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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