A learned treatise of the plague

First of all I think it is to be provided, That every man do summon himself unto the Judgement▪seat of God, unto the Plague as the coming of news of the wrath of God, condemning himself, that he may be acquitted by him, and that withal he weigh with himself, that he is called to stand forth and plead his own Cause, and that this Rod cannot be avoided by change of place, but of manners; and that if he must die, that this is decreed for the good of them which die, forasmuch as they are blessed which die in the Lord.

First of all I think it is to be proivded, That every man do summon himself unto the Judgement▪seat of God, unto the Plague as the coming of news of the wrath of God, condemning himself, that he may be acquitted by him, and that withall he weigh with himself, that he is called to stand forth and plead his own Cause, and that this Rod cannot be avoided by change of place, but of manners; and that if he must die, that this is decreed for the good of them which die, forasmuch as they are blessed which die in the Lord.

Another Point is, That no man either Go aside, or tarry with a doubtful Conscience: But when as he shall have learned out of the Word of God what his Duty is; that commending himself unto God, he continue constantly therein.

Another Point is, That no man either Go aside, or tarry with a doubtful Conscience: But when as he shall have learned out of the Word of God what his Dutie is; that commending himself unto God, he continue constantly therein.

And although that in so great variety of Circumstances, Rules for every singular thing cannot be set down; yet is it no hard matter to give certain General Precepts agreeable unto the Word of God, by the which, as by a certain Rule, singular Cases may afterwards (as they say) be tried; Let them therefore which think to tarry, know, that it is the Commandment of God, Thou shalt not Kill, and that therefore neither their own, nor the Lives of any belonging or depending on them, are rashly to be put in danger of deadly Infection. Let them on the other side, which think to Go away, know, that no man ought to have so great regard either of himself, or of his Family, that he forget what one oweth unto his Country, and Fellow Citizens. To be brief, what he oweth unto another, whether they be bound by the common bond of Humanity and Society, of by any other kind of Friendship; for Love seeketh not the things which are her own: Wherefore, I confess, that I cannot see by what reason at all any