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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

of a Folio Manuscript written by the Fathers that will be so kind as to impart their Observations to us that they shall be received with all Candor and Gratitude imaginable and the Names of the Authors published if permitted that the publick may know to whom they are indebted for the promoting of such an useful Work As the Mercies and Judgments of God are not confin'd to any particular party therefore as we have already collected we design also to embrace all well attested Relations from Christians of what Denomination soever provided they have not a Tendency to reflect upon any Subdivisions of Protestants for we will not insert any thing that savours of Faction or Animosity amongst Brethren but will endeavour to make the Work as unexceptionable as may be to all moderate and pious men Seeing it hath pleased God to manifest much of his Glory in the Works of Creation and much of his Goodness to men by inspiring them with useful and delightful Inventions we desire that such as have made any Choice Collections or Observations relating either to Nature or Art would be pleased to send them to us and particularly any thing that may contribute to the Natural History of the Three Kingdoms or advance the Reputation of their Inhabitants by publishing what useful Arts or Things they have either invented or improved as any rare or curious Engine c. By means whereof the World will be made acquainted with the Persons eminently curious in any Handicraft and wherein their Excellency lies We do also invite all Divines and others to communicate to us any Remarkable Epi●aphs in Church-yards c. because many of them contain a short History of the persons upon whom they are made which is not to be found elsewhere as we are fully satisfied by such Collections of that sort as we have made already Moreover That nothing might be wanting to render our Work perfect we have been at the charges to purchase what we found for our purpose in Mr. William Miller's Catalogue lately publish'd which being a curious Collection of Papers and Pamphlets of all sorts from the year 1600 down to this day we have been there accommodated with several Relations from divers parts of the Three Kingdoms as well as from Forreign Parts as also with Modern Instances upon Atheism Murder Adultery Theft Drunkenness and other Subjects no where else to be found which will be no small Entertainment to the Reader to find them here collected into One Volume under proper Heads We design also to consult the Prerogative Office in London c. for Wills of such Atheistical Wits as Hobbs and others who being at last overcome by the Truth were forced to give solemn Attestations thereunto The Method proposed to be followed is to rank every thing under its proper Head with some little Introduction to each and to cite our Authorities in the Margin as in the following Specimen only we shall be more particular in our Collections than any that have preceeded us as to the Female Sex who are generally too much slighted in Works of this Nature tho there have been as remarkable Instances of the Vertues and Vices of that Sex as of our own as well as of some curious Peices of Art performed by them of which the Queens (a) Now to be seen in Green Court in the Old Jury Effigies and other Curiosities lately done in Wax by Mrs. Goldsmith is an undeniable Argument So that this History of Providence c will not only be of singular use to Ministers in furnishing Topicks of Reproof and Exhortation but may serve as a Monitor to persons of all Ranks and Qualities in their Closets and Families And this particular advantage may be reapt by this Undertaking That those who have observ'd any remarkable Providences either as to themselves or others or have by 'em in writing the Dying Words of their Friends or the account of their Conversions if very remarkable may have them recorded in this Work So that their own Posterity and succeeding Generations may have the advantage of them whereas they would have otherwise been utterly lost In the Last Piace we think fit to acquaint the publick That in order to the preventing of all Cavils and Exceptions and preventing all Causes of Offence we design that the whole Work shall be perus'd by some Eminent Divines before it be put to the Press whose Sentiments thereof under their Hands shall be publish'd at the Beginning of the Work * ⁎ * That the publick may be able to form the better Idea of our Design we have thought fit to subjoyn the following Specimen ☞ Proposals and Specimens are to be had of the Vndertaker John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street as also of Edm. Richardson near the Poultrey Church and of most Booksellers in London and the Countrey PROPOSALS I. THAT this Work as near as we can judg will contain about Three Hundred Sheets Printed in large Folio with the same Letter and not upon that small Letter the following Specimen is printed on and on Paper of the same goodness with these Proposals II. For the Encouragement of those that Subscribe it is proposed at 30 s. a Book in Quires 15 s. to be paid in hand and 15 s. at Delivery and if it happens to make above Three Hundred Sheets the Subscribers shall have it paying only one Penny for every such additional sheet III. For a further Encouragement to those that Promote it any Gentleman who will Subscribe for six Books shall have a seventh Gratis which will reduce the Three hundred Sheets to 1 l. 5 s. 8½ d. per Book in Quires which considering the vast Expence for Materials requisite for carrying on and compleating so great a Work and the extraordinary fineness of the Paper cannot but be thought very reasonable IV. To those that do not subscribe by the first of September next the said 300 sheets shall not be sold under 35 s. in Quires V. All Gentlemen who subscribe shall have their Names and Titles c. if permitted annexed when the whole i● compleated VI. The first Volume shall be ready to be delivered to Subscribers next Hillary Term and the Second with all possible Expedition VII Those that desire the Publication of this useful Work and expect the benefit of these Proposals are requested to send their first payment with what speed they can to the Vndertaker who will give a receipt for the same for nothing but the backwardness of the Subscribers can hinder the compleating of it at the time prefixt The Specimen Attestations to the Truth of the Christian Religion from Atheistical Wits who had formerly denied the Being of God and disputed with the greatest strength of their Carnal Reason against all Religion THE Concessions of Adversaries is always Reckoned a good Argument for the Confirmation of a Controverted Truth nor does Omnipotence ever manifest it self with greater Majesty then when it extorts a Confession of Gods overuling providence

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 A Work of this Nature was set on foot about 30 years ago by the Learned Mr. Pool Author of the Synopsis Criticorum but for what Reasons we know not it was laid aside and nothing has since appeared on that Subject but a small Essay to invite some others to go on with the Work The Reverend Mr. Turner whose late History of all Religions hath met with good acceptation having made Collections proper for such an Undertaking during the Course of his Reading and Ministry for near 30 years and finding that it is not attempted by any other Hand is resolved to go on with it as being fully satisfied That a Work of this kind must needs be of Great Vse especially to such pious minds as delight to observe the manifestations which God doth give of himself Both in his works of Creation and Providence the former are sufficient to render those who have no other Instructers inexcusable as we are taught by the Apostle Rom. 1.20 and the excellency of the latter consists in this that they are the Real accomplishments of his written word so that to Record Providences seems to be one of the best methods that can be pursued against the abounding Atheism of this Age for by works of providence the Confession of a God and the truth of his word have been extorted from those very persons who have boldly denied it Memorable is that passage of Æschyles the Persian in Traged who relating his Countrymens discomfiture by the Greeks gives us this observation that when the Grecians pursued them furiously over the great River Strymon which was then frozen but began to thaw he did with his own Eyes see many of those Gallants whom he had heard before maintain so boldly that there was no God every one upon their knees with eyes and hands Lifted up begging for mercy and that the Ice might not break till they got over The Scepticks of this age may possibly call such a passage in Question but what can the most Obdurate Atheist say to those providences about the Jews which were so clearly foretold in the Scriptures and part of 'em are visible to their own Eyes Is not this sufficient to convince them of the being of an Omniscient God that the sacred Scriptures are his Revealed Will and that Christianity is the only true Religion We doubt not but those men who are able to hold out against such a convinceing demonstration will flout at this undertaking and expose it all they can but they may Remember the conquest which truth made over their great Champions Mr. Hobbs My Lord Rochester and Sir Alan Broderick providences which merit their thoughts and may serve to stop their mouths But to come to the design in hand It being certainly an incumbent duty according to the Psalmist for one Generation to praise the Works of the Lord to Another and to declare his mighty Acts Psal 145.4 I. We have consulted many and design to peruse all Authors that we can meet with Ancient or Modern who have writ on this Subject as The Treasury of Ancient and Modern Times Camerarius Beard Clark Wanly c. and others lately publisht and make a Collection of the Choicest passages in order to the Parallel betwixt ancient and modern instances which cannot but be very serviceable considering that many of those Authors are now become Scarce who recorded the providences of former ages and that there are multitudes of remarkable passages relating to the present age scattered in so many Books which its hardly possible for any one man to have all of 'em by him II. We our selves have already collected and received from Credible Hands many remarkable Passages which were never yet printed and design to collect as many more as we can relating to this Present Age. III. We do hereby invite all men especially Divines to impart unto us any such Remarkable Providences as they have recorded or remember to have befallen themselves or others either in Mercy or Judgment IV. We desire for the Improvement of the Collections which we have already made that such as have any by them would send to us their Observations of Extraordinary Deliverances by Sea or Land Earthquakes unusual Thunders c. Inundations strange Apparitions but let these be well attested Witchcrafts Diabolical Possessions Appearances in the Regions of the Air remarkable Meteors exhalations issuing out of the earth or Prodigies of any sort Strange Beasts Sheep Horse of any unusual Quality or mixed Generation or wonderful Bigness or any other Animal attended with any unusual Circumstances You are also desired to send us accounts of any strange accidents that have befallen men or women remarkable Discoveries of Murther any prodigious Births Numerous Off-springs Persons of extraordinary stature remarkable either for Excess or Defect of prodigious Memorys any that have strange Antipathies to Meats Drinks Animals parts of Animals of unusual Sleep or Watchings Night-Walkers in their sleep we mean Predictions that have strangely come to pass of men of extream age of sudden Deaths extraordinarily Circumstantiated of any reputed dead that have strangely come to Life again any thing remarkable that attends a Family or single person in their Lives or Deaths as Lights or Noises c. Dwarfs with their age and place of abode any Improvement in any of the Liberal or Mechanick Arts any Valuable Manuscripts or what else you have remarkable of any kind the publishing whereof may be either a Service to the publick or to particular persons which if sent shall not fail to be inserted in its proper place These are the Heads we desire the ingenious Reader wherever they may come maturely to consider and to send us accounts of as many of them as fall under his own proper Experience and Knowledge directed to John Dunton at the Raven in Jewen-street whence with all convenient speed they shall be transmitted to the Press in the manner already described with such Improvements on the different Heads as the Reverend Author who is to compile this work can make either from his own Experience or the best Writers But always remember that what you send be circumstantiated with the Name of the County Town and Place you fend it from and of the particular persons concern'd when the case requires it for we shall not take notice of any thing that is trifling or uncertain and that you pay the Postage of all Letters relating to this Work that so the Undertaker may not be imposed upon nor discouraged in this useful attempt which we have now a fair opportunity to accomplish having received promises of assistance from persons of Great Learning and Curiosity We have also the promise

from VVicked men and Devils what Emphasis is there in Nebuchadnezzars Acknowledgement that the most high doth according to his will in the Army of Heav'n and among the Inhabitants of the Earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what dost thou Dan. 6.35 And tho our blessed Saviour disdain'd such a Testimony yet the Power and Majesty of God was mightily seen in that Confession which we find so often extorted from the Devils in the Gospel that he was the Holy one of God and the Son of the most High and when we Consider those passages and that Divine Air which sounds in the declaration of the false prophet Balaam Num. 24. I shall see him but not now I shall behold him but not nigh there shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel We have no reason to doubt but that the Lofty Rapture of the Oracle of Delphos may be true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I find thus Ingeniously translated into Latin and English Me puer Hebraeus Divos Deus ipse Gubernans Cedere sede jubet triftemque redire sub orcum Aris ergo dehinc tacitis abscedito nostris An Hebrew Child whom the blest Gods adore Hath bid me leave these shrines and pack to Hell So that of Oracles I can no more In silence leave our Altar and farewel Upon the return of which Answer from that Oracle the Emperor Augustus caused an Altar to be Erected in the Capitol with this Inscription haec est ara primogeniti Dei And the famous Acknowledgment of Julian the Apostate when mortally wounded by an Arrow Julian the Apostate dies acknowledging the Truth of the Christian Religion Vicisti tandem Galilee is another remarkable instance of the power of God in extorting a Confession of the Truth of Christianity from one of its most implacable Enemies This we think sufficient as a Taste of what may be produced as to Confessions of God and Christ which have been extorted by Remarkable Providences in preceeding Ages and we have reason to bless his Holy Name that he hath not left us without Observable Attestations of the same Nature in this present Age. The first we shall mention are the Earl of Marlbourgh's Letters from on Board the Fleet. April 24. 1665. The Earl of Marlbourgh whose two most Devout and Penitential Letters are herewith Publish'd was a person of great understanding and wit The Scene of his Life lay chiefly in Voyages and expeditions by Sea whereby he made many laborious attempts to repair the Collapsed Estate of his Ancestors but it pleased not God to give him the Success he hoped for therein It is wholly unfit for any Writer to touch upon any irreligious principles or practises that were as stains in his Life since he hath by his own Noble Pen in the following Letters acknowledged them and by his most exemplary Repentance washed them off Mr. Roger Coke in the second Volume of his Detection p. 142 mentions That the Fight wherein the Duke of York beat the Dutch and Opdam was blown up was the 3d of June 1665. and that in this Fight the English lost the Renown'd Earl of Marlbourgh who tho Admiral in K. Charles the firsts time died here a private Captain But it pleased God in that Naval Expedition to work in him such a sense of his Sins as did infinitely make amends for the former disappointments he met with by Sea or Land The Date of his first Letter being the 24th of April and that of the Second the 23d of May following will satisfy any candid Reader that the New Birth in him was accompanied with may pangs and efforts of great consideration during the firmness of his bodily Health and much transcending the low Nature of poor Death-bed Repentances which are so justly suspected by our Practical Divines of all perswasions And here it is necessary to acquaint the Reader that these two Letters of distant Dates were sent by his Lordship from the Royal Navy inclosed in other Letters to Mr. Tredewy his Lordship's Agent in London with a particular Instruction both as to that to Sir Hugh Pollard and that to Mr. Glascock that each of them was to be delivered when Mr. Tredewy was credibly inform'd of his Lordships Death His design being that his Pen should Preach Repentance to the World in case he lived not to be a personal Adviser thereof himself The Publisher hereof assures the Reader that both the Letters had a happy influence on the Lives of the two persons to whom they were directed and that Sir Hugh Pollard having lent the Original Letter which was sent to him to Sir W. Davenant to shew it to whom he pleased Sir VVilliam shew'd it to the Publisher among many others And that Mr. Glascock permitted the Publisher to take a Copy of that Letter directed to him The Reader may then awaken his most serious Thoughts to consider the two following Letters A Letter from the right Honourable James Earl of Marlbourgh a little before his Death in the Battle at Sea on the Coast of Holland 1665 To the right Honourable Sir Hugh Pollard Comptroller of His Majesties House-hold Sir See Dr. Lloyd's fair warning to a careless world for a Copy of this Letter of the Earl of Marlebourgh to Sir Hugh Pollard I Believe the goodness of your Nature and the Friendship you have always born me will receive with kindness this last Office of your Friend I am in Health enough of Body and through the mercy of God in Jesus Christ well disposed in mind This I premise that you may be satisfied that what I write proceeds not from any Phantastick Terror of mind but from a sober Resolution of what concerns my self and earnest desire to do you more good after my Death than mine Example God of his mercy pardon the badness of it in my Life-time may have done you harm I will not speak ought of the Vanity of this World your own Age and Experience will save that Labour but there is a certain thing that goes up and down in the World call'd Religion Drest and Presented Phantastically and to purposes bad enough which yet by such evil Dealing loseth not its Being The great and good God hath not left it without a Witness more or lefs sooner or later in every mans bosom to direct us in the pursuit of it and for the avoiding of those Inextricable difficulties and intanglements our own frail Reason would perplex us withal God in his infinite mercy has given us his Holy word in which as there are many things hard to be Understood so there is enough plain and easy to be understood to quiet our minds and direct us concerning our future being I confess to God and you I have been a great neglecter and I fear despiser of it God of his infinite mercy pardon me that dreadful Fault but when