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by whose kindness they “fe now oy, 
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Nantwich MB rcshiiva;s Your’ ., &e. 
July 15, 1808, J.E.B. 
To Mrs. Bostock. 
Mavam—Being very well assured by va- 
rious accounts, both public and private, that 
you have performed several wonderful cures 
when physicians have failed, and that you do 
it by the force and efficacy of prayers mostly, 
if not altogether (the outward means you use 
being generally supposed to be inadequate to_ 
the effects produced) ; I cannot but look up- 
on such operations to be miraculous; and if — 
80, why may not an infinitely goed gracious 
God enable you to raise the dead, as well as 
to heal the sick, give sight to the blind, and 
hearing to the deaf? Fur, since he is pledud 
ved to hear your prayers in some cases so be- 
Neficial to mankind, there’s the same reason 
to expect it in others, and consequently in 
that I’ve particularly ‘mentioned, namely; 
faising the dead: now, as [ve lately lost a 
wife, whom I most deatly loved, my ¢hil- 
dren one of the best of step-mothers, all her — 
mear relations a friend they greatly esteemed, 
and the poor a charitable benefactress ; I en- 
treat you, for God Almighty’s sake, that you 
will be so good as to come here, if your actual 
presence is absolutely necessary ; or if not, 
that, you wili offer up your prayers to/the 
Throne of Grace on my behalf, that God 
would graciously vouciaae to raise up_my 
dear departed wife, Da Eleanor Price, from 
the dead; this is one of the greatest acts of 
charity you can possibly do, for my heart 
ready to break with grief at the consideration 
of so great a loss. This would be doing my- 
self, and all her relatiotis and friends, such an 
extraordinary kindnéss as wou'd necessarily 
‘engage our daily prayers for your preserv oe 
as the best gratuity we could make you for ae 
great a benefit, tho’ were any other ‘compati- 
ble with the nature of the thing, and durst 
we offer, and you accept it, we shou’d thik 
nothing too much t6 give tothe utmost of 
éven to attempt 5 and wish the bare mention 
of it is rot offensive both to God and you. 
If your immediate presence is indispensably 
necessary, pray let me know it at the return 
of the post, that I may send a coach and six, 
and servants to attend you bere, with orders 
to defray the expences in a manner most suit- 
able to-your own desires ; or if your prayers 
will be as effectual at the distance you are 
from me, pray signify the same in a letter 
directed, by way of London, to, Bood Madam, 
your sink nate and. afflicted petitioner and 
humble servant, % 
brats 
Price, at Buckland, in 2} agp South 
“Wales. 
December 2, 1748. 
our abilities ; but I suppose this is not. ge qualities as ~-_ 
he 
ew 
Application ta Mrs. Bostock:to raise the + hace bea 
fit o _mankind,.a 
‘nobody can disput 
alone, 
OHN Pai L 
Pray direct ‘your letter to Sir Jo 
God Almighty prosper t 
taking, and all others intended 
e lon 
an useful fron othe earth, 
ae mor you with e:ernal glo 
Kingdom of heaven ‘for Jesus Christ’s sake. 
‘To Mrs, Bostock, 
Free—F. Bist. 
Nant wich, Cheshire. 
rs. acotagy 
Saint as a 
lepondence dill 
"not. be scimti 
ie that 
red to wi 
first ag 
tain agents 5 fini were 
yet as she athe red a’womuan, exe 
Sive grief was brought almost a ith’s e 
notwithstanding the advice of two. good phy- 
sicians for a considerable length of t'me, aud» 
the frequént use of medicine. One man who 
labo severely under an asthma and wind- 
chol e usual attendants on a broken cons 
stitution ; and anotliiy ho fron from his infancy 
had. prodigious tumors about neck and 
throat(three facts Iam well ig are true), 
byt three applications of fas 
anda little liquor of a red co 
seemingly inadequate 
duced; I cannot but conclude that she uses 
these as mere signs and symbols, and that it 
is by the efficacy of her ptayers alone that so 
many people as daily relftro her are healed ; 
and therefore, if God Almighty is es ° 
grant her requests in theseand many more 
similar instances, who .knows but he may 
do so in the particue 
For 
graciously condesce 
lar case 1 am so so) s about? 
power herein, 
it is infinite. 
these conser I Gesi 
a 
va the favor to il with her to 
a vent pray o the Throne 
bee Toathe reson dear, dear 
» who was not only one of the finest wo- 
men upon earth, but was endowed with ‘ane 
er per 
t you will be so goo ie Sioa 
uccess of this cA Bostock, 
who certainly (asa christian) ot ref 
to pray, in a case so important to, sed sll 
earnestly recommended to her, by your oblige 
humble servant, in HN PRICE. 
Buckland, March 25, 17 
P.S. You ma assure er ith the strict- 
est truth, a ia a Ge io mae a 
_chirurgeon, » who nts to 
“make a joke of ae t oh unfortunate man 
om I sohailipe myself. 
te 
To the same. 
Sir—, re so kind to promise me 
the continuance of your good offices with Mrs. 
Bostock, pray do me the favor’ to acquaint 
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