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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

of justice oppresseth the People for he teacheth his Judges to sell justice and Precis parata precia vincitur justitia 11. Bounty and magnificence are vertues very Rege but a prodigall King is neerer a Tyrant then a parcimonious for store at home draweth his contemplations abroad but want supplyeth it selfe of what is next and many times the next way and herein must be wise and know what he may justly do 12. That King which is not feared is not loved and hee that is well seen in his craft must as well study to be feared as loved yet not loved for feare but feared for love 13. Therefore as he must alwayes resemble him whose great name he beareth and that in manifesting the sweet influence of his mercy on the severe stroke of his Justice sometimes so in this not to suster a man of death to live for besides that the land doth mourne the restraint of Justice towards sinne doth more retard the affection of Love then the extent of mercy doth enflame it and sure where love is bestowed feare is quite lost 14. His greatest enemies are his flatterers for though they ever speake on his side yet their words still make against him 15 The Love which a King oweth to a weale publike should not be restrained to any one perticular yet that his more speciall favour do reflect upon some worthy ones is somewhat necessary because there are few of that capacitie 16. Hee must have a speciall care of five things if he would not have his Crowne to be put on him In felix felicitatis 1. First that simulata sanctitas be not in the Church for that is duplex iniquitas 2. Secondly that inutilis equitas sit not in the Chauncery for that is ineptem misericordia 3. Thirdly that utilis iniquitas keepe not the Exchequer for that is crudele latrociniam 4. Fourthly that fidelis temeritas be not his generall for that will bring but seram penitentiam 5. Fifthly that infidelis prudentia be not his Secretary for that he is anguis sub viridi herba To conclude as he is of the greatest power so he is subject to the greatest Cares made the servant of his people or else he were without a Calling at all Hee then that honoureth him not is next an Atheist wanting the feare of God in his heart An explanation what manner of persons those should bee that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative written by the said Sir Francis Bacon late ●ord Chancellour and Lord of St. Albans THat absolute Prerogative according to the Kings pleasure revealed by his Lawes may be exercized and executed by any Subject to whom power may be given by the King in any place of Judgment or Commission which the King by his Law hath ordained in which the Judge subordinate cannot wrong the people the Law s●ying downe a measure by which every Judge should govern and execute against which law if any Judge proceed he is by the law questionable and punishable for his transgression In this nature are all the Judges and Commissioners of the Land no otherwise then in their Courts in which the King in person is supposed to sit who cannot make that trespas fellony or treason which the Law hath not made so to be neither can punish the guil●y by other punishment then the Lawes have appointed This Prerogative or power as it is over all the Subjects so being known by the Subjects they are without excuse if they offend and suffer no wrong if they be justly punished and by this Preroga●ive the King governeth all sorts of people according un●o known will The absolute Prerogative which is in Kings according to their private will and judgment cannot be executed by any Subject neither is it possible to give such power by Commission or fit to subject the People to the same for the King in that He is the Substitute of God immediatly the Father of His People and Head of the Common-wealth hath by perticipation with God and with His Subjects a discretion judgment and feeling love towards those over whom he reigneth only proper to himselfe or to His places and person who seeing he cannot in any others infuse His wisdome power or guif●s which God in respect of his place and charge hath enabled him withall can neither subordinate any other Judge to govern by that knowledge which the King can no otherwise then by his knowne will perticipate unto him And if any such subordinate Judge shall obtain Commission according to the discretion of such Judge to govern the people that Judge is bound to think that to be his sound discretion which the Law in which the Kings known will sheweth unto him to be that justice which he ought to administer otherwise he might seeme to esteeme himself above the Kings Law who wiil not govern by him or to have a power derived from other then from the King which in the kingdome will administer justice contrary unto the justice of the Land neither can such a Judge or Commissioner under the name of his authority shroud his own high affection seeing the conscience and discretion of every man is perticular and private to himself as the discretion of the Judge cannot be properly or possibly the discretion of the conscience of the King and if no● his discretion neither the judgment that is ruled by another mans only Therefore it may seeme they rather desire to be Kings then to rule the People under the King which will not administer justice by Law but by their own will This administration in a Subject is derogative to the Kings Prerogative for he administreth justice out of a private direction being not capable of a generall direction how to use the Kings children in pleasure in causes of perticular respect which if no other th●n the King himself can do how can it be so that any man should desire that which is unfit and impossible but that it must proceed out of some exorbitan affection the rather seeing such places to be full of trouble and being altogether unnecessary no man will seek to thrust himself into it but for hopes of gaine Then is not any Prerogative oppugned but maintained though it be desired that every subordinate Magistrate may not be made supreame whereby he may seale up the hearts of the people take from the King the respect due unto him only or to judge the people otherwise then the King doth himself And although the Prince be not bound to render any accompt to the Law which in person administreth it selfe yet every subordinate Judge must render an accompt to the King by his Lawes how he hath administred justice in his place where he is set But if he hath power to rule by private direction for which there is no Law how can he be questioned by a Law if in his private censure he offends Therefore it seemeth that in giving such authority the King ordaineth not

nor desire any greater place then the front of good opinion I make not love to the continuance of dayes but to the goodnesse of them nor wish to dye but referre my self to my houre which the great Dispenser of all things hath appointed me yet as I am fraile and suffered for the first fault were it given me to chuse I should not be earnest to see the evening of my age that extremity of it self being a disease and a meer return into infancie So that if perpetuity of life might be given me I should think what the Greek Poet said Such an Age is a mortall evill And since I must needs be dead I require it may not be done before mine enemies that I be not stripe before Ibe cold but before my friends the night was even now but that name is lost it is not now late but early mine eyes begin to discharge their watch and compound with this fleshly weaknesse for a time of perpetuall rest and I shall presently be as happy for a few houres as I had dyed the ●…t houre I was borne The Lord Chancellour Bacon his Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered unto King JAMES May it please your Majesty I Find it a positive precept of the Old Law that there should be no Sacrifice without salt the morall whereof besides the Ceremony may be that God is not pleased with the body of a good intention except it be seasoned with that spirituall wisdome and judgment as it be not easily subject to be corrupted and perverted for Salt in the Scripture is a figure both of wisdome and Learning This cometh into my mind upon this Act of Mr. Suttons which seemeth to me as a Sacrifice without Salt having the materials of a good intention but not powdered with any such Ordinances and institutions as may preserve the same from turning corrupt or at the least from becoming unsavorie and of little use for although the choyce of the Feo●…es be of the best yet neither they can live alwayes and the very nature of the work it selfe in the vast and unfit proportions thereof being apt to provoke a mis-employment it is no diligence of theirs except there be a digression from that modell that can excuse it from running the same way that gifts of the like condition have heretofore done For to designe the Charter house a house ●…r a Princes habitation for an Hospitall as some should give an Almes of a rich embroydered cloak to a Beggar And certainly a man see tanquam quae o●…is ceruantur that if such an Edifice with sixe thousand pounds Revenue be ●rected into an Hospitall it will in small time degenerate to be made a preferment of some great person to be Master and he to take all the sweet and the poor to be stinted and take but the crums as it comes to passe in divers Hospitals of this Realm which have but the name of Hospitals and are but wealthy Benefices in respect of the Mastership but the poor which is the propter quid little relieyed And the like hath been the fortune of much of the Almes of the Roman Religion in their great Foundations which being in vain-glory and ostentation have had their judgment upon them in the end in corruption and abuse This meditation hath made me presume to write these few lines to your Majesty being no better then good wishes which your Majesties great wisdom may make something or nothing of wherein I desire to be thus understood that if this foundation such as it is be perfect and good in Law then I am too well aequainted with your Majesties disposition To advise my course of power or profit that is not grounded upon a right nay further if the defects are such as a Court of Equity may remedy and cure then I wish that as St. Peters shaddow did cure Diseases so the very shadow of a good intention may cure defects of that nature But if there be a right and birth-right planted in the Heire and not remediable by Courts of Equity and that right be submitted to your Majesty whereby it is both in your power and grace what to do then I doe wish that this rude Masse and Chaos of good deed were directed rather to a solid merit and durable charity then to a blaze of glory that will not crackle a little in talk and quickly extinguish And this may be done observing the species of Mr. Suttons intent though varying individuo For it appears that he had in notion a triple good an Hospitall a School and maintaining of a Preacher which individuals resort to●…ee generall head viz. Reliefe of the Poore Advancement of Learning And the propagation of Religion Now then if I shall see before your Majesty in every of these three kinds what it is that is most wanting in your Kingdom and what is like to be the most fruitfull and effectuall use of Beneficence and like to be least perverted That I think should be no ill scope of any labour how meanly soever performed for out of variety presented election may be best grounded Concerniug the relief of the Poor I hold some number of Hospitals with competent good then any Hospitall of an exorbitant greatnesse for though the course will be the more seen yet the other will be the more felt For if your Majesty erect many besides observing the ordinary maxime bonum quo communius deo melius choice may be made of those Towns and places where there is most need and so the remedy may be distributed as the Disease is dispiersed Again greatnesse of relief accumulated in one place doth rather invite a swarm and surcharge of Poor then relieve those that are naturally bred in that place like to ill tempered medicines that draw more humour to the part then they evacuate from it But chiefly I rely upon the reason that I touched in the begining that in those great Hospitals the Revenue will draw the use and not the use the Revenues and so through the mass of their wealth they will swiftly tumble down to a mis-employment And if any man say that in the two Hospi●als of London there is a president of greatnesse concurring with good employment let him consider that these Hospitals have Annuall Governours that they are under the superiour care and policy of such a State as the City of London and chiefly that the Reuenues consist not upon certainties but upon casualties and free gifts would be missing if they appeared once to be perverted so as it keeps them in a continuall good behaviour and awe to employ them aright none of which points do match with the present Case The next consideration may be whether this intended Hospital as it hath a more ample endowment then other Hospitals should not likewise work more in a better subject then other poor as that it should be converted to the use of maymed Souldiers decayed Merchants and Housholds Age and destitute Church-men and

encounter the main Battell the Wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant as Death therefore walk circumspectly And if at length by the means of our good Masters and Governours you recover the favour you have lost give God the glory in actions not in words only and remember us with some of your past misfortune whose estate and undoings hath doth and may hereafterly in the power of your breath There is great mercy in dispatch delayes are tortures where-with by degrees we are rent out of our estates Do not you if you be restored as some others do fly from the service of vertue to serve the time as if they repented their goodnesse or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods house But rather let this crosse make you more zealons in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all that expresse thus You have been a great enemy of the Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal before was wasted in words call to remembrance they were the Persons that thus prophesied of this Crosse of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the Plot these men blew the coals heat the irons and make all things ready they owe you a good turn and will if they can pay it you you see their hearts by their deeds prove you your Faith so to the best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Laws severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you My Lord seem sensible both of the stroke and hand that strikes you learn of David to leave Shemy and look upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepares you for i● he would not have you faint nor yet bear this Crosse with a Stoicall resolution there is a Christian mediocritie worthy your greatnesse I must be plain perhaps rash had every note you had taken at Sermons bin written in your heart to practise this work had been done long since without the errour of your enemies but when we will not mend our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he sees maius nitus dolem us per hoc quod foris patimur He therefore sends us outward Crosses which while they cause us to mourn they do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them To humble our selves therefore to God is the part of a Christian but for the World and our Enemies that councell of the Poet is apt Rebus angustus animosus atque forte apparere sapienter item contrahes vento in nostrum secundo turgida vela The last part of this you forgot yet none need to be ashamed to make use of it and so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left for this is cer●ain the mind that is most prone to be puffed up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least touch of adversity indeed she is able to stagger a strong man striking terrible blowes especially Immerito veniens paena dolonda venit but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all these assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be contented for though she cause our trencher friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart to the most coward to strike us though an hours continuance countervails an Age of prosperity though she cast in our dishes all the evils that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but only to break such as too much prosperity hath made stift in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fit for ruine when the wise from thence rather gather profit and wisdom by the example of David who saith Before I was chastis●d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardans●… saith that weeping fasting and sighing are three great purges of grief Indeed naturally they help to assway Sorrow but God in this Case is the best and only Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both the Physick and the Cure For friends though your Lordship be scanted yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be look on good books they are true friends that will neither slatter nor dissemble be you betwixt your self applying what they teach to the party grieved and you shall need no other comfort nor Counsellours To them and to Gods holy spirit directing you in the reading of them I commit your Lordship beseeching him to send a good issue of these your troubles and from henceforth to work a Reformation in what hath been amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the benefit of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull Servant while you remain I remain a faithfull Servant to you Suppose this boldnesse occasioned by something I hear which I dare not write be not so secure though you see some Clouds break up all crosses and damages may be compared to a Woolf which coming upon a man suddenly causeth his voice and heart to fail but the danger that is expected is toothlesse and half prevented A Letter to my Lord Treasurer in excuse of his Speech in Parliament against the Treble Subsidie It may please your good Lordship I Was sorry to find by your Lordships Speech yesterday that my hastie Speech in Parliament delivered in discharge of my Conscience my duty to God her Majesty and my Countrey was offensive If it were misreported I would be glad to attend your Lordship to disavow any thing I said not If it were misconstrued I would be glad to expound my words to exclude any sense I meant not if my heart be mis-judged by imputation of popularity or opposition I have great wrong and the greater because the manner of my Speech did most evidently shew that I spake simply and only to satisfie my conscience and not with any advantage or policie to sway the cause And my terms carryed all signification of duty zeal towards her Majesty and her service It is very true that from the beginning whatsoever was a double Subsidie J did wish might for presidents sake appear to be extraordinary and for discontents sake might not have been levyed upon the poverty though otherwise J wished it as rising as J think this will prove and more this was my mind J confesse it And therefore J do most humbly pray your good Lordship First to continue me in your own good opinion and then to perform the part of an Honourable friend towards your poor humble and obedient Servant and Allyance in drawing Her MAJESTIE to accept of the sinceritie and simplicitie of my zeal and