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majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28061	Certain miscellany works of the Right Honourable Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban published by VVilliam Ravvley ...; Selections. 1670	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1670 (1670)	Wing B275; ESTC R21950	51,907	63

CERTAIN Miscellany Works OF The Right Honourable FRANCIS LORD VERULAM Viscount St. Alban PUBLISHED By VVILLIAM RAVVLEY Doctor of Divinity one of His Majesties Chaplains LONDON Printed by T. J. for H. R. and are to be sold by Wil. Lee at the Turks = Head in Fleet-street M. DC LXX TO THE READER I Have thought good as a Servant to the Labours and Memory of that Noble Lord the Lord Viscount St. Alban to Collect into one these few rather Parcells than Just Works of his excellent Pen. Which I have done for these Causes First to vindicate the Wrong his Lordship suffered by a corrupt and surreptitious Edition of that Discourse of his Touching a War with Spain lately set forth Secondly by way of Prevention to exempt from the like Injury and Defacements those other Discourses of his herein contained Lastly to satisfie the Desires of some who hold it unreasonable that any the Delineations of that Pen though in never so small a Model should not be shewn to the World I know it carries the Excuse with it after the Authors Death to publish Fragments Therefore I will make none These Works being all for the Argument Civil I cannot represent better than in Resemblance of Aristotles Parva Naturalia to account them as his Lordships Parva Politica Howsoever I doubt not but every Judicious Reader finding of his Lordships Spirit in them will know them to be his And will afford them a Place of Reputation amongst his Greater Works W. RAWLEY CONSIDERATIONS Touching a War with SPAIN To the Prince YOur Highness hath an Imperial Name It was a CHARLES that brought the Empire first into France A CHARLES that brought it first into Spain Why should not Great Britain have his turn But to lay aside all that may seem to have a shew of Fumes and Fancies and to speak Solids A War with Spain if the King shall enter into it is a mighty Work It requireth strong Materials and Active Motions He that saith not so is zealous but not according to knowledge But nevertheless Spain is no such Giant And he that thinketh Spain to be some great Over-match for this Estate assisted as it is and may be is no good Mint-man But takes greatness of Kingdoms according to their Bulk and Currency and not after their intrinsique Value Although therefore I had wholly sequestred my thoughts from Civil Affairs yet because it is a new Case and concerneth my Countrey infinitely I obtained of my self to set down out of long continued Experience in Business of Estate and much Conversation in Books of Policy and History what I thought pertinent to this Business And in all humbleness present it to Your Highness Hoping that at least you will discern the strength of my Affection through the weakness of my Abilities For the Spaniard hath a good Proverb Desuario siempre con la Calentura There is no Heat of Affection but is joyned with some Idleness of Brain To a War are required A Just Quarrel Sufficient Forces and Provisions And a prudent Choice of the Designs So then I will first justifie the Quarrel Secondly ballance the Forces and lastly propound variety of Designs for Choice but not advise the Choice For that were not fit for a Writing of this Nature Neither is it a Subject within the Level of my Judgement I being in effect a Stranger to the present Occurrences Wars I speak not of ambitious Predatory Wars are Suits of Appeal to the Tribunal of Gods Justice where there are no Superiors on earth to determine the Cause And they are as Civil Pleas are Plaints or Defences There are therefore three just Grounds of War with Spain One Plaint Two upon Defence Solomon faith A Cord of three is not easily broken But especially when every of the lines will hold single by it self They are these The Recovery of the Palatinate A just Fear of the Subversion of our Civil Estate A just Fear of the Subversion of our Church and Religion For in the handling of the two last Grounds of War I shall make it plain That Wars Preventive upon Just Fears are true Defensives as well as upon Actual Invasions And again That Wars Defensive for Religion I speak not of Rebellion are most just Though Offensive Wars for Religion are seldom to be approved or never unless they have some Mixture of Civil Titles But all that I shall say in this whole Argument will be but like Bottoms of Thred close wound up which with a good Needle perhaps may be flourished into large Works For the Afferting of the Justice of the Quarrel for the Recovery of the Palatinate I shall not go so high as to discuss the Right of the War of Bohemia Which if it be freed from doubt on our part then there is no Colour nor Shadow why the Palatinate should be retained The Ravishing whereof was a meer Excursion of the first Wrong and a Super-Injustice But I do not take my self to be so perfect in the Customs Transactions and Priviledges of that Kingdom of Bohemia as to be fit to handle that part And I will not offer at that I cannot master Yet this I will say in passage positively and resolutely That it is impossible an Elective Monarchy should be so free and absolute as an Hereditary No more than it is possible for a Father to have so full Power and Interest in an Adoptive Son as in a Natural Quia Naturalis Obligatio fortior Civili And again that Received Maxim is almost Unshaken and Infallible Nil magis Naturae consentaneum est quam ut iisdem modis Res dissolvantur quibus constituuntur So that if the part of the People or Estate be somewhat in the Election you cannot make them Nulls or Cyphers in the Privation or Translation And if it be said that this is a dangerous Opinion for the Pope Emperour and Elective Kings It is true it is a dangerous Opinion and ought to be a dangerous Opinion to such personal Popes Emperors or Elective Kings as shall transcend their limits and become Tyrannical But it is a safe and sound Opinions for their Sees Empires and Kingdoms And for themselves also if they be wise Plenitudo Potestatis est plenitudo Tempestatis But the chief Cause why I do not search into this point is because I need it not And in handling the Right of a War I am not willing to intermix matter doubtful with that which is out of doubt For as in Capital Causes wherein but one Mans life is in question in favorem vitae the Evidence ought to be clear So much more in a Judgement upon a War which is Capital to Thousands I suppose therefore the worst That the Offensive War upon Bohemia had been unjust And then make the Case Which is no sooner made than resolved If it be made not enwrapped but plainly and perspicuously It is this in Thesi. An Offensive War is made which is unjust in the Aggressour The Prosecution and Race of