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A07526 A true and certaine relation of a strange-birth which was borne at Stone-house in the parish of Plimmouth, the 20. of October. 1635. Together with the notes of a sermon, preached Octob. 23. 1635. in the church of Plimmouth, at the interring of the sayd birth. By Th. B. B.D. Pr. Pl. Bedford, Thomas, d. 1653. 1635 (1635) STC 1791.3; ESTC S120122 17,459 26

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suffer Let mee say Lord thou art mercifull to me this case might have beene mine Blessed bee thy Name for ever Something long have I stood upon this because I am sure this is a Lesson which all monstrous and mis-shapen births though dead yet speake for the Instruction of the Living I will dispatch the other more briefely which may seeme to bee peculiar to this one in respect of the shape thereof The twinnes you see are males brothers had they beene borne alive To love as brethren is the duty of Christians a Duty frequently remembred by the Apostles and powerfully pressed To love is to have one soule in two bodies One not so much by union of essence as by combination of Affection And lo here a fit resemblance of this mutuall duty As fit as lively almost as can be devised Here are all the parts and members of Consultation and operation for two persons onely here is one body one brest one belly the brest the seat of the heart the belly of the bowells One I say not in the Identity of substance but in the conglutination of externall parts from brest to belly whether one heart one liver one community of Intestines is more than wee could see though all reason indeed giveth them to be two throughout in all parts yet you see so two in one that had they lived to the yeares of expression wee might well have expected from them united hearts intire affections and more than Sympathie each to other as to himselfe Surely these are not more neere●y conjoyned in brest and belly than Christians ought to be in heart affection These two were one body Christians are one spirit though severall bodies and soules yet one and the same spirit diffused into all to enlive and quicken all Nor would it have beene more prodigious for these Twinnes suppose they had lived to bee men to have quarrelled and contested one against another than it is for Christians to quarrell and contend specially to live in the minde of irreconciliation To these Twinnes had they quarrelled a man might have sayd you are one body To Christians a man may well say You are one spirit why doe you wrong one to another Was that an Argument in all reason fit to compound the supposed differences of these And shall not this bee able to perswade peace nay love among Christians Mee thinketh it should Nay I am sure if this doe not prevaile the faultie person shall one day smart for it perhaps when Repentance for it will come too late Wel I have now acquainted you with my thoughts I have shewed to you how this Birth though dead yet speaketh Truth it is Faith alone hath eares to heare these Lessons these Instructions Nature is deafe and Reason dull in these occasions A brutish man knoweth not neither doth a foole understand Faith quickneth the Vnderstanding to apprehend the Will to believe the Affections to take pleasure in these Meditations Which Faith since it is the gift of God let us now turne our selves to him with hearty devotion desiring him to bestow upon us the gift of Faith and all grace● by which wee may learne to make an holy use as of all his Workes in generall so of this and the like in speciall to the glory of his Name and the eternall comfort of our owne soules through Iesus Christ our Lord. To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit Three excellent Persons one glorious God bee ascribed all Honour and Praise now and for evermore Amen FINIS O● f●pcu●ae Rom. 1. ●0 Psal. 19. 2. Exod. 14. Ios. 10. Psal. 111. 4. ZeKeA GNaSaH LeN●PhLeAo Thall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Conceptio est actio uter● cum ●●●ris ●t famina s●mon foecundum ab coexcipitur misce●●r ●ovetur ejusque vis ad propris● munu● exequendum exc●●atur Dan. Sennert Med. li. 4. part 2. Sect. 4. cap. 4. Vide Se●nertum capite de partutardo Qui ex historiis consirmat partum nonnunquam differri ad mensem 13 14. 15. 18. 20 23. 24. Hae● rara inquit et pene miraculosa sunt acciduntque procul dubio ob semen debil● uter●que calorem ●anguidum quib ●● de causis et saetus tardius absolvitur et exp●ltr●● facul●●● lang●et Partus prater-naturalis est triplex Di●●icilis Nul●us et Caesareus Difficilis ut in Agrippis Quibus nomen indi tum est Authore Gellio Noctium A●●i●arum lib. 16. ca 16 eo quod in ●●sc●ndo non caput sed pedes primi extiterans s●il ●t Agripp● dicantur ab ●gritis di●e et pedibus Cum potius ab agrit●dine partus qui non tantum ●●t ex pedibus sed ex ●a●ibus praeser●im tamen ex mole corporis obvtrsa et exitum ambi●nte pro●t patet ex Sonner to cap de partu difficili praternaturali Partus Nullus dicitur quoties infant excludi nequeat frustraque con●t●r misera parturi●ns s● ipsam o●ere suo liberare et exp●dire ●ortu● nimirum foet●s qui nisi vel medicamentis expe●●atur vel Chirurgi opera exera●atur mortem e● mis●riam ma●ri ●●●●tatur Partus Casareus Casari nomen fecit Ille enim qui primus Caes●ri● no●●●● adeptus est ab e● dictus fertur quod c●so matris utero natus fu●rit G●s●res quod ex utero excisi sunt nom●●antur ipsaque illa actio dicitur partus Caesareus Ex his pl●riq●e mortui nonnulli vivi idque quod rar● accidit matre superst●te et revalescente a Stature This is sometimes Giant-like otherwhiles Dwarfish and Pigmey-like Sometimes beyond sometimes beneath and short of the ordinary usuall and common stature of mankinde and as it thus falleth out in respect of the whole body so somtimes in the parts One or 2 parts of the body being of a different proportion bigger or less●r than the rest b Number of parts The strangenesse here is in defect or excesse Defect when one or both hands or feet are wanting Such was that woman which wee saw heere the last yeere who wanted hands and supplied the want of them in many particulars by her feete Excesse of number Such was that Gyant mentioned ● Sam. 21 20. who had on every hand sixe fingers and on every foote sixe toes foure and twenty in number Hitherto referre those whom the Greeks do call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such was Hermaphrodi●●● the sonne of Mercury and Uenus i● we may give credit to the ●●tation and composition of his name c Multiplication of severall births is rare ●wins are not frequent in our colder climat much lesse the multiplication of Birth● yet such we finde recorded See Se●nertus cap. de G●m●llorum generatione who out of Aristotle Pliny and some Moderne Authors d●t● sh●w the certain●y of this Notorious and in the mouth of every man is that story of Margar●● Sist●r to Earle Floris the fourth as Heilin relateth it writing of Holland who being of the age of two and forty yeeres brought forth at