in his Saints, now and then, by certain super∣••atural fauors to signify, how pleasing vnto him the honor is, which we, here vpon earth, shew to his friends in heauen; letting as it were descend certain rayes of that glory, which they there eternally poss••ss, to the increasing of that honor and temporal glory, which he does also euen here vpon earth to those his same friends: and so it has appeared to vs now the third time, in the Person of Margarit Crick a deuout woman, of about eight and thirty years of age, born at Aelost of Peter Crick a merchant there in his life time, and Susan Ʋander Straten. This woman in the year of our Lord 1656. hauing falne into a grieuous sick∣nes, and palsy in the right side of her body, although she in some measure recouered of it, yet notwithstanding she retained, in all her right side, such a weaknes, that she was euer after miserable, and wholly vnfit for any work which required any force and strength, and she got moreouer such a sudden contraction of the nerues or sinews, that her right legg became remarkably shorter then her left: in such sort that she was forced, to make one of her shooes, at least about half a thumb higher then the other, and besides, was necessitated, by reason of her great weaknes, to make vse of a Crutch to go with all.
This lamenes in the maner related, together with a general weaknes of the right side of her body, stuck by her the space of six years. During the first two years, to wit from the year 1656. to the year 1658. she applied diuers