A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...

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Title: A compleat history of the most remarkable providences both of judgment and mercy, which have hapned in this present age extracted from the best writers, the author's own observations, and the numerous relations sent him from divers parts of the three kingdoms : to which is added, whatever is curious in the works of nature and art / the whole digested into one volume, under proper heads, being a work set on foot thirty years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, author of the Synopsis criticorum ; and since undertaken and finish'd, by William Turner...
Author: Turner, William, 1653-1701.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Dunton ...,; MDCXCVII [1697]
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Subject terms: Christian literature, English -- Early works to 1800.; God -- Omnipresence.
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10. Sir Thomas Moor was so devour, that the Duke of Norfolk coming on a time to Chelsey, to Dine with him, happened to find him in the Church, singing in the Quire, with a Surplice on his Back; to whom, after Service, as they went homeward, hand in hand together, the Duke said, God's Body, my Lord Chancellor, what a Parish-Clark! a Parish-Clark! you dishonour the King, and his Office. Nay, said Sir Thomas, smiling upon the Duke, Your Grace may not think your Master and mine will be offended with me, for serving of God, his Master, or thereby count his Office dishonoured. England's Worthies, by Will. Winstanley, p. 201.

When the King sent for him once at Mass, he answered, That when he had done with God, he would wait on His Majesty. Lloyd's Worthies, p. 43. The same Answer Bishop Ʋsher return'd to Charles the Second. Vid. alibi.