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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00472	The duetie of a faithfull and wise magistrate, in preseruing and deliuering of the eommon [sic] wealth from infection, in the time of the plague or pestilence two bookes. Written in Latine by Iohn Ewich, ordinary phisition of the woorthie common wealth of Breame, and newlie turned into English by Iohn Stockwood schoolemaister of Tunbridge. ...; De officio fidelis et prudentis magistratus tempore pestilentiae rempublican a contagio praeservandi liberandique. English	Ewich, Johann von, 1525-1588.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1583 (1583)	STC 10607; ESTC S101800	118,209	274

the preaching of the worde of the which there is the like power and like effect which is of the Sacraments Fourthly when as the Churche many times is vncertaine of y e repentance tryall of the sicke especially such as are taken with this deadly disease when as shee knoweth not whether they bee moued hereunto rather through feare of death or truste in the worke done as they tearme it or costome rather then of a right mind which reason also in som place is obserued as touching malefactours or euill doers they thinke it with more safetie to be left vndone then to bee giuen For albeit euery man is not bounden to examine others but themselues according vnto the counsaile of the Apostle yet that the church ought to do nothing rashly but to haue diligent regard what who with what fellowes wherefore howe when the Sacraments are to bee ministred least shee cast roses and pearles vnto swine and giue that which is holie vnto dogges Fiftly that alwaies the receiuers theÌ„selues are not this way benefited but that many times damnation is ministred vnto them in steede of saluation and iudgement in steed of life not onely the Apostle himself being witnes but also Hyppocrates himselfe who hath said of vnwholesome or vncleane bodies that the more they are nourished the more they are hurt Which Plato and Galen in like maner affirme of vncleane soules vnto which if you offer holsome and nourishable speeches that is admonish them of vertues or vices they waxe not onely not the better but also the worse Wherefore wise Phisitions when as they doubt of a disease or of streÌ„gth of the sick body therfore what will be y e issue they are wont to folow y e more safe easie medicines not suche as may bring into danger Lastly they say y t not so much as the forme which giueth vnto euery thing his beeing is obserued and kept in that priuate ministration vnto the sicke For Christe vnto his Apostles that is vnto the Church present and gathered in one and not to one particuler person deuided the Supper and said not take but take yee nor eate but eate yee Finally not drinke but drinke yee wherefore S. Paule in rehearsing the ordinance of Christe badde not euerie man to eate his owne Supper but one to tarry for another that it might truly bee called a Communion and that by the breaking and partaking of one loafe might bee shewed a liuely growing together in charitie to bee made and also an incorporation into Christ and our neighbours and the receiuers present And these thinges are so liked of the one side that they woulde neuer haue this sacrament ministred to any but in the publike assembly For whereas it seemeth vnto some that as the worde may bee preached euery where and set foorth to men alone either sicke or whole so also this SacrameÌ„t of our Communion may priuately bee rightlie ministred vnto one they think that the comparison is not alike For that euery kinde of ministerie hath his maner forme as it were without the which they cannot be the thing that they are called albeit all thinges tende vnto the same end What that properly it is no part of the ministerie vnto sicke men or vnto others priuately without the publike assemblie to haue the woorde read preached and with the same others to be admonished instructed and comforted For that this may bee done of any and so is wont to bee yea euen of women vnto whome notwithstanding the publike ministerie is not permitted wherefore they think that here is a dislikelihood and that theyr cause as yet standeth namely that the receiuing of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ought not to be priuate but publike and common vnto many On the contrary side others contende that this vse and custome of priuate receiuing of the Supper of the Lorde ought to be reteined if not at all times yet at least wise when the whole congregation receiueth it in the Church For albeit Christ say they peraduenture did it not as who helde the Supper only once with his Apostles heereof yet it followeth not either that it is not lawful or that the Apostles and the Church which followed them did it not For such as were absent might be letted vpon lawfull causes as by sicknesse or age or other occasions so that they could not resort vnto the publike assemblie Hereupon the olde fathers of the true primatiue Churche vsed to imparte it as well to suche kinde of persons being in health as to those y t were sick to the one as the cognizance and badge of peace and agreement of faith and to the other as a pasport to them that were going away For when as the Church is as it were one vnited and whole bodie and that Supper appointed for the whol Church there is no cause they say why shee may lawfully denie it vnto some certaine members being absent vpon some ceraine lets And wheras it is saide that the Churche is vncertaine of the faith and minde of suche persons albeit this peraduenture may haue place in those whom it is manifest to haue led a loose and lewde life before in such as are vnknowne vnto the Church yet this principle oughte to be reteined which hytherto hath byn vsed The Church doth not iudge of things y t are hidden and whosoeuer doe confesse with vs with one consent Christ and in plaine words acknowledge that they repent of their sins being by Baptisme ingrafted into the common bodie of the outwarde congregation that of these wee ought to hope well and to make them partakers of the outward benefites of the Church For say they ther is not so great danger as seemeth vnto others for to bee and that here there is no more poyson giuen in steede of medicine vnto them that craue it theÌ„ there is to those that are in body bodie present and gathered together in the congregatioÌ„ And that we must not so much regarde vnto whom it is giuen so that they be not open enemies of religion or by force of the disease driuen out of their wittes then what is giuen For that the chief end of this Sacrament is that Christe should assure vs yea make vs partakers of his promise benefites purchased w t his own blood which on y t high altar of our redemption he shed to set men at libertie y t he should arme vs with faith hope knit ChristiaÌ„s together with the bond of mutuall loue enflame theÌ„ as it were with a certain fire of loue Moreouer wheÌ„ as y e sacraments are a part of the word as it were certain visible words the which also according vnto y e mind of others bring no other thing theÌ„ the word it selfe preached heard albeit they doe it by another meane they say there is no cause why sufficient wherefore wee should more withhold them then this from any man who thus farre as concerneth

any man before his time by God appointed Which reasons look howe vayne foolishe wicked and vngodlye they are euen so vayne foolishe wicked and vngodlie is this I shall not dye before the houre appoynted by God therfore I will without all regard eyther of my selfe or others when there is no cause or need goe vnto such as are infected to the hazarding not onely of myne owne life but also the life of manye others Christ when as the Diuell the Father of such kind of arguments alleaged the charge of God giueÌ„ to his Angels ouer him to keepe him from hurt to perswade him to cast him selfe downe headlong froÌ„ the pinacle of the temple wheras he might vse the ordinarie meanes of going down by the stayers told him that so to do was indeede to tempt God The Heathen mariners in whose ship Ionas was at the straunge rising of the tempest threw all their goodes into the sea for the sauegard of the shippe and sauing of their owne liues which they needed not to haue done if they had bin of the same opinioÌ„ with these odde felowes but thus to haue determined the matter we shall not die before our time we wil therfore vse no meanes at all to saue our selues but let God work I am ashamed to staÌ„d so long herein but that I know that this fond reason carrieth away greate multitudes not only into the inconueniences aforesaid but also to the vtter contempt and despising of the most commendable art of phisicke as a thing vnprofitable and needelesse the whiche GOD notwithstanding hath giuen for the singular helpe profite and comforte of mankinde which question is by occasion haÌ„deled at large in this selfesame Treatise the which I haue presumed to offer vnto the gentle acceptation of your H. W. as the meetest Patrones for suche a woorke who as you haue the charge of gouernement of this moste woorthye Citie so I perswade my selfe that you will verye carefully seeke in all respectes the welfare of the same and so farre foorth allowe of the good aduice of this Authour as you by your wisedomes shal iudge to bee moste meete and expedient The principall and chiefe course is to begin at true and heartie repentance which is the first thing that the maker hereof Perswadeth in such a case bewailing euery man his former wicked life with prayer and fasting renting your heartes and not your garmentes and commending moste humblye your afflicted estate vnto the mercifull consideration of our heauenlie Father and then to vse all other lawefull remedyes that may be thought necessary for the auoyding of infection in so daungerous a disease To which end I commend commit this litle booke to your through insight and neere consideration to be followed where it is profitable to bee supplyed where it wanteth to be corrected where it is faultie and to bee refused in what point soeuer it shall vnto your wisdomes seeme not profitable or conuenient for your state and gouernment The Lord blesse your H. and W. with the true feare of his name and a carefull desire as well of the health of the soules as the welfare of the bodies of the people committed to your rule direction From Tunbridge the 19. of May. 1583. Your H. and W. most humble in Christe Iohn Stockwood Scholemaster of Tunbridge â§ A short admonition vnto the gentle and courteous Christian Reader THis small treatise right gentle and courteous Reader comming vnto my handes at suche time as God beganne afresh to visite the Citie and many other places of the land with the fearefull and dangerous sicknes of the Plague after the diligent perusing viewing of the same thinking it as well in respect of the matter as in regarde of the present time and occasion a profitable discourse for suche my godly countrie men as vnderstood not the Latin tongue according as my leasure best serued from my schole charge I haue occupied my selfe in turning the same into our Englishe and mother language whiche being communicated with diuers of my godly worshipfull and learned friendes both Diuines Gentlemen and Phisitions they haue thought it a work very well worthie the publishing and setting abroade to the benefite and profite of all such places as it shoulde seeme good vnto God to punishe with this kinde of visitation I haue therfore consented to let it passe the presse and come vnder thy godly viewe and diligent examination giuing thee before to vnderstande that in some places names of fishes whiche thou shalte meete withall in this discourse I haue reteined still the Latin name without any Englishing of the same at al. This thyng I haue chosen to doe purposedly that thou mightest resort vnto some learned Phisition heerein to vse his skilfull aduice rather then by my gessing at all aduentures at the Englishing of the same which I coulde neither learne out of any Authour nor come to vnderstand by conference with others albeit very godly and learned Phisitions to bring thee into an errour hauing more regarde vnto thy right instruction heerein then vnto mine owne estimation iudging it better in this behalfe to bee counted ignorant then by bold aduenturing like blind bayard to bee worthily deemed foole hardie Thy louing brother in Christe Iohn Stockwood The Preface of the Authour vnto the Reader of the causes of the pestilence IT is a receiued opinion among Phisitions that the first part of all healing curing must bee called backe vnto the knowledge of the causes and iudgementes Whereas therfore the learned do often dispute of the cause of this so horrible a sicknesse the which we cal the Pestilence and the publike curing wherof we are to set down it seemed vnto me to be worthie the trauaile in few words to declare this matter y t so much the more easily and diligently euery man might doe his dutie in taming or assawging this dragon as Galen rightly tearmeth him For not without good cause it seemeth vnto some a thing worthie to be marueiled at that so many ofteÌ„times doe die in one house into which this infection once getteth and that such as betimes flie theÌ„ce many times remaine vnhurt Which thing they which suppose to come to passe by vnauoidable destinie or affliction immediately sent froÌ„ god speake in my iudgement indistinctly and vnorderly For such a plague is wont to happen not by common tokens yea and very seldome and that myraculously And I nothing doubt that God doth winke at many things and doth not at all times defend vs which thing notwithstanding hee is able for to doe or to speake more properly that he doth oftentimes vse the Diuel yea men also and which more is our selues to trye our selues withall so farre of is it that I woulde by any meanes denie it Moreouer this likewise is a rare thing such as many old men haue not seen in all their life that a plague should growe of the infection of the common ayre For in this

also increase can hardly bee kept from those places it foloweth by good reason y t wee briefly treate of purging the ayre of cleaÌ„sing the streetes of keeping away kine hogges and geese the which doe greatly defile the same For I see that al the learned yea and the common sort also doe holde this namely that the causes are to be taken away if wee will take away y e effects which grow of the causes also that the pure ayre doth make much to the strengthning of the spirites and vnto health so that it hath giuen occasion of a prouerbe Such ayre such mind also it is knowen that nothing doth so much dissolue the powers as stench And because the streetes can not bee kept cleane nor consequently stench rottennesse and vnpurenesse of the ayre to be letted so long as suche liuing creatures are suffered which ingender store of such filth these must bee put into some place without the Citie which seemeth fit for this turne namely which is neere the riuer if it may bee that their filthie excrements may be purged into it or els that from thence the stinking reekes as little infect the Citie as may be For the doung and excrements of those beastes whiche I haue spoken of doe more then will be beleeued infect and weaken the spirites and principall members as the braine the heart c. There is alike fault vnto this and too abhominable the which I maruaile to bee suffered in worshipfull Cities and I shame to speake it that the streetes and allies yea and the Church yards also are euerie where in some places so defiled with y e doung of shamelesse Roges and Beggars that whiche way so euer you turne your selfe with reuerence bee it spoken you will thinke you see not a publike and commendable way in the Citie but a vile and beastlye Iakes The like in maner you may say of lye water wherewith linen clothes and vessel are washed the which maids are wont commonly to caste before the dores of the neighbours when as they cannot abide it at their owne houses Wherefore the Preseruers muste doe theyr indeuour that when as they haue freeed the Citie from these beasts they also commaunde these filthes to be carried all away and by lawe decree that none heereafter do either maintaine or admit any such filthines The which y t it may the better be obserued there must be made in place fit for that purpose sties and stables in such maner as hath been said also publike houses of office and sinckes vnder grounde into the which may bee carried all such kind of foule stuffe whiche places when they begin once to bee ful let them be couered with lyme to drinke it vp withall for the other practise which is vsed in carrying it out is not without danger at that time Afterwardes also the Ditches if there be any within or without the Citie for the walles of Cities manie times are wont to bee compassed about with ditches which often serue the common people in steede of priuies whilest they carry out into the same as into some foule hole all their filth Also pondes and standing waters if from out of them there bee suspicion of any euill reekes as when Flaxe and Hempe or Tanners skines are steeped in them or when as houses of offices by vautes vnder the grounde doe emptie their sincks into them they are eyther to bee filled vp with earth or by trenches to bee let out and carryed awaye or finallye if it maye bee they are some certaine tymes to bee scowred by lettinge in some swifte brooke into them For such many times as Paulus Aegineta doth witnesse are causes procuring contagious and infectious ayre The same do all Phisitions and manye great Diuines thinke of Churchyardes of the which somewhat more shal be sayd in the second book Of Africa wee reade that it was sometymes infected with a great plague by reason of a corrupt breath fuminge vp from sea lopsters cast vp on the shore and there dying The same witnesseth Alexander Benedictus to haue happened sometymes after great earthquakes For saith he a filthy vapour lyinge a longe time restinge and moulding vnder the earth as it were in euerlasting darkenesse maye infecte the moyst and pure ayre and bringe newe and euill feuers Suche as histories recorde were sometymes at Venice by meanes whereof all women almost that were great with Child were delyuered of their Children dead beefore their time and anone after dyed of the plague the same yeere For whereas some layde the cause hereof vppon a Dragon which laye lurking in those Caues it was but a tale It is needlesse to bring hyther more examples albeit it might bee doone in great plenty For experience and reason two chiefe causes of making thinges to bee beeleeued doe agree to this opinion Wherefore the Preseruers must take great heede leaste when as they haue vsed other kinds of industrie and payne taking and leaue beehynde these present breeders of corruption they lose both their coste and also their labour But heere peraduenture some manne will obiecte vnto mee that common sayeinge that one poyson is dryuen out with an other lykes as one nayle with an other Also the vsage of some Nations who at such tymes are woont not to keepe or cleanse the places infected from euill and filthy sauours but to fill and stuffe them Whereof Alexander Benedictus reciteth a storie of his tyme woorthye to bee remembred concerninge the countreye Sarmatia the whiche also hee thinketh maye be confirmed by naturall reason A certayne noble Merchaunte sayeth hee of Creta when as hee traded Merchandize in the Countrey of Tauros and that a moste cruell Pestilence was growne by reason of the corruption of the ayre by meanes whereof there was no ende of dying reported that hee sawe a Physition in that notoryous death of menne a dweller of that place for the Sarmatians doe inhabite there who commaunded Dogges to bee kylled and euerye where to bee cast in the wayes and streets whiche Dogges beeing swollen vppe and rotten filled the ayre with a filthy sauour and that by this remedie the Cittie was straight restored to health Also that the Sarmatians are woonte often to vse this medicine For the Dogges putrifying chaunged the nature of the ayre whiche was onelye hurtefull vnto the menne For so dooth vnlykenesse and discorde of thinges woorke and one poyson is maystered of an other Which thinge also one Zoar amonge the latter Arabian Phisitions doth affyrme This storie telleth Alexander the which least anye laysie bones might alleadge in defence of his sloathfulnesse whilest hee is desirous to auoyde such meanes and labour of cleansing as wise men doe counsayle or leaste anye manne shoulde rashlye followe that which he vnderstandeth not howe it is done the cause of so vnhearde of and vnwoonted remedye is to bee sought out I graunt therefore it to bee true that one poyson sometymes is driuen out with

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