The Excellency of a Public Spirit, Publishers advertisement
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A COMPLEAT HISTORY of the most Remarkable Providences both of Iudgment and Mercy, which have happened in this present Age; Extracted from the best Writers, the Authors own Observations, and the numerous Relations sent him from divers Parts of the Three Kingdoms. To which is added, whatever is Curious in the Works of Nature and Art. The whole digested into one Volume under proper Heads, being a Work set on foot 30 Years ago, by the Reverend Mr. Pool, Author of the Synopsis Criticorum, and since undertaken and finished by William Turner, M. A. Vicar of Walberton in Sussex Recommended as Useful to Ministers in furnishing Topicks of Reproof and Exhortation, and to private Christians, for their Closets and Families.
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⸫ The Character of Dr. Sam. Annesley, by way of Elegy, with a Preface written by one of his Hearers. Price 6 d. Sold by E. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall.
⸪ The whole Parable of Dives and Lazarus, Explain'd and Apply'd, in several Sermons preached in Cripplegate and Lothbury Churches, by Ioseph Stevens, Lecturer at both. Published at the Request of the Hearers, and recommended as proper to be given at Funerals. Price bound 2 s. Printed for I. Dunton.
⸪ The Secret History of White-Hall, from the Restoration of Charles II. down to the Abdication of the late King James. Writ at the Request of a Noble Lord, and conveyed to him in Letters, by — late Secretary-Interpreter to the Marquis of Louvois, who by that means had the perusal of all the private Minutes between England and France for many years. The whole consisting of Secret Memoirs, &c. Published from the Original Papers, by D. Iones, Gent. Sold by R. Baldwin in Warwick Lane.
⸪ The Dying Pastor's last Farewell. By Mr. Allyn. Printed for I. Dunton. Price 1 s.
End of the text · Daniel Williams, The Excellency of a Public Spirit (1697)