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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03634	[An homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence]	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1553 (1553)	STC 13759; ESTC S118879	13,006	36

In Homelye to be read in the tyme of pestylence and a moste presente remedye for the same 〈◊〉 God Honour the Kynge 1. Pet. 2. To all Pastoures and Curates Wythin the Kinges Maiesties Diocesse of Worcester and Gloucester EAuyn as we be blinde and unthankeful for goddes fauourable mercies where with all he foloweth vs in health welth and prosperitie So be we blinde vnsensible for his most iust plages where with all he persequuteth and punisheth vs in sickenes scarsitie troubles And nowe emongest other tokens of his displeasure and wroth hath sente vs in dyuerse places one of the extreamest plages that euer he deuised to punishe man withall in this life the plage of pestilence For as mouche as he meaneth thereby not onely to kill and destroy the bodies of souche as by this plague he pourposeth to take out of this mortall lief But also wythout repentaunce and tourning to his mercy in Christe before death the soule of souche as departe from hence muste neades perishe by goddes iust iudgemente And not onlie this to be theande of souche as it pleaseth god to strike to death by this his seruaunte and messanger the plage of pestilence But also the like daunger of his displeasure remaineth to me and to all other that haue the cure charge of the peoples soulles in this the kinges Maiesties hoste noble Realme Ouer whom god and he hath made vs watche men and ouerseers too admonishe and warne the people of all daungers plages that god shall sende for their punishmente Incase we admonishe not in time the people commytted vnto oure charge of souche plages as for synne he pourposeth too punysshe vs wythall their losse and dampnatyon shalbe requyred at oure handes For the dyscharge of my selfe and alsoo for the beter instructyon of souche as haue cures wythin thys Diocesse of Worcester and Gloucester and yet not beste hable too dystharge them and farther more for the proffyte and saluacyon of the people emonges whome it maye please God too sende hys fearefull plague of pestylence I haue thoughte it niy boundon duetye seyng at all tymes I can not comforte the sycke my selfe too collecte or gather intoo some shorte sermonde or homelye a medycyne and moste presente healpe for all men agaynste the plague of pestylence And in thesame alsoo too prouyde some presente remedye for souche as shalbe infected wyth that desease And for the better vnderstandynge of the medycyne I wyll vse thys ordre that all Physycyons learned doo vse in theyr practyse of Phisycke Fyrste I wyll shewe the cheafeste cause of the pestylence And then what remeadye is beste too bee vsed agaynste it and to heale it when it hath infected anye manne And althoughe I wyll speake herein some what as other Physycyons haue doone yet because they haue spoken alreadye more then I canne in the matter thoughe it bee a greate deale lesse then the matter of the desease requyreth for none of them haue shewed anye ascertayned remeadye be theyr reason neuer soo good I wyll breafelye as by the way somewhat speake of thys desease as they doo But as a preacher of Goddes woorde and as a Physycyon for the soule rather then for the bodye intreate of the syckenesse and the remeadye thereof aftherthe aduyse and counsell of goddes woorde Whoo supplyeth all thynges omytted and not spoken of concernynge thys moste daungerouse plagues by souche as haue wroten besydes the scrypture of God theyr mynde touchynge thesame For in deede the chiefest causes of all plagues and syckenesse is synne whyche remaynynge wythin all menne worketh destructyon not onelye of the bodye but alsoo of the soule yf remeadye be not founde And wheare as Galien sayeth that Omnis pestilentia fit a putredme aeris that is too saye all pestylence commeth by the corruptyon of the ayer that bothe beaste and man drawynge theyr breathes in the ayer corrupte draweth the corruptyon thereof intoo them selues he sayeth well yet not ynoughe He sayeth alsoo verye naturally that when the ayer is altered from hys naturall eaqualitye and temperature to to mouche and intemperate heate and moysture pestylence is lyke then too raygne For as he sayeth in the same place that heate and moysture dystemperated be moste daungerouse for the creatures of the worlde yet that is not ynoughe As Ezechiel sayeth wheare as God sendeth all thies dystemperaunces and yet yf Noah Daniel and Iob were in the myddeste of them they shall be saufe Eauyn soo sayeth Dauid alsoo Though they dye at the ryght hande tenne thousand foulde and dye at the lefte a thousande fould the plage shall not touche hym that sytteth vnder the protection of the highest And where as reason hath many good and probable argumentes in thys matter touchynge the cause of pestylence that it should come some time by reason of souche humors as be in the body disposed and apte to corrupte then is the man quickelye by drawing and breathyng as well the corruption of hym self as y e infection of the ayer infected And that souche humors as be grosse and inclined to corruptiō riseth of yuell and immoderat diet and the infection taketh hys origynall and begynnynge from souche beastes carinnes and other lothsome bodies that rotte vpon the face of the earthe not buryed or els from moorishe standynge and dampyshe waters sinckes or other souche vnholsome moistures soo that towardes the faull of the leafe bothe the ayer that man lyueth in as alsoo mans bodye it selfe bee more apte and disposed to putrifaction more in y e time then in any other tyme for diuerse naturall causes These causes are to be considered as naturall and consonaunte to reason yet there bee reasones and causes of pestylence of more waight and more worthye of deape and aduysed considerations and aduertisementes then thies be And the more because they lye within man be marked but of very fewe and hide them selues secretely tyll they haue poysoned the whole man both bodye and soule For in dede phisicions that write medle with no causes that hurte man but suche as come into man from with out as the humors they saye take theyr infectyon from vnholsome meate and yuell dyet or els from the corruption of the ayer wyth souche lyke But our sauyoure Christe sheweth that oure corruptyon and syckenes riseth from within vs as I wyll declare hereafter in the causes that the scripture teacheth of pestylence and al other dyseases Requyringe you diligentlye to loke vpon the same and to reade it in your churches that the people may vnderstand both the cause of this goddes plage of pestylence and howe too vse them selues in the time of this sickenes or anye other that shall happen vnto them by goddes appointmente As god may be glorified in them and you and I discharged of our bounden dueties And they them selues that shal happen to be infected with the plage of pestilence and by the same be brought to death