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A17157	A comfortable regiment, and a very wholsome order against the moste perilous pleurisi whereof many doe daily die within this citee of London, and other places: and what the cause is of the same, doen by William Bulleyn, December. 8. Anno salutis 1562.	Bullein, William, d. 1576.	1562 (1562)	STC 4035; ESTC S118844	27,662	76

¶ A comfortable Regiment and a very wholsome order against the moste perilous Pleurisi whereof many doe daily die within this Citee of London and other places and what the cause is of the same doen by William Bulleyn December 8. Anno salutis 1562. ¶ Imprinted at London by Ihon Kingston ¶ To the right worshipfull Sir Rob ●rt ●ingf●lde of Lc hryngham knight WHEN BY THE argumentes of moste true petigrees old antiquitees it is to bee well proued that you are not the fruict that is sone ripe and sone rotten or came in yesterdaie and gone tomorowe But moste aunciently haue come from the elder Britaines a people wo●thie of memorie and at that tyme d●elled in your Castle in Wailes Florishyng in knightlie est●te and st●●ll haue proceaded in the same beeyng linked with many houses of great honor fauored of kinges without male fortune or turnyng the globe backward as it is sometyme spightfull alas againste greate Princes them selues These thynges considered it is a good argumente of Gods blessyng to the third and fowerth generacion of them that feare hym and long life doe happen to thē that honor their parētes And that is the cause of your long braunches deepe rootes and hard foundacion not vpō the slipping sandes but vpō the rocke of honor inuincible to be cast doune as lōg as you doe vnfainedly loue God and foresee thende These your vertues are more to be commended then the aire or pla cyng of your mansion is to be praised nere vnto waters moist medowes mistie rottē fennes also the said māsiō standeth verie lowe inuironed with a depe water and your woodes hilles swete fieldes but a little to far of And albeit that many of our worthie aūcestors did rū to the vttermost step of nature yet diuers of thē were trapped and ouerthrowen in their rase by death in their tēder or lustie yeres a● appereth by their Epitaphes fixed vpon their solitarie tombes and graues liyng in your churche of Lethringhā and although as the prouerbe saith that the yong Lambes skin doe come to the market as sone as thold shepes Yet the old shepe when he can liue no lenger for age the Lambes and lustie young shepe doe perishe through rotten aire and pestilent pasture in corrupted soile Euen so vncleane aire as a cause primitiue dooe bryng the cause Antecedente To corrupcion of humours stoppyng the naturall vertues infecting the blood bredyng sondrie Apostumacions sores and sickenesses in the bodie and finally cometh the cause Coniunct and finisheth the malice and extreme vengeaunce againste nature and killeth the bodie except God by miracle medicen by vertue nature by strength doe preuaile This euill considered I am so bold t● dedicate vnto your Maistership this small Regiment against the Pleurisi whiche haue slaine many hundredes shortlie the causes signes and cures that it maie please you to reade theim for in the tyme of occasion thei shall not be hurtfull But comfortable to as many as will consider them well and to this Booke I shall GOD willyng shortlie adde xxx sicknesses more their causes signes cures with diat accordynglie to them Thus wishyng your increase of healthe worship and longe life and to my good Ladie and your children the same From London Your maistershippes euer VVillyam Bulleyn Anno salutis 1562. W. B. To the reader GOod reader through the synnes of this wicked worlde GOD almightie haue placed ouer vs ii mightie sharpe plagues whiche he dooe threate vs with all The one from colde Saturne in the ●unciente house of sickenesse threatnyng to the aged and Melancholike many euils to the bodie as Quartaines Consumption c. And hor rible bloodie Mars crepeth into the house of death armeth hym self with Fire and Darte ▪ threatnyng the Chollorike with short hote and painfull death c. These are twoo euill neighbours to dwel in one yere so nere together God of his mercie gouerne them whiche haue al thin ges in his handes bothe life and death and defende vs from soche vengaunce as we haue deserued And graunte that this little Regiment maie dooe pleasure and comforte vnto the●m whiche dooe reade it and with diligence soberlie obserue it to Goddes glorie their owne helpe againste this daungerous plague GOD of his mercie graunte it and that wee maie amende and remember our ende AMEN Deu. xxviii The Lorde shall smite thee with swellyng ▪ with feuers heate burnyng and with the sworde c. A regiment against the Pleurisie O Death saieth the Wiseman how bitter is the remembraūce of thée to that man that séeketh reste and comfort in his substaunce and worldly riches Unto the manne that haue nothyng to vere hym and that hath bodily fortune and prosperitee in all thinges yea vnto hym that is yet able to receiue his foode O death how acceptable and good is thy iudgement vnto the poore and nedefull and vnto him whose strēgth ●aileth and that is in his laste age and that in al thinges is full of ●are and fearfulnes And to him that is in dispaire and haue no hope nor paciēce Be not afraied of death remember them that haue been before thée and that come after thee This is the iudgemente of the Lorde God ouer all fleshe and why wouldest thou bee against the pleasure of the highest Whether it bée ten one hundred or a thousand ●eres Death asketh not how longe one haue liued And for Adams disobedience no fleshe shall escape that Sentence that thou shalt retourne into the duste or claie whereof thou warte made And although the Philosopher naturallie dooe define death to bee the separacion of the bodie from the soule without metyng againe for euer And that the cause of death is coldnes and drinesse Frigiditas ficcitas and that life dooeth consiste per calidum humidum and what so euer is corrupted or killed is destroied of his contrarie c. These are naturall causes to mortall mē not repugnaunt to reason but to ascende and climbe aboue reason apprehendyng faithe the perfite waie to euerlasting life there we shal plainly se the cause of death is sinne and of our helpe again in Christ. Andthus it is proued by the Apostle sainct Paule Rom. 5. As by one mā sinne entred into the worlde and death by the meanes of sinne euen so Death also went ouer all menne c. And grace life and saluacion came by Iesus Christe whiche died for vs all Now wee that dooe beleue in Iesus Christ doe well knowe the cause of death is nothyng but sinne but yet this synne whiche is a stronge enemie vnto grace is of soche force that it moueth GOD greuouslie to plague vs by sondrie meanes and maketh Death fearfull painfull and horrible specially to them which liue not to die and care for nothing saiyng in thir soules there is no GOD and this is the miserie that Iob saied Man that is borne of a woman liueth but a shorte tyme and is full

of miserie and that was well said And of this his lamentacion maie well bee gathered twoo euilles The one of the minde as ignoraunce hardnesse of harte euil thoughtes wrath zeale fearfulnes of conscience Idolatrie whordome c. with infidelitie the mother of mischiefe whiche euil or misery moueth God to plague the worlde with outward miseries as when Moises saied vnto Israell if you disobaie your Lorde your GOD your blessynges shall turne into cursynges as in field and toune the riches into pouertie destrucciō of cattell frui●te and corne childrē shame rebuke bondage captiuitie botche plage and Pestilence c. Reade the. xrviij of Deuteronomium and there you shall see all these miseries that Iob do meane and the causes of all our plagues and thereby all men maie perceiue it is on●lie God that blesseth and curseth in euery age all people that doe striue against him What should I rehearse how Sodome perished with fire from heauen Or how Ierusalem perished in hunger eatyng of their owne dunge children also with swords beastes and fire c. What doe this helpe to a great nomber but rather with Pharao dooe indurate their hartes againste grace God plageth no people but first doe admonishe theim saiyng Tourne vnto me and I will tourne vnto you saith the lorde And in the Psalmes saith the Prophete this daie if you will heare his voice harden not your hartes as in the prou●●acion and as in the temptacion in the wildernes c. But rather preuent and let vs worship and fall doun before the lorde our maker For he is the Lorde our God and we are the shepe of his handes And let vs confesse our sinnes before God with the holie Prophete Daniel that we haue sinned Y● O Lorde vnto vs to our Kynges and princes to our forefathers and to vs all that haue offended thee belongeth open shame But vnto thee O Lorde our God pertaineth mercie and forgiuenesse as for vs we are gone backe frō hym and haue not obeied the voice of the Lorde our GOD to walke in his lawes whiche he laied before vs by his seruauntes the prophetes yea all Israell haue transgressed and gone backe from thy lawe so that thei haue not harkened to thy voice Wherefore the curse and othe that is written in the lawe of Moises the seruaunt of God against whom we haue offended is poured vpon vs. Let vs not forget how that God will for the synnes of kynges sometyme punishe the pleople as example for Dauids synne God did in three daies kill of the people of Israel ▪ l●● M. men and yet suffered Dauid to liue Take example by that plague how to feare god oh princes A moste fearfull mortalitie of the Pestilence bothe of man and beast fell vpon Pharaoes lande the first begotten of euery liuyng thyng for rebellyng againste God were sodainly slain of the plague The plague of Israell is to be had in perpetuall remembraunce where many thousandes were destroyed of the Pestilence for the whordome of Israel Cicero lib. i● de oratore sheweth that L. Crassus a noble learned man and a famous Lawier in the same daie when he mos●● sharpely pleated against Philip the Consull he died of the Pleurisie Volateranus the famous historiographer moste ●earfully affirmeth to the terrible example of all men That there was a Pestilence at Constantinople whereof died three C. thousande in a small tyme. At Florence Anno dm̄ 140. There was thirtie thousande men women and children died of the Pestilēce Anno. 1348. was a wonderfull hunger and Pestilence throughout the worlde especially in Italie scant x. did l●ue wheras C. died The same yere at Paris in Fraunce died of the Pestilence l. M. persones And this yere there is hunger sworde pestilence also About that time when the Cimbriās came ouer the Alpis there was so●he a ba●●aill seen in the heauen that from the ●ornyng vntill night it appered saieth P●inie And the Moon rained blood great pestilēce did folowe mortall battail that the bones of y ● slain did make many wals about the vineyardes after many yeres Now lette vs come home to our owne ●ealme and not forget how God plagued all this lande with hunger and pestilence ●oste fearfullie that there was scante the ●iuyng left to burie the dedde The whole ●tate destro●ed the Commons wasted and ●inally the synfull kyng Cadwalider the ●aste of the Britaines poorely departed ●o Rome where Antichriste dooe dwell ●nd there was buried Whose rootes and ●raunches of honour had remained and ●rowen in the Britain lande by the space ●f 1822. yeres ante m●ar And through Pride and extorcion of the greate menne ●hickednesse of the Iudges Idolatrie ●nd coueitousnesse of the Cl●rgte reb●l●on of the poore men all went to hauo●ke ●nd came sodainly to nothyng but mis●hief in fewe daies wo and wretchednes In kyng Uortigers daies soche leche●e dr●nknes idlenes specially did raigne in the greate men that soche euill did en crease that God poured for the soche Pe stilence euery where with hunger rob byng insurreccion and plague that few were left a liue to till the ground where vpon the king was forced to fetche in for raine people by Hengis and Horsos the straungers to his destruccion his peopl● In these daies were many sicknesses vncurable to be healed Gods wrath was so hotte and vertue so colde Sone after the conquest of king William duke of Normandie when the people were subded to him his enemies vanquished and the Knightes Fees rated and hymself placed with Croune and sceptour The kyng tooke the nomber of the acres of Lande in all this realme the names and nombers of all the people and also had knowledge what cattall there was in all the lande After whiche sodainly ensued soche hunger and cruel fears● hotte burnyng Botches Pleurisis and Pestilence that the people died in soch● nomber that till age decaied and famin● insued with rotte of cattell A fearfull ex● ample to Princes the noble men and cōmons of euery land where soche plagues dooe come that neither Phisicke nor money can help For Salomon saieth riches shall not helpe in the daie of vengeaunce but rightuousnes shall deliuer frō death The plagues in the daies of Edward the iii Edward y ● iiij of most fearful pestilece of many thousands in this realme in euery place greate famine did folowe w t his ij seruauntes heauinesse of minde and pouertie And in euery kynges daies sins either the Pestilence with the botch the small sparkling Poxe the cruell quar●aine the hotte inflamed Pleurit● the stranglyng Squinance the lepros Frēch Poxe or the sodaine smotheryng sweate haue slain many one These are gods plagues Gods vengaunce scourge instrumētes for his enemies as the present greuous plague in Fraunce of persecucion honger sworde Pestilece in these pitiful daies sorowfull time But Exsurgat deus and confounde his enemie the