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A49980	The temple of vvisdom for the little world in two parts. The first philosophically divine, treating of the being of all beeings, and whence everything hath its origins as heaven, hell, angels, men and devils, earth, stars and elements. And particularly of all mysteries concerning the soul, and of Adam before and after the fall. Also, a treatise of the four complexions, and the causes of spiritual sadness, &c. To which is added, a postscript to all students in arts and sciences. Second part, morally divine, containing abuses stript and whipt, by Geo. Wither, with his description of fair virtue. Secondly. A collection of divine poems from ... Essayes and religious meditations of Sir Francis Bacon, Knight. Collected, published and intended for a general good. By D.L.	Leeds, Daniel, 1652-1720.; Wither, George, 1588-1667. Abuses stript, and whipt.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1688 (1688)	Wing L915; ESTC R224149	138,032	220

In Popery much iugling ●…ath been invented about this in saying Mass for a Soul and that for Money only but 〈◊〉 hath been a great Cheat of the Pope of Babel for ther●… is earnestness required to wresile with the anger of God and overcome it Yet we confess and acknowledge readily that the Churc●… of Christ hath great power to ransom such a Soul if 〈◊〉 fervency and earnestness it do it as it was done in the Primitive Church when they had holy People and holy Priests who performed their Ministry in real earnestness They indeed effected somewhat but not in such a way as the Pope boasteth of saying That he hath the Key and that he can let out a Soul with 〈◊〉 Blessing when he will if a man will give him Money This is a Lye. VVhether separated Souls take care of human matters FIrst those Souls which yet have not attained Heaven and so stick in the Source in the Principle in the Birth those have yet the human Essence wi●…h the Works in them they diligently search out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And therefore many of them come again with the 〈◊〉 ●…irit and wander up and down in their ●…ouses and places 〈◊〉 abode and ●…ar in a human Shape desire this and that ●…nd often times take care about their Wills or Tesiaments ●…nd also think to procure the blessing of the Saints that they 〈◊〉 rest and if their earthly A●…airs do still stick in them 〈◊〉 take care many times also about thei●… Children Friends This condition of theirs con●…ueth so long till they fall into their Rest and till their 〈◊〉 Spirits be consumed then all such doings cares and 〈◊〉 are at an end and they also have no more knowledge thereof but that they see them in the wonders in the Magick After this sort are once received into Grace they take no care purposely about human earthly M●…rs but 〈◊〉 the ●…eavenly Matters which are brought to it by the Spirit of 〈◊〉 and rejoyceth in them But there is somewhat still behind which is this A living man hath such power that his is able with his Spirit to go in●…o Heaven to the seperated Souls and stir them up about some Question by a 〈◊〉 desire but it must be earnest it must be Faith that must break open a Principle And this we see in Samuel the Pr●… whom the King of ●…ael raised up that he might make his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to him though it seem otherwise to some of whom we may well say 〈◊〉 they are blind and void of Knowledge 〈◊〉 they speak but their own scholastick Fables and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about that they have no knowledge of in the Spirit And these are Babel Now secondly the other sort which sink into Death without a Body they are wholly in one and the same place of the Principle in which the first sort are which afterwards did sink down in themselves All these take no evil Affairs upon them wherein the Turba sticketh But when the honest Souls which are alive send them their Works with their Spirit and Will they rejoyce in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are so a●…able that they appear to men a●…lly in 〈◊〉 and shew them good wayes and many times reveal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lie in secret viz. in the Ab●… of the Soul. Thus know that no Soul separated from the Body 〈◊〉 into any wicked matter except it be a damned Soul which indeed entreth in magically and hath its joy therein 〈◊〉 teacheth most notorious vile Pranks in Dreams for it is 〈◊〉 servant of the Devil and whatsover a wicked man desireth that the devil readily helpeth him to for he can do it better by the Soul of a man then of himself for he is too crude and terrifieth the Magia so that the elementary Spirit 〈◊〉 astonished and awakneth the Body Also this you must know that all is done magically in th●… Will without awakning of the Source No Soul 〈◊〉 with its Ess●…nces of its own accord to please man unless man raise and disturb it himself There are many Villanies in Negromancy which ca●… many times vex and torment the Spirits of men but it 〈◊〉 do so to no Soul that is cloathed with Christ's essentiality for that Soul is free The third sort of seperated Souls which are in Abraham's bosom in Christ having the heavenly essentiality none 〈◊〉 stir except they will themselves as when they have a favour to a Soul that is like themselves also they take no earthly thing upon them except it make for the Glory of God and then they are restless to reveal something in a Magical way But then they let no Turba into them neither do they intercede with God for us but whatsoever cometh to them they rejoyce in it with the Angels for the Angels rejoyce at a Sinner that repenteth then much more the Souls Why should they pray to God for us it lieth not in their Prayer but in 〈◊〉 entring into God when he strongly turneth his Will to God then God's Spirit h●…lpeth him without Prayers Of the Resurrection and also of the end of Time. WHen the last Day shall begin to dawn then the Deity manifesteth it self once more and that is the third time in all Forms in Love and Anger and then all things together at once shall be plainly laid open in the sight of all Creatures Now here is the End of Time for then the beginning 〈◊〉 found the end and the end is then the beginning and 〈◊〉 again into that which it was from Eternity If we knew certainly the 〈◊〉 of the sixth Day wherein 〈◊〉 Creation was finished we could then set you down the ●…ear and Day we mean the last Day for it goeth not a Minuit further it hath its limit hid in the inward Circle Therefore know for certain that the Time is near for 〈◊〉 the sixth day Afternoon the Rest of the eternal Day began ●…nd therefore God instituted the Sabboth of the seventh Day for a Rest and an everlasting Remembrance And as the Rest began on the 〈◊〉 Day towards the Evening and the entrance to the manifestation of the Works of the Creation the end then taketh in the beginning again and the six Days stood thus in the Circle as a wonder so know that ye were created in Paradise and yet are gone out from it into the spirit of wrathfulness into Death which hath now wrought its Wonders in you these 5500 Years and upwards And now the End hath found the Beginning again and yo shall see also feel and find what Paradis●… hath been even every one of them that shall be born in God. But the middle with the Wonders which were manifested in the time continueth forever more in the beginning and in the end as an eternal middle with its Wonders viz. with the Angels and Men and their Essences as also the figures of all Creatures all that hath been essential at any time the Earth with its Metals also Stones and all material Substances 〈◊〉 Trees

and Jupiter as also Mars by reason of their great Orb cir●…umference cannot do it because they stand so high above and far distant from the Sun. The other Planets are peculiar Bodies of their own which have a Corporeal Propriety of themselves and are not bound to any fixed place but only to their Circles Orb or Sphere wherein they run their Course but the Sun is not such a Body but is only a place or Locality kindled by the Light of God. Understand the place where the Sun is is such a place as you may chuse or suppose any where above the Earth And if God should kindle the Light by the Heat then the whole World would be such a meer Sun for the same Power where the Sun standeth is every where all over and before the time of Wrath it was every where all over the place of this World as light as the Sun is now bu●… not so intolerable For that Heat was not so great as in the Sun and therefore the Light also was very meek So that man should not dare to say that the Sun is an open Gate of the L●…ght of God but is as the light in a man's Eye whereas also the place of the Eye belongs to the Body but the Light is distinct from the Body The Stars are 〈◊〉 Powers of the seven Spirits of God for when the 〈◊〉 of God was kindled by the Devil in this world then the ●…ole House of this world in Nature or the outermost Birth or Geniture was as it were benumed or chilled in Death from whence the Earth and Stones came to be The Stars are arisen or proceeded out of the kindled House of God's wrath for the whole House is ●…enumed in Death as the Earth is whence the Stars also subsist in Wrath and Love. Before the times of the created Heavens ●…he Stars and Elements and 〈◊〉 the creation of Angels there was no such Wra●…h of God no Death no Devil no Earth nor Stones neither any Stars but the Dei●…y generated it self very meekly and lovingly and formed ●…gured and framed it self in Ideas Shapes and Images which were incorporated 〈◊〉 to the qualifying or fountain Spirits in the generating Of the Earth c. THe Earth is come from the corrupt Saliter of the outermost Birth or Geniture For on the first Day God drove together or compacted the corrupt Saliter which came to be so in the kindling of ●…he Wrath. In this driving 〈◊〉 or compaction of the corrupt wrath S●…liter was King Luc●…r also as an impotent Prin●…e together with ●…is A●…ls driven into the hole of the WrathSaliter into that place where the outward half dead Comprehensibility is generated which is the place or space in upon above the Earth up to the nature Goddess the Moon So far reacheth their extent now ●…ill the last Day and then they will get a House in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where the Earth now is and 〈◊〉 that is in the 〈◊〉 Birth in the Darkness and this will be called the ●…urning H●…ll For Nature w●… very 〈◊〉 and thin or transparent and all stood meerly in Power and was in a very pleasant ho●… temper But as soon as 〈◊〉 Fight began in Nature with 〈◊〉 proud Devil Nature got a two-fold Source and the outer most Birth or Geniture in Nature was kindled in the wra●… Fire which is called the Wrath of God or the Burning Hel●… But Now when this was done the Deep became clear an●… with the hidd●…n or concealed Heaven th●… Light was seperate from the Darkness and the Globe of the Earth in the grea●… Wheel of Nature was roled or turned once about and th●… p●…ssed the time of one Revolution or of one Day In the duration of the second Day began the sharp 〈◊〉 tion and the incomprehensible 〈◊〉 between the Wra●…h an●… the Love or Light was made And so King Lucifer sirmly strongly or fast bolted up into the House of Darkness and wa●… reserved to the final Judgment And so also the Water of Life was separated from the Water of Death yet in that manner as that they hang to gether in this time of the World as Body and Soul and 〈◊〉 neither of them comprehend the other the Firmament is th●…●…liff or gulf between Time and Eternity But that God calleth it Heaven and maketh a division of the Waters gives us to understand that Heaven is in the world and the world is not in Heaven the VVater above the Firmament is in Heaven and the VVater under the Firmament is the external material Water the palpable water is Death and the impalpable is the Life Moses saith God created Heaven and Earth and all Creatures in six days and rested on the seventh yet God needed no Rest for he hath wrought from Eternit●… and he is a meer working Power and Virtue the understanding li●…th ●…idden in those Words could not 〈◊〉 ●…ve made all his Works in one day Neither can we properly say there was any Day before the Sun was for in the Deep there is but one day in all Therefore the meaning lieth hidden 〈◊〉 understandeth by each days workings the manifestation of the seven Properites for 〈◊〉 saith In the beginning God created H●… and ●…arth This visible World is sprung from the spiritual World and is only an Effluence of the seven Properties for it proceedeth out of the six working Properties but in the seventh that is in Paradise it is in rest and that ●…s the eternal Sabboth of Rest wherein the divine ●…ower and Virtue resteth for the seventh day was the ●…rue Paradise understand it spiritually That is the Tincture of the divine Power and Virtue ●…hich is a temperament this pi●…rced through Properties and wrought in the seventh that is in the substance of all the other Now it may be asked Why did not God bolt up the Devil instantly and then he had not done so much Mischief Answer This was Gods purpose and that must stand which is he would re-edifie out the corrupted Nature of the Earth or build again to himself an ange●…ical Host or Army viz. a true Body which should subsist eternally in God It was not God's intention at all to let the Devil have the whole ●…arth for an eternal dwelling-House but only the death and fierceness of the Earth which the Devil had brought into it Now if he should have instantly left it to the Devil for an eternal dwelling House then out of that place a new Body could not have been built Now what Sin had that space place or room committed against God that it should stand in eternal shame Sure none and therefore that was unequal to be so Also the purpose of God was to make a curious excellent Host or Army out of the Earth and all manner of Images Ideas and ●…orms for in and upon that all should spring and generate themselves a new as we see in Minerals Oars Stones Trees Herbs and Grass and all manner of Beasts after a heavenly

and Corruption For certainly Grapes as the Scripture saith will not be gathered of Thorns or Thistles neither can Justice yield her Fruit with swe●…ss among the Bryars and Brambles of catching and pulling Clerks and Ministers On the other side an antient Clerk ●…ilful in Presidents wary in proceeding and understanding in the business of the Court is an excellent Finger of a Court and doth many times point out the way of the Judge himself Lastly Judges ought above all 10 remember the Conclusion of the Roman twelve Tables Salus populi Supreama lex and to know that Laws exc●… they be in order to that end are but things Captious and Oracles not well inspired A●…d let no man weakly conceive that just Laws and true Pollicy have any antipathy I 〈◊〉 they are like the Spirits and Sinnews that one moves within the other Neither ought Judges to be so ignorant of their own Right as to think there is not left to them as a princip●…l 〈◊〉 o●… their O●…ice a wis use and application of Laws for 〈◊〉 m●…y remember what the Apostle saith of a greater L●… then theirs Nos Scimus Quia lex bona est Jude-Quia ●…a utatur legitime XXV Of Honour and Reputation THe winning of Honour is but the revealing of a man's Virtue and Word without disadvantage for some in their Actions do a●…ct Honour and 〈◊〉 which sort of men are commonly much talk●… of but inwardly little admired and some darken their Virtue in the shew of it so as they be undervalued in Opinion If a man perform that which hath not been attempted before or attempted and given over or hath been atchieved but not with so good Circumstance he shall purchase more Honour than by affecting a matter of greater difficulty or virtue wherein he is but a follower A man is an ill Husband of his Honour that entreth into any action the failing wherein will disgrace him more then the carrying of it through can honor him Honour hath three things in it the vantage ground to do good the approach to Kings and principal Persons and the raising of a man 's own Fortunes He that hath the best of these Intentions when he aspireth is an honest man and that Prince that can descern of Intentions in one that aspireth is a wise Prince Meditationes Sacra XXVI Of the Works of God and Man. GOd beheld all things which his Hands had made and lo they were all passing good But when man turned him about and took a view of the Works which his Hands had made he found all to be Vanity and vexation of Spirit wherefore if thou shalt work in the Works of God thy Sweat shall be as an Oyntment of Oders and thy Rest as the Sabboth of God. Thou shalt travel in the sweat of a good Conscience and shalt keep holy-day in the quietness and liberty of the sweetest Contemplations But if thou shalt aspire after the glorious Acts of men thy Works shall be accompanied with Compunction and Strife and thy remembrance followed with distaste and upbraidings and justly doth it come to thee O man that since thou which art God's work dost him no reason in yielding him well-pleasing Service even thine own Works should also reward thee with the like Fruit of Bitterness XXVII Of the Miracles of our Saviour He hath done all things well A true Confession and applause God the Word in the Mircacles which he wrought Now every Miracle is a new Creation and not according to the first Creation would do nothing which breathed not towards men Favour and Bounty Moses wrought Miracles and scourged the Egyptians with many Plague●… Elias wrought Miracles and shut up Heaven that no Rain should fall upon th●… Earth and again brought down ●…rom Heaven the ●…ire of God upon the Captains and their Bands Elisha wrought also and 〈◊〉 Bears out of the Desert to devour young Children Peter struck Ananias the sacrilidgious Hypocrite with present Death And Paul Elimas the Sorcerer with blindness But no such thing did Jesus the Spirit of God descended down upon him in the form of a Dove of whom he said You know not what Spirit you are of The Spirit of Jesus is the Spirit of a Dove those Servants of God were as the Oxen of God treading out the Corn and trampling the Straw down under their ●…eet but Jesus is the Lam●… of God without Wrath or Judgment All his Miracles were consumate about man's Body as his Doctrine respected the Soul of man The body of man needed these things Sustenance Defence from outward Wrongs and Medicine it was he that drew a multitude of Fishes into the N●…ts that he might give unto man mo●…e liberal Provision He turned Water a less 〈◊〉 ●…ishment of man●… Body into Wine a more worthy that glads the H●…art of man. He sentenced the ●…igg-Tree to wither for not doing its duty whereunto it was ordained which is to bear Fruit for mens Food he multiplyed the scarcity of a few Loaves and Fishes to a sufficiency to Victual an Host of People He rebuked the Winds that threatned destruction to the Sea-faring men ●…he restored motion to the Lame light to the 〈◊〉 speech to the Dumb health to the Sick cleannes●… to the Leprous a right Mind to those that are possessed and Life to the Dead No Miracle of his is to be found to have been of Judgment or Revenge but all of Goodness and Mercy and respecting man's Body for as touching Riches he did not vouchsafe to do any Miracle save only one that Tribute might be given to C●…r XXVIII Of the Innocency of the Dove and the Wisdom of the Serpent The Fool re●…iveth not the Word of Wisdom except thou discover to him what he hath in his Heart THerefore it behoveth him which aspireth to a goodness not retired or particular to himself b●… a fructifying and begetting Goodness which sho●… draw on others to know those Points which be cal●… the deeps of Satan that he may speak with Autho●… and true Insinuation Hence is the Precept Try●… things and hold fast that which is good which endur●… a discerning Election out of an Examination whence 〈◊〉 thing at all is excluded out of the same Fountain ariseth that direction Be you wise as Serpents and 〈◊〉 as Doves There are neither teeth nor stings nor venom nor wreathes and folds of Serpents which ought not to be all known and as far as Examination doth lead tryed neither let any man here fear Infection or Polution for the Sun entreth into Sinks and is not defiled Neither let any man think that herein he tempteth God for his diligence and generality of examination is commanded and God is sufficient to preserve you immaculate and pure XXIX Of the Exaltation of Charity I have rejoyced at the overthrow of him that hated me Or took Pleasure when Adversity did befall him THe detestation or renouncing of Job for a man to love again where he is loved it is the Charity