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THE Original Affidavits and Certificates, inserted in the following Narrative, are in the Hands of John Dunton, and John Harris; where any, who please, may peruse them.   

A NARRATIVE Of the Late Extraordinary CURE Wrought in an Instant upon Mrs. Eliz. Savage,( Lame from her Birth) Without the using of any Natural Means.  
With the AFFIDAVITS which were made before the Right honourable the Lord Mayor; and the CERTIFICATES of several Credible Persons, who knew her both before and since her CURE.  
inquired into with all its Circumstances, by Noted Divines, both of the Church of England, and Others: And by Eminent Physicians of the College: And many Persons of Quality, who have expressed their full Satisfaction.  
With an APPENDIX, attempting to prove, That Miracles are not ceased.  
LONDON: Printed for John Dunton at the Raven, and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry. MDCXCIV. Price 6 d.   

A Narrative of the late Extraordinary Cure wrought upon Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, &c.  
THOSE who despise all Narratives of this Nature, must be either such as do not believe Miracles( or Supernatural Works) to have been ever wrought; or such as affirm them to be long since ceased. The former sort declare themselves not only Enemies to all Revealed Religion, but downright Atheists, since they cannot deny that Miracles have been, but on Supposition of the Impossibility of their being; and in saying they could never have been, they deny any such Power as can Effect what is Supernatural; and therefore deny the Being of God: But these are sunk into so profound a Stupidity, as to be themselves a sort of Miracles; and are not like to be convinced by the most Evident ones, tho' wrought before their Eyes: As our Blessed Lord brings in Abraham, saying to the Rich Man in Torments, If they believe not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they believe, though one arose from the Dead.  
The latter sort( viz. such as, granting Miracles to have been, affirm them to be long since ceased) are justly chargeable with great Rashness: We would ask such, How came you by such a Certainty, of the total Ceasing of Miracles? Is there any such Passage either in the Old or New Testament, As that after such a time, there shall never be any more Miracles? If there be, we wish we could see it. Or is there any Principle of Reason, from whence it may be concluded, or probably gathered, that after the Truth of Christianity had received its full Confirmation, it was not fit that more Miracles should be ever wrought? If there be any such Principle, it can only be this, viz. Deus & Natura nihil faciunt frustra: Or, God, as well as Nature, doth nothing in vain. But if there should be Miracles since wrought. Who dares to say that they are wrought in vain? If a Miracle should be wrought for no other end, than the releasing a Poor Creature from a Tormenting and Afflicting Malady, that is Incurable by any human Means, Would it be a vain Miracle? Sure, it would be an exceeding great Instance of the Divine Goodness, and therefore not unworthy of the Divine Wisdom. And more especially, if it be wrought upon a Person, who Fears God, and Believes in his Son Jesus, and makes great Conscience of obeying them. And( by the way) the Gentlewoman concerned in this Narrative, as also her Husband, do give very good Evidence of their being such Persons, and very Sincerely Devout and Religious People according to that Light they have. But can any thing be more Worthy of the Boundless Goodness and Mercy of God and our Saviour, than to vouchsafe fresh Miracles, in an Age wherein Infidelity is so openly professed, as it is now, for the Prevention of the farther spreading thereof, and the Conviction of such as are not grown Obdurate, and who have not yet added Malice to Infidelity?  
We will put one Question more to these Persons, viz. If you give no Credit to as good Evidence of Matters of Fact, done among yourselves, as such Matters are capable of, How came you to believe that there were, many Ages since, any Miracles really wrought? But that late one of the Cure of the Poor French Girl without any Natural Means, is abundantly confirmed by such Evidence; and whether this here related be so too, let the Impartial Reader judge.  
Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, the Daughter of Mr. William Morton of the Parish of Hitchington in the County of Bucks, and the Wife of Mr. John Savage School-Master, living in Horse-shoe-Alley in Middle-Moor fields, was afflicted with a palsy on her right-side, and her Mother( to use her own words) knows nothing to the contrary, but that she brought it into the World with her; she perceived it so much, when she was about twelve Months old, that she feared some of her Childs Bones were dislocated; but advising with a Surgeon, he  told her it was only some Weakness, and directed her to some Strengthening things, and to Anoint her side with a certain oil; but all Applications proved Ineffectual; and as she grew in Years, her Distemper more and more visibly appeared, and was judged Remediless Her right Thumb was distorted, and three of her Fingers were bowed round, almost close to the Palm of her Hand, but her Fore-finger she could more stretch out. She was unable to put with that Hand any Sustenance to her Mouth: It was very could in comparison of the other Hand, even in the hottest Weather; but it felt and looked like a dead Hand in the Winter, which makes her Cure the more Remarkable, in that it was effected in a very could Season, namely on the 22d day of December last past, she being then 28 Years old and upwards; the Evening before she complained of the Coldness of her Hand( though it was next to the Fire) saying such words as these●… She thought it was a Frost abroad by her Hand The Circumstances of this Cure take as follows.  
Mr. Savage and his Wife agreed to set apart the foresaid day, for the greatest part thereof, in Fasting and Prayer to Almighty God, purely upon a Spiritual Account, not for the obtaining of any Temporal Blessings. About eleven of the Clock, he being alone upon his Knees, what he had heard of the French Girls Cure came into his Mind, and made such an Impression, that he most hearty praised God, for showing his Power in so wonderful a manner, at such a time as this, when Atheism and Infidelity so much abound: And this put him in mind of his Wives Weakness, after his return out of his Chamber to her, and he was more than ordinarily affencted therewith: And asking her whether she believed that our Lord Christis able to Cure her Hand, adding, That he believed it, though he could not say that he believed he would do it: This sudden Question drew Tears from her Eyes, and she answered, That had she been on the Earth when he was, she believed he could have cured her, and that he is able to do it now, but she questioned whether he would bestow such a Favour on her, saying, That it may be it might not be good for her to have such a Mercy; and that it may be this Infirmity was inflicted to keep her Humble; whereas she might have been as Proud of something or other as too many are: This was the Substance of what passed now between them.  
Then it came into Mr. Savage's Mind, to ask his Wife what Chapter the French Girl red, but neither of them knowing certainly, he looked into St. Matthew, and finding that the eighth Chapter treated of Christ's cleansing the Leper, he began to red it, and when he had red those words of his, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me Clean; he said, That himself had as much Faith in the Power of Christ as he had, as to the curing of her Infirmity: And then proceeding to the third Verse, where Christ saith, I will, be thou Clean; then on a sudden, or quickly after, she felt a great Pain in the middle joints of her crooked Fingers, which at least before the Chapter was ended were stretched out, and became almost as straight as those on the other Hand. And her Thumb, which was most oddly bent, was now every whit as straight as the other, whereas they could not be stretched before by her other Hand but a little way, without Pain; and upon letting them go, they immediately returned to their Crookedness, as if there were a Spring in their joints. But now those Fingers and that Thumb she can move as nimbly as those of her left Hand: And they were so strengthened, that she, without pain, double locked the fore-door of her House with that Hand, whereas before she never could single lock it, or so much as lock or unlock her Boxes with it. And this she did about two hours after this wonderful Alteration. And now came warmth into that Hand, and even all the Frosty Weather hath it continued as warm as the other; and it is become like the other Hand, as to its natural colour. And whereas it was Poor and Lean before, it since grows( as likewise that Wrist) fuller and more fleshy. All this without the use of any means from first to last, but Faith in God and Christ, and reading that part of God's Holy Word the eighth of St. Matthew. After Mrs. Savage had shewed her Husband what God had done, they both sate some time in Tears of Admiration, being much amazed at God's wonderful Power and Goodness: And after they had recovered themselves, they solemnly praised God on their Knees for his infinite Mercy to them. And next day she found a very great Alteration in her weak side; for whereas she was not able to walk a Mile without great weariness in London, though assisted by her Husband, and sometimes was fain to rest her self too in a journey of less than a Mile, which she every Week went with him, when she was at all able; now she walked from Moor-fields to Mill-yard at the farther end of Goodmans-fields, and returned home again without the least complaint of weariness: And the day following( being but the second day after her Cure) she walked to Beech lane, and from thence to Shadwell-Dock, round about by Ratcliff-high-way, and through Old-Gravel-lane, and about by the Water-side, and back again through Goodmans-fields home, which cannot be less than about four or five Miles: All this without weariness. About a Fortnight after, she went also on foot from her House to Newport-Alley, beyond Long-Acre, to see the French Girl, and from thence down to Little-Tower-Hill: This she did between eight and twelve in the Morning, and at her journeys end  told her Husband that she was not weary. And now she finds not but that her right side is as strong as her left, and she grows fuller and fresher in her Countenance. This Winter she grew so Weak and could of that Hand and Side, that her Husband was cast down in his Mind, and in great fear that she would come to be Bedrid, and therefore he is the more affencted with the Goodness of God, in that the cause of his Fear is removed.  
This is a punctually true Narrative, and the Substance of it the Reader will find in the following Affidavits, to be Sworn before the Lord Mayor: And this wonderful Matter of Fact hath been inquired into, with all its Circumstances, by Noted Divines both of the Church of England and others, and by Eminent Doctors of physic of the College, and very many Persons of Quality, who have expressed themselves fully satisfied, that this Cure is very Extraordinary, and wrought by the immediate Hand of God. This is so well known in the City, that there was no need of desiring a Certificate under their Hands; and but only that here inserted, of two Doctors of physic; especially considering the following Affidavits.   


The Affidavit of Mrs. Elizabeth Savage.  
I Elizabeth Savage, Wife of John Savage, living in horse-shoe Alley in Moor-Fields, in the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch, do testify and Declare, That ever since I can remember, I have been afflicted with a Palsical Distemper,( for so it was called) in my right Side, which was very sensible on that Hand; my Thumb, and three of my Fingers, were drawn and bowed round, so as their Ends almost touched my Palm, it being impossible, without the help of my other Hand, to stretch them out, which at most was but a little way, and that with pain; by which means, I was rendered very helpless. I could not at any time, since I can remember, make use of that Hand to feed myself; my whole right Side wanted the Strength and Warmth of my other Side, and my Hand the Colour also, being very pale and wan. It was a great Pain and Toil to me to travail, though I never could very far. And thus I remained until December the 22d 1693, which Day my Husband and myself set apart for Fasting and Prayer upon a spiritual Account, my Distemper being no End of it, not so much as having it upon my Thoughts. And about Eleven of the Clock my Husband reading the Eighth Chapter of St. Matthew, and the Second Verse,( where the Leper exercised his Faith in the Power of Christ) he propounded several Questions to me, which, with my Answers and the Occasion thereof, are truly set down in the Relation. About the time when he was reading the third Verse, where Christ said, I will, be thou clean; I felt the middle Joints of my lame Fingers greatly ache; and, as I remember, immediately, or at least before the Chapter was red out, my Fingers and Thumb were stretched out, without any Means used: By which wonderful Work of God, I enjoy the Advantages I never did before; the whole right Side of my Body being( I finding as yet nothing to the contrary) in as perfect a Soundness as my other. And therefore to God alone I desire to ascribe the Glory.  
The Mark of Elizabeth Savage. Jurat. fuit 26o die Januarii 1693, coram me William Ashhurst, mayor.   

The Affidavit of Mr. John Savage, Husband to Mrs. Savage.  
I John Savage, living in horse-shoe Alley in Moor-Fields, in the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch, do certify, That Elizabeth Savage, my Wife, hath been troubled with the palsy, as it was called, in her right Side, ever since I married her, which hath been about two Years and a Quarter. It was most predominant in that Hand, contracting her Thumb and three Fingers into a crooked and distorted form, and clinching them almost close to her Palm. I further declare, I have, whensoever I have observed it, always found her Hand to be very could; and that I have received a Letter from my Brother Flight at Wargrove near henly, in which he testifies, That my Wife's Mother, who lives at Hitchington in Buckinghamshire, asserts, That she knows no other, but that she brought the aforesaid Distemper into the World with her, for it was much perceived by her when she was Twelve Months old; and desiring the Advice of a Surgeon, he prescribed her some strengthening Things, and to bath her with oils, which nevertheless proved ineffectual; and she has remained, as we thought, incurable, until the 22d of December 1693; when, being in the Duty of Fasting and Prayer, the Relation that I had heard of the French Girls Cure came so powerfully upon my Mind, that I hearty praised the Name of Almighty God for showing his Power in so wonderful a manner; and after Prayer, and not before, it was that this my Wife's Illness came into my Mind: So I took the Bible into my Hand, and thought to have red the same Chapter that the Girl had done; but not remembering which it was, I casting mine Eye upon the Eighth Chapter of Matthew, and finding it treated of the Miracles of Our Blessed Saviour, namely of the Leper's being cleansed, &c. I began to red; and about the time when I was reading the Third Verse, my Wife, as she  told me, felt a great aching in her crooked Fingers, which were stretched out, and became straight before the Chapter was red quiter out; whereupon it became warm, like the other Hand, and Strength increased. All this was done without any outward or human Means used, we never having any Thoughts to use any,( the Particulars being more largely discussed in the Narrative;) which in Conscience I am bound to testify as the wonderful Work of God, not having any Profit, Interest, or Advantage by the Publication thereof, but only the Glory of God.  
John Savage. Jurat. fuit 26o die Januarii 1693, coram me William Ashhurst, mayor.   

The Affidavit of Mrs. Sarah Thewer.  
I Sarah Thewer, Wife of Captain Henry Thewer, living in horse-shoe Alley in Moor-Fields, being a Neighbour to Mr. John Savage, with whom I have been very well acquainted for about this ten Years, and have always taken him to be a very honest Man: I have also been acquainted with his Wife about one Quarter of a Year, whose Fingers I have observed to be very crooked, she making little or no use of that Hand; and hearing the Report of her Cure, I went to visit her, and found her Hand to be changed from a crooked form to a straight one; which was done, as they informed me, without any human Means, by reading the Eighth Chapter of St. Matthew  
Sarah Thewer. Jurat fuit 26o die Januarii 1693, coram me William Ashhurst, mayor.   

The Affidavit of Mrs. Grace Doubleday.  
I Grace Doubleday, Wife of Francis Doubleday, Tin-Plate-Worker, living in horse-shoe Alley in Moor-Fields, being a Neighbour to Mr. John Savage, whom I have known a considerable time, and have been also acquainted with his Wife Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, and have observed her Fingers since I knew them to be very crooked; but having seen them since December the 22d 1693, I find them to be very straight.  
The Mark of Grace Doubleday. Jurat. fuit 26o die Januarii 1693, coram me William Ashhurst, mayor.   

The Certificate of Richard Baldwin of henly.  
Jan. the 8th. 1693.  
MRs. Savage being my Wife's Sister, I have known her about nine Years; and that ever since, she hath been lame in her Hand, her Fingers and Thumb being crooked; so that they were of little Use.  
Witness my Hand, Richard Baldwin, of henly upon Thames in Oxfordshire, Mau●tster.   

The Certificate of Mr. Thomas Slater of Darking.  
I Am willing to satisfy all Persons that are inquisitive of the Truth of the foregoing Relation, that I have known Mrs. Savage for more than two Years and a half last past, and have often been in her Company both at her House and other Places; in all which time, I never saw her any otherwise than Lame, three of her Fingers and Thumb was almost clinch'd close to her Palm: And being at London since the 22d Day of December 1693, I cannot discern, but her Fingers are as well as those of her other Hand, her Husband and She declaring to me the manner of its Cure. I am well satisfied with the Matter of Fact in all its Circumstances, as also with the Sincerity and Honesty of the Parties themselves. I render this Testimony as unquestionably true.  
Thomas Slater, living at Darking in the County of Surrey. London Jan. 23. 1693.   

The Certificate of Mr. Tho. Slater, Jun.  
BY these I am willing to satisfy the unprejudiced Inquisitor,( and as for the Incredulous I am not in the least solicitous) that I have known Mrs. Savage more than two Years past, wherein I have been curious in the Observation of her Hand; and do testify, That her Thumb and Three of her Fingers were of a very tortile and crooked Form, and seemed to me as fixed; for I have seen her put on her Glove, which she hath forced to be pliant according to the Distortion of her Fingers. I have seen her since the 22d Day of December last, and do find a visible Alteration, her Fingers being, for ought I see, as pliable as those of her other hand. And having heard that it's reported Mr. Savage designs a Selfish and Secular Interest by the Publication of this Narrative, I do certify, that it is wholly a Fiction; as I am able to demonstrate to any reasonable Enquirer.  
Thomas Slater, living in Bow-lane, at the Corner of Bazing-lane. London, Jan. 2. 1693.   

The Certificate of Mr. Joseph Davis, linen-draper, upon Little Tower-Hill.  
I Joseph Davis, linen-draper, having had some Years Acquaintance with Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, I have often taken Notice of the Crookedness of her Fingers. They seemed as though they wanted the Circulation of the Blood; which is, by the Power of God, made useful, like her other Hand.  
Attested by me Joseph Davis. Jan. 30. 1693.   

The Certificate of Mr. Robert Ainsworth.  
Feb. 2. 1693.  
THese may certify the Inquisitive, that for above two Years last past, wherein I have known Mrs. Savage, and been several times at the House upon Business; I never saw her hold her Hand otherwise than distorted, and crooked; and do really believe it was so. But having seen it since the 22d of December, I find it wonderfully altered.  
Robert Ainsworth, Schoolmaster, in Bartholomew's Square near Old-street.   

Febr. 6. 1693.  
WE whose Names are underwrit do testify, That upon diligent Search and Observation, we find Mrs. Elizabeth Savage's Right-Hand and Arm straight and useful as the other.  


Tho. Burwell, Praeses Coll. Med. land.  
Rich. Morton, Soc. Coll. Med. land.      

AN APPENDIX.  
THE foregoing Narrative gives an Instance of the Mighty Power of Christ in Miracle-working; and of his great condescension to exert it now in the State of his Exaltation, who in the days of his Flesh gave abundant Proof of it to his very Enemies by manifold Signs and Wonders. The Miracles done by him were not only Rare and Unusual, which sort of Works sometimes are taken for Miracles, but Supernatural also; and therefore could not be reasonably deemed the Effects of Causes merely Natural, but undeniable Indications of the immediate Power of God Almighty's Finger: And such are taken for Divine Miracles, whether Angels or Men are Instruments concerned in them. Such was restoring Sight to the Blind by the Application of day and Spittle: Such was Peter, giving Legs to the lame Man, by pronouncing his Cure in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth: And such indeed were all the Miracles our Lord did, recorded in the Gospel: Such was the French Maids of late; and such is this of Mrs. Savages Cure by an Exercise of Faith in the Power of Christ, In reading part of the eighth Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel.  
It's true, Men are divided in their Apprehensions about Miracles, as they are about many other things: Some seem to think them unceased in any Consideration except in Fact, Christians being under the same Promise of Christ's Presence with them, and of Signs following those that believe in all Ages of the Church, as well as in Apostolical Times; and that they are not done, is because of the Sin and Unbelief of those under a Christian Profession which Obstructs them. Others there are that think Miracles were necessary, and performed for Establishing the Christian Religion at its first Publication, but of no longer Continuance than the Apostles days, and therefore either to pretend, expect or report Miracles of any Kind since those Times, is wholly Ridiculous unto them. I doubt both are extremes of such a Nature, as have a Tendency contrary to that of Promoting or Establishing Christian Piety.  
That Miracles have Ceased, as to their Number and Greatness compared to what they were in Apostolical Times, seems very Injudicious to deny. But that no Miracle of any Kind, or on any Occasion whatsoever, hath been, or shall be performed, is every way as Ungrounded, and much more Irreligious.  
Although the Religion of the Jews( to go no higher) was accompanied, in its first Publication and Establishment, with such Miracles, in the space of Sixty Years, from their Bondage to their Possession of Canaan, that many Hundreds of Years, in after-times, did not produce the like;( for though some of the following Ages were, for Faith and Holiness, no way beneath those Men who saw the mighty Works of God; few Miracles are Recorded to have been wrought therein:) Yet would it be a great sign of profaneness and Infidelity in any, to Ridicule the Wonders which the Holy Scripture testifies that God accomplished in After-times, as if they were altogether Fictitious: And albeit it be true, that some Miracles in succeeding Times were very Stupendious and of large Observation, as that of the Sun's going back, and several others, yet were they not so convincingly Demonstrative of the Finger of God unto Infidels, as were many of those in the Time of Moses, in Egypt, at the read Sea, and in the Wilderness. In many Instances there seemed to be a veiling or Lessening of Miracles of the same kind in After-times to what they were before. Shimei's Punishment, who cursed David, was in a Sense veiled, whereas Mirian's who spoken against Moses was both more Open and Amazing; Uzziah's Presumption in Assuming the Priest's Work was punished with leprosy only; but the Earth opened and swallowed up Corah and his Aspiring Company. Uzziah's sudden Death for his Disorder, was of a far less Amazing Consideration, than to be devoured with Fire from Heaven, as were Nadab and Abihu for theirs. It is then no undue Conclusion, that there was a great Disparity between the Miracles in the first Age of the Church of Israel, and the purest Ages afterwards before our Lord's Coming, both as to Number and Greatness; notwithstanding the certainty of Miracles being not wholly ceased in those times.  
It cannot then be inferred from the Greatness and Number of Miracles done only in the first Age of the Christian Ch. that they have altogether ceased since; for so it was also in the first Age of the Jewish Church: and yet 'tis evident, a total Cessation of Miracles did not ensue.  
Nor is it of weight, to object the ceasing of the Miraculous Gift of Tongues, 1 Cor. 13.8. were a total and perpetual Ceasing thereof granted, for that there were Material Differences between some Miracles and others in the Occasions and Continuance of them. The Gift of Tongues to the Apostles, and some others( perhaps Helpers with them in their Ministry amongst Infidels) was highly comporting with the Commission they had to enable them to Preach the Gospel to all Nations, without which they had been no other than Barbarians, unto many of them to whom they preached. And the peculiar Necessity of Tongues seems to have ceased, when the Gospel was published unto, and spread abroad amongst the Nations, pursuant to that Commission. But the peculiar Occasion of Healing Miracles( which is all I instance in now) viz. The sad and piercing Miseries of Mankind, sometimes Remediless by Applications merely Natural, remained the same in After-times, though that General end of those abounding Miracles, viz. The Gospels Ratification did not so; but ceased at least in degree. Tongues were for a Sign, not for Believers but Unbelievers: But Healing Miracles were either common to Believers and Unbelievers, or peculiar unto visible Believers, for which end that Ordinance of Holy Anointing, James 5.16. was instituted.  
And by the same Authority on which it is inferred that Tongues have ceased, prophesy also failed: If prophesy be taken for Fore-telling future Events by immediate Revelation: And to conclude thereupon that none of all the Christians since the Apostles, have had on any occasion the least part or hint of immediate Revelation about any future thing, would be a severe Reflection, not on the judgement only, but upon the Integrity also of many Persons of Worth in several Ages, that in public and private cases have attested it, and more, the Facts themselves have verified it; as in Bishop Usher, and many other Mens cases. Moreover, as Miracles of divers kinds, had place in the Church of Israel, and were done by the Apostles of our Lord, when yet the Miracle of Tongues was not. Its Ceasing doth not necessary infer the Ceasing of all other Miracles, since they existed antecedently to it, and without it, and consequently may when it is gone. This being then one of the most material Allegations for the Ceasing of Miracles from Holy Scripture, it seems very unwarrantable( the Premises considered) to resolve upon so unnecessary a Consequence, that Tongues being ceased, therefore all Miracles are ceased, and that too against the abundant Testimony that former Ages and this present Age doth furnish us with, from competent and credible Witnesses in Matter of Fact.  
That end of Miracles to confirm the Gospel, that Men might Believe, affords no due Conclusion for the absolute Ceasing of Miracles: For such was the end of the Sinai Wonders, that the People might believe for ever, as if God had done those to that end, that there might be no occasion for future Miracles to give Attestation unto those revealed Truths. And so were the Wonders in Egypt, and Institutions thereupon to be improved by lasting Rehearsals and Documents from Father to Son, that they might set their Hope in God. And albeit the Design of those great Wonders, was to give firm Ground to the Faith of that present and all succeeding Ages, in the Truth of Israel's God and Worship, in opposition to the Idolatry and other Sins of the Gentiles. Yet in Elijah's time was the alwise God pleased, by new Miracle, to attest and ratify the same Truth, that so many great Wonders had given proof of before. As therefore it is undeniable, that Miracles were wrought after the Establishment of the Jewish Religion, notwithstanding that general end of the foregoing Miracles; and that it would be very Atheistical, to Ridicule the Miracles accomplished in the Times of the Kings of Israel and Judah: So would it be very Unchristian to Mock at the Miraculous Works of Christ wrought since the Establishment of the Christian Religion; when sufficient Testimony is given of them.  
That the Gospel is from a Supernatural Cause, and flows not from Nature, but Grace, will be acknowledged by some that deny the Continuation of Miracles. The Kingly, Priestly, and Prophetical Offices of Christ, and the Glorious Effects thereof, are from this Root. The Interposures of Grace to restrain Nature from the direct Workings and Effects of it. To animate it to a Concurrence in Causes and Effects, in which of itself there is an absolute Defect; and to suspend it, by working Effects every way above it, and that in a multitude of Instances, must be the Concessions of those who believe the Covenant of Grace, and the great Ends thereof, to make Nature in its original Designment, give place, and be subservient unto the Glorious Intendments of that Covenant. The setting aside the Terms of the Covenant of Works, and saving Men through Jesus Christ, in turning them from Darkness to Light, and raising them from Death to Life by the Mighty Power of God. The Perseverance, Sanctification, and Preservation of the Godly; together with the Omnipotent Power of God, put forth in Divine Providences of Mercy and judgement in the Government of the World, are all of Grace not of Nature. And how it is possible to think, that the Results of Divine Workings in these things, are in so invariable, common and fixed a Course, that no unusual Steps of Divine Workings have ever occurred to Observation in the Conversion of Sinners, Preservation of the People of God, or Restraints and Punishments of the Wicked, since the days of the Apostles is not in the compass of my Perceptions; nor, I think, consistent with the common Faith and Confession of Christians. Men deem Nature to have her Prodigies, and to break the common Bounds very often, to the Amazement of Observers: And shall we think the Dominion of Grace has no Rarity of Effects? And I doubt such as deny it, are not beyond other Men in their Remarks, and Experiences of the Workings of Christ. Wherefore if there have been any rare and uncommon Steps of the Supernatural, Omnipotent Workings of Christ( which, I think, is not Religiously deniable in any Age of the Church) then there has been Miracles since the Apostles Times. And why this should be allowed, and a Presumption notwithstanding, that Christ neither hath, nor will show his Power in any unwonted Steps of Miraculous Healing, or other public or personal case of Mercy or judgement, I do not discern. It seems not improbable, but that by the same Measures the one is ridiculed, the other may, and will be, by some sort of Persons.  
The Presence of God with the patriarches, did not only import the common Concurrence of God with second Causes in Favour of them, but also included all those Miraculous Providences of God towards them, that are recorded in the Sacred History.  
A true Idea whereof, no doubt but Moses, that Man of God, had; and therefore in his Importunities for God's Presence with his People, intended no less than the Divine Protection and Blessing common unto Gods Chosen, and Miraculous also, as the Necessities of that People should require, in those ordinary and extraordinary Emergencies that happened unto them in their Wildernesstrials and Canaan-wars. And accordingly must the Promises of God's Presence with his People, be understood for their Protection, and the Subduing of their Enemies. Pursuant whereunto, the People of God had Testimonies, not a few, of his wonderful Works in the several Ages of the Church. And why any should narrow the Promise of Christ( to be with his People always to the end of the World) to that degree, that whatever the Promise of the Divine Presence signified to the People of God in times before, including the Miraculous Workings of God for them; yet it was then limited unto common and invariable Occurrences only, whatsoever the Necessities of the Saints should require, I do not apprehended. And therefore conclude, that the Promise of Christ imports his engaging himself to appear for his People both in common and extraordinary Methods, as their Necessities should require. And indeed Miracles seem hence undeniable, unless it should be supposed, that neither in the Trials of Christians under the Heathen Emperors, in the Papacy, nor any future Times, there has occurred, or shall occur any extraordinary occasion for a Miracle; which may be easily refuted by a due considering the equality of Christians Emergencies with those of the Jews, that were the occasions of God's Works of Wonders for them. By the extraordinary and late public Revolutions for the Salvation of God's People; and by the innumerable Instances of wonderful Assistances and Favours to the Suffering Christians in Times past: To deny which, would inevitably blemish the most credible Historians among the Christians of Old, and those of the Protestant Profession of Late. Besides which, it is of weight, that we have not only the general Promise of Christ's Presence with his People, but particular Promises that respect his having bound himself to Miraclc-working as in his Divine Wisdom he should see the Necessities of his People require. The generous Promise of Christ to do for his People whatsoever they should ask in his Name, and that too in cases, which by the connection of his words at the same time, seems to respect Miracles. And that Signs should follow them that believe &c. do not admit of such a Limitation that he meant never to grant them one Sign or miraculous Appearance till Dooms-day, whatever their Prayers and Necessities should be. And to construe them with such a restraint, seems to render them much beneath the Dignity, th●… Fullness, if not the Sincerity of Promise from the Lord Christ.  
Nor are the Prophetical Scriptures altogether silent on this account, Isa. Je●… Dan. and the Revelations, afford man●… Witnesses of the Wonder-working Power of Christ, respecting the Times of th●… Church after the Apostles times. To abbreviate, let the Revelations be consulte●… about the Churches Preservation, th●… Restraints of her Enemies Men and Devils. The Witnesses Testimony, Cont●nuance, Signs, Death, and Resurrection; the Overthrow of Turkish and Papal Power; the Jews Call, Effusions of the Holy Spirit, and Glory of the Church in the Latter Days; and ponder, if all these can be without one Miracle; if not, then Miracles are not totally ceased.  
And whatever the Unfrequency of Miracles have been in Times past; by the Prophet Jer. ch. 23. it seems as if the Latter Day will produce greater, and more amazing and affecting Wonders, than were those wrought for Israel's Redemption out of Egypt. Perhaps we are not far from those Times; and these late extraordinary Appearances of God may be good Presages to the Godly of what God is about to do, and Monitions to the Wicked, to awaken them to Repentance.  
It is then an Extreme to deny all Miracles; tho it must be confessed, the World has been extremely abused by false pretended Miracles, contrived to introduce and establish Superstition, and promote and enrich a Party: and 'tis no Point of Wisdom to be injudiciously credulous. The Wise-man says, The Fool believes every word; and this Weakness has been of very ill consequence both to Religion and Common Right. But there is one general Rule in the Book of God, if it had been duly applied, that would have detected a Multitude of those Shams; viz. When the Tendency of pretended Miracles are to seduce and draw Men into Faith and Practices contrary to the sure Word of prophesy that God has established, even by the Confessions of those who were the pretended Miracle-Workers; to try Miracles as well as Spirits, by the Word of God. To the Law and to the Testimony( says the Prophet) if they speak not according to this Word, it's because there is no Light in them. But when the Property, Frame and Design of reported Miracles, has no other Tendency but to excite Men to a more firm and real Belief of the Existence, Power, Sovereignty, and Goodness of God; the Reality of the Christian Religion; the Good of Duty, and Evil of Sin; and the Certainty and Faithfulness of Divine Promises and threatenings; and to comform Men in their Lives thereunto; it is of ill consequence to be too incredulous about them. Only due Care ought to be taken to prevent or detect Falshoods. God has no need of Mens pious Frauds or Contrivances, to bear false Witness for him. We must not do Evil that Good may come of it. True Religion would suffer a Scandal by such means, instead of gaining any Reputation. To prevent which,  
The Fact itself, and Reputation of the Persons concerned, ought to be duly inspected. If there is evident Reason to conclude pretended Miracles are only natural Products, or the Report fraudulent, they ought to set them aside as such: If uncertain in the judgement of any Man that considers them whether the effect be natural or supernatural, and the Report be true or untrue, then the Belief thereof is to be suspended; but Men should be cautious of being over-bold in concluding that to be merely natural, or the Report of it fictitious, which impartial Justice ought to pass as a Thing difficult to be resolved; lest they speak evil or slightly of what they do not know. If reputed Miracles have a good, not an evil Tendency, but labour under Uncertainty, and the Evidence of them be unconvincing; the Fault of absolutely determining them to be Miracles, is not inferior to Over-credulousness, especially if such as are not calculated to advance a Party, and engrossed by a Sect which I think there's no pretence of in the late Instance of the French Maid, or the foregoing Relation.  
As foam have entertained Angels unawares, so perhaps some have believed true Miracles precipitantly enough; but a Medium is best. But if the Report be certain, and the Fact indicate the Finger of Christ at work after a supernatural and unusual manner with uncontrollable Evidence,( as some of Christs Works have been such that there was no rising up against them with any rational Pretence) there ought then to be a full Credence given unto them.  
I grant, there is scarce any Evidence of particular Facts, such as this is, but the Incredulity of some seems to prepare them to deny it; but then it ought to be considered, whither such Denials tend. If the Atheist's measures were taken in their Negations of, and Oppositions to God and Religion, viz. to admit no Record, no Testimony, as sufficient in the matter of Right and Wrong, but what has a greater Certainty than the Sacred Records about matter of Fact, the concurrent Testimony of National Attestations with the stupendious Works of God in most Ages; the common sense of Mankind about the Worlds Original and Multiplication, as being to be attributed to God, not unto atoms, Chance, or unintelligible senseless Something or Nothing; all common Right must inevitably be set aside, as founded on Uncertainty or more Fiction. If the unbeliever, or Opposer of the Lord Jesus Christ, will deny the Miracles of Christ formerly, in the Ages since, and now of late, as Heaven's Attestations for our Lord and the Christian Religion; might not the Heathens, by the same Rule, have doubted the Proof of any God by Moses's Miracles, in Opposition to some known or unknown Deity of their own. To deny Christ's Acts to have Divine Testimonials for establishing the evident Truth of his Messiahship, makes way for the Pagans to deny those by Moses for the Truth of Israel's God and Religion. If the Profane scoff at the Works of Christ now, and invent Quibbles against them, are not the Jews Cavils against Christ's Miracles strengthened, and the Certainty of the Facts, and and Virtue of them transmitted unto us, weak'ned? And indeed, the Denials of some seem to be such as overturn the Foundations of all Religious and human Credence.  
Reputed Miracles of this kind then, are not to be slighted; and as they come within the View and Cognizance of Men, are to be duly considered; they have Christ's Voice, as well as his Power in them, and Men are bound narrowly to search out the wondrous Works of God, to believe and improve them, as the Children of Israel in Egypt, for or against themselves. Pharaoh and the Egyptians were not at liberty to suspend their Credence about the Signs given by Moses, but were bound to believe them. So were the Jews to believe Christ for his Works sake: And the Profane to believe and improve the Tower of Shiloam's Fall to their Repentance; as did the Ninevites the threatenings of Jonah. And there are none of the extraordinary Works of Christ in this day but carries rebuk to the Atheist, Infidel, Profane, or him that is lukewarm in Religion; and Encouragement, Strength, and Stability, to the experienced practical Christian.  
Whether the Fact in the foregoing Relation be a full and undeniable Proof of the supernatural Working of Christ in an uncommon Method, is left to the Consciences of all inquirers about it. And as to the Reputation of the Persons chiefly concerned as Relators, I do not think this a fit Occasion to make a Noise of their Worth; I believe, should it be attempted, themselves would hearty oppose it. I think it is enough to say, from those most intimately acquainted with Mr. Savage many Years, and that have observed his Wife's manner of Conversation some Years, that they are Persons of that Conscience and constant Habit of sincere Speech, that they that know them best, and love them least( for I know none that hate them) cannot accuse them on this Account.   

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