Christianity, History

Vaccination Defies God’s Natural Laws (1856) (John Gibbs)

“Food is taken into the stomach through the mouth, air into the lungs through the nostrils; but there is no orifice prepared by Divine wisdom for the insertion of the vaccine virus. … The vaccine virus—the baneful discovery of man’s perverted reason—is introduced into the system in defiance of natural laws, and every such violation brings its punishment.”

Christianity, History

Vaccination as Tempting God (1722) (from “A Sermon Against the Dangerous and Sinful Practice of Inoculation”)

“It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God: this was our Saviour’s answer to the Devil, when he would have persuaded Him to the commission of a presumptuous action. There are angels, says the tempter, to take care of you, so that you cannot possibly come to any harm; then make the experiment, and cast thyself down. Now there is no great difference between this of the devil and the temptation which lies before us; both intimate the safety of the practice, and both pretend the blessing of God; our Lord’s reproof, then, will serve them both.”