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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.
CHAP. IX.
A strange Relation of a Woman in Weymouth in New-England that hath been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless hath a competent understanding in the mysteries of Religion; and is admitted to partake of the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances. Of ways to teach Deaf persons to speak. Of a Man in Hull in New-England under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that petrification, which Humane Bodies are subject to. That divers sorts of Animals have sometimes been formed in the Bodies of Men. Page 289.
A strange Relation of a Woman in Weymouth in New-England that hath been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless hath a competent understanding in the mysteries of Religion; and is admitted to partake of the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances. Of wayes to teach Deaf persons to speak. Of a Man in Hull in New-England under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that petrification, which Humane Bodies are subject to. That divers sorts of Animals have sometimes been formed in the Bodies of Men. Page 289.
CHAP. X.
Concerning some Remarkable Tempests in New-England. A Remark upon the Hurricane, Anno. 1635. An observable Accident by a sudden freezing of Rain in the Year 1659. A strange Whirl-wind in Cambridge, A. D. 1680. Another at New-Haven the last year. An Hail-storm at Springfield. Some parallel Instances. Of Earth-quakes in this Country. Land wonderfully removed. Parallel Stories. Of remarkable Floods this year, not only in New-England but in other parts of the World. An account of a prodigious Flood in France five years ago, with conjectures concerning the natural reason of it. P. 311.