A letter to Mr. Maitland, in vindication of the sermon against inoculation / By Edmund Massey.

  • Edmund Massey
Date:
1722
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Credit: A letter to Mr. Maitland, in vindication of the sermon against inoculation / By Edmund Massey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Saviour, when he was tempted to caft himfelf down from the Tinacle 46. of the Temple, to which you reply, Tut the Cafe as difadvantageoufly as pofjtble, it more rcjernbles that of a Terf on who leaps out of a Window for fear of Fire ; and furely, that can ne¬ ver be reckoned, a miftrufi of Trovu dence, , ■. ' . < No certainly. Sir, if his Houfe be really on Fire, and the Stairs burnt, ’tis the only ordinary probable Way of Safety left, and if the Leap flhould kill him, the Action cou’d neither be called firf ul or imprudent: But what fhould we fay to a Man, who jump’d out of the Window, when his Houfe was not on Firey only to try, what he might perhaps be for¬ ced to do hereafter ? This mad Acti¬ on exactly hits the Cafe between us. For if my Houfe be not on Fire, that is, If 1 am in no apparent ‘Danger, what need I jump out at the Window ? What Occalion is there to inoculate i - i \< ' > * ♦ I li me ?
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