from a Weft'tlence. 205 FIRST 01 all therefore, they plight to be deemed as a kind of Traitors, who frightned the credulous Populace with the Apprehenfions of an approaching Pla< ue, by idle and groundlefs Reports and Predictions for the Propagation of the late Sicknefs was too notorioufly aflifted by this Means, to want any Arguments to prove it. THE timely Separation alfo ' of the infecled from the we 11, is abfolutely neceffa- 'vy to be done* becauie the moft fure Way of fpreading it, is letting the fick and well converfe together. Publick Funerals ought to be forbid, as alfb all kinds of Meetings, and frequent Intercourles of fe- veral Perfons together : An Injunction alfo of Quarantine from infected Places, accord- ing to the Cuftom of Trading Nations, is by any Means not to be omitted, and care- leB.y to be executed. ALTHOUGH it is looked upon as almoft impofnble, by the moft artful Con- trivances, and the moft prudent Councils, to avoid the Influence of a common Caufe *, yet the Call of Nature, and the Laws of Self-prefervation, demand our utmoft Dili- gence
