This Is The Most Joyful

But He Himself Hath Sealed Your Sufferings, And Their Thus Saying Condemns God, And His Sealing Condemns Them.

Farewell All Relations And Friends In Christ; Farewell Acquaintances And All Earthly Enjoyments; Farewell Reading And Preaching, Praying And Believing, Wanderings, Reproaches, And Sufferings.

It Is Long Since I Could Have Adventured On Eternity, Through God's Mercy And Christ's Merits; But Death Remained Somewhat Terrible, And That Now Is Taken Away; And Now Death Is No More To Me, But To Cast Myself Into My Husband's Arms, And To Lie Down With Him.

I Cannot But Be Grieved To Go From My Native Land, And Especially From That Part Of It For Whom And With Whom I Desired Only To Live; Yet The Dreadful Apprehensions I Have Of What Is Coming Upon This Land May Help To Make Me Submissive To This Providence, Though More Bitter.

Fear Not; And The God Of Mercies Grant A Full Gale And A Fair Entry Into His Kingdom, Which May Carry Sweetly And Swiftly Over The Bar, That You Find Not The Rub Of Death.