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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27641	A learned treatise of the plague wherein the two questions, whether the plague be infectious or no, and , whether and how farr it may be shunned of Christians by going aside, are resolved / written in Latine by the famous Theodore Beza Vezelian.	Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.	1665 (1665)	Wing B2196; ESTC R31585	20,458	25

A LEARNED TREATISE OF THE PLAGUE WHEREIN The two Questions Whether the PLAGUE be Infectious or no And Whether and how farr it may be shunned of Christians by going aside are resolved Written in Latine by the famous Theodore Beza Vezelian LONDON Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1665 To the Honorable Sir JOHN ROBINSON Lieutenant of his Majestie 's Principal Fortress the Tower of London Honourable Sir THE confidence of a Stranger will I hope easily meet your pardon when the worth of the Author and the occasional Subject of the Discourse in these contagious and calamitous times have given me too sad an opportunity of presenting it to your Honour whose concerns for the Publick Welfare even in this Great City are as eminently great as any others The matter of the Discourse is a Confutation and reconciling the onely two destructive Opinions that in all Ages in Contagious and Infectious times have ever proved fatal to the World the one too much presuming and relying upon this bold Opinion That the PLAGUE is not Infectious and the other Tum pavor sapientiam omnem mihi ex animo expectorat out of a weak and unspirited Precipitation without exception flye away from it both of which are so contrarie to Humanity that as they are utter Enemies to each other so like the dis-agreeing Brothers they are both in opposition to Christian Community and Charity To say more were too great a wrong to the Judicious Beza and to anticipate Your Honours Judgement To whose Noble Approbation I commend the Author and hope from Your Noble Candour You will easily censure this Presumption in Honourable Sir Your Honours though unknown most devoted and most humble Servant Edward Percivall A LEARNED TREATISE OF THE PLAGUE Wherein the two Questions Whether the PLAGUE be Infectious or no And Whether and how far it may be shunned of Christians by going aside are resolved I Confess my self to have been so unacquainted with this question Whether the Plague be to be reckoned amongst infectious Diseases that untill within these few years I am of belief that it was never doubted but that this Sicknesse alone amongst all others was to be judged Contagious for testimony whereof before any man that is not given to quarrel I refer my self to the judgement of Writers of all Countries who have treated of these things But now in our times men have taken in hand to dispute this question upon this occasion That many do so greatly fear this disease and death which commonly followeth the same that forsaking all duties not onely of Christians but also of Humanity they have greatly increased the very wrath of God which is the chief cause of this Sicknesse and there hath in a manner been no stay or lett in them but where this great misery hath happened the bonds of Man's fellowships being once broken it is much to be wondered at that all Mankinde hath not perished and been destroyed And these men being demanded what they can alledge for so impious a crime for that they commonly bring nothing else for their excuse but the fear of Infection wherof it hath come to pa●s that those in whom there is a greater boldness do think that they can no way more certainly finde a remedy for this evil than by teaching that this Sickness is falsly supposed to be infectious But I because I think that this Paradox or strange opinion can no more be proved by good reason then if a man with Anaxagoras should hold the Snow to be black or out of the Hypothesis of Copernicus labour to prove that the Earth doth really move and the Sun stand still as the Center of the World do judge that this so great fear which bringeth with it a forgetfulness of all duty both may and also ought otherwise to be put away neither will I believe this Disease not to be infectious untill some man shall teach me either out of the Word of God or by evident and good reasons to the contrary for there are in the very course of Nature certain and most sure grounds and proofs of this verity so long as the order of necessary Causes agree with themselves For I deny although it be agreed upon that the Plague of all other diseases is most infectious yea and that unavoidable death for the most part doth presently follow that therefore the Standing in which God hath placed every man is to be forsaken I deny I say that therefore that thing is not to be preferred before Life it self which we owe unto God to our Country and which we owe unto men either for some publick or private respect And I had much more rather they would bestow their endeavours in perswasive disputes to restrain mens flying away for fear of the Plague than that they should labor to prove their strange opinion of the Plague not to be contagious Indeed I had rather have the Consequent according to the School-phrase in that same Enthymeme to be denied than the Antecedent for by that means something might be brought to pass not only by probable but also by necessary Arguments according to their own desire namely That those do very greatly offend who for fear of any peril do offend against God or against their Neighbour For what Christian man dareth to call these things into controveisie or if he dare do it shall not be reproved by the restimony of his own Conscience though all the world should be silent For I do not think that there are any which do hold that with a good conscience the Plague by all means without exception is to be fled from which notwithstanding I see by some in such sort disputed against as if it were by others maintained Yet if there be any of that minde I do no more favour their errour than I allow of those men which of a clean contrary opinion do think that the Plague is not to be fled from But surely it is the part of a wise man to follow the Golden mean so that he fly not when he should tarry neither when he should go aside for the term of flying away in this Argument seemeth to me to be very improper by his rash tarrying offend against the self-same Charity which seemed to counsel him to stay These things I thought good in manner of a Preface to set down before I come to the handling of the matter To the end that all men at the first entrance may perceive what I have undertaken to defend and what to disprove Then for as much as there are some not wanting which do think that this discourse of the Plague to be fled from or not to be fled from doth depend upon the first question Whether the Plague be infectious or no let us examine with what reasons and arguments they so boldly deny the Plague to be infectious a thing which hitherto of all men without controversie