The Good Angel of Stamford.  
OR AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CONSUMPTION, IN A True and Faithful NARRATIVE OF SAMUEL WALLAS Recovered, BY The Power of God, and prescription Of an ANGEL.  
LONDON, Sept 23. Printed in the Year. 1659.   

A Relation of Samuel Wallas his being restored to perfect Health, after his thirteen Years Sickness in a Consumption, taken from his own mouth, who for the last four Years lay bedrid, and so weak that he could not turn himself therein without help, by which distemper his Body was so parched and dried, that he was most like an Anatomy, but now at present has recovered his former strength, and follows his Trade again, being a Shoemaker, Living at Stamford in Lincolshire, this following discourse was related to him that writ it, by the said Wallas with much affection and sensibleness of the Lords goodness and kindness to him. April 7. 1659.  
UPon Whitsunday last about six a clock in the afternoon, after Evening Sermon, he finding himself a little lightsome, and able to get out of bed alone; there being no body in the house then with him, and his Wife being gone into the Country to her Friends, to seek some relief; he crept to the fire side, and reading upon a Book entitled, Abraham's suit for Sodom, he heard some raplat the Door, and thinking it to be some stranger because he knocked as if it were with a stick, and being the Sabbath day, he took his staff in the one hand, and the Wall one his other, and went to the door, and opening of it, he beheld a proper grave Old man, who said to him Friend I pray thee, give an old Pilgrim a cup of thy small bear; And the said Samuel Wallas replied, I pray Sir come in, than he answered, Friend, call me not Sir, for I am no Sir, but yet come in I must, for I cannot pass thy Door before I come in (the said Wallas then thinking he had been so dry, that made him say he could not pass his Door before he came in) And thereupon said come in Sir, and welcome; And after he was come in, he went with the help of his stick, and drew him a cup of small bear in a little jug-pot, and gave it him in his hand, who took it by the bottom and drunk a little, and so walked two or three times to and fro, and then drunk again, and so a third time, before he drunk it all, and after that set the jug down in the window by the said Samuel Wallas, he leaning then upon a little Table, and then the said Samuel Wallas thought, he would have been going, but he went and walked to and fro some three or four times as he did before, all this while neither speaking one word to each other; but at last, coming to the said Wallas, said Friend, I perceive thou art not well, and he replied, No truly Sir, I have not been well this many Years, than he asked what was his disease, who answered a Deep Consumption, our Doctors, say it is past cure, than said he, they said well: but what have they given thee for it, than the said Samuel Wallas, replied truly nothing; for I am a very poor man, and am not able to follow the Doctor's Counsel, and therefore he was willing to commit himself into the hands of Almighty God to dispose of him as he pleased, and thereupon the Old man replied, in that thou sayest very well, than I will tell thee by the Almighty power of God, what thou shalt do, but remember my words, and observe them, and do it, but whatsoever thou dost, Fear God, and serve him. To morrow morning go into thy Garden, and there get two Reg-sage leaves, and one Blood-wort leaf, and put those three leaves into a cup of small Bear, and let them lie in the bear for the space of three days together, drink as often as need requires; but let the leaves remain still in the Cup: but the fourth morning cast them away, and put three fresh ones in; and this do for twelve days together, neither more nor less, and I pray thee remember what I say, and observe my words, and do it, but above all whatsoever, thou dost, Fear God, and serve him. And for the space of these twelve days thou must neither drink Ale, nor strong Bear, but afterwards thou mayest a little to suffice. And thou shalt see before these twelve days be forth, through the great mercy and help of Almighty God, thy disease to be cured and thy body altered; Now the said Samuel Wallas, doubting of these things, said, Sir, be this good for all Consumptions, and he replied I tell thee, I tell thee; observe what I say to thee, and do it: but above all whatsoever thou dost, Fear God, and serve him. But this is not all, said he, for thou must change the Air for thy Health, than the said Wallas said, what do you mean Sir, by changing the Air? And he answered, thou must go three, or four, or five miles off, or if it be twenty miles off, the further off the better, and thou must go forth as speedily as thou canst after thy twelve days is out, or else thou wilt have a very grievous fit of Sickness that will suddenly seize upon thee, yet through God's mercy, by this doing thou mayest avoid that: And thou shalt see that before the Month and twelve days be out, through the help of Almighty God above, the clothes thou hast now upon thy back thou will scarce be able to wear with ease, thy body will be so much grown; and I pray thee remember my words, and observe to do them, but above all whatsoever thou dost, Fear God and serve him. Then the said Wallas said, I pray Sir, if it shall please the Lord to enable me to go into our own Fields Two or Three Times a Day, will not that serve the Turn? He answered no Friend it will not, for that Air where the infection is taken, is not so properly good to cure the same disease; And then the said Samuel Wallas said, Sir, I thought to have been let blood: but he returned, No Friend, by no means, for before thy month and twelve days be up, thy blood will be as good as ever thou hadst in all thy Life; but this one thing observe, thy joints will be weak as long as thou livest. Now Friend said the Old man I must be going, I pray Remember what I have said to thee, and do it; but above all Fear God, and Serve him. Then the said Wallas asked him, if he would eat any Bread and Butter, or Cheese; but he answered, No Friend, I will not eat any thing, the Lord Christ is sufficient for me, neither but very seldom do I drink any bear, but that which comes from the Rock, And so Friend the Lord God in Heaven be with thee; And the said W. seeing him go out of the door, went to shut it after him; but the Old man returned half way in the entry again towards the said S. W. and said, Friend I pray thee Remeber what I have said, and do it, but above all whatsoever thou dost, Fear God, and serve him; And so they parted; And the said S. W. saith, he saw him pass along the Street some half a score yards from his door, and so shut the door, and went in; but this Old man was not seen by any body else, nor pass along the Street, though there were persons standing in their doors opposite to the S. W. his house.  
Now afterwards, within four days that the said S. W. had made use of the Sage leaves and the other leave aforementioned, he saith, there arose a skurff which came off his body under which he had a new skin, that was as if it had been the skin of a Sucking child, and by the end of the twelve days was as healthful and strong as ever he was; only this he saith, that when he sits down, his knees will smite together, finding still a weakness in his joints; And this further he said, that one day within the time exhibited, by the solicitation of some Friends, he drunk a little strong drink, but immediately his speech was took from him, and he could not say any thing for twenty four hours.  
As for the Description of this Old Man's person, and habit; He was Tall and ancient, his hair as white as wool, curled up, with a white broad Beard, and he had a fresh Complexion, and wore a fashionable Hat, and a little narrow band, his Coat and hose both of a purple Colour his stockings pure white, and a pair of new black leather shoes; tied with ribbin of the same colour his clothes were. And though it reigned when he came in to the said S. W. house, and, as is very well remembered by many, all day, yet he had not one spot of wet or dirt upon him, he was without Gloves, but his Hands as white as Snow.  
It seems there was a meeting of the Ministers about Stamford, upon this occasion, who concluded, that this apparition was the good Angel, for several weighty reasons inducing them to believe it; but for other reasons here omitted.   
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