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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14. Queen Mary the Second, of blessed Memory, on her Death-bed, when the Most Reverend Archbishop Tenison bespoke her, Madam, Settle your Affairs, your Family, and your Mind; you have lived and finished the course which the Parent of Nature hath all••tted you; replied with an undaunted Cheerfulness, Father, How good a Messenger are you to me, who, as it were com∣manded from Heaven, bring the Tydings of my last Necessity of Dying! Here I am ready to submit to whatever pleaseth God, the Disposer of my Life and Death. I am not now to learn that difficult Art of Well-dying. I have made up my Account with God, by the Assistance of my Surety, Christ. I have discharged my Conscience long since; I have considered the Condition of my Mortality; I have settled all my Affairs; and surrendred into the Bosom of my dearest Husband all those Cares that concern the World: And therefore he that calls, finds me ready to lay down the Burden of this Life, being no more than a load of Infirmities, Sin, and Labour. Then turning to her Husband, standing by her Bed-side, she is said to have broke forth into Words, to this Effect: Farewel, my William, and live mindful of our undefiled Ma∣trimony, till thy Lot shall restore thee to me, or moe to thee. I shall not altogether die, while you singly possess the sole Image of us both, &c. Spanheim, in his Fun. Orat. of Queen Mary the Second.

This; I suppose contains the summ of what that Excellent Queen delivered; but I suspect the Author hath set it off with an Embellishment of Words, which did not become a dying Person. The most Reverend Archbishop delivers it more nakedly and briefly.