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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119. The Death of Henry Bullinger.

Mr. Bullinger falling Sick, and his Disease encreasing, many Godly Ministers came to visit him; but some Months after, he recovered, and preached as formerly, but soon Relapsed; when finding his vital Spirits wasted, and Nature much decayed in him, he concluded his Death was at hand, and thereupon said as followeth: If the Lord will make any farther use of me and my Ministry in his Church, I will willingly obey him; but if he pleases (as I much desire) to take me out of this miserable Life, I shall exceedingly rejoyce that he will be so pleased to take me out of this miserable and corrupt Age, to go to my Saviour Christ. Socrates (said he) was glad when his Death approached, because he thought he shou'd go to Hesiod, Homer, and other Learned Men, deceased, and whom he expected to meet in the other World; then how much more do I joy, who am sure that I shall see my Saviour Christ, the Saints, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and all Holy Men, which have lived from the beginning of the World. These (I say) I am sure to see, and to partake with them in Joy; Why then should I not be willing to die, to enjoy their perpetual Society in Glory? And then with Tears told them, That he was not unwilling to leave them for his own sake, but for the sake of the Church. Then having written his Farewel to the Senate, and therein admonished them to take care of the Churches and Schools, and by their permission, chose one Ralph Gualter his Successor, he pa∣tiently resigned up his Spirit into the Hands of his Redeemer, dying Anno Christi, 1575. and or his Age, 71.