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The Lutherans also with us allow of Thanksgiving of Women after Childbirth, commonly called the Churching of Women, which Practice of the Church in this Parcular may be reasonably be suppos'd to have begun in Imitation of the Blessed Birgin, who, though she was rather sanctified than defiled by the Birth of jesus, and had so no need upon the Account of any legal Uncleanness to expect till the Days of her Purification were accomplished, yet her Humility and Modesty detain'd her so long, and then her Devotion brought both her and her blessed son in her Arms to the Temple, where she offer'd the Divine Infant and her Praises to Almighty God together. Luke 2. 22.
