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An essay for the recording of illustrious providences
An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have happened this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.An essay for the recording of illustrious providences wherein an account is given of many remarkable and very memorable events which have hapned this last age, especially in New-England / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England.
printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Browning, 1684
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Besides those notable Sea-Deliverances which have been in the former Chapter Related, many other memorable Providences and Preservations have happened. A multitude of Instances to this purpose are now lost in the Grave of Oblivion, because they were not Recorded in the season of them. But ⟨p. 33⟩such Observables as I have been by good hands acquainted with, I shall here further Relate.
BEsides those notable Sea-Deliverances which have been in the former Chapter Related, many other memorable Providences and Preservations have hapned. A multitude of Instances to this purpose are now lost in the Grave of Oblivion, because they were not Recorded in the season of them. But ⟨p. 33⟩such Observables as I have been by good hands acquainted with, I shall here further Relate.
Remarkable was the Preservation and Restoration which the gracious providence of God vouchsafed to Abigail Eliot, the Daughter of Elder Eliot of Boston in New-England; concerning whom a near and precious Relation of hers, informs me, that when she was a Child about five years old, playing with other Children under a Cart an iron hinge being sharp at the lower end happened to strike her head between the right Ear and the Crown of her Head, and pierced into the skull and Brain. The Child making an outcry, the Mother came; and immediately drew out the Iron, and thereupon some of the Brains of her Child which stuck to th• Iron, and other bits were scattered on her Forehead. Able Chirurgeons were sent for; in special Mr. Oliver and Mr. Prat. The Head being uncovered, there appeared just upon the place where the Iron pierced the Skull, a bunch as big as a small Egg. A question arose, whether the skin should not be cut and dilated from the Orifice of the Wound to the Swelling, and so take it away. This Mr. Pr•t inclined unto, but Mr. Oliver opposed, pleading that then the Air would get to the Brain, and the Child would presently