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A28370	The remaines of the Right Honorable Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount of St. Albanes, sometimes Lord Chancellour of England being essayes and severall letters to severall great personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published : a table whereof for the readers more ease is adjoyned.	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.; Palmer, Herbert, 1601-1647. Characteristicks of a believing Christian.	1648 (1648)	Wing B318; ESTC R17427	72,058	110

not produced by Heaven or earth but was breathed immediatly from God So that the wayes and proceedings from God with Spirits are not concluded in Nature that is in the lawes of Heaven and Earth but are reserved to the law of his secret will and grace wherein God worketh still and resteth not from the work of Creation but continnueth working till the end of the world what time that worke also shall be accomplished and an eternall Sabboth shall ensue Likewise that whensoever God doth break the law of Nature by miracles which are ever new Creatures he never cometh to that point or passe but in regard of the worke of Redemption which is the greater and whereunto all Gods Saints and Martirs do referre That God created man in his owne likenesse or Image in a reasonable Soule in innocency in free-will in Soveraignty That he gave him a law and commandement which was in his power to keep but he kept it not That Man made a totall defection from God presuming to imagine that the commandement and pro●i●ition of God were not the rules of good and evill but that good and evill had their Principles and Beginnings to the end to depend no more upon Gods will revealed but upon him and his own light as a God then the which there would not be a Sinne more opposite to the whole law of God That neverthelesse this great sinne was not originally moved by the malice of man but was intimated by the suggestion and instigation of the Divell who was the first defected Creature who did fall of malice and not by temptation That upon the fall of man death and vanity upon the Justice of God and the Image of God was defaced and Heaven and Earth which was made for mans use were subdued and corrupted by his fall But then that instant and without intermission of time after the words of Gods law became through the fall of man frustrate as to obedience there succeeded the greater word of the promise the righteousnesse of God might be wrought by faith That aswell the law of God as the word of his promise enduce the same for ever but that they have been revealed in severall manners according to the dispensation of times for the law was first imprinted in that remnant of light of nature which was left after the fall being sufficient to accuse then it was more manifestly expressed in the written law was yet more opened to the Prophets lastly expounded in the true perfection of the Sonne of God the great Prophet and interpreter of the law That likewise the word of the promise was manifested revealed First by the immediate revelation inspiration after the figures which were of two Natures The one of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Law the other continuall History of the old World Church of the Jews which though it be literall is true yet it is pregnant of a perpetuall allegory and shadow of the work of redemption to follow the same Promise or Evangell was more cleerly revealed and declared by the Prophets and then by the Son himself And lastly by the holy Ghost which illuminateth the Church to the end of the World That in the fulnesse of Time according to the promise and oath of God of a chosen Image descended the blessed Seed of the Woman Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and Savior of the Word who was conceived by the holy Ghost and took flesh of the Virgin Mary That the Word did not only take flesh or was joyned to flesh but was flesh though without confusion of substance or nature so as the Eternal Son of God and the ever blessed Son of Man was one Person So one as the blessed Virgin may be truly and Catholikely called Dei Para the Mother of God So one as there is unity in universal Nature Not that the soul and body of Man so perfect for the three heavenly Unities whereof that as the second exceed all natural Unities that is to say the unity of God and Man in Christ and the Church the holy Ghost being the worker of both these latter unities For by the Holy Ghoct was Christ incarnate quickned in the flesh and by the Holy Ghost is Man regenerate and quickned in the Spirit That Jesus the Lord became in the flesh a Sacrifice for sin a satisfaction and price to the justice of God a meritour of glory and the Kingdom a Pattern of all Righteousnesse a Preacher of the Word which himself was a finisher of the Ceremonies a corner stone to remove the sepa●ation between Jew and Gentile an intercessour for the Church a Lord of Nature a conqueror of death and the power of darknesse in his Resurrection And that he fulfilled the whole councell of God performed his whole sacred office and annointing in Earth accomplished the whole work of Redemption and restitution of man to a state superiour to the Angels whereas the state of his Creation was inferiour and reconciled and established all things according to the eternall will of the Father That in time Jesus the Lord was born in the days of Herod and suffered under the government of Pontius Pilat being Deputy of the Romans and under the high Priesthood of Caiphas and was betrayed by Judas one of the 12. Apostles and was crucified at Jerusalem and after a true and natural death and his body laid in the Sepulchre the third day he raised himself from the bonds of death and arose and shewed himself to many chosen witnesses by the space of many days And at the end of those days in the sight of many ascended into Heaven where he continueth his intercession and shal from thence at a day appointed come in great glory to judge the World That the sufferings and merit of Christ as they are sufficient to do away the sins of the whole World so they are only effectuall to such as are regenerate by the Holy Ghost who breaketh where he will of free grace which grace as a seed incorruptible quickneth the Spirit of Man and conceiveth him a new the Son of God and a Member of Christ So that Christ having Mans flesh and Man having Christs spirit there is an open passage and mutual imputation whereby sinne wrath is conveyed to Christ from man and merit and life is conveyed to Man from Christ which Seed of the Holy Ghost first figureth in us the Image of Christ slain or crucified in a lively faith and then reigneth in us the Image of God in holinesse and charity though both imperfectly and in degrees far differing even in Gods elect aswel in regard of the fire of the spirit as of the illumination which is more or lesse in a large proportion as namely in the Church before Christ which yet neverthelesse was partakers of one and the same salvation and one and the same means of salvation with us That the work of the Spirit though it be not tyed to any means

in Heaven or Earth yet it is ordinarily dispensed by the preaching of the Word the administration of the Sacraments the covenants of the Fathers upon the children prayer reading the censures of the Church the society of the godly the crosses and afflictions Gods benefits his judgments upon others Miracles the contemplation of his Creatures All which things some be more principall God usethas the meanes of Vocation or conversion of his elect not derogating power to call immediately by his grace at all hours moments of the day that is of mans life according to his good pleasure That the word of God whereby this will is revealed continued in revelation tradition untill Moses that the Scriptures were from Moses time to the times of the Apostles Evangelicts in whose ages after the comming of the Holy Ghost the Teacher of all truth the booke of the Scriptures is shut and closed up to receive any new addition and that the Church hath no power over the Scriptures to teach or command any thing contrary to the written word But is as the Ark wherein the tables of the first Testament were kept and preferred that is to say the Church hath onely the Custody and delivery of the Scriptures committed unto the same together with the interpretation of them That there is an Vniversall or Catholique Church of God dispersed over the face of the Earth which Christs Spouse and Christs Body being gathered of the Fathers of the old world of the Church of the Jewes of the Spirits of the faithfull dissolved of the Spirits of the faithfull militant and of the names yet to be born which are already written in the Book of life That there is a visible Church distinguished by the outward works of God Servant and the receiving of the holy doctrine with the use of the misteries of God and the invocation and sanctification of his Holy Name That there is also a Holy succession of the ' Prophets of the new Testamen and Fathers of the Church from the time of the Apostles and Disciples which saw our Saviour in the flesh unto the consumation of the work of the Ministery which persons are called of God by guift or inward annointing and the vocation of God followed by an outward calling or ordination of the Church I Believe that the Soules of those that dy in the Lord are blessed and rest from their labour and enjoy the sight of God yet so as they are in expectation of the further revelation of their glory in the last day At which time all flesh of man shall arise and be changed and shall appeare and receive from Iesus Christ his eternall Judgement and the glory of the Saints shall then be full and the Kingdome shall be give to God the Father from which time all things shall continue for ever in that being and estate which then they shall receive So as there are three times if times they may be called or parts of Eternity The first The time before beginning when the God-head was only without the being of any Creature The second The time of Mystery which continueth from the Cretion to the dissolution of the World The third The time of the Revelation of the Sons of God which time is the last and is without change A Prayer made and used by the late Lord Chancellour OEternall God and most mercifull Father in Iesus Christ in whom thou hast made Let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be now and ever gracious in thy sight and acceptable unto thee O Lord our God our strength and our Redeemer OEternall God and most mercifull Father in Jesus Christ in whom thou hast made a Covenant of grace and mercy with all those that come unto thee in him in his name and mediation we humbly prostrate our selvs before thy throne of thy mercies seat acknowledging that by the breach of all thy holy Lawes and commandements we are become wild Olive branches strangers to thy covenant of grace wee have defaced in our selvs thy sacred Image imprinted in us by Creation wee have sinned against heaven and before thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children O admit us into the place even of hired servants Lord thou hast formed us in our Mothers Wombs thy providence hath hitherto watched over us and preserved us unto this period of time O stay not the course of thy mercies and loving kindnesse towards us Have mercy upon us O Lord for thy dear Sonne Christ Jesus sake who is the way the truth and the life In him O Lord we appe●l from thy justice to thy mercy beseeching thee in his name for his sake only thou wilt be graciously pleased freely to pardon and forgive us all our sins and disobedience whether in thought word or deed committed against thy divine Majesty and in his precious bloud-shedding death and perfect obedience free us from the guilt the stain the punishment and dominion of all our sins cloath us with his perfect righteousnesse there is mercy with thee O Lord that thou mayst be feared yea thy mercies swallow up the greatnesse of our sins speak peace to our souls and consciences make us happy in the free remission of all our sins and be reconciled to thy poor servants in Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased Suffer not the works of thine own hands to perish thou art not delighted in the death of sinners bat in their conversion Turn our hearts and weshall be turned convert us and we shall be converted illuminate the eyes of our mindes and understanding with the bright beames of thy holy Spirit that wee may dayly grow in the saving knowledge of the heavenly mystery of our redempsion wrought by our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ sanctifie our wils and affection by the same Spirit the most sacred fountain of all grace and goodnesse reduce them to the obedience of thy most holy will in the practise of all piety toward thee and charity towards all men Inflame our hearts with thy love cast forth of them what displeaseth thee all infidelity hardnes of heart prophanenesse hypocrisie contempt of thy holy word and ordinances all uncleannesse and whatsoever advanceth it self in opposition to thy holy will And grant that hencefor●h through thy grace we may be inabled to lead a godly holy sober and christian life in true sincerity and uprightnesse of heart before thee To this end plant thy holy feare in our hearts grant that it may never depart from before our eyes but continually guide our feet in the paths of thy righteousnesse and in the ways of thy commandements increase our weak ●aith grant it may dayly bring forth the true fruits of unfeigned repentance that by the power of the death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ we may dayly dy unto sin and by the power of his resurrection wee may be quickned and raised up to newnesse of life may be truly born a new and may be effectually made partakers of the first resurrection that then the second deach may never have dominion over us Teach us O Lord so to number our days that wee may apply our hearts unto wisdome make us ever mindfull of our last end and continually ●o exercise the knowledge of grace in our hear●s that in the said divorce of soul and body we may be translated here to that Kingdom of glory prepared for all those that love thee and shal trust in thee even then and ever O Lord let thy holy Angels pitch their ●ents round about us to guard and defend us from all the malice of Sathan and from all perils bo●h of soule and body Pardon all our unthankfulnesse make us dayly more and more thankful for all thy mercies and benefits dayly powred down upon us Let these our humble prayers ascend to the throne of grace and be granted not only for these mercies but for whatsoever else thy wisdome knows needfull for us and for all those that are in need misery and distresse whom Lord thou hast afflicted either in soul or body grant them patience and perseverence in the end and to the end And that O Lord not for any merits of thy Son and our alone Saviour Christ Jesus to whom with thee and the holy Spirit be ascribed all glory c. Amen Imprimatur JA: CRANFORD ERRATA PAge 2. line 21. for ●ege read regall p. 7. l. 9. for my r. suit p. 10. l. 23. so wast r. wast p. 12. l. 7. for is ready r. is not ready p. 14. for my r. any ibid● 28. for not r. but p. 21. l. 17. for that part r. in that part p. 28. l. 8. for worst r wast p. 31 l. 8. for as no r. as a new ibid l. 20 for upon the r. upon your p. 32. l. 11. for moved to think r. moved so to think p. 35. l. 7. for here r. there p. 36. l. 3. read as to pretend not only a desensive war as in times past but a whole reconquest ibid l. 10. for respect r. therespe●● p. 48. l. 8 for verosity r. vivacity p. 73. l. 27. for was good r. not good The Reader will also meet with some stight errours as purpose for propose remission for commission and such like 1. Custome 2. Wisdome 3. Iustice 4. Rule against it

touching your Lordships intended charge for Ireland which my endeavour I know your Lordship will accept graciously and well whether your Lordship take it by the handle of the occasion ministred from your self 〈◊〉 or of the affection from which it proceedeth your Lordship is designed to a service of great merit and great perill and as the greatnesse of the perill must needs include a like proportion So the greatnesse of the merit may include no small consequence of perill if it be not temperately governed For all immoderate successe extinguisheth merit and seareth up distast and envy the assured Fore-runners of whole changes of perils But I am at the last point First some good spirit leading my pen to presage to your Lordship successes wherein it is true I am not without my Oracles and Divinations none of them suppositions And yet not all naturall For first looking into the course of Gods providence in things now depending and calling to consideration how great things God hath done by her Majesty and for Her I collect he hath disposed of this great defection in Ireland thereby to give an urgent occasion to the reduction of that whole Kingdom as upon the Rebellion of Desmond there ensued the whole reduction of that whole Province Next your Lordship goeth against three of the unlucky Vices of all others Disloyalty Ingratitude and Inconstancie which three offences in all examples have seldom their doom adjourned to the world to come Lastly he that shall have had the honour to know your Lordship inwardly as I have had shall find Bona extra wherby he may better ground a divination of good then upon the defection of a Sacrifice But that part I leave for it is fit for others to be confiden upon the Cause The goodnesse and justice wherof is such as can hardly be matched in any example It being no ambitious War of Forraigners but a recovery of Subjects And that after lennity of conditions often tryed and a recovery of them not only to obedience but to humanity and policy from more then Indian Barbarism There is yet another kind of Divination familiar to matters of State being that which Demosthenes so often relyeth upon in his time when he saith That which for the time past is worst of all is for the time to come the best which is that things go ill not by accident but by errour wherein your Lordship have been heretofore an awaking Censor but look for no other now but Medicae cura c. And although your Lordship shall not be the blessed Physitian that cometh in the declination of the Disease yet you embrace that condition which many noble Spirits have accepted for advantage which is that you go upon the greater perill of your fortune and the lesse of your reputation and so the honour countervaileth the adventure of which honour your Lordship is in no smal possession when that her Majesty known to be one of the judicious Princes in discerning of Spirits that ever governed hath made choise of you meerly out of her Royall judgment her affection rather including to continue your attendance into whose hand and trust to put the commandment and conduct of so great Forces the gathering in the fruit of so great charge the execution of so many councels the redeeming of the defaults of so many former governours and the clearing of the glory of so many and happy yeers Raign only in this part excepted Nay further how far forth the perill of that State is interlaced with the perill of England And therefore how great the honour is to keep and defend the approaches of this Kingdom I hear many discourse And indeed there is a great difference whether the Tortoys gather her self into her shell hurt or unhurt And if any may be of opinion that the nature of the enemy doth extinuate the honour of the service being but a Rebell and a Savage I differ from him for I see the justest tryumphs that the Romans in their greatnesse did obtain and that whereof the Emperours in their Stiles took additions and denominations were of such an Enemy that is people barbarous and not reduced to civility magnifying a kind of Lawless Liberty prodigall in life hardened in body fortifyed in Woods and Bogs placing both justice and felicity in the sharpness of their swords Such were the Germains and ancient Brittains and divers others upon which kind of people whether the victory were a conquest or a reconquest upon a Rebellion or Revolt it made no difference that I could ever find in honour And therefore it is not the enriching predatory War that hath the preheminence in honour else should it be more honour to bring in a Carrack of rich burthens then one of the twelve Spanish Apostles But then this nature of people doth yeeld a higher kind of honour considered in truth and substance then any War can yeeld which should be atchieved against a civill enemy if the end may be pacique impovere morem to replant and refound the honour and policy of that Nation to which nothing is wanting but a just and civill Government which design as it doth descend to you from your noble Father who lost his life in that action though he paid tribute to nature and not to fortune So I hope your Lordship shall be as fatall a Captain to this war as Affricanus was to the War of Carthage after that both his Uncle and his Father had lost their lives in Spain in the same War Now although it be true that these things which I have writ being but Representations unto your Lordship of the honour and appearance of successe of the enterprize be not much to the purpose of my direction yet it is that which is best to me being no man of War and ignorance in the particulars of Estate For a man may by the eye set up the white right in the middest of the Butt though he be no Archer Therefore I will only add this wish according to the English phrase which termeth a well-willing advise I wish that your Lordship in this whole action looking forward set down this position That Merit is worthier then Fame And looking back hither would remember this Text That Obedience is better then Sacrifice For designing to Fame and Glory may make your Lordship in the adventure of your person to be valiant as a private Souldier rather then as a Generall It may make you in your commandements rather to be gracious then disciplinary It may make you presse Action in respect of the great expectation conceived rather hastily then seasonably and safely It may make you seek rather to atchieve the War by force then by intermixture of practise It may make you if God shall send you prosperous beginning rather seek the fruition of that honour then the perfection of the work in hand And for your proceeding like a good Protestant upon warrant and not upon good intention your Lordship knoweth in your wisdom

is already much visited and much well-wished There is continuall posting by men of good quality towards the King the rather I think because this Spring time it s but a kind of sport it is hoped that as the S●are here have performed the parts of good Attornies to deliver the King quiet possession of his Kingdoms so the King will re-deliver them quiet possession of their places rather filling places void then removing men placed A Letter to my Lord of Northumberland mentioning a Proclamation drawn for the King at his entrance It may please your good Lordship 〈◊〉 Do hold it a thing formall and necessary for the King to fore-run his coming be it never so speedy with some gracious Declaration for the cherishing entertaining and preparing of mens affections for which purpose I have conceived a draught it being a thing familiar to me in my Mistresse her times to have my Pen used in politick Writings of satisfaction the use of this may be of two sorts First properly if your Lordship think convenient to shew the King any such draught because the veins and pulses of this State cannot but be best known here which if your Lordship should do then I would desire your Lordship to withdraw my name and only signifie that you gave some heads of direction of such a matter to one of whose stile and pen you had some opinion The other collaterall that though your Lordship make no other use of it yet it is a kind of po●t●acture of that which I think worthy to be advised to the King to expresse himself according to those points which are therein conceived and perhaps more compendious and significant then if J had set them down in Article I would have attended your Lordship but for some little Physick I took to morrow morning I will wait upon you So I ever continue c. A Letter unto my Lord of Southampton upon the Kings coming in It may please your Lordship I Would have been very glad to have presented my humble service to your Lordship by my attendance if I could have foreseen that it should not have been unpleasing unto you and therefore because I would commit no errour I chose to write assuring your Lordship how credible soeve● yet it is as true as a thing that God knoweth that this great change in me hath wrought no other change towards your Lordship then this that I may safely be now that which I was truly before And so craving no other pardon then for troubling you with this letter I do not now begin to be but continue to be Your Lordships humble and much devoted FRAN. BACON A Letter to the Lord of Northumberland after he had been with the King It may please your Lordship I Would not have lost this journey and yet I have not that I went for For I have had no private conference to purpose with the King no more hath almost any other English For the speech his Majesty admitteth with some Noble men is rather matter of grace then matter of businesse With the Attorney hee sp●…ing urged by the Treasurer of Scotland but no more then needes must after I had received his Majesties first welcome and was promised private accesse yet not knowing what matter of service your Lordships Treasurer carryed for 〈◊〉 saw it no● and knowing that privinesse in adver●i●em●nt is much I chose rather to deliver it to Sir Thomas Horeskins then to coole it in my hands upon expectation of accesse your Lordship shall find a Prince the furtherest from vain-glory that may be And rather like a Prince of the ancient form then of the latter time his speeches swift and cursarie and in the full dialect of his Nation and in speech of buisinesse short in speech of discourse large he affecteth popularity by gracing such as he hath heard to be popular and not by any fashions of his own he is thought somewhat generall ofhis favours and his vertue of accesse is rather because he is much abroad and in presse then that he giveth easie audience he hastneth to a mixture of both Kingd m●s ●nd Nations faster perhaps then pollicie will b●are J told your Lordship once before my opinion that we thought his Majesty ra●her asked counsell of the time past then of the time to come but it is yet early to be s●und in any setled opinion for other perticularities J referre conference having in those generalls gone further in so tender an Argument then J would have done were not the Bearer hereof so assured So J continue c. A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury touching the Solicitours place at what times he stood but in doubtfull termes of favour with his Lordship It May please your Lordship I Am not privy to my selfe of any such ill deserving towards your Lordship as that J should think it any mpudent thing to be a suitor unto your favour in a rea●o●able m●tter your Lord●●●p being to me as with your good favour you cannot cease to be but rather it were a simp●e and arrogant part in me to forbeare ●t t●s thought Mr. Atto●rney shall be cheif justice of the Common place in case Mr. Sollicitour rise I would be glad now at last to be Sollicitour Chiefly because I think it will increase my practise wherein God blessing me a few yeares I may amend my state and so after fall to my studies and ease whereof the one is requisire for my Body and the other serveth to my mind wherein if I shall find your Lordships favovr I shall be more happy then I have been which may make me also more wise I have small store of meanes about the King and to sue my selfe is not fit and therefore I shall leave it to God his Majesty and your Lordship for I must still be next the door I thanke God in these transitory things J am well resolved So beseeching your Lordship not to think this Letter the lesse humble because it is plain J rest A Letter to the Earl of Salisbury upon sending him one of his Bookes of advancemeat of Learning It may please your good Lordship I Present your Lordship with a work of my vacant time which if it had been more the work had been better it appertaineth to your Lordship Besides my particular respect in some propriety in regard you be a great Governour in the Province of Learning and that which is more you have added to your place affection towards Laarning and to your affection judgment of which the last I could be content were for the time lesse that you might the lesse exquisitly censure that which I offer unto you But sure I am the Argument is good if it had lighted on a good Author But I shall content my self to awake better Spirits like a Bell-ringer which is first up to call others to Church So with my humble desire of your Lordships good acceptance J remain Yours c. A Letter to the Lord Treasurer Buckhurst