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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37471	Food and physick for every householder & his family during the time of the plague very useful, both for the free and the infected, and necessary for all persons in what condition or quality soever : together with several prayers and meditations before, in, and after infection, very needful in all infectious and contagious times, and fit as well for the country as the city / published by T.D. for the publick good.	T. D.	1665 (1665)	Wing D88; ESTC R33433	7,540	24

Plague and Sickness O Lord I am held in thy fetters Oh thou which hast bound me loose me and if it tend unto thy glory and my good restore my health unto me O Lord I have been an unprofitable Servant all my Life time Oh then let me not then be bereft of the Life of Nature when I begin the Life of Grace but if thou hast disposed of me otherwise increase my Patience with my Pains shew thy strength in sustaining my weakness and be my strong Fortress in this hour of my Trya● give me grace to apprehend and apply all the merits and mercies of Christ unto my Soul and O Lord let thy Comforter oppose the Tempter in such a measure that he may not prevail against me but as thou makest me like Lazarus full of Sores so let also thy Angells carry me into Abrahams bosome O Lord I intreat let me obtain even for his sake for whom thou hast promised and bound thy self to hear and help the afflicted even thy Son and my Saviour Christ Jesus To whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be all Praise c. Meditation 1. IT cannot chuse but be a grief unto a Christian to see how many murmur in this Visitation some fearing the Plague in their Persons others in their Purses some being loth to lose their Goods others to leave the World not fearing to say with despairing Cain their Punishment is greater than they can bear and thus do they undervalue Gods Mercy in his Justice in whose Vial is not only Wine but also Oyl Had he delivered us up to Famine it would have been a Burthen farr more grievous and had he delivered us up into the hands of our Enemies as he hath done some Neighbouring Nations it had been likely that our should not only have been banished from our Country but that all hope should have been banished from us How much better is it then as David chose to fall into the hand of God than into the hands of Men and to be visited with this Plague than to be Plagued with our Enemies The Lord give us grace to repent and amend that he may cease to afflict us and grant that being once cleansed we may sin no more lest a worse Evil happen unto us Meditation 2. IT is true indeed that Sin was the first Cause of this Sickness but as God doth not the Works of Mercy so he doth not the Works of Justice without a means Our Sins were the Parents of this Pestilence but it is a question how God brought it in there is no Man can absolutely determine but many may conjecture And I fear me it was the want of Charity and the neglect of the Poor in this City which partly caused this Infection for how can it be otherwise but that where multitudes are pestered together in a little room and in it have but little comfort as no Raggs to cover their nakedness no Linnen to shift them from filthiness it cannot chuse but cause them noysomeness and by consequence Infection If then the rich Men desire to leave to be miserable let them learn to be merciful and free the City from the multitudes of Poor Meditation 3. IT is a strange thing to see the difference of Men and to consider how the Seed of Andam being composed of the same Matter should so differ in Manners For here you may see one so timerous of Sickness that he dares not goe to Church for fear of Infection being so full of base Cowardise that he is fearful to gather a Rose lest he should prick his Fingers neglecting his Souls welfare for fear of his Bodies sickness notwithstanding he can trudge to Westminster about Quarrels and Contentions But on the contrary side another so audacious and presumptuous that he seemeth to challenge the Pestilence and seeketh it at Playes searcheth it from one Tavern to another as if he dared Gods Judgements to encounter with him both of which are extreme Follies We must part viz. from our frail Life I will therefore resolve not so much to fear the Evil of Sickness as to commit the Evil of sin neither so much Sin as to seek out Sickness The one is a sin against my Soul to deprive it of the Food which is offered and Tantalus like to starve it under the means The other is a sin against my Body to seek to impair the health of it but howsoever both of them against God The one being Timidity the other Timerity the one Fear the other Folly the one shewing himself faint-hearted the other fool-hardy A Remedy sent to the Lord Mayor of London by King Henry the Eighth against the PLAGUE TAKE a handful of Sage a handful of Hearb-Grace a handful of Elder Leaves a handful of Red Bramble Leaves stamp them all and strain them through a fine Cloath with a quart of VVhite-VVine and then take a quantity of Ginger and mingle them together and take a spoonful of the same and you shall be safe for twenty four Dayes Nine times taking of it is sufficient for a whole Year by the Grace of God And if it be so that the Party be stricken with the Plague before he hath drank this Medicine then take the Water of Scabios a spoonful of Water of Bettony a spoonful and a quantity of fine Triacle and put them all together and cause him to drink it and it will expell all the Venome If the Fotch appear then take the Leaves of Brambles Elder Leaves Mustard Seed and stamp them together and make a Plaister thereof and lay it to the Sore and that shall draw out the Venome and the Party shall be whole by the Grace of God M. H. Receipt against the Plague TAke Setwel Root to the quantity of half a Walnut and gra●e it of Triacle-Jean one good spoonful of Wine-Vinegar three good spoonfulls of fair Water three spoonfulls Make these more than luke-warm and so drink them off warm in your Bed and sweat six or seven hours after Drink Posset-Ale made with small Drink as your thirst requireth so that you expect an hour and a half after the Potion taking before your first drinking and it will drive forth the Plague Let the Posset-Ale be luke-warm at the first draughr but after as you like it so it be not quite cold These two Medicines have Cured above a thousand People in this City the last Plague time And none hath took it in time but scaped FINIS The Table AN Excellent Medicine to prevent the Plague Pag. 1 An approved Medicine after infection p. 2 A Remedy for those that fear the Plague p. 2 Things duly to be looked into p. 2 For Ayring Rooms p. 5 Things good to Smell Taste Eat Drink p. 6 Drink for ordinary Dyet p. 7 Outward Medicines to ripen the Sore p. 8 To take the Infection from a House infected p. 9 Against the new burning Feaver and To procure Sleep to the Sick Persons p. 10 A Prayer against the Plague p. 11 A Prayer for those that are not Visited p. 13 A Prayer for those that are Visited p. 15 Meditations p. 17 18 19. A Remedy sent to the Lord Mayor of London by King Henry the 8th against the Plague p. 20 M. H. His Receipt against the Plague p. 21 FINIS