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A63938	An essay towards an history of all the remarkable providences which have happened in this present age As also of what is curious in the works of nature and art. With parallel instances from former ages. By William Turner, M.A. and Vicar of Walberton in Sussex. To be publish'd by way of subscription.	Turner, W. (William), fl. 1687-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3345A; ESTC R222428	12,448	4

2. p. 483. Chaplain hath left it on Record concerning him That he received the Communion from his hands with much seeming Devotion about two years before his death than which there cannot be a more express acknowledgment of the truth of Christianity And this methinks should daunt the confidence of his Followers the Hobbists who because he was born on Goodfriday are not ashamed blasphemously to say That as our Saviour Christ went out of the world on that day to save the men of the world so another Saviour came into the world on that day to save them But the next instance of the E. of Rochester is still more convincing who as it appears by his Funeral Sermon did with very much abhorrence exclaim against that absurd and foolish Philosophy which the World so much admired and was propagated by the late Mr. Hobbs and others which had undone him and many more of the best parts of the Nation My Lord Rochester being awakt from his Spiritual Slumber by a pungent Sickness as appears by his Funeral * See my Ld. Rochester's Funeral Sermon Preached by Mr. Parsons Aug. 9. 1680. Sermon Preached by Mr. Parsons Aug. 9. 1680. Upon the Preachers first Visit to him May 26. my Lord thankt God who had in Mercy and good Providence sent him to him who so much needed his Prayers and Counsels acknowledging how unworthily heretofore he had treated that Order of men reproaching them that they were proud and Prophesied only for Rewards but now he had learnt how to value them that he esteem'd them the Servants of the most high God who were to shew to him the way to everlasting Life He commanded me continues our Author to Preach abroad and let all men know if they knew it not already how severely God had disciplin'd him for his sins by his Afflicting Hand that his sufferings were most Just tho he had laid ten Thousand times more upon him how he had laid one stripe upon another because of his grievous Provocation till he had brought him home to himself that in his former Visitation he had not that blessed Effect he was now sensible of he had formerly some loose thoughts and slight Resolutions of reforming and design'd to be better because even the present consequences of sin were still pestering him and were so troublesome and inconvenient to him but now he had other sentiments of things and a●●●d upon other principles He was willing to die if it pleased God resigning himself always to the Divine Disposal but if God should spare him yet a longer time here he hoped to bring Glory to the Name of God in the whole course of his Life and particularly by his Endeavours to convince others and to assure them of the Danger of their Conditions if they continued Impenitent and how graciously God hath dealt with him The time of his Sickness and Repentance was just nine Weeks in all which time thirty hours about the middle of it excepted wherein he was delirous he was so much Master of his Reason and had so clear an understanding that he never dictated or spake more composed in his Life Three or four days before his Death he had Comfortable Perswasions of God's accepting him to his mercy saying I shall Die but Oh what unspeakable Glories do I see What Joys beyond Thought or Expression am I sensible of I am assured of God's mercy to me through Jesus Christ O! how I long to die and to be with my Saviour His Dying Remonstrance For the benefit of all those whom I may have drawn into sin by my Example and Encouragement I leave to the World this my last Declaration which I deliv●r in the presence of the great God who knows the Secrets of all Hearts and before whom I am now appearing to be Judged The Lord Rochester's dying Remonstrance That from the bottom of my Soul I detest and abhor the whole Course of my former wicked Life that I think I can never sufficiently admire the Goodness of God who has given me a lively sense of my pernicious Opinions and vile practices by which I have hitherto Liv'd without hope and without God in the World have been an open Enemy to Jesus Christ doing the Vtmost despire to the holy Spirit of Grace and that the greatest Testimony of my Charity to such is to warn them in the name of God and as they regard the welfare of their immortal Souls no more to deny his being or his providence or despise his Goodness no more to make a mock of sin or contemn the pure and excellent Religion of my ever Blessed Redemer thro' whose Merits alone I one of the Greatest of Sinners do yet hope for Mercy and Forgivenness Amen Declared in the presence of Anne Rochester Rob. Parsons J. Rochester We had prepared a larger account of this remarkable penitence of the E. of Rochester but for want of room must reserve it for that further Specimen of this work which is to be annext to a New Peice of Mr. Turner's now in the Press entituled An Essay upon the Works of Creation and Providence c. which will be publisht in few days being design'd as an Introductory Discourse to this History of Providence To this further Specimen will be added a Penitential Letter writ by a Person of Quality in Glostershire lately deceas'd with other Remarkable Instances of that Nature never yet in Print which for want of room cou'd not be inserted here But though this Specimen will not allow of instances under every head for if it wou'd we had added Specimens upon the Works of Nature and Art as we have done here upon Providence having prepared materials for that end yet by what is here exhibited the ingenious Reader may easily perceive the usefulness of our design and as a further Evidence thereof we shall only add That under the Head of Attestations given to Religion by dying Princes who acknowledg'd the same to be preferable to all things else We shall from the best Authorities Record the last sayings of our never enough Lamented Soveraign the late Q. Mary as a Noble Testimony to Religion from one whose Parts and Endowments were as high as her Dignity as if Providence would not leave the prophane Age room to say that Religion was only pretended to by the mean and ignorant but convince them by the dying Breath of a Princess every way so Glorious and Great Under the Head of Signal Deliverances we doubt not but the Reader will easily be convinc'd that the Relation of the Miraculous Deliverance of the Protestants in Ireland from the Crueltys of Q. Mary I. As also the Account of Sir Henry Wyat's wonderful Preservation in the Tower will deserve a place the First being Attested by Bishop Vsher and delivered to the Publisher by a Person of Quality now living in London and is wholly omitted by Mr. Fox in his Acts and Monuments and the other being drawn up by a Learned Gentleman and never Printed before Of these things we shall treat more at large in the Body of the Work but think this sufficient to whet the Reader 's Curiosity and to give him a taste of what Entertainment he is to expect under other Heads as well as these mentioned When our further Specimen is ready for Publication there will be notice given

I retired my self from the noise and deceitful Vanities of the world I found no true comfort in any other Resolution than what I had from thence I commend the same from the bottom of my Heart to your I hope happy use Dear Sir Hugh let us be more generous than to believe we Die like Beasts that perish but with a Christian Manly brave Ambition let us look to what is Eternal I will not trouble you farther the only Great and Holy God Father Son and Holy Ghost direct you to an happy end of your Life and send us a joyful Resurrection So prays your dear Friend Marlbourgh Old James near the Coast of Holland 24th of April 1665. I beseech you commend my love to all my Acquaintance particularly I pray you that my Cozen Glassock may have a sight of this Letter and as many of my Friends beside as you will or any else that desireth it I pray grant this my Request To William Glascock Esq Dear Cozen May the 23. 1665. This Letter to Mr. Glascock was never printed before but is attested to be genuine in the following Specimen IN case I be called away by God in this present Employment I have recommended these few Lines to you first earnestly begging God Almighty his most merciful Pardon and yours for the very bad example and many provocations to sin I have given you Next I do most heartily desire you to make use of your Remaining Time in bestowing it upon his Service who only can be your Comfort at your latter end when all the former Pleasures of your Life shall only leave Anguish and Remorse If God had spared me Life instead of this Paper I would through his Grace have indeavoured to have been as assistful to you in minding you of true Piety as the care of mine own life could have inabled me do not think that melancholly Vapours cause this it is Gods great mercy that by this Employment hath made me know my self for which his Name be for ever Praised Lastly I Pray shew these few Lines to my Lord of Portland by which I in like manner and for the same cause crave his pardon wishing you both the blessed peace and content of a good Conscience towards God and a happy end of your Lives Your truly Loving Cozen. Marlbourgh My Lord Marlbourgh's Letter to Sir Hugh Pollard having been disperst throughout the Kingdom this Remarkable Penetence of his Lordship was the Subject of general Discourse for a long time after and 't is not doubted but that his Lordship's Letter to Mr. Glascock which was never printed but in this Specimen will be as well received and 't is hoped may have the same good Effect as the former had The Gentleman who hath communicated to us these Letters sent by the Earl of Marlbourgh to Sir Hugh Pollard and Mr. Glascock is a Person of Quality now living in London and if any one hath the curiosity to be satisfied from his own mouth about the perfect certainty of the matters therein Related if he repairs to Mr. Darker in Bull-head-Court near Cripplegate he will be always ready to bring any Gentleman to speak with him for further confirmation It must needs be obvious to every considering Reader that the same holy spirit who breath'd from the mouth of Solomon the wiseft of men That all things in this World are Vanity and Vexation of Spirit did make this Great Man sensible of the Truth thereof by his own Experience and to express it accordingly and how observable is it that that very Truth which he so ingenuously confesses himself to have neglected and despised did at last make an entire Conquest over him and force him to submit as if God would thereby let us see that though not many Noble and not many Wise are called yet he does not leave the Gospel without a Testimony even from such but obliges them to confess That the Wisdom of this World is meer Foolishness with God which will appear yet more by the following Instances It 's taken notice of that Sir * In Sir Alan Brodericks Funeral Sermon by Nathan Resbury Minister of Wandsworth Decemb. 3. 1680. Alan Broderick who was a Gentleman of Extraordinary Learning and Accomplishments did own with much Contrition that a Long Scene of his Life had been acted in the Sports and Follies of Sin that he had somtime pursued a Pagan and abandon'd way Septicism it self not excepted wherein the poinancy of his Wit and the strength of his Reasoning even in that very Argument the using of which proclaims a man in the Language of the Holy Scriptures a Fool may have been the occasion of a great deal of mischief towards some that are already gone to their Accounts Yet some years before his Death the bent and tendency of his Life and Actions was Devout and Religious and in his Private Conversation with his Minister he would always be Discoursing some Cases of Conscience about Retir'd Closet-prayer or the Nature and Necessity of True Religion and in his last Sickness he thought himself under a mighty Incumbency to Pray but was much harassed and anxious what to do because of his fear of not performing it with all becoming Reverence and Seriousness For look you saith he my Conscience is now as tender as wet Paper torn upon every apprehension of the least guilt before God And as he had much studied the Nature of Repentance he would frequently complain That he had a great jealousy upon himself lest he had not yet conceiv'd an horror answerable to his past Exorbitancies of Life and had not made those smart and pungent Reflections upon himself that might become one that had so long and in such Exalted Degrees violated the Laws of his Maker and made himself so Obnoxious to the Vengeance of his Judgment and that if the cutting off one of his hands with the other were but a proper or likely way through the anguish of such a wound to give him a just horror for his sins he would do that as willingly as he ever did any one Action that had given him the greatest pleasure of Life He also said that by the grace of God he had such a sense of the Conviction and folly and unreasonableness of Sin that no Argument no Tentation should prevail upon him to do the like again Having taken notice that all my Lord Rochesters Religious breathings were accounted by some the Raves and Delirancies of a sick Brain he did resolve to have given the World a publick Account of the sentiments he had of Religion both as to the Faith and Practise of it but was prevented Mr. Hobbs who was so much noted in the World for his Atheistical Writings insomuch that his Book intituled The Leviathan was condemned by the Parliament in their Bill against Atheism and Profaneness Octob. 1666. and both that and his book de Cive by the Convocation July 21. 1683. Yet the E. of Devon's * Ath. Oxon. part