of the late Te/iilence. 1 5 I BUT in the Profecution hereof, as fome heretofore have taken a great deal of Pains to no Purpofe in finding an universal Jpecifick againft the Peftilence, and have impofed many palpable Falfities upon the World under fuch Pretences fo our modern Coal- Blowers have in like Manner cried up their pernicious Secrets, and wickedly impofed them upon the credulous Populace. Cer- tainly thefe publick Cheats ought them- ielves to be deemed peftilential, as their Notions and Practice is abhorrent to all found Reafon : For it the Arguments on both Sides the Queftion be fairly ftated, any one will be convinced, that there ne^ ver as yet hath been difcovered in Nature, the full aiid abfolute Eifence of a Pefti- lence, but that it ftill remains a Myftery to Mankind*, wherefore in this Difbmper a Perfon muft proceed, as in all others, by a ferious Attention to the manifest Sym- ptoms, and a rational Conformity of the Means of Cure thereunto- and while we hold to this only Rule of Procedure, al- though the Severity of the Diftemper may conquer feveral, yet many alfo may be faved, L 4 IT
