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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41958	The great cures and strange miracles performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux who restoreth the blind to sight, the deaf to hearing, the lame to strength, and cripples to walk without crutches : as also, he cureth all manner of diseases, with a stroak of his hand and prayer ...	Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.	1666 (1666)	Wing G1791; ESTC R6726	1,985	10

THE Great CURES AND Strange Miracles Performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux who restoreth the Blind to sight the Deaf to Hearing the Lame to strength and Cripples to walk without Crutches As also He cureth all manner of Diseases with a stroak of His Hand and Prayer as is testified by Captain Haslell Captain Lancaster and divers others The like not known these many Hundreds of Years With His Christian Speeches and Divine Expressions during the time of His Stroaking And the wonderful Performances of Remarkable Things on sabbath-Sabbath-day last in the City of London and on Monday morning at the Charter-house London Printed for John Thomas 1666. The Great CURES And Strange MIRACLES Performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux since his coming out of Ireland to the City of LONDON AS for the great Cures performed by Mr. Valentine Gertrux formerly a Lieutenant for King and Parliament in the Kingdom of Ireland and a Gentleman of a considerable Estate in those Parts having the Character of a very sober discreet civil and pious Person and having such a full Concurrence of Testimonies concerning the truth of this Relation about him that it is obvious and manifest that what he do's is wrought by the power of a Divine Hand Besides the Confirmation from Captain Haslel of Plymouth which he had from his Son in Waterford as also from Captain Lancaster and others may be sufficient to evince the truth of these following particulars Together with a Letter from one Mr Beacher in Youghal containing a very sober and rational account to this effect Sir Considering the great things done by Mr. Gertrux to be both stupendious and full of admiration I went to Affans near to his own house and there found a great Concourse of people and going in standing close by him saw him to stroak them causing them to strip off their Cloaths where their pains and griefs were I saw him touch many of the Kings Evil and others whom he had cured came to acknowledg it I faw him heal 8 of the Dead Palsie of their Arms and Legs who after he had touched had instantly the right use of their Limbs I also saw him touch above 60 more many being troubled with the Falling-sicknesse some whereof being suddainly surprized in the Room foaming at the Mouth and wallowing on the Ground as soon as he had touched their breast with his Hand their pain ceased and they stood up and said they were very well Many deaf persons also he restored to their Hearing and others troubled with Convulsion Fits he oured by stroaking Two poor Cripples also coming into his Chamber halting on their Crutches whom when he had stroaked where their pain lay they immodiatly walked about the Room And going forth one of them not minding his Crutches left them behind him but he called him back saying Friend take away thy Crutches for I hope here will be no need of them and so the poor man went merrily forth with them in his hand Since his coming from Ireland he has also cured divers in the West of England the like blessing has attended him since his arrive at the City of London for not onely before divers persons of Honour on Friday and Saturday last but also before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor on S●bbath-day last divers forts of persons addressed themselves and received much good the like in Ch●●●…r house yard on Monday-morning last where the Son of Captain Burroughs was who had been touched for his Eye-sight and received great help He takes awy all sorts of pain and old Aches though of twelve sixteen or twenty years continuance or longer only with stroaking and smoothing the party grieved with his Hand for immediatly upon laying his Hand upon the part grieved the pain removes and if at any time they feel it sensibly in another part of the body as from the back to the breast from thence into the Legs and Arms or other extream parts and when the party telleth him where it is removed he followeth it with his hand which driveth it out sometimes at the fingers ends sometimes at the Toes other times at the Crown of the Head and sometimes at the Mouth and when the person saith it is gone and he feeleth no more pain He biddeth him be gone and glorifie GOD and forsake his sins He doth it freely unto all and is so far from taking any Reward that he doth not allow them to give him Thanks but bids them praise and thank the LORD for that he hath vouchsased to make use of such a poor Instrument as he doth to do them good And as People of all sorts of Diseases and Distempers did daily resort to him in Ireland so do they here in England also many having received not onely a perfect Cure but others likewise present ease at his first stroaking of them amongst whom Mr. Lee a worthy Citizen presenting of himself before him being troubled with a great Deafnesse and a dead Palsie in his hands as soon as he was stroak'd sound a great deal of warmth in his hands a comfortable complyance and nimblenesse of Joynts and a perfect restauration of his former Sense of Hearing Praise be to the most High FINIS POSTSCRIPT IT is now clear this Gentleman hath no universal Charm against all Diseases as some out of prejudice at first conceived but that the Things are absolutely wrought by the power of a Divine Hand in which there can be no Juggle or Delusion as to the Verity thereof the Truth being evinced by many hundreds of Eye-witnesses for he onely calleth upon the Name of God whilest he is doing of it and though briefly yet divinely VALE