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O Make not a tush at a plague: sleight it not too much. ¹If we account the lives of men, women and children to be precious, (how precious a thing life is, hath been ^*before declared) we may well think that that which taketh away the lives of many, is to be accounted a terrible thing. I deny not but that in some respects war, in other respects famine is more terrible then pestilence: which made ^eDavid choose it, rather then either of them. Yet is a plague, if once it grow to any strength, a fearful and terrible judgement. By it, parents that have had many children like Olive plants round about their table, have been soon made childless. By it parents, children, husbands, wives, masters, servants, whole households have been in a very short time swept away. Yea streets, and villages, and cities have thereby been made desolate. On some it cometh more mildly, and taketh them away without any pain, or extraordinary fervour: on others it falleth more violently, casting them into extreme burning fits, troubling the brain, disturbing the understanding, making them that are affected therewith, rage and rave, and seek all ways to make away themselves. Lamentable experience hath given too evident ⟨p. 120⟩