[¹] The same person who wrote part of this relation.
23. He often made her repeat those lines of Dr. Watts’s:
“Say, live for ever, glorious King,
Born to redeem and strong to save!”
And catch’d the two next from her, repeating with triumph,
“Then ask the monster, Where’s his sting?
And where’s thy victory, boasting grave?”
24. Those three verses in one of the funeral hymns he was almost continually repeating,
“Thou know’st, in the spirit of prayer,
We groan thy appearing to see,