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A47273 Medela pestilentiae wherein is contained several theological queries concerning the plague, with approved antidotes, signes and symptoms : also an exact method for curing that epidemicial distemper, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the lord mayor and sheriffs of the city of London. Kephale, Richard. 1665 (1665) Wing K330; ESTC R26148 48,416 100

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MEDELA PESTILENTIAE Wherein is contained several Theological Queries CONCERNING THE PLAGUE WITH Approved Antidotes Signes and Symptoms ALSO An exact Method for curing that EPIDEMICAL DISTEMPER Humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Right Worshipful the LORD MAYOR and SHERIFFS of the City of London LONDON Printed by J. C. for Samuel Speed and are to be sold at his Shop at the Rain-bow near the Temple in Fleet-street MDCLXV TO ●HE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir John Lawrence Knight LORD MAYOR of this Honourable City of LONDON AND THE Right Worshipful Sir GEORGE WATERMAN and Sir CHARLES DOE Knights and Sheriffs thereof Right Honourable And Right Worshipful FAME proclaiming every-where your deserved worth it reach'd my ear and hearing how careful your Honour and Worships have been in the preservation of every individual person but such more especially committed to your Tutelage wherein you have shewn your selves indulgent Fathers as well as prudent Governors I could do no less then step in amongst the crowd of your Honours and Worships admirers to make my grateful acknowledgement I have but this Mite to offer but as much water as the palm of my Hand will hold to east into this new-kindled fire and yet it may quench it ere it rise to a flame if the heavenly Physician see it good The peaceful Dove hath now got some few fick feathers let her not therefore be deserted Some of late have forsaken her because fallen sick a little which argues both their ingratitude and folly in flying that Mother which gave some breath others benefit and profit thinking thereby they can shun the hand of Gods just judgement In this Honourable City I first drew my breath and received the major part of my education as your Honours and Worships therefore are our Fathers in general so I hope you will not deny me your particular Patronage Let your noble favours then strengthen this weak hand which a Sons duty reacheth forth to a Mothers support grateful pity commands me thus to do and my knowledge in reading with the experience of others justifieth the act Accept therefore of these my well-wishing indeavours and whilst some are using the means let others joyn with them in Prayers to Almighty God to be merciful to this City and if it be his blessed will to sheath his sword and unbend his bow that the dreadful Judgement of the Plague may be averted from us Pardon I beseech you this grand presumption and I shall glory in subscribing my self Right Honourable And Right Worshipful Your most devoted and obedient Servant Richard Kephale POSTSCRIPT TWo most soveraign Antidotes against the Plague found out first and experimented by the Author of the ensuing Treatise to be the most infallible Preservatives against pestilential Contagion The one is in form of a Conserve to be taken first in the morning the quantity of an Hazel-nut on the point of a knife fasting one hour after and then you may both eat and drink what you please Take the same quantity also two hours before dinner and about three or four in the afternoon and at night when you go to bed The other is a most admirable and pleasant Spirit which you are to take as the fore-mentioned four or five times a day These two are to be sold sealed by Mr. Samuel Speed at the Rain-bow in Fleet-street near the Temple where also you may have the Spirit of Salt which is excellent good to prevent infection causing a good appetite and curing most diseases most truly prepared according to the Method of Rhodocanasi Take thereof when you desire to drink two drops in a middle-siz'd cup of Ale or Beer provided it be not stale Medela Pestilentiae OR Rules for the Prevention and Cure OF THE PLAGUE How the Plagues began 1603 1609 1625 1630 1636. For what sins the Divines of those times judged they were inflicted and with what Godly meanes they were allayed 1 OUt of Gods tender Goodness towards this Nation after many warnings before hand by his Ministers who observing what sins were impudently and impenitently committed foresaw and fore-told what God would bring upon this People and particularly a Plague throughout that year before it came He began this sore Judgement by degrees in those times Jan. 24. onely one died Feb. 3. three died Feb. 10. five Feb. 17. three Feb. 24. one March 17. two March 24. eight March 31. six April 7. eight April 14. eighteen April 21. eighteen and after that the Bill increased every week more and more till August 18. when there died in one week 4463. of the Plague which began the first time by a surfeit in White Chappel the second time by Sea-men about the same place the third by reason of rotten Mutton at Stepney the fourth with a pack of Carpets from Turkey the fifth with a Dogge that came over from Amsterdam 2 Bishop Sandersons words in a Sermon at an Assizes at Lincolne Aug. 4. 1625. upon Psalm 106.30 are these As God brought upon that people for their sins a fearful destruction So hee hath in his just wrath sent his destroying Angel against us for ours the sins that brought the Plague upon them were Whoredome and Idolatry I cannot say the same sins have caused ours for although the execution of good Laws against both Incontinent and Idolatrous persons hath been of late years and yet is wee all know to say no more slack enough yet Gods Holy Name be blessed for it neither Idolatry nor Whoredome are at that heighth of shameless impudence and impunity among us that they dare out-brave our Moseses and out-face whole Congregations as it was in Israel But still this is sure no Plague but for sin nor National Plagues but for National sins So that albeit none of us may dare to take upon us to bee so farre of Gods Counsel as to say for what very sins most this Plague is sent among us yet none of us can bee ignorant but that besides those secret personal Corruptions which are in every one of us and whereunto every ones heart is privy there are many Publick and National sins whereof the people of this Land are generally guilty and is abundantly sufficient to justifie God in his dealings towards us when he judgeth us 1. Our wretched unthankfulness unto God for the long continuance of his Gospel and our Peace our carnal confidence and security in the strength of our wooden and watry walls our riot and excesse the noted and proper sins of this Nation and much intemperate abuse of the good Creatures of God in our meats drinks and disports and other provisions and comforts of this life Our incompassion towards our Brethren miserably wasted with war and famine in other parts of the World our heavy oppression of our Brethren at home in racking the Rents cracking the backs and grinding the face of the poor Our cheap and irreverent regard to Gods Holy Ordinances of his Word Sacraments Sabbaths and Ministers our wantonnesse and toyishness of