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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

OF The duetie of a faithfull and Wise Magistrate in preseruing and deliuering of the common 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 Schoole-maister of Tunbridge A VVorke verie necessarie for our time and countrie where the Plague rageth so sore in many places presently or which heereafter shalbe visited which God forbid if it be his wil. Psal 41. Eccle. 7. VVel is it with that man who wisely handeleth the sicke for at what time hee shall suffer any aduersity or trouble the Lorde in like manner will helpe him againe Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson 1583. To the right Honourable S. Iohn Blanke Knight L. Maior of the most renowmed Citie of London and to the Right Worshipful M. William Fleetwood Sergeant of the Law and Recorder of the saide Citie and also to the right Worshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen with the whole state of the same citie Iohn Stockwood Schoolemaister of Tūbridge wisheth a most plentifull increase of the spirit of wisedome and al necessarie graces for the gouernment of so great a people as may be most to the glory of God the profit of his Churche and welfare of the common wealth AS mankinde naturallie euer since the fall of our first parentes Adam and Heuah right honourable and Woorshipfull hath not ceased in it selfe forsaken of God his spirit to growe from bad to worse from euill to start nought or as the Psalmist speaketh verie properly to walke in the counsell of the wicked to stand in the way of sinners which is a thing most lamentable and feareful to sit in the seat of the scornful that is to clime those staiers and scale that ladder whose steppes beeing sinne and staues iniquitie cannot choose but faile them cōming once to the toppe and to cast them downe to that horrible downefall of perpetuall ruine and euerlasting condemnation so GOD a most iust iudge and yet with all a moste gentle and louing Father to such as are his hath vsed and tried from time to time all manner of meanes and wayes to bring the same out of thraldome to llbertye out of prison to enlargement out of miserie to ioy out of paine to pleasure out of ignorāce to trueth out of darknes to light out of wretchednesse to happynesse and out of hell to Heauen Hee hath prooued and assayed all kinde of remedies wearying as it were himselfe for our amendement and hath nothinge at all in a manner preuayled hee hath myldely intreated vs in the dealing of a Father hee hath seuerelye handeled vs in the person of a iudge The heauens haue burnte aboue vs in straunge manner with fires newe Starres Comets and vnwonted lightes the earth beneath vs hath trembled and quaked at the iudgementes of GOD as notable any longer to beare the burden of our sinnes yet man hath nothing at all beene moued Hee hath plentifully sent foorth his woorde and great haue beene the number of his Preachers but his people haue stopped their eares like the deafe Adder and will not heare the voyce of the Charmer charme he neuer so wiselie Hee hath pyped vnto vs and wee haue not daunced hee hath mourned vnto vs and we haue not lamented Hee hath blessed vs in the Citie and blessed vs in the field he hath blessed the fruite of our bodie and the fruite of our grounde the fruite of our cattel the increase of our kine and the flockes of our sheepe He hath blessed our basket and our dough he hath blessed vs comming in and blessed vs going out Hee hath caused our enemies that haue risen against vs to fall before vs they haue come out against vs one waye and haue fledde before vs seuen wayes in so much that all the nations of the earth see this and woonder at the same yet cannot all this make our Realme of England thankfull What then remaineth but that if wee goe on still wallowing in our sinnes adding contempt vnto vnthākfulnes as drunkēnes vnto thirst the Lord will turne al these his former blessings vnto new vnwonted curses cursing vs in the town and cursing vs in the field cursing our basket cursing our store cursing the fruite of our body and the fruite of our land the increase of our kine and the flockes of our sheepe cursing our comming in cursing our going out sending vpō vs trouble shame in al that we put our hande vnto making the heauen ouer our head brasse and the earth that is vnder our feete yrō smiting vs with a consumption with the feuer with a burning ague and with feruent heate making the pestilence to cleaue vnto vs vntil hee hath consumed vs from the land which we possesse and dwell in For we are not so wittie and cunning in committing daily and hourely new sins but the Lord is as expert skilfull in ordeining new plagues to correct and chastise the same withall We see how amongest other his scourges sent no doubt for the amendement of his chosen and for the warning of the reprobate that these are but fleabitings vnto the tormēts that are reserued for thē in the life to come how the plague pestilēce now furiously rageth almost in euery corner of this lād a sicknes that euery man so greatly trembleth at no man feareth to deserue the same a disease so vsuall especially in your most honourable citie of London that albeit it were somwhat feared at the first yet vse hath now at length made it vnto many so familiar that there is litle more regard had of it then of any other cōmon light malady A great number amōg the same some also of no smal account at leastwise in their owne iudgement contrary to reason philosophy phisick diuinity yea experience it selfe absurdlie and fondly both by word exāple mainteyning y e same not to bee infectious or that it may be takē one of an other which maketh thē so vndiscreetely vnaduisedly nay so vnchristianly rashly where there is no need without any feare of thēselues or regard of others to resort keepe cōpany with suche as are infected vnder a pretence of christian charity but indeed of a blind zeale without knowledge yea and many times to win the commendation glory of not fearing or rather contemning death this way procuring vntimely death I speake not of the vnchāble determination of God but as maye bee gessed by the ordinarie course of nature both vnto them selues and also manie others to the displeasure of God and the losse of the common wealth not that I thinke it vnlawful for one Christian in this kynde of sicknesse to visite an other whereunto Godlinesse religion and Christian duetic doth binde but that I would haue al needelesse resort restrayned being although not the only yet in

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 giuē to his Angels ouer him to keepe him from hurt to perswade him to cast him selfe downe headlong frō 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 opiniō 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 stād 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 hādeled 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 ❧ 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 oftētimes doe die in one house into which this infection once getteth and that such as betimes flie thēce many times remaine vnhurt Which thing they which suppose to come to passe by vnauoidable destinie or affliction immediately sent frō 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