eunuch, Acts viii. 39, He went on his way re

joicing."

These are some of the Memorandums she kept of these opportunities.

In her letters to her sisters there are many very savoury, pious expressions, that speak what her heart was full of.

"This is the world of troubles and disappointments. I never saw so much of it as now. I desire your prayers for me, that I may be weaned from it more and more.

"I desire to be content in the place where God hath set me. O that I had wisdom to do the duty of it. I see we must not have every thing that we would have in this world."

She was seized with a fever, as it proved, though little suspected of several days, August 1st, 1697.

In the beginning of her illness she often expressed an entire submission to the will of God, however he should please to dispose of her.

It was the ninth or tenth day of her illness before it appeared perilous, and then it grew violent, and seized her head.

She breathed out her soul into the embraces

of the Lord Jesus, August 13th, being Friday, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon.

She was buried in St. Michael's Church, Chester, August 16th, being Monday.

Mr. James Owen preached her funeral sermon that evening, at her brother's meeting-place, on Rev. ii. 7, To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

MRS. HULTON,

YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE REV. PHILIP HENRY, A. M.

BY HER BROTHER,

MATTHEW HENRY V.D.M.
HENRY

"She was born from Heaven, Fulfilled her visit, and returned on high."

DR. WATTS.

PREFACE.

THE favourable reception given to Memoirs of Mrs. Savage, has induced the compiler of that volume to give publicity to the following sheets. They contain a memorial of one of the same renowned family, and are calculated, with the Divine blessing, for general edification.

It may be necessary to state, that the manuscript was written by Mrs. Hulton's brother, the Rev. Matthew Henry, for private circulation, accompanied with a Preface by the Rev. James Owen.* Mr. Henry, though strongly urged, could not be prevailed on to publish the narrative: having printed the well-known Life of his father, Mr. Philip Henry, he, according to tradition, deemed any attempt to increase the notoriety of his family inconsistent with modesty.

* For a Memoir of Mr. Owen, see Memoirs of Mrs. Savage, Appendix IV.