The subject of the following brief memoir was one who lived much alone. He sought retirement, often saying to his friends that he did not wish to become a public character. But during the last few months of his life the Lord so powerfully blessed him that he repeatedly spoke and wrote to those friends who were favoured to have intercourse with him, requesting them to call upon the Lord's people to praise him for the great favours with which he supported and comforted him on a dying-bed. Nothing could be more repulsive to his feelings than the idea of exalting a "hell-deserving sinner," (as he frequently called himself,) but if the riches of grace could be magnified, and any of the Lord's tried family…