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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874. Excerpt: ... say so, and did so.--Diary in the Memoir of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Jan. 8th, 1663-64. 20. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying, Aaron shall be gathered unto his people.--And Aaron died there in the top of the mount.--Numb. xx. 23, 24, 28. 21. He St. Sebbi died at London, in great joy, about the year 697, having been forewarned by God of his last hour three days before.--Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. ii. p. 375. 22. And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this Mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.--Numb. xxvii. 12, 13. 23. Bishop Home died 1792. On the Friday before the bishop's death, he asked on what day of the week the seventeenth day of the month would fall. When he,was answered, on Tuesday, "Make a note of that," said he, "in a book." This proved to be the day on which he died.--Buck's Practical Expositor, p. 17. 24. About three or four days before he John Ormston died, he inquired of his sisters the day of the month, which being told him, he answered, "The twenty-second shall be my day," which proved true 1682.--Piety Promoted, vol. i. p. 225. 25. Bradford, the night before he was going to Newgate, dreamed that the chain for his burning was brought up to the Compter gate, and how the next day he should be led to Newgate, and on the Monday after burnt in Smithfield; which came to pass accordingly.--Turner's Remarkable Providences, part i. chap. 8. 26. One day, as the duke went in his horselitter out of his castle, with a great retinue, to see certain fortifications which he had prepared, being advertised by his father, the pope (by the h...
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