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home to our Saviour I have no Assurance as
yet, but if it should please our Saviour to
take me to himsel, I am his Sinner, he has
shed his Blood for me poor Worm. Tursday
the 13th of November, we had one more gene
ral Converse, he said: his sickness was increa
sing, and that he was afraid that by reason of
his great Pain in his Head he might become de
lirious, and therefore wish'd that our Saviour
would prevent him from saying any thing
unbecoming to offend the Strangers who came
to see him. And his request was granted
agreeable to his Desire from our Saviour
and when on Friday he became delirious, he
generally sang in the Russian Language, or assisted
his Scholars in Arithmetic, but he was soon
sensible again when one spoke with him or our
Saviour & his Wounds, for Example when he was
once very much perplex'd with the Number
Five, the Sister Kriegelstein told him she sup
pos'd he meant our Saviours holy Five Wounds,
and so it was, and he became easy & quiet. Tho
he was in the greatest Pain, when one spoke to
him of our Saviour & his Pain it gave him
ease. Monday the 17th of November The Chirurgeon
of the City visited him, who always lov'd him
very much, him be embrac'd and when he ask'd
him how he did, he said I look upon myself as a Fruit
out of the Grave of Jesus. This Man is ach his frequently
visiting and by the Patients' pretty Behaviour very
much affected and is become our Friend. The 21st
in his Discourse he prov'd his Confidence to our
Saviour, that he would bring his Children to his
honour and glory thro't he World, and that the
dear heavenly Father would provide for them
in temporals. When I reach'd him something to drink
on the 28th with these Words: His thirst and drink
of Gall thee refresh, he said to it quite plain: when
I am to yield my dying breath. The last Day of being
the 23d of November he sung (and tho he had but
an indifferent Voice) very plain and agree
able. His humn was set forth with a Liturgy in
which time He lay very still. From that TIme
he grew'd sensibly weaker, * one perceiv'd nothing
more particular of him but now & then he sigh'd
and said: o my Jesu and sometimes he looked vry
friendly and reach'd out his Hands, to embrace
At six in the Evening our dear Br David bless'd
him for his Dissolution in the Name of the Congre
gation. Ad so he departed this Life in a sweet manner
midst the singing of the Liturgy in the 43 year
of his Age.
His Corps was interr'd Tuesday the 25 of November
after a sermon which I held, accompanied by the whole
College, the Germains & some Russians ( in teh Bu
rying Grounds of the Foreigners)