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A learned treatise of the plague
A learned treatise of the plague wherein the two questions, whether the plague be infectious or no, and , whether and how far it may be shunned of Christians by going aside, are resolved / written in Latin by the famous Theodore Beza Vezelian.A learned treatise of the plague wherein the two questions, whether the plague be infectious or no, and , whether and how farr it may be shunned of Christians by going aside, are resolved / written in Latine by the famous Theodore Beza Vezelian.
London: printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, 1665
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.
as if the Stars were only placed in their Spheres to be looked upon, or for difference of times, I think to be no sign of Judgement, but rather of a perverse Stubbornness, when as the Husbandmen have a daily knowledge of this, and the Tempests do speak the same; and that the thing it self doth prove, that the temperature and distemperature, and even Infection it self in some measure may before told by skilful Astrologers. But now should we grant, that those Plagues, the example whereof are taken out of holy Scripture, were sent by Angels, and therefore to have been without Infection; why should it be less absurd and against Reason to conjecture and resolve, that no Plague is sent by Angels, than to hold that no Hail, no Showers, no Lightning is made by the course of Nature? because that in many places of the Scriptures we read, that by the ministry of Angels it hath both hailed, and that most rough and blustering winds have blown, and that it hath horribly thundered. But, say they, those examples of the Plague by Angels are set forth unto us for example, that thereby we may learn rightly to judge of Middle causes, and of the Original of the Plague.
as if the Stars were onely placed in their Spheres to be looked upon, or for difference of times, I think to be no sign of Judgement, but rather of a perverse Stubbornness, when as the Husbandmen have a daily knowledge of this, and the Tempests do speak the same; and that the thing it self doth prove, that the temperature and distemperature, and even Infection it self in some measure may before told by skilfull Astrologers. But now should we grant, that those Plagues, the example whereof are taken out of holy Scripture, were sent by Angels, and therefore to have been without Infection; why should it be less absurd and against Reason to conjecture and resolve, that no Plague is sent by Angels, than to hold that no Hayl, no Showres, no Lightning is made by the course of Nature? because that in many places of the Scriptures we read, that by the ministry of Angels it hath both hayled, and that most rough and blustring windes have blown, and that it hath horribly thundred. But, say they, those examples of the Plague by Angels are set forth unto us for example, that thereby we may learn rightly to judge of Middle causes, and of the Original of the Plague.