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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18922	Henoch Clapham his demaundes and answeres touching the pestilence methodically handled, as his time and meanes could permit.	Clapham, Henoch.; Re., Pere.	1604 (1604)	STC 5343; ESTC S108006	28,520	38

to be tryed by Gods worde for already it is vnder the tryall of the Bishops sworde Only heere thus much 1. The Leper was not put off till his disease were throughly seene tryed and censured But our sicknes are shaken off without tryall often tymes vpon false suppositiôn 2. The Priest then was tyed by dutie to take such tryall But the Priest ordinarily with vs is of the rest furthest from that shaking off not only the sicke but the sound also 3. The Priest and people got the Leper conveyed to some place apart providing sufficiently for him that so his lothsom body might bring no grievance to the Congregation But the most of our Priestes and people haue beene so farre from convaying forth the sick so provided as they rather haue put out them selues providing for themselues and leaving the sick behinde them 4. The Leprous house and garment came also vnder the Priestes tryall and censure will our Priestes do the like I will hardly beleeue it till I see it 5. The Leprous garmentes were to be burnt and the houses pulled downe will they deale so with pestilenced houses and garmentes Then downe with all England Haue I not these circumstances remembred had iust cause to complayne of abuse committed against the Ceremoniall law of Leprosie Sub Iudice lis sit Let the Church of God all abroad iudge it As for any Rules of Politicall decency or safetie to be drawen frō Levit. 13. or any other scripture nether haue I nor I think any scholler ever excepted against And as farre from my thought it was Contemptuously herein to oppose vnto the doctrine of Leprosie published in the booke of Orders for the Wednesdayes Fast besides that my said Epistle was published before that book som dayes if not weeks at least in my iudgement as they haue vnder my hand and oth nor could I euer from Pawles Church-yard or otherwise learne the contrarie But inough of that Parenthesis When men be vnwilling Tolay downe their liues for their Brethren to giue their liues for their flocke to preferre bodies to soules eternall life to temporarie what Law of God man will bind them What evasions will not be devised And what transgression will not of such be iustified euen somtymes to the harming of such as haue beene conscionable obseruers of the Law This chapter then I will finish with other mens wordes * One saith thus Let not Gentlemen and rich Citizens by flying vnlesse they fly likewise frō their sinnes thinke to escape scot-free Another writes thus It is a great shame for a Christian man to be afrayde of the plague of pestilence as to fly from them that he is bound to serue by Gods commaundement Another writes thus They that fly for meare feare ought to acknowledge their want of faith and to bewayle it as those that consider neither of them selues nor of the hand of God that stricketh perswading them selues that staying is the only daunger and that flyinge is the only meane to escape Such men do as litle Children that flye from the Fathers Rodde and so make him more angrie Againe another writes so They must summon them selues vnto the iudgement feate of God and looke on the plague as on the messenger of Gods wrath which can not be avoyded with change of place but by repentance and amendment of life So farre they From such authorised sentences let the Reader collect that howso ever all departure be not gayn-sayed yet no such departure is graūted as whereby Relatiue duties be omitted and cast aside or Barbanitie may ensue for the least euill may not be done to the ende that good may come thereby for to such saith the Apostle Damnation is iust From the beginning of the world God knoweth all his workes and therefore neither needeth nor craueth nor alloweth the helpe of our false finger Let vs striue in all estates to be helpefull one to another and blessed is that servant who when his maister Christ cometh is found so doing Dixi. Epilogue EQuall is that Pentameter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euery forced busines is grievous Almost a yeare is passed at the penning hereof So long forbearance was much and onerous specially in so even a cause If my Aduersaries scorpions haue by lashing enforced this Cry and thou thereby bettered Deo gratias giue God the prayse who out of a flint can fetch fier and of stones rayse vp children to Abraham Meane tyme be assured it had beene more ease for me not to haue beene so vrged But though I were slaine I must with Iob hold fast myne innocencie Innocency By how much the more it is innoeencie by so much the more I should by silence haue borne false witnes against God his Church and myne owne soule But if it bee remembred what horride reportes were scattered abroad of me both touching Fact and matter of Faith notwithstanding all orderly suites and protestations subscriptorie and iuramentall yea against the tendering Royal purpose of our Soueraigne to the possessing of Magistrates eares with vntruthes to the perverting of Ministers and people for bending all against me and so the sword of Gods holy Angell yet vn-sheathed gainst all damming vp the course of my Ministerie cutting of my bodies liberty propounding my life to daunger breaking the heart of my family consumed the substance I had paynefully earned to the gladding of fooes sadding of friends procuring murmurations c. and al for praying preaching visiting and good-doing to all sortes pestilenced when almost none els would if all this be layd to heart am I Iron that I should not feele or am I lead that I should not sound Nay is it reasonable though I bee therefore cōmitted close prisoner yea should dy the death but I should speak and write for clearing of myne innocencie Wherein I haue fayled and who is it that in nothing sinneth not thou that art stronger helpe to sustayne me at least simpathize so my estate as I may be helped by thy feeling and harty prayers And so with reference of my cause to the iudgement of God his Church in England Scotland France Ireland and wheresoeuer I end This 18. of September 1604. The Lord most vnworthy HENOCH CLAPHAM A Letter to a friend YOu desire to heare by what Law I was committed and so am still continued in prison I protest in the presence of God I know not by what Law all this is done There is a Law that toucheth som concerning iudgement and doctrine of the Pestilence It is layd downe in the booke called the Queenes Orders for the Pestilence I speake of our late sweet Soveraigne now gone vnto God The same booke since as I take it was published last pest-tyme in his Maiesties name and this is it verbatim Order 16. Item if there be any person Ecclesiasticall or Lay that should hold and publish any opinions as in som places report is made that it is a vayne thing to