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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57428	The wonder of the world being a perfect relation of a young maid, about eighteen years of age, which hath not tasted of any food this two and fifty weeks ... : wherein is related the whole truth and no more, as it was taken from the mouth of the damsel and her mother, being a true account of her condition / written by Thomas Robins ...	Robins, Thomas.	1669 (1669)	Wing R1663; ESTC R4546	7,629	23

Righteousness Oh! What comfortable speeches is here from the Lord to poor sinners and as I may say why may not the Lord have spoken the very same words to this Damsel for truly I do fully believe that we may be bold to say that the Lord hath made a chosen Uessel of her And by Gods help I will do my best endeavour to lay it open unto you in these thrée Conditions And first of all as the latter part of the 9. Verse says I have chosen thee and not cast thee away For certainly the Lord hath chosen her for to work this great and wonderful work upon For in the first place he hath brought her body into such a condition as the like was never known or heard of before since the creation of man a body preserved with life and hath not tasted of any mortal food not of fifty wéeks and some more and therein it makes me the bolder to say I do believe she is one of the Lords chosen Uessels Secondly She hath her spéech as perfect for any to understand as she had in the time of her health and speaketh very hearty considering her weak condition of Body And thirdly She hath a far better and more perfect Memory then formerly she had in the time of her health and especially in discoursing of the Scriptures And these be my chiefest Reasons why I say that I do believe she is a chosen vessel of the Lords But indéed I do believe that if all the people were together and did all the best they could I mean all that hath béen with her and hath séen her in this condition I say if they all should do the best they can they would have much ado to perswade some to believe No it is to be feared some would rather give out some scornsin spéeches despiseing any one which would perswade them to believe it for truth But I desire such to look into the 13. of the Acts of the Apostles and about the 41. verse and there you shall find what is spoken concerning such as will not believe the Wondrous Works of the Lord I pray take notice and these be the words Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a work in your days a work which you shall in no wise be ieve though a man declare it unto you And indéed I do believe this place of Scripture was never so much fulfilled since it was Written as it is now in our days concerning this Maid a Wonder the like never known before in any age and is too true that there is too many Despisers and I pray God the Words of this Text do not too soon fall upon some of them for as the latter part of the Uerse says They will not believe though a man declare it unto them Nay there be some which have béen with the Damsel and hath séen her and yet they be very hard of belief just like unto those people which we read of in the Gospel which would not believe the words which our Saviour Iesus Christ spake to them face to face No but they laughed him to scorn as you may find it written in the eight of Luke and about the fifty second and fifty third verses and yet for all they laughed him to scorn he let them see a wonderful strange work which he wrought upon the body of J 〈◊〉 daughter in raising her from death to life And now in these our days he hath béen pleased to work a very strange work upon this Maid which I have here spoken off to sée if we will believe and not to perish through our unbeleiving hearts for he that hath a stedlast heart to believe in the Lord be shall never fall for the Lord will uphold him as David says in the 37. Psalm and the 24. verse Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand Indéed happy is that man whom the Lord upholdeth I pray God give us all grace so to lead our lives that we may deserve to call for his helping hand and that we may desire the Lord to lead us in the way of truth as David said in the 25. Psalm and the 5. Verse Lead me in thy truth and teach me for thou are the God of my Salvation on thee do I wait all the day And the Lord of his mercy give us an grace to wait on the Lord day and night for the good of our salvation And to draw to a Conclusion I shall but onely give you a Word or two in the way of Exhortation and I pray God it may take place in the hearts of all that either reads it or hears it read for this I must néeds tell you if you do desire to have mercy at the Hands of God at the latter day you must strive to kéep his Commandements that is to love one another which is I am afraid a very hard thing for a great many to do And agant we should be pittiful one to another as brethren having compassion one of another as you may find it Written in the 3. Chap. of the first Epistle of Peter and the 8. verse in these words Finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another Love as Brethren be pittiful be courteous indeed I would desire every Christian to kéep and obey these Commandments as for forth as they be able for in so doing we may come to be in love with God and know him As you may finde it in the 4. Chap. of the first Epistle of John the 7. and 8. verses In these words Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love O then let us 〈◊〉 by all possible means to love one another as Brethren and then may we boldly say we love God if we had but this brotherly love and would strive to keep his Commandements As you may find in the first Epistle of John and the 2. verse For he says there By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his Commandements And the Lord grant us all grace so to do And now to conclude I desire every one to consider with themselves what they have heard here in this little Book for although the Uollume be but small yet the matter is of a great ballew for it conterus very much to the salvation of man though in some part of it some may say it conterus worldly affairs 〈◊〉 such I make this although that my former part of this book be but as you may say worldly news yet I say it may well be called heavenly matter For so strange a wonder was never heard on before and my conscience tells me I may boldly say it is a fore 〈◊〉 to bring us into the way of Repentance Which I pray God to give us all grace so to do and that for Jesus Christ his sake And so the God of Peace Love and Unity Bless Guide and Keep us all this time hence forth and for ever-more Amen I am yours in Christ THOMAS ROBINS FINIS

she doth not advance her self in any way but doth confess her self a sinner trusting in the Lord for mercn and the Lord grant every one of us so for to do She is very ready in the Scripture is able to discourse with any of the Clergy she is so very ready in disputing of Scripture and yet very small Learning when it pleased the Lord to ftrike her into this condition and yet now as ready as if she had gone seven years to the School a mighty providence and a thing to be admired at but the Lord is suffisient and is able to do much more then man is able to express But before I go any further I do intend to give you a little more satisfaction concerning this Damsels tast for after it was known and spread abroad in the Country the thing being so very strange that the Country was very hard of beleiving it to be true as some do to this 〈◊〉 will not believe but all I can say to such as these I pray God that they have a true faith to believe in Iesus Christ for as for my own part my conscience tells me I ought to believe it for when I was with her I could not conceive any way to the contrary But indeed the hard belief of some men is not to be marvelled at for in the time of our Saviour Jesus Christ when he walked on the earth I say there was many that would not believe him which I shall speak more of hereafter But now to give you a little more satisfaction concerning this Damsels Fast as I told you before some of the head of the Gentry which lives near the Damsel caused twenty Maids to be chosen out of several Towns thereabouts to wake and watch with her for to sée how she lived that they might be the better satisfied in the truth and these twenty Maids did watch and wake with her every one her turn and when they had done they all agréed that she received no food but as they wet her lips with Spring Water in a Spoon which is a great satisfaction to many yet some as I told you before very hard of belief but since that tune for a further tryal the most worthy and honourable Earl of Devonshire for a further and more full satisfaction he hath sent fourteen Maids to wake and watch with her that he might be the more satisfied in the truth these Maids wake with her by two at a time for four and twenty hours and so every two did so till they had waked seven nights and seven days and when they had so done they certified that she did receive no mortal Food but onely the wetting of her lips with Spring water in a spoon and as it is very credably reported this hath given him very good satisfaction and he doth believe it to be true Indéed it is a very strange and miraculous wonder nay it may be called A Wonder of all Wonders for the like was never heard of before neither in our days nor in our Fore-Fathers days No not since the Lord created man but we may assure our selves that it is the Will of the Lord for to let us sée his handy-work for to try whether we do believe that there is a God that can work strange and wonderful works and yet there is some so hard of belief that will not stick to say I mean concerning this Maid that there is some desembleation in it and will find some scornful Word or other concerning it Nay some will not stick to say that there is Witch-craft in it But as for such as those I desire not to spend no rash judgement upon them but leave them in the imagination of their own hearts but as for my own part I fully believe as the Word says as you may find it in the 28. Chap. of the Prophet Isaih and about the 29. Verse the Words be these This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working But indéed in these days mens hearts be so deceitful that it is hard to find any that his heart and tongue agrees together for many in these our days which doth make a fair 〈◊〉 that they be very Religious people and fears the Lord in an out 〈◊〉 to the World and yet I say such as they I can hear doth spend their judgement very rashly concerning this Maid which I here have spoken off which is contrary to the Word of God But as for such as those I would desire them to look in the 29. Chapter of Isaiah and about the 13. Verse and consider with themselves whether they be 〈◊〉 or no of that deep Hipocrisie as the Lord calls it in the Contents of that Chapter as you may sind in the 13. Verse Wherefore the Lord said forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips doth honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their fear towards me is tought by the Precept of Men And fear we may see now the Lord was angry with this people in those days which made such a fair outward show with their lips but yet their hearts was contrary indéed I would desire you to look into the 14. verse of that same Chapter and there you may find it very plain to understand the cause why the Lord doth work such great and marvellous works for as I have read it unto you in the 13. Verse he challenged them for their Hipocrisie Therefore behold I proceed to do a marvellous work among this people even a marvellous work and a wonder And indeed the Lord may for any thing that I know have spoken the very same words to us here in these our Nations for to be sure no Nation in these days could be déeper plunged in that deadly sin of Hipocrisie then we for in the 13. verse you may understand that the Lord calls desembleation a déep Hipocrisie in these Words They honour me with their lips but have removed their heart far from me and I pray God there be not too many such now adays which may be a great cause of the Lords working this great and marvelous work here among us now in this sinful Nation and hath made his chosen Uessel of this Damsel for to work this great and marvelous work upon and for any thing that I know may have spoken the very same words to her as he spake in the 41. of Isaiah and about the 9 and 10 Verses The Words be these I pray you take notice it is worth your observation Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the Earth and called thee from the chief men thereof and said into thee thou art my Servant I have chosen thee and not cast thee away fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God I will strengthen thee yea I will help thee yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my