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A70182	Two choice and useful treatises the one, Lux orientalis, or, An enquiry into the opinion of the Eastern sages concerning the praeexistence of souls, being a key to unlock the grand mysteries of providence in relation to mans sin and misery : the other, A discourse of truth / by the late Reverend Dr. Rust ... ; with annotations on them both.	Rust, George, d. 1670. Discourse of truth.; More, Henry, 1614-1687. Annotations upon the two foregoing treatises.; Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. Lux orientalis.	1682 (1682)	Wing G815; Wing G833; Wing M2638; ESTC R12277	226,950	535

W. Faithorne Sculp TWO CHOICE and VSEFVL TREATISES THE ONE LUX ORIENTALIS OR An Enquiry into the Opinion of the EASTERN SAGES Concerning the PRAEEXISTENCE of SOVLS Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of PROVIDENCE In Relation to Mans Sin and Misery THE OTHER A DISCOVRSE of TRVTH By the late Reverend Dr. RVST Lord Bishop of Dromore in Ireland WITH ANNOTATIONS on them both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato LONDON Printed for James Collins and Sam. Lowndes over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand 1682. TO THE HONOURABLE Sir JOHN FINCH SIR YOV may well be surprized at this unexpected Dedication from one that may seem an utter Stranger to your Person but the fame of your singular knowledge in the choicest parts of Philosophy and all other worthy accomplishments will make this presumption of me the Publisher of these two Treatises as pardonable by your self so I hope justifiable to all the World Not to say that it is a peice of indispensable justice that one of them be Dedicated to you the Author thereof being that Excellent Person the Reverend Dr. Rust late Bishop of Dromore in Ireland once fellow of Christs Colledge in Cambridge to which you lately have been so Noble a Benefactor Wherefore in hopes that you will be pleased to take the Dedication of this whole Book the two Treatises and the Annotations thereon in good part craving pardon for this boldness I humbly take leave and am Honoured Sir Your most obedient and humble Servant JAMES COLLINS The Publisher to the Reader THese two Choice and Useful Treatises I present thee with the name of the Author of the latter of them is set down in the Title Page the Reverend Dr. Rust late Lord Bishop of Dromore in the Kingdom of Ireland whose Vertues Parts and Abilities are copiously set out in a Letter of Mr. Jos Glanvill prefixt to the Discourse it self And i● thou hast the curiosity to know who is the Author of the former Treatise LVX ORIENTALIS who then thought fit to conceal his name as himself takes notice in his Epistle Dedicatory I can ass●re thee that it is the said Mr. Jos Glanvill a person reputed one of the most ingenious and florid Writers of his Age. But for my own part I must ingenuously confess that I am no competent J●dge and consequently can be no fit Encomiast of the Abi●ities or Performances of Either Only this I know that both these Treatises have sold very well and that there is none to be got of the Discourse of Truth though it is not many years since it was Printed And for LVX ORIENTALIS which was Printed about twenty years ago when the Book grew scarce it was so much valued by the more eager and curious searchers into the profoundest points of Philosophy that there was given for it by some four or five times the price for which it was at first Sold. The considerations whereof coming into my mind I thought I should both gratifie the learned World and benefit my self if I reprinted these two Treatises together Which I do the more willingly because the former Editions were too too false and corrupt especially of LVX ORIENTALIS Which faults of the Press or MSS. are carefully corrected in this And besides that this Edition is more correct than the former there are also Annotations added to each Treatise by one not unexercized in these kind of Speculations And in the Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth there is inserted a DIGRESSION that contains a brief Answer to Mr. Baxters Placid Collation with the learned Dr. Henry More And because men usually have a fondness even for the smaller Toyes or Trifles of well esteemed Writers after their decease I have prefixed a Latin Dedication of LVX ORIENTALIS which I opportunely had by me before the Epistle Dedicatory Which Latin Dedication the Author sent so prefixed in a Copy to the Party it is made and I have Printed it in the same order it was there found that it may be one Monument amongst many other of the Authors Wit and Ingenuity I have also that nothing may be wanting to thy Content got a friend to devise an Hieroglyphical Frontispice intended more especially for LVX ORIENTALIS But I do not profess my self able to unriddle the meaning thereof The best Interpreter will be the Book it self To the reading whereof I leave thee and rest Your humble Servant JAMES COLLINS LUX ORIENTALIS OR An Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the PRAEEXISTENCE OF SOULS Being a Key to unlock the Grand Mysteries of PROVIDENCE In relation to mans Sin and Misery Cardanus Quid jucundius quàm scire quid simus quid fuerimus quid erimus atque cum his etiam Divina illa atque suprema post obitum mundique Vicissitudines London Printed for J. Collins and S. Lowndes over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand 1682. Doctissimo viro Domino Doctori HENRICO MORO Maximo Purioris Philosophiae Magistro Sapientiae ORIENTALIS RESTAURATORI In exiguum Summi Affectûs Testimonium ET Aeternae Observantiae Pignus a suis Flammis mutuatam hanc Orientis Scintillam D. D. D. Humillimus Virtutum ejus Et candoris non minùs Quam Doctrinae Cultor Qui ei exoptat Lucem Sempiternam petit ut candidè accipiat LUCEM ORIENTALEM TO THE Much Honoured and Ingenious FRANCIS WILLOVGHBY ESQUIRE SIR 'T IS likely you will no less wonder at this unexpected sally of my pen than at my having prefixt your name to a small Trifle that owns no Author Of the former you will receive an account in the Preface And the latter if the considerations following are not of weight to attone for I know you have goodness enough to pardon what I have not reason sufficient to excuse or vindicate Well meaning intentions are Apology enough where candour and ingenuity are the Judges I was not induced then to this Address because I thought I could oblige you Worth describes it self in the fairest Character But reflecting upon that delight and satisfaction that I have received in discoursing with you on such matters and knowing that your Noble Genius is gratisied by such kind of speculations I thought I could not make more suitable payment for my content or better acknowledge the favour I receive in your acquaintance then by presenting you a Discourse about Prae-existence and giving you a peculiar interest in it as you have in its Author Not that I would suggest that you are a favourer of any strange opinions or hold any thing in this particular or any other that is sit to be discountenanc'd But I know you love to be dealing in high and generous Theories even where your self are a dissenter Nor is it the least evidence of the greatness and Heroick Nobleness of your Spirit that amidst the slowing aboundance of the World's Blessings with which you are encircled you can yet Dedicate your self to your beloved Contemplations and look upon the Furniture and accomplishments

scatter'd into the Air where they will at length when the fierce agitation of the fire is over gather in considerable proportious of tenuious vapours which at length descending in a crystalline liquor and mingling with the finest parts of the newly modified Earth will doubtless compose as genital a matter as any can be prepared in the bodies of Animals And the calm and wholesome Air which now is duly purged from its noxious reeks and vapours and abounds with their saline spirituous humidity will questionless be very propitious to those tender inchoations of life and by the help of the Sun 's favourable and gentle beams supply them with all necessary materials Nor need we puzzle our selves to phancy how those Terrae Filii those young sons of the Earth will be fortified against the injuries of weather or be able to provide for themselves in their first and tender infancy since doubtless if the supposition be admitted * those immediate births of unassisted nature will not be so tender and helpless as we into whose very constitutions delicacy and effeminateness is now twisted For those masculine productions which were always exposed to the open Air and not cloyster'd up as we will feel no more incommodity from it than the young fry of fishes do from the coldness of the water they are spawn'd in And even now much of our tenderness and delicacy is not natural but contracted For poor Children will indure that hardship that would quickly dispatch those that have had a more careful and officious nurture And without question we should do many things for self-preservation and provision which now we yield no signs of had not custom prevented the endeavours of nature and made it expect assistance For the Indian Infants will swim currently when assoon as they are born they are thrown into the water And nature put to her shifts will do many things more than we can suspect her able for the performance of which consider'd 't is not hard to apprehend but that those Infant Aborigines are of a very different temper and condition from the weak products of now decayed nature having questionless more pure and serviceable bodies senses and other faculties more active and vigorous and nature better exercised so that they may by a like sense to that which carries all creatures to their proper food pursue and take hold of that nutriment which the free and willing Earth now offer'd to their mouths till being advantaged by Age and growth they can move about to make their choice * But all this is but the frolick exercise of my pen chusing a Paradox And 't is time to give over the pursuit To make an end then we see that after the Conflagration the earth will be inhabited again and all things proceed much-what in like manner as before But whether the Catastrophe of this shall be like the former or no I think is not to be determined For as one world hath perish't by water and this present shall by fire 't is possible the next period may be by the Extinction of the Sun But I am come to the end of the line and shall not go beyond this present Stage of Providence or wander into an Abysse of uncertainties where there is neither Sun nor Star to guide my notions Now of all that hath been represented of this Hypothesis there is nothing that seems more extravagant and Romantick than those notions that come under the two last Generals And yet so it falls out that the main matters contained under them one would think to have a strange consonancy with some expressions in the Sacred Oracles For clear it is from the divine Volume that the wicked and the Devils themselves are reserved to a further and more severe Judgment than yet afflicteth them It is as plainly declared to be a vengeance of fire that abides them as a compleatment of their torments And that the Earth shall be burnt is as explicitely affirmed as any thing can be spoken Now if we put all these together they look like a probability that the conflagration of the Earth shall consummate the Hell of the wicked And * those other expressions of Death Destruction Perdition of the ungodly and the like seem to show a favourable regard to the State of silence and inactivity Nor is there less appearing countenance given to the Hypothesis of Restitution * in those passages which predict New Heavens and a New Earth and seem to intimate only a change of the present And yet I would have no body be so credulous as to be taken with little appearances nor do I mention these with an intent that they should with full consent be delivered to intend the asserting any such Doctrines But that there is shew enough both in Reason and Scripture for these Opinions to give an occasion for an Hypothesis and therefore that they are not meer arbitrary and idle imaginations Now whatever becomes of this particular draught of the Souls several conditions of life and action * the main Opinion of Prae-existence is not at all concerned This Scheme is only to shew that natural and imperfect Reason can frame an Intelligible Idea of it And therefore questionless the Divine Wisdom could form and order it either so or with infinitely more accuracy and exactness How it was with us therefore of Old I know not But yet that we may have been and acted before we descended hither I think is very probable And I see no reason but why Praeexistence may be admitted without altering any thing considerable of the ordinary Systeme of Theology But I shut up with that modest conclusion of the Great Des Cartes That although these matters seem hardly otherwise intelligible than as I have here explained them Yet nevertheless remembring I am not infallible I assert nothing * but submit all I have written to the Authority of the Church of England and to the matured judgments of graver and wiser men Earnestly desiring that nothing else may be entertained with credit by any persons but what is able to win it by the force of evident and victorious reason Des Cartes Princ. Philos lib. 4. ss CVII FINIS A DISCOURSE OF TRUTH BY THE Reverend Doctor RUST Late LORD BISHOP of DROMORE in IRELAND LONDON Printed for J. Collins and S. Louns over against Exeter Exchange in the Strand 1682. A LETTER Concerning the Subject and the Author SIR I Have now perused and returned the Manuscript you sent me it had contracted many and great Errours in the Transcription which I have corrected I was enabled to do it by a written Copy of the same Discourse which I have had divers years in my Hands The Subject is of great and weighty importance and the Acknowledgment of the Truths here asserted and made good will lay a Foundation for right conceptions in the Doctrines that concern the Decrees of God For the first Errour which is the ground of the rest is That things are good and