42. Mr. Edw. Deering to his Friends on his Death-bed, upon occasion of the Sun shining, said, There is but one Sun in the World, nor but one Righteousness, one Communion of Saints; if I were the most Excellent of all Creatures in the World, equal in Righteousness to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, yet had I reason to confess my self to be a sinner, and to expect Salvation only in the Righteousness of Jesus Christ, for we all stand in need of the Grace of God. As for my Death, I bless God, I feel so much inward Joy and Comfort, that if put 〈◊〉〈◊〉 my choice, whether to die or live, I would a Thousand times rather chuse Death, if it so stand with the Holy Will of God. Ibid. p. 342.
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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- 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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- Turner, William, 1653-1701.
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- London :: Printed for John Dunton ...,
- MDCXCVII [1697]
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- God -- Omnipresence.
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"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..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63937.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.