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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

amongst the younger sort and such as do not greatly regard cleane and swéete kéeping and where many are pestred together in alleyes or houses is not this an argument of infection Thousandes can directly tell where when and of whom they tooke the Plague Doth not all this make it more then manifest that the Plague is contagious All Magistrates all Diuines all Phisitians all learned men and all wise men in all ages haue held the Plague to be contagious Dare any but blind bayard be so impudent to deny it without such reasons as may sway against so great experience and so great authoritie If you haue any such I pray you let me heare them Profess That I haue any such I cannot say in regard of the weaknes of myiudgment as also of the probabilitie at least of that I haue heard already spoken to the contrary but such as they be if it please you I will bring them out humbly desiring your answers The first is thus vrged with open mouth This opinion of infection doeth vtterly ouerthrow charitie towards the visited by the plague being the cause why they by whose meanes the sick and sound are especially to be prouided for do runne away viz. Magistrates Ministers such I meane as indeed were neuer faithfull for blessed be God many faithful remaine Phisitians and rich men and why so many be thrust out of doores perish in town and field for want of help and are so cruelly vsed by country people so that it is a very countermaund to Christ his iudgement concerning visitation of the sicke But by that which hath bin said and by gathering from the last point we talked of that the precise commaundement touching Lepers to be separated from Church and companie was no hinderance to their visitation but that they were to be ministred vnto according to their need I am for my part induced to lay the blame of all this vncharitable dealing vpon the excessiue feare of people occasioned perhaps but not well grounded vpon the opinion of the Plagues infection for though the Plague be to be feared because of the infection yet as I take it not so excessiuely and inordinatly For of such feare the cause is want of faith rather then the opinion of infection as I may partly gather from that which you deliuered before I will therefore propound an argument so deemed which we haue not yet handled Preach Stay here a while for I can not but thanke God that you iudge so rightly betwéene mine opinion and others feare of infection If Professors would wisely obserue what is taught there would not be so many spiders to suck ranke poison out of sound doctrine Then might we hold the plague in the nature thereof to be contagious and men would not take occasion before it be giuen of excessiue and inordinate feare then might we inuey against excessiue and inordinate feare and men would not take occasion before it be giuen of inordinate and dangerous presumption but foolish men as wise men obserue are euer running into extremities If Paul teach that we are iustified by faith without the works of the law the carnal gospeller taketh occasion before it be giuen to neglect good workes And if Iames teach that faith without workes is dead the arrogant Papist taketh occasion before it be giuen to aduance good workes to merite and supererogation Mine heart bléedeth to heare of the crueltie and inhumanitie you mentioned so that if I were in the cuntrey I would by Gods grace set my selfe against those damnable effects of inordinate feare and make it euident that the Plague is not so contagious as excessiue feare makes it to be But now I follow this course which God blesse because I liue where the contrarie sinne of Presumption is more generall and more dangerous both because of that bloudy errour as also of the absence of Magistrates who should sée good orders put in execution through which default it is come to passe that men women and children with running sores go commonly abroade and thrust themselues into company so that some haue perceiued when they tooke the infection of such How many may be supposed to haue taken the infection from such though they perceiued it not I would be loth to make Magistrates neglecting their charge guiltie of all this bloud but if I were in place I would humbly and earnestly intreate them seriously to consider the nine first verses of the 21. of Deuteronomy where they may learne how fearefull they of all other should be of bloud-guiltines But leauing them to Gods direction I pray you propound your argument so déemed Profess That I will and as neare as I can in such sort as it is inforced If the Plague be contagious why is not one infected as well as another I haue lyen in bed with many that haue had the plague-sores running on them I haue bene still about them when they swet their sores brake and breath went out of their bodies and yet I and a great number besides me who haue done as much had neuer the plague yet and trust neuershal so long as I haue a strong faith in God for is it not written Thou shalt not be afraid of the pestilence for thousands shal fal besides thee yet it shall not come neare thee for thou hast said The Lord is my hope Preacher This aduenturous argument standeth vpō two points viz. first the escaping of some and secondly their strong faith Concerning the former I answer in the name of the opponent Is thine eye euill because God is good Wilt thou by thy bloody errour poison other because God hath glorified his speciall prouidence ouer thée Is this thy thankfulnesse for so great deliuerance to obscure Gods prouidence by attributing thine escape to this that the plague is not infectiue Consider better the very text alleaged for thy strong faith and you may if you will sée clearely that God doth hereby set forth his prouidence in that he preserueth those that trust in him and walke in his wayes by Angels and then when by the pestilence thousands fall about them for the greater the daunger is the greater is Gods prouidence in deliuering his people as may further appeare by their walking vpon Lions Aspes and Dragons mentioned in the same Psalme Therefore take héede how you obscure the prouidence of God and draw many into daunger by denying the plague to be contagious lest as he that feared not the day of the Lord met with a Beare when he had escaped a Lion so you méete with a iudgement heauier to you though you still escape the plague But neighbour I will turne my spéech to you praying you to consider this Psalme wel and you shall sée me proue from the same the Plague to be contagious For if an extraordinary prouidence of God be manifested in preseruing those that beléeue from pestilence then is the pestilence very dangerous as be the Lion Aspe