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Title:  An essay for the recording of illustrious providences: wherein, an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events, which have happened in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Author: Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.
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not sleep, she heard Musick, and the Cham|ber grew lighter and lighter, she then law her Father by the Bed-side. Who said Mall, did not I tell thee that I would see thee again? He exhorted her to be patient under her af|flictions, and to carry it dutiful towards her Mother; and told her that her Child that was born since his departure should not trou|ble her long. And bid her speak what she would speak to him now, for he must go and she should see him no more upon Earth, Vid. Glanvil's Collections, P. 189,192. Some|times the Great and Holy God, hath permit|ted, and by his Providence ordered such Ap|paritions to the end that Atheists might there|by be astonished and affrighted out of their Infidelity.Nam primus timor fecit in or be Deos.Remarkable and very solemn is the Rela|on of the Appearance of Major Sydenham's Ghost, mentioned in the Book but now cited (P.31.) It is in brief this. Major George Sydenham of Delverton in Somerset, and Cap|tain William Dyke of Skillgate in that County; used to have many Disputes about the Being of God, and the Immortality of the Soul: in which point they continued unresolved. 0