[114]. See the Memoirs of the Life of Mr. Halyburton, Cap. 6.
[115]. See this argument improved by Mr. Fleming, in his Fulfilling of the Scripture, Edit. in Fol. page 394, & seq. in which he takes several remarkable passages out of Melchoir Adam’s Lives, and gives several instances of that extraordinary communion which some have had with God, both in life and death; whose conversation was well known in Scotland; so that he mentions it as what is a matter undeniably true: and he relates other things concerning the assurance and joy which some have had; which has afforded them the sweetest comforts in prisons and dungeons, and given them a foretaste of heaven, when they have been called to suffer death for Christ’s sake.
[117]. See Vol. II. page 151.
[118]. Sequela naturæ.
[119]. Before this there was what some call temperamentum ad pondus, which was lost by sin; and a broken constitution, leading to mortality ensued thereupon.
[120]. See Dr. Bates on Death, chap. ii.
[121]. Vid. Sueton. in Vit. Jul. Cæs. Talia agentem atq; meditantem mors prævenit.