The predicted plague : value of the prediction, planetary and atmospheric influences considered as cause of black death and other plagues ; comets and plagues of two thousand years detailed. Queen Elizabeth in Richmond : Her Majesty's book of astrology and the diary of her astrologer, Dr. Dee. Richmond's Queen of the May. Joyous youth at White Lodge. Shepheard's kalendar, 1500 / by Hippocrates Junior ; Holbein's dance of death ... and other series of his works ; the illustrations by Byam Shaw.

Hippocrates, Junior.

Date:: 1900

Credit: The predicted plague : value of the prediction, planetary and atmospheric influences considered as cause of black death and other plagues ; comets and plagues of two thousand years detailed. Queen Elizabeth in Richmond : Her Majesty's book of astrology and the diary of her astrologer, Dr. Dee. Richmond's Queen of the May. Joyous youth at White Lodge. Shepheard's kalendar, 1500 / by Hippocrates Junior ; Holbein's dance of death ... and other series of his works ; the illustrations by Byam Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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?ef stiallbrtaS Doliin (belt altars. I)( shall Dfstrop Hirir ima- gts jFor iiotti thrj ^^ECADENCE of Christianity or of religion Christian theology was compounded in the day when no question was too great for the common mind to raise an answer, and in a day when the usefulness of a doctrine had nothing to do with its title to a place in the Creed. Hence into the Christian systems came a whole long procession of questions and answers, very few of which had any application to human welfare, and many of which cast more light upon the egotism of man than upon the providence of God. Paul’s fear that many would turn aside to vain jangling was not groundless in all the Middle Ages. “A pure heart and charity and unfeigned faith ” did not go far toward composing the Gospel of the subsequent times. If a man had no more religion than purity and charity and faith in Christ, his prospect of escaping the Inquisition was not good. Such a Creed was too thin a toilet for the rigours of the Old Catholic or Protestant winter. The purity of a man’s life, his benevolence and virtue and piety, weighed nothing, if the man could not answer the theological questions of his superiors in office. And, indeed, nothing is more true than that the wrath of the theologians always fell upon the noblest men and women of those days of blood ; and no fact is clearer than that there have been theological ages when the life of a brazen criminal was surer than that of a thinking, prayerful saint ; to transgress the laws of the State was safer than to doubt an article in the Creed. It was an error of the past generation, as well as prevalent with too many of the old style of the present, that it supposed all earthly things to be opposed to things heavenly ; whereas all terrestrial things are Divine, except our sins. Earthly things are Divine, more

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