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Virtus rediviva a panegyrick on our late King Charles the I. &c. of ever blessed memory. Attended, with severall other pieces from the same pen. Viz. [brace] I. A theatre of wits: being a collection of apothegms. II. Fœnestra in pectore: or a century of familiar letters. III. Loves labyrinth: a tragi-comedy. IV. Fragmenta poetica: or poeticall diversions. Concluding, with a panegyrick on his sacred Majesties most happy return. / By T.F.
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Forde, Thomas.
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all readings those Antelucanas Lectiones are to me the most pleasant and profitable And surely there is something in it that Lectus and Lectio are of near affinitie These are the onely Curtain-Lectures Not long since I fastened upon Sir Richard Bakers Soliloquie or as he calls it Pillar of thoughts deservedly so styled for the solidity of the composition the rareness of the materials and height of the fancie There amongst other choise notions he falls upon the immortality of the Soul and hath so well discharged himself in it that he hath left no place for a Sceptick to rest in Onely I could not see for indeed my candle is not of the largest size how he doth clearly evince the Original of the rational soul but with St. Augustine refuseth to determine whether it be propagated or infused I dare not resolve where so great men doubt and wherein the soul it self is ignorant or silent as if it had drank of Virgils Lethe before it came into the bodie forgetting how it came there Weighing the arguments of both sides my reason holding the ballance with an equal hand the arguments for the Traduction in my eye seem to be most weightie Perhaps because I know not how to answer them When I consider the births of bastards and other such like irregular productions the Anomalies of nature I cannot me thinks salve Gods justice who if the soul be not ex traduce must favour those irregularities so much against his Holiness And what hath the poor innocent soul done to be imprisoned in a sinful polluting bodie For if the soul be not propagated then the bodies of Infants onely have sinned and are onely liable to the punishment of Original sin Now certainly it cannot be properly said that the bodie sinneth for the bodie is but the souls instrument and what evil hath the soul of a young dying Infant committed if his soul were not derived from Adam And if the soul be infused who doubts but that it comes pure and unspotted from the hands of God It was an errour reckoned upon the score of the Arrians that our Saviour took onely flesh of the Virgin but not the soule But it is the opinion of the Church of England that Christ took mans nature upon him in the Virgins womb whence it must necessarily follow that he took both body and soul since either without the other make not perfect man Yet if this be evaded as extraordinary in the Historie of the Creation when God took Eve out of Adams side it is not said that He breathed into her the breath of life as before He did to Adam Perhaps and if silence may be interpreted consent to intimate that her soul was derived with her body from the man But that the soul which Philosophers call Anima composed of the vegetative and sensitive faculties is ex traduce is yielded the onely question being about the Spiritus which they say is the breath of God infused in the third or four th' or sixth moneth or to say truth they know not when Now if this Spirit be infused before the birth why see we not the effects and workings of this Spirit But it seems as dull as the body is feeble whereas experience tels us Chickens as soon as hatch'd fall to pecking ducklings to padling the colt fals to sucking as soon as foald the lamb as soon as faln whereas this Spirit in man is not seen till almost the third part of his life be spent and perhaps not at all Let a child be brought up in a wood or a wilderness what difference will appear between him and a beast So that this Spirit seems to be encreased by if not derived from civil societie and liberal education whereas if the soul be infused by God that it must come perfect from his hands who makes a question These things my faith can easily leap over and turn these mountains into mole-hils but my reason is at a stand and craves the favourable assistance of your courteous hand because I know you will doe it and that dexterously If you have the good fortune to rout these light arguments which I send out as my forlorn hope I have yet a reserve left which may tell you that a man may be victus in praelio and yet victor in bello But I leave you to your good fortune with assurance that your enemy is no other than Sir your Friend and Servant T. F. D. P. B. INfandum Philippe jubis renovare dolorem Dolorem sub sigillo silentis signandum esse vel lachrymis potius quam verbis exprimendum Nefandâ illâ nocte flagranti amicitiâ fluenti eloquentiâ medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid A Cacumine montium sum dejectus è Paradiso ejectus in orbem iturus rediturus nunquam foemininae linguae gladius versatilis regressum prohibet Heu quae nunc tellus quae me aequora possunt accipere aut quid jam misero mihi denique restat Silentium olim pendidit Amyclas jam vana loquacitas perdidit Amicos Nunc seriò ah nimis sera illud Câ—mici Mulier aut amat aut odit nihil est tertium Tu tamen vale constanter Ama. Constantissimum tuum Amicum T. F. To Mr. S. S. Sir CHristian moderation is the best reconciler of all controversies for it hath been too often found by sad experience that in the heats of disputations men have sought victory rather than verity Truth being often lost by an over-hot and hasty search Witness the many and too eager Disputes concerning Admission to the Lords Supper to which some men by a too hasty and less charitable zeal have excluded all though never so worthy lest they should lose the authoritie of Examination which the Scripture no where commands noâ— hardly anywhere allowes it being not possible for any man to know what is in man but the Spirit of man which is within him The Apostle St. Paul therefore layes the injunction upon every man to examine himself not sending him to another to usurp the power of Auricular Confession which they condemn in the Papists yet would exercise themselves I denie under submission that any man can shew any one direct place of Scripture that commands or enjoynes the Minister to examine his Parishioners it being his Office to teach them their duties to reprove them for and convince them of their errours and it is left to the people to examine and reform themselves by that glasse which the Minister holds out unto them We accuse the Romanists and justly of grand Sacriledge for denying the Cup unto the people whilest we are deprived not onely of part but of all How justly let the Scripture and the practice of all Ages till ours shew It is denied that Judas received the Sacrament with the other disciples though three Evangelists absolutely relate it and the fourth doth not denie it It is also denied that the Sacrament is a converting Ordinance because the Scripture
ipsa juvat Charls the First whom but to name is to cast a cloud upon all former Ages and to benight Posterity In taking of whose Picture I shall not need to doe as that Painter did who drew Antigonus imagine luscâ halâ— faced that so he might hide his want of an eye from the view of the beholder There is nothing in Charls but what is lovely and admirable no deformity or imperfection I shall rather choose to imitate the famous Apelles who to express his art to the full in the picture of Venus rising naked out of the Sea assembled together all the most beautifull women of the Island of Coos his native place uniting in that piece all their divided perfections There is nothing eminent or excellent in all the deservedly admired antients that is not only met but out-done in Charls It is affirmed by the learned Raleigh that if all the pictures and patterns of a merciless Prince were lost in the world they might all again be painted to the life out of the Story of Hen. 8. But I shall with as much truth and perhaps more Charity maintain that if all the Pictures and Patterns of a mercifull Prince of a couragious and constant King of a vertuous and brave Man were lost they might be repaired if not infinitely excell'd in the Story of Charls the First whose life needs no Advocate whom detraction it self cannot mention without commendation I find not any man in all the Records of the antients or the Writings of the more modern authors over whom he hath not some advantage nor any ones life taken altogether so admirable as His nor any thing admirable in any that was not in Him Quâ— simul omnia uno isto nomine continentur In Him alone are to be found all the vertuous qualities of the best Princes in the world without the vices of any of them for he only hath made it appear that great vertues may be without the attendance of great vices It was said of our Hen. the 5th that he had something in him of Câ—sar which Alexander the Great had not that he would not be drunk and something of Alexander the Great which Caesar had not that he would not be flattered But Charls had the vertues of all without the vices of any tam extra viciâ— quam cum summis virtutibus He as much exceeded all other Kings as other Kings doe all other men In a word he was what ever a good Prince ought to be and what others should be yet was this Lilly born in the land of thorns and briers this Rose sprang up amidst a field of thistles I presume the description hath prevented me saying it was Scotland A Land that calls in question and suspence Gods Omni-presence but that Charls came thence In quo nihil praeter unum Carolum est quod commendemus A Nation famous for the birth of Charls but infamous for their treachery and disloyalty to so brave a Prince But the happiness of a brave and incomparable Father did sufficiently recompence for the place of his birth So that I may say of him what is said of Lewis the 8th of France father to St. Lewis that he was Son to an excellent Father and Father to an excellent Son a Son only worthy of such a Father a Father only worthy of such a Son A Father so admirable that Sir W. Raleigh hath left it upon Record to all Posterity that if all the malice of the world were infused into one eye yet could it not discern in his life any one of those foul spots by which the consciences of all forreign Princes in effect have been defiled nor any drop of that innocent bloud on the Sword of his justice with which the most that fore-went him have stained both their hands and fame This Encomium of the Father may justly descend to the Son as Heir apparant to his virtues as well as his Crowns In his Childhood the weaknesse of his lower parts which made him unapt for exercises and feats of activity rendred him more retired and studious and more intent upon his Book then perhaps he had been otherwise So great a Student was he in his younger dayes that his Father would say he must make him a Bishop Providence then seeming to design him rather to the Crosier then the Crown By his great study he became a great Historian an excellent Poet a great lover and Master of Musick and indeed a generall Scholar This rare Cien was not grafted upon a wilding or crab-stock but an innocent and studious youth was the prologue to a more active and vigorous manhood For being grown in years and state he shook off his former retiredness and betook himself to all manner of man-like exercises as vaulting riding the great Horse running at the Ring shooting in Cross-bowes Muskets and great Ordinance in which he became so expert that he was said to be the best Marks-man and the most comely Manager of a great Horse of any one in his three Kingdoms Nor were these excellencies ill-housed but his fair Soul was tenant to a lovely and well proportioned body His stature of a just proportion his body erect and active of a delicate constitution yet so strong withall as if nature had design'd him to be the strife of Mars and Venus His countenance amiable and beautiful wherein the White Rose of York and the Red of Lancaster were united his hair inclining to a brown till cares and grief changed them into a white at once the Embleme of his innocence and his fortune clear and shining eyes a brow proclaiming fidelity his whole frame of face and favour a most perfect mixture and composition of Majesty and Sweetness Thus long have we beheld him as a Man Let us now view him as a Husband as a Father as a King and we shall find him alike admirable in all relations As an Husband he is a rare Example of love and chastity at his first receiving of his Queen he professed that he would be no longer Master of himself then whilst he was a Servant to her and so well did he make his words good that on the day before his death he commanded his Daughter the excellent Princess Elizabeth to tell her Mother that his thoughts had never strayed from her and that his love should be the same to the last And indeed no man more loved or less doâ—â—â—d upon a wife As a father how tender was he of his children without a too remiss indulgence how carefull of their education in the true Protestant Religion which he alwayes professed and learnedly defended advising the Lady Elizabeth and in her the rest to read Bishop Andrews Sermons Hookers Ecclesiaistcall Politie and Bishop Laud's book against â—isher to ground them against Popery Let us now view him as a King and we shall see him as the Soul of the Common-wealth acting vigourously and regularly every particular member in its several place and office Behold him in