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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97026	The good angel of Stamford. Or An extraordinary cure of an extraordinary consumption, in a true and faithful narrative of Samuel Wallas recovered, by the power of God, and prescription of an angel.	Wallas, Samuel.	1659 (1659)	Wing W494; Thomason E999_4; ESTC R207829	3,302	8

The Good Angel of Stamford OR AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CONSUMPTION IN A True and Faithful NARRATIVE OF SAMUEL WALLAS Recovered BY The Power of God and prescription Of an ANGEL LONDON Sept 23. Printed in the Year 1659. A Relation of Samuell VVallas his being restored to perfect Health after his thirteen Years Sickness in a Consumption taken from his own mouth who for the last four Years lay bed-rid and so weak that he could not turne himself therein without help by which distemper his Body was so parcht and dried that he was most like an Anotomie but now at present has recovered his former strength and followes his Trade again being a Shoemaker Living at Stamford in Lincolshire this following discourse was related to him that writ it by the said VVallas with much affection and sensiblenesse of the Lords goodness and kindness to him Aprill 7. 1659. UPon Whitsunday last about six a clock in the afternoon after Evening Sermon he finding himself a little lightsome and able to get out of bed alone there being no body in the house then with him and his Wife being gone into the Countrey to her Friends to seek some relief he crept to the fire side and reading upon a Book intituled Abrahams suit for Sodom he heard some raplat the Door and thinking it to be some stranger because he knocked as if it were with a stick and being the Sabbath day he took his staff in the one hand and the Wall one his other and went to the door and opening of it he beheld a proper grave Old man who said to him Friend I pray thee give an old Pilgrime a cup of thy small bear And the said Samuell Wallas replyed I pray Sir come in then he answered Friend call me not Sir for I am no Sir but yet come in I must for I cannot pass thy Door before I come in the said Wallas then thinking he had been so dry that made him say he could not pass his Door before he came in And thereupon said come in Sir and welcome And after he was come in he went with the help of his stick and drew him a cup of small bear in a little jug-pot and gave it him in his hand who took it by the bottom and drunk a little and so walked two or three times to and fro and then drunk again and so a third time before he drunk it all and after that set the jug down in the window by the said Samuell Wallas he leaning then upon a little Table and then the said Samuell Wallas thought he would have been going but he went and walked to and fro some three or four times as he did before all this while neither speaking one word to each other but at last coming to the said Wallas said Friend I perceive thou art not well and he replyed No truely Sir I have not been well this many Years then he asked what was his disease who answered a Deep Consumption our Doctors say it is past cure then said he they said well but what have they given thee for it then the said Samuell Wallas replyed truely nothing for I am a very poor man and am not able to follow the Doctors Counsell and therefore he was willing to commit himself into the hands of Almighty God to dispose of him as he pleased and thereupon the Old man replyed in that thou sayest very well then I will tell thee by the Almighty power of God what thou shalt do but remember my words and observe them and do it but whatsoever thou doest Fear God and serve him To morrow morning go into thy Garden and there get two Reg-sage leaves and one Blood-wort leaf and put those three leaves into a cup of small Bear and let them lye in the bear for the space of three dayes together drink as often as need requires but let the leaves remain still in the Cup but the fourth morning cast them away and put three fresh ones in and this do for twelve dayes together neither more nor less and I pray thee remember what I say and observe my words and do it but above all whatsoever thou doest Fear God and serve him And for the space of these twelve dayes thou must neither drink Ale nor strong Bear but afterwards thou mayest a little to suffice And thou shalt see before these twelve dayes be forth thorough the great mercy and help of Almighty God thy disease to be cured and thy body altered Now the said Samuell Wallas doubting of these things said Sir be this good for all Consumptions and he replyed I tell thee I tell thee observe what I say to thee and do it but above all whatsoever thou doest Fear God and serve him But this is not all said he for thou must change the Air for thy Health then the said Wallas said what do you mean Sir by changing the Air And he answered thou must go three or four or five miles off or if it be twenty miles off the further off the better and thou must go forth as speedily as thou canst after thy twelve dayes is out or else thou wilt have a very grievous fit of Sicknesse that will suddenly seize upon thee yet through Gods mercy by this doing thou mayest avoid that And thou shalt see that before the Moneth and twelve dayes be out through the help of Almighty God above the clothes thou hast now upon thy back thou will scarce be able to wear with ease thy body will be so much grown and I pray thee remember my words and observe to do them but above all whatsoever thou doest Fear God and serve him Then the said Wallas said I pray Sir if it shall please the Lord to inable me to goe into our own Fields Two or Three Times a Day will not that serve the Turne He answered no Friend it will not for that Aire where the infection is taken is not so properly good to cure the same disease And then the said Samuell Wallas said Sir I thought to have been let blood but he returned No Friend by no meanes for before thy moneth and twelve days be up thy blood will be as good as ever thou hadst in all thy Life but this one thing observe thy joynts will be weak as long as thou livest Now Friend said the Old man I must be going I pray Remember what I have said to thee and do it but above all Fear God and Serve him Then the said Wallas asked him if he would eat any Bread and Butter or Cheese but he answered No Friend I will not eat any thing the Lord Christ is sufficient for me neither but very seldom do I drink any bear but that which comes from the Rock And so Friend the Lord God in Heaven be with thee And the said W. seeing him goe out of the door went to shut it after him but the Old man returned halfe way in the entry again towards the said S. W. and said Friend I pray thee Remeber what I have said and do it but above all whatsoever thou doest Fear God and serve him And so they parted And the said S. W. saith he saw him passe along the Street some halfe a score yards from his door and so shut the door and went in but this Old man was not seen by any body else nor passe along the Street though there were persons standing in their doors opposite to the S. W. his house Now afterwards within four days that the said S. W. had made use of the Sage leaves and the other leave aforementioned he saith there arose a skurff which came off his body under which he had a new skin that was as if it had been the skin of a Sucking child and by the end of the twelve dayes was as healthfull and strong as ever he was onely this he saith that when he sits down his knees will smite together finding still a weakness in his joynts And this further he said that one day within the time exhibited by the solicitation of some Friends he drunk a little strong drink but imediately his speech was took from him and he could not say any thing for twenty four hours As for the Discription of this Old Mans person and habit He was Tall and ancient his hair as white as wool curled up with a white broad Beard and he had a fresh Complexion and wore a fashionable Hat and a little narrow band his Coat and hose both of a purple Colour his stockings pure white and a paire of new black leather shooes tied with ribbin of the same colour his clothes were And though it rained when he came in to the said S. W. house and as is very well remembred by many all day yet he had not one spot of wet or dirt upon him he was without Gloves but his Hands as white as Snow It seemes there was a meeting of the Ministers about Stamford upon this occasion who concluded that this apparition was the good Angell for severall weighty reasons inducing them to believe it but for other reasons here omitted FINIS