Memoirs of the lives and characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie

26 MEMOIRS OF
him in constant devotion ; which he did
to the end of his days, to the too great
prejudice of his health, and deprived
himself of his nights' rest by getting up
too early. His physician advised and
pressed him, but the week before he
died, (when he appeared to be in as
good health as he had been for some
years), not to shut himself up so con-
stantly in his room, but say his prayers
driving about in his coach, or in his
walks in his garden ; he answered him,
" You are a better physician than a
divine, since you would only serve God
with your own conveniency."
He breathed his last, as he did the
whole time of his illness, which was
but forty-eight hours, in petitions to
his God and Saviour for his own salva-
tion, and that of his whole family.
With a calm serene countenance, and
scarce a groan, he left us to mourn our
own unspeakable loss.