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...

Their CHARACTERS.

THey were both of very sweet and obliging Tempers, as has appeared in their History, it be∣ing a very hard matter for their worst Enemies, when they once knew 'em well, not to Ho∣nour and Love 'em. Mr. Benjamin, the Elder, reconciled the Lamb and the Lion exactly. In the Field he seem'd made only for War, and any where else, for nothing but Love. He, with∣out Flattery, deserv'd to be call'd a very fine Man, of a lovely Proportion, extreamly well made, as handsome a Meen, and good an Air, as perhaps few in England exceeded him. His Picture is pretty like him.

The Younger, Mr. William, somewhat taller, and more slender; his Face fresh and lively, as his Spirit, being Master of an extraordinary vivacity and briskness of Temper. Both of 'em Vertuous, Pious and Courageous far above their Years, and indeed, seem'd to be Men too soon, one of 'em not being Twenty, the Eldest but Two and twenty, when they dy'd; verifying that common Observation, That whatever is perfect sooner than ordinary, has generally a shorter Period prefix'd it, than what's more base and ignoble.