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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35983	Observations vpon Religio medici occasionally written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1441; ESTC R20589	25,029	128

OBSERVATIONS VPON Religio Medici Occasionally Written By Sir Kenelme Digby Knight LONDON Printed by R. C. for Lawrence Chapman and Daniel Frere 1643. OBSERVATIONS VPON Religio Medicī To the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset Baron of Buckhurst c. My Lord I Received yesternight your Lordships of the 19 current wherin you are pleased to obleige me not onely by extreame gallant expressions of favour and kindnesse but likewise by taking so farre into your care the expending of my time during the tediousnesse of my restraint as to recommend to my reading a Booke that had received the honour and safeguard of your approbation for both which I most humbly thanke your Lordship And since I cannot in the way of gratefulnesse expresse unto your Lordship as I would those hearty sentiments I have of your goodnesse to me I will at the least endeavour in the way of Duty and observance to let you see how the little needle of my Soule is throughly touched at the great loadstone of yours and followeth sudainely and strongly which way soever you becken it In this occasion the magnetike motion was impatience to have the Booke in my hands that your Lordship gave so advantageous a character of whereupon I sent presently as late as it was to Pauls Churchyard for this favourite of yours Religio Medici which after a while found me in a condition fit to receive a Blessing by a visit from any of such Master-peeces as you looke upon with gracious eyes For I was newly gotten into my Bed This good natur'd creature I could easily perswade to bee my Bedfellow and to wake with mee as long as I had any edge to entertaine my selfe with the delights I sucked from so noble a conversation And truely my Lord I closed not my eyes till I had enricht my selfe with or at least exactly surveyed all the treasures that are lapped up in the folds of those few sheets To returne onely a generall commendations of this curious peece or at large to admire the authors Spirit and smartnes were too perfunctory an accompt and too slight a one to so discerning and steddy an eye as yours after so particular and encharged a summons to read heedfully this discourse I will therefore presume to blot a sheete or two of paper with my reflections upon sundry passages through the whole context of it as they shall occurre to my remembrance Which now your Lordship knoweth this packet is not so happy as to carry with it any other expression of my obsequiousnesse to you It will bee but reasonable you should even here give over your further trouble of reading what my respect ingageth mee to the writing of Whose first steppe is ingenuity and a well natur'd evennesse of Iudgement shall bee sure of applause and faire hopes in all men for the rest of his Iourney And indeed my Lord me thinketh this Gentleman setteth out excellently poised with that happy temper and sheweth a great deale of Iudicious piety in making a right use of the blind zeale that Bigots loose themselves in Yet I cannot satisfie my doubts throughly how hee maketh good his professing to follow the great wheele of the Church in matters of Divinity which surely is the solid Basis of true Religion for to doe so without jarring against the conduct of that first mover by Eccentricall and irregular motions obleigeth one to yeeld a very dutifull obedience to the determinations of it without arrogating to ones selfe a controling ability in liking or misliking the faith doctrine and constitutions of that Church which one looketh upon as their North starre Whereas if I mistake not this author approveth the Church of England not absolutely but comparatively with other reformed Churches My next reflection is concerning what he hath sprinkled most wittily in severall places concerning the nature and immortality of a humane soule and the condition and state it is in after the dissolution of the body And here give me leave to observe what our Countryman Roger Bacon did long agoe That those students who busie themselves much with such notions as reside wholly to the fantasie do hardly ever become idoneous for abstracted metaphysicall speculations the one having bulky foundatiō of matter or of the accidents of it to settle upon at the least with one foote The other flying continually even to a lessening pitch in the Subtile ayre And dingly it hath beene generally noted that the exactest Mathematicians who converse altogether with lines figures and other differences of quantity have seldome proved eminent in Metaphysicks or speculative Divinity Nor againe the professors of these sciences in the others arts Much lesse can it be expected that an excellent Physitian whose fancy is always fraught with the materiall drugs that hee prescribeth his Apothecary to compound his Medicines of and whose hands are inured to the cutting up eies to the inspection of anatomised bodies should easily and with successe flye his thoughts at so to wring a Game as a pure intellect a Separated and unbodyed Soule surely this acute Authors sharpe wit had hee orderly applyed his studies that way would have beene able to satisfie himselfe with lesse labour and others with more plenitude then it hath beene the lot of so dull a braine as mine concerning the immortality of the Soule And yet I assure you my Lord the little Philosophy that is allowed mee for my share demonstrateth this proposition to mee as well as faith delivereth it which our Physician will not admit in his To make good this assertion here were very unreasonable since that to doe it exactly and without exactnesse it were no demonstration requireth a totall Survey of the whole science of Bodyes and of all the operations that wee are conversant with of a rationall creature which I having done with all the succinctnes I have beene able to explicate so knotty a Subject with hath taken mee up in the first draught neere two hundred sheets of paper I shall therefore take leave of this point with onely this note that I take the immortality of the Soule under his favour to bee of that nature that to them onely that are not versed in the wayes of proving it by reason it is an article of faith to others it is an evident conclusion of demonstrative Science And with a like short note I shall observe how if hee had traced the nature of the Soule from its first principles hee could not have suspected it should sleepe in the grave till the Resurrection of the body Nor would hee have permitted his compassionative nature to imagine it belonged to Gods mercy as the Chiliasts did to change its condition in those that are damned from paine to happines For where God should have done that hee must have made that anguished Soule another creature then what it was as to make fire cease from being hot requireth to have it become another thing then the Element of fire since that to be in such a