A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard, (lame almost ever since she was born), on Sunday the 26th of November 1693 ... To which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood.

Date:
1787
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Credit: A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard, (lame almost ever since she was born), on Sunday the 26th of November 1693 ... To which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tend ; for to pufh it farther would be to drive it in partibus Injidelium. But there are, I know not how, many Perfons that break this Rule. Some, with¬ out ever entering into any Examination at all, believe every Thing that is told them ; and if the Event be but ever fo little fur- prizing, (trait it goes down with them for a Miracle. Others,» who pretend to be more refined, do very ftifly deny all that is faid to them ; but if a Faft be proved fo clearly that they cannot contradict it, then they anfwer coldly that this is a natural Ef¬ fect, without ever being at any Trouble to examine or explain whether it be fo or no, though they are ever fo much preffed to it. Tis plain now, that both thefe Sorts of Perfons do lay their Strefs upon Founda¬ tions equally falfe ; the former do frame to themfelves a Common-Place of the Power of God; and to thefe it is enough to fay, that God is Almighty, to make them be-* lieve the Truth of all the Miracles that ever have been publiffied. On the contrary, the other, whether they have examined any of the pretended Miracles, and found them falfe, or eife have learnt it from Somebody elfe, make to themfelves another from this- Error, and fo concluding from a particular to the general, againft all the Rules of good', Logic, they affirm, that all the Miracles. which are faid to have happened in the. A 3 World