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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

the good be●…ng never persect but both doubtful full of Error and Contention Of Astrology NOw as it may appear by perticular instinct so it doth appear by the Writings of this divine Philosopher Jacob Beheme that by Adam's fall all his Posterity are thereby fallen under the power and influence of the Stars and Constellations and that this beastial Body with the Animal Spirits are proceeded from the Stars and Elements to which again they must return and into the Starry and Elementary Spirit the Devil casteth forth his ●…icked Imaginations to infect the Soul and keep it from rising with its will above the Stars again out of his dominion and hence is the original of the evil Influence of the Stars But in brief this Syderial or Starry influence is called Astrology of which many desire to be satisfied of the effects but he is wise that knows them For so manifold are the Configurations so perpetual the Mixtures so various the Motions and 〈◊〉 of the St●…rs that as they are placed at this or any other moment of time so they never were not never will be again whence their operation upon Mankind i●… the 〈◊〉 So that 't is impossible for an Astrolog●…r by the Rules of Act though foun●…ed upon the tru●…t gr●…ound to give any certain Judgment of their Effects but only in a general way But of Astrology in a more perticular manner I may well say something 〈◊〉 especially of th●… 〈◊〉 part thereof inasmuch as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the fore-knowledge of my own ●…ate or Dis●…iny b●…th 〈◊〉 me to be well 〈◊〉 there with For having by the best approved Rules of 〈◊〉 calculated and rectified my own Nativity with the Nativities of many others too directed the several Significators to their respective 〈◊〉 made use of Revolutions Transites Profections and what 〈◊〉 being thereby able by Rules of Art to sore-know and predict both good and evil A●…cidents and whatsoever is 〈◊〉 to the Life of man. Now here is to be noted that when I had according to Art 〈◊〉 out the time of any 〈◊〉 Accident with the nature and manner how it should operate it was very rare that it fell according to Prediction As thus When an evil direction not obstructed by any other cause the Accident 't is true many times fell out to be evil but in such a way or in such things as was least expected and sometimes greater or less powerful as also sooner or later then was predicted the like I have observed in good directions and therefore could give no certain cautions to the Native how he might endeavour to augment the good or withstand or hinder the evil that by the Stars in his Nativity was promised or threatened Nay I have somtimes known ●…minent direction pass without any effect when there could be no cause found to intervene and on the contrary very great and notable Accidents have happened when no cause thereof could be found in the Nativity But that which might non-plus the most accute Inquisitor in reference hereto was that after the true moment of Birth gained I found the Rules and Aphorisms of the Art to fail much in the general Judgment of the twelve Houses as instance when judgment hath been given by me and others of the Ascendent or other of the Houses of one and the 〈◊〉 Scheam of Shape Form Complextion and the like 〈◊〉 hath often manifested the Judgment for the most pare False Considering all this caused me to 〈◊〉 the truth of the Art and had very little esteem or 〈◊〉 for it But my 〈◊〉 being prone thereto I ●…eil to examining the ground and foundation on which the Rules and Axioms of the Art were laid and coming to the four Elements which answers to the four Triplicities of the Signs I perceived a vast difference i●… judgment among Philosophers about the nature of the Element of Air for although the Antients and from 〈◊〉 our Modern Astrologers determin the Air to be hot and 〈◊〉 and so 〈◊〉 ♎ and ♒ being Signs of the Airy Triplicity are so too yet that accuse Philosopher Van Helmo●…t ●…otably proves the Air to be cold Here Reader thou mayst reconcile this opposite Judgment of these wise men if thou ●…ost for from hence 〈◊〉 ♎ ♒ must be cold which ●…ertheless pass in the Practise of Astrology for hot Next I considered the twelve Constellations or Signs of the Zodiack and finding each Sign to be made up by a certain number of Stars which Stars though fixed in respect to the distance from each other yet they in general have such a motion as moves them a Degree in about 70 Years as I remember by means of which motion the Signs consequently are much altered from what they were in the time of the Antients and yet Astrologers in this Age retain the same limits for the beginning and end of each Sign as the Antients did for they now begin the Sign ♈ at the Vernal Equinox though 't is apparent to all Astronomers that the Sign ♈ viz. the Ram is removed near the length of a whole Sign from the said Equinox and the Sign Pisses viz. the Constellation of the Fishes is got into the place of the Ram or limits of ♈ afore said Now ♈ viz. the Ram is termed hot and dry Cholerick Masculine and Pistes the Fishes cold and moist Plegmatick Feminine two opposite Qualities hence that place in the Heavens limitted for the Sign ♈ must be cold and moist because the Fishes from whence the said limit assumes its Nature is got into the limits of the Sign ♈ and yet Astrologers following Tradition or something else as bad call it hot and dry the like is to be understood of others of the Signs Here I began to perceive the cause of the manifold Errors of Astrologers But while I was searching learned Authors to find whence this Art did arise I found Cornelius Agrippa in his Vanity of Sciences before mentioned to assert that the twelve Signs with the Northern and Southern Constellations got all into the Heavens by the help of Fables and Fictions invented by the Poets which assertion of Agripp●… because I cannot disprove I will now leave and come next to the Table of essential Dignities of the Planets invented 't is said by Ptolomy King of Egypt and acknowledged for rational by our English Astrologers he there places the Planet ♂ in ●…he watry Triplicity and therein he is allowed three essential Dignities more then he hath in any other Triplicity and yet I know no reason for it for Reason tells me that ♂ is more essentially strong in fiery Signs as being agreeable to his own Nature Other particulars I could instance of this Table as being groundless but let these motions stir up the more Judicious to a fur●…her search and consideration Now 't is very probable that hence might arise those srivolous Inventions of consulting the Figure of Conception with Revolutions Prosections c. which have no rational Foundation for finding their

saith void of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so the●… have their Revenge of Nature Certainly there is a consent between the Body and the Mind and when Nature erreth in the one ●…he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the other 〈◊〉 because there is in man an 〈◊〉 on touch●…ng the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his mind and a necessity in the ●…ame of his Body th●… Stars of natural Inclination are sometimes obscured by the sun of Discipline and Virtue Therefore it is good to consider of Deformity not as a sign which is more deceiveable but as a cause which seldom ●…ailteh of the Effect Deformed persons are extream bold first as in their own defence as being exposed to scorn but in process of time by a general Habit. Also it stirreth in them Industry and specially of this kind to watch and observe the weaness of others that they may have somewhat to repay They will if they be of Spirit seek to free themselves from Scorn which must be either by Virtue or Malice and therefore they prove either the best of People or the worst or strangly mixed XVIII Of Custom and Nature in Men. MEn's Thoughts are much according to their Inclination their Discourse and Speech according to their Learning and in●…used Opinions but their Deeds are after as they have been accustomed The ingagement of Words are not so forceable as Custom A man would wonder to hear men profess protest engage give great Words and then do just as they have done before as if they were dead Images and Engines moved only by the Wheels of Custom ' Therefore since Custom is the principal Magistrate of man's Life let men by all means seek to obtain good Customs Certainly Custom is more perfect when it begins in young Years this we call Education which is nothing but an early Custom For it is true that late Learners cannot so well take the ply except it be in some Minds that have not ●…uffered themselves to ●…ix but have kept themselvs open and prepared to receive continual Amendment which is exceeding rare Nature is often hidden sometimes overcome seldom extinguished Force maketh Nature more violent in the return Doctrine and Discourse make Nature less importune but Custom only doth alter and subdue Nature Certainly the great multiplication of Virtues upon humane Nature resteth upon Societies well ordained and disciplined XIX Of Fortune I●… cannot be denyed but outward Accidents conduce much to a man's Fortune ●…avour oppertune Death of others occasion fitting Virtue but chiefly the mould of a man's ●…ortune is in himself And the most frequent of external Causes is that the Folly of one man is the Fortune of another for no man prospers so suddainly as by others Errors If a man look sharply and accentively he shall see Fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible Certainly there be not two more fortunate Porperties then to have a little of the Fool and not too much of the Honest. Therefore extream lovers of their Country or Masters were never fortunate neither can they be For when a man placeth his Thoughts without himself he goeth not his own way All wise men to decline the envy of their own Virtues use to ascribe them to Providence and Fortune for so they may the better assume them And besides it is greatness in a man to be the care of the higher Powers The Poet speaks of ●…ortune thus Fortune that blind supposed Goddess is Still rated at if ought succeed amiss When this man's Barn sinds not her wonted store Fortune's condemned because she sent no more If this man dye or that man live too long Fortune 's accus'd and she hath done the wrong Ah! foolish Dolis and like your Goddess blind You make the Fault and call your Saint ●…nkind ●…or when the cause of Evil begins in man The Effects ensue from whence the Cause began XX. Of Studies STudies serve for Delight for Ornament and for Ability their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring for Ornament is in Discourse and for Ability is in Judgment For expert men can execute men but learned men are fittest to judge and censure To spend too much time in them is 〈◊〉 to use them too much for Ornament is affectation To make judgment wholly by their Rules is the humour of a Schollar They perfect Nature and are perfected by Experience Crafty men contemn them simple men admire them and wise men use them ●…or they teach not their own use but that it is a Wisdom without them and above them won by observation Read not to contradict nor to believe but to weigh and consider Some Books are to be tasted and others to be swallowed Reading makes a full man Conferrence a ready man and Writing an exact man And therefore if a man Write little he had need have a great Memory if he confer little he had need have a present Wit if he read little he had need have much Cunning to know that he doth not Histories make men wise Poets witty the Mathematicks súbtil natural Philosophy deep Morral grave Logick and Rhetoricks able to contend There is no stand or impediment in the Wit but may be brought out by fit Stud es like as Diseases of the Body may be apropriate Exercises Shouting is good for the Lungs and Breast gentle walking for the Stomach Riding for the Head and the like So if a man's Wit be wandring let him study the Mathematick if his Wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences let him study the School-men if it be not apt to bear over matters to find out Resemblances ●…et him study Lawyers cases So every defect of the Mind have special Receipt XXI Of Ceremonies and Respects HE that is only real had need have exceeding great parts of Virtue To attain good Forms it sufficeth not to despise them for so shall a man observe them in others and let him trust himself with the rest For if he care to express them he shall lose their grace which is to be natural and unaffected Not to use Ceremonies at all is to teach others not to use them again and so diminisheth Respect especially they be not to be omitted to Strangers and formal Natures Amongst a man's Peers a man shall be sure of Familiarity and therefore it is good a little to keep state Amongst a man's Inferiors one shall be sure of Reverence and therefore it is good a little to be familiar He that is too much in any thing so that he giveth another occasion of Society maketh himself cheap It is a good Precept generally in seconding another yet to add somewhat of one's own as if you will grant his Opinion let it be with some distinction if you will follow his motion let it be with condition if you allow his Counsel let it be with alledging further Reason Men had need beware how they be too perfect in Complements It is loss in Business to be too full of Respects or to be too

curious in observing Times and Seasons Solomon saith He that con●…idereth the Wind shall not sow and he that looketh on the Clouds shall not reap A wise man will make more Oppertunities then he finds XXII Of Suits SUrely there is in a sort a right in every Suit either a right of Equity if it be a Suit of Controversie or a right of desart if it be a Suit of Pet tion If affection lead a man to favour the wrong side in Justice let him rather use his Countenance to compound the matter then to carry it If Affection lead a man to favour the less worthy in desart let him do it without depraving or disabling the better deserver To be ignorant of the value of a Suit is Simplicity as well as to be ignorant of the right thereof is want of Conscience Nothing is thought so easie a request to a great Person as his Letter and yet if it be not in a good Cause it is so much out of his Reputation XXIII Of Negotiating IT is generally better to deal by Speech then by Letter and by the mediation of a third then by a man's self Letters are good when a man would draw an Answer by Letters back again or when it may serve for a man's Justification afterwards to produce his own Letter or where it may be danger to be interrupted on heard by pieces To deal in Person is good when a mans Face breeds regard as commonly with Inferiors or in tender cases where a mans Eye upon the Countenance of him with whom one speaketh may give him a direction how far to go and generally where a man will reserve to himself Liberty either to disavow or to expound It is better to sound a Person with whom one deal afar off then to fall upon the Point at first except you mean to surprise him by some short Question It is better dealing with men in Appetite then with those which are where they would be In choice of Instruments for dealing it is better to chuse men of plainer sort that are like to do that that is committed to them and to report back again faithfully the Success then those that are cunning to contrive out of other mens Business somewhat to grace themselves and will help the matter in Report for satisfaction sake All Practice is to discover or to work Men discover themselves in Trust in Passion at unawares and of necessity when they would have somewhat done and cannot find an apt Pretext If you would work any man you must either know his Manner and Fashions and so lead him or his ends and so perswade him or his weakness or disadvantage and so awe him and so govern them In dealing with cunning Persons we must ever consider their Ends to interpret their Speeches and it is goo●… to say little to them and that which they least look for XXIV Of Judicature JUdges ought to remember that their Office is to interpret Law and not to make Law or give Law else will it be like the presumption of the Church of Rome which under pretext of Exposition of Scripture usurpeth and practiseth an Authority to add and alter and to Pronounce that which they do not find and by colour of Antiquity to introduce novelty Judges ought to be more learned then witty more reverend then plausible and more advised then confident Above all things Integrity is their portion and proper Virtue Cursed saith the Law is he that removeth the Land-marks The mislayer of a Meerstone is to blame but it is the unjust Judge that is the capital remover of Land-marks when he defineth a miss of Lands and Property One foul sentenced doth more hurt then many foul Examples for they do but corrupt the Stream the other corrupteth the Fountains There be saith the Scripture that turn Judgment into Wormwood and surely there be also that turn it into Vinegar for Injustice maketh it bitter and Delayes maketh it sower The principal duty of a Judge is to suppress Force and Fraud whereof ●…orce is the more pernitious the more open and Fraud the more close and disguised Add thereto contentious Suits which ought to be spued out as the surfeit of Courts A Judge ought to prepare his way to a just Sentence as God useth to prepare his way by raising Valleys and taking down Hills So when there appeareth on either side an high Hand violent Prosecution ●…unning Advantages taken combination Power great Counsel then is the Virtue of a Judge seen to make Inequality equal that he may plant h●…s Judgment upon an even Ground Judges must beware of hard Constructions and stained Inferrences for there is no worse to turn then the torture of Laws specially in cases of Laws penal they ought to have a care that that which was meant for Terror be not turned into Rigor and tha●… they bring not upon the People that Shower whereof the Scripture speaketh Piuet Super eos laqueo ●…or penal Laws pressed are as a shower of Snares upon the People In cases of Life and Death Judges ought as far as the Law permitteth in Justice to remember Mercyand to cast a severe Eye upon the Example but a merciful Eye upon the Person Patience and Gravity of hearing is an essential part of Justice and an over-speaking Judge is no well tuned Cimbal It is no grace to a Judge to find that which he might have heard in due time ●…rom the Bar or to sher●… quickness of Conceit in cutting off Counsel or Evidences too short or to prevent Information b●… Questions though pertinent The parts of a Judge are four To direct the Evidence to moderate length of Repetition or impertinency of Speech●… to Recapitulate and Collate the material Points of that which ●…ath been said and to give the Rule and Sentence What●…ever is above these is too much and proceedeth either of Glory and willingness to speak or of Impatience to hear or of shortness of Memory or of want of a 〈◊〉 and equal attention It is a strange thing to see that the boldness of 〈◊〉 should prevail with Judges whereas they should imitate God in whose Seat they sit who represseth the Presumptious and giveth Grace to the Modest. But is more strange that 〈◊〉 Custome of the Time doth warrant Judges to have noted Favourites which cannot but cause 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 ●…nd suspition of By-wayes There is due from the Judge to ●…he Advocate some commendation and gracing where Causes are well handled and fair pleaded especially towards the side which obtaineth not for that upholds in the Client the reputation of his Counsel and beats down in him the conceit of his Cause There is likewise due to the Publick a civil reprehension of Advocates where there appeareth cunning Counsel gross Neglect slite Information indiscreet Pressing or an over-bold Defence The place of Justice is an hallowed Place and therefore not only the Bench but the Foot-place and Precincts and Purprize thereof ought to be preserved without Scandal