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Cogita te jam mortuum, quem scis necessitate moriturum.

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T46
1851

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1850,
BY PERKINS & WHIPPLE,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

BOSTON :

Printed by C. C. P. MOODY, -Old Dickinson Office,

No. 52 Washington Street.

PREFACE.

THE parting present of Dr. Rowland Taylor, one of Bonner's victims, to his son, was peculiarly appropriate. It was a work in Latin, containing some of the more celebrated sayings of the early martyrs, which he presented him as his last legacy, when upon the eve of suffering martyrdom himself. That incident suggested to the author what here follows. The desire arose in his mind, under circumstances which need not be detailed, to present something of a similar kind to his own son, to the beloved people to whom he ministers in holy things, and to any others who may choose to accept of it in this public manner.

An illustration of all the varieties of death-bed scenes has not been attempted, nor a perfect classification of those which are cited.

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