Attitudes and actions
Abstract
For what is the cause that this pestilence is so greatly in one part of the land and not in another? And in the same city and town, why is it in one part, or in one house, and not in another? And in the same house, why is it upon one, and not upon all the rest, when they all live together, and draw in the same breath, and eat and drink together, and lodge in the same chamber, yea sometimes in the same bed? What is the cause of this, but that it pleaseth the Lord in wisdom, for some cause to defend some for a time, and not the rest? Therefore let us believe that in these dangerous times God must be our only defence.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Renaissance Literature and Culture
Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 22–50
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter