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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84987	A full relation concerning the wonderfull and wholsome fountain· At first discovered in Germany, two miles from the city of Halberstadt, by a certaine youth upon the fifth of March 1646. as he was comming from schoole. And now dispersed into fifteen severall springs. With a specification of those persons, which (as certaine letters do informe) through Gods assistance and blessing, were in a very short time cured by use of these waters. A list of the diseases, how long the diseased had them, with the place of their birth and abode. And the forme of the prayer, which daily after the sermon, and set houres of devotion is usually said.		1646 (1646)	Wing F2355; Thomason E357_9; ESTC R201150	12,780	24

the Minister after this manner following The Prayer which is usually said at the Fountaine of Hornhausen ALmighty God mercifull Father wee thy weake diseased infirme and miserable children doe appeare here with sad afflicted and distressed countenances before thy most holy throne of Grace bowing the knees of our hearts acknowledging and lamenting our manifold enormous sinnes and transgressions wherewith we have sinned against thee O most righteous God provoked thy wrath which is like the burning and consuming fire and drawne upon our selves all sorts of judgements and plagues so that thou hast not onely visited us with the Sword Persecution Dearth and other punishments but also hast chastened handled and afflicted our bodyes with severall Diseases Sores and Infirmities and thereby hast fulfilled wherewith thou hast threatned us in thy Word long agoe that whosoever sinneth against his Creatour shall fall into the hands of the Physitian Now Lord mee must confesse that wee have not onely justly deserved all these but yet farre greater and heavier judgements yea withall that thou also in the middest of thy wrath and indignation dost shew mercy for if thou wouldest have dealt with us after our deserts thou mightest have totally consumed and destroyed us in our sins without giving us any respight for our repentance whereas thou hast bin pleased not onely to prolong our dayes that we might repent of our sinful wicked course of life but also as a loving Father to chastise and humble us with thy Fatherly rod of diseases and infirmities like as a temporall Father doth chastise his sonnes that thereby wee might be induced and seaed up to repentance For our great calamitie and misery doth compell us to draw nigh unto thee Wherefore we come and call upon thee O Lord in our distresses and in our offlictions wee lift up our voyce and powre out our supplications before thee Pardon us O Lord pardon us our sinnes Have mercy upon us and blot out all our transgressions and forgive our secret sinnes for the love of thy Deare Sonne Jesus Christ And because our weaknesses and infirmities are not hidden before thy eyes yea thy beloved Sonne our Lord and Saviour hath assumed upon himselfe and borne our weaknesses and infirmities to the end that hee might shew mercy and helpe to those that were afflicted Wee beseech Thee therefore O mercifull Father have mercy and compassion on our misery Take to heart our manifold afflictions infirmities and diseases O Lord Jesus Christ true God that knowest our distresse and miserie ease us of our heavy burthen which thou hast borne thy selfe And whereas thou as being the true Physician of soules removest and curest not onely the sicknesse of soules fo●giveest sinnes and cleansest and washest our filth and pollution in the wholsome Fountaine of the blood and grace of Iesus Christ but also thou onely canst heale the infirmities of our bodyes to which effect thou hast infused thy wonderfull vertues and heavenly oparations into the Elements Minerals Herbes Flowers and other Plants wherewith thou removest all sorts of sicknesses as thou hast healed by the meanes of a lump of figgs the venemous and mortall boyle of King Hezekiah Wee therefore beseech Thee O heavenly Father to magnifie thy mercy also in us by granting us thy grace that according to thy Fatherly and good pleasure since thou knowest alone what is for our best this wholsome Fountaine which thou hast opened and discovered unto us poore and unworthy sinners out of thy meere grace may powre unto us a powerfull and gracious helpe and remedy for the recovery of our health Lord thou art Hee that hast life and death health and sicknesse in thy hands that killest and makest alive againe and bringest men alone to the grave and destruction and sayest remaine the children of men Wherefore it is nothing to thee to helpe us here thy unworthy creatures And as thou prolongd'st the life of King Hezekiah even when hee was at deaths doore As thou restoredst the sight to him that was borne blind with clay made of spittle and sendest him to wash himselfe in the Poole of Siloam As thou healedst Peters Mother in law lying sick of a Feaver by touching onely her hand As thou helpedst the Woman that was troubled with the bloudy issue by touching the Seame of thy garment Yea as thou hast miraculously restored health and strength to many others So it may please thee to sanctifie and blesse by thy infinite bounty and mercifulnesse the vse of this Water unto us that if it be thy holy will our Infirmities and diseases may thereby be healed and removed As the water of Jordan served for the healing of Naamans Leprosie and conduced to the recovery of his health So be pleased O good Lord to grant the same wholsome vertue and power to this Water Many such blind lame and other infirme bodies were gathered together at the Poole of Bethesda which waited on till the water was moved by the Angell that then they might descend into it and bee healed O Lord looke likewise in thy mercy upon this infirme and weake multitude of people waiting for thy helpe and blessing O that it may please thee to move also this water through thy Divine power that it may likewise have the same vertue and operation with us to the restoring of our health Thou commandest us Lord in thy Word that if any man be sicke or infirme hee shall call upon thee and then thou wilt heare him according to his faith and give thy blessing to the meanes and remedies he shall apply Now behold O Lord wee are here prostrate in thy fight with our faithfull prayers and supplications not relying upon our righteousnesse and holinesse but trusting to thy great mercy that thou wilt heare us according to thy promise Yea Lord thou dost testifie thy selfe that hee that aske●h shall receive he that seeketh shall find and to him that knocketh shall be opened Wherefore wee beseech thee for our health grant us the same by thy grace Wee seeke thee as our Physitian be gratious and propitious unto us Wee knocke with our unanimous prayer and fervent supplications at the doore of thy heavenly throne till they penetrate through the cloudes O Lord open thy doore of grace and heare us from Heaven whether we lift up our eyes and hands Let our faces not be confounded for if thou shouldst reject us who would receive us if thou shouldest abandon and forsake us who would helpe us Yet if thou hast decreed in thy eternall and unchangeable decree and will that these infirmities and weaknesses shall lie longer upon us Thy will be done O Lord and give us patience that wee may not murmur against it nor envy others that are healed but submit our selves with all obedience to thy good pleasure and having our confidence and trust put in thy mercy and grace may say with Job O Lord although thou shouldest kill us yet wee will put our trust in thee Wee are sure thou

wilt not lay a heavyer burthen upon our shoulders then wee shall be able to beare but that thou wilt assist and relieve us in the middest of our calamities with thy holy and blessed Spirit which may comfort us in our afflictions refresh us in adversities remove our paines and torments and deliver us out of all distresse and miserie Moreover O most mercifull Father since thou hast been pleased to shew thy selfe thus glorious and wonderfull through thy infinite goodnesse and grace in this place towards us unworthy and miserable sinners by giving and discovering unto us such a precious and powerfull remedy for the recovery of our health whereby already great wonders have beene wrought so that wee are not able to expresse our thankefulnesse unto thee in all eternitie Wee beseech thee therefore from the bottome of our hearts that thou wouldest not withdraw from us these heavenly gifts and blessings if we should not thankefully acknowledge them from which in mercy thou wilt be pleased to preserve us but vouchsafe that this Fountaine of grace may flow and gush out more and more without drying up or diminishing O Lord grant this Fountaine may yeeld water in abundance with a constant and durable vertue that thereby our miserable and weake bodies may receive comfort and helpe and thy name be exalted and magnified throughout all Nations Wee beseech thee O Almighty God and Father to heare this our prayer through Iesus Christ thy Deare Sonne to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be ascribed all honour and glory for ever and ever Amen A list of those persons which as we are certainly informed have through Gods blessing bin cured by the use of the said Waters 1. ONe that was cured of a feaver namely he that dranke first of all of this water as above said 2. A Girle of Mansfeld which was dumbe and deafe as above said 3. A Woman that had a crookebacke for the space of twenty yeares as above said 4. A Beggar of Leipzig that was blind as above said 5. One that was extreamly troubled with the cholick and had a swollen leg 6. A Woman borne at Egeln which had a dangerous hurt in her leg for the space of six yeares 7. A Woman borne at Egeln which had a painfull swelling in her left side caused by a dangerous fall 8. One borne at Egeln that from his Infancy had a lamenesse both in one of his thighs and leggs 9. A Girle borne at Egeln which had a swellen leg 10. and 11. Two Girles which had scurffed heads 12. Another Girle of Egeln of seventeene yeares of age had a crooke backe with an old sore in it 13. A Girle of three yeares of age which endured great paines in her Armes thighes and legs 14. A Boy which from his infancy was struken with the palsie 15. A Woman borne at Egeln which had an old hurt in one of her leggs for a twelve moneth 16. Another Woman of Egeln which felt great pain●s and stitching in her side 17. A Woman borne in Silesia who sprained her foot whereof the sinnews of her anckle were hurt and displaced 18. A Woman borne at Towin that had a sore eye for the space of seven yeares and hurt her hipp 19. A Woman of K●tchstett that had a sore eye for twenty yeares and her face broken out five yeares 20. An Old Man of Gr●ningen that endured great paines in his body and had a swolln leg 21. A Woman that had great stitches in her crosse-bone 22. A Woman of Taitin that was troubled with a scurffed head 23. A Man of Eglen which had great paines in one of his eye and the cholicke 24. A Woman of Eulenstet which had the Dropse for a whole yeare 25. A Man of Quedlinburg that was troubled for halfe a yeare with great stitches in his side 26. A Woman of Hadersleben which had a lamnesse in both her legs sent for the water and was cured 27. A Man of Bernstorff which had old sores in both his legs 28. A Child of Hammersleben which had a rupture 29. A Boy of Egeln which had a scurffed head 30. A Woman that had a sore in her mouth 31. A Woman of Stolberg that had a sore eye for the space of ten yeares 32. A Servant of Laugen Weddig which had the Convulsion fits 33. A Woman of Allerdriff that was troubled with the Stone 34. A Woman of Salz● which had a crasie body for a long time 35. Another Woman of Salz● which had an ague above a yeare with a swollen leg 36. A Woman of Seehausen which had a defect in her hearing 37. A Woman of Egeln which was lambe in one of her hipps for many yeares 38. A Man of Egeln which had a scurffed head 39. A Woman of Huber which had great paines and stitches ●n her crosse bone and right leg 40. A Woman of Quedlingburg that had an inward hurt 41. A Man of Ashersleben which suffered great torments in his body and legs 42. A Youth of Barby that had endured for thirty yeares great paines in his crosse-bone and had a scurffed head 42. Another youth of the said place which got a hurt in one of his legs thirteene yeares a goe whereby his veines and sinnewes were sprained 43. A Boy of Cudlingburg which had a defect in his hearing 44. A Man of the said place that had an old sore from his youth in his thigh 45. A Woman of Stastfurth which got a hurt a quarter of a yeare a goe in his arme and foot was broken out and tormented with great paines in his crosse-bone so that he could not move nor stir 46. Another Woman of the said place which had a weake stomacke digesting and keeping nothing of that she tooke 47. A Woman that had a great stopage and crudity in her stomacke and could not digest any victualls 48. A Man of Ashersleben which was strucken by an Apoplexie six yeares agoe whereby he became lambe in both his hipps and was scarce able to to speake 49. Another Man of the said place which had a terrible paine in his head 50. A Womam of Brunwoode which had great paines in all her limbs and especially in the crosse-bone 51. A Servant of Shoubech that was mightily troubled with the Cholick 52. A Man that three quarters of a yeare goe was bitten of a Dog and layd in the Physitians hands for halfe a yeare 53. A Man of Ashersleben that had an old sore on his foot 54. Another of the said place that had a broken Arme. 55. A servant of great Barnmersleben which had a defect in his hearing and a sore leg 56. A woman of Dersdorff that had a great infirmity in her body and back 57. Another woman of the same place that had great paines and stitches in her hands 58. A man of Cuedlingbourg that had a long time a dead lamenesse that he could hardly goe 59. A woman of Snasburge who had great paines in her back 60. Another woman