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Thus he continued meditating, and praying, and rejoicing, till the day of his death; and on that day said to Mr. Woodnot, "My dear friend, I am sorry I have nothing to present to my merciful God but sin and misery; but the first is pardoned, and a few hours will now put a period to the latter; for I shall suddenly go hence, and be no more seen." Upon which expression Mr.
Woodnot looked in at the Church-window, and saw him lie prostrate on the ground before the Altar; at which time and place as he after told Mr. Woodnot he set some rules to himself, for the future manage of his life; and then and there made a vow to labour to keep them. And the same night that he had his induction, he said to Mr.
To which request their sighs and tears would not suffer them to make any reply; but they yielded him a sad obedience, leaving only with him Mr. Woodnot and Mr. Bostock. Immediately after they had left him, he said to Mr. Bostock, "Pray, Sir, open that door, then look into that cabinet, in which you may easily find my last Will, and give it into my hand:" which being done, Mr.
Woodnot carried to his mother this following letter, and delivered it to her in a sickness, which was not long before that which proved to be her last. A Letter of Mr. GEORGE HERBERT to his Mother, In her Sickness."
Arthur Woodnot, took a journey to salute him at Bainton, where he then was, with his wife's friends and relations, and was joyful to be an eye-witness of his health and happy marriage.
Woodnot to Bainton; and immediately after he had seen and saluted his wife, he said to her "You are now a Minister's wife, and must now so far forget your father's house, as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners; for you are to know, that a Priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place, but that which she purchases by her obliging humility; and I am sure, places so purchased do best become them.
Farrer, I shall hereafter give an account in a more seasonable place; but before I proceed farther, I will give this short account of Mr. Arthur Woodnot.
Farrer hath added that excellent Preface that is printed before it. At the time of Mr. Duncon's leaving Mr. Herbert, which was about three weeks before his death, his old and dear friend Mr. Woodnot came from London to Bemerton, and never left him till he had seen him draw his last breath, and closed his eyes on his death-bed.
And having obtained Mr. Woodnot's promise to be so, he said, "I am now ready to die." After which words, he said, "Lord, forsake me not now my strength faileth me: but grant me mercy for the merits of my Jesus. And now, Lord Lord, now receive my soul." And with those words he breathed forth his divine soul, without any apparent disturbance, Mr. Woodnot and Mr.
Woodnot took occasion to remember him of the re-edifying Layton Church, and his many acts of mercy. To which he made answer, saying, "They be good works, if they be sprinkled with the blood of Christ, and not otherwise."
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