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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70159	[Logos alexipharmakos] or, Hyperphysicall directions in time of plague collected out of the sole-authentick dispensatory of the chief physitian both of soule and body, and, disposed more particularly, though not without some alteration and addition, according to the method of those physicall directions printed by command of the Lords of the Counsell at Oxford 1644 and very requisite to be used with them : also, certain aphorismes, premised, and conclusions from them deduced, concerning the plague, necesiary to be knovvn and observed of all, that would either prevent it, or get it cured / by Lionell Gatford ...	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1644 (1644)	Wing G335; ESTC R8380	35,555	37

doe and ought to make use of such preservatives and medicines z in time of Plague as God a hath by learned and experienced Physitians b imparted unto us giving him thankes for them c Yet we cannot and ought not to rely upon them but we must submit all to the Lord and rest upon him d And if we so doe and repent truly of our sinnes and doe that which is just and right although the Physitian can prescribe no certaine infallible remedy for it yet the Divine can so farre as to assure thee that it shall not hurt thee For thy so doing I meane thy repenting truly of all thy sinnes and relying wholly upon God in and through the merits and mediation of Christ will undoubtedly preserve thee e if not from its stroke from its venime and poison so that if it kill thee yet it shall do thee no harme for that he will be the death of its death or the plague to its death for thee f and thy death shall be an advantage to thee g 6 Whatsoever we take or make use of to prevent or expell the Plague either of Body or Soule must be taken or used speedily without the least delay h for the poyson of both Plagues is so subtill and spiritfull that it both infects and kills in a very short time oftentimes in a few houres These Aphorismes and conclusions being premised I hope the following Directions will prove the more beneficiall provided that these two cautions be observed First That these Directions be look't upon directly as they are not as the originall prescripts of a Divine for then there had beene lesse of the Physitian in them but as the occasionall meditations of a Divine upon the originall prescripts of a Physitian and so there is a kinde of necessity that they should favour the more both of the Physitians {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and his {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to his medicinall confections and his medicinall expressions Secondly That whereas the Director keeping close to the Allegory makes use of Physicall termes to expresse Theologicall graces the Reader be not so gracelesse as to abuse those expressions to the venting of his owne rudenesse and prophanesse HYPERPHYSICALL DIRECTIons in time of PLAGUE c. THe first and most generall preservative against this infection is not named by the Author of the Physicall directions for that as I suppose he thought it more dangerous to fly from this City as the case then was then to abide in it it being better to fall into the hands of God who in wrath remembers mercy then into the hands of such mercilesse bloody men as then did and still doe lye in waite to devour us howsoever I shall be bold to mention it as being altogether requisite in that case that I shall apply it unto The Preservative that I meane is the flying from such Persons and places as are infected 'T is approved of in the Letter concerning the Body-Plague provided that they who would make use of that meanes have no publique or private bond upon them to the contrary and that they doe not take that course as an occasion to save their purses from contributing to the releife and support of those who stay behind them and are in want as also that they do not trust too much upon their flight as thinking themselves secured thereby But in the Allegory as it concernes the Soule Plague the flying from Persons and plates infected is not only a prescript of Councell but of Command and the contagion cannot well be avoyded without it a Whether men fly or not let as many as have not done it before set their houses in Order and settle their estates b making the best provision they are able for their Wives and Children c and not forgetting the Poore d Have a care what Strangers thou receivest and entertainest in thy house To entertaine strangers especially in times of distresse is an excellent meanes of preservation to a whole family for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares e and those such Angells as have preserved them and theirs from the universall destruction of that City wherein they have lived f and 't is a most acceptable thing both to God and Christ to entertaine some strangers g and the excluding or neglecting them most distastfull h Yet 't is good to beware whom thou entertainest lest otherwise thou chance to entertaine Devils in the forme of Angels In particular beware of false Prophets or false Teachers who privily bring in damnable heresies where e're they come causing the way of truth by their pernicious wayes to be evill spoken of and with their fained words make merchandise of mens soules i you shall know them by those markes by which Saint Peter describes them such as the despising of government carrying themselves presumptuously and selfe-will'dly speaking evill of dignities k c. If any such come unto you or any other that bring any other doctrine then what is consonant to the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles receive them not into your house neither bid them God speed l Beware also of all such as use to creep into houses and lead Captive silly women whether they be Prophets or not m you shall know them also by those markes which Saint Paul sets them out by n if you be but carefull to observe them And because you will say 't is impossible to know whether strangers be such or not I would advise you to be the more carefull that those strangers whom you do entertaine be able to shew you some way or other either by the report of others o or by their owne deportment p some good testimoniall of their being free from all such infection or contagion But if they cannot do that for the present Notwithstanding use them humanely and intreat them kindly so long as thou knowest nothing to the contrary but that they are cleare and free and that for his sake who shewed such kindnesse and compassion to thee when thou wast a stranger to him and stript of all thou hadst that good was and wounded and cast out into the high way ready to perish those that knew thee passing by thee neither willing nor able to helpe thee I meane Jesus Christ himselfe who tells thee this of himselfe in a parable q and bids thee do the like r Nay further If thou suspect them or know them not to be free from infection yet if they be in extreme want make the best provision for them that thou canst with safety to thy selfe and family And that still for his sake who entertained thee when thou wert a stranger to him and to all worth and goodnesse that might any wayes deserve the least kindnesse from him Å¿ viz. their Lord and thine they being his creatures t and bearing his image u as