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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42813	Essays on several important subjects in philosophy and religion by Joseph Glanvill ...	Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.	1676 (1676)	Wing G809; ESTC R22979	236,661	346

ESSAYS ON SEVERAL Important Subjects IN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION By JOSEPH GLANVILL Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty and Fellow of the R. S. Imprimatur Martii 27.1675 Thomas Tomkins LONDON Printed by J. D. for John Baker at the Three Pidgeons and Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1676. ESSAYS VIZ. I. Against CONFIDENCE in PHILOSOPHY II. Of SCEPTICISM and CERTAINTY III. MODERN IMPROVEMENTS of Knowledg IV. The USEFULNESS of PHILOSOPHY to THEOLOGY V. The Agreement of REASON and RELIGION VI. Against SADDUCISM in the matter of WITCHCRAFT VII ANTIFANATICK Theologie and FREE Philosophy To the most Honourable HENRY Lord Marquess and Earl of Worcester Earl of Glamorgan Lord HERBERT Of Chepstow Ragland and Goure Lord President of Wales Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Glocester Hereford Monmouth and Bristol Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter And one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. MY LORD ALthough perhaps in strictness of judging there is somewhat of Impertinency in such Addresses yet Custome hath obtain'd licence for us Writers thus to express our acknowledgments of favours and to give publick testimonies to the Deserts of excellent Persons Your Lordship affords me plenty of subject for both these and I humbly crave your leave to use the Liberty that is granted without ●…ensure ●…n such occasions to declare part of my resentments of them There is nothing more substantial or valuable in Greatness than the power it gives to oblige for by doing benefits we in some measure are like to Him who is the Lover of Men and causeth his Sun to shine upon the good and upon the evil Nor doth God Himself glory in the absoluteness of his Power and uncontroulableness of his Soveraign Will as he doth in the displays of his Goodness This my Lord is the right and honourable use of that Greatness he is pleased to vouchsafe unto Men and this is that which makes it amiable and truly illustrious Your Lordship knows this and are as much by Nature as by Judgment formed to live according to such measures And I think there was never Person of your Lordship's rank whose genera●… fashion and converfation was more suited to the sweetest and most obliging Rules of living For besides that your natural Genius hath nothing ●…aughty or rough in it nothing but what is modest gentle and agreeable your Lordships whole deportment is so affable and condescending that the benignity of your temper seems to strive for superiority over the greatness of your quality which yet it no way lessens but illustrates This is that which highly deserves and commands the love and venerations of all that have the honour and happiness to know you And you may justly challenge their devotion and highest esteem upon all other accounts that can give a great Person any title to them For your immediate descent is from a long masculine line of great Nobles and you are a Remainder of the illustrious Blood of the PLANTAGENETS What your Family hath deserv'd from the Crown the vast supplies afforded his late Majesty by that Loyal M●…quess your Grand-Father and the sufferings of your House for Him do sufficiently declare to the World But your Lordship hath no need that Arguments of Honour and respect should be fet●…ht from your Progenitors the highest are due to your personal Vertues and that way o●… living whereby you give exa●…ple to Men of quality and shew how Honour and Interest is to be upheld For you spend not your time and Estate in the ●…anities and Vices of the Town but live to your Country and in it after a sp●…d and most honourable Fashion observing ●…he Mag●…ence and Char●…ty of the ancient Nobility with all the Decency and Impr●…ements of 〈◊〉 Times And perhaps your L●… ●…ay is one of the best P●…ns the A●… yie●… of a Regular greatness 〈◊〉 which gr●… is without vanity and Nobleness without Luxury or Intemperance Where we see a vast Family without noise or confusion and the greatest ●…lenty and freedom without provocations to any Debauchery or Disorder So that your Lordship's cares and thoughts are not taken up with the little designs that usually entertain idle or vainly imployed Men but in the Service of your King and Country and conduct of your Affairs with prudence and generosity in which you not only serve the present Age but provide for the future And my Lord among the acknowledgments that are due to your Vertues I cannot but observe the care you t●…e for the constant daily Worship of God in your Family according to the Protestant Religion profest by the Church of England and the example your Lordship gives by your own attendance on it This is the f●…rest Foundation of greatness yea 't is the Crown and lustre of it And when all other magnificence is in the dust and is shrivel'd into nothing or at the best into a cold and faint remembrance the effects of this will stay by us and be our happiness for ever And all other splendors in comparison are but like the shining of ●…ten wood to the Glorys of the Sun and Stars This also is the best fence and security to our present comforts and injoyments both in respect of that temperance and so●…ety it produccth and chiefly on the account of the blessing of the Supream Donor who hath made it the promises of this Life as well as of that which is to come And therefore the wickedness of those that take Liberty from their Riches and worldly greatness to defie God and despise Religion is as foolish and improvident as 't is monstrous and unreasonable and those brutish Men do not render themselves more hateful for their impiety than they are despicable for their folly But I need not say this to your Lordship who are sensible of the absurdities and malignity of this vice and give not the least countenance or incouragement to it by your practice being cautious to abstain from all expressions that grate on the Honour of God as you are free from any that can give just offence unto Men For your Lordship is none of those that shoot the arrows of bitter words and set their mouths against the Heavens but your discourse and conversation is adorn'd with that modesty and decency that becomes a great Nobleman and a good Christian. My Lord I have not given you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 just acknowledgments with design to ●…fie or please your Lordship I know I need your pardon for the trouble your modesty receives from them but I have done it for the sake of others because we live in an Age wherein there is scarcity of such examples I know 't is ufually indecent to commend Persons to themselves but the custome of Dedications will excuse this which even severity and ill nature cannot impeach of flattery or extravagance And as I owe this Testimony to the merits whereby you serve and oblige the Age so I should acknowledg the Obligations your