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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03264	A short dialogue concerning the plagues infection Published to preserue bloud, through the blessing of God.	Balmford, James, b. 1556.	1603 (1603)	STC 1338; ESTC S100768	34,749	98

A SHORT DIALOGVE CONCERNING THE PLAGVES INFECTION Published to preserue bloud through the blessing of God Psal 91. 11. He shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all thy wayes Matth. 4. 7. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God ANCHORA SPEI LONDON Printed for Richard Boyle and are to be sold at his shop in Blacke-friers 1603. TO HIS VVELBELOVED IN CHRIST THE PARISHIONERS OF SAINT OLAVES IN Southwarke IAMES BAMFORD wisheth increase of Grace and knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ IT is written in the 33. of Ezechiel That if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and make him their watchman if when he seeth the sword come vpon the land he blow the trumpet and warne the people then he that heareth the sound of the trumpet and will not be warned if the sword come and take him away his bloud shall be vpon his owne head But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away for his iniquity but his bloud will I require saith the Lord at the watchmans hand So you my beloued haue chosen me to be your watchman Therefore it concerneth me to giue and you to take warning of mortall danger as we wil be free from bloud-guiltinesse But I haue publickly giuen you warning of that bloudy errour which denieth the Pestilence to be contagious maintained not onely by the rude multitude but by too many of the better sort you are therefore to take warning That ye may the rather take heed to the siluer trumpet which hath soūded in your eares I haue thought it necessary to set downe in writing all that I haue publickly taught together with whatsoeuer else I perceiue by priuate conference to be appertaining to that question that yee may take time better to consider that which is either misunderstood or not well remembred because it was but once deliuered and the common sort are not acquainted with and therefore hardly capeable of Scholasticall disputations And yet I endeuoured to speake as plaine as I could But now I haue contriued al in the forme of a Dialogue which is a more familiar maner of teaching hoping that now yee will more readily both perceiue and receiue the truth herein contained I humbly and earnestly desire you at your leisure diligently to examine the quotations but first to reade ouer the Dialogue it selfe If any desire a more learned discourse I referre them to that worthy Treatise written by that reuerend father the light of our age Maister Beza and translated by that faithfull and profitable seruant of Christ Maister Stockwood Furthermore as I desire you to reade this Dialogue with good respect so I pray you do not thinke that I haue any purpose to traduce you as maintainers of errour and gainsayers of your teacher For howsoeuer indeed I was occasioned by that I saw and heard amongst our selues to preach this doctrine and haue committed it to writing for your speciall good yet knowing that bloudy errour which I impugne to be commonly maintained in London I thought it conuenient to publish this Dialogue in print for a more generall good As for your selues I am so far from traducing you that I do with ioyfull thankes to God the father in the name of Iesus Christ giue you this testimony that notwithstanding the iudgement of some be not well informed in this point yet I haue much comfort in my Ministery amongst you for in sundry things ye shew the obediēce of faith Amongst the rest ye attend the Sacrament of Baptisme from which in most places people runne away most contemptuously Ye frequent Friday Lecture as diligently euer since the Plague was kindled as in winter nights wheras many in about Londō are winter hearers attending the word when they haue nothing else to do and ye fill Gods house vpō the daies of humiliation holy rest notwithstanding there haue died in our parish from the 7. of May to this day 2640. Wheras before the Plague our Church was partly filled by strāgers both on Sondayes Fridayes These things I take knowledge of as to signifie that in this Dialogue I do not taxe you or any of you more than other so to incourage you to go forward not backward in your holy profession seruing God and sanctifying his Sabboths as religiously hereafter as ye do now while God is present with you in this his grieuous visitation For it is a good thing saith one Apostle to loue earnestly alwayes in a good thing And it is better saith another Apostle for you not to haue taken the way of righteousnes than after ye haue taken it to forsake it Therfore good brethren take heed that ye coole not in your deuotion because the number of the buried in our parish is fallen blessed be God frō 305. to 51. in one weeke and from 57. to 4. buried in one day Shall our loue coole whē Gods loue is kindled God forbid O remember that when Moses lifted vp his hands Israel preuailed but when his hands were heauy Amalech preuailed And when it shall please God to remoue this heauy iudgement let vs neuer forget this visitation according to the doctrine we haue learned out of the title of the 38. Psal Let vs not turne backe like a deceitfull bow and let vs sin no more lest a worse euill come vntovs according to the saying of Christ himselfe to a man deliuered from a grieuous disease Conceiuing good hope that yee will hide the words of exhortation in honest and good harts to bring forth fruite with patience I commend me to your fauour my Dialogue to your reading and your selues to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build further From my study this 13. of October 1603. Yours in the Lord assured and readie to do all the seruice he may IAMES BAMFORD The Contents of this Dialogue 1 THE occasion of this Dialogue and chiefe points to be discussed page 2. 2 People must heare well before they presume to iudge their teachers pag. 2 3 4. 3 Magistrates may and ought to seuer the sound from the infected and the infected from the sound pag. 5 6 7 8. 4 How the poore infected may go abroad for necessarie reliefe which otherwise they should want pag. 9. 5 The infected who want no necessarie releefe should keepe in and they withall supposed to come about them are to forbeare the Church for a while pag. 10 11 12 13. 6 The Plague may be in a garment pag. 13 14 15. 7 The Plague may be taken by feare whereof we are therefore to take heede pag. 15 16 17. 8 How Ministers are to visite the sicke 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. 9 How the sicke are to be visited by other pag. 24 25 26 27 28. 10 The sicke of the plague are not