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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21516	A helpe to discovrse: or, More merriment mixt with serious matters. Consisting of witty philosophicall, grammaticall, physicall, astronomicall questions and answers. As also, epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toyes, &c. re-added and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle and prognostication, with additions, or a helpe to preserve his health, never before printed.	E. P.; Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing E23; ESTC R224521	4,135	8

Strange and Wonderful NEWS FROM DURHAM OR THE Virgins Caveat AGAINST INFANT-MURTHER A FAIR Warning To all Beauteous Young Ladies to withstand the Temptations of dissolute Gallants shewing the Impossibility of Concealing their Sin Set forth in a RELATION of an Infant Murthered by its Mother in the Bishoprick of Durham Which Appeared to a certain Woman and discovered its Mother its Place of Burial and the Reason of its Walking Sent by C. E. to his Friend in London PSAL. 19. 13 Keep back thy Servant from presumptuous sins then shall I be upright LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1679. The Virgins Caveat against Infant-Murther AS the Mercies of the Almighty are to a Miracle admirable so his Judgements on some Sinners are also prodigious for though we commit our Sins under the Covert both of the Night and the Closet though with our Parents we sowe Fig-leafes before our shame yet ere the Evening of our days God espies our Hypocrisie and through that thin Veil that painted Sepulchre discerns the Rottenness and Corruption within for although in respect of the slender capacity of mortal man the Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked none can know it yet the glorious Eye of the divine Providence easily dissipates those Clouds makes our secret Sins as palpable as the Noon-day Sun and not only proclaims our Offences to the World but frequently gives our Enormities leave to shame us in this World and condemn us too but of all those Sins which are more in number then the Hairs of our Head so that our Hearts may upon too good Grounds none are more provoking then the Breach of the sixth and seventh Commandments the second Coining and Imprinting Gods Image without his Licence nay expressely against his Consent as the former does deface it in despight of his Command And as he did not spare David in this case though a Man after Gods own Heart but Afflicted him with temporal punishments as he would have done with eternal if his timely Repentance had not interposed so in the like circumstances even in our days we see some stormes and severities some dreadful effects of the Terrours of the Lord of Hosts and none in our late days has bin more Remarkable then that which gives Occasion to our ensuing Discourse Mr. Elizabeth B was born in the Bishoprick and City of Durham and when the wonderful Instructions and exemplary Piety of her incomparable Mother had added th●se two most precious Jewels of Religion and Modesty she bade the World Good-Night in an Age far short of that which David call Trouble and Sorrow However her Dissolution was no whit untimely since it prevented her from seeing the fairest Blossom that ever sprang from so precious a Mother-Plant blasted by a lamentable and deplorable Accident The First fruits she had brought forth in the yeares immediately succeeding her Mothers Decease were suitable to the good Seed which had been sown in so rich a Mould None of her Neighbors though many very admirable struck sail to this Excellency She her self was her only Comparison for Beauty Freighted thus with this inestimable Cargo by the Assent of her Friends but hurried rather by an unhappy Tempest she at the last Arrived at the most Debauched and most Civilized Place in the World our Magnificent Metropolis of London Her Actions at her Arrival were such that they convinced all that knew her that she had the most unspotted Soul lodged in the most beautiful Body in the World All those Summer-Flies which endeavour to sully and corrupt our choicest and most perfect Fruit met here with nothing but scorn and contempt even those who made more Noble Addresses could discern small Grounds of obtaining their desired Object Had our Cherubim here pitched her non Plus ultra and shut her Ear against the Insinuations of the degrade Angel she might have answered those excellent Qualifications she was endowed with But from the first Fall our Grand-Mother Eve has Entailed such weakness on her succeeding Generations since Pleasure Curiosity Pride and Idleness lay claim to so large a share of our young Ladies time since the delusions of Romances and Absurdities of the Stage dispose of almost all the rest of their most serious houres What can we look for but Tares among the Wheat and then the Inference in the Gospel will be very fit Inimicus homo fecit hoc But to return from a Transport that would give an Alarum to the most frozen Zeal This Miracle of Women who hitherto had breathed nothing but the most miraculous Efforts of Vertue and Chastity too soon alas gave credit to the Oaths and Insinuations of a beloved Person and abandoned her self to the enjoyment of such Pleasures as are only the lawful Concomitants the Marriage-Bed This pleasure as all others whose Foundation is sin did at the length sprout up into Shame She by her daily Qualmes and Sicknesses too late perceived and repined at the cause of her Distemper But as the only means of concealing her growing shame she retired into the Bishoprick of Durham to remove if possible the uncomfortable Burthen both of her soul and body The rest of her time was spent in a privay answerable to her Condition and melancholy Humour nothing was wanting in that accomplished Place which might not have retrived Her aclitus himself from his doleful dumps and continued weeping She only I believe was a perpetual Monument of her own Easiness and Shame and in this a Miracle that very few have ever repented so much of this sin never any to so little purpose But the near Approach of his Delivery did necessitate her to resolve on something in order to her disposal of the product of unpleasant pleasure None need question but her thoughts were at great variance fear of discredit and dishonour from without and Apprehensions of disquietness vexation from within a long time did equally share her distracted soul But wo is me the former Passion so soon obtained the Conquest and the distance of the latter made the greater Object appear the less and she resolved with the Corps of her Murthered Infant to bury her Confusion and shameful disgrace ☞ In order whereunto being privately brought to bed and blinding her condition under pretence of indisposition upon her delivery she stabbed her Body in into it under its left Arm and put a Period to that Series of Breathing which had but newly begun and commenced the Infant was buried with the greatest Privacy and one old Woman only conscious of the Secret to whom it was necessary to communicate it she being employed in washing her Shifts Sheets and what Linnen else soever she was fain to make use o● on so sad and lamentable occasion Upon the Recovery of some small strength under the Vizor of bettering her Health she privately retired into Richmond-shire to the House of a faithful Friend where she lived very retiredly oppressed as it should seem with some inward trouble although there was not the