100. Mr. Brand thus— Oh! my God, my God, what is sinful Man! Worm-man! what manner of Love is this! Love indeed! O, I cannot express it! — Oh! let me be with thee! with thee, O my God! Oh! I long for Heaven! Oh! welcome Death! Oh! happy Death, that will put an end to all my Troubles and Afflictions! one Moment in Abraham's Bosom will make amends for all, turn Sorrow to Joy: What a dreadful Appearance will there be at the Great Day! what a sad thing to be disappointed, and come short of Heaven! O, my Redeemer liveth, I have served a good Master! I would not desire Life for a Moment, unless to promote the Interest of Christ. If God would give me my choice, what I would ask, I would not ask Life: Nay, I have prayed to God, that I might die. Why so, said a by-stander? That I may be, said he, with God! O my God, I would come to thee! Let me live with Thee! As he was going to Bed, with much concernedness of Mind he said, There will be a Cry at Midnight, Pre∣pare,
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.
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Prepare. Which came to pass accordingly; for after going to Bed, he was taken with a Vomiting of Blood, and after that died. Dr. Annesly in his Life.