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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.
No man questionless that is godly, and of right understanding, ever condemned the going aside of Jacob; no man ever condemned David flying the fury of Saul, and conspiracy of Absalom; nor Elijah avoiding by his flight the rage of Jezebel; no man ever condemned the going aside of Athanasius more than once: neither do we here fly either unto the Agony of Christ, or unto that of Matthew 10. 23. If they persecute you in one City, fly unto another: which places I confess are of some not fitly alleged; for as touching the fears of Christ, they are grounded upon a peculiar consideration, and are not to be drawn into example; when as there is handled of the mystery of our Salvation, the parts whereof Christ alone both could and did take upon him, in the which he did see that fearful wrath of his Father, and indeed felt it, bearing the Punishment due unto our Sins: we contrariwise are not at our Deaths tried with the same fears, because we have the Father appeased with us, and, through Faith, behold Life in Death it self. And that saying of Christ is doubtless no Command of flying away; but on the contrary, admonisheth faithful Pastors, that being feared with no threatenings, if they be driven out of one place, they hasten unto another; the which afterwards we see diligently to have been done by the Apostles.
No man questionless that is godly, and of right understanding, ever condemned the going aside of Jacob; no man ever condemned David flying the fury of Saul, and conspiracy of Absolon; nor Elias avoiding by his flight the rage of Jezabel; no man ever condemned the going aside of Athanasius more than once: neither do we here fly either unto the Agonie of Christ, or unto that of Matthew 10. 23. If they persecute you in one City, fly unto another: which places I confesse are of some not fitly alledged; for as touching the fears of Christ, they are grounded upon a peculiar consideration, and are not to be drawn into example; when as there is handled of the mysterie of our Salvation, the parts whereof Christ alone both could and did take upon him, in the which he did see that fearful wrath of his Father, and indeed felt it, bearing the Punishment due unto our Sins: we contrariwise are not at our Deaths tryed with the same fears, because we have the Father appeased with us, and, through Faith, behold Life in Death it self. And that saying of Christ is doubtlesse no Command of flying away; but on the contrary, admonisheth faithful Pastors, that being feared with no threatnings, if they be driven out of one place, they hasten unto another; the which afterwards we see diligently to have been done by the Apostles.