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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 in this last age; especially in New-England. / By Increase Mather, teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green, 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.
she did once in her Exercise, write with a Pin upon a Trencher three times over, Ah poor Soul! and therewithal burst forth into tears, before divers of her Friends. She hath been wont to enquire after the Text, and when it hath been showed to her to look and muse upon it. She knoweth most, if not all persons Names that she hath acquaintance with. If Scripture Names, will readily turn and point to them in the Bible. It may be conceived, that although she understands neither Words, Letters, nor Language; yet she understands things Hieroglyphically. The Letters and Words are unto her but signs of the things, and as it were Hieroglyphics. She was very desirous of Church-Communion in all Ordinances, and was admitted with general and good satisfaction, and hath approved her self to the best observation, a grave and gracious Woman. They both attend public Worship with much reverence and constancy, ⟨p. 294⟩and are very inoffensive (and in divers respects) exemplary in their Conversation. Thus far is that Narrative, written June 27. 1683.
she did once in her Exercise, write with a Pin upon a Trencher three times over, Ah poor Soul! and therewithal burst forth into tears, before divers of her Friends. She hath been wont to enquire after the Text, and when it hath been shewed to her to look and muse upon it. She knoweth most, if not all persons Names that she hath acquaintance with. If Scripture Names, will readily turn and point to them in the Bible. It may be conceived, that although she understands neither Words, Letters, nor Language; yet she understands things Hieroglyphically. The Letters and Words are unto her but signs of the things, and as it were Hieroglyphicks. She was very desirous of Church-Communion in all Ordinances, and was admitted with general and good satisfaction, and hath approved her self to the best observation, a grave and gracious Woman. They both attend publick Worship with much reverence and constancy, ⟨p. 294⟩and are very inoffensive (and in divers respects) exemplary in their Conversation. Thus far is that Narrative, written June 27. 1683.