A faithful relation of the wonderful and extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire : who for nearly three years has, and still continues, to live without any kind of food, to which are added, moral reflections and observations / published by her request.

Date:
1810
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Credit: A faithful relation of the wonderful and extraordinary abstinence of Ann Moore, of Tutbury, Staffordshire : who for nearly three years has, and still continues, to live without any kind of food, to which are added, moral reflections and observations / published by her request. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tjf the unlimited power and permission of the 'one Omnipotent and only God, whose name is Jesus Christ, who for us men, and for our salvation, in the fulness of lime, assumed the human nature, and thus was God manifested in the flesh, or according to the Apostle Paul, That in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-head bodily.— Shall we, frail mortals, presume to set limits to his divine power, or dare doubt hi^ po\yer- ful interference, when darkness covers the earth, and grossdarkness the people? Rather may it not be presumed, that the peculiar power of the Lord in thus sustaining the life of this Woman so long without food, —is the foremnner of some extraor- dinary and peculiar vouchsafements to Man?—-Look back for thirty years, and see the wonderful crash of nations—the struggle which the Americans have had—the dread- ful wars in Asia—the Afric's fetters broken —and the tumbling of Monarchs in Europe from their Thrones, and, above all, reflect on the dreadful judgments still awfully hovering over our heads. These, and such like extraordinary interpositions of the Di- vine favour* for the reclaiming, correcting, and chastizing a wicked and adulterous ge- * See Bromley on Extraordinary Dispensations^ at the end X)f]iis Wajf IP the Sabtalh of ReU. B