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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00472	The duetie of a faithfull and wise magistrate, in preseruing and deliuering of the eommon [sic] wealth from infection, in the time of the plague or pestilence two bookes. Written in Latine by Iohn Ewich, ordinary phisition of the woorthie common wealth of Breame, and newlie turned into English by Iohn Stockwood schoolemaister of Tunbridge. ...; De officio fidelis et prudentis magistratus tempore pestilentiae rempublican a contagio praeservandi liberandique. English	Ewich, Johann von, 1525-1588.; Stockwood, John, d. 1610.	1583 (1583)	STC 10607; ESTC S101800	118,209	274

appoyntment all thinges vse to be well gouerned are on the suddaine taken away euen so it fareth here where no lesse slaughter nay some tymes also a greater happeneth not onely the common Citizens but also sometimes those in whose hand lieth the authority of ordering this pollicy which we describe and set out are vnlooked for pulled away and together with the ruler of the sterne is the sterne lost also The which case to preuent and meete withal in time this our order and platforme such as it is was taken in hand and set forth for Whether it bee lawfull for Christians in the time of the Plague to flie and to leaue their Citie with a safe conscience Cap. 3. NOw albeit I may seeme alreadie to haue spoken muche in this matter of the seuering of the infected yet because of the affinitie or kinred of the cause and diuersity of opinions I will ioyne hereunto a very commō question disputed not only by the Diuines but also by the learned and Christian Phisitions namely whether in the time of the Plague it bee lawfull for a man for a season to forsake his Citie and to flie with a good conscience Of the which matter because there are sundrie opinions I will briefly plainely rehearse the reasons on both sides and in the ende also will set down my iudgement which shalbe a meane betweene both gathered out of the foūdations grounds of the parties at variance The former therefore say that wee reade not of any of the Saints holy men which feared not death and therefore that they feared reason 1 sicknesse also chiefly so deadly a sicknes and that if they coulde they would haue fled reason 2 by all likelihood Nay that it is vsuall vnto vs by natures lawe not learned by the teaching of men to feare death For y e Apostle saith That no man euer hated his own flesh but rather to nourish cherish by all means to maintaine and preserue the same Abraham say they for feare of death called his wife Sara by the name of sister and had rather to make a lie thē to come in dāger of his life Iacob fled into Mesopotamia that he might not fall into the handes of his brother Esau The same doth Dauid whilest he flyeth from king Saul and his own sonne Absolom Elias otherwise a most bold man and who with his owne hande had slaine the Prophetes of Baal but a little before yet feared with the threatnings of Iesabel the Queene conueighed himselfe a side into the wildernes Moses when as he was sought after by the king of the Aegyptians fled into Midia Therefore say they it is not onely lawful to flie death but other also the whips of God beeing angrie as hunger tyraunts burnings ouerflowinges of waters colde heate captiuitie wilde beastes to be shorte all kindes of diseases agues disenteries vncleannesse the Leprie the french pockes c. Which things sithence they are so it shall be muche more lawfull to flie the plague and reason 3 death Furthermore all men are not indued with equal strength either of body or minde they say therefore that it were not iust to require the same thinges at the hands of all Strong faith drinketh poison without hurt wherewith a sucking or young faith woulde die Peter beeing bold and hauing trust walked reason 4 in the Sea without harme the same a little after doubting began to bee drowned And Christe will not haue the weake to bee despised Moreouer it is euident by the doctrine of all Phisitions that such is the nature of infection that going from one subiect and body into another that is next and fittest to receiue it by due and conuenient distance it doth infect and corrupt the same for two thinges are required that there may bee an impression or printing and marking namely aptnesse of the subiect and neerenesse Therefore when as it is manifest by their owne iudgement and also daily experience that the plague is a most infectious disease as which is wont to bee taken by the drawing in of the corrupted and poysoned ayre they in deede giue counsaile that it be shunned so much as may bee and amongest all kinde of counsailes they confesse that none is better then is speedy flying away long tarrying foorth and slowe returning again For there is no way more commodious to auoide the infected ayre none more safe when as the ayre must alwayes bee drawen yea euen against our willes and it is drawē such as it is And they say that the same remedie is with so much the more speede to be vsed by howe muche the euill is more hurtfull and present That we ought to flie the further to the end a more healthie ayre may be found Finally that wee must returne the more slowly that wee may bee the more sure of the cleansing of the corrupted ayre Heereupon they think in time of the plague these three aduerbes quickly farre slowly to bring more ayd safe remedie then 3. of the beste furnished Apothecaries shops For the plague as Galē vnto Piso is autor with an airie bodie is as it were a certaine dragon no commō dragon but such a one who when as he is not seene with the eyes doth priuily and by stealth lying as it were in ambushment euery where breath out his poyson vpon men and no common poyson but suche as increasing moste speedily may in a very short time deuour the whole body of the common wealth For the yll qualitie of the ayre saith Galen is made a readie change vnto corruption and when as men through the necessitie of breathing cannot auoid danger they doe by the mouth drawe vnto them the ayre it selfe as a certain poyson Wherefore the same Galen calleth and praiseth Hypocrates as a man many wayes wonderfull for that no otherwise then by the changing of the ayre hee cured that Plague which out of Aethyopia had assaulted the Greekes For when as he had commaunded a fire to bee made throughout the whole Citie of Athens hee cast into it not only a bare heape of wood but flowers garlands of most sweet sauour also most fat smelling ointments that the men might draw in vnto themselues the ayre thus purged as an ayd and helpe for them Lastly say reason 5 they doe wee not with great admiration and wonder see sometimes a great familie to dye one after another out of the whiche if any by the counsaile of the Phisitions flie in time they remaine alwayes for the most part in safetie How fewe also of those die which depart out of infected Cities we our selues daylie see so that in this case they reason 6 thinke that saying of Demosthenes to haue place the man that runneth away will fight againe Now if it be vnlawful and sin to shunne such places or by going aside to leaue thē then to liue also the which notwithstanding is a singuler gift of God