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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	aaron_n	land_n	moses_n	56	3	6.5572	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86260	Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion VVith certaine instructions for the poorer sort of people when they shall bee visited: and also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative against that sicknesse. First publisheed for the behoofe of the city of London, in the two visitations 1603. and 1625. and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited, and all other parts of the land, that may or shall hereafter be. By Francis Herring Dr. in physick, deceased.; Certain rules, directions or advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1641 (1641)	Wing H1600B; ESTC R230654	9,127	40

Preservatives against the Plague OR Directions and Advertisements for this time of Pestilentiall contagion VVith certaine instructions for the poorer sort of people when they shall bee visited And also A Caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned Amulets as a preservative against that sicknesse First publisheed for the behoofe of the City of London in the two visitations 1603. and 1625. and reprinted for the benefit of the said Citie now visited and all oth●r parts of the Land that may or shall hereafter be By Francis Herring Dr. in Physick deceased NVMB. 16.47 And Aaron tooke as Moses commanded and ran into the middest of the Congregation and behold the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people LONDON Printed for Iasper Emerie Bookeseller at the Eagle and Child in Pauls-Church yard by Saint Austines gate 1641. TO THE HIGH AND POTENT KING CHARLES King of Great Britaine France and Ireland health and happinesse Soveraigne Lord THey that are to treat with great Potentates and Personages are inioyned to be short and sweet Jf J faile in the last I shall not misse of the first Ne longo sermone morer tua Tempora Caesar The last great Mortalitie J published certaine Rules and Directions for the prevention of the spreading of that contagious and all-devouring Sicknesse Those briefe advertisements I have searched out reviewed somewhat inlarged and brought forth againe to the view and use and I hope good of my Citizens and Countrimen My presumption is that though J shall purchase neither profit nor praise yet J shall obtaine pardon of your Maiestie if tendring the common good of my Country I bring one pale-full or rather dishfull of water toward the quenching of the common flame Morbi ut rectè Celsus Med. Latinorum Princeps non curantur eloquentia multo minus loquentia Especially this fierce Fury which is non Morbus sed Monstrum superans saepissime tum Artem tum Naturam not a disease but a Monster over-matching and quelling oft-times both Art and Nature The Lord of glory and mercy keep your Highnesse with your most Honourable Councell from the rage of this man-slaying Hydra and all other both open and secret evils and enemies and make you a wise and skilfull Physitian to prevent the dangers and cure the maladies of Common-wealth and State Your MAIESTIES humble subject and suppliant FRANCIS HERRING CERTAINE RVLES DIRECTIONS OR ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THIS TIME OF PESTILENTIALL CONTAGION THe Plague if you will have his true Characterisme and essentiall forme is Ictus irae divinae pro peccatis hominum Exod. 5. v. 3. Cap. 9.15 Levit. 26.25 Num. 14.12 Deut. 28.21 2 Chron. 36. v. 15. Inter Eth. Homerus 2 Iliad The stroke of Gods wrath for the sinnes of mankinde This is not onely the opinion of Divines but of all learned Physitians and acknowledged by the blinde Heathen in all ages by the light of nature Therefore his appropriate and speciall Antidote is Seria paenitentia conversio ad Deum unfained and heartie repentance and conversion to God Till this be practised I tell you plainely I put small confidence in other by-courses The cause remaining who can looke for the taking away of the effect Let me therefore be an humble suitor that your Highnesse would be pleased to command a generall humiliation of the people by prayer and fasting This action as it would be honourable to your Majestie and such as you would undoubtedly condiscend unto most readily and willingly if it were but mentioned and moved so in my perswasion there would appeare a most admirable and comfortable effect thereof And till this be performed what other wayes soever wee shall follow wee shall begin at the wrong end Ni Deus affuerit viresque infuderit Herbis Quid cedò Diptamús quid Panacea juvat Let not Gentlemen and rich Citizens by flying unlesse they likewise flie from their sinnes thinke to escape Scotfree So long as they carry their sinne with them the Lord will find them out and his hand will reach them wheresoever they are There should in my opinion be provided a place of Sepulture for the bodies especially of such as die by the Sicknes some good distance from the Citie and Suburbs The burying of infected bodies in Churches Church-yards and namely in Paules Church-yard where the chiefe Magistrates of the Citie and many other Citizens meete weekly to heare Sermons must needs be not onely inconvenient but very dangerous for spreading the contagion and poisoning the whole Citie For all men that have the least insight in Philosophy know that from the dead corps by force of the Sunne certaine vapours or exhalations are elevated which partake of the nature of those bodies and doe undoubtedly taint corrupt and poyson the aire with their ill qualitie For this principall cause in most well ordered Cities of forrein Countries there is a common place of Buriall appointed a good distance from the building of the Citie And till this may be procured for our Citie I wish that straight charge be given that all dead corpses be layd a convenient depth in the ground and not one coffin heaped upon another and they layd so neare the top of the earth as it is to be feared they now are It were necessarie the place of Buriall should be on the South side of the Citie that the Sunne may draw the vapours from it Let care be had that the streets especially the narrow lanes and allies be kept from annoyance of dung-hilles vaults or houses of office the common sewers and chanels be well purged and scowred the dung-farmers tyed to their stint of time in Winter and not suffered unlesse urgent necessitie require to perfume the streets all Summer long especially in this time of contagion Let not the carkasses of horses dogs cats c. lye rotting and poysoning the ayre as they have done in More and Finsburie fields and elsewhere round about the Citie Let the Pipes layd from the new River be often opened to clense the channels of every streete in the Citie Let the Ditches towards the suburbs especially towards Islington and Pick-hatch Old-streete and towards Shoreditch and White-chappell be well clensed and if it might be the water of the new River to runne through them as also the like to be done through the Burrough of South-worke Let the ayre be purged and corrected especially in evenings which are somewhat cold and in places low and neare the River as Thames street and the Allyes there about by making fires of Oken or Ashwood with some few bundles of Iuniper cast into them Let men in their private houses amend the aire by laying in their windowes sweet herbes as Marjoram Time Let them likewise rub their windowes often with worm wood and fennell Rosemarie Balme Fennell Peniroyall Mints c. Likewise by burning Iuniper Rosemarie Time Bay-leaves Cloves Cinamon or using other compound perfumes The poorer