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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.
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.
I Confess my self to have been so unacquainted with this question, Whether the Plague be to be reckoned amongst infectious Diseases? that until within these few years, I am of belief, that it was never doubted; but that this Sickness alone, amongst all others, was to be judged Contagious; for testimony whereof, before any man that is not given to quarrel, I refer my self to the judgement of* Writers of all Countries, who have treated of these things. But now in our times men have taken in hand to dispute this question upon this occasion, That many do so greatly fear this disease, and death which commonly followeth the same▪ ⟨p. 2⟩that forsaking all duties, not only of Christians, but also of Humanity, they have greatly increased the very wrath of God, which is the chief cause of this Sickness: and there hath in a manner been no* stay or let in them; but where this great misery hath happened, the bonds of Man's fellowships being once broken, it is much to be wondered at, that all Mankind hath not perished and been destroyed. And these men being demanded what they can allege for so impious a crime, for that they commonly bring nothing else for their excuse, but the fear of Infection, whereof it hath come to pa•s, that those in whom there is a greater boldness, do think that they can no way more certainly find a remedy for this evil, than by teaching that this Sickness is falsely supposed to be infectious.