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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

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 from this present day of my Writing December 22. Which may well be called a Wonder of Wonders 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 B. of D. a VVell-wisher to the Gospel of Jesus Christ Hear ye that are far off what I have done and ye that are near acknowledge my might Isaiah 33. 13. Here you may see and read the Glory of God as the VVord says in the 11. of John and the 40. Verse Jesus saith unto her said I not unto thee if thou wouldst believs thou shouldest see the Glory of God London Printed for Tho. Passinger at the three Bibles on the middle of London-Bridge 1669. A Relation of a Gentleman in Chesterfield a frequent Visitant of Martha Taylor for many months also attested by divers others MArtha Taylor of Over Hadton is Eighteen years of Age next Candlemas having line in this extremity seven years come Candlemas having taken no food since St. Andrews day 1667. nor never had a Stool since Alhollou tide and it is two years next Sunday since her water could be deserned to be water and at the begining of her Fast she spent much blood at her Mouth Nose left eye and tears of blood their continues bleeding by degrees from St. Andrews-tide 1667. till last Lady-day upon which her sight fayled and speech about three weeks as that we could not well understand her but it hath pleased God since to give her perfect memory and desires to have the Bible always with her and ofter good Books having many godly Expressions with strength of faith the Guts of her body are almost dried up and no 〈◊〉 comes from neither part nor spits at mouth nor hath she parted with any blood but Sunday after twelve a Clock September 4. 1668. These watched her One from Over Hadton and another from Gallon-grove night and day for seven days and six nights to wit Hannah Hollis Dorothy Webster Alite Trantor Mary Jones Elizabeth Glossop Jone Heath Ann Taylor Ann Bott Ann Benford Ruth Gates Sith Whitt Mary Goodwin Dorothy Sheldon from Gallon-grave Sarah Buntin Parson Wilson's Maid Hester Hatseild Mary Cotes Dorothy Sheldon Hester Pigiard Elizabeth Toft Elizabeth Crane Mr. Buxton's Maid Barbarah Mosley Ann Webster from Grutton Elizabeth Milner and Elizabeth Wolley as two went out two came in and Mr. Fr●dhurst of Over Hadton George Brodhurst at my parting away I took her by the hand and finding her Pulses very weake and her nether parts being very cold and by much speaking causes to Heek-up being in a violent manner in that extremity she put out her hand and were content with so much water to the vallew of two drops and her sleep is quite gone and she thinks her time very short and her Spirits grow very low there was some other things observed which in modesty ought not to be spoken off 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 from this present day of my Writing December 22. Isaiah 34. 1. Come near ye Nations to hear and hearken ye people let the earth hear and all that is therein the world and all things that come forth of it GOod people according as God called the people for to hear his judgements concerning his Church Nay He did not onely call the People but he called the whole earth nay the whole World and all things that comes forth of it Even so I desire all Christians within this our Nation Nay all in the whole World to hear and to give their due attention to what I here declare concerning a very strange and marvelous wonderful work of God which is to be proved at this present time of my writing within the County of Darby near to Backwell within a Mile or something more at a little house noer Over Hadin hard by the Mill Indéed I gave you a little Caviat conserning this wondersul strange slory which is nothing but true I say I gave you a Character of it which was dated October 13. Which I had by Relation from many several persons but since that time I my self the Author of this Book hath been with the Maid and hath had some discourse with her which hath given me a great deal more satisfaction then I had before and so I thought it good to give every one as good satisfaction as lyeth in my power for to do and by Gods assistance I do intend to declare the truth as near as I can and no more but what I saw and heard from the Mouth of the Damsel and her Mother For on December the 6. day being the Lords day I was with the Maid and had some discourse with her conserning her condition For when this Damsel was about Eleven years old it pleased the Lord to strike her with a lamentable pain in the small of her back which was a great means to make her stoop very much and it pleased the Lord that she so continued for the space of six years and at the end of those years her Stumach was taken from her that she could not eat as formerly she could and about St. An hews day she quite sorsock her meat and hath not tasted of any Food since Save onely upon St. Thomas day in one thousand six hundred sixty seven she eat thrée slices of an Apple but never since she hath not tasted of any Rind of mortal Food bread nor drink or water but as they wet her lips with a Spoon and Spring water but now since Martlemas day she hath suckt of a Stu'd Pruan but nothing can be perceived to go down into her body to this present day And yet c is very lively and likely for to live She is Ninetéen years of Age about Candlemas next she is worn very bare of her body very small left but skin and bone much like the Picture of Annotomy yet she hath some flesh left on her Arms and her face and some little blood in her Cheeks and her lips and her Spéech is very plain and perica as ever it was yet her voice not all out so strong as formerly and yet very strong and perfect considering her condition to the great amazement of all which sees or hears her speak a thing which is almost past the belief of man but yet very true for I the Author of this Book can witness it for truth For as I told you he ore I was with her on the sixt day of this present December and had some discourse with her concerning her condition and most of her discourse is of the Scripture concerning the duty which a Christian oweth to God

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