great tenderneſs. After twelve hours, the friends brought in a coffin, whereinto they deſired the corps to be put, as the cuſtom is: but Mr. Welch deſired, that for the ſatisfaction of his affections, they would forbear the youth for a time, which they granted, and returned not till twenty four hours, after his death, were expired; then they returned, deſiring with great importunity the corps might be coffined, that it might be ſpeedly buried, the weather being extreamly hot; yet he perſiſted in his requeſt, earneſtly begging them to excuſe him for once more; ſo they left the youth upon his pallat for full thirty ſix hours; but even after all that, though he was urged, not only with great earneſtneſs, but diſpleaſure, they were conſtrained to forbear for twelve hours yet more; after forty eight hours were paſt, Mr. Welch was ſtill where he was, and then his friends perceived he believed the young man was not really dead, but under ſome apoplectic fit, and therefore purpoſed to him for his ſatisfaction, that tryal ſhould be made upon his body by doctors and chirurgeons, if poſſibly any ſpark of life might be found in him, and with this he was content: ſo the phyſicians are ſet on work, who pinched him with pincers in the fleſhy part of the body, and twiſted a bow ſtring about his head with great force, but no ſign of life appearing in him, ſo the phyſicians pronounced him ſtark dead, and then there was no more delay to be deſired; yet Mr. Welch begged of them once more, that they would but ſtep into the next room for an hour or two, and leave him with the dead youth, and this they granted: Then Mr. Welch fell down before the pallat, and cried to the Lord with all his might, for the laſt time and ſometimes looked upon the dead body, continuing in wreſtling with the Lord till at length the dead youth opened his eyes, and cried out to Mr. Welch whom he diſtinctly knew, O Sir, I am all whole, but my head and legs: and theſe were the places they had ſore hurt, with their pinching.
When Mr. Welch perceived this, he called upon his friends, and ſhewed them the dead young man reſtored to life again, to their great aſtoniſhment. And this
