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other disorders. He bore his sufferings with exemplary patience, and even cheerfulness; nor would his active mind, and his unabated desire of usefulness, permit him, even in this situation, to desist from his ministry, and his duties in the college, so far as his health and strength would admit. During his blindness, he was frequently led into the pulpit, both at home and abroad; and always acquitted himself with his usual accuracy, and not unfrequently with more than his usual solemnity and animation.

On the fifteenth of November, 1794, in the seventy-third year of his age, he retired to his eternal rest, full of honours, and full of days,-there to receive the plaudit of his Lord, "well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, be thou ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."-His remains were interred at Princeton, and the following epitaph is inscribed upon his tomb. Reliquæ Mortales,

Joannis Witherspoon, D. D. L. L. D. Collegii Neo-Cæsariensis Præsidis, plurimum vene

randi;

Sub hoc marmore

inhumantur.

Natus parochio Yestrensi, Scotorum,

Nonis Februarii, MDCCXXII.-V. S. Literis humanibus in Universitati Edinburgensi

imbutus;

Sacris ordinibus initiatus, Anno MDCCXLIII; munere pastorali

perviginti quinque annos fideliter functus est, primo apud Beith, deinde apud Paisly. Præses designatus Aulæ Nassovicæ, Anno, MDCCLXVIII;

Idibusque Sextilis ·

maxima expectatione omnium,

munus præsidiale suscepit.

Vir, eximia pietate, ac virtute; omnibus dotibus animi præcellens;

doctrinâ atque optimarum artium studiis,

penitus eruditus:

Concionator gravis, solemnis,

Orationes ejus sacræ

præceptis et institutis vitæ,

præstantissimis,

nec non expositionibus sacros Sanctæ Scripturæ

dilucidis,

sunt repletæ.

In sermone familiari, comis, lepidus, blandus;

rerum ecclesiæ forensium

peritissimus;

summâ prudentiâ

et in regendâ et instituendâ juventate,

præditus.

Existimationem Collegii apud peregrinos

auxit;

bonasque literas in eo multum provexit. Inter lumina clarissima, et doctrinæ, et ecclesiæ,

diu luxit.

Tandem, veneratus, dilectus, lugendus omnibus,
Animan efflavit, XVI, Kal. Decem.
Anno salutis mundi MDCCXCIV;
Etatis suæ LXXIII.*

* See Note A.