num_pages: 372
description: "ABout six and twenty years ago, a Design for the Recording of illustrious Providences, was under serious consideration among some eminent Ministers in England and in Ireland. That motion was principally set on foot by the Learned Mr. Matthew Pool, whose Synopsis Criticorum, and other Books by him emitted, have made him famous in the World. But before any thing was brought to effect, the Persons to have been imployed, had their thoughts diverted another way. Nevertheless, there was a M. SS. (the Composer whereof is to me unknown) then written, wherein the Subjects proper for this Record, and some Rules for the better managing a design of this nature, are described. In that M. SS. I find notable Stories related and attested, which elsewhere I never met with. Particularly, the Sory of Mr. Earl of Colchester, and another mentioned in our subsequent Essay. And besides those, there are some very memorable Passages written, which have not as yet been published, so far as I understand. There are in that M. SS. several Remarkabless about Apparitions, e. g. It..."This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.
language: English
title: An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences
titlecomplete: An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences (The Garland Library of Narratives of North American Indian Captivities, V. 2)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Garland Publishing