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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Christian literature, English -- Early works to 1800.
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 June 24, 2025.

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91. Mr. John Dod was tried with most bitter and sharp Pains of the Strangury, and great Wrestlings with Satan, but was Victorious. To one watching with him, he said, That he had been wrestling with Satan all Night, who accused him, That he had neither preached, nor prayed, nor performed any Duty well, for manner or end; but, saith he, I have answer'd him from the Example of the Prodigal and the Publican. One of his last Speeches was (with Eyes and Hands

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lift up to Heaven) I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ. Which desire was granted him, Anno 1645. aged 96. Ibid. p. 178.

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