...death, which may be, it is true, a piece of mere form, but which may possibly be something better. ' I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...expressed by him in the opening sentence of his will, written only a month before his death : — " I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...unimportant share in leading Shakspere to such reflections as those suggested in his will : " First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting."...

...make and ordain this my last will aad testament, in manner and form following : that is to say. first, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merit of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...And thus, silent as to the works of his mind, he speaks hat of the deatbless nature of his sonl — "I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting...

...another book of life ; and I think we may hope it is so, when we read among his last words : — ' I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...testament to the contrary. From that we learn where his hope was fixed. There we read : — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator; hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...And thus, silent as to the works of his mind, he speaks but of the deathless nature of his soul—" I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Savior, to be made partaker of life everlasting,...

...will and testament to the contrary. From that we learn where his hope was fixed. There we read: First, I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator ; hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...

...ordain this my last will and testament, in manner and form following ; — that is to Bay : First, e Offend you and obey you as I did. So shall I live to speak my assnredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life...