Friday July 18 1769 [The diary for this day and the preceding contains two beautiful passages from Her vey's Meditations and Milton's Paradise Lost Book VIII In the evening he subjoins]
I attended the funeral of Mrs Pickard. Mr Crabtree gave an exhortation from Rev xiv 13 Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord &c. It was a very affecting season. During the solemnity I was impressed with the idea that perhaps I was the next that might be taken out of our little community. My constitution is extremely weak and as far as I can judge I am in a declining state. O that I may be every moment in actual readiness for that great change which has now passed upon our deceased sister. Four or five days ago she was in a better state of health than I am at present and now she is gone. Her body is committed to the dust and her spirit ascended to God that gave it.
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