The presence of Christ makes it easy. ”

“ His sins, being brought afresh to his mind, filled him with horrors tenfold more gloomy than before. Despair, for some minutes, took a firm hold on his spirits; and he thought he was now going out of his mind, should die, and be lost; till the minister deelared Jesus Christ was as willing to save the vilest of sinners, as he was to relieve this poor ereature possessed of the devil; and that a man was restored to his right mind when he believed in him. ”

“ The stout-hearted and wicked Covey, having lost all the impressions of his former reflections, heaped, in rapid succession, the most dreadful imprecations on the eyes, and limbs, and souls of what he called his cowardly shipmates, for lying down to avoid the balls of the Dutch. He refused to obey the order, till, fearing the authority of an officer not far from him, he in part complied, by leaning over a cask which stood near, till the word of command was given to fire. At the moment of rising, a bar-shot carried away one of his legs and the greater part of the other ”