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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	think_v	1,468	5	3.8318	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

to nature he doth not in Scripture reveal this disease so executed but either he doth express it done by an Angel or else doth silence the execution thereof in a mute anger Job was smitten with scab● yet the Scripture attributeth it to the devil and why should we think but that in a disease so mortal so quick dispatching as this but that he used his good Angel incensed with his Masters displeasure or else sent Satan to buffet us for our presumptions Our Church acknowledgeth the Plague to be Gods arrow and Hippocrates calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And therefore for Gods cause lest you detract from his honour lay it upon me I know that those houses wherein God hath smitten one for want of care and means may and do taint others but what is this to my breath or that men should think therefore that I am totally infected Or if one go abroad out of such a house into a Congregation and there because they have not been aired first taint an other as we surmise or somtimes one being afraid of another their heart faint and their blood turnes and they die of the plague their passions though not strucken helping to work the humours of their bodies to a sore is this sufficient to forget the operation of God in this Plague or condemn me or leave me utterly desolate God hath said that he will send evil Angels among us yet these can but vex them to whom their licence extends yet I make no doubt but God makes the Pestilence ordinarily to cleave to a man by infection but this doth not hold always that he doth so and when it doth take one by infection it is not always mortal And this is the infirmitie with which I am at this time afflicted And that I draw you not into error take the judgment of other Ancients and let none think by an obscure evasion to make me the more to be shunned in necessary neighborly comfort by saying the Plague in Scripture and ours were not all one because theirs were sudden ours were lingring For God made those sharp that wee which were to live under the times of mercy might be warned by his Severity to them And if he had suffered them to have lived under the stroak as Hezekiah did it would have broken out of them as it did on him and us at this day God is more merciful to us then who by space between his stroaks calleth to repentance But let not us abuse this mercy and cry out rashly and childishly before God toucheth us that all London is infected Indeed lying and breathing under Gods stroak oftentimes infects others hath not God therefore given you learned Physicians to your brethren to help you with Preservatives against the infection though they cannot recover the fish that is strucken And if we use these good means hath not God given us his Word which declares his power in restraining not only the infection but the violence of his Devouring Angel also as our King James of blessed memory called it in his Parliament-Oration And have not our Magistrates most worthily and carefully provided to shut them up or dispose of them elsewhere who have been strucken Which course might do some good but that we lack persons and purses to keep in and keep the sick when they are within All these things being observed I need not be left like Job on a dunghil nor my infirmity be so much shunned that I and my children should be so many miles severed The Venereal Pox is ten times a baser disease and more absolutely infectious yet my sonnes I shame to own them that have it are called Good-fellows Men will not stand upon it to drink either Wine or Tobacco with them who are more fit not for the Pesthouse but the Pistrinum the Bridewel The Chyrurgions never shun to cure these but because the hand of God is upon me and a less infectious disease though more pernitious I am shunned of som Pastors and people Physicians and Chyrurgions as if they stayed they should be all dead men whereas this disease is a picking and culling out of men to set forward as in a muster which causeth it to take at the beginning one here and another half a mile off then leap thither again where it was first and take them away which at first it left as the weekly Bills testifie neither can it be proved that all these have by any contracting or conventing ever met together especially since houses were shut up So that as Fernelius saith this disease hath an hidden beginning and why not an hidden procession But only that in continuance some accidents do befall upon which our reason hath more ground to traverse and discourse But som will say the Plague is mortally infectious and therefore it is wilful murder to stay if I may go I cannot say so If it be thy place and calling to stay But I say thou then dost kill them wilfully by thine own argument whom thou leavest behind or settest to keep thy sick except thou thinkest that servants and poor keepers may be killed up by authority But surely if it were but well observed my infirmitie rather deserveth an humble reverence then to breed a scandal or an offence If it were meerly natural men might like natural men flie from it But as it is secretly hidden from the Heathen as Galen and Hippocrates who grant the beginning thereof to be very secret so the Scriptures declare unto us that hidden beginning that so we might know under what covert to hide us The 91 Psalme tells us in verse the 1.4 Of the shadow and wings of the Almighty Therefore the Septuagint translates that Psalm where we find the word Pestilence by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies a word Or els they call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a thing arguing the strange nature thereof These learned Iewes went to the cause of the Plague I am not ignorant that the Heathen learned Physician Galen called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of his destroying nature and mortal disposition and Hippocrates called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because of his spreading nature These men went no farther then the effect which was visible but the invisible operator and operation was hidden from them and therein they did but guesse The Scriptures call us to an outward admiration of this wonderful work and an inward adoration of God who is the Enlarger and Restrainer hereof who makes such sweet Promises in the 91 Psalm concerning deliverance from it as Thou shalt go on the Asp and the Dragon Which Mellerus on that Psalm saith signifies the Pestilence and used by the Psalmist Vt vim veneni significantius exprimeret yet not the force of it to infect but to kill for the sting of the Asp poisons but those whom it strikes it imparts not the same force to another not contacta no not by touching of the body so stung