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A08560	How and whither a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the pestilence A sermon out of the Psalme. Qui habitat in adsutorio altissimi. By Andrewe Osiander. Translated out of hye Almayn in to Englishe.; Wie und wohin ein Christ die grausamen Plag der Pestilentz fliehen soll. English	Osiander, Andreas, 1498-1552.; Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568. aut	1537 (1537)	STC 18878; ESTC S104259	17,345	46

How and whither a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the pestilence ¶ A Sermon out of the Psalme Qui habitat in adsutorio altissimi By Andrewe Osiander ¶ Translated out of hye Almayn in to Englishe ✚ 1537. ¶ A Sermon out of the Psalme Qui habitat c. how and vnto what place a Christen man ought to flye the horrible plage of the pestilence FOr as muche as Almyghty God doth vyset handle and punysh the contry and region wyth the horrible and fearfull plage of the pestilēce and many folkes after an vnmanerly fashion are so afrayed therof that ther be herde and sene of them al maner of vncostumable wordes and workes whiche become not well a Christen mā And seynge that all the dedes of charite which one Christē mā is bounde to shewe vnto another no lesse then vnto Christ hymselfe are perlously omytted wherby then ryseth all maner of sklaūder to the weake and mysreporte vnto the holy Gospell I thought it profytable necessary to bestowe vpon youre charite in this case a shorte instruccyon and comforte out of the holy scripture to the intent that the ignoraunt maye be taughte the weake strengthed and euery one counselled after hys callynge to serue his neghboure And I wyll take for me the .xci. Psalme which soūdeth after this mane Who so sytteth vnder the defēce of the hyghest and abydeth vnder the shadowe of the Almyghtye He sayeth vnto the LORDE My hope and my strōge holde my God on whom I trust For he delyuereth me from the snare of the hunter and from y e noy some pestilence He shall couer the wyth hys fethers and thy truste shalbe vnder hys wynges hys truth is spere and shylde So that thou nedest not to fear for the horriblenesse of the nyghte for the arowes that flye by daye tyme. For the pestilence that commeth preuely in the darke for the syckenesse that destroyeth in the noone daye Though a thousande fall at thy syde and ten thousāde at thy ryght hande yet shall it not come nye the. Yee wyth thyne eyes shalte thou se thy desyre and beholde howe the vngodly shalbe rewarded BVt afore we come to the vnderstōdynge of these comfortable wordes your charite shal fyrst knowe that it is not my meanyng to forbyd or inhibite ony man to flye or to vse phisycke or to auoyde daungerous and sycke places in these fearfull ayres so farre as a man doth not therin against the belefe nor gods commaundement nor agaynst hys callynge nor agaynst y e loue of hys neghboure For though some wyll saye Such plage toucheth no man but those that be ordeyned of God therevnto lyke as ther be certayne ensamples therof founde in the holy scripture ▪ Namely how y e Ezech. 9. and Apoca. vii ther was sent an angel which aforehāde marked y e vertuous electe or euer it was charged cōmaūded y e seconde angell to smyte with pestilence or other plages those y t were not marked Neuertheles agaynst that it myght be sayde Good syr thoughe it wente so at suche a tyme in suche places who maketh vs sure yet nowe that it shall therfore chaunce so in all other deathes of the country Therfore wyll I now at this tyme let all suche thynges continue in theyr worthynesse and fre lyke as all other naturall thynges whiche be subiecte and commytted vnto oure reason to rule But as for the christen whiche by reason of offyce or for pouerte sake or for other reasonable causes can not or be not mynded to flye I wyll here withall shewe them theyr best and hyghest comforte that they haue In lyke maner I wyll not entre agaynst them that speake naturally therof and saye Suche plage commeth out of the influence of the starres out of y e workynge of the Cometes out of y e vnseasonable wether and alterynge of the ayre out of the Southe wyndes out of stynkynge waters or out of foule mystes of the grounde For such wysedome of theyrs wyl we leaue vnto them vndespysed and not fyght there agaynst But as Christen men we wyll holde vs vnto the worde of God the same wyll we suffre to be oure moost hye wysedome and geue credence vnto it and follow it and so shall we fynde muche better and surer instruccion Namely that this horrible plage of the pestilence commeth out of Gods wrath because of the despysynge and transgressynge of his godly commaundemētes For thus sayeth the holy prophet Moses in the fyft boke the .xxviii. Chapter Yf thou wylt not herken vnto the voyce of the LORDE thy God to obserue and kepe all his commaundementes and ordynaunces which I commaunde the then shal all these curses come vpon the. c. And it followeth The LORDE shall cause the pestilence to endure longe wyth the the LORDE shall smyte the wyth swellyng feuer heate burnynge blastynge drouth c. and shall persecute the tyll he vtterly destroye the and brynge y e to naught And certaynly this is the playne truth and the very originall of these plages No man ought to doute theron For thoughe the forsayd naturall causes do somwhat also thereto yet is it sure and vndouted that the same causes be sent and stered vp oute of Gods wrath for our synne and vnthankfulnesse And truely that it is euen so the holy scripture declareth not wyth bare wordes onely but sheweth it also wyth notable ensamples For in the fourth boke of Moses the fourtenth Chapter whan all the spyes excepte Iosua and Caleb spake euell of the lande of promes and made the people vnpacyent and vprourysh so that they chose thē a captayne and thought to go agayne in to Egipte and to stone Moses and Aaron which commaunded them the contrarye we reade thus Then appeared the glorye of the Lorde and spake vnto Moses ▪ Howe longe doth thys people blaspheme me And howe longe wyll they not beleue me for all the tokens that I haue done vpō them ther fore wyl I smyte and destroye them w t pestilēce make of the a grater nacion thē this Lykewyse also whan Dauid caused the people to be nombred agaynste Gods commaundement he displeased the Lorde God horribly therwith Therfore layed he the punyshment vpon hym so that he was fayne to chose hymselfe whether he hadde rather haue seuen yeares derth or thre monethes myschaunce in battayll or thre dayes pestilence in the lande And whan he chose the pestilence ther dyed in thre dayes seuentye thousande men as it is wrytten in the laste Chapter of the .ii. boke of Samuel Seynge then y t out of the word of God we knowe the very cause of thys horrible plage Namely that it is the defaute of our synnes as vnbelefe disobedience vnthākfulnesse Therfore before all thynges it shal be necessary that we refrayne frō the same repent and amende our lyues Yf we wyll els be preserued and delyuered frō thys horrible plage For yf God punysh vs because of synne it is good to