Burial but afterwards he consented to it and desired his Neighbours might accompany him to his Grave He often desired me to be buryed in the vault by him I have something in memory of a dream that he told me of when he waked a little before his last sickness he dream'd that the day of Judgment was come and the Lord appearing in the clouds and calling the Elect he was left behind upon which being grievously afflicted he prayed earnestly and the Blessed Jesus look'd back and called him and he went with great joy and was received into Heaven with the rest of the Elect. He was full of fears as to his future condition while he was here But now I question not but he is received into the joy of the Lord. He was a sickly man for many years troubled with Convulsion Fits and shortness of breathing which made him fear sudden Death and pray dayly against it But his last sickness was the Yellow-jaundice with a very sore throat and a violent Feaver And though he was in very much pain he bore it with a great deal of patience speaking comfortably to all about him so that they said they never were with any one that made a better end He was much in Prayer I think I heard him say the Lords Prayer near twenty times in one day when he was so weak that he could hardly bring out his words He desired me not to be troubled and said God would provide for me and prayed God to send us a happy meeting He often told me his Prayer for me was That God would bless me with the Blessings of his right hand and of his left I cannot remember half the Heavenly Expressions he had when Mr. Benson the Minister of our Parish prayed by him He said to me Mr. Benson is a good Man he speaks so sweetly when he speaks of God He desired the Bell might be rung and asked many times after it if it did not ring He departed this life on the 10 th day of May 1678. being Friday the day after Ascension And I hope he hath received the benefit of the precious Passion and glorious Resurrection and Ascension of our dearest Lord and ever blessed Saviour Jesus He had formerly desired me not to be by him when he was dying lest seeing me should make him unwilling to leave this world and lest I should by any sudden passion disturb his soul departing But at last he very much called upon me not to leave him so I stayed with him to the last and though my trouble was not to be expressed yet I thank God I did not in the least disturb him He endured much pain in his sickness but at last I could not perceive he had any but his breath grew shorter and shorter and so he went away without the least gasp or groan His thoughts and discourse were much of death long before he would say our life was but as a dream or the shadow of a dream and as a vapour And when he saw any disturbed for fear of losses in this world he would say none are ever undone till they come to Hell He loved much to dispute about Religion but once being disputing against Predestination and fearing he had spoken something irreverent he was extremely afflicted I never saw any one express more sorrow and writ what I here set down and have under his own hand by me I did immediately strip my self of it and threw my self down before the Throne of Grace by which it had no propriety in me I did it whatever it was to vindicate God's mercy I have committed my cause to God who knows my thoughts and let him deal with me according to his infinite goodness and wisdom let Satan do what he can against me I know my Saviour is the Captain of my Salvation I have here endeavoured to give what account I can of my dear Husbands life but I know I come very short of what might have been observed by one of a better memory that had been with him so much as my self I hope the Christian Reader into whose hands these Papers shall come will pardon all imperfections in the Stile or Method and make the best use of what was so well design'd by the Author The fulfilling of whose Will in setting forth his Book and discharging my duty in clearing him to the world is the only cause I venture to appear in Print Sarah Freman I Received a Letter from a very Reverend Divine that gives this account of my dear Husband which I write in his own words That he was in many respects the most remarkable instance of humility the greatest example of godly sorrow and the most admirable Precedent of self-denial and sincere detestation of sin in himself and passionate care that it might not infect others which I have known And of this it pleased the all-wise guider of all things to make me a very heedful witness about 18 years ago when I preached at the Savoy for Dr. T. F. Not many daies after I was summon'd to wait on Sir George Freman a person then altogether unknown to me whom he entertained with a most doleful tenderness of affection and with manly because Christian showers of tears spoke after this manner Sir You are to me as I suppose I am to you a stranger I thank you for your Sermon at the Savoy where I was your Auditor I do not think you aimed at me but sure I am your discourse pierced my heart I could scarce think any one there besides concerned I dare say none more than my self I am that miserable man who have not remembred my Creator in the daies of my Youth my Text was Eccles. xii 1. and now what shall I do what shall I do give me your advice assist me with your Prayers Thus in one person perceiving many blessed marks of true penitents wounded with S t Peter's hearers who were pricked to the heart Acts 2. inquisitive with the Baptist's pious Auditors S t Luke 3. vowing amendment with David and commanding it in those under his care sending to me as good Josiah did to Huldah the Prophetess I did as soon as I had recover'd my self from that tumult of passions which a sight so unexpected did raise apply my self according to my poor ability with utmost compassion to aid the sorrowful patient of the Almighty who was pleased after diverse weeks conference prayers and meditations on several Texts of Scripture and such like means used by my self and others of far more experience to raise up his troubled spirit bowed down with the dreadful apprehensions of God's heavy displeasure and to stay him with some comfortable hopes that our heavenly Father would not cast him off for ever nor always shut up his loving kindness and tender mercy For which with what singular expressions of penitential sorrow he prepared himself I am not able to utter With what zealous indignation did he call to mind his sins With what
which was not long after but in the midst of my idle and sensual life I had intermissions of consideration not without some trouble my bashfulness which I always had in a measure more than ordinary did much incline me to drink finding that did embolden me for which reason I have wisht I had been brought up at some publick School rather than in my Fathers House supposing that strange company and being from under the tender wing of my dearest Mother I might have been rouzed up by being put more to my shifts and my bashfulness abated by being accustomed to the company of strangers And indeed I found manifestly that being so much confined to home through the carefull fear and love both of my Father and Mother bashfulness and melancholy did so gain upon and take root in me that it was always a great disturbance to my life I found likewise my memory both slow and not retentive occasioned by that fixtness which was upon me and that occasioned by the want of business to employ my memory and inform my judgment and excite my thoughts which contributed much to fix me more in melancholy and want of confidence which though not so considered of by my Father and Mother yet I found manifestly in my self it was a great occasion of mischief to me and did expose me to a loose life But Lord had I stirred up in my self that stock of Grace and those Divine Principles which were infused into me by thy self the fountain of holiness and purity and the instiller of holy motions thou wouldest undoubtedly have come into my soul with such controuling power as would have reduced my disordered mind to an obedience to thy heavenly will the absence of which hath bred in me so great matter of discomfort but if thy goodness shall spare me for so much future obedience as may place me in the favour of thy self I shall more esteem it than thousands of Gold and Silver A Prayer I Desire Eternal Jesus to call upon Thee from the depth of my sorrows upon Thee O Divinity incarnate whose mercies are bottomless and whose Merits can bury the most vast extuberances of repented sin from the eye of thy Fathers Justice and secure the relenting sinner from the stroke of his Omnipotent hand which nothing can intercept but thy self who art all and whose intire Obedience can answer all the objections of Divine fury and out-wrastle Justice when she makes her greatest assaults But O my presumptuous soul though it be true that the Mercies of God in Christ exceed all proportions and that there are continuall springs of compassion which are ever flowing from the breasts of his goodness yet how can that avail thee while thou art bathing thy self in sensuality and courting thy treacherous lusts who were the murtherers of the blessed Jesus whom if thou chase from thee which thou must needs do if thou welcome thy sins she goes along with the blessed Lamb and never leaves him where he is she is still to be sound and had not he come into the visible world she had never presented her self to mankind but they must have been ever separated from the Glories of Eternity What can the best extracted cordial do to a man who is naturally dead neither can these cordials of salvation advantage thee who art spiritually so Most blessed Lord make me a subject capable of thy mercy by faith and repentance for else the preparations of thy mercy will be my greatest misery to see redemption at a distance causeth a languishment of the soul here if she have any residues of Grace while mercy is not irrecoverable but to see her removed when she can never return yet so many times offered in the day of Grace is the most bitter ingredient of eternal misery Suffer me most glorious Jesus who am but dust and ashes to speak unto my Lord and let me ask at the mouth of wisdom how it comes to pass that my heart should pant after thee now and anon grow cold and disobedient can Christ and Belial be inmates together If I love thee and desire thee above all things to day why do I leave thee next since thou art more delectable the second day than the first and the third day than the second since thy essential sweets do not like those thou hast created glut the appetite but become the more gratefull the more frequently they are tasted Oh it is my original corruption which strives to demolish those reparations of Grace which are in my soul by thy death and to obscure those reinfused sparks But Lord let thy additional Grace joyned to that twinkling light which yet remains in me improve it to such a flame by thy frequent supplies that by its light I may discover my sins and by its heat they may be consumed who would betray me into that fire which should ever light me and ever burn me but never consume me Blessed Redeemer I have not onely my own inherent sinfulness and the spirit of spirits separated from thy self to encounter withall but there is another cause in nature which depresses my soul from rising up to her Lord the flesh which is ever warring against the spirit and besides the usuall evils of it there is more in me than the bodies of men do often bring with them thou know'st it Lord for thou made'st me and since thou did'st I am silent I know thou madest me to thy Glory what though I have more of earth in the composition of my body than others have by which the motion of my animal and vital spirits is obstructed though my apprehension and memory be not so quick and retentive if I obey my Redeemer and hearken to his charms the spirit of Jesus shall inspire and quicken my soul which if it be nimble and active in its correspondencies to the Rules of Christ I shall have a large amends for the splene and dulness of my body But when I have been troubled with the incumbency of this weight I have not looked up unto my blessed Jesus whom I might have seen through my thickest blood since that excellent spirit which I am by Creation doth not require the body to its sublime operations but instead of this most injured Saviour I have run to thy Creatures for help yet that I might have done for they had not been but to preserve my being and support my natural life but ah wretch that I am I have made an inordinate use of them and turned thy blessings into my own curses instead of putting my soul into a more serviceable estate for thy glory by correcting the disproportions of my temperament I have defaced her beauty with intemperance and exposed her to the assaults of Lusts and Devils But Oh most meek and mercifull Jesus though I made a resignation of my self thou didst not give me away by substracting the residues of thy Grace but my spirit even in her most deliberate aberrations from thy Rule was the
from this Country gone And here hast left me wandring all alone The clue is broke and weary I Bewilder'd in this Labyrinth lie And nought but monstrous Minotaurs of unheard Vices spie Thy sacred reliques now must be A second holy Guide to me And from thy Book I will such blessings crave As once thy living precepts gave Where we behold thy Soul it self and free From the restraint of vainer Company From th' heats of Wine and passion From complement and fashion And all that discords with its native Harmony 7. Thy Charity expires not with thy breath But here thou' rt benefactor after death Out of the ample treasure of thy mind Leaving a stock of holy truths behind Thou dost a large estate to pious souls bequeath O may success answer the great design May'st thou be others guide as well as mine And may 't increase thy joys to see Thy Converts flocking after Thee The fruits of all thy passionate cares Captives of thy discourse or blessings to thy Pray'rs A. B. A BRIEF APOLOGY FOR THE Lords Prayer I Have selected two Texts out of the New Testament one is in the 6 th Chap. of S t Matthew the beginning of the 9 th verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 After this manner therefore pray ye c. the other is in the eleventh of S t Luke at the second verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And he said unto them when you pray say Our Father Which two places of Scripture will administer a redundancy of argument to prove what I have undertaken namely That it is the duty of every Christian to use the Lords Prayer constantly both at his publick and private Devotions As to the integrality and exact composure of this Prayer every man will readily acknowledge it because it were sacrilegious impudence to say otherwise notwithstanding this you shall hear the most moderate of its opposers say that the assiduous use of it is not necessary and many since our late dissensions began have declared by their continued omission of it that it is not requisite at all not allowing it entertainment although the Lords Prayer within the walls of the Church stiled by our Saviour himself the House of Prayer nor into their own houses at their Family Duties and I have much reason to fear not into the most recluse corners when they have been at their private devotions Thus did they in effect teach Assemblies that prayer as effectual as that might be made out of new molds of their own and entertained them with nothing else but their own belches and eruptions On the contrary I do assert the necessity of its use both at all times of prayer and by all persons first from the primitive practice and the high esteem that all the Eminent Fathers of the Church had of it And next I shall endeavour to prove it by Logicall deductions from the letter of the Scripture in one text and by unavoidable consequence from the other shewing that the place cited out of S t Matthew must of necessity hold Analogie with that of S t Luke I will begin with that of S t Luke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the original is an adverb compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adverbium primarium and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 conjunctio potentialis sometimes it signifies postquam after that as S t John chap. 16. vers 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 postquam aut pepererit sometimes quamdiu as long as so S t John 9. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quamdiu in mundo fuero here it signifies quum or quando and being indefinite comprehendeth all the times of Prayer but if you should put it thus as a solution to a question namely as if I should ask a man when will you do such a kindness for me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the answer be made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isidor when you return here supposing I had told him before when I would return 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not indefinite but joyn'd with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is an answer to the precedent question and points at some hour or day in the which I said I would return but in the Text it must of necessity comprehend all the times of prayer and therefore this injunction When you pray say Our Father is and must of necessity be as much as if our Saviour had said whensoever you pray say Our Father which art in heaven c. Nor will it enter into my apprehension how this can possibly admit of any other explication But to this they will object if so that our Saviour enjoyns us whensoever we pray to say Our Father the consequence will be that we must say no other prayer for when we pray in another form we pray how is this command then fulfilled when you pray say Our Father if we take a liberty to vary from it I answer that by these words when you pray is not to be understood all the continued time of prayer but some part of that occasional or assiduous praying so that it is not spoken exclusively of all other prayers for S t Paul Ephes 1. 16. tells them he ceaseth not to pray for them and verse the 17 th tells them in what manner namely in words of his own as you may there read and in another place Acts 2. 42. it is said And they continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and breaking of bread and prayers in the plural so that it is much more probable that they did use occasional prayers and not make a continued repetition of the Lords Prayer besides we find that S t Chrysostome S t Augustine S t Bernard and all the Fathers took that liberty neither was it ever questioned but however if the Text did restrain us to it those that use it not at all would be the more strongly refuted From the premises then it will appear that this individual prayer these very words for they are the immediate subject of that command must be used by every Christian whensoever he applyeth himself to God in prayer But to this they will object That the Text in S t Matthew gives a dispensation from using these very words because it saith pray after this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thus To this I answer If our Saviour commandeth us in this Text to pray after this Prayer then he doth implicitely though not expresly enjoyn these very words but if it be supposed to be spoken exclusively of the Lords Prayer that is as if our Saviour had said You need not say my Prayer or you need not use it alwayes but set it as a pattern and rest alwayes or for the most part upon your own methods which you make in imitation of mine what would the consequence be but a horrid one namely that our Saviour did set a greater estimate upon those subsequent prayers which we were afterwards to make in imitation of his than he did upon his own which will inevitably follow if we
reflect upon the ends of prayer The chief subordinate ends of prayer for there are many others inferiour to them are these to prevail with God for the communicating of Grace to the soul that so by faith and repentance we may be interested in Christ and then by the application of his merits to our souls we are put into an estate of salvation which is the last of those intermediate or subordinate ends of prayer for if we continue in that the next remove we shall arrive at eternal salvation which is the ultimate end of prayer and of all the Ordinances of God Thus then I argue If these be the ends of prayer then the best composed prayer must needs be the most efficacious for the procurement of these ends but if our Saviour commands us to make prayers after his and gives a dispensation to omit his own though but sometimes the forementioned consequence will follow that he prefers our prayers before his own for he doth most certainly desire the salvation of our souls and doing so hath as certainly appointed the most conducible means thereunto but if he dispenseth with the continued use of his own prayer and enjoyns us to make others after it and those to be our daily prayers it will inevitably follow that he looks upon ours as more efficacious than his own which is a most blasphemous consequence But again suppose this Text after this manner pray ye did not so necessarily enjoyn the use of the Lords Prayer yet the other doth for it saith when you pray say Our Father c. This admits of no evasion as I suppose my self to have already proved since these very words are the immediate subject of the command whereupon I offer this argument If one place of Scripture do ipsis terminis and expresly command any one Duty and any other place of Scripture seem to dispense with it the ambiguous Text must be accommodated to that which is conspicuous and clearly intelligible for otherwise we shall make the word of God repugnant to it self then if my judgement fail me not it is evident that the Text in S t Luke admits of no cavil and the other carries but a seeming occasion of one but this seemingness if there be such must vail to the other which is so nervous and evincing as for that ridiculous caution that they omit the use of it in publick lest men should idolize a form they may as well say that the Scriptures may be taken away from them because they may idolize the mechanick part of it namely the paper and the binding or the letters and not look at the system of Truth which is comprized in it But besides this the Lords Prayer can no more be accounted indifferent as to its peculiar use which is to be offer'd up to God in praying than any other places of Scripture as to their proper and peculiar uses because the Lords Prayer is a part of Scripture Now the Historical part of Scripture is to be believed the Doctrinal part is to be believed and practised and urged in polemical discourses the supplicatory part is to be pray'd and therefore my Opinion is That when men do vary from this prayer which undoubtedly is lawfull prvided they do not exclude it their prayers should be composed as near as they can of sentences collected out of Scripture To dispense with the use of this Prayer is in the general repugnant to Theologie which enjoyns the greatest reverence and esteem that possibly can be for matters of Divine Institution and especially a command which issued immediately and with so much clearness out of the blessed mouth of Christ himself doth certainly call for our ready and constant obedience and it is contrary to all Christian practice it having ever been magnified in the Church of God and inconsistent w th the Principles of Reason if we take but a moral view of it for in all actions the medium or instrumental cause must be fitly proportion'd for the attainment of what we design and by all requirable circumstances accommodated to that end or else we have no certain grounds to expect the procurement of what we would have but here it is otherwise if we sue for blessings in our own deficient language and indigested petitions voluntarily omitting this most accurate form which was composed by him who is the wisdom of the Father by which he made the world the first of S t John and the tenth verse Whosoever therefore doth it despiseth the very wisdom of God he is guilty lesae Divinae Majestatis of high treason against the King of heaven and therefore it is not strange that during the late eclipse of our Church rebellion did rouze up her self more and more till at last with a bare and impudent face she laught at the tenderness of Allegiance for there is great reason to think that the deliberate omission of the Lords Prayer was the sudden admission of rebellion for he that dares despise the wisdom of God and by that means commit the highest treason and speak the greatest blasphemy against God will easily slide into a conspiracy of treason against his Temporal Prince and although I am induced to believe that there was a fomes of rebellion and spleen lodged and lurking in the hearts of many these late wars which gave the first spring to our dissensions yet that by the neglect of this prayer joyntly with the discontinuance of communicating in the Lords Supper and the removal of Orthodox Divines and many other causes I have great reason to believe they were very much promoted As there is a reason in Divinity why the neglect of this Prayer was a great inlet to rebellion so is there likewise in Moral Philosophy for he that slights this most accurate form will most certainly not stick to oppose all other forms in the Church by an argument à majore ad minus and he that opposeth Set Forms and Ecclesiastical Constitutions hath a principle of licentiousness and independency in him which will be still administring arguments to him dato uno absurdissimo by a series of moral or rather immoral consequences against all coercive power first in the Church and then in the State which truth hath been though very deplorably yet evincingly laid down before us in the late rebellion concerning which truth our dread Soveraign Charles the second having been without doubt along time satisfied is well prepared with instructions for his own security though I believe his Piety more than his Regal Interest will cement him to the Church of England which is the repository of primitive discipline and order Whether these arguments may be prevalent with many others I know not but they are so much with me that I was exceedingly scandalized at the publick omission of it and am well assured that a very great body of Christians in England were so with my self and that it was not scandalum acceptum on our side but scandalum datum on
object of thy infinite mercy and as thy Apostle S t Peter in his diffidence was supported by thy graciously extended Arm from being drowned in the sea of waters so was my soul secured by thy stupendous compassion from being overwhelmed by the consequences of my sin Most dear Jesus inflame my soul I beseech thee so with thy love that being set on fire with thee it may like unto these elementary flames which thou hast made be still tending upwards in heavenly aspirations till its desire shall arrive to a most happy fruition Sweet Jesus my Redeemer pardon thy Creature who dare thus to expostulate with thee the enquiries into Men and Books return upon us with a retinue of errours unless we come to Thee who art the Oracle of Divine Truth It is most true Lord that we must use those means to attain Knowledge which thou hast laid before us and not dream for infusions of truth to drop from thy treasures of wisdom into the gaping idleness of our life such Enthusiastick Spirits must know their ignorance of the value of truth that it should be so poorly attainable before they can be in a capacity of further information A Prayer O Eternal and most merciful Lord God whose eyes are alwayes upon the Children of men look down I humbly beseech thee upon me who in great distress of mind and anguish of spirit do here prostrate my self both soul and body before thy Divine Majesty beseeching thee who art the God of all consolation to assist and comfort me thy poor Servant though exceeding sinfull with refreshments from thy self and let thy heavenly support be alwayes ready to hold me up that I may not sink under the burthen of sad and melancholy apprehensions which so incessantly oppress my soul Lord let thy holy spirit from above so raise my dejected spirit from the depth of sorrow and frightfull imaginations which do continually assault me Dear Father I confess that my life hath been a continual reiteration of sin and daily repetition of all wickedness and impiety that time which should have been measured out in praising and magnifying thy holy Name hath been spent in the service of Satan that grand enemy of thy Truth and our Salvation I have made a profession of godliness in outward appearance but have denied the power thereof as if I had favoured Religion for no other end but to preserve my Name from scandal and reproach and so O Lord have preferred my own temporary credit before the honour of thy holy Name and my own eternal safety all the sins that in thy decalogue for a Christians life thou hast forbidden to be done do I stand guilty of O Lord and all the duties thou hast commanded thy people to perform O Lord I have neglected and therefore all the judgments thou hast denounced against sinners O Lord I have most justly deserved so that most righteous God when I look upon thy Justice recorded in thy sacred Word and then behold my own sinfulness which I cannot see but in the same glass I find such a disproportion that nothing is then left to me but the expectation of thy everlasting displeasure But dear Father if thou whose most pure eyes cannot behold the least sin with approbation should'st strictly enquire into the Lives of men even the best men and be extream to mark what they have done amiss none were sufficient to stand before thee and endure thy touch for there is none that doth good no not one But thou Lord hast another look wherein Mercy reigns in abundant measure and casts so sweet regards towards the souls of repenting sinners as can in one moment raise them from death to life for which we bless thee for which we praise thee O sweet Jesus the author and finisher of our salvation who hast satisfied thy Fathers wrath and hast given us access by Grace through thy infinite merits and here O Lord I am emboldened to renew my petition first for the pardon of all my sins past in his blood and then dear Father for all spiritual blessings and temporal which thou seest conducible for me but especially O Lord in this Prayer I beg for a chearfull heart without which I cannot serve thee as I ought being indisposed to those holy Duties which thou requirest from me by the incumbency of sadness and a disturbed phantasie strange fears and deep imaginations do take hold upon me but remove them I beseech thee and establish in me the fear of thy Name and no other fear sorrow or sadness for having sinned against thee that I may be alwayes merry in Jesus Christ and may run with chearfulness the race which thou hast set before me Lord hear me for the sake of thy beloved Son and my sweet Saviour let my prayers and daily cryings come before thee but let my sins be never heard O Lord I will ever be lifting up my voice unto thee Lord send me comfort from thy Holy Place that while I live in this world I may be a comfort and a delight unto my self and not a burthen but above all things a persevering Christian through Jesus Christ. Amen FINIS PHYSIOLOGIA OR The Nature of EXTERNALS briefly discuss't SHEWING That no true Pleasure can be deriv'd from SENSIBLE OBJECTS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. contra Chrysip LONDON Printed by J. M. for Henry Bonwicke at the Red Lyon in S. Paul's Church-yard MDCLXXXI TO THE Highly Honourable GEORGE DUKE of BUCKINGHAM His GRACE My Lord I Am encouraged from Your Graces former Respects to me and the honour of being related to Your Person to dedicate to Your Grace this Enchiridion The matter of the discourse in it out of my Duty to Virtue I dare not but call good though not the management of it since by the Rule of Morals Good doth Constare ex Integris and will not admit of the least Evil or smallest Errour into its composition The simplicity of my intentions will only endure this touchstone which I may safely say are to promote Truth and no wayes to obtrude Falsities I humbly offer to Your Graces Patronage only that part of it which hath escap't misprisions as for the other it will be enough that it be defended from the rude attacques of the world under the Authority of Your Graces Protection though not of Your Approbation Your Graces most humble and firmly devoted servant George Freman PHYSIOLOGIA Or the Nature of EXTERNALS briefly discuss't BElzebub the Lord of Flies as his Name signifies in the Hebrew is with his swarms of revolted spirits continually buzzing about the Souls of Men and suggesting to our minds falsities for truths perswading us that not Internal but External things are the matter of true Pleasure that so causing us to erect our hopes upon a rotten foundation at the time of our death when that shall fail the structure may fall to the ground nay much lower even into the Abyss of despair The sad issues of this suggestion are much