and expressed himself satisfied, "that now he had left that ready." These proved to be the sermons for publication, the directions for which he left in a codicil to his will.

He was confined to his bed for

a very short time. He had written to one of his family but a few days before his death, "that he had been very ill, but was then better;" when a fresh return of his disorder after much suffering produced a rapid and fatal mortification. His bodily powers were so little weakened, that a few hours before his death he lifted a large pitcher of water to his mouth. That his mind was unshaken from its habitual confidence and self-possession, there is every reason to think; for on his desiring to have his posture changed, and being told by his surgeon that he was in danger of dying under the attempt, he with great calmness and resignation said, "well-try-never mind"— and, after some severe convulsions, expired. His death-bed cannot be a subject for the public; nor from his almost constitutional habit of thinking and feeling in silence, was it likely to afford matter for general interest. He died at Bishop Wearmouth in May, 1805, and was buried in the north aisle of the cathedral at Carlisle.

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NOTE.

A fac-simile of a passage extracted at random from Dr. Paley's manuscript books will present a fair view of his pages when he wrote for his own use, either in the pulpit or on any other occasion. It was but little improved when he wrote for the use of others.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following pages contain Extracts from College Lectures. These Lectures are still extant in the Author's Manuscript, but in a confused heap of loose papers. Some part of them, to which reference has been made in the foregoing account, are taken, in a form indeed much enlarged, into the Evidences of Christianity. Those now offered to the public seem sufficiently new to claim attention; and if any of them may contain only a repetition of what has already been made public under different forms, they will at least enable the reader to judge how far the plan adopted in such Lectures has been changed, before it was made serviceable for any published work of the Author.