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book_n	church_n	old_a	testament_n	6,574	5	8.1314	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01552	Sylua syluarum: or A naturall historie In ten centuries. VVritten by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by VVilliam Rawley Doctor of Diuinitie, late his Lordships chaplaine.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1627 (1627)	STC 1168; ESTC S106909	303,154	346

it selfe and there were found in it a Booke and a Letter Both written in fine Parchment and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen The Booke conteined all the Canonicall Bookes of the Old and New Testament according as you haue them For we know well what the Churches with you receiue And the Apocalypse it selfe And Some other Bookes of the New Testament which were not at that time written were neuerthelesse in the Booke And for the Letter it was in these words IBartholomew a Seruant of the Highest and Apostle of IESVS CHRIST was warned by an Angell that appeared to me in a vision of Glory that I should commit this Arke to the flouds of the Sea Therefore I doe testifie and declare vnto that People where GOD shall ordaine this Ark to come to Land that in the same day is come vnto them Saluation and Peace and Good Will from the Father and from the LORD IESVS There was also in both these writings as well the Booke as the Letter wrought a great Miracle Conforme to that of the Apostles in the Originall Gift of Tongues For there being at that time in this Land Hebrewes Persians and Indians besides the Natiues euery one redd vpon the Booke and Letter as if they had been written in his owne Language And thus was this Land saued from Infidelity as the Remaine of the Old World was from Water by an Ark through the Apostolicall and Miraculous Euangelisme of Saint Bartholomew And here hee paused and a Messenger came and called him from vs. So this was all that passed in that Conference The next Day the same Gouernour came againe to vs immediately after Dinner and excused himselfe saying That the Day before he was called from vs somewhat abruptly but now he would make vs amends and spend time with vs if we held his Company and Conference agreeable Wee answered That wee held it so agreeable and pleasing to vs as wee forgot both Dangers past and Feares to come for the time wee heard him speake And that wee thought an Houre spent with him was worth Yeares of our former life He bowed himselfe a little to vs and after we were set againe he said Well the Questions are on your part One of our Number said after a little Pause That there was a Matter wee were no lesse desirous to know then fearefull to aske least wee might presume too farre But encouraged by his rare Humanity towards vs that could scarce thinke our selues Strangers being his vowed and professed Seruants We would take the Hardines to propound it Humbly beseeching him if hee thought it not fit to bee answered that hee would pardon it though he reiected it Wee said VVee well obserued those his words which hee formerly spake that this happy Island wher we now stood was knowne to few and yet knew must of the Nations of the World which we found to be true considering they had the Languages of Europe and knew much of our State and Businesse And yet we in Europe notwithstanding all the remote Discoueries and Nauigations of this last Age neuer heard any of the least Inkling or Glimse of this Island This we found wonderfull strange For that all Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another either by Voyage into Forraigne Parts or by Strangers that come to them And though the Trauailer into a Forreine Countrey doth commonly know more by the Eye then he that stayeth at home can by relation of the Trauailer Yet both wayes suffice to make a mutuall Knowledge in some degree on both parts But for this Island wee neuer heard tell of any Shipp of theirs that had been Seene to arriue vpon any Shore of Europe No nor of either the East or West Indies nor yet of any Shipp of any other part of the World that had made returne from them And yet the Maruell rested not in this For the Situation of it as his Lordship said in the secret Conclaue of such a vast Sea mought cause it But then that they should haue Knowledge of the Languages Bookes Affaires of those that lye such a distance from them it was a thing wee could not tell what to make of For that it seemed to vs a condition and Proprietie of Diuine Powers and Beings to be hidden and vnseene to others and yet to haue others open and as in a light to them At this speach the Gouernour gaue a gracious smile and sayd That we did well to aske pardon for this Question we now asked For that it imported as if we thought this Land a Land of Magicians that sent forth Spirits of the Ayre into all parts to bring them Newes and Intelligence of other Countries It was answered by vs all in all possible humblenes but yet with a Countenance taking knowledge that we knew he spake it but merrily That we were apt enough to think ther was some what supernaturall in this Island but yet rather as Angelicall then Magicall But to let his Lordship know truely what it was that made vs tender and doubtful to aske this Question it was not any such conceit but because we remembred he had giuen a Touch in his former Speach that this Land had Lawes of Secrecy touching Strangers To this he said You remember it aright And therefore in that I shall say to you I must reserue some particulars which it is not lawfull for mee to reueale but there will bee enough left to giue you satisfaction You shall vnderstand that which perhaps you will scarce think credible that about three thousand Yeares agoe or somewhat more the Nauigation of the World specially for remote Voyages was greater then at this Day Doe not thinke with your selues that I know not how much it is encreased with you within these sixescore Years I know it well And yet I say greater then than now Whether it was that the Example of the Ark that saued the Remnant of Men from the vniuersall Deluge gaue Men confidence to aduenture vpon the Waters Or what it was but such is the Truth The Phoeniceans and specially the Tyrians had great Fleetes So had the Carthaginians their Colony which is yet further West Toward the East the Shipping of Egypt and of Palestina was likewise great China also and the great Atlantis that you call America which haue now but Iunks and Canoa's abounded then in tall Ships This Island as appeareth by faithfull Registers of those times had then fifteene hundred strong Ships of great content Of all this there is with you sparing Memory or none But we haue large Knowledge thereof At that time this Land was knowne and frequented by the Shipps and Vessells of all the Nations before named And as it commeth to passe they had many times Men of other Countries that were no Saylers that came with them As Persians Chaldeans Arabians So as almost all Nations of Might and Fame resorted hither Of whom we haue some Stirps and little Tribes with vs at this day And for our owne Ships they