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 the contrary, being of a sanguine temper, very civil and humane, and really pious, without sourness or superstition. (For I myself have often conversed with him at Ragley, when I used to be at my Lord Viscount Conway's.) Whence I plainly saw, by the ascension of blood and spirits, his brain was in no danger, nor was I mistaken in my conjecture.

"But I would not be understood in what I have said of these sorts of cures, as if I despised them; for they may be the special gift of God in Nature, especially in regenerate Nature. Of which sort it is likely these cures of Gretrakes were, as any one may collect from the account of his forepass'd life, for he gave himself up wholly to the study of Godliness and sincere mortification, and through the whole course of his life, shew'd all manner of specimens of a Christian disposition. But, besides the innocence of his private life, and his most effusive charity and humanity, in