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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

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

of the vain vows and implicite obedience and other things tending to the perturbation of States involved in that term of Converts to the Reformed Religion either of youth or otherwise for I doubt not but there are in Spain Italy and other Countries of the Papists many whose hearts are touched with a sence of those corruptions and acknowledgment of a better way which grace is many times smothered and choked through a worldly consideration of necessity to live there men not knowing where to have succour and resuge here This likewise I hold a work both of great piety and consequence that we also may be wise in our Generation and that the watchfull and silent night may be used as well for sowing of good seed as tears 3. The third thing is an imitation of a memorable and religious Act of Queen Elizabeth who finding a part of Lancashire to be extreamly backward in Religion and the Benefices swallowed up in impropriations did by decree in the Dutchy Court erect four stipends of 50. l. per annum a piece for Preachers well chosen to help the Harvest which have done a great deal of good in those parts where they have laboured neither doe there want other Corners in the Raelm that for a time would require the like extraordinary helps Thus have I briesly delivered unto your Majesty my opinion touching the employment of Suttons charity whereby that masse of wealth which was in the Owner little better then a heap of mack may be spread over your Kingdom to many fruitfull purposes your Majesties planting and watering and God giving the encrease Amen A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cook Lord chief Iustice of the Kings Beneh My very good Lord THough it be true that who so considereth the wind and Rain shall neither sow nor reap yet there is a season fit for every action so there is a time to speak and a time to be silent there is a time when the words of a poor simple man may profit and that poor man in the Proverbs which delivered the City by his wisdom found it without this opportunity the power both of wisdom and eloquence lose but their labour and charm the deaf Adder God therefore before his Son that brings mercy sent his Servants the Trumpets of repentance to levell every high hill to prepare the way before him making it smooth and straight and as it is in spirituall things where Christ never comes before his Way-maker hath laid even the heart with sorrow repentance since self-conceited and proud persons think themselvs too good and too wise to learn of their inferiours and therefore need not the Physician So in the acquiring of Earthly wisdom it is not possible for nature to attain any mediocrity of perfection before she be humbled by knowing her self and her own ignorance and not only knowledge but also every other gift which we call the gifts of Fortune have power to puff up earth Afflictions onely levell those Molehils of Pride plowes the heart and makes fit for wisdom to sow her seed and for grace to bring forth her encrease happy is that man therefore both in regard of heavenly wisdom and of Earthly that is thus wounded to be cured thus broken to be made straight thus made acquainted with his own imperfections that he may be perfected utilius est frangi lanquoribus ad salutem quam remanere in columen ad damnatione supposing this to be the time of your affliction that which I have propounded to my self is by taking this seasonable advantage like a true friend though far unworthy to be accounted so to shew you your true face in a glasse and that not in a false one to flatter you nor in one that is oblique and angular to make you seem worse then you are and so offend you but in one made by the reflections of your own words and actions from whose light proceeds that voice of the People which is often not unjustly called the voyce of God But herein since I purpose a truth I must intreat liberty to be plain a liberty which I know not whether at this time or no I may use safely I am sure at othertimes I could not yet of this resolve your self it proceeds from love and from a true desire to do you good that you knowing the generall opinion may not altogether neglect or contemn it but mend what you find amisse in your self and return what your judgment shall approve For to this end shall truth be delivered as nakedly as if your self were to be anatomized by the hand of opinion All men can see their own perfections that part of the Wallet hangs before A true friend whose worthy office I would perform since I fear both your self and all other great men want such being themselves true friends to few or none is first to shew the other end which is hid from your eyes First therefore behold your errours in discourse you delight to speak too much but not to hear other men this some say becomes a Pleader no Judge for by this means sometimes your affections is intangled with a liking of your own arguments though they be the weaker and rejecting of those which when your affections were setled your own judgments would allow for stronger Thus while you speak in your own element no man ordinarily equals you but when you wander as often you delight to do you then wander indeed and never give such satisfaction as this curious time requireth This is not caused by any naturall defect but first for want of election when you having a large and fruitfull mind should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken Rich Soils are often to be weeded Secondly you cloy the Auditory when that you would be observed speech must either be sweet or short Thirdly you converse with books not with men and of books especially humane and have not excellent choice with them who are best books with a man of action and employment You seldom converse and then with your underlings not freely but as a Schoolmaster with his Schollars even to teach and never to learn But if sometimes you would in your familiar discourses hear others and make election of such as know what they speak you should know that many of these tales which ordinarily you tell to be but ordinary and many other things which you delight to repeat and serve in for novelties to be but Crambebis cocta as in your pleadings you were wont to insult over misery and to inveigh liberally against the person which then bred you many enemies whose poyson yet swels and the effect now appeareth So were you still wont to be a little too carelesse in this point to praise and dispraise upon sleight grounds and that some times untruly so that your reproofs or commendations were for the most part neglected and contemned when the censure of a Judge coming slowly but surely

c. A Letter to Mr. Murrey of the Kings Bed Chamber Mr. Murrey IT is very true that his Majesty most graciously at my humble request knighted the last Sunday my Brother in law a towardly young Gentleman for which favour I think my selfe more ●ound to his Majesty then for the benefit often Knights And to tell you truly my meaning was not that the suit of this other Gentleman Mr. Temple should have beene moved in my name For I should have been unwilling to have moved his Majesty for more then one at once though many times in his Majesties Courts of justice if we move once for our friends we are allowed to move again for our Fee But indeed my purpose was that you might have been pleased to have moved it as for my self N●verthelesse since it is so far gone and that the Gentlemans friends are in some expectation of successe I leave it to your kind regard what is further to be done as wa●ling to give satisfaction to th●se which have put me in trust and loath on the other side to presse ab●ve good manners And so with my loving commendations I remain Yours c. A Letter to my Lady Pagington in answer of a Message by her sent Madam YOu shall with right good will be made acquainted with any thing which concerneth your Daughters if you bear a mind of love and concord otherwise you must be content to be a stranger unto us For I may not be so unwise as to suffer you to be an Author or occasion of dissension betweene your Daughters and their Husbands having seen so much misery of that kind in your self And above all things I will turn back your kindnesse in which you ay you will receive my wife if she be cast off For it is much more likely we have occasion to receive you being cast off if you remember what is passed But it is time to make an end of those follies And you shall at this time pardon me this one fault of writing to you For J mean to do it no more till you use me and respect me as you ought So wishing you better then it seemeth you will draw upon your self I rest Yours c. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Rel●gion Mr Matthews DOe not hink me forgetfull or altered towards you but if I should say that I should do you any good I should make my power more then it is I doe hear that which I am right ●orry for that you grow more impatient and busie then at first which maketh me to fear the issue of that which seemeth not o stand at a stay I my self am out of doubt that you have been miserably abused when you were first seduced and that which I take in compassion others may take in severity I pray God that understands us all better then we understand one another continue you as I hope he will at the least within the bounds of loyalty to his Majesty and naturall piety towards your Country and I entreat you much to meditate sometimes upon the extreame effect of Supersti●ion in this last Powder Treason fit to be tabled and pictured in the Tables of meditation as another Hell above the ground and well justifying the Censure of the Heathen that Super●●ition is far worse then Atheism by how much it is lesse evill to have no opinion of God at all then such as are impious towards his divine Majesty and goodnesse Good Mr. Mathews receive your self back from these courses of perdition and being willing to have written a great deale more I continue Yours c. Sir Thomas Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogita v●sa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same SIR ASsoon as the Term was ended supposing your leisure was more then before I was coming to thank you two or three times rather chusing it by word then by letter but I was sti●… disappointed of my purpose as I am at this present upon an urgent occasion which doth tyme last to Fulham and hath made me now determine to impart my mind in writing I think you know I have read your Cogita visa which I protest I have done with great desire reputing it a token of your singular love that you joyned me with those your chiefest friends to whom you would commend your first perusall of your draught For which I pray you give me leave to say but this unto you First that if the depth of my affection to your person and spirit to your works and your words and to all your abilities were as highly to be valued as your affection is to me it might w●…k with yours arme in arme and claim your love by just desert But there can be no comparison where our states are so uneven and our means to demonstrate our affections so different insomuch as for my own I must leave it to be prized in the nature that it is and you shall evermore find it most add●cted to your worth As touching the subject of your Book you have set a foot so many rare and noble speculations as I cannot chuse but wonder and I shall wonder at it ever that your expence of time considered in your publike profession which hath in a manner no acquaintance with any Scholarship or Learning you should have culled out the quintessence and sucked up the sap of the chiefest kind of Learning For howsoever in some points you do vary altogether from that which is and hath been ever the received Doctrine of our Schools and was alwayes by the wisest as still they have been deemed of all Nations and Ages adju●ged the truest Yet it is apparent that in those very points and in all your Proposals and Plots in that book you shew your self a Master-Workman For my self I must co●…esse and I speak it ingenue that for the matter of learning I am not worthy to be reckoned in the number of Smatterers And yet because it may seem that being willing to communicate your Treatise with your friends you are likewise willing to listen to whatsoever I or othe●…can except against it I must deliver unto you for my pr●… 〈◊〉 I am one of that crew that say there is and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…r greater hold-fast of certainty in your Scien●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your ●…course will seeme to acknowledge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ill successe and errours of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you know as well they do proceed of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…e 〈◊〉 ●…d doth obey his Physician in observing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or by mis-in●…tion of their owne indisposi●… For 〈◊〉 are able in this kind to explicate themselvs or by reason their disease are by nature uncurable which is incident you know to many sorts of malladies or for some other hid cause which cannot be di●covered by course of conjecture howbeit J am full of this bel●ese 〈◊〉 as phisick is ministred now a daies by phisitians it is much to be ascribed to their negligence or