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A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

glory to judge the World That the Sufferings and Merits of Christ as they are sufficient to do away the Sinns of the whole World so they are onely effectuall to those which are Regenerate by the Holy Ghost Who breatheth where he will of Free Grace which Grace as a Seed Incorruptible quickeneth the Spirit of Man and conceiveth him anew a Son of God and Member of Christ So that Christ having Mans Flesh and Man having Christs Spirit there is an open passage and Mutuall Imputation whereby Sin and Wrath was conveyed to Christ from Man And Merit and Life is conveyed to Man from Christ VVhich Seed of the Holy Ghost first figureth in us the Image of Christ slain or crucified through a lively Faith And then reneweth in us the Image of God in Holinesse and Charity though both imperfectly and in degrees farre differing even in Gods Elect As well in regard of the Fire of the Spirit as of the Illumination thereof which is more or lesse in a large proportion As namely in the Church before Christ VVhich yet neverthelesse was partaker of one and the same Salvation with us And of one and the same Means of Salvation with us That the Work of the Spirit though it be not tyed to any Means in Heaven or Earth yet it is ordinarily dispensed by the Preaching of the Word The Administration of the Sacraments The Covenants of the Fathers upon the Children Prayer Reading The Censures of the Church The Society of the Godly the Crosse and Afflictions Gods Benefits His Iudgements upon others Miracles The Contemplation of his Creatures All which though some be more principall God useth as the Means of Vocation a●d Conversion of his Elect Not derogating from his power to call immediately by his Grace and at all Howers and Moment● of the Day That is of Mans Life according to his good pleasure That the Word of God whereby his Will is revealed continued in Revelation and Tradition untill Moses And that the Scriptures were from Moses Time to the times of the Apostles and Evangelists In whose Age aft●r the comming of the Holy Ghost the Teacher of all Truth the Book of the Scriptures was shut and closed so as not to receive any new Addition And that the Church hath no power over the Scriptures to teach or command any Thing contrary to the written Word But is as the Ark wherein the Tables of the First Testament were kept and preserved That is to say the Church hath onely the Custody and Delivery over of the Scriptures committed unto the same Together with the Interpretation of them but such onely as is conceived from themselves That there is an Universall or Catholick Church of God dispersed over the face of the Earth which is Christs Spouse and Christs Body Being gathered of the Fathers of the old World of the Church of the Iewes of the Spirits of the Faithfull Dissolved and the Spirits of the Faithfull Militant and of the Names yet to be born which are already written in the Book of Life That there is also a Visible Church distinguished by the outward VVorks of Gods Covenant and the Receiving of the Holy Doctrine with the Use of the Mysteries of God and the Invocation and Sanctification of his Holy Name That there is also an Holy Succession in the Prophets of the New Testament and Fathers of the Church from the time of the Apostles and Disciples which saw our Saviour in the Flesh unto the Consummation of the Work of the Ministry which persons are called from God by Gift or inward Anointing And the Vocation of God followed by an outward Calling and Ordination of the Church I believe that the Soules of those that dye in the Lord are blessed and rest from their Labours and enjoy the Sight of God yet so as they are in Expectation of a further Revelation of their Glory in the last Day At which time all Flesh of Man shall arise and be changed and shall appear and receive from Iesus Christ his Eternall Iudgement And the Glory of the Saints shall then be full And the Kingdome shall be given up to God the Father From which Time all things shall continue for ever in that Being and State which then they shall receive So as there are three Times if Times they may be called or parts of Eternity The first the Time before beginnings when the Godhead was onely without the Being of any Creature The Second the Time of the Mystery which continueth from the Creation to the Dissolution of the World And the Third the Time of the Revelation of the Sonnes of God which Time is the last and is everlasting without change FINIS A Perfect List of his Lordships true Works both in English and Latin In English AN Apology touching the Earl of Essex The El●ments of the Common Laws of England Advancement of Learning Essayes with the Colours of Good and Evil. Charge against Duels History of the Reign of King Henry the seventh Counsels Civil and Moral Or the Essayes revised and enriched Translation of certain Psalms into Verse The Natural History with the Fable of the New Atlantis Miscellany Works containing A Discourse of a Warr with Spain Miscellany Works containing A Dialogue touching an Holy Warr. Miscellany Works containing A Preface to a Digest of Laws Miscellany Works containing The Beginning of the History of K. Henry the 8. History of Life and Death translated into English De Augmentis Scientiarum translated into English by Doctour Guilbert Watts of Oxford This present Volume with the Particulars contained in the same In Latine DE Sapientiâ Veterum Instauratio Magna Historia Ventorum Historia Vitae Mortis De Augmentis Scientiarum Historia Regni Henrici Septimi Regis Angliae Sermones Fideles sive Interiora Rerum Dialogus de Bello Sacro Nova Atlantis Historia Naturalis versa et evulgata oper● et curâ Iacobi Gruteri Opera Philosophica et alia nondum sed propediem Deo favente Typis mandanda As for other Pamphlets whereof there are severall put forth under his Lordships Name they are not to be owned for his Books Printed for VVilliam Lee and are to be sold at his shop at the Turks-Head in Fleetstreet ANnotations upon all the New Testament A Systeme or Body of Divinity in 10. Books wherein the Fundamental and main Grounds of Religion are opened in Folio 1654 about 240. Sheets The Saints Encouragement in Evil times in 120. 1651. All written by Edward Leigh Esquire Master of Arts in Magdalen Hall in Oxford An Exposition of the Prophecie of Haggee in fifteen Sermons by that famous Divine Iohn Reynolds D.D. in 40. 1649. An Exposition of the Psalms of Degrees The Young mans Tutor both wri● by T. Stint in 80. Herestography or a Description of all the Heresies and Secta●ies of these later times by Eph. Pagit 40. with new Additions 1654. of the Ranters and Quakers Contemplations Sighs and Groans of a Christian published by W.

within the Compasse of any Moderation But the●e Things being with us to have an orderly passage under a King who hath a Royall power and approved Judgement And knoweth as well the Measure of Things as the Nature of them It is surely a needlesse Fear For they need not doubt but your Majesty with the advise of your Councell will discern what Things are intermingled like the Tares amongst the wheat which have their Roots so enwrapped and entangled as the one cannot be pulled up without endangering the other And what are mingled but as the Chaffe and the Corn which need but a Fanne to sift and sever them So much therefore for the first Point of no Reformation to be admitted at all For the Second Point that there should be but one form o● Discipline in all Churches And that imposed by necessity of a Commandement and prescript out of the word of God It is a Matter Volumes have been compiled of and therefore cannot receive a brief Redargution I for my part do confesse that in Revolving the Scriptures I could never find any such Thing But that God had left the like Liberty to the Church Government as he had done to the Civill Government To be varied according to Time and Place and Accidents which neverthelesse his high and Divine Providence doth order and dispose For all Civil Governments are restrained from God unto the general Grounds of Justice and Manners But the Policies and Forms of them are left Free So that Monarchies and Kingdoms Senates and Seignories Popular States and Communalties are lawfull And where they are planted ought to be maintained inviolate So likewise in Church Matters the Substance of Doctrine is Immutable And so are the generall Rules of Government But for Rites and Ceremonies And for the particular Hierarchies Policies and Disciplines of Churches they be left at large And therefore it is good we return unto the ancient Bounds of Vnity in the Church of God which was One Faith One Baptisme And not one Hierarchy one Discipline And that we observe the League of Christians as it is penned by our Saviour which is in substance of Doctrine this He that is not with us is against us But in Things indifferent and but of circumstance this He that is not against us is with us In these things so as the generall Rules be observed That Christs Flock be fed That there be a Succession in Bishops and Ministers which are the Prophets of the new Testament That ●here be a due and reverent use of t●e power of the Keyes That those that preach the Gospel live of the Gospel That all things tend to edification That all things be done in order and with decency And the like The rest is left to the Holy wi●dome and Spirituall Discretion of the Master Builders and in●eriour Builders in Christs Church As it is excellently alluded by that Father that noted That Christs Garment was without Seam and yet the Churches G●rment was of divers Colours And thereupon setteth down for a Rule In veste varietas sit scissura non fit In which Variety neverthelesse it is a safe and wise Course to follow good Examples and Presidents But then by the Rule of Imitation and Example to consider not onely which are Best but which are the Likeliest as namely the Gover●ment of the Church in the purest Times of the first Good Emperours that embraced the Faith For the Times of Persecution before Temporall Princes received our Faith As they were excellent Times for Doctrine and Manners so they be unproper and unlike Examples of outward Government and Policie And so much for this Point Now to the particular Points of Controversies or rather of Reformation Circumstances in the Government of Bishops FIrst therefore for the Government of Bishops I for my part not prejudging the Presidents of other Reformed Churches do hold it warranted by the Word of God and by the Practise of the Ancient Church in the better Times And much more convenient for Kingdoms then Parity of Ministers and Government by Synods But then further it is to be considered that the Church is not now to plant or Build But onely to be proi●ed from Corruption And to be repaired and restored in some decayes For it is worth the Noting that the Scripture saith Translato Sacerdotio necesse est ut Legis fiat Translatio It is not possible in respect of the great and neer Sympathy between the State Civill and the State Ecclesiasticall to make so main an alteration in the Church but it would have a perillous operation upon the Kingdoms And therefore it is fit that Controversie be in Peace and Silence But there be two Circumstances in the Administration of Bishops Wherein I confesse I could never be satisfied The one the sole Exercise of their Authority The other the Deputation of their Authority For the First the Bishop giveth Orders alone Excommunicateth alone Iudgeth alone This seemeth to be a Thing almost without Example in good Government and therefore not unlikely to have crept in in the degenerate and corrupt Times We see the greatest Kings and Monarchs have their Councells There is no Temporall Court in England of the Higher sort where the Authority doth rest in one person The Kings Bench Common Pleas and the Exchequer are Benches of a certain Number of Judges The Chancellour of England hath an Assistance of twelve Masters of the Chancery The Master of the Wards hath a Councell of the Court So hath the Chancellour of the Dutchy In the Exchecquer Chamber the Lord Treasurer is joyned with the Chancellour and the Barons The Masters of the Requests are ever more then One. The Iustices of Assise are two The Lord Presidents in the North and in Wales have Councells of divers The Star-Chamber is an Assembly of the Kings Privy Coun●ell aspersed with the Lords Spirituall and Temporall So as in Courts the principall Person hath ever eithe● Colleagues or Assessours The like is to be found in other well governed Common-Wealths abroad where the Iurisdiction is yet more dispersed As in the Court of Parliament of France And in other places No man will deny but the Acts that passe the Bishops Iurisdiction are of as great Importance as those that passe the Civil Courts For Mens Souls are more precious then their Bodies or Goods And so are their Good Names Bishops have their Infirmities have no Exception from that generall Malediction which is pronounced against all Men Living Vae Soli nam si ceciderit c. Nay we see that the fi●st Warrant in Spirituall Causes is directed to a Number Dic Ecclesiae which is not so in Temporall Matters And we see that in generall Causes of Church Government there are as well Assemblies of all the Clergy in Councells as of all the States in Parliament Whence should this sole exercise of Jurisdiction come Surely I do suppose and I think ●pon good Ground That Ab Initio non fuit ita