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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.
That on the contrary, unless he perform these Duties, he may be thought to provoke the wrath of God against himself, and to be worse than an Infidel, as being one that rashly puts himself in danger of deadly Infection, without any care of himself, or his.
That on the contrary, unlesse he perform these Duties, he may be thought to provoke the wrath of God against himself, and to be worse than an Infidel, as being one that rashly puts himself in danger of deadly Infection, without any care of himself, or his.
The fifth and sixth Allegation is not any whit truer, They love not God, say they; and, gaping after earthly things, they care not for heavenly; Because they which love God desire nothing more than to be with him, which falleth out unto us by death; but they on the contrary fear nothing more. Then truly he, who in loving hath only his last end before another, for his own profit-sake to enjoy the thing he loveth, by what means soever it be, shall worthily be judged to love himself rather than his Friends. Therefore the self-same person which desireth to be loosed and to be with Christ, wisheth also, for his Brethren's sake, to be separated as a thing accursed, Acts 9. 3. Neither doth he deliver up his Life into the hands of them that lay in wait for him, appealing unto Caesar, Acts 25. 11. and giveth thanks for his health restored unto him, 2 Cor. 1. 11. That David also doth not so much fly Saul and Absalom, as Death, being notwithstanding a Worshipper of God; That he and Hezekiah do expressly pray against Death; therefore whosoever flieth Death is not rashly to be judged or censured not to love God: as contrariwise, whosoever desireth Death is not to be thought to love God; but he only, who lawfully and with a good Conscience, obeying the will of God, prepareth himself either to suffer or avoid death. The like also is to be judged of the fear of Death, that is, if it be grounded upon good reason and moderately, it is not only not to be condemned, but also to be allowed as a Preserver of life grafted in us by God; Therefore that fear of Evil is condemned by Philosophers, which is contrary to Fortitude, and calleth us from that which every one of us oweth unto each other, and out of holy Scripture, that Fear which is against Faith and Charity: For it is one thing to take clean away Natural