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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. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...of Mr. Wilson's special gift of faith. Many others are recorded, of which some were only such prognostications as an aged man might draw from long observation of the ordinary course of God's providence. Thus observing a young man exceedingly kind and duteous to a poor and infirm mother, Mr. Wilson said;-- I charge you to take notice of what I say. God will certainly bless that young man: John Hull shall grow rich, and live to be a useful servant of God. John Hull accordingly became a wealthy and most beneficent man, and died a respected magistrate. At another time Mr. Wilson was crossing a ferry. A young man in the boat spoke very insolently to his aged father. The faithful pastor, greatly troubled, rebuked the offender, saying;-- Young man, I advise you to repent of your undutiful, rebellious carriage towards your father. I expect else to hear, that God has cut you off, before a twelvemonth come to an end! And sure enough, within that time, this unhappy breaker of the fifth commandment, straggling off to the southward, was taken and cut to pieces by the hostile Pequods. In these two cases, the man of God doubtless ventured his predictions by reason of his extensive observation of the fact, that filial piety is usually rewarded, and filial impiety commonly punished in the life that now is. But there are other instances recorded of his foresight of events, which are not so easily accounted for. A few of them will be here rehearsed. When Mr. Wilson was living at Sudbury in England, he and other worthy ministers were silenced by the Bishop of Norwich, as has already been related. The informer and prosecutor was a man by the name of Bird, who proved to be a bird of ill omen. This person was taken sick, and attended by a celebrated physician, ...

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