6. Bede in his Sickness comforted himself with Heb. 12.6. Whom the Lord loveth, be chasteneth, &c. When his Scholars were weeping about him, he said, in the words of S. Ambrose, Non sic vixi, ut pudeat me inter vos vivere, sed nec mori timeo, quia bonum Dominum habemus. The time is come, if my Creator pleaseth, that being freed from the Flesh, I shall go to him, who made me, when I was not, out of nothing; I have lived long, and the time of my Dissolution is ap∣proaching, proaching, and my Soul desires to see my Saviour Christ in his Glory. Ibid. p. 101. His Epitaph was, Hac sunt in fossa Bedae— (Venerabilis, put in, as Tradition saith, by an Angel) Ossa.
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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- MDCXCVII [1697]
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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.