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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55758	Angliae speculum morale The moral state of England, with the several aspects it beareth to virtue and vice : with The life of Theodatus, and three novels, viz. The land-mariners, Friendship sublimed, The friendly rivals.	Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, 1648-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing P3310; ESTC R5728	46,008	222

his bow to the head and aims at the white of the Clergy's innocence accusing them for covetous and loos-livers not considering how many amongst them are neither but grant they were so we ought as men to pardon them their errors and as the servants of Heaven we ought to reverence them should we be struck so surely from above for every little sinne as we do one another our whole species had before this time been utterly destroyed and had left the World to be possess'd by sensitive beings but I fear the great concern of these pretenders will onely prove that which taketh not its source from a due principle but a sensual end the desire of possessing the Churches revenues if so oh how impious is their design surely they that serve at the Altar ought to live by it if they who serve Earthly Kings ought to live gloriously according to the dignity of their Lords then à fortiori they ought to be in all things above the rest who attend upon the Monarch of Heaven and Earth but there is one thing which would in all likelihood recover the Church and that is if the Nobility and Gentry of the Nation could be perswaded to enter into Orders by their Alliance and Interest they might bulwark themselves against those who would break in upon them through the mightiest fastnesses of their Virtue no one can be too good to attend at the Altar David was King and Priest and so were all his successors in Israel and it was imputed to the Jews for sin that they chose their Priests out of the meanest of the people for their persons being held in contempt by those who were their equals before their Office comes to be so too and the best parts also suffer when clouded with poverty Raro in tenui facundia panno It is true that Heaven lately shewed its displeasure to our Church and seated Forreigners in its fattest Sees yet it was said to them as to the Israelites when they went to possess Canaan I send you up to possess the Land of the Anakim not for your own Righteousness for you are a stiffe-necked people but to scourge the Nations which enjoy it But now we may plainly see how great the concern of Heaven is for the Church since the Ecclesiastical and politick Government are so united that they both fall and both rise together Many now shoot at her foundations but I hope she is built upon Zion which cannot be moved The points of Toleration and Comprehension have been so thorowly discuss'd that here I need but mention their names onely I must say I should be very unwilling to see either of them obtain in this Kingdom Now the Churchmen ought rather Magna vivere then Magna loqui and to shew by their own practices that the Precepts which they give may be easily obeyed The fat Bulls of Basan have prevail'd now but the Almighty hath onely crowned them with success to make them fall nobler Sacrifices to his wrath The Physitian IS to the body what the Divine is to the soul though he doth not administer his province with a parallel integrity since his Knowledge is increased Diseases are so too and our bodies by his applications are become less robust and vigorous for by relying on them our natural heat and radical humours are impaired which were our supports and not seldome the very remedy of one Malady is the cause of another but not onely from this natural cause but a more inhumane one resulteth as great an evil for to swell his own profit he often prolongeth the Agonies the Miseries of his poor Patient making himself seem to him a greater distemper then that he is already travailed with From those dry bones which none who passe by can think could live he will extract a lively and sparkling Essence to himself and he will draw sweetness from the most putrified Carcasse his Recipe whose barbarous Character fully speaketh his manners produceth two Pieces to himself then if you should recover which is more the effect of Providence then his Care the Apothecary or Chirurgeon giveth with a cruel Bill the lately cicatrized wound a new gash he visiteth you as long as the pulse of your Purse beateth high but when he findeth it to decline then he saith you grow so well that you need not his Art or your disease is so desperate that it cannot assist you his thoughts of God are not so as they ought to be for by his so frequently viewing the works of Nature he is apt to misapply and attribute too much to second Causes He adoreth that great principle of Nature Self-preservation but neglecteth that as great one of Christianity to preserve his Brother nay rather like a Cannibal he preyeth upon him though I very much honour this profession yet I must not the abuses of it though it be very necessary yet the neglects and the ill ends of the professors of it render it often dangerous for it is most certain that they not seldome by their Clothes do transferre the disease of one to the other and it is as sure that many suffer by their applying Medicines to diseases which plain Care or Nature would work off If his Fees were more moderate the Patient would receive a greater advantage and himselfe no detriment for now by the excess of them the sick person cannot see him above once in a day and there being so many critical minutes in a disease it is impossible he should prescribe for them in his absence Thus also the inferior sort of the Nation will enjoy a benefit for many who are lost for want of advice are able to give a Crown who cannot afford a Guinny it is in fine a profession which employeth the industry and study of its Professors and chargeth them with the greatest duties and care and therefore ought to be most countenanced if it impose not too much upon the World The Lawyer FRom Adam to the Flood the Law of Nature onely reigned but when wickednesses increased upon the surface of the earth God laid his commands against Murther and Bloud and afterwards as the age degenerated Laws increased and became an Asylum to the Good and a terror to the Bad. Since the concord of brethren is rare because every man preferreth his own interest Law is appointed for the preservation of the world therefore the approaches to it ought to be easie for if a Sanctuary be locked of what advantage is it to that miserable man who flieth to its protection the Law which God gave to his peculiar people which he often called stiff-neck'd and perverse was comprised within the narrow compass of two Tables and this he thought enough to bridle their greatest exorbitancies the Twelve Tables nay the Roman or Civil Law it self governed a Nation the most Great most Glorious and most Adventrous in the World which without the impertinent and indigested glosses of Bartolus and Baldus and others is of very little volume

the Ethiops to injure his Brain with the sturdy Notions and knotty Maximes of the Law he therefore girdeth himself for other accomplishments allotting the morning to dance or fence at noon he dineth in the afternoon he sees a Play and to recreate his languishing spirits he locketh up the day with fat vaporous Ale at Hercules's Pillars and maketh there his non ultra till 12 a clock After two year when he returneth to his Father and should give him the Harvest of the seed which in such proportion he hath sown he hath not Wit nor Law enough to keep his own Courts The Gentleman commonly visits the Town at the expence of the poor Labourer's sweat whom he hath now wrack'd to the utmost farthing he liveth splendidly here for some moneths he drinketh at all hours he fitteth at the head of the Table and for his honour disburseth for the reckning if well heated he may happily be invited to sport with the frail Dye and there he is certainly saluted with a high or low Fullam or some other convenient instrument of execution if his Genius leadeth not that way he goeth to visit a Lady of Quality an acquaintance of his Friends who for that occasion is well dress'd in her borrowed weeds and hath Lodgings in some modish place as the Piazza South-hampton buildings or Suffolk street but is such a Creature as will be at the beck of any Coachman rather than he fallow if he converse with her he is either clapped or payeth for his familiarity with Silver Gold Watch or Ring whatever moveable he hath about him and when he is laid to sleep his Landabrides and his dear friend divide the spoil when his whole Cargo is spent then he either abscondeth or without rigging or ballast sneaketh privately in a Stage-coach to his house in the Countrey his own being seised and by the next Term is presented with an Execution from his Taylor or Landlord and perhaps too from his Apothecary These surely are great mistakes and mighty impertinencies and much dissonant from the nature of that Province with which Heaven hath endowed him To conclude if the Gentlemans fortunes Sympathize so much with the Peasants that if the one faileth the other falleth much more must the States with his who is her chief corner-stone The Gallant or Hector IS he who maketh Vice his business who recreates himself with dangerous follies who feedeth upon his greatest enjoyments with Heaven's sword of justice hanging over his head by a very slender hair of Mercy It is his chief principle to espouse none longer then it indulgeth his unhappy designes He apprehendeth Religion to be a thing dress'd up in various Rites and Ceremonies onely to terrify the ignorant vulgar into obedience grant there be a God saith he doth he require greater performances of us than our Nature will bear doth he give us affections to indulge and must not we gratifie them in making the true use of the Creature we adore the Creator we praise the Cause by doing Honour to the Effect but he who thus argueth considereth not that all these Blessings are given with a limitation lest we might be so wholly intent in serving nature that we might be forgetful of the Author of it nor remembreth he that nothing is created perfect that Adam was authoriz'd by his Maker to Treat his sence with any Tree of Paradice but one he cometh to Town innocent enough but by often conversing with Pitch he at last retaineth it upon his Hands and Cloaths he is for the most part a younger Brother who hath spent what his Father left him to subsist by or a Reform'd soldier who having liv'd in the War must when that Harvest is ended perish in the Autumne if he use nor some pious fraud which will give him meat in order to live he procure an interest in the Groom-Porters or an Ordinary and maketh these the Scenes of his future atchievements it is then his care to have intelligence of young Gentlemen of fortunes who arrive at Town that being known he intrudeth into their company and gaineth an interest by obliging them by loosing some small summ at first as Fishers bait the waters over night with hopes of a large return for these charges in the morning and thus taketh a severer use then the Jews do of those out of their own pale if any of them do not play which is very seldom seen he procureth him a Mistress who certainly clappeth him then he shareth with the Chirurgeon who maketh his Cure more dilatory and at the same time fluxes his body and his purse And now upon the reputation of this good Office his friend advances pretending his servant out of the way to borrow a trifling summ of 20 or 30 Guineys which if asked for by the Creditor after the forbearance of 6 or 7 moneths he is answer'd D' Dam-me Sir you disoblige your friend and you injure mine and your own honour but when at last he findeth knowledge groweth on him he taketh a small occasion to quarrel with him and so the League of Friendship is broken Foresight and Conduct he throweth behind him he is the first-born of fortune this hour he is fraught with Gold as if the grand Elixir were his own to morrow you shall meet him poorer then a Poet then he is forced to take sanctuary in the good nature of his Taylor or Shooe-maker who though Jews enough will yet give him Credit perhaps for a Guiney because after a good hand he payeth well with this he marcheth to the Ordinary in hopes to make that two he looseth it and at twelve in the night in great dispair he goeth homewards in his way meeteth with and quarrels the Watch hath his head broken and is laid in the Counter to repent till day now if his Reputation ebbeth so that he can have nothing upon Trust and his fortune so bad that his benefactress in the City who is commonly a Merchants wise cannot help him because her Husband hath the Key of the Cash-box he then posteth to the place of Execution throws at all upon the Table if his Cast be good he sweepeth it if bad he oweth them all and if he be a very poor Rascal his loving Creditors remit him the summ and kick him down the stairs Upon these disadvantages do men play that have fortunes themselves may easily be ruin'd nay it is forty to one if they are not but the others being already upon the ground can fall no lower he often when he is idle maketh his entry gratis at the 5th Act of a Play and there either picketh up a loving Female whom he maketh drunk and then abuseth 2 or 3 Bullies who drown their cares and sing the Sun down and up with impious Catches Oaths are so frequent with him that he can as well not move his Eyes as leave them they are Complements to his period and they make them rounder thus doth he murther his precious and immortal soul

which at last he expireth either from a bed of loathsome diseases and rottenness or from a disgraceful Gibbet with common Malefactors The Virtuoso DId rise Gloriously like light out of the Chaos and dazled the Eyes of the astonished world triumphing with a Masculine Gallantry over the impracticable Notions of the Antients but now he seemeth not to pursue his advantage with his primitive vigor which hath diminished his Fame a little for whoever treadeth the paths of Virtue ought always to be in a forward motion and by equal degrees as he advanceth in the way to double his pace till he cometh to the Goal The Great Chancellor Bacon was the Columbus who led us to this unknown America of new Philsophy since him Cartesius and Gassendus have made the greatest discoveries in her Continent to whom we shall with all willingness yield the Bays if we consider the advantages we now enjoy from their labour for all Precepts all Notions are given us from above to regulate and direct our Actions and the best of speculations are buried in oblivion if they do not produce their due effects now it is most certain that most or all of the principles of the Paripatetic Philosophy were meer Entia Rationis in intellectu tantum which now give place to Entia realia to true and beneficial Experiments doubtless it was the attempt of a most Heroick Virtue to storm the whole Circle of ancient Learning so much reverenced by Men though for 〈◊〉 other cause then its Antiquity and the perswasions they had their Fathers esteemed it as 〈◊〉 old times they honoured aged Oaks because they thought some God had kept his residence under their shades It is admirable how a body made up of 〈◊〉 many jarring and disagreeing Elements I mean opposite opinions should have obtain'd so much and gain'd so mighty at Ascendant over the affections of men of parts enough refined that they should pronounce him an Heretick who should dare to contradict the meanest of its Members bearing it up against experience which ought to be out general Mistress The English Literati have presented the World with Effects of Industry and Ingenuity most worthy of their causes they have improved the Art of Grinding Glasses which is a great advantage to Astronomy and Sea-affairs by the study of Micrography and the Anatomy of insects they have displaied a new Page of the Book of Nature they have by more exact scrutiny into humane bodies discovered the circulation and the source of many diseases and have lately oblig'd us with an experiment of the transfusion of the blood of one Animal into another which is never enough to be gratefully admired though it hath the ill fortune to be little esteemed of now but in ensuing ages it will certainly be crowned with its due applause for it is always seen that great Actions are deny'd their Bay's in that age in which they are born because Envy and prejudicate Malice the off-springs of the old Serpent detract from them The Hypothesis of Water and Air the advance of the latter being in the Air-pump a Noble mechanick invention are very rational and the inspection into the Nature of Vegetables hath much advantaged Man in the support his body will receive from them Their progress in all Physical Learning hath generally been great but upon Chymistry particularly they have spent much Labour and Oyl And here I must declare that though I honour all the ingenious and industrious I cannot be reconcil'd to those who are in pursuit of that great Magistery of Nature as they call it the Philosophers stone it is wonderful that they should consume so considerable a portion of their lives in the search of that which they know not really to be in the Created substances or if it should exist which hath so mean an end as the bringing Gold into the World which is the efficient cause of all strises and evils whose converse the good avoid because it commonly turneth even the souls of its votaries into its own Hypostasis how cruelly do they macerate themselves who search for this how they foment those scourges of our lives Hope and Fear each minute bringeth with it a promise of success which expiteth in Fumc and at last when they are just upon the Frontiers of bliss and think the next minute to embrace their wish'd for Elixit they find in their Arm onely a Caput mortuum a Terra Damnata in which they have buried perhaps their whole fortunes and the greatest number of their most hopeful years and all which at last ariseth from the expence is summed up in two or three moral Corollaries and they end their days with this Prayer in their mouths O si praeteritos reparet mihi Jupiter annes Now to return to the Virtuoso when I consider what small returns of civility we make to these ingenious persons who have obliged us so much I can find our coldness to have no other cause then what themselves do give they so readily admitting all persons into their Society who will pay the Duties of the house though they know not the terms of Philosophy make the multitude who never see the bottom of an affair judge of all from their weakness they commonly entertain the company of a Coffee-house with some refuse notions gleaned from the ingenious which they pronounce as Magisterially as if they had been secretary's to Nature and discourse as confidently of the harmony of her parts as a Countrey Musician playeth who never learned his Gam-ut From the impertinencies of these pretenders this Royal Corporation suffereth when it ought rather to be encouraged and caressed by all the Great and Learned for all the great advantages it promiseth in the future for it is most true that whosoever is a good Philosopher is a good man because no one looketh into the recesses of Nature who is not induced to extoll the Author of it and so gratefully maketh his return for the immense favours in serving and honouring him who conferred them Thus out of a Physical knowledge a Moral one starts and we see Science and Virtue have the same Basis It is certain Learning hath no Enemies but the Envious and Ignorant and even from these evils she reapeth good for from the detraction of the former she raiseth repute since nothing but Virtue is the subject of Envy and from the inveterateness of the latter she hath a benefit too since the praises of the unwise are reproaches and whosoever delighteth in them wrappeth himself in the better half of his Fools-coat and E converso his reproaches must be praises The Divine HAth the powers of cursing and absolving upon Earth and therefore ought to be reverenc'd as Gods immediate instrument Now though his injuries be many from the disaffected yet under these great pressures he ought with the Palme to lift up his head highest and to exalt his voice like a Trumpet to maintain warre against all the Champions of Vice every one bendeth