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The wise virgin : or, A wonderfull narration of the various dispensations of God towards a childe of eleven years of age; wherein as his severity hath appeared in afflicting, so also his goodness both in enabling her (when stricken dumb, deaf, and blind, through the prevalency of her disease) at several times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects; and also in recovering her without the use of any external means, lest the glory should be given to any other. To the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her. With some observations in the fourth year since her recovery. She is the daughter of Mr. Anthony Hatfield gentleman, in Laughton in York-shire; her name is Martha Hatfield

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Title: The wise virgin : or, A wonderfull narration of the various dispensations of God towards a childe of eleven years of age; wherein as his severity hath appeared in afflicting, so also his goodness both in enabling her (when stricken dumb, deaf, and blind, through the prevalency of her disease) at several times to utter many glorious truths concerning Christ, faith, and other subjects; and also in recovering her without the use of any external means, lest the glory should be given to any other. To the wonderment of many that came far and neer to see and hear her. With some observations in the fourth year since her recovery. She is the daughter of Mr. Anthony Hatfield gentleman, in Laughton in York-shire; her name is Martha Hatfield

Other titles: A wonderfull narration of the various dispensations of God

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Classmark: BC Free/R/FIS

Creator(s): Fisher, James minister of the Gospel in Sheffield

Related people: Hatfield, Martha, b. 1640

Publisher: printed for John Rothwell, at the Fountain in Cheap-side

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1656

Language: English

Size and medium: [26], 170 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/286983

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002348319705181

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Indexed in: Wing (2nd ed.) F1006.

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Wanting A1 (frontispiece?), all but last two lines of text on pp.159-160, and pp.161-170 text of p.159 supplied by W.T. Freemantle's MS. note, bound in at end

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