A true relation of the wonderful cure of Mary Maillard, (lame almost ever since she was born,) on Sunday the 26th of November 1693 : with the affidavits and certificates of the girl, and several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her both before and since her being cured : to which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood to the Right Honourable the Lady Mayoress, upon that subject.

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 : with the affidavits and certificates of the girl, and several other credible and worthy persons, who knew her both before and since her being cured : to which is added, a letter from Dr. Welwood to the Right Honourable the Lady Mayoress, upon that subject. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tend j for to pufh it further would be to drive it inpartibus Injiddium. 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, ftrait it goes down v/ith them for a Miracle. Others, who pretend to be more refined, do very ftifly deny all that is faid to them ; but if a Fafil be proved fo clearly that they cannot contradiO; 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 prelfed 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 publifhed. On the contrary, the other, whether they have examined any I of the pretended'Miracles, and found them I falfe,. or elfe have learnt it from Somebody I elfe, make to themfelves another from this I 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 laid to have happened in the A 3 World.