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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57186	A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...	Reynolds, John, of Kings-Norton.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1314; ESTC R10543	24,717	44

by persecution into a Cave where they slept 373. years as was known by the Coin they produced when they awaked The Learned Fernelius saith he saw a pregnant Woman that lived two moneths without meat or drink Zacutus Lusitanus reports that at Venice there lived a man that fasted 40. dayes another there 46. dayes and from Langius and Forstius two considerable Writers another full three years and that with just stature good habit free countenance and youthful wit The famous Sennertus is copious in such stories he relates from Sigismundus and Citesius a person he saith worthy of credit that the people of Lucomoria inhabiting some Mountains in Moscovy do every year dye in a sort or rather sleep or freeze like Froggs or Swallows on Novemb. 27. and so continue in that rigid state till April 24. in which time they use no evacuation save only that a tenuious humor distilling from their nostrils is presently condens'd by the ambient cold much like to Isicles by the which those patent Pores are precluded and the most endangered Brain fortified against the fatal assaults of brumal extremities The same Sennertus rehearses a Story of a Virgin at Padua from Viguntia Professor there who anno 1598. was afflicted with a Fever then a Tumor then Arthritick pains and pains in the Ventricle and whole abdomen then with vomiting and nauseating of food till at last she could take no food for two moneths then after another fit of vomiting purging and bleeding she fasted eight moneths and after a little use of food she fasted two moneths more And to be short he stories it of three persons that fasted each two years one three years another four one seven another fifteen another eighteen and one twenty yea one twenty nine another thirty another thirty six and one forty years Famous is the story perhaps fiction being Poetical of Epimenides whose words St. Paul is thought to cite in his Epistle to Titus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom some report to have slept 17 years some 77 years together but enough of story those that are desirous to read more are referr'd to Marcellus Donat. l. 4. de med hist. mirab c. 12. Schenk l. 4. observ Guaguinus l. 3. hist. Franc. Petrarch l. 3. de mirabil c. 22. Portius de hist. puellae German Uspergensis in Chron. Lentulus in hist. admir Apol. Baccius l. de vini nutritione Bozius l. 11. c. 4. de signis eccl Fulgosius l. 1. c. 6. Lessaeus l. 9. hist. Scot. Favorinus apud Gellium l. 16. c. 3. and especially L●cetus that wrote a particular Tract to solve the Phoenomena of this Prodigy Now Sir it would be our ambition to advance towards the same noble work were it not our duty to serve those awhile that blot all these stories with one dash of unbelief that pen certainly drops blasphemy that dares to rase the sacred Records and that uncharitableness which presumes to write falshood upon all humane testimonies they that assent to nothing not confirmed by Autopsia are unfit to converse in humane Societies for how can I expect that any body should believe me whilest I my self will believe no body 't is an argument of an empty brain to presume to comprehend all things and thereupon to reject those things from an existence in the world that have not their science in its intellectuals Many things forreign and strange may well be admitted on good testimonies sith the most obvious objects are scarce pervious to the most eagle-ey'd Philosopher witness the mistakes discovered by D. Cartes Gassendus c in Aristotle himself one of the most sublimated wits in all the Republick of Natural philosophy and likewise the spots in Hippocrates and Galen those mirrours in medicine modestly pointed at by our famous Harvey Glisson Willis c. but further to satisfie these incredulous persons 't is affirmed that some of these Abstinents have been watch't by the most wakefull eyes and jealous ears to detect their fraud if guilty of any as was that Maid that refus'd all food except only water for three years by Bucoldian●us with whom she abode for twelve dayes at the command of Ferdinand the Emperour so that Apollonia Schrejerana was taken by the Senate of Bern and put into the Hospital of their Town and there watch'd till they were satisfied in the truth of her total abstinence But enough to these that cut the knot to save the labour of untying it yet I may not step aside to those in the contrary extream that believe a century of such reports with a faith almost as miraculous as these miracles themselves for so they seem to them but Sir as 't is humane infidelity to disbelieve all such reports because some are false so 't is superstitious charity to believe all because some are true Some persons as scant in their reading as they are in their travels are ready to deem every thing strange to be a monster and every monster a miracle true it is the fast of Moses Elijah and the Incarnate Word was miraculous and possibly of some others yet why we should make all miracles I understand not for what need have we now of miracles Sith such supernatural operations are for them that believe not not for them that believe as witnesseth that coelestial Philosopher St. Paul and thence we inferr Beings are not to be multiply'd without necessity Moreover to what end are such miracles wrought certainly the infinitely wise Operator labours not for nought therefore these Abstinents if miraculous should confirm some Doctrine rejected or refute some Errour received enfranchise some Saints oppressed subvert some Wickedness exalted foretell some extraordinary events and issues of Providence to be performed or for some other end at which miracles have been usually level'd but not a Gry of these from most of our Abstinents moreover the fast of our Blessed Saviour and his Prodromi procur'd not the least detriment to their health but 't is otherwise with most of these Near of kin to these Miracle mongers are those that suppose these pretended Fasters to be invisibly fed by Angels but 't is incredible that such a favour should be shewn to persons of no known sanctity as some of these reported to be Ethnicks were moreover either this food was visible or invisible if visible 't is strange that vigilant observers and jealous suspecters could neither discover the ingress at the fore-door nor the excrementitious egress at the back-door but if 't were invisible then altogether incongruous to our bodyes and therefore miraculous of which before Neither is it of easie credibility that food should be supply'd by Doemons possessing them for we read of no foot-steps of such a possession i'th● story and 't would be strange if the Devil should grow so modest as to content himself with a single Trophy of a captivated rational and as strange that a cloven foot should make such inrodes and not leave a doubled yea redoubled impression Cousin-germanes