14 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SANCROFT. 



I have little of that, and, if we can get off my 

 nephew's bonds, shall have every day less, at 

 London ; where (as we had it yesterday in the 

 psalm) I am become like a dead man, out of 

 mind ; and like a broken vessel, of no use at all. 



*' Yet that honourable and excellent lady, (it 

 seems,) even in the midst of her inexplicable 

 sorrows, is pleased to think of me, and mention 

 me : the God of heaven comfort her in the one, 

 and reward her for the other. The Sunday 

 after I received from you that doleful news, I 

 had just occasion to remember her in reading 

 the gospel for that day, concerning the good 

 widow of Nain, and her only son, which is so 

 parallel to the present case. And though we 

 cannot at present expect the miraculous event, 

 yet the time will come, when our merciful Lord 

 will say to the son, Young man I say unto thee 

 arise; and in the mean, I most humbly beseech 

 him to have compassion on the mother, and to 

 say to her (effectually) Weep not. 



" Alas ! for honest old John Cook ! all my 

 old friends drop away, one after another, and I 

 shall stand alone, I think, ere long, of those of 

 my time ; but in the course of things it cannot 

 be long. God fit me for that hour ; and (if it 

 be his good pleasure) from sudden death deliver 

 me. 



