A01974:434
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the…Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the…
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friars, London.Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 61. Of public persons forbearing to visit particular persons infected with contagious diseases.
§. 61. Of publique persons forbearing to visit particular persons infected with contagious diseases.
1. Quest. Are such as have public callings bound to go to particular and private persons being infected with the plague to visit them?
1. Quest. ARe such as have publique callings bound to goe to particular and private persons being infected with the plague to visit them?
Answ. I find no ground in sacred Scripture to bind public persons to hazard their life in particular mens cases. They are set over a Society, not over one or two particular persons. Indeed every particular member of the Society belongeth to their charge: and they ought to do what they can to the good of every particular person under their charge, so far as may stand with the good of the whole body, and prove no prejudice thereto. But if by visiting particular persons they should be infected, and by that infection their life taken away, would not this prove a prejudice and damage to the whole body? Is it the way, is it the calling of a public person to go into a particular mans house that is infected? Private persons may every where be found out competently enabled to do such duties as are requisite to be done to such as are visited with the sickness: or at least, fit persons that have not public employments, may be chosen out, and set apart to visit the sick in contagious places to comfort them, and to see all things meet for them, to be duly performed.