A learned treatise of the plague

Besides, shall we think that the number of those which shall dye, is more certain as often as God sendeth the Plague, than when he casteth other Darts? Now if they offend not against the providence of God, (who leaving, as it is meet, things unknown unto us, to the good will and pleasure of himself) who do use remedies of Physic both preservative and sanative, to keep away Sickness, and also to heal when it cometh; why shall we do the like also in the heat of the Plague? As therefore God hath appointed some which shall not die of the Plague, so also hath he appointed Remedies, by which, so far as in them lieth, men may avoid the Plague. And it is one and the same providence of God in all kind of diseases with which he hath ordained by an unchangeable Decree what shall come to pass, although the natures of the diseases differ never so much in themselves. Now among the chief remedies and provisions in Physic against Infection, that going aside in due season is worthily reckoned, the very nature and signification of the word Contagion doth declare: although neither all be save which fly, neither all die which tarry. God without all doubt when h[…] sent a Famine into Egypt and the Regions thereabouts, had determine[…] who should die in that scarcity; yet for all this Joseph ceaseth not with […] ⟨image 9⟩best diligence and most wise counsel to provide for the Egyptians: The which things the Churches in the time of Claudius the Emperor also did, when as they understood by Agabus the Prophet that a Famine should shortly come. The Lord also knew who should dye in that most cruel war of the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah, and yet both Hezekiah and the Prophet Isaiah himself secure themselves within the walls of the City: what should I say more? when as Paul knew assuredly, that neither he himself, neither any of those which were with him should perish in the shipwreck, yet said he to the Mariners who were preparing to fly out of the ship, Ye cannot be saved unless these tarry. Christ also, though he well knew that his hour was not yet come, yet did he more than once withdraw himself when the Jews sought to kill him.

Besides, shall we think that the number of those which shall dye, is more certain as often as God sendeth the Plague, than when he casteth other Darts? Now if they offend not against the providence of God, (who leaving, as it is meet, things unknown unto us, to the good will and pleasure of himself) who do use remedies of Physick both preservative and sanative, to keep away Sickness, and also to heal when it cometh; why shall we do the like also in the heat of the Plague? As therefore God hath appointed some which shall not die of the Plague, so also hath he appointed Remedies, by which, so far as in them lieth, men may avoid the Plague. And it is one and the same providence of God in all kind of diseases with which he hath ordained by an unchangeable Decree what shall come to pass, although the natures of the diseases differ never so much in themselves. Now among the chief remedies and provisions in Physick against Infection, tha going aside in due season is worthily reckoned, the very nature and signification of the word Contagion doth declare: although neither all be save which fly, neither all die which tarry. God without all doubt when h sent a Famine into Aegypt and the Regions thereabouts, had determine who should die in that scarcity; yet for all this Joseph ceaseth not with