actae protinus Gratiae significarunt si curam amici qui hìc operam suam non frustra requiri passus est haud luserit fortuna trajectus varia è causa saepe dubij Nunc tantò majus mihi istud beneficium est quantò insigniorem frugem praestitit lectio non ignava par cum quibusdam ex officina Baconiana à me editis collatio aucticrem enim tibi debemus Historiam densi rari sed alia isto contenta Volumine priusquam non conspecta Vnum mirabar non exstare ibi caeteris aggregatam Verulamii Epistolam ad Henricum Savilium de adjumentis facultatum Intellectualium si ex literis olim tuis non vanè mihi recordanti subjicit Titulum appellata memoria saltem inscriptione non longè dissimili Si per oblivionem ibi forte non comparet scriniis tamen vestris inerrat optem videre Apographum in cujus usu bonam fidem non desiderabis nisi Anglicano Sermone scripta locum invenerit in majori opere quod vernacula duntaxat complectitur Id si nos scire patiaris an obtinendi Libri in quo Oratoria fo rs Epistolica digeruntur maternae Linguae partus spes ex promisso fuerit non immodesta animo meo consecrariâ— tui memoriam in cujus veneratione nunquam defatigabitur segnesceâ—â— alacritas obstrictissimi affectus Vale. Trajecti ad Mosam unde post duos trésve menses Novomagum migro Batavis futurus propior Per Smithaeum tamen transmittere ad me perges si quid volueris Kal. Julii St. N. CIO IOC LIX The same in English by the Publisher To the Reverend and most Learned William Rawley D. D. Isaac Gruter wisheth much Health Reverend Sir and my most dear Friend HOw much I hold my self honour'd by your Present of the Lord Bacon's Posthumous Works published lately by you in Latine my thanks immediately return'd had let you understand if ill Fortune in the Passage which is for divers causes uncertain had not deluded the care of a Friend who did here with much readiness undertake the Conveyance of them Now the Gift is by so much the greater by how much the more benefit I reap'd by diligent reading of those Papers and by comparing them with some of the Lord Bacon's Works which I my self had formerly published For to you we owe the more enlarged History de Denso Raro as also many other things contain'd in that Volume which saw not the Light before One Paper I wonder I saw not amongst them the Epistle of the Lord Bacon to Sir Henry Savil about the Helps of the Intellectual Powers spoken of long ago in your Letters under that or some such Title if my Memory does not deceive me If it was not forgotten and remains among your private Papers I should be glad to see a Copy of it in the use of which my Faithfulness shall not be wanting But perhaps it is written in the English Tongue and is a part of that greater Volume which contains only his English Works If you will please to let me understand so much and likewise give me assurance of obtaining that Book in which the Speeches and it may be the Letters of the Lord Bacon written by him in English are digested you will render your Memory sacred in my Mind in the veneration of which the chearfulness of a most devoted affection shall never be weary Farewel From Maestricht from whence after two or three Months I remove to Nimmeghen nigher to Holland But you may convey to me any thing you desire by Mr. Smith Iuly 1st New Style 1659. A brief Account of the Life and particularly of the Writings of the Lord Bacon written by that learned Antiquarie Sir William Dugdale Norroy King of Arms in the second Tome of his Book entituled The Baronage of England * Pag. 437. 438 439. together with divers Insertions by the Publisher Francis Lord Verulam Vicount St. Alban 16 Iac. COnsidering that this Person was so Eminent for his Learning and other great Abilities as his Excellent Works will sufficiently manifest though a short Narrative a Impr. Lond. an 1670. of his Life is already set forth by Doctor William Rawley his domestique Chaplain I am not willing to omit the taking notice of such particulars as are most memorable of him and therefore shall briefly recount partly from that Narrative and partly from other Authorities what I have observed in order thereto As to his Parentage he was b Ibid. the youngest of those two Male Children which Sir Nicholas Bacon of Redgrave in Com. Suff. Knight had by Anne his Wife one of the six Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook of Giddy-Hall in Com. Essex Knight a person much honoured for his Learning and being Tutor to King Edward the Sixth all those Daughters being exquisitely skilled c Annal. Eliz. per Cambd. in an 1576. in the Greek and Latine Tongues Which Nicholas having been a diligent Student of the Laws in d Life of c. by Dr. Rawley Grays-Inn was made e Pat. 38 H. 8. p. 6. the King's Attorney in the Court of Wards in 38 H. 8. and upon the death of that King which soon after happened had his Patent for the same trust renewed f Pat. 1 E. p. 3. m. 36. by his Son and Successor King Edward the Sixth In the sixth year of whose Reign he was constituted g Orig. Iucrid p. 298. Treasurer for that Noble Society of Grays-Inn whereof he had been so long a Member And being grown famous for his Knowledg was shortly after viz. in 1 Eliz. made h Pat. 1 â— p. 3. Lord Keeper of the great Seal of England and Knighted i M. 6. in offic Arm. f. ib. 67. b. which Office in his time was by Act of Parliament made equal in Authority with the Chancellours What I have otherwise observed of this Sir Nicholas Bacon is k Annal. Eliz. ut supra in â—n 1564. that being no friend to the Queen of Scots then Prisoner in England he was l Annal. Eliz. ut supra in â—n 1564. privy and assenting to what Hales had publisht in derogation to her Title as next and lawful Successor to Queen Elizabeth asserting that of the House of Suffolk before it for which Hales suffered m Ibid. Imprisonment and had not Cecil stood his faithful friend n Ibid. so might he nothing being more distastful to Queen Elizabeth than a dispute upon that point Next that in 14 Eliz. upon those Proposals made by the Nobility of Scotland for her enlargement he opposed o Ibid. in an 1571. it alleadging p Ibid. in an 1571. that no security could ballance the danger thereof Lastly That upon his death which happened in April An. 1579. 21 Eliz. this Character q Ib. in an 1579. is given of him by the learned Cambden viz. that he was Vir praepinguis ingenio acerrimo singulari
218. l. 2. r. contriverim P. 222. l. 23. for tum r. Tu. P. 232. l. 23. r. vertit P. 237. l. 4. r. would P. 239. l. 4. r. â—nerat l. 12. r. consecrari l. 14. r. segnescens P. 249. l. 29 30. for carried r. varied P. 250. l. 5. r. you to call P. 253. l. 19. r. Courts P. 254. Margent l. 1. for R. this r. L. this P. 257. Margent l. 1. for â—Twas r. they were P. 259. l. 8 9. after Nature put a Semicolon after parted a Colon. A DISCOURSE BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION In which the Publisher endeavoureth an Account of the PHILOSOPHY MECHANIC INVENTIONS and WRITINGS of Sir FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans And particularly of these REMAINS now set forth by him under the Title of BACONIANA LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. AN ACCOUNT Of all the Lord BACON'S WORKS IT is my purpose to give a true and plain Account of the Designs and Labours of a very great Philosopher amongst us and to offer to the World in some tollerable Method those Remains of his which to that end were put into my Hands Something of this hath been done already by his Lordship himself and something further hath been added by the Reverend Dr. Rawley But their Remarks lay scattered in divers Places and here they are put under one View and have received very ample Enlargements In this last and most comprehensive Account I have on purpose used a loose and Asiatic Style and wilfully committed that venial fault with which the Laconian in Boccalini is merrily taxed who had said that in three words which he might possibly have express'd in two I hop'd by this means to serve the more effectually ordinary Readers who stand chiefly in need of this Introduction and whose Capacities can be no more reach'd by a close and strict Discourse than Game can be taken by a Net unspread For any praise upon the account of this small Performance it is not worth the while to be solicitous about it Yet sometimes mean Men get a stock of Reputation by gathering up the Fragments of the Learned as Beggars they say have gotten Estates by saving together the Alms of the Rich. If that falls not out here where it is not expected it will be abundantly enough to me if the Inferiour Reader may have Benefit and any Honour may be done to the Memory of his Lordship whose more General Encomium I shall first set down and then annex a particular Narrative of those Designs and Labours of his which may be said not only to merit buteven to exceed all my Commendations I begin as I said with his Lordship's Praise in a more general way And here I affirm with good assurance for Truth is bold that amongst those few who by the strength of their private Reason have resisted popular Errors and avanced real and useful Learning there has not arisen a more Eminent Person than the Lord High Chancellor Bacon Such great Wits are not the common Births of Time And they surely intended to signifie so much who said of the Phoenix though in Hyperbole as well as Metaphor that Nature gives the World that Individual Species but once in five hundred Years It is true There lived in part of the last and this Century many memorable Advancers of Philosophical Knowledg I mean not here such as Patricius or Telesius Brunus Severinus the Dane or Campanella These indeed departed from some Errors of the Ancients but they did not frame any solid Hypothesis of their own They only spun new Cobwebs where they had brush'd down the old Nay I intend not in this place either de Chart or Gassendi They were certainly great Men but they appeared somewhat later and descended into the depths of Philosophy after the Ice had been broken by others And those I take to have been chiefly Copernicus Father Paul the Venetian Galileo Harvey Gilbert and the Philosopher before-remembred Sir Francis Bacon who if all his Circumstances be duly weigh'd may seem to excel them all He was by Profession a common Lawyer by Office in the Queen's time one of the Clerks of the Council in the Reign of King Iames one of the King's Counsel Learned then Solicitor General and one of the Iudges in the Knight-Marshals Court then Attorney General and one of the King's Privy-Council then Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal and during the Kings absence in Scotland Lord Protector And last of all Lord High Chancellor of England So that in such a Life as his so thickly set with Business of such Height it is a Miracle that all Seeds of Philosophy were not daily overdropped and in a short time quite choaked and that any one of them sprung up to Maturity And yet his prosper'd beyond those of the Philosophers before-mentioned though they were not pressed on with such a crowd of secular Business For Copernicus he concern'd himself especially in the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies in reviving and perfecting the obsolete Doctrine of Philolaus touching the motion of the Earth and in setting free the Planets from those many Epicycles Eccentrics and Concentries in which Ptolomy and others had entrangled them And he well understood the Course of the Stars though he did not much study that natural motive Power which carries them about in their several Elliptics The like Remark may be made concerning Mr. Gilbert who applied himself particularly to the consideration of Magnetic Powers as also concerning Dr. Harvey who inquired principally into the Generation of Animals and the motion of the Heart Subjects in which he made great progress though into the former the help of Microscopes would have given him further insight a See Dr. Highmore of Generation P. 70 71. and in both he rather pursued the proofs of his Hypotheses than the nature of the Mechanic force which produced those great Effects Father Paul was a more general Philosopher and the Head of a Meeting of Vertuosi in Venice He excelled in Mechanics in Mathematics of all kinds in Philological Learning in Anatomy In his Anatomical Studies he exercis'd such Sagacity that he made further discoveries in the fabrick of the Eye and taught Aqua-pendente those new Speculations which he publish'd on that Subject he found out saith Fulgentio the Valvulae in the Veins and began the Doctrine of the Circulation of the Blood Though there is reason to believe that he receiv'd the hints of it from Sir Henry Wotton who himself had taken them from Dr. Harvey a Cartes diss de Methodo P. 46. Herveo laus â—aec tribuenda est quò d primam in istâ materiâ— glacâ—em fâ—egerit c. But the present state of the Affairs of Venice so requiring Father Paul bent his Studies to Ecclesiastical Polity and chiefly employ'd his Pen in detecting the Usurpations and Corruptions of the Papacy Endeavouring so far as Books could do it to preserve the Neck of that Republick
been the depths of his Mercy as even those Noble-mens Bloods against whom the proceeding was at Winchester Cobham and Grey were attainted and corrupted but not spilt or taken away but that they remained rather Spectacles of Justice in their continual Imprisonment than Monuments of Justice in the memory of their Suffering It is true that the Objects of his Justice then and now were very differing For then it was the Revenge of an Offence against his own Person and Crown and upon Persons that were Male-contents and Contraries to the State and Government But now it is the the Revenge of the Blood and Death of a particular Subject and the Cry of a Prisoner It is upon Persons that were highly in his Favour whereby his Majesty to his great Honour hath shewed to the World as if it were written with a Sun-beam that he is truly the Lieutenant of him with whom there is no respect of Persons That his Affections Royal are above his Affections Private That his Favours and Nearness about him are not like Popish Sanctuaries to privilege Malefactours and that his being the best Master in the World doth not let him from being the best King in the World His People on the other side may say to themselves I will lie down in peace for God and the King and the Law protect me against the great and small It may be a Discipline also to great Men specially such as are swollen in their Fortunes from small beginnings that The King is as well able to level Mountains as to fill Valleys if such be their desert In another place l Page 119. Of the Arraignment of the L. of Somerset he thrusteth into the Speech of Sir Edward Cook a part of Sir Francis Bacon's and like the worser sort of Thieves he does not only rob but mangle him Sir Francis Bacon spake on this manner My Lords He is not the Hunter alone that lets slip the Dog upon the Deer but he that lodges the Deer or rouses him or puts him out or he that sets a Toyl that he cannot escape Instead of which the Relator hath substituted this absurd Sentence It is not he only that slips the Dog but he that loves the Toyl that kills the Deer This I thought was not unnecessary to be said in Vindication of Mr. Attorney's Honour which is vilely traduc'd in this Pamphlet where the Daw would personate the Orator The Second Paper is his Letter to the University of Cambridg to whom he was of Counsel upon occasion of his being Sworn of the Privy-Council to the King This I judged fit to bear that other company which is already printed m Resusc Letters p. 82 83. and answereth to their Congratulation at his first coming to the Place of Lord-Keeper The Third is his Letter to King Iames touching the Place of Lord High Chancellour of England upon the approaching death of the Chancellour Egerton The Fourth is a Letter to the same Prince for the relief of his Estate This with that other of Submission in the Cabala seem to some to blemish his Lordship's Honour to others to clear it For in this he appealeth to the King himself whether he had not ever found him direct and honest in his Service so as not once to be rebuked by him during Nineteen Years Employment He sheweth that his Fall was not the King's Act and that the Prince was ready to reach out his Hand to stay him from falling In the other he maketh this profession of his being free from malicious Injustice For the Bribery and Gifts wherewith I am charged when the Books of Hearts shall be opened I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled Fountain of a corrupt Heart in a depraved habit of taking Rewards to pervert Justice howsoever I may be frail and partake of the abuses of the Times The Fifth Paper is a Collection of his remaining Apothegms inferiour in number to those already published but not in weight Some of these he took from Eminent Persons and some from meaner ones having set it down from his Observation n In Impet. Philosoph p. 476. Rusticorum Proverbia nonnulla apposite ad veritatatem dicuntur Sus rostro c. that The Bolt of the Rustic often hits the Mark and that the Sow in rooting may describe the letter A though she cannot write an entire Tragedy The Sixth is a Supply of his Collection of Judicious and Elegant Sentences called by him Ornamenta Rationalia He also gave to those Wise and Polite Sayings the Title of Sententiae Stellares either because they were Sentences which deserved to be pointed to by an Asterisc in the Margent or because they much illustrated and beautify'd a Discourse in which they were disposed in due place and order as the Stars in the Firmament are so many glorious Ornaments of it and set off with their Lustre the wider and less adorned Spaces This Collection is either wholly lost or thrown into some obscure Corner but I fear the first I have now three Catalogues in my Hands of the unpublish'd Papers of Sir Francis Bacon all written by Dr. Rawley himself In every one of these appears the Title of Ornamenta Rationalia but in the Bundles which came with those Catalogues there 's not one of those Sentences to be found I held my self oblig'd in some sort and as I was able to supply this defect it being once in my power to have preserved this Paper For a Copy of it was long since offer'd me by that Doctor 's only Son and my dear Friend now with God Mr. William Rawley of whom if I say no more it is the greatness of my Grief for that irreparable loss which causeth my Silence I was the more negligent in taking a Copy presuming I might upon any occasion command the Original and because that was then in such good Hands Now there remains nothing with me but a general Remembrance of the quality of that Collection It consisted of divers short Sayings aptly and smartly expressed and containing in them much of good Sense in a little room These he either made or took from others being moved so to do by the same Reason which caus'd him to gather together his Apothegms which he saith he collected for his Recreation his Lordship's Diversions being of more value than some Men's Labours Nor do such Sentences and Apothegms differ much in their Nature For Apothegms are only somewhat longer and fuller of Allusion and tell the Author and the occasion of the Wise Saying and are but the same Kernel with the Shell and Leaf about it That which he faith of the one is true of the other They are both Mucrones Verborum o In Preface to his Apothegms pointed Speeches or Goads Cicero saith he calleth them Salinas Salt-pits that you may extract Salt out of and sprinkle it where you will They serve to be interlaced in continued Speech They serve to be recited upon occasion in
in those Times in which himself advanced little either in Profit or Honour For he was hindred from growing at Court by a great Man who knew the slenderness of his Purse and also fear'd that if he grew he might prove Taller than himself d See his Lordship's Letter to Sir R. C. in Câ—ll of Letters in 1st part of Resusc. p. 87. and that in p. 110 111. The little Art used against him was the representing of him as a Speculator though it is plain no Man dealt better and with kinder ways in public Business than himself And it generally ripened under his Hands For the Papers written by others touching his Lordship and his Labours they are these The First is a Letter from the University of Oxford to his Lordship upon his sending to them his Book of Advancement of Learning in its second and much enlarged Edition It should seem by a Passage towards the end of this Letter that the Letter which his Lordship sent to them together with his Book was written like the first to the Vniversity of Cambridg in one of the spare leaves of it and contain'd some wholesome Admonitions in order to the pursuit of its Contents The Second is a Letter from Dr. Maynwaring to Dr. Rawley concering his Lordship's Confession of Faith This is that Dr. Maynwaring whose Sermon upon Eccles. 8. 2. c. gave such high Offence about One and Fifty Years ago For some Doctrines which he noteth in his Lordship's Confession the Reader ought to call to mind the times in which his Lordship wrote them and the distaste of that Court against the proceedings of Barnevelt whose State-faction blemish'd his Creed The rest are Letters of Dr. Rawley Mounsieur Deodate Isaac Gruter touching the Edition of his Lordship's Works An Account of his Lordship's Life and Writings by Sir William Dugdale together with some new Insertions Characters of his Lordship and his Philosophy by Dr. Heylin Dr. Sprat and Mr. Abraham Cowley All these Papers I have put under the Title of Baconiana in imitation of those who of late have publish'd some Remains of Learned Men and called them Thuana Scaligerana Perroniana These then are the particular Writings in which I have labour'd and in setting forth of which I have undertaken the lower Office of a Prefacer And I think it more desireable to write a mean Preface to a good Book than to be Author of a mean Book though graced with a Preface from some excellent Pen As it is more Honour with a plain White Staff to go before the King than being an unpolish'd Magistrate of a mean and antiquated Corporation to be usher'd forth with a Mace of Silver T. T. Novemb. 30. 1678. The Lord Bacon's REMAINS Civil and Moral The Charge ‖ Given May 24. 1616. by way of Evidence by Sir Francis Bacon his Majesties Attourney General before the Lord High Steward * The Lord Chancelor Egerton Lord Ellesmere and the Earl of Bridgwater and the Peers against Frances Countess of Somerset concerning the poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury IT may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England and you my Lords the Peers I am very glad to hear this unfortunate Lady doth take this Course to confess fully and freely and thereby to give Glory to God and to Justice It is as I may term it the Nobleness of an Offender to confess and therefore those meaner Persons upon whom Justice passed before confessed not she doth I know your Lordships cannot behold her without compassion Many things may move you her Youth her Person her Sex her noble Family yea her Provocations if I should enter into the Cause it self and Furies about her but chiefly her Penitency and Confession But Justice is the work of this Day the Mercy-Seat was in the inner part of the Temple the Throne is publick But since this Lady hath by her Confession prevented my Evidence and your Verdict and that this Day 's labour is eased there resteth in the Legal Proceeding but for me to pray that her Confession may be recorded and Judgment thereupon But because your Lordships the Peers are met and that this day and to morrow are the Days that crown all the former Justice and that in these great Cases it hath been ever the manner to respect Honour and Satisfaction as well as the ordinary Parts and Forms of Justice the Occasion it self admonisheth me to give your Lordships and the Hearers this Contentment as to make Declaration of the Proceedings of this excellent Work of the King's Justice from the beginning to the end It may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England this is now the second time within the space of thirteen years Reign of our Happy Sovereign that this high Tribunal Seat ordained for the Trial of Peers hath been opened and erected and that with a rare event supplied and exercised by one and the same Person which is a great Honour unto you my Lord Steward In all this mean time the King hath reigned in his white Robe not sprinkled with any one Drop of the Blood of any of his Nobles of this Kingdom Nay such have been the Depths of his Mercy as even those Noble-Mens Bloods against whom the Proceeding was at Winchester Cobham and Grey were attainted and corrupted but not spilt or taken away but that they remained rather Spectacles of Iustice in their continual Imprisonment than Monuments of Iustice in the Memory of their Suffering It is true that the Objects of his Justice then and now were very differing for then it was the Revenge of an Offence against his own Person and Crown and upon Persons that were Male-Contents and Contraries to the State and Government but now it is the Revenge of the Blood and Death of a particular Subject and the Cry of a Prisoner it is upon Persons that were highly in his Favour whereby his Majesty to his great Honour hath shewed to the World as if it were written in a Sun-beam that he is truly the Lieutenant of him with whom there is no respect of Persons that his Affections Royal are above his Affections private that his Favours and Nearness about him are not like Popish Sanctuaries to privilege Malefactors and that his being the best Master in the World doth not let him from being the best King in the World His People on the other side may say to themselves I will lie down in Peace for God the King and the Law protect me against great and small It may be a Discipline also to great Men especially such as are swoln in their Fortunes from small beginnings that the King is as well able to level Mountains as to fill Vallies if such be their desert But to come to the present Case The great Frame of Justice my Lords in this present Action hath a Vault and hath a Stage A Vault wherein these Works of Darkness were contrived and a Stage with Steps by which it was brought to Light
the means of some discreet Divines and the potent Charm of Justice together was cast out neither did this poisonous Adder stop his Ear to these Charms but relented and yeilded to his Trial. Then followed the other Proceedings of Justice against the other Offenders Turnor Helwisse Franklin But all these being but the Organs and Instruments of this Fact the Actors and not the Authors Justice could not have been crowned without this last Act against these great Persons else Weston's Censure or Prediction might have been verified when he said He hoped the small Flies should not be caught and the greater escape Wherein the King being in great straits between the defacing of his Houour and of his Creature hath according as he useth to do chosen the better part reserving always Mercy to himself The time also of Justice hath had its true Motions The time until this Ladies deliverance was due unto Honour Christianity and Humanity in respect of her great Belly The time since was due to another kind of Deliverance too which was that some Causes of Estate which were in the Womb might likewise be brought forth not for matter of Justice but for Reason of State Likewise this last Procrastination of Days had the like weighty Grounds and Causes But my Lords where I speak of a Stage I doubt I hold you upon the Stage too long But before I pray Judgment I pray your Lordships to hear the Kings Papers read that you may see how well the King was inspired and how nobly he carried it that Innocency might not have so much as Aspersion Frances Countess of Somerset hath been indicted and arraigned as accessary before the Fact for the Murder and Impoisonment of Sir Tho. Overbury and hath pleaded guilty and confesseth the Indictment I pray Judgment against the Prisoner The Charge of Sir Francis Bacon his Majesties Attourney General by way of Evidence before the Lord High Steward and the Peers against Robert Earle of Somerset concerning the poisoning of Overbury IT may please your Grace my Lord High Steward of England and you my Lords the Peers You have here before you Robert Earl of Somerset to be tried for his Life concerning the procuring and consenting to the Impoisonment of Sir Thomas Overbury then the King's Prisoner in the Tower of London as an Accessary before the Fact I know your Lordships cannot behold this Nobleman but you must remember his great favour with the King and the great Place that he hath had and born and must be sensible that he is yet of your Number and Body a Peer as you are so as you cannot cut him off from your Body but with grief and therefore that you will expect from us that give in the King's Evidence sound and sufficient matter of Proof to satisfy your Honours and Consciences And for the manner of the Evidence also the King our Master who among his other Vertues excelleth in that Vertue of the Imperial Throne which is Justice hath given us Commandment that we should not expatiate nor make Invectives but materially pursue the Evidence as it conduceth to the Point in question a matter that tho we are glad of so good a Warrant yet we should have done of our selves for far be it from us by any strains of Wit or Art to seek to play Prizes or to blazoâ— our Names in Blood or to carry the Day otherwise than upon just Grounds We shall carry the Lanthorn of Justice which is the Evidence before your Eyes upright and be able to save it from being put out with any Winds of Evasions or vain Defences that is our part not doubting at all but that this Evidence in it self will carry that force as it shall little need Vantages or Aggravations My Lords The Course which I shall hold in delivering that which I shall say for I love Order is this First I will speak somewhat of the nature and greatness of the Offence which is now to be tried and that the King however he might use this Gentleman heretofore as the Signet upon his Finger to use the Scripture Phrase yet in this Case could not but put him off and deliver him into the hands of Justice Secondly I will use some few words touching the Nature of the Proofs which in such a Case are competent Thirdly I will state the Proofs And lastly I will produce the Proofs either out of the Examinations and Matters in Writing or Witnesses viva voce For the Offence it self it is of Crimes next unto High-Treason the greatest it is the foulest of Fellonies And take this Offence with the Circumstances it hath three Degrees or Stages that it is Murder that it is Murder by Impoisonment that it is Murder committed upon the Kings Prisoner in the Tower I might say that it is Murder under the Colour of Friendship but that is a Circumstance moral I leave that to the Evidence it self For Murder my Lords the first Record of Justice which was in the World was a Judgment upon Murder in the person of Adam's first born Cain And though it were not punished by Death but with Banishment and mark of Ignominy in respect of the primogeniture or of the population of the World or other points of God's secret Will yet it was adjudged and was as I said the first Record of Justice So it appeareth likewise in Scripture that the murder of Abner by Ioab though it were by David respited in respect of great Services past or Reason of State yet it was not forgotten But of this I will say no more It was ever admitted and so ranked in God's own Tables that Murder is of offences between Man and Man next to Treason and Disobedience of Authority which some Divines have referred to the First Table because of the Lieutenancy of God in Princes and Fathers the greatest For Impoisonment I am sorry it should be heard of in this Kingdom It is not nostri generis nec sanguinis It is an Italian Crime fit for the Court of Rome where that Person that intoxicateth the Kings of the Earth with his Cup of Poison in Heretical Doctrine is many times really and materially intoxicated and impoisoned himself But it hath three Circumstances which make it grievous beyond other Murders Whereof the first is That it takes a Man in full Peace in God's and the King's Peace He thinks no harm but is comforting Nature with Refection and Food So that as the Scripture saith His Table is made a Snare The second is That it is easily committed and easily concealed and on the other side hardly prevented and hardly discovered For Murder by violence Princes have Guards and private Men have Houses Attendants and Arms Neither can such Murders be committed but cum sonitu and with some overt and apparent Act that may discover and trace the Offender But for Poison the said Cup it self of Princes will scarce serve in regard of many Poisons that neither discolour nor distast and so passeth
bridleth their Power and the other their Will 30. Things will have their first or second agitation If they be not tossed upon the Arguments of Counsel they will be tossed upon the Waves of Fortune 31. The true composition of a Counsellor is rather to be skill'd in his Masters Business than his Nature for then he is like to advise him and not to feed his humour 32. Private Opinion is more free but Opinion before others is more reverend 33. Fortune is like a Market where many times if you stay a little the price will fall 34. Fortune sometimes turneth the handle of the Bottle which is easie to be taken hold of and after the belly which is hard to grasp 35. Generally it is good to commit the beginning of all great Actions to Argus with an hundred Eyes and the ends of them to Briareus with an hundred hands first to watch and then to speed 36. There 's great difference betwixt a cunning Man and a wise Man There be that can pack the Cards who yet can't play well they are good in Canvasses and Factions and yet otherwise mean Men. 37. Extreme self-lovers will set a Man's House on fire tho it were but to roast their Eggs. 38. New Things like Strangers are more admir'd and less favour'd 39. It were good that Men in their Innovations would follow the Example of Time it self which indeed innovateth greatly but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived 40. They that reverence too much old Time are but a scorn to the New 41. The Spaniards and Spartans have been noted to be of small dispatch Mi venga la muerte de Spagna let my death come from Spain for then it will be sure to be long a coming 42. You had better take for Business a Man somewhat absurd than overformal 43. Those who want Friends to whom to open their Griefs are Cannibals of their own Hearts 44. Number it self importeth not much in Armies where the People are of weak courage For as Virgil says it never troubles a Wolf how many the Sheep be 45. Let States that aim at Greatness take heed how their Nobility and Gentry multiply too fast In Coppice Woods if you leave your Staddles too thick you shall never have clean Vnderwood but Shrubs and Bushes 46. A Civil War is like the heat of a Feaver but a Forreign War is like the heat of Exercise and serveth to keep the Body in health 47. Suspicions among thoughts are like Bats among Birds They ever fly by twilight 48. Base Natures if they find themselves once suspected will never be true 49. Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness Certainly he that hath a Satyrical Vein as he maketh others afraid of his Wit so he had need be afraid of others Memory 50. Discretion in Speech is more than Eloquence 51. Men seem neither well to understand their Riches nor their Strength of the former they believe greater things than they should and of the latter much less And from hence certain fatal Pillars have bounded the progress of Learning 52. Riches are the Baggage of Vertue they can't be spar'd nor left behind but they hinder the march 53. Great Riches have sold more Men than ever they have bought out 54. Riches have Wings and sometimes they fly away of themselves and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more 55. He that defers his Charity 'till he is dead is if a Man weighs it rightly rather liberal of another Man's than of his own 56. Ambition is like Choler if it can move it makes Men active if it be stop'd it becomes adust and makes Men melancholy 57. To take a Souldier without Ambition is to pull off his Spurs 58. Some ambitious Men seem as Skreens to Princes in matters of Danger and Envy For no Man will take such parts except he be like the Seeld Dove that mounts and mounts because he cannot see about him 59. Princes and States should chuse such Ministers as are more sensible of Duty than Rising and should discern a busy Nature from a willing Mind 60. A Man's Nature runs either to Herbs or Weeds Therefore let him seasonably water the one and destroy the other 61. If a Man look sharply and attentively he shall see Fortune for though she be blind she is not invisible 62. Vsury bringeth the Treasure of a Realm or State into few hands For the Usurer being at certainties and others at uncertainties at the end of the Game most of the Mony will be in the Box. 63. Beauty is best in a Body that hath rather dignity of Presence than beauty of Aspect The beautiful prove accomplish'd but not of great Spirit and study for the most part rather Behaviour than Vertue 64. The best part of Beauty is that which a Picture cannot express 65. He who builds a fair House upon an ill Seat commits himself to Prison 66. If you will work on any Man you must either know his Nature and Fashions and so lead him or his Ends and so perswade him or his weaknesses â—â—d disadvantages and so awe hiâ—â— or those that have interest in him and so govern him 67. Costly Followers among whom we may reckon those who are importunate in Suits are not to be liked lest while a Man maketh his Train longer he maketh his Wings shorter 68. Fame is like a River that beareth up things light and swollen and drowns things weighty and solid 69. Seneca saith well That Anger is like Rain which breaks it self upon that it falls 70. Excusations Cessions Modesty it self well govern'd are but Arts of Ostentation 71. High Treason is not written in Ice that when the Body relenteth the Impression should go away 72. The best Governments are always subject to be like the fairest Crystals wherein every Isicle or Grain is seen which in a fouler Stone is never perceiv'd 73. Hollow Church Papists are like the Roots of Nettles which themselves sting not but yet they bear all the stinging Leaves Baconiana Physiologica Or Certain REMAINS OF Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Alban IN ARGUMENTS Appertaining to Natural Philosophy LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose aâ—d Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE Lord Bacon's Physiological Remains Fragmentum Libri Verulamiani cui Titulus Abecedarium Naturae CVm tam multa producantur à Terrâ Aquis tam multa pertranseant Aerem ab eo excipiantur tam multa mutentur solvantur ab Igne minus perspicuae forent Inquisitiones caeterae nisi Naturâ Massarum istarum quae toties occurrunt bene cognitâ explicatâ His adjungimus Inquisitiones de Coelestibus Meteoricis cum ipsae sint Massae Majores ex Catholicis Mass. Maj. Inquisitio sexagesima septima Triplex Tau sive de Terrâ Mass. Maj. Inquisitio sexagesima octava Triplex Upsilon sive de Aquâ Mass. Maj. Inquisitio sexagesima nona Triplex Psy sive de
trahit Fumus ubi exit crassus est fortius trahit succinum cum ascenderit rarior fit debilius Corpus ab Electricis attractum non manifestò alteratur set tantùm incumbit The same in English by the Publisher IF there be made a Turn-Pin of any Metal after the fashion of a Magnetic Needle and Amber be applied to one end of it after having been gently rubbed the Pin will turn Amber heated by the Fire be it warmish hot or set on fire it does not draw A little Bar of Iron red hot Flame a lighted Candle a hot Coal put nigh Sheaâ—â—s or Straws or Turn-Pins or Compass-Needles do not draw Amber in a greater Mass if it be Polite draws though not rubbed In a lesser quantity and in a less polite Mass it draws not without rubbing Crystal Lapis Specularis Glass and other such Electric Bodies if burnt or scorch'd draw not Pitch the softer Rosin Benjoin Asphaltum Camphire Galbanum Ammoniac Storax Assa these draw not at all when the Air is hot But when it is cooler they draw weakly and so that we can just perceive them to do so Reaking Air blown upon Amber c. from the Mouth or from a moister Atmosphere choaketh the attractive Virtue If a Paper or a piece of Linnen be put between Amber and Chaff there is no Motion or Attraction made Amber or other Electrics warmed by the Sun-beams have not their attractive Virtue so awakened as by Rubbing Amber rubb'd and exposed to the Beams of the Sun retains its attractive force the longer and does not so soon lose it as it would do in the shadow Heat deriv'd from a Burning-Glass to Amber c. does not help its Attraction Sulphur and hard Wax set on fire do not draw Amber when immediately after rubbing it is applied to a Shiver or a Compass-Needle draws best of all The Electric Virtue is as vigorous for a time in its Retention as it was in its first Attraction Flame Amber being put within the sphere of its Activity is not drawn by it A drop of Water Amber being applied towards it is drawn into a Cone If Electric Bodies be rubbed too hard their attraction is thereby hindred Those Bodies which in a clear Skie do scarce draw in a thick Air move not at all Water put upon Amber choaketh its attractive force though it draweth the Water it self Fat * For by Sarca I suppose he meaneth Sarcia so encompassing Amber that it toucheth it takes away its attraction but being so put betwixt it and the Object to be drawn as not to touch it it doth not take it away Oyl put upon Amber hinders not its motion Neither doth Amber rubb'd with the Finger moistned with Oyl lose its attractive Virtue Amber Ieats and the like do more strongly excite and longer retain the Objects they draw although the rubbing be but little But Diamonds Crystal Glass ought to be rubb'd longer that they may appear hot ere they be used for attraction Flames nigh to Amber though the distance be very small are not drawn by it Amber c. draw the smoke of a Lamp newly extinguish'd Amber draws Smoke more strongly when it comes forth and is more gross and more weakly when it ascends and becomes thinner A Body drawn by Electric Bodies is not manifestly alter'd but only leans it self upon them Baconiana Medica OR REMAINS OF Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam and Viscount St. Albans Touching Medical Matters LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. THE Lord Bacon's Medical Remains A Medical Paper of the Lord Bacon's to which he gave the Title of Grains of Youth Grains of Youth TAke of Nitre 4 grains of Amber-Grease 3 grains of Orris-pouder 2 grains of white Poppy-Seed the fourth part of a grain of Saffron half a grain with Water of Orenge Flowers and a little Tragacanth make them into small grains four in number To be taken at four a Clock or going to Bed Preserving Oyntments Take of Deers-suet 1 ounce of Myrrh 6 grains of Saffron 5 grains of Bay-salt 12 grains of Canary-Wine of two Years old a Spoonful and a half Spread it on the inside of your Shirt and let it dry and then put it on A Purge familiar for opening the Liver Take Rubarb 2 drams Agaric Trochiscat 1 dram and a half steep them in Claret Wine burnt with Mace Take of Wormwood 1 dram steep it with the rest and make a mass of Pills with Syrup Acetos simplex But drink an opening Broth before it with Succory Fennel and Smallage Roots and a little of an Onion Wine for the Spirits Take Gold perfectly refined 3 ounces quench it six or seven times in good Claret Wine Add of Nitre 6 grains for two Draughts Add of Saffron prepared 3 grains of Amber-grease 4 grains pass it through an Hippocras Bag wherein there is a dram of Cinamon gross beaten or to avoid the dimming of the Colour of Ginger Take two Spoonfuls of this to a Draught of fresh Claret Wine The Preparing of Saffron Take 6 grains of Saffron sleept in half parts of Wine and Rose-water and a quarter part Vinegar then dry it in the Sun Wine against Adverse Melancholy preserving the Senses and the Reason Take the Roots of Bugloss well scraped and cleansed from their inner Pith and cut them into small slices steep them in Wine of Gold extinguished ut suprà and add of Nitre 3 grains and drink it ut suprà mixed with fresh Wine The Roots must not continue steeped above a quarter of an Hour and they must be changed thrice Breakfast-Preservative against the Gout and Rheumes To take once in the Month at least and for two Days together one grain of Castorei in my ordinary Broth. The Preparation of Garlick Take Garlick 4 ounces boyl it upon a soft Fire in Claret Wine for half an Hour Take it out and steep it in Vinegar whereto add 2 drams of Cloves then take it forth and keep it in a Glass for use The Artificial Preparation of Damask-Roses for Smell Take Roses pull their Leaves then dry them in a clear Day in the hot Sun then their smell will be as gone Then cram them into an Earthen Bottle very dry and sweet and stop it very close they will remain in Smell and Colour both fresher than those that are otherwise dried Note The first drying and close keeping upon it preventeth all Putrefaction and the second Spirit cometh forth made of the remaining Moisture not dissipated Sometimes to add to the Maceration 3 grains of Tartar and 2 of Enula to cut the more heavy and viscous Humours lest Rubarb work only upon the lightest To take sometimes the Oxymel before it and sometimes the Spanish Hony simple A Restorative Drink Take of Indian Maiz half a pound grind it not too small but to the fineness of ordinary Meal and then bolt and serce it that all the husky part may be taken away
prudentia summâ eloquentia tenaci memoriâ sacris consiliis alterum columen Of person very corpulent most quick Wit singular Prudence admirable Eloquence special Memory and another Pillar to the Privy-Council Of his Death this is said * This Account is inserted by the Publisher who took it out of a Paper of the Lord Bacon's to be the occasion He had his Barber rubbing and combing his Head And because it was very hot the Window was open to let in a fresh Wind. He fell asleep and awaked all distemper'd and in a great sweat Said he to the Barber Why did you let me sleep Why my Lord said he I durst not wake your Lordship Why then saith my Lord Keeper you have killed me with Kindness So he removed into his Bed-Chamber and within a few days died Whereupon being Interred on the South-side of the Quire in St. Paul's Cathedral within the City of London he had a noble Monument r Hist. of St. Paul's Cath. p. 71. there erected to his Memory with this Epitaph Hic Nicolaum ne Baconem conditum existima illum tam diu Britannici Regni secundum columen Exitium malis Bonis Asylum caeca quem non extulit ad hunc honorem sors sed Aequitas Fides Doctrina Pietas unica Prudentia Neu fortè raptum crede qui unica brevi vitâ perenni emerit duas agit vitam secundam caelites inter animas Fama implet orbem vita quae illi tertia est Hac positum in arâ est Corpus olim animi Domus Ara dicata sempiternae Memoriae That is * This Translation is done by the Publisher for the benefit of the English Reader Think not that this Shrine contains that Nicholas Bacon who was so long the second Pillar of Great Britain the Scourge of the Vicious and the Sanctuary of the Good Whom blind Fortune did not exalt to that height of Honour but his Equity Fidelity Learning Piety singular Prudence Neither believe him to be by chance snatch'd away who by one short Life purchased two in Life Eternal He lives his second Life among the Heavenly Spirits His Fame filleth the World which is his third Life In this Altar is reposed his Body sometime the House of his Soul an Altar dedicated to his perpetual Memory Thus much touching the Parentage of this Francis his Birth s Liâ—e of c. by Dr. Rawley being at York-House in the Strand upon the twenty second day of Ianuary Anno 1560. 2 Eliz. It is observed t Life of c. by Dr. Rawley that in his tender Years his Pregnancy was such as gave great indication of his future high Accomplishments in so much as Queen Elizabeth took notice of him and called him The young Lord-Keeper also that asking him how old he was though but a Boy he answered that he was two years younger than her Majesties most happy Reign As to his Education he was u Ibid. of Trinity College in Cambridg under the tuition of Doctor Iohn Whitgift then Master there but afterwards the renowned Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Where having with great proficiency spent some time he was sent x Ibid. into France with Sir Amias Paulet her Majestie 's Leiger Ambassador and thence intrusted with a Message y Ibid. to the Queen which he performed with much approbation and so returned After this coming from Travail and applying himself to the study of the Common Law he was seated z Ibid. in Grays-Inn Where in short time he became so highly esteemed for his Abilities as that in 30 Eliz. being then but 28 years of Age that honourable Society chose a Orig. Iurid p. 295. a. him for their Lent Reader And in 32 Eliz. was made b Pat. 32 Eliz. p. 11. one of the Clerks of the Council In 42 Eliz. being c Orig. Iu. 295. b. double Reader in that House and affecting much the Ornament thereof he caused d Ib. 272. b. that beautiful Grove of Elms to be planted in the Walks which yet remain And upon the 23 of Iuly 1 Iac. was Knighted e MS. in offic Arm. at White-Hall Shortly after which viz. in 2 Iac. he was made f Pat. 2 Jac. p. 12. one of the King's Council learned having therewith a grant g Pat. 2 Jac. p. 12. of forty Pounds per annum Fee and in 5 Iac. constituted h Pat. 11. Jac. p. 5. his Majestie 's Solicitor General In 9 Iac. he was made i Pat. 9. Jac. p. joynt Judge with Sir Thomas Vavasor then Knight Marshal of the Knight Marshal's Court then newly erected within the Verge of the King's House and in 11 Iac. 27 Octob. being made k Pat. 5 Jac. p. 14. Attorney General was sworn l Annal. R. Jac. per Cambd. of the Privy Council In 14 Iac. he was constituted m lb. in an 1617. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 7 Martii being then fifty four years of Age. ‖ An Insertion by the Publisher It is said in a * The Court of King James p. 115 116. Libel in which are many other notorious Slanders that the Duke of Buckingham to vex the very Soul of the Lord Chancellour Egerton in his last Agony did send Sir Francis Bacon to him for the Seals and likewise that the dying Chancellor did hate that Bacon should be his Successor and that his Spirit not brooking this usage he sent the Seals by his Servant to the King and shortly after yielded his Soul to his Maker In which few words there are two palpable Untruths For first The King himself sent for the Seal not the Duke of Buckingham And he sent for it not by Sir Francis Bacon a Aulicus â—cquinariae p. 171. but by Secretary Winwood with this Message that himself would be his Under-Keeper and not dispose of the Place of Chancellour while he lived Nor did any receive the Seal out of the King's sight till the Lord Egerton died which soon fell out Next The Lord Chancellour Egerton was willing that Master Attorney Bacon should be his Successor and ready to forward his Succession So far was he from conceiving hatred against him either upon that or any other Account The Lord Egerton was his Friend in the Queen's time and I find Mr. Bacon making his acknowledgements in a Letter to him in these words which I once transcribed from the unpublish'd Original For my placing your Lordship best knoweth that when I was most dejected with her Majestie 's strange dealing towards me it pleased you of your singular favour so far to comfort and encourage me as to hold me worthy to be excited to think of succeeding your Lordship in your second Place Signifying in your plainness that no Man should better content your self Which your exceeding favour you have not since carried from both in pleading the like signification into the hands of some of my best Friends and also in an honourable and
answerable Commendation of me to her Majesty Wherein I hope your Lordship if it please you call to mind did find me neither overweening in presuming too much upon it nor much deceived in my opinion of the Event for the continuing of it still in your self nor sleepy in doing some good Offices to the same purpose This favour of the Lord Egerton's which began so early continued to the last And thus much Sir Francis Bacon testified in a Letter to Sir George Villiers of which this is a part b Resuscit p. 65. of the Collect. of Letters My Lord Chancellor told me yesterday in plain terms that if the King would ask his opinion touching the Person that he would commend to succeed him upon Death or Disability he would name me for the fittest Man You may advise whether use may not be made of this Offer And the like appears by what Master Attorney wrote to King Iames during the sickness of my Lord Chancellor Amongst other things he wrote this to the King * Ibid. p. 50. It pleased my Lord Chancellor out of his ancient and great Love to me which many times in Sickness appeareth most to admit me to a great deal of Speech with him this Afternoon which during these three Days he hath scarcely done to any In the same * Court of K. James p. 119. Libel my Lord Bacon is reproach'd as a very necessitous Man and one for that Reason made Keeper by the Duke to serve such Turns as Men of better Fortunes would never condescend to And this also is a groundless and uncharitable Insinuation He had now enjoy'd a good while many profitable Places which preserv'd him from Indigence though his great Mind did not permit him to swell his Purse by them to any extraordinary Bigness And in the Queen's time when he was in meaner Circumstances he did not look upon himself as in that estate of Necessity which tempteth generous Minds to vile things Hear himself representing his Condition no Man knew it better or could better express it Thus he states his Case in the aforesaid unpublish'd Letter to the Lord Chancellor Egerton of the whole of which I sometime had the perusal though now much of it is lost and as I believe beyond all recovery My Estate said he I confess a truth to your Lordship is weak and Indebted and needeth Comfort For both my Father though I think I had greatest part in his Love of all his Children in his Wisdom served me in as a last Comer And my self in mine own Industry have rather referred and aspired to Vertue than to Gain whereof I am not yet wise enough to repent me But the while whereas Salomon speaketh That Want cometh first as a Wayfaring Man and after as an Armed Man I must acknowledg my self to be in primo gradu for it stealeth upon me But for the second that it should not be able to be resisted I hope in God I am not in that case For the preventing whereof as I do depend upon God's Providence all in all so in the same his Providence I see opened unto me three not unlikely expectations of Help The one my Practice the other some proceeding in the Queen's Service the third the Place I have in Reversion which as it standeth now unto me is but like another Man's Ground buttalling upon my House which may mend my Prospect but it doth not fill my Barn This Place he meaneth was the Registers Office in the Star-Chamber which fell to him in the time of King Iames and was worth about 1600 l. by the Year But to return from this Digression When Sir Francis Bacon was constituted Lord-Keeper the King admonisht him that he should Seal nothing rashly as also that he should Judg uprightly and not extend the Royal Prerogative too high After which viz. upon the seventh Day of May which was the first Day of Easter Term next ensuing he made his solemn proceeding c Ibid. to Westminster-Hall in this order First The Writing Clerks and inferiour Officers belonging to the Court of Chancery Next the Students of the Law Then the Gentlemen of his own Family After them the Sergeant at Arms and bearer of the Great Seal on foot Then himself on Horsback in a Gown of Purple Satin riding betwixt the Lord-Treasurer and Lord Privy-Seal Next divers Earls Barons and Privy-Councellors Then the Judges of the Courts at Westminster whose place in that proceeding was assigned after the Privy-Councellors And when he came into the Court the Lord-Treasurer and Lord Privy-Seal gave him his Oath the Clerk of the Crown reading it Upon the fourth of Ianuary 16 Iac. he was made Lord Chancellor d Claus. 16 Jac. in dorso p. 15. of England On the eleventh of Iuly next ensuing created e Pat. 16. Jac. p. 11. Lord Verulam and on the 27th of Ianuary 18 Iac. advanced f Pat. 18 Jac. p. 4. to the dignity of Vicount St. Alban his solemn Investiture g Annal. R. Jac. in an 1621. being then performed at Theobalds his Robe carried before him by the Lord Carew and his Coronet by the Lord Wentworth Whereupon he gave the King sevenfold thanks h Annal. R. Jac. in an 1621. first for making him his Solicitor secondly his Attorney thirdly one of his Privy Council fourthly Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal fifthly Lord-Chancellor sixthly Baron Verulam and lastly Vicount St. Alban But long he enjoyed not that great Office of Lord-Chancellor for in Lent 18 Iac. Corruption in the exercise thereof being objected i Orig. Iurid in Chr. p. 102. against him of which 't is believed his Servants were most guilty and he himself not much accessory the Great Seal was taken k This is inserted by the Publisher from him This Fall l Ibid. he foresaw yet he made no shew of that base and mean Spirit with which the Libel before remembred does unworthily charge him m Court of K. James 122 123. The late King of blessed Memory then Prince made a very differing observation upon him Returning from Hunting n Aul. Coqu p. 174. he espied a Coach attended with a goodly Troop of Horsemen who it seems were gathered together to wait upon the Chancellor to his House at Gorhambury at the time of his Declension The Prince smiling said Well! Do we what we can this Man scorns to go out like a Snuff And he commended his undaunted Spirit and excellent Parts not without some Regret that such a Man should be falling off It is true that after the Seal was taken from him he became a great example of Penitence and Submission But it was a Submission which both manifested his just sense of his Fault and the more Venial Nature of it as arising from Negligence rather than Avarice and Malice He shewed by it that there was not in his Heart that stiffness of Pride which openly denies or justifies those Crimes of which it self is
History of Life and Death The second Latine Collection was lately publish'd c Fran. ad Moenum 1665. in Fol. at Francfort on the Meyn It pretendeth in the Title to contain all his Lordship's Extant Works whether Philosophical Moral Political or Historical Although besides the Books in the foremention'd Collection it containeth only his Lordship's Life without any mention of Dr. Rawley who wrote it the Organon the Scripta the Sylva Sylvarum the Felicities of Queen Elizabeth the Images of Julius and Augustus Caesar and the Epistle to Fulgentius without the Opuscula to which that Epistle is annexed In this Collection the Nova Atlantis is as I noted a while ago most absurdly called Novus Atlas and the other Books are most falsly Printed And yet the Stationer who I suppose by his performance was both Corrector and Publisher does tell us of this Edition that it was purged of all Faults But his Collection cannot be so purged unless the whole Volume be made one entire Blot Posterity I hope will do his Lordship Honour and Benefit to themselves in a larger and more accurate Collection of his Works These Latine ones as also the Miscellanies and the two parts of the Resuscitatio which are the only attempt in English being far short of perfection Thus far I have travell'd in an Account such as it is of those Genuine Writings of the Lord Bacon which are already publish'd and which being like Medals of Gold both rich in their Matter and beautiful in their Form have met with a very great and well nigh equal number of Purchasers and Admirers This general Acceptance of his Works has expos'd him to that ill and unjust usage which is common to Eminent Writers For on such are fathered sometimes Spurious Treatises sometimes most Corrupt Copies of good Originals sometimes their Essays and first Thoughts upon good Subjects though laid aside by them Unprosecuted and Uncorrected and sometimes the very Toys of their Youth written by them in trivial or loose Arguments before they had arriv'd either at ripeness of Judgment or sobriety of Temper The veriest Straws like that of Father Garnet are shewn to the World as admiral Reliques if the least stroaks of the Image of a celebrated Author does but seem to be upon them The Press hath been injurious in this kind to the Memory of Bishop Andrews to whom it owed a deep and solemn Reverence It hath sent forth a Pamphlet upon an Idle Subject under the venerable Name of that great Man who like the Grass in hot Countries of which they are wont to say that it groweth Hay was born Grave and Sober And still further to aggravate the Injury it hath given to that Idle Subject the idler Title of the Ex-ale-tation of Ale In such an unbecoming manner it hath dealt long ago d About the Year 1658. with the very Learned and Ingenious Author of the Vulgar Errors It hath obtruded upon him whilst alive a dull and worthless Book stollen for the most part out of the Physic's of Magirus by a very Ignorant Person A Plagiary so ignorant and so unskilful in his Rider that not distinguishing betwixt Laevis and Levis in the said Magirus he hath told us of the Liver that one part of it is gibboâ—s and the other light And yet he had the confidence to call this Scribble The Cabinet of Nature unlocked An arrogant and fanciful Title of which his true Humility would no more have suffer'd him to have been the Father than his great Learning could have permitted him to have been the Author of the Book For I can assure the Reader upon my knowledg that as he is a Philosopher very inward with Nature so he is one who never boasts of his Acquaintance with her Neither hath the Lord Bacon gone without his share in this Injustice from the Press He hath been ill dealt with in the Letters printed in the Cabala and Scrinia under his Name For Dr. Rawley professed that though they were not wholly False yet they were very corrupt and embased Copies This I believe the rather having lately compar'd some Original Letters with the Copies in that Collection and found them imperfect And to make a particular Instance in comparing the Letter of Sir Walter Raleigh to Sir Robert Car of whom a Fame had gone that he had begg'd his Estate I found no fewer then forty Differences of which some were of moment Our Author hath been still worse dealt with in a Pamphlet in Octavo concerning the Trial of the Earl and Countess of Somerset And likewise in one in Quarto which beareth the Title of Bacon's Remains though there cannot be spied in it so much as the Ruines of his beautiful Genius His Lordship and other such memorable Writers having formerly been subject to such Abuses it is probable that many will at first suspect the faithfulness of this Collection and look upon that as adulterate Ware which is of such a sudden here brought forth to them out of the Dark But let them first make trial and then pass Sentence And if they have sufficient knowledg of the peculiar Air of this Author they will not only believe that these Remains are his but also set a value upon them as none of his most useless and wast Papers They say the Feather of a Phoenix is of price And here such will own they have some little of the Body as well as part of the Plumage It is difficult to imitate such great Authors in so lively and exact a form as without suspicion to pass for them They who are the most artificial Counterfeits in this way do not resemble them as the Son does the Father but at best as the dead Picture does the living Person And those who have true skill in the Works of the Lord Verulam like great Masters in Painting can tell by the Design the Strength the way of Colouring whether he was the Author of this or the other Piece though his Name be not to it For the Reader who has been less versed in his Books he may understand that nothing is here offered to him as the Labour of that Lord which was not written either by his own Hand or in Copies transcrib'd by the most faithful Pen of his Domestic Chaplain Dr. William Rawley A Person whom his Lordship chiefly us'd in his Life-time in Writing down Transcribing Digesting and Publishing his Composures and to whom at his death he expressed his Favour by bequeathing to him in Money One Hundred Pounds and in Books the great Bibles of the King of Spain I refer him who doubteth of my Veracity in this Matter to my worthy Friend Mr. Iohn Rawley the Executor of the said Reverend Doctor by whose care most of these Papers have been preserved for the public Good and who can bear me witness if occasion serveth that I have not herein impos'd upon the World It is true that Dr. Rawley in his Preface to the Opuscula of his Lordship hath
Remains The Lord Bacon's Questions about the Lawfulness of a War for the Propagating of Religion Questions wherein I desire Opinion joyned with Arguments and Authorities WHether a War be lawful against Infidels only for the Propagation of the Christian Faith without other cause of Hostility Whether a War be lawful to recover to the Church Countries which formerly have been Christian though now Alienate and Christians utterly extirped Whether a War be lawful to free and deliver Christians that yet remain in Servitude and subjection to Infidels Whether a War be lawful in Revenge or Vindication of Blasphemy and Reproaches against the Deity and our Saviour or for the ancient effusion of Christian Blood and Cruelties upon Christians Whether a War be lawful for the Restoring and purging of the Holy Land the Sepulchre and other principal places of Adoration and Devotion Whether in the Cases aforesaid it be not Obligatory to Christian Princes to make such a War and not permissive only Whether the making of a War against the Infidels be not first in order of Dignity and to be preferr'd before extirpations of Heresies reconcilements of Schisms reformation of Manners pursuits of just Temporal Quarrels and the like Actions for the Publick Good except there be either a more urgent Necessity or a more evident Facility in those Inferior Actions or except they may both go on together in some Degree Two Prayers compos'd by Sir Francis Bacon Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans The First Prayer called by his Lordship The Student's Prayer TO God the Father God the Word God the Spirit we pour forth most humble and hearty Supplications that He remembring the Calamities of Mankind and the Pilgrimage of this our Life in which we wear out Days few and evil would please to open to us new Refreshments out of the Fountains of his Goodness for the alleviating of our Miseries This also we humbly and earnestly beg that Humane things may not prejudice such as are Divine neither that from the unlocking of the Gates of Sense and the kindling of a greater Natural Light any thing of Incredulity or Intellectual Night may arise in our Minds towards Divine Mysteries But rather that by our Mind throughly cleansed and purged from Phancy and Vanities and yet subject and perfectly given up to the Divine Oracles there may be given unto Faith the things that are Faith's Amen The Second Prayer called by his Lordship The Writer's Prayer THou O Father who gavest the Visible Light as the First-born of thy Creatures and didst pour into Man the Intellectual Light as the top and consummation of thy Workmanship be pleased to protect and govern this Work which coming from thy Goodness returneth to thy Glory Thou after Thou hadst review'd the Works which thy Hands had made beheldest that every Thing was very Good and Thou didst rest with Complacencie in them But Man reflecting on the Works which he had made saw that all was Vanity and vexation of Spirit and could by no means acquiesee in them Wherefore if we labour in thy Works with the sweat of our Brows Thou wilt make us partakers of thy Vision and thy Sabbath We humbly beg that this Mind may be stedfastly in us and that Thou by our Hands and also by the Hands of others on whom Thou shalt bestow the same Spirit wilt please to conveigh a largeness of new Alms to thy Family of Mankind These things we commend to Thy everlasting Love by our Iesus thy Christ God with us Amen Baconiana Bibliographica OR CERTAIN REMAINS OF THE LORD BACON Concerning His Writings To these are added Letters and Discourses by others upon the same Argument In which also are contained some Remarks concerning his Life LONDON Printed for R. C. at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1679. Remains Bibliographical Written by the Lord Bacon HIMSELF The Lord Chancellor Bacon's Letter to the Queen of Bohemia * Inâ—he year 1625. in Answer to one from her Majesty and upon sending to her his Book about a War with Spain It may please your Majesty IHave received your Majesties Gracious Letter from Mr. Secretary Morton who is now a Saint in Heaven It was at a time when the great Desolation of the Plague was in the City and when my self was ill of a dangerous and tedious Sickness The first time that I found any degree of Health nothing came sooner to my Mind than to acknowledg your Majesties great Favour by my most humble Thanks And because I see your Majesty taketh delight in my Writings and to say truth they are the best Fruits I now yield I presume to send your Majesty a little Discourse of mine touching a War with Spain which I writ about two Years since which the King your Brother liked well It is written without Bitterness or Invective as Kings Affairs ought to be carried But if I be not deceived it hath Edge enough I have yet some Spirits left and remnant of Experience which I consecrate to the King's Service and your Majestie 's for whom I pour out my daily Prayers to God that he would give your Majesty a Fortune worthy your rare Vertues Which some good Spirit tells me will be in the end I do in all reverence kiss your Majestie 's Hands ever resting Your Majestie 's most humble and devoted Servant Francis St. Alban A Letter of the Lord Bacon's to the University of Cambridg upon his sending to their Public Library his Book of the Advancement of Learning Franciscus Baro de Verulamio Vicecomes Sancti Albani Almae Matri inclytae Academiae Cantabrigiensi Salutem DEbita Filii qualia possum persolvo Quod verò facio idem â—vos hortor ut Augmentis Scientiarum strenuè incumbatis in Animi modestiâ— libertatem ingenii retineatis neque Talentum à veteribus concreditum in sudario reponatis Affuerit proculdubiò Affulserit divini Luminis Gratia si humiliatâ submissâ Religioni Philosophiâ Clavibus sensûs ligitimè dextrè utamini amoto omni contradictionis studio quisque cum Alio ac si ipse secum disputet Valete The same in English by the Publisher Francis Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans to the Indulgent Mother the famous University of Cambridg Health I Here repay you according to my Ability the Debts of a Son I exhort you also to do the same thing with my self That is to bend your whole might towards the Advancement of the Sciences and to retain freedom of Thought together with humility of Mind and not to suffer the Talent which the Ancients have deposited with you to lie dead in a Napkin Doubtless the favour of the Divine Light will be present and shine amongst you if Philosophy being submitted to Religion you lawfully and dextrously use the Keys of Sense and if all study of Opposition being laid aside every one of you so dispute with another as if he were arguing with himself Fare ye well A Letter of the
Lord Bacon's to the University of Cambridg upon his sending to their public Library his Novum Organum Almae Matri Academiae Cantabrigiensi CVm vester filius sim Alumnus voluptati mihi erit Partum meum nuper editum vobis in gremium dare Aliter enim velut pro exposito eum haberem Nec vos moveat quòd via nova sit Necesse est enim talia per Aetatum seculorum circuitus evenire Antiquis tamen suus constat honos ingenij scilicet Nam Fides verbo Dei experientiae tantùm debetur Scientias autem ad Experientiam retrahere non conceditur At easdem ab Experientiâ de integro excitare operosum certè sed pervium Deus vobis studiis vestris faveat Filius vester Amantissimus Franc. Verulam Cancel The same in English by the Publisher SEeing I am your Son and your Disciple it will much please me to repose in your Bosom the Issue which I have lately brought forth into the World for otherwise I should look upon it as an exposed Child Let it not trouble you that the Way in which I go is new Such things will of necessity happen in the Revolutions of several Ages However the Honour of the Ancients is secured That I mean which is due to their Wit For Faith is only due to the Word of God and to Experience Now for bringing back the Sciences to Experience is not a thing to be done But to raise them a-new from Experience is indeed a very difficult and laborious but not a hopeless Undertaking God prosper you and your Studies Your most loving Son Francis Verulam Chancel A Letter of the Lord Bacon's written to Trinity College in Cambridg upon his sending to them his Book of the Advancement of Learning Franc. Baro de Verulamio Vice-comes Sancti Albani percelebri Collegio Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis in Cantabrigia Salutem REs omnes earúmque progressus initiis suis debentur Itaque cùm initia Scientiarum è fontibus vestris hauserim incrementa ipsarum vobis rependenda existimavi Spero itidem fore ut haec nostra apud vos tanquani in solio nativo felicius succrescant Quamobrem vos hortor ut salvâ animi modestiâ ergà Veteres reverent◠ipsi quoque scientiarum augmentis non desitis Verùm ut post volumina sacra verbi Dei Scripturarum secundo loco volumen illud magnu◠Operum Dei Creaturarum strenuè prae omnibus Libris qui pro Commentariis tantùm haberi debent evolvatis Valete The same in English by the Publisher Francis Baron of Verulam Viscount of St. Albans to the most Famous College of the holy and undivided Trinity in Cambridg Health THe progresses of Things together with themselves are to be ascribed to their Originals Wherefore seeing I have derived from your Fountains my first beginnings in the Sciences I thought it fit to repay to you the Increases of them I hope also it may so happen that these Things of ours may the more prosperously thrive among you being replanted in their native Soil Therefore I likewise exhort you that ye your selves so far as is consistent with all due Modesty and Reverence to the Ancients be not wanting to the Advancement of the Sciences But that next to the study of those sacred Volumns of God the holy Scriptures ye turn over that great Volume of the Works of God his Creatures with the utmost diligence and before all other Books which ought to be looked on only as Commentaries on those Texts Farewel The Lord Chancellour Bacon's Letter to Dr. Williams then Lord Bishop of Lincoln concerning his Speeches c. MY very good Lord I am much bound to your Lordship for your Honourable Promise to Dr. Rawley He chuseth rather to depend upon the same in general than to pitch upon any particular which modesty of Choice I commend I find that the Ancients as Cicero Domesthenes Plinius Secundus and others have preserved both their Orations and their Epistles In imatation of whom I have done the like to my own Which nevertheless I will not publish while I live But I have been bold to bequeath them to your Lordship and Mr. Chancellor of the Dutchy My Speeches perhaps you will think fit to publish The Letters many of them touch too much upon late Matters of State to be published yet I was willing they should not be lost I have also by my Will erected two Lectures in Perpetuity in either University one with an Endowment of 200 l per Annum apiece They to be for Natural Phylosophie and the Sciences thereupon depending which Foundations I have required my Executors to order by the advice and direction of your Lordship and my Lord Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield These be my thoughts now I rest Your Lordships most Affectionate to do you Service A Letter written in Latine by the Lord Verulam to Father Fulgentio the Venetian concerning his Writings and now Translated into English by by the Publisher Most Reverend Father I Must confess my self to be a Letter in your Debt but the Excuse which I have is too too just For I was kept from doing you right by a very sore Disease from which I am not yet perfectly delivered I am now desirous to communicate to your Fatherhood the Designs I have touching those Writings which I form in my Head and begin not with hope of bringing them to Perfection but out of desire to make Experiment and because I am a Servant to Posterity For these things require some Ages for the ripening of them I judg'd it most convenient to have them Translated in the Latine Tongue and to divide them into certain Tomes The first Tome consisteth of the Books of the Advancement of Learning which as you understand are already finish'd and publish'd and contain the Partition of Sciences which is the First part of my Instauration The Novum Organum should have immediately follow'd But I interpos'd my Moral and Political Writings because they were more in Readiness And for them they are these following The first is The History of Henry the 7th King of England Then follows that Book which you have call'd in your Tongue Saggi Morali But I give a graver name to that Book and it is to go under the Title of Sermones Fideles Faithful Sayings or Interiora Rerum The Inside of Things Those Essayes will be increased in their number and enlarged in the handling of them Also that Tome will contain the Book of the Wisdom of the Ancients And this Tome as I said doth as it were interlope and doth not stand in the Order of the Instauration After these shall follow the Organum Novum to which a second part is yet to be added which I have already compriz'd and measur'd in the Idea of it And thus the Second Part of my Instauration will be finished As for the Third Part of the Instauration that is to say the Natural History it is
plainly a Work for a King or a Pope or for some College or Order and cannot be by Personal Industry performed as it ought Those Portions of it which have already seen the Light to wit concerning Winds and touching Life and Death They are not pure History by reason of the Axioms and larger Observations which are interposed But they are a kind of mixed Writings composed of Natural History and a rude and imperfect Instrument or Help of the Understanding And this is the Fourth Part of the Instauration Wherefore that Fourth Part shall follow and shall contain many Examples of that Instrument more exact and much more fitted to Rules of Induction Fifthly There shall follow a Book to be entitled by us Prodromus Philosophiae Secundae The Fore-runner of Secondary Philosophy This shall contain our Inventions about new Axioms to be raised from the Experiments themselves that they which were before as Pillars lying uselesly along may be raised up And this we resolve on for the Fifth Part of our Instauration Lastly There is yet behind the Secondary Philosophy it self which is the Sixth Part of the Instauration Of the perfecting this I have cast away all hopes but in future Ages perhaps the Design may bud again Notwithstanding in our Prodromiâ— or Prefatory Works such I mean only which touch almost the Vniversals of Nature there will be laid no inconsiderable foundations of this Matter Our Meanness you see attempteth great Things placing our hopes only in this that they seem to proceed from the Providence and Immense Goodness of God And I am by two Arguments thus persuaded First I think thus from that zeal and constancy of my Mind which has not waxed old in this Design nor after so many Years grown cold and indifferent I remember that about Forty Years ago I compos'd a Iuvenile Work about these things which with great Confidence and a Pompous Title I called Temporis Partum Maximum * Or it may â—e Masculum as I find it â—ead eâ—sewhere or the most considerable Birth of Time Secondly I am thus persuaded because of its infinite Vsefulness for which reason it may be ascribed to Divine Encouragement I pray your Fatherhood to commend me to that most Excellent Man Signior Molines to whose most delightful and prudent Letters I will return answer shortly if God permit Farewel most Reverend Father Your Most assured Friend Francis St. Alban A Letter of the Lord Bacon's in French to the Marquess Fiat relating to his Essays Monsieur l' Ambassadeur mon Filâ—z VOyant que vostre Excellence faict et traite Mariages non seulement entre les Princes d' Angleterre et de France mais aussi entre les Langues puis que faictes traduire â—on Liure de l' Advancement des Sciences en Francois i' ai bien voulu vous envoyer mon Liure dernierement imprimé que i' avois pourveu pour vous mais i' estois en doubte de le vous envoyer pour ce qu' il estoit escrit en Anglois Mais a' cest ' Heure pour la raison susdicte ie le vous envoye C ' est un Recompilement de mes Essayes Morales et Civiles mais tellement enlargiés et enrichiés tant de Nombre que de Poix que c ' est de fait un Oeuvre nouveau Ie vous baise les Mains et reste Vostre tres Affectionée Ami 〈◊〉 tres humble Serviteur The same in English by the Publisher My Lord Embassador My Son SEeing that your Excellency makes and treats of Marriages not only betwixt the Princes of France and England but also betwixt their Languages for you have caus'd my Book of the Advancement of Learning to be Translated into French I was much inclin'd to make you a Present of the last Book which I published and which I had in readiness for you I was sometimes in doubt whether I ought to have sent it to you because it was written in the English Tongue But now for that very Reason I send it to you It is a Recompilement of my Essaies Moral and Civil but in such manner enlarged and enriched both in Number and Weight that it is in effect a new Work I kiss your Hands and remain Your most Affectionate and most humble Servant c. A Transcript by the Publisher out of the Lord Bacon's last Will relating especially to his Writings FIrst I bequeath my Soul and Body into the Hand of God by the blessed Oblation of my Saviour the one at the time of my Dissolution the other at the time of my Resurrection For my Burial I desire it may be at St. Michael's Church near St. Albans There was my Mother buried and it is the Parish Church of my Mansion-House of Gorhambury and it is the only Christian Church within the Walls of Old Verulam I would have the Charge of my Funeral not to exceed 300 l. at most For my Name and Memory I leave it to Foreign Nations and to mine own Country-Men after some Time be passed over But towards that durable part of Memory which consisteth in my Writings I require my Servant Henry Percy to deliver to my Brother Constable all my Manuscript-Compositions and the Fragments also of such as are not Finished to the end that if any of them be fit to be Published he may accordingly dispose of them And herein I desire him to take the advice of Mr. Selden and Mr. Herbert of the Inner Temple and to publish or suppress what shall be thought fit In particular I wish the Elegie which I writ in felicem Memoriam Elizabethae may be Published Papers written by others concerning the Writings of the Lord Bacon A Letter from the University of Oxford to the Lord Bacon upon his sending to them his Book De Augmentis Scientiarum Praenobilis quod in Nobilitate paenè miraculum est Scientissime Vicecomes NIhil concinnius tribuere Amplitudo vestra nihil gratius accipere potuit Academia quà m Scientias Scientias quas prius inopes exiguas incultas emiserat accepit tandem nitidas proceras Ingenii tui copiis quibus unicè augeri potuerant uberrimè dotatas Grande ducit munus illud sibi à peregrino si tamen peregrinus sit tam propè consanguineus auctius redire quod Filiolis suis instar Patrimonii impendit libentèr agnoscit hic nasci Musas alibi tamen quam domi suae crescere Creverunt quidem sub Calamo tuo qui tanquam strenuus literarum Alcides Columnas tuas Mundo immobiles propriâ Manu in Orbe Scientiarum plus ultrà statuisti Euge exercitatissimum Athletam qui in aliorum patrocinandis virtutibus occupatissimus alios in scriptis propriis teipsum superâsti Quippe in illo Honorum tuorum fastigio viros tantùm literatos promovisti nunc tandem ô dulce prodigium etiam literas Onerat Clientes beneficii hujus augustior Munificentia cujus in accipiendo Honor apud nos manet in
fruendo emolumentum transit usque in Posteros Quin ergo si Gratiarum talioni impares sumus juncto robore alterius saeculi Nepotes succurrant qui reliquum illud quod tibi non possunt saltem nomini tuo persolvent Felices illi nos tamen quà m longè feliciores quibus honorificè conscriptam tuâ manu Epistolam quibus oculatissima lectitandi praecepta Studiorum Concordiam in fronte voluminis demandâsti Quasi parum esset Musas de tuâ penu locupletare nisi ostenderes quo modo ipsae discerent Solenniori itaque Osculo acerrimum judicij tui Depositum excepit frequentissimus Purpuratorum Senatus exceperunt pariter minoris ordinis Gentes quod omnes in publico Librorum Thesaurario in Memoriâ singuli deposuerunt Dominations vestrae Studiosissima Academia Oxoniensis E Domo nostrâ Congregationis 20. Decem. 1623. The Superscription was thus To the Right Honourable Francis Baron of Verulam and Vicount of St Alban our very good Lord. The same Letter in English by the Publisher Most Noble and most learned Viscount YOur Honour could have given nothing more agreeable and the Vniversity could have received nothing more acceptable than the Sciences And those Sciences which She formerly sent forth Poor of low Stature Unpolished she hath received Elegant Tall and by the supplies of your Wit by which alone they could have been Advanced most rich in Dowry She esteemeth it an extraordinary favour to have a return with Usury made of that by a Stranger if so near a Relation may be call'd a Stranger which She bestows as a Patrimony upon her Children And She readily acknowledgeth that though the Muses are born in Oxford they grow elsewhere Grown they are and under your Pen who like some mighty Hercules in Learning have by your own Hand further advanced those Pillars in the Learned World which by the rest of that World were supposed immoveable We congratulate you you most accomplish'd Combatant who by your most diligent Patronage of the Vertues of others have overcome other Patrons and by your own Writings your self For by the eminent heighth of your Honour you advanced only Learned Men now at last O ravishing Prodigie you have also advanced Learning it self The ample Munificence of this Gift lays a Burthen upon your Clients in the receiving of which We have the Honour but in the enjoying of it the Emolument will descend to late Posterity If therefore we are not able of our selves to return sufficient and suitable Thanks our Nephews of the next Age ought to give their Assistance and pay the Remainder if not to your Self to the Honour of your Name Happy they but we how much more happy c. To whom you have pleas'd to do the honour of sending a Letter written by no other than by your own Hand To whom you have pleas'd to send the clearest Instructions for reading your Work and for concord in our Studies in the Front of your Book As if it were a small thing for your Lordship to inrich the Muses out of your own Stock unless you taught them also a Method of getting Wealth Wherefore this most accurate Pledg of your Understanding has been with the most solemn Reverence received in a very full Congregation both by the Doctors and Masters and that which the common Vote hath placed in our Public Library every single Person has gratefully deposited in his Memory Your Lordships most devoted Servant The Vniversity of Oxford From our Convocation-house Decemb 20. 1623. A Letter written by Dr. Roger Maynwaring to Dr. Rawley concerning the Lord Bacon's Confession of Faith SIR I Have at your Command surveigh'd this deep and devout Tract of your deceased Lord and send back a few Notes upon it In the first Page Line 7 a That is in Resuscit p. 117. l. 8. to for ever in P. 118. are these words I believe that God is so Holy Pure and Jealous that it is impossible for Him to be pleased in any Creature though the Work of his own Hands So that neither Angel Man nor World could stand or can stand one moment in his Eyes without beholding the same in the Face of a Mediator And therefore that before Him with whom all things are present the Lamb of God was slain before all Worlds Without which eternal Counsel of his it was impossible for Him to have descended to any work of Creation but he should have enjoyed the blessed and individual Society of Three Persons in Godhead only for ever This Point I have heard some Divines question Whether God without Christ did pour his Love upon the Creature And I had sometimes a Dispute with Dr. Sharp * The same I think who was committed to the Tower having taught Hoskins his Allusion to the Sicilian Vespers See Reliqu Wotton p. 434. of your University who held that the Emanation of the Father's Love to the Creature was Immediate His Reason amongst others was taken from that Text So God loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son Something of that Point I have written amongst my Papers which on the suddain I cannot light upon But I remember that I held the Point in the Negative and that St. Austin in his Comment on the Fifth Chapter to the Romans gather'd by Beda is strong that way In Page 2 line the 9th to the 13th b That is in Resusc p. 118. l. 9. to refer are these words God by the Reconcilement of the Mediator turning his Countenance towards his Creatures though not in equal Light and Degree made way unto the Dispensation of his most holy and secret Will whereby some of his Creatures might stand and keep their State others might possibly fall and be restored and others might fall and not be restored in their Estate but yet remain in Being though under Wrath and Corruption all with respect to the Mediator Which is the great Mystery and perfect Center of all God's Ways with his Creatures and unto which all his other Works and Wonders do but serve and refer Here absolute Reprobation seems to be defended in that the Will of God is made the Reason of the Not-restitution of some At least-wise his Lordship seems to say that 't was God's will that some should fall Unless that may be meant of Voluntas Permissiva his will of Permission In Page the 2d at the end c That is in Resusc p. 118. l. 24. c. where he saith Amongst the Generations of Men he Elected a small Flock if that were added of fallen Men it would not be amiss lest any should conceive that his Lordship had meant the Decree had passed on Massa incorrupta on Mankind considered before the Fall In Page the 4th lines the 13th and 14th d That is in Resusc p. 119. l. 36. c. are these words Man made a total defection from God presuming to imagine that the Commandments and Prohibitions of God were not the Rules of Good