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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.