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erpin ^ nt ipi pj ^ er ^ It wa $ ; jn r , the ye ' pjPg 17 ^ 3 , that i ^ e * became minister of Alce ^ ter ,..-which is I presume near Coventry , and as there were two ministers at the latter place , lie might perhaps be a Pluralist * From this . place he removed to Newcastle . Mr . Josiah Rogerson
wa §' also first settled in Derbyshire , at a Mnall place near YVirksworth . Hence it is probable tlat Derbyshire was the native county of the two brothers . Air . Josiah Rogerson was settled at Derby soon after 1715 .
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Onthe alleged Miraculous Cure of Mary MaiUard ) in 1693 * Sir , Dec . 4 , 1 . 811 . I thank your respectable correspondent , Mr . Isaac James , for answering * the enquiries contained in rny letter , to you , of the twentieth of March . The fact in
question , I perceive , has not been overlooked by Dr . Doddiidge . One of the references in his lectures , is to the c Account of Maillard ' s Miraculous Cure . 'f
It appears that this person had laboured from early infancy 5 under a disease of the hip , which occasioned lameness and deformity , and that , one Sunday evening in November 1693 , she was suddenly cured , without any medical application or surgical assistance . Thus much , I think , may reasonably be admitted : that the event was a miracle , is not quite so certain . To say nothing of ( he marks of weakness and credulity which abound in the exact relation , it is plain from the patient ' s narrative ( p-7 )? tbat , although she ran about after her cure , she still hobbled ; * V « L . vi , 4 O 4 , f Vol . ii . 47 , ( 4 U 1 cd . )
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a defect which she ascribed to % very different cause from vyhat i $ a&signed by the medical men , who state that something of a tumour and of a limping remained .
* If then the cure was incomplete , there is a strong presumption ,. Sir * that it was not miraculous ; the miracles of the scriptures being always instantaneous and per . feet .
Again , Maillard's declarations , taken in connection with those of her mistress , appear to indicate that her cure vvas effected through
the agency of what are termed natural causes . For example , there was ; at this moment , a greater extension ol the limb than usual : and her situation and feet
ings would * no doubt , have apow , erful influence on her frame . 1 am assured * indeed , by a medical friend , that diseases of this kind
are sometimes perceived to be suddenly removed , and that the fact is not inexplicable by persons ; acquainted with the organization of the human body . ~
Previously to a miracle , being wrought , we may be no fit judges of the necessity or expediency of it ; yet , when the relatipn of such an
alleged event is published , I conceive , Sir , we niay be . permitted to ask , how far the interposition was calculated to answer great
ends , in respect of individuals or the world ? Now , in the p resent case , and in the want of direct evidence for the miraculous quali * ty of the fact , this is a most mate * rial
consideration-Those who are familiar with the late bishop of Salisbury ' s Criterion , ' will , 1 presume , find th « greater difficulty in the account of Mary Maillard , to be that of admitting a miracle * On thu
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724 On the alleged Mir&culwk \ Qnf 4 qfiftfary Maillard , in Iffgj .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 724, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/20/
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