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A28370	The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published : a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoyned.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord VERULAM Viscount of St. Albanes sometimes Lord Chancellour of England BEING Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published A Table whereof for the Readers more ease is adjoyned LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his Shop neer the Savoy in the Strand 1648. THE TABLE AN Essay of a King pag. 1. An Explanation what manner of persons they should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative pag. 3. Short Notes of civill conversation pag. 6. An Essay on Death pag. 7. His Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered to King James pag. 13. A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cooke Lord chief justice of the Kings Bench pag. 20. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer in excuse of his speech in Parliament agrinst the treble subsedy pag. 28. A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first suite tonching the Sollitours place pag. 29. A Letter of Ceremony to Queene Elizabeth upon the sending of a new years guift pag. 31. Another to the Queen upon the like Ceremony pag. 31. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex to take upon him the Care of the Irish businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France pag. 32. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598 before my Lord was nominated for the charge of Ireland pag. 34. Another Letter of advice to my Lord immediatly before his going into Ireland pag. 37. A Letter to the said Earle of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex-house pag. 41. Two Letters to be framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earle of Essex the other as the Earles answer thereunto delivered with the advice of Mr. Anthony Bacon and the privity of the Earle to be shewed to the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance pag. 42. My Lord of Essex his answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter pag. 46. A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland pag. 47. Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland pag. 48. A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few days before Queen Elizabeths death pag. 54. A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in pag. 55. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Sco land upon the entrance of his Majesties Raign pag. 56. A letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance pag. 58 A letter commending his love and occasions to Sir Thomas Challenor in Scotland upon his Majesties entrance pag. 59. A letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance pag. 62. A letter to Mr. Fauls 28 March 1603. pag. 62. A letter to Dr. Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his Majesties coming in pag. 63. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenny upon the death of Queen Elizabeth pag. 61. A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation for the King c. pag. 62. A letter to my Lord 〈◊〉 Southampton upon the Kings coming in pag. 66. A letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King pag. 66 A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place pag. 67. A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the advancement of learning pag. 68. A letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument pag. 69 A letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook pag. 69. A letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument pag. 72 A letter to the King concerning the Sollicitour place pag. 73 Aletter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon New yeers guift pag. 73 A Secaod letter to the Lord Chancellour pag. 73. Another letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former argument pag. 74 An expostulatory Letter 〈◊〉 Vincent Skinner pag. 75. A Letter to Mr. Davis his Majesties attourney in Ireland pag. 76 A letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland pag. 77 A letter to Mr. Murrey pag. 78 A Letter to my Lady Packington pag. 78. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Religion pag. 79 Sir Tho. Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogitata visa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same pag. 80. The Characters of a believing Christian in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions pag. 88 A Confession of the Faith written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soveraign Lord King James pag. 95. A Prayer made and used by the Lord Bacon pag. 101. BACONS REMAINES 1. AKING is a mortall God on earth unto whom the Living GOD hath lent his own Name as a great honor but withall told film he should die like a man least he should be proud and flatter himself that GOD hath with his Name imparted unto him his Nature also 2. Of all kind of men GOD is the least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they doe ordinarily least for him 3. A King that would not feel his Crown too heavie for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what metall it is made of 4. He must make Religion the Rule of Government and not to Ballance the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the Scales even his own weight is couteined in these Characters Tekel uprasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5. And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of of State is void of all Piety and Justice the supporters of a King 6. He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to rely thereupon for though happy events justifie their Counsells yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Soveraigne 7. Hee is the fountaine of Honor which should not run with a waste pipe lest the Courtiers sell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy wells to loose the vertue 8. Hee is the life of the Law not onely as he is Lex loquens himselfe but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his subjects premio poena 9. A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is even dangerous it being true in the body politick as in the corporall that omnis subditi imitatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension for he that changeth the fundamentall Lawes of a Kingdome thinketh there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10. A King that setteth to sale seates

subordinate Magistrates but absolute Kings and what doth the King leave to himselfe who giveth so much to others as he hath himself Nei her is there a greater bond to tye the Subject to his Prince in perticular then when he shall have recourse unto him in his person or in his power for reliefe of the wrongs which from private men be offered or for reformation of the oppressions of any subordinate Magistrate shall impose upon the people There can be no offence in the Judge who hath power to execute according to his discretion when the discretion of any ●udge shall be thought fit to be limited And therefore there can be therein no reformation whereby the King in this useth no prerogative to gaine his Subjects right then the Subject is bound to suffer helplesse wrong and the discon●ent of the people is cast upon the King the Lawes being neglected which with their equity in all o●her causes and judgments saving this interpose themselves and yeeld remedy And to conclude Custome cannot confirme that which is any wayes unreasonable of it self Wisdome will not allow that which is many wayes dangerous and no wayes profitable Justice will not approve that Government where it cannot be but wrong must be committed Neither can there be any rule by which to try it nor meanes of reformation of it Therefore whosoever desireth Government must seek such as he is capable of not such as seemeth to himself most easie to execute for it is apparent that it is easie to him that knoweth not law nor justice to rule as he listeth his will never wanting a power to it self but it is safe and blamelesse both for the Iudge and People and honour to the King that Iudges be appointed who know the Law and that they be limited to governe according to the Law Short Notes for civill conversation by Sir Francis Bacon TO deceive mens expectations generally which Cautell argueth a staid mind and unexpected constancie viz. in matters of fear anger sudden joy or griefe and all things which may effect or alter the mind in publique or sudden accidents or such like It is necessary to use●a stedfast countenance not wavering with actions as in moving the head or hand too much which sheweth a fantasticall light and sickly operation of the spirit and co●sequently like mind as gesture only it is sufficien● with leisure to use a modest action in either In all kinds of speech either pleasant grave severe or ordinary it is convenient to speak leisurely and rather drawingly then hastily because hasty speech confounds the memory and oftentimes besides unseemlinesse drives a man either to a non-plus or unseemly stammering harping upon that which should follow wheras a slow speech confirmeth the memory addeth a conceit of wisdome to the hearers besides a seemlinesse of speech and countenance To desire in discourse to hold all arguments is ridiculous wanting true judgment for in all things no man can be exquisite To have common places to discourse and to want-variety is both tedious to the hearers and shewes a shallownesse of conceit therefore it is good to varie and my speeches with the present occasions and to have a moderation in all their speeches especially in jesting of Religion State great persons weighty and important businesse poverty or any thing deserving pitty A long continued speech without a good speech of interlocation sheweth slownesse and a good reply without a good set speech sheweth shallownesse and weaknesse To use many circumstances ere you come to the matter is wearisome and to use none at all is but blunt Bashfulnesse is a great hinderance both of uttering his conceit and understanding what is propounded unto him wherefore it is good to presse himself forwards with discretion both in speech and company of the better sort Vsus promptus facit An Essay on Death by the Lord Chancellour Bacon I Have often thought upon death and I find it the least of all evills All that which is past is as a dreame and he that hopes or depends upon time coming dreames waking so much of our life as we have discovered is already dead and all those houres which we share even from the breasts of our Mother untill we return to our Grand-mother the Earth are part of our dying dayes whereof even this is one and those that ●ucceeds are of the same nature for we dye d●yly and as others have given place to us so we must in the end give way to others Physitians in the name of Death include all sorrow anguish disease calamity or whatsoever can fall in the life of man either grievous or unwelcome But these things are familiar unto us and wee suffer them every houre therefore we dye dayly and I am older since I affirmed it I know many wisemen that fear to dy for the change is bitter 〈◊〉 and flesh would refuse to prove it besides the expectation brings terrour and that exceeds the evill But I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death and such are my hopes that if Heaven be pleased and Nature renew but my lease for 21. yeares more without asking longer dayes I shal be strong enough to acknowledge without mourning that I was begotten mortall vertue walkes not in the high-way though she go per alta this is strength and the bloud to vertue to contemn things that be desired and to neglect that which is feared Why should Man be in love with his setters though of Gold Art thou drowned in security then I say though art perfectly dead For though thou movest yet thy soule is buried within thee and thy good Angell either forsakes his Guard or sleepes there is nothing under Heaven saving a true friend who cannot be counted within the number of moveables unto which my heart doth leane And this dear freedome hath begot●en me this peace that I mourn not for that end which must be nor spend one wish to have one minute added to the incertaine date of my yeares It was no mean apprehension of Lucian who sayes of Menippus that in his travels through Hell hee knew not the Kings of the Earth from other men but only by their lowder cryings and tears which was fostered in them through the remorsefull memory of the good dayes they had seen and the fruitfull havings which they so unwillingly left behind them he that was well seated looked back at his portion and was loath to forsake his Farme and others either minding marriages pleasures profit or preferment desired to be excused from Deaths banquet they had made an appointment with Earth looking at the blessings not the hand that enlarged them forgetting how unclothedly they came hither or with what naked ornaments they were arrayed But were we servants of the precept given and observers of the Heathens Rule Memento mori and not become benighted with this seeming felicity we should enjoy them as men prepaaed to loose and

not wind vp our thoughts upon so perishing a fortune he that is not slack●y strong as the servants of pleasure how can he be found un●eady to quit the vaile and false visage of his perfection the soule having shaken off herflesh doth then set up for her self and contemning things that are under shewes what finger hath enforced her for the soules of Ideots are of the same piece with those of Statesmen but now and then nature is a fault and this good guest of ours takes soyle in an unperfect body and so is slackned from shewing her wonders like an excellent Musician which cannot utter himself upon a defective instrument But see how I am swarved and lose my course touching at the soule that doth least hold action with death who hath the surest property in this fraile act his stile is the end of all flesh and the beginning of incorruption This Ruler of Monuments leades men for the most part out of this world with their heeles forward in token that he is contrary to life which being obtained sends men headlong into this wretched Theater where being arrived their first language is that of mourning nor in my own thoughts can I compare man more fitly to any thing then to the Indian Fig-tree which being ripened to his full height is said to decline his branches downe to the Earth whereof she conceives again and they become Roots in their own stock So Man having derived his being from the Earth first lives the life of a ●ree drawing his nourishment as a Plant and made ripe for death he tends downwards and is sowed again in his Mothe● the Earth where he perisheth not but expects a quickning So we see death exempts not a man from being but only presents an alteration yet there are some men I think that stand otherwise perswaded Death findes not a worse friend then an Alderman to whose door I never knew him welcome but he is an importunate Guest and will not be said nay And though they themselves shall affirme that they are not within yet the answer will not be taken and that which heightens their feare is that they know they are in danger to forfeit their flesh but are not wise of the payment day which sickly uncertainty is the occasion that for the most part they step out of this world unfurnished for their generall account and being all unprovided desire yet to hold their gravity preparing their soules to answer in scarlet Thus I gather that Death is unagreeable to most Citizens because they commonly dy intestate this being a rule that when their Will is made they think themselvs neerer a Grave then before now they out of the wisdom of thousands think to sc●r destiny from whi●h there is no appeal by not making a Will or to live longer by protestation of their unwillingnesse to dy They are for the most part well made in this world accounting their treasure by Legions as Men do Divels their fortune looks toward them and they are willing to anchor at it and desire if it be possible to put the evill day far off from them and to adjourn their ungratefull and killing period No these are not the men which have bespoken death or whose looks are assured to entertain a thought of him Death arrives gratious only to such as sit in darknesse o●ly heavy burthened with grief and irons to the poor Christian that sits bound in the Galley to dispairfull Widows pensive prisoners and deposed Kings to them whose fortune runs back and whose spirits mutinies unto such death is a redeemer and the grave a place for retirednesse and rest These wait upon the shore of death and wast unto him to draw neer wishing above all others ●o see his starre that they might be led to his place wooing the remorslesse Sisters to wind down the watch of their life and to break them off before the hour But Death is a dolefull Messenger to an Usurer and Fate untimely cuts their threed For it is never mentioned by him but when Rumours of Warre and civill Tumults put him in mind thereof And when many hands are armed and the peace of a City in disorder and the Foot of the common Souldiers sounds an allarm on his staires then perhaps such a one broken in thoughts of his monies abroad and cursing the Monuments of Coyne which are in his house can be content to think of death and being hastie of perdi●ion will perhaps hang himselfe least his Threat should be cut provided that he may do it in his Study surrounded with wealth to which his eye sends a faint and languishing salute even upon the turning off remembring alwayes that he have time and liberty by writing to depute himself as his own heire For that is a great peace to his end and reconciles him wonderfully upon the point Herein we all dally with our selves and are without proofe of necessity I am not of those that dare promise to pine away my self in vain glory and I hold such to be but seat boldnesse and that dare commit it to be vain for my part I think n●ture should do me great wrong if I should be so long in dying as I was in being born To speak truth no man knows the lifts of his own pa●ience nor can divine how able he shall be in his sufferings till the storm come the perfectest vertue being tryed in action but I would out of a care to do the best business well ever keep a guard stand upon keeping faith and a good conscience And if wishes might find place I would dy together and not my mind often and my body once tha● is I would prepare for the Messengers of Death sicknesse and affliction and not wait long or be attempted by the violence of pain Herein I do not professe my self a Stoick to hold grief no evill but opinion and a ●hing indifferen● But I consent with Caesar and that the suddainest passage is easiest and there is nothing more awakens our re●…ve and readinesse to dy then the quieted con●c●ence str●●g●hened with opinion that we shall be well spoken of upon Earth by those that are just and of the Family of Vertue the opposite whereof is a fury to man and makes even life unsweet Therefore what is more heavie then evill fame deserved or likewise who can see worse dayes then he that yet living doth follow at the Funerals of His owne reputation I have laid up many hopes that I am priviledged from that kind of mourning and could wish that like peace to all those with whom I wage love I might say much of the commodities that death can sell a man but briefly Death is a friend of ours and he that is ready to entertain him is not at home whilest I am my Ambition is not to fore-slow the Tyde I have but so to make my interest of it as I may account for it I would wish nothing but what might better my dayes

and then that the Pattenties be tyed to build on those places only and to fortifie as shall be thought convenient And lastly it followeth of course in Countries of new Populations to invite and provoke inhabitants by ample Liberties and Charter A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few dayes before Queen Elizabeths death May it please your good Lordship AS the time of the sowing of a Seed is known but the time of coming up and disclosing is casuall or according to the Season So I am witnesse to my self that there hath been covered in my mind a long time a Seed of affection and zeal towards your Lord●… sown by the estimation of your vertues and your particula●●●our and favour to my Brother deceased and to my self which Seed still springing now bursteth forth into this possession And to be pl●in in with your Lordship it is very true and no winds not noises of evill matters can blow this out of my head and he●rt that your great capacity and love towards Studies and contemplations of an higher and worthier nature then popular a matter ra●e in the World and in a person of your I ordships quality a most singular is to me a great and chief motive to draw my affection and admiration towards you And therefore good my Lord if I may be of any use to your Lordship by my hand tongue pen means or friends I humbly pray your Lordship to hold me your own and there withall not to do so much disadvantage to my good mind as to conceive this my commendation of my humble service proceedeth out of any straights of my occasions but meerly out of an election and indeed the fulnesse of my heart and so wishing your Lordship all prosperity I continue A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in May it please your most excellent Majesty IT is observed upon a place in the Canticles by some Ego sum Flos Campi Lillium Convalium it is not said Ego sum Flos horti Lillium Montinum because the Majesty of that person is not inclosed for a few nor appropriated to the great And yet notwithstanding this Royall vertue of accesse which nature and judgment have planted in your Majesties mind as ●ortall of all the rest could not of it self my imperfections considered have animated me to have made oblation of my self immediatly to your Majesty had it not been joyned with a habite of like liberty which I enjoyed with my late dear Soveraign Mistresse a Prince happy in all things but most happy in such a Successour And yet further and more nearly I was not a little encouraged not only upon a supposall that unto your Majesties cares open to the Ayr of all Vertues there might have come some small breath of the good memory of my Father so long a principall Councellour in your Kingdom but also by the particular knowledge of the infinite devotion and incessant endeavours beyond the strength of his body and the nature of the times which appeared in my good Brother towards your Majesties service and near on your Ma●esties part through your singular benignity by many most gracious and lively significations and favours accepted and acknowledged beyond the merit of any thing he could effect All which endeavours and duties for the most part were common to my self with him though by design between Brethren dissembled And therefore most high and mighty King my most deare and dread Soveraign Lord since now the corner stone is laid of the mightiest Monarch in Europe and that God above who is noted to have a mighty hand in bridling the Flouds and Fluctuations of the Seas and of Peoples hearts hath by the miraculous and universall consent the more strange because it proceedeth from such diversity of causes in your coming in giving a sign and token what he intendeth in the continuance I think there is no Subject of your Majesties who leaveth this Isla●● and is not hollow and unworthy whose heart is not set on fire n●… only to bring you Peace-offerings to make you propitious but to sacrifice himselfe a burnt offering to your Majesties service amo●●st which number no mans fire shall be more pure and fervent But how farre forth it shall blaze out that resteth in your Majesties employment For since your fortune in the greatnesse thereof hath for a time debarred your Majesty of the fruitly vertue which one calleth the principall Principi●s est voritus maxima c. Because your Majesty hath many of yours which are unknown unto you I must leave all to the tryall of further time and thirsting after the happinesse of kissing your Royall hand continue ever c. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Scotland upon the entrance of his Majesties Reign SIR THe occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant and mutuall good offices which passed between my good Brother and your self whereunto as you know I was not altogether a stranger though the nature of the time and design betweene us Brethren made me more reserved But well do I bear in mind the great opinion which my Brother whose judgment I much reverence would often expresse to me of your extraordinary sufficiency dexterity and temper which he found in you in the business and service of the King our Soveraign Lord This latter bred in m● an election as the former gave an inducement forme to make this signification of my desire of a mutuall entertainment of my good affection and correspondence between us hoping both that some good effect may result of it towards the Kings service and that for our particulars though occasion give you the precedency of furthering my being known by good note to the King So wee shall have some means given to requite your savours and verifie your commendations And so with my loving recommendation good Mr. Foules I leave you to Gods goodnesse From Grays-Inne this 25 of March A Letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance My Lord THe present occasion awaketh in me a remembrance of the constant amity and mutuall good offices which passed between my Brother deceased and your Lordship whereunto I was lesse strange then in respect of the time I had reason to pretend and withall I call to mind the great opinion which my Brother who seldom failed in judgment of person would often expresse to me of your Lordships great wisdom and soundnesse both in head and heart towards the service of our Lord the Soveraigne King The one of those hath bred in me an election and the other a confidence to addresse my good w●ll and sincere affection to your Lordship not doubting in regard that my course of life hath wrought me not to be altogether unseene in the matters of the Kingdom that I may be in some use both in point of service to the King and in your Lordships particular And on the other side

not produced by Heaven or earth but was breathed immediatly from God So that the wayes and proceedings from God with Spirits are not concluded in Nature that is in the lawes of Heaven and Earth but are reserved to the law of his secret will and grace wherein God worketh still and resteth not from the work of Creation but continnueth working till the end of the world what time that worke also shall be accomplished and an eternall Sabboth shall ensue Likewise that whensoever God doth break the law of Nature by miracles which are ever new Creatures he never cometh to that point or passe but in regard of the worke of Redemption which is the greater and whereunto all Gods Saints and Martirs do referre That God created man in his owne likenesse or Image in a reasonable Soule in innocency in free-will in Soveraignty That he gave him a law and commandement which was in his power to keep but he kept it not That Man made a totall defection from God presuming to imagine that the commandement and pro●i●ition of God were not the rules of good and evill but that good and evill had their Principles and Beginnings to the end to depend no more upon Gods will revealed but upon him and his own light as a God then the which there would not be a Sinne more opposite to the whole law of God That neverthelesse this great sinne was not originally moved by the malice of man but was intimated by the suggestion and instigation of the Divell who was the first defected Creature who did fall of malice and not by temptation That upon the fall of man death and vanity upon the Justice of God and the Image of God was defaced and Heaven and Earth which was made for mans use were subdued and corrupted by his fall But then that instant and without intermission of time after the words of Gods law became through the fall of man frustrate as to obedience there succeeded the greater word of the promise the righteousnesse of God might be wrought by faith That aswell the law of God as the word of his promise enduce the same for ever but that they have been revealed in severall manners according to the dispensation of times for the law was first imprinted in that remnant of light of nature which was left after the fall being sufficient to accuse then it was more manifestly expressed in the written law was yet more opened to the Prophets lastly expounded in the true perfection of the Sonne of God the great Prophet and interpreter of the law That likewise the word of the promise was manifested revealed First by the immediate revelation inspiration after the figures which were of two Natures The one of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Law the other continuall History of the old World Church of the Jews which though it be literall is true yet it is pregnant of a perpetuall allegory and shadow of the work of redemption to follow the same Promise or Evangell was more cleerly revealed and declared by the Prophets and then by the Son himself And lastly by the holy Ghost which illuminateth the Church to the end of the World That in the fulnesse of Time according to the promise and oath of God of a chosen Image descended the blessed Seed of the Woman Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and Savior of the Word who was conceived by the holy Ghost and took flesh of the Virgin Mary That the Word did not only take flesh or was joyned to flesh but was flesh though without confusion of substance or nature so as the Eternal Son of God and the ever blessed Son of Man was one Person So one as the blessed Virgin may be truly and Catholikely called Dei Para the Mother of God So one as there is unity in universal Nature Not that the soul and body of Man so perfect for the three heavenly Unities whereof that as the second exceed all natural Unities that is to say the unity of God and Man in Christ and the Church the holy Ghost being the worker of both these latter unities For by the Holy Ghoct was Christ incarnate quickned in the flesh and by the Holy Ghost is Man regenerate and quickned in the Spirit That Jesus the Lord became in the flesh a Sacrifice for sin a satisfaction and price to the justice of God a meritour of glory and the Kingdom a Pattern of all Righteousnesse a Preacher of the Word which himself was a finisher of the Ceremonies a corner stone to remove the sepa●ation between Jew and Gentile an intercessour for the Church a Lord of Nature a conqueror of death and the power of darknesse in his Resurrection And that he fulfilled the whole councell of God performed his whole sacred office and annointing in Earth accomplished the whole work of Redemption and restitution of man to a state superiour to the Angels whereas the state of his Creation was inferiour and reconciled and established all things according to the eternall will of the Father That in time Jesus the Lord was born in the days of Herod and suffered under the government of Pontius Pilat being Deputy of the Romans and under the high Priesthood of Caiphas and was betrayed by Judas one of the 12. Apostles and was crucified at Jerusalem and after a true and natural death and his body laid in the Sepulchre the third day he raised himself from the bonds of death and arose and shewed himself to many chosen witnesses by the space of many days And at the end of those days in the sight of many ascended into Heaven where he continueth his intercession and shal from thence at a day appointed come in great glory to judge the World That the sufferings and merit of Christ as they are sufficient to do away the sins of the whole World so they are only effectuall to such as are regenerate by the Holy Ghost who breaketh where he will of free grace which grace as a seed incorruptible quickneth the Spirit of Man and conceiveth him a new the Son of God and a Member of Christ So that Christ having Mans flesh and Man having Christs spirit there is an open passage and mutual imputation whereby sinne wrath is conveyed to Christ from man and merit and life is conveyed to Man from Christ which Seed of the Holy Ghost first figureth in us the Image of Christ slain or crucified in a lively faith and then reigneth in us the Image of God in holinesse and charity though both imperfectly and in degrees far differing even in Gods elect aswel in regard of the fire of the spirit as of the illumination which is more or lesse in a large proportion as namely in the Church before Christ which yet neverthelesse was partakers of one and the same salvation and one and the same means of salvation with us That the work of the Spirit though it be not tyed to any means