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A28370	The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published : a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoyned.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

THE REMAINES OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE FRANCIS Lord VERULAM Viscount of St. Albanes sometimes Lord Chancellour of England BEING Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published A Table whereof for the Readers more ease is adjoyned LONDON Printed by B. Alsop for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his Shop neer the Savoy in the Strand 1648. THE TABLE AN Essay of a King pag. 1. An Explanation what manner of persons they should be that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the Kings Prerogative pag. 3. Short Notes of civill conversation pag. 6. An Essay on Death pag. 7. His Opinion concerning the disposition of Suttons Charity delivered to King James pag. 13. A Letter of advice written to Sir Edward Cooke Lord chief justice of the Kings Bench pag. 20. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer in excuse of his speech in Parliament agrinst the treble subsedy pag. 28. A Letter to my Lord Treasurer recommending his first suite tonching the Sollitours place pag. 29. A Letter of Ceremony to Queene Elizabeth upon the sending of a new years guift pag. 31. Another to the Queen upon the like Ceremony pag. 31. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex to take upon him the Care of the Irish businesse when Mr. Secretary Cecill was in France pag. 32. A Letter of advice to the Earle of Essex upon the first Treaty with Tyron 1598 before my Lord was nominated for the charge of Ireland pag. 34. Another Letter of advice to my Lord immediatly before his going into Ireland pag. 37. A Letter to the said Earle of offer of his service when he was first enlarged to Essex-house pag. 41. Two Letters to be framed the one as from Mr. Anthony Bacon to the Earle of Essex the other as the Earles answer thereunto delivered with the advice of Mr. Anthony Bacon and the privity of the Earle to be shewed to the Queen upon some fit occasion as a mean to work her Majesty to receive the Earl again to favour and attendance pag. 42. My Lord of Essex his answer to Mr. Anthony Bacons Letter pag. 46. A Letter to Mr. Secretary Cecill after the defeating of the Spanish Forces in Ireland pag. 47. Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland pag. 48. A Letter of recommendation of his service to the Earl of Northampton a few days before Queen Elizabeths death pag. 54. A Letter of offer of his service to his Majesty upon his first coming in pag. 55. A Letter to Mr. Fauls in Sco land upon the entrance of his Majesties Raign pag. 56. A letter of commending his love to the Lord of Kinlosse upon his Majesties entrance pag. 58 A letter commending his love and occasions to Sir Thomas Challenor in Scotland upon his Majesties entrance pag. 59. A letter to Mr. Davies then gone to the King at his first entrance pag. 62. A letter to Mr. Fauls 28 March 1603. pag. 62. A letter to Dr. Morrison a Scottish Physitian upon his Majesties coming in pag. 63. A Letter to Mr. Robert Kenny upon the death of Queen Elizabeth pag. 61. A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation for the King c. pag. 62. A letter to my Lord 〈◊〉 Southampton upon the Kings coming in pag. 66. A letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King pag. 66 A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place pag. 67. A letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the advancement of learning pag. 68. A letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst upon the like Argument pag. 69 A letter of expostulation to the Attourney Generall Sir Edward Cook pag. 69. A letter to the Lord Chancellour of the like Argument pag. 72 A letter to the King concerning the Sollicitour place pag. 73 Aletter to the Earl of Salisbury of courtesie upon New yeers guift pag. 73 A Secaod letter to the Lord Chancellour pag. 73. Another letter to the Lord Chancellour touching the former argument pag. 74 An expostulatory Letter 〈◊〉 Vincent Skinner pag. 75. A Letter to Mr. Davis his Majesties attourney in Ireland pag. 76 A letter to Mr. Pierce Secretary to the Lord Deputy of Ireland pag. 77 A letter to Mr. Murrey pag. 78 A Letter to my Lady Packington pag. 78. A Letter to Mr. Matthews imprisoned for Religion pag. 79 Sir Tho. Bodleys Letter to Sir Francis Bacon about his Cogitata visa wherein he declareth his opinion freely touching the same pag. 80. The Characters of a believing Christian in Paradoxes and seeming contradictions pag. 88 A Confession of the Faith written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soveraign Lord King James pag. 95. A Prayer made and used by the Lord Bacon pag. 101. BACONS REMAINES 1. AKING is a mortall God on earth unto whom the Living GOD hath lent his own Name as a great honor but withall told film he should die like a man least he should be proud and flatter himself that GOD hath with his Name imparted unto him his Nature also 2. Of all kind of men GOD is the least beholding unto them for he doth most for them and they doe ordinarily least for him 3. A King that would not feel his Crown too heavie for him must weare it every day but if he think it too light he knoweth not of what metall it is made of 4. He must make Religion the Rule of Government and not to Ballance the Scale for he that casteth in Religion onely to make the Scales even his own weight is couteined in these Characters Tekel uprasin he is found too light his Kingdom shall be taken from him 5. And that King that holds not Religion the best reason of of State is void of all Piety and Justice the supporters of a King 6. He must be able to give Counsell himself but not to rely thereupon for though happy events justifie their Counsells yet it is better that the evill event of good advice be rather imputed to a Subject then a Soveraigne 7. Hee is the fountaine of Honor which should not run with a waste pipe lest the Courtiers sell the waters and then as Papists say of their holy wells to loose the vertue 8. Hee is the life of the Law not onely as he is Lex loquens himselfe but because he animateth the dead letter making it active towards all his subjects premio poena 9. A wise King must doe lesse in altering his Laws then he may for new government is even dangerous it being true in the body politick as in the corporall that omnis subditi imitatio est periculosa and though it be for the better yet it is not without a fearfull apprehension for he that changeth the fundamentall Lawes of a Kingdome thinketh there is no good title to a Crown but by conquest 10. A King that setteth to sale seates

times thinks himselfe to have no grace at all and yet how poor and afflicted soever he be besides he would not change conditions with the most prosperous man under Heaven that is a manifest Worldling XXVI He thinkes sometimes that the Ordinance of God doe him no good yet he would rather part with his life then be deprived of them XXVII He was born dead yet so that it had been Murther in any to have taken his life away After he began to live he was ever dying XXVIII And though hee hath an eternall life begun in him yet hee makes account he hath a death to passe through XXIX He counts self murther a hainour sinne yet is ever busied in crucifying the flesh and in putting to death his earthly Members not doubting but there will come a time of glory where he shall be esteemed precious in the sight of the great God of Heaven and Earth appearing with boldnesse at his Throne and asking any thing he needs being endued with humility by acknowledging his great crimes and offences and that he deserveth nothing but severe punishment XXX He believes his soul and body shall be as full of glory as them that have more and no more full then theirs that have lesse XXXI He lives invisible to those that see him and those that know him best do but guesse at him yet those many times judge more truly of hm then he doth of himself XXXII The world will sometimes account him a Saint when GOD accounted him a hypocrite and afterwards when the World branded him for an Hypocrite then God owned him for a Saint XXXIII His death makes not an end of him His soule which was put into his body is not to be perfected without his body yet his soul is more happy when it is separated from his body then when it was joyned unto it And his body though torn in pieces burnt in ashes ground to powder turned to rottennesse shall be no loser XXXIV His Advocate his Surety shall be his Judge his mortall part shall become immortall and what was sowne in cor●…ption shall be raised in incorruption and glory and a finite Creature shall possesse an infinite happinesse A Confession of the Faith Written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soverign Lord King James I Believe That nothing is without beginning but GOD nor Nature no Matter no Spirit but one only and the same GOD That GOD as he is Eternall Almighty only wise only God in his Nature so he is eternally Father Sonne and holy Spirit in Persons I believe That God is so holy pure realous that it is impossible for him to be pleased in any Creature though the work of his own hand 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 Lambe of God was slain before all Worlds without which Eternal Councel of his it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of Creation but should have enjoyed the blessed and individuall Society of three Persons in God head only for ever but that out of his eternall and infinite goodnesse and love purposing to become a Creator and to communicate with his Creatures he ordained in his Eternall Councell That one Person of the God head should in time be united to one Nature and to one particular of his Creatures That so in the person of the Mediator the true sadder might be fixed whereby God might descend to his Creatures and the Creatures might ascend to God So that by the reconciliation of the Mediatour turning his Countenance towards his Creatures though not in the same degree made way unto the disposition of his most holy and sacred will whereby some of his Creatures might stand and keep their State others might fall and be restored into their state but yet remaine in Being though under wrath and corruption all in the vertue of the Mediator which is the great Mystery and perfect Centry of all Gods ways with his Creatures unto which all his other works and wonders do but serve and refer That he chose according to his good pleasure Man to be that Creature to whose Nature the Eternal Son of God should be united and among the Generations of men elected a small flock to whom the participation of himself he purposed to expresse the riches of his glory All the ministration of Angels damnation of Divels and Reprobats and universall administration of all Creatures and dispensation of all times have no other end but as the wayes and Ambages of God to be furthet glorified of his Saints who are one with the Mediator who is one with God That by vertue of his Eternall Councel touching a Mediator he descendeth at his own good pleasure and according to times seasons to himself known to become a Creator and by his Eternall Word created all things and by his Eternall Spirit doth comfort and preserve them That he made all things in their first estate good and removed from himself the begining of all evill and vanity unto the liberty of the Creature but reserved in himself the begining of all restistitution and the liberty of his grace using neverthelesse and turning the falling and desention of the Creature which to his Presciens was eternally known to make way to his Eternall Councell touching a Mediator and the Work he purposed to accomplish in him That God created Spirits whereof some kept their standing and others fell He created Heaven and Earth and all their Armies and Generations and gave unto them constant and everlasting Laws which we call Nature which is nothing else but the Laws of Creation which Laws neverthelesse have had three changes or times and are to have a fourth and last 1. The first When the matter of Heaven and Earth was created without formes 2. The second The interim of every dayes work 3. The third By the Curse which notwithstanding was no new Creation but a Privation of part of the first Creature And the last end of the world the manner where of is not yet revealed So as the lawes of Nature which now remaine and govern Inviolably till the end of the world begin to be in force when God first rested from his works and ceased to create But received a revocation in part by the curse since which timey the changed not That notwithstanding God hath rested and ceased from creating since the first Sabboth yet neverthelesse he doth accomplish and fullfill his divine will in all things great and small singular and generall as fully and exactly by providence as he would by miracle new creation though his worke be not immediate direct but by compasse not violating Nature which is his owne law upon his Creatures That as at the first the Soule of Man was