Lot 361

Miracle cure.- Narrative (A) of the Late Extraordinary Cure Wrought in an Instant upon Mrs. Eliz. Savage, (Lame from her Birth) Without the using of any Natural Means, first edition, Printed for John Dunton...and John Harris, 1694.

 

Hammer Price: £350

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Miracle cure.- Narrative (A) of the Late Extraordinary Cure Wrought in an Instant upon Mrs. Eliz. Savage, (Lame from her Birth) Without the using of any Natural Means, first edition, cropped with loss to pagination, catchwords and signatures and occasionally text, later half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Wing N193], 8vo, Printed for John Dunton...and John Harris, 1694.

⁂ No copy traced at auction. Elizabeth Savage tells of her affliction from a 'Palsical Distemper' in her right side which was miraculously cured while she and her husband were reading Matthew's gospel account of Christ curing the leper on the night of December 22nd 1693: "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 ake; and, as I remember, immediately, or at least before the Chapter was read out, my Fingers and Thumb were stretch'd 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 find as yet nothing to the contrary) in as perfect a Soundness as my other."

Description

Miracle cure.- Narrative (A) of the Late Extraordinary Cure Wrought in an Instant upon Mrs. Eliz. Savage, (Lame from her Birth) Without the using of any Natural Means, first edition, cropped with loss to pagination, catchwords and signatures and occasionally text, later half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Wing N193], 8vo, Printed for John Dunton...and John Harris, 1694.

⁂ No copy traced at auction. Elizabeth Savage tells of her affliction from a 'Palsical Distemper' in her right side which was miraculously cured while she and her husband were reading Matthew's gospel account of Christ curing the leper on the night of December 22nd 1693: "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 ake; and, as I remember, immediately, or at least before the Chapter was read out, my Fingers and Thumb were stretch'd 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 find as yet nothing to the contrary) in as perfect a Soundness as my other."

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