1694 DIVINE HEALING. An Account of the Healing by Faith of Elizabeth Savage + A Defense of the Continuation of Miracles

A very scarce and important work in the history of the protestant church's relationship to the miraculous. After the Reformation, certainly there are miraculous instances recorded among the Huguenots and the Covenanters. The English puritans were much more cautious. One of the ongoing charges against the papists had been their false miracles. And any claim to authority because of miracles was, according to the reformers, trumped by Scripture. So the relationship toward promoting miraculous occurrences was complex. We have a mention of healing in Richard Baxter, some exploration of the charismatic gifts in John Owen's work on the Spirit, and a few other sprinkled instances.  This work, however, was published in the midst of a sort of miniature revival of healing in London during the 1690's. Previous to Mrs. Savage, another woman had been healed through the reading of the Gospels. And here, we read the account of Elizabeth Savage. It sounds remarkably similar to healings from the time of