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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

If any have lost his first Love If any be neither Hot nor Cold If any have stumbled too fondly at the Threshold in such sort that he cannot sit well that entred ill It is time they return whence they are fallen and confirm the Things that remain Great is the Weight of this Fault Et eorum causâ abhorrebant à Sacr●ficio Domini And For their Cause did Men abhor the Adoration of God But howsoever it be Those which have sought to deface them and cast Contempt upon them are not to be excused It is the precept of Salomo● that the Rulers be not Reproached No not in our Thought But that we draw our very Conceit into a Modest Interpretation of their Doings The Holy Angel would give no Sentence of Blasphemy against the Common Sl●underer but said Increpet te Dominus The Lord Rebuke thee The Apostle Saint Paul though against him that did pollute Sacred Justice with Tyrannous Violence he did justly denounce ●he Judgement of God saying Per●utiet te Dominus The Lord will strike thee yet in saying Paries dealbate he thought he had gone too far and retracted it Whereupon a Learned Father said Ipsum quamvis inane nomen umbram Sacerdotis expavit The ancient Councels and Synodes as is noted by the Ecclesiasticall Story when they deprived any Bishop never recorded the Offence but buried it in perpetuall Silence Only Cham purchased his Curse by revealing his Fathers Disgrace And yet a much gre●ter Fault is it to ascend from their Person to their Calling and draw that in question Many good Fathers spake rigourously and severely of the unworthinesse of Bishops As if presently it did forfeit and cease their Office One saith Sacerdotes nominamur non sumus We are called Priests but Priests we are not Another saith Nisi bonum Opus amplecta●is Episcopus esse non potes Except thou undertake the good work thou canst not be a Bishop Yet they meant nothing less then to move doubt of their Calling or Ordination The Second Occasion of Controversies is the Nature and Humour of some Men. The Church never wanteth a kind of Persons which love the Salutation of Rabbi Master Not in Ceremony or Complement but in an Inward Authority which they seek over Mens Minds in drawing them to depend upon their Opinions and to seek Knowledge at their Lips These Men are the true Successours of Diotrephes the Lover of Preheminence And not Lord Bishops Such Spirits do light upon another sort of Natures which do adhere to these Men Quorum gloria in Obsequio Stiffe Followers and such as zeal mervailously for those whom they have chosen for their Masters This latter sort for the most part are Men of young years and superficiall Understanding Car●ied away with par●iall respects of Persons Or with the Enticing Appearance of Godly Names and Pretences Pauci res ipsas sequuntur plures nomina Rerum plurimi nomina Magistrorum Few follow the things themselves more the names of the Things and most the Names of their Masters About these generall Affections are wreathed and interlaced accidentall and private Emulations and Discontentments All which together break forth into contentions Such as either violate Truth Sobriety or Peace These generalities apply themselves The Vniversities are the Seat or the Continent of this Disease Whence it hath been and is derived into the Rest of ●he Realm There Men will no longer be é numero of the Numeber There do others side themselves before they know their Right Hand from their Left So it is true which is said Transeunt ab Ignorantiâ ad praejudicium They skip from Ignorance to a prejudicate Opinion And never take a sound Ju●gement in their way But as it is well noted Inter Iuvenile Iudicium senile praejudicium omnis veritas corumpitur Through want of years when Men are not indifferent But partiall then their Judgement is weak and unripe And when it groweth to Strength and Ripenesse by that time it is forestalled with such a Number of prejudicate Opinions as it is made unprofitable So as between these two all Truth is corrupted In the mean while the Honourable Names of Sincerity Reformation and Discipline are put in the fore Ward So as Contentions and Evill Zeals cannot be touched except these Holy Things be thought first to be violated But howsoever they shall infer the Sollicitation for the Peace of the Church to proceed from Carnall Sense yet I will conclude ever with the Apostle Paul Cum sit inter vos Zelus Contentio nonne carnales estis While there is amongst you Zeal and Contention are ye not carnall And howsoever they esteem the Compounding of Controversies to savour of Mans Wisedom and Human Pollicy And think themselves led by the Wisedom which is from above yet I say with Saint James Non est ista sapientia de sursum descendens sed Terrena Animalis Diabolica Vbi enim Zelus Contentio ●bi Inconstantia omne opus pravum Of this Inconstancy it is said by a Learned Father Procedere volunt non ad perf●ctionem sed ad permutationem They seek to go forward still not to perfection but ●o change The Third Occasion of Controversies I observe to be an Extream and unlimitted Detestation of some former Heresie or Co●ruption of the Church already acknowledged and convicted This was the Cause that produced the Heresie of Arrius grounded especially upon De●estation of C●ntilism least the Christians should seem by the Assertion of the equall Divinity of our Saviour Christ to approach unto the Acknowledgement of more ●ods then One. The Detestation of the Heresie of Arrius produced that of Sabellius who holding ●or Ex●c●able the Dissimilitude which Arrius pretended in the Trinity fled so far from him as he fell upon that other extremity to deny the Distinction of Pers●ns And to say they were but onely Names of sev●rall Offices and Dispensations Yea most of the Heresies and ●ch●smes of the Church have sprung up of this Root While M●n have made it as it were their S●ale by which to measure the Bounds of the most perfect Religion Taking it by the furth●st distance from the Errour last condemned These be Posthumi Haeresium Filii Heresies that arise out of the Ashes of other Heresies that are extinct and amortized This Manner of Apprehension doth in some degree possesse many in our Times They think it the true Touchstone to try what is good and evill by measuring what is more or lesse opposite to the Institutions of the Church of Rome Be it Ceremony Be it Pollicy or Government yea be it other Institutions of greater Weight That is ever most perfect which is removed most deg●ees from that Church And that is ever polluted and blemished which participateth in any Appearance with it This is a subtile and dangerous Conceit for Men to entertain Apt to delude themselves more apt to delude the People and most apt of all to calumniate their Adversaries This

end And in this Case she continued but a few dayes So as it cannot be called the Last Act of her Life but the First step to her Death For as it is a Miserable Condition to see the Facultie● of our Body buried before us And to survive long after them So it is a Faire and Naturall Conclusion of our Life when the Senses are by little and little layd asleep that the Dissolution of the whole should immediatly follow I will adde one Thing more to make up the full Measure of her Felicity which is that she was not only most Happy in her own Person but in the Abilities and vertues of her Servants and Ministers For she was served by such Persons as I suppose this Island never brought forth the like before her Times Now when God beareth a love to Kings no doubt he raiseth up the Spirits of Wise Servants as a concurrent Blessing There are two faire Issues of her Happinesse born to her since her Death I conceive not lesse Glorious and Eminent then those she enjoyed a live The one of her Successour The other of her Memory For she hath gotten such a Successour who although for his Masculine Vertues and Blessing of Posterity and Addition of Territories he may be said to exceed her Greatnesse and somewhat to obscure it Notwithstanding he is most zealous of her Name and Glory And doth even give a Perpetuity to her Acts Considering both in the Choice of the Persons and in the Orders Institutions of the Kingdome he hath departed so little from her So as a Son could hardly succeed a Father with lesse Noise or Innovation As for her Memory it hath gotten such Life in the Mouths and Hearts of Men as that Envy being put out by her Death and her Fame lighted I cannot say whether the Felicity of her Life or the Felicity of her Memory be the greater For if perhaps there fly abroad any factious Fames of Her raised either by Discontented Persons or such as are averse in Religion which notwithstanding dare now scarce shew their Faces and are every where cryed down The same are neither true neither can they be long liv'd And for this cause especially have I made this Collection such as it is touching her Felicity and the Marks of Gods Favour towards Her That no malicious Person should dare to interpose a Curse where God hath given a Blessing Now if any Man shall alledge that against me which was once said to Caesar We see what we may admire but we would fain see what we can commend Certainly for my part I hold true Admiration to be the highest Degree of Commendation And besides such Felicities as we have recounted could not befall any Princesse but such an one as was extraordinarily supported and cherished by Gods Favour And had much in her own Person Rare Vertues to create and work out unto her self such a Fortune Notwithstanding I have thought good to insert something now concerning her Morall Part Yet only in those things which have ministred occasion to some Mallicious Tongues to traduce her This Queen as touching her Religion was Pious Moderate Constant and an Enemy to Novelty First for her Piety Though the same were most conspicuous in her Acts and the Form of her Government yet it was Pourtrayed also in the common Course of her Life and her daily Comportment Seldome would she be absent from Hearing Divine Service and other Duties of Religion either in her Chappell or in her Privy Closet In the reading of the Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers especially of Saint Augustine she was very Frequent She composed certain Prayers her self upon emergent occasions Whensoever she named God though it were in common discourse she would for the most part adde The Title of Maker saying God my Maker And compose both her Eyes and Countenance to a Submisnesse and Reverence This I have often my self observed being in her presence Now whereas some have divulged her unmindfulnesse of Mortality in that she would never endure any Mention either of her Age or Death it is most false For she would often and that many years before her Death with a great deal of Meeknesse professe that she found her self grown an old Woman And she would sometimes open her self what she liked best for an Inscription upon her Tombe Saying That she loved no pompous or vain-glorious Titles but would onely have a Line or two for her Memory wherein her Name and her Virginity and the years of her Raign and her Establishing of Religion and her Maintaining of Peace should be in the fewest words comprehended It is true that whilest she was in her vigorous years and able to bear Children if at any time she were moved to declare her Successour she would make Answer That she would never endure to see her winding sheet before her Eyes And yet notwithstanding some few years before her death one day when she was in a deep Meditation and as it may be ghessed in that of her Mortality One that might be bold said unto her Madam there are divers Offices and great places in the state which you keep too long void She arose up in some displeasure and said I am sure my Office will not be long void As for her Moderateness in Religion I shall seem to be at a stand in regard of the Severe Lawes made against her Subjects of the Romish Religion Notwithstanding that which I shall say is no more then what I know for certain and diligently observed Most certain it is that it was the Firm Resolution of this Princesse not to offer any violence to Consciences But then on the other Side not to suffer the State of her Kingdome to be ruined under pretence of Conscience and Religion Out of this Fountain she concluded First That to allow Freedome and Toleration of two Religions by publick Authority in a Nation Fierce and Warlike And that would easily fall from Dissention of Minds to Siding and Blowes would bring inevitable Ruin to this Kingdome Again in the Newnesse of her Raign when there was a generall distrust she singled out some of the Bishops of the most Turbulent and Factious Spirits and commi●ted them to free Custody And this not without the warrant of Former Lawes As for the Rest either of the Cleargy or Laity she did not ransack their Consciences by any Sev●re Inqu●sition but rather secured them by a gracious Connivency And this was the State of Things at the first Neither did she depart from this Clemency when the Excommunication of Pius Quin●us came Thund●ing against her which might both justly have provoked her and have ministred occasion to new Courses But howsoever she followed her Royall Nature still For as a wise Lady and of a high Courage she was not a whit terrified at the Roaring of a Bull Being well assured of her Peoples Love and Fidelity towards her As also of the Disability of the Popish Faction