about four in the morning
All that I have to request of you is , that I may be alone for this night . I have it in my thoughts to leave some short observations behind me , and likewise to discover some things of great weight which have been revealed to me , which may perhaps be of some use hereafter to you and your friends . What credit they may meet with I can not say , but depend the consequence , according to their respective periods , will account for them , and vindicate them against the supposition of falsity and mere suggestion . Upon this , his sister left him till about four in the morning , when coming to his bedside to know if he wanted anything , and how he had rested , he made her this answer ; I have been taking a cursory view of my life , and though I find myself exceedingly deficient in several particulars , yet I bless God I can not find I have any just grounds to suspect my pardon . In short , says he , I have spent this night with more inward pleasure and true satisfaction than ever I spent a night through the whole course of my life . After he had concluded what he had to say upon the satisfaction that attended an innocent and well-spent life , and observed what a mighty consolation it was to persons , not only under the apprehension , but even in the very agonies of death itself , he desired her to bring him his usual cup of water , and then to help him on with his clothes , that he might sit up , and so be in a better posture to take his leave of her and her friends . When she had taken him up , and placed him at a table where he usually sat , he desired her to bring him his box of papers , and after he had collected those he intended should be preserved , he ordered her to bring a candle , that he might see the rest burnt .