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nature_n	air_n	earth_n	element_n	2,483	5	9.5484	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18922	Henoch Clapham his demaundes and answeres touching the pestilence methodically handled, as his time and meanes could permit.	Clapham, Henoch.; Re., Pere.	1604 (1604)	STC 5343; ESTC S108006	28,520	38

Angels stroke so is the cause the plague sores and markes appearing arising are an effect The first not infectious The second is Infectious sometimes more or lesse Afterwards in the third Section having said It is for none to make Physicke their staffe nor yet their first meane I then write thus Is Phisick then in this and all other plagues to be avoyded No we are not to neglect such naturall meanes as reason experience haue found out to avayle against Naturall infirmity Deo non obstante the Lord not crossing nature Otherwise we shal be found tempters of God leaving our way rather then faithfull keepers of our way Thus much there and much more then this for approving and enioying Phisical practise in regard of such contagious corruption How greatly then haue they sinned against the evident trueth who haue said that Clapham taught the Plague not at all to be infectious as also that he reiected the practisers of Phisicall meanes for Atheistes But how deepe haue their sinne bene who laying my said Epistle before them haue culled out all spoken of the Angells stroke of pretence haue skipped over these aforesaid speaches and the like touching Infection Phisicall meanes and that for so framing their Articles as it might be thought that my saide Epistle taught no such infection no such vse of Phisicke and so consequently as they speake Clapham an occasion of the death of thousands If as He that write the spirituall perfume I should haue skipped ouer such naturall respectes and why may not a Divine do it whose practise is not to preach Phisick how would all accusations then haue passed for current against me Yea the Bishop knowes by a letter writ to him how in the Pulpit I said Whosoeuer dee●es pestilenced ayre earth bodyes to be in their owne nature infectious they deserued rather to be taught it in Bride-well with stripes then out of the pulpitt with Argumentes And yet this hath helped nothing That the Plague that is pestilenced ayre earth bodyes should bee infectious naturally for we speak not against Gods providence somtimes crossing nature as once it hindered the Lyon from hurtinge the Asse who otherwise according to his devouring nature killed the disobedient Ryder 1. King 13. but we speake of the nature of the corruption it selfe it can not be marvayled at or gaynesayd when as we finde and graunt inferiour diseases amongst mankind beastes to be readily and sharply infectious and ordinarily to be prevented healed by naturall remedy To particularize them are over-lothsom and vnnecessary this discourse If thou say thou hast conversed nearly with such as haue bene p●stilenced and yet that way vntouched I answer so haue I not by way of tempting God but in way of discharging holy necessary duty and also I with all my famely somtymes so imployde vntouched that way That this fell out it is not because there was no contagion in such pestilenced persons but because God bridled it that wee so survi●●ing might speak of his wonderfull workes and laud him for his mercies Of this naturall Pest the Phisitians and Clarkes of Nature thus write The cause of the Generall pestilence whiche indifferently attaynteth all sortes of men is the Ayre which we sucke that hath in it self a corrupt and venemous seede which we draw with our●in breathing By which ayre Hipocrates doubtles meant not Only the common ayre element all investing all bodyes but also the Ayre fluctuated as Winde from out of pestilenced bodyes Were it not for such Gust and Touch we need not to feare to converse nearely with such as be taynted with Morbo Gallico and other such peculiar peccatorious maladies But for this worke of nature I leaue to the Reverend Studentes of natures secretes contenting my selfe only with this that I know no learned Divine to be heerein contrary minded And every Maister is to be heeded in his owne Faculty Quere Can the Angels stroke by som essentiall marke be differenced from the Taint of naturall corruption CHAP. V. Answ FOr my part I see no such assured ma●ke The blew hand and blew spots commonly called Gods tokens and whereof I yet can heare no Phisitian to giue a reason and therefore they leaue them as vnphysicall although I take it an acquaintance of mine in the Citie was restored of the second they seeme to be differenced from the other and the first in a speciall maner to put vs in minde of the Angell smyting And whereas now of late many are killed vp as report goeth without having vpon them either sore or former markes as if the Lord would giue vs no signe by reason of passed abuse of signes it might seeme to administer an essentiall marke but seeing that cannot be called an essentiall differencing marke which either holdeth not in all so smitten or which falleth out besides in another kind of plague and contrary thereto I haue no assurance I leaue it with my ignorance and instead of exquiring I reverence before the Lord crying out ô the depth of his iudgments his wayes are past finding out One defineth the plague to be A stroke of Divine anger for the ●●nnes of mankind So are a thousand maladies more and all stripes inflicted on mankind for sinne and so the Definition a meere Genus without his Differentia vttering what is common to all maladies but nothing formall to the Pestilence whereof he disputeth Such a definition I could frame to the Angels stroke but then I should be as iustly derided for it as he was reported in a leafe or two vniustly to impeach my iudgment of the Pestilence Physico Physica vt Theologo theologia The cause why God hath not revealed to vs a sufficient Difference as it may well grow from our sinne so it teacheth vs in such estate to vse and reverently to esteeme of both Phisicall and Spirituall remedies least fayling in one we be iudged for that one and in neglecting neither we may haue a good conscience in both And from this consideration it was that I not only taught and prayed but also all the time of Pestilence did vse Phisicke my selfe propounding it also to my family som other acquaintance all the creatures of God are good and nothing to be refused if it be receaved with thankes-giving for it is sanctified by the Word of God and Prayer And seeing the Angels stroke doeth leaue behind it bodies wounded to death howsoever that stroke beget not the like naturally in another more then the stroke of God vpon Ananias a●d Saphira infected the by-standers and porters Act. 5. yet seeing the Elements in such bodies resolue all into hatefull putrifaction it should be at the least seeme to others an Act over presumptious to gaine say the vse of naturall preservatiue and medicine Quere Doth the 91. Psalme propound deliverance from the Pestilence DEBER to som sorte of people CHAP. VI. Answ. THat it doth at large as the learned Mollerus thus writeth