tot Of tPreferVation the Difcharge of their Duty to others, yet the Survivors went on chearfuily in their Bufmefs and they who lived through the whole, owed a great deal to a Conftancy of Mind, as well as to the conservatory Power of Providence. section vni, Of Preservation from a Peflilence. IT is manifeftly much more advifeable to keep off the Iiwafion of a PefHlence, than to Hand its violent and fatal Shocks -, and Self-Prefervation, as well as the Exam- ple of all other wife People, admonifties us to ufe all poffible Endeavours to keep it from us, and guard our felves againft it while at a Diftance". This Part therefore concerning our Prefervation from a Pefti- lence, regards both the Duty of the Ma- giftrate, and the Care of every Individual : that is to fay, it is the Magiftrate's Duty, that when the Nature and peculiar Quali- ties of this Difeafe are known, and reported by Phyficians, fuch Laws mould be pro- vided, as might beft conduce to prevent its Spreading, if not to its utter Extirpa- tion. FIRST
