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Death of John Burgar (1742-1797)

We know something about the manner John Burgar's death because his son, John (the Methodist Minister), wrote the following about him in his diary.
 

In the 10th year of my age it pleased the Lord to call my father from a world of suffering to a glorious reward. He had been the subject of affliction for above thirty years. His last illness, however, was short; as he was not confined to his room for more than five or six days. “mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, the end of that man is peace.” My father, who was such a character, experienced that blessedness. He did not die stupidly (as multitudes do, who after a life spent in sin, are said to go off like lambs;) but was properly aware of the awfulness of going out of time into eternity. And as he had been trained up by repentance and faith, through pardon and holiness, to understand the deep things of religion, he possessed a hope full of immortality; and thus was able to say with holy confidence “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit”. I saw him expire - and my prayer to God is that “my last end may be like his”  

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