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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	sin_n	true_a	4,199	5	5.1283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08159	An answer to that question, Hovv farre it is lavvfvll to flee in the time of the plagve extracted out of a sermon preached in Alderman-bury, / by Thomas Taylor..	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1636 (1636)	STC 23819.5; ESTC S123735	4,985	2

AN ANSWER TO THAT QVESTION HOVV FARRE IT IS LAVV FVLL TO FLEE IN THE TIME OF THE PLAGVE Extracted out of a Sermon preached in Alderman-bury by THOMAS TAYLOR PROVERBS XXII III. And hides himselfe Quest MAy a man to hide himselfe from the Plague for sake his place his calling and remove himselfe and his Answ M. Calvin answereth this question in one of his Epistles thus A question riseth from the stupiditie of men without sense of humanitie Whether wee may not avoyd the Plague They would have no man change aire nor avoid contagious and poysoned places nor delight in any pleasing prospect c. Facessant paradoxa hujusmodi querum usus est nos exuere omni sensu But this answer being too short for such as desire to walke by rule wee must consider first the persons secondly the reasons thirdly the cautions fourthly the objections First publick persons whom by vertue of their speciall calling the Church or Common-wealth or the Familie cannot want may not flee unlesse they by others may competently supply their owne absence But private persons whose Calling the Publick may for a time want may avoid the danger for Reason 1 First all manifest perils ought to be avoided if without impietie wee can shun them Psal 91. It is lawfull to avoid an arrow cōming upon us and not to avoid it if we can makes us accessary to our owne death But this is an arrow comming on us and by good meanes to be avoided it cannot be lesse lawfull than to avoid fire or sword or poyson Reason 2 Secondly God hath given us special cōmandement for the care preservation of our own lives to use al good means of preservation hath sanctified preservatives physick to this purpose He that hath charged us with the care of our brethrens lives much more hath charged us without owne Reason 3 Thirdly David used many caves and hiding places in a short time he fled from Saul into twelve severall hiding places To King Achis to the King of Moab and to the King of the Philistims into the cave of Adullam the Grove of Hareth the Desert of Ziph of Maon of Engedi of Paran c. Yea Christ and his Disciples fled oftentimes from danger and why not we till our houre also be come that in the meane time we may be the more serviceable to God and his Church Nay God himselfe bids Elias goe flee and hide himselfe from persecution by the Brook Cherith He could haue kept him safe from Ahab and Iezabel without his fleeing in the midst of them but he teacheth us what godly men may doe in the like cases Ob. But this is to avoid the sword of man but speaketh not of the Plague the hand and sword of God Answ What wee may pray the removall of we may lawfully avoid but David prayed the removall of the plague 2 Sam. 24.1 Kings 8. If thou send a Plague and pestilence and thy people pray in this house then heare out of heaven c. Num. 16.48 So Aaron prayed and stood between the living and dead and the plague ceased Reason 4 The fruit of faith is the use of such meanes as which God hath appointed for the effecting of his own decrees the more faith the more use of means whereof this is one Acts 27.31 Not to converse with the infected and to depart from the infected place so far as salva conscientia charitate wee may Paul beleeved none should perish in the ship according to the word of God yet must they not be saved unlesse they abide in the ship for there must be shipmen to guide and governe the ship to land as it came to passe Thirdly the cautions or conditions in fleeing the Plague Caution 1 First see no prophanenesse be in the flight or impietie as if we would or could avoid the hand of God we must not intend to flee from God for whither shall we flee from his presence but first flee unto God For as we must not neglect the means of our safetie so we must not trust in them but in Gods blessing who must watch and hide or else all comes to nought Caution 2 Before thou avoid the effect of Gods anger see thou avoid the cause of it and that is thine own sin else can no dens castles or caves hide thee Iohn Baptist wisheth men by fleeing the cause to flee wrath to come 2 King 14.19 otherwise Amaziah flees to Lachish but death flees after him and overtakes him because he fled not from sin the cause of his misery For it is not change of place but of minde not of bodies but vices which is the true refuge and sanctuary In returning consider that faith and repentance must be your rest No say they we will flee upon horses Esa 30.15 Yea but your enemies horses shall be swifter than yours no flight swift enough to save him that will carry his sinnes with him The first step in fleeing must be to flee thy selfe Caution 3 In fleeing from infection be sure thou beest as beneficiall absent as present in things spirituall temporall 1. Faile not by sound humilitie and godly sorrow to bewaile thy sins which have provoked the wrath of God and aswell absent as present seek to appease God and avert his stroke from thy selfe and others Even absent thou must put thy selfe into their misery as one that hath provoked that displeasure 2. Omit no dutie of charitie and beneficence if thy person be removed leave thy purse behinde thee thy best help as one that knowest thou art not loosed from the common law of neighbourhood but art charged still to see no needfull thing wanting to the poore and needy whether sick or sound Caution 4 In fleeing looke to thine affections that no excessive feare of death moove thee for thou must still keep a desire to be dissolved and stand as Sarah in the doore of the Tent to entertain that messenger and be ready for death whensoever the houre is come nor yet incredulitie or weaknesse of faith force thee But let faith lead thee forth and let it be no loser Noah by faith went into the Ark and staid yea till God led him out Ob. 1 The plague is not contagious nor comes from man but an immediate hand of God and so is not to be avoyded Answ 1. It follows not because it is the hand of God that it is not contagious Was not the leprosie a rod scourge of God and yet was it not infectious 2. It follows not because it is the hand of God wee must not use lawfull meanes to avoid it for so is famine sword fire warre the hand of God and yet who can deny we may use lawfull means to avoid them all Beside it was the law of God most carefully to avoid the Leprosie and not to come neere persons infected and why not the plague or other contagious diseases Balaam's Asse seeing the drawne sword of