Several reasons proving that inoculating or transplanting the small pox, is a lawful practice,…

And we have an Army of Africans among our selves, who have themselves been under it, and given us all the Assurance, which a Rational Mind can desire, that it has long been used with the like Success in Africa. Yea, Behold, ye yourselves have seen it. The Operation has been performed on an Hundred & more, in the Town of Boston: And not one of them has miscarried: They have every one of them hitherto done well. They all give Thanks to our Merciful Redeemer for leading them into it. They would every one of them rather undergo it again, and many times over, than suffer the Small Pox as People ordinarily suffer it in the common way of Infection. The Story of one Dying after it, is trumped up with so much folly and falsehood, that it is unworthy to have any Answer given to it. In fine; Experience has declared, that there never was a more unfailing Remedy employed among the Children of Men.

And we have an Army of Africans among our selves, who have themselves been under it, and given us all the Assurance, which a Rational Mind can desire, that it has long been used with the like Success in Africa. Yea, Behold, ye yourselves have seen it. The Operation has been performed on an Hundred & more, in the Town of Boston: And not one of them has miscarried: They have every one of them hitherto done well. They all give Thanks to our Merciful Redeemer for leading them into it. They would every one of them rather undergo it again, and many times over, than suffer the Small Pox as People ordinarily suffer it in the common way of Infection. The Story of one Dying after it, is trump'd up with so much folly and falshood, that it is unworthy to have any Answer given to it. In fine; Experience has declared, that there never was a more unfailing Remedy employed among the Children of Men.

That this is an Allowable Method, is plain; Because there can be no Objection brought against it, but what will also lie against the use of almost all the preventing Physic, that is used in the World. The Objector must maintain, That it is unlawful for a Man, who would preserve his Life and Health, to make himself Sick in a way that constantly tends to Preservation. But a very Familiar Case will so illustrate the Matter, as to put it beyond all Dispute. Suppose, There is a Bloody Flux prevailing in the Town where I live, which proves Mortal to a great part of them that have it; many more than Four Hundred perish by it in a Month. A Physician is Master of a Purge; which whosoever takes it, is in an ordinary way, delivered from the danger of that Mortal Distemper. An Artificial Purge seasonably taken saves him from Death by the Natural Purge, which he is exposed unto. Will any scruple the taking of this Artificial Purge? Surely, None but such as want a Purge of Hellebore Here the Man makes Himself Sick, while He is well: and thinks that he is not the whole who has no need of a Physician, while he has the Humours in him which render him obnoxious to a Deadly Sickness. He won't think it his Duty to stay till God send the Sickness in another way upon him; when it will be too late for him to seek relief; But he will give Thanks to GOD for teaching him, how to make himself Sick, in a way that will save his Life, He most properly takes GOD's Time to fall Sick: He does it seasonably, and in the Time when GOD has commanded him to do it.