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An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of…
An earnest exhortation to the inhabitants of New-England, to hearken to the voice of God in his late and present dispensations as ever they desire to escape another judgement, seven times greater that any thing which as yet hath been. / By Increase Mather; teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1676
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.
And now that I am upon this Digression, let me add, that the monstro• births which have at sundry times happened, are speaking, solemn providences. Especially that which was at W•burn, Febru. 23. 1670. When the wise of Joseph Wright was delivered of Creature, the form whereof was as followeth. The head, neck and arms in true Form and shape of child, but it had no b•ea•• bone nor any back bone; the belly was of an extraordinary bigness, both the sides and back being like a belly, the thighs were very small without any thigh bones; it had no bu•rocks, the Membrum vir•• was a mere bone; it had no passage for nature in any part below; the feet turned directly outward, the heels turned up, and like a bone, It being opened, there were found two great lumps of fl•sh on the sides of the seeming belly; the bowels didly on the upper part of the breast by the […]. This was testified before the Deputy Governor Mr.Willoughty on the 2nd of March following, by Mrs. Johnson Midwife, Mary Kendall, R•th […]. Ly•ia Kendall. Seen also by Capt. Edward Johnson, Leiut. John C••••, Henry Brook, James Thomson, Isaac C•le.
And now that I am upon this Digr•ssion, let me add, that the monstro• births which have at sundry times hap•ed, are speaking, solemn providences. Especially that which was at W•burn, Febru. 23. 1670. When the wise of Joseph Wright was delivered of Creature, the form whereof was as followeth. The head, neck and arms in true Form and shape of child, but it had no b•ea•• bone nor any back bone; the belly was of an extraordinary bigness, both the sides and back being like a belly, the thighs were very small without any thigh bones; it had no burocks, the Membrum vir was a meer bone; it had no passage for nature in any part below; the feet turned directly outward, the heels turned up, and like a bone, It being opened, there were found two great lumps of flsh on the sides of the seeming belly; the bowels didly on the upper part of the breast by the . This was testified before the Deputy Governour Mr.Willoughty on the 2nd of March following, by Mrs. Johnson Midwife, Mary Kendal, Rth . Lyia Kendall. Seen also by Capt. Edward Johnson, Leiut. John C, Henry Brook, James Thomson, Isaac Cle.