I have found His cross sweet and lovely unto me, for I have had many joyful hours and not a fearful thought since I came to prison. He has strengthened me to brave man, and face death, and I am now longing for the joyful hour of my dissolution.
Farewell, beloved sufferers and followers of the Lamb! Farewell, Christian intimates! Farewell, night-wanderings in cold and weariness for Christ! Farewell, sweet Bible, and preaching of the gospel! Farewell, sun, moon, and stars, and all sublunary things! Farewell, conflict with a body of sin and death! Welcome, scaffold for precious Christ! Welcome, heavenly Jerusalem! Welcome, innumerable company of angels! Welcome, general assembly and Church of the firstborn! Welcome, crown of glory! Above all, welcome, O Thou blessed Trinity—and one God; O eternal One, I commit my soul unto Thy eternal
rest.