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A45118	A relation of the miraculous cure of Susannah Arch of a leprosy and ptysick, wherewith for some years past she had been sorely afflicted.	Arch, Susannah.; Hume, Robert, apothecary, attributed name.; Fortey, Thomas.; Nichols, Charles, b. 1627.	1695 (1695)	Wing H3663B; ESTC R221930	7,871	23

A RELATION OF THE Miraculous Cure OF SVSANNAH ARCH OF A Leprosy and Ptysick Wherewith for some Years past she had been sorely afflicted Psal 75. 1. For that thy Name is near thy wondrous Works declare LONDON Printed by J. D. and sold by R. Baldwin in Warwick-lane MDCXCV THE PREFACE THE Works of God call for serious Observation from all who are Spectators of them and are very instructive to the Children of Men. By these God may be said to speak Once yea Twice yet Man perceives it not We are with the utmost Diligence to apply our selves to the right understanding of the Voice of God in them Psal 111. 2. The Works of the Lord are great particularly the Works of Creation which do always speak with a loud Voice to the Inhabitants of the Earth Psal 19. 1 2 3. The Heavens declare the Glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his Handy-work Day unto Day uttereth Speech c. The visible Heavens so vast and spacious richly adorned with Sun Moon and Stars which are admirable in their Course and powerful in their Influence these are a legible Book wherein we may read what a glorious Being God is who is the Maker and Former of these glorious Creatures and from the Consideration thereof reflect on Man as a vile contemptible Creature Psal 8. 3 4. When I consider thy Heavens the Work of thy Fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained what is Man that thou art mindful of him c. And as the Works of Creation are great so the Works of Providence whereby he governs preserves orders and disposes of all things in the World are great also especially in and for his Church and People the Infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness of God being abundantly manifested in them These Works of God are to be narrowly inspected found out and searched into by all those that take Pleasure therein And it is a God-provoking Sin not to regard the Works of the Lord and the Operations of his Hands For this Sin God threatens to destroy a People and not build them up Psal 28. 5. Sometimes God goes out of his usual Course of Providence and works miraculously an eminent Instance whereof we have in this Narrative This he doth sometimes immediately Mark 6. 52. Joh. 2. 11. sometimes mediately Mark 9. 38 39. Acts 4. 16 22. Here might be considered what the glorious Design of God is in his miraculous Works As 1. To convince an Atheistical Generation of Men that there is a God that acts above the Power of Nature or natural Causes 2 Kings 5. 15. 2. That those who contemn and under value the Lord Jesus Christ through Faith in whose Name Lepers were cleansed the Blind received their Sight a Bloody Issue stopped c. might be convinced that he was the true Messiah yea God as well as Man Though Christ came in the Form of a Servant yet the Glory of his Deity sparkled forth in divers Ways and on divers Occasions particularly in his miraculous Works which none but a God could do Joh. 9. 3. 2 11. Christ turns Water into Wine and thereby shewed forth his Glory even the Glory of the only begotten of the Father The Disciples of Christ wrought Miracles but this they did in the Name of Christ Acts 3. Whereas Christ wrought his by his own Divine Power which may justly strike a Damp upon those who of late have been so unhappy as to deny the Divinity of our Lord Jesus 3. Christ's miraculous Works are designed to strengthen the Faith of his People John 2. 11. When Christ had wrought that Miracle of turning Water into Wine it 's said his Disciples believed on him They believed before but now they were confirmed in their Faith And if so then Christ's curing the Leprosy and other Distempers in our day which in the Judgment of the ablest Physicians were incurable is not slightly to be passed over That divers miraculous Cures have been wrought of late immediately by the Divine Power of Christ without humane Means is not to be denied by any but such as are hardning themselves against Christ and his Works as the unbelieving Jews did who though Christ had done many mighty Works amongst them yet they believed not on him John 12. 37. Amongst other wonderful Cures which the Lord Jesus hath lately wrought this seems not to be the least which he hath wrought on the Body of Susannah Arch of which this Narrative gives an impartial Account She is known to be a Woman of an holy Conversation enjoys much Communion with God and is a Member of a Congregation meeting in Devonshire-Square in London She lives at Battle-Bridg in Southwark where any that desire it may receive further Satisfaction A NARRATIVE of the Miraculous Cure of Susannah Arch of a Leprosy and Ptysick wherewith for some Years past she had been sorely afflicted I Susannah Arch do solemnly declare in the Fear of God that my Distemper began about four Years ago with an extraordinary Itching and Scurf on my Head and afterwards it spread over my Body This continued about three Years before I advised with any Physician to know what it was and then my Husband died whose Death was attended with many aggravating Circumstances occasioning much Sorrow and Grief all which conduced to increase my Distemper Under my great Distress of Body and Mind I was lamenting my self saying What a poor distressed Widow a poor afflicted Widow Then the Lord was pleased to give me in that Scripture Rom. 8. 32. He that spared not his own Son but gave him up for us all how shall he not with him freely give us all things This I took as a Bond from the Lord wherein he was pleased graciously to bind himself to supply all my Necessities which was much to my Support at that time Immediately after my Husband's Burial being left in a poor and desolate Condition that Scripture came to my Mind Job 1. 21. Naked came I out of my Mother's Womb and naked shall I return again The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away and blessed be the Name of the Lord. Under these sad Exercises I was help'd to consider that my outward Condition was not worse than my Lords and Master's of whom it is said Matth. 8. 20. The Foxes have Holes and the Birds of the Air have Nests but the Son of Man hath not wh●●e to lay his Head Then was I help'd to say I have lost all and yet have all and to plead with God in the Words of Jacob Gen. 32. 12. Thou saidst I will do thee good These and many other precious Words were powerfully impressed on my Soul for my Support and Comfort After these Troubles my Distemper much increased and then I advised with Mr. Forty an Apothecary who told me my Distemper was a Leprosy I asked him whether it was curable He told me it was not curable Then was I advised by his Wife to go to one Mrs. Griffin who is

skilful in curing Scald Heads and she perswaded me to go to the Hospital but I found a Reluctancy in my self thereto having a Perswasion in my Mind from the time that Mr. Forty told me it was incurable that Jesus Christ would cure it Nevertheless considering that Passage of the Woman that had the Bloody Issue though she spent all on Physicians yet this did not hinder her being cured by Christ when she came to him So I concluded my going to the Hospital might not hinder Christ's curing me Thereupon I was satisfied in my self to go and when I presented my self to the Physician and Chirurgeons they told me it was a Leprosy and asked me what I desired of them I desired to be an Out-patient and they prescribed me some things but I had no Faith in the Success of them and so took but one Dose and threw the rest away looking to an higher Hand for my Cure However I went a second time and then they who gave out the Medicines seeing my Distemper told me it was in vain to spend my time in attending any further on them for it was a Leprosy and could not be cured Not long after this I was sent by a Friend of mine on her own Account to Dr. Bourne and I took that Opportunity to shew him my Distemper And when he saw it he lift up his Hands saying Good Lord have Mercy upon thee it is a Leprosy He likewise told me there might be something given to curb it but not to cure it if I had wherewithal to defray the Charge I told him I was a poor Widow and so concerned my self no more with him I went away from him full of Comfort having this Perswasion that Jesus Christ would be my Physician and would cure me After this I was sent by the same Friend and on her own Account to Dr. Clarke and took that Opportunity to discover my Case to him who knowing me sympathized with me saying Alas poor Woman it is a Leprosy I asked him whether it could be cured He told me that something might be given to check it but not to cure it and that if I would go to Mr. Humes an Apothecary he would give Directions to him and would do what he could for me But having no Hopes of Cure from any humane Means I concerned my self no further with him in this Matter One Reason why I had no Expectation of Cure from Man was the occurring of that Scripture frequently to my Mind Mat. 8. 2. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean This I was enabled to plead before him with some Degree of Confidence that at last I should prevail After this another Friend and Neighbour of mine being sick desired me to go for her to Dr. Nicholls and when I had discoursed with him concerning my Friend I asked him what he thought of my Distemper who answered Alas poor Woman how came you by this Surfeit I asked him what the Distemper was and he likewise told me as the others had done before that it was a Leprosy and incurable This I can truly say that all along my Faith was fix'd on the Lord Jesus Christ It was on him I did and was resolved to rely who in the Days of his Flesh when on Earth cured all Diseases and Sicknesses among the People and I was confident that he had the same Power now he was glorified in Heaven as he had in the Days of his Humiliation There is one thing I think good to remark viz. when I considered that I was a poor polluted unclean Leper I was under some doubt though afterwards I concluded it was from Satan whether I might and ought to come to the Congregation of the Lord's People to whom I belong to partake of that Blessed Ordinance of the Lord's Supper amongst them Labouring under strong Conflicts about this Matter as I was going to the Congregation that Text came with Power on my Soul Gal. 5. 1. Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not intangled again with the Yoke of Bondage By this Text I understood that the Law of the Leper being part of the Ceremonial Law is done away and so that Doubt was removed Upon the last Day of May 1694. at Night when I was asleep in my Bed I was pleading with God in those Words of the Psalmist Psal 57. 2. I will cry unto God most High unto him that performeth all things for me And then I thought I saw a Man standing by me and laying his Hand on me saying I will be thou clean I answered Lord if thou sayest the Word it is done To which I received this Reply All things are possible to him that believeth I answered Lord I believe help thou my Vnbelief To which it was answered He that believes needs not to say but is whole every whit the Hand being all the while upon my Hand and thereupon I awaked and perceived that it was a Dream From that time though I grew worse and worse I was strongly perswaded that I should be made whole The next Morning a Christian Friend of mine came to see me and brought a Woman with her telling me that she had brought one that could cure the Leprosy I then said to the Woman Can you cure the Leprosy She said Yes But said I You shall not cure me for I have thrown my self on the Physician of Value and he will cure me And though you or all the greatest Doctors or Chirurgions in London would give me a great Sum of Money you should none of you take me in hand After this I had divers Conflicts and Temptations to weaken my Confidence but God was pleased to give in divers seasonable Words for my Relief and for the strengthning of my Faith As at one time that Text came with Power on my Soul Mark 11. 22. Have Faith in God And at another time that Text John 11. 40. Said I not unto thee that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the Glory of God And at another time that Text Heb. 10. 35. Cast not away your Confidence which hath great Recompence of Reward And whereas I had been afflicted with a Ptysick for many Years wherewith I was laid vp every Winter in November last it pleased the Lord to remove that Distemper without the Use of any humane Means And this was to me a Token for Good that God would likewise cure me of my Leprosy Soon after this being at Mr. Beverley's Meeting and hearing the People talk of a miraculous Cure of one that was lame I asked one that sat by me concerning it and she told me that a Maid that had been lame 17 Years was miraculously cured on a sudden Then I told her I was waiting at the Pool believing that I should be made whole From that time my Heart was drawn out to wrestle more earnestly with God for Cure crying out Lord why not I why not I a poor Leper In December my