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A31592	Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra mysteries of state & government : in letters of illustrious persons, and great agents, in the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Queen Elizabeth, K. James, and the late King Charls : in two parts : in which the secrets of Empire and publique manage of affairs are contained : with many remarkable passages no where else published.; Cabala, sive, Scrinia sacra.		1654 (1654)	Wing C184_ENTIRE; Wing C183_PARTIAL; Wing S2110_PARTIAL; ESTC R21971	510,165	642

differ from him for I see the justest Triumphs that the Romans in their greatest greatness 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 of life hardned in body fortified in woods and bogs placing both justice and felicity in the sharpness of their swords Such were the Germans and antient Britains and divers others Upon which kind of people whether the victory be a Conquest or a Reconquest upon a rebellion or revolt it made no difference that ever I could find in honour And therefore it is not the inriching predatory war that hath the preheminence in honour else should it be more honour to bring in a Carrock of rich burthen then one of the twelve Spanish Apostles But then this nature of people doth yield a higher point of honour considering in truth and substance then any war can yield which should be atchieved against a civil enemy if the end may be Pacique imponere morem To replant and refound the policie of that Nation to which nothing is wanting but a just and civil 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 fatal a Captain to this war as Africanus 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 apparance of success of the enterprise be not much to the purpose of my direction yet it is that which is best to me being no man of war and ignorant in the particulars of Estate for a man may by the eye set up the white right in the midst of the But though he be no Archer Therefore I will only add this wish according to the English phrase which termeth a wel-willing advice a wish That your Lordship in this whole action looking forward set down this Position That merit is worthier then same 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 commandments rather to be gracious then disciplinary it may make you press action in the 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 practice it may make you if God shall send you prosperous beginnings 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 that as it is most fit for you to desire convenient liberty of instruction so it is no less fit for you to observe the due limits of them remembring that the exceeding of them may not only procure in case of adverse accident a dangerous disadvow but also in case of prosperous success be subject to interpretation as if all were not referred to the right end Thus I have presumed to write these few lines to your Lordship in methodo ignorantiae which is when a man speaketh of any subject not according to the parts of the matter but according to the model of his own knowledge And most humbly desire your Lordship that the weakness thereof may be supplied in your Lordship by a benign acceptation as it is in me by my best wishing FR. BACON Another to him after his enlargement My Lord NO man can expound my doings more then your Lordship which makes me need to say the less only I humbly pray you to believe that I aspire to the conscience and commendation of Bonus Civis and Bonus Vir and that I love some things better I confess then I love your Lordship yet I love few persons better both for gratitudes sake and for vertues which cannot hurt but by accident Of which my good affection it may please your Lordship to assure your self of all the true effects and offices that I can yield for as I was ever sorry your Lordship should flie with many wings doubting Icarus fortune so for the growing up of your own feathers be they Ostridges or other kind no man shall be more glad and this is the Axel-tree whereupon I have turned and shall turn Which having already signified unto you by some neer means having so fit a Messenger for mine own Letter I thought good to redouble also by writing And so I commend you to Gods protection From Grayes Inne c. FR. BACON Sir Francis Bacon to Sir Robert Cecil after defeat of the Spaniards in Ireland It may please your Honour AS one that wisheth you all increase of Honour and as one that cannot leave to love the State what interest soever I have or may come to have in it and as one that now this dead Vacation time have some leisure ad aliud agend I will presume to propound unto you that which though you cannot but see yet I know not whether you apprehend and esteem it in so high a degree that is for the best action of importation to your self of sound honour and merit of her Majesty and this Crown without ventosity or popularity that the riches of any occasion or the tide of any opportunity can possibly minister or offer And that is the Causes of Ireland if they be taken by the right handle For if the wound be not ripped up again and come to a festered sense by new foreign succours I think that no Physitian will go on much with letting blood in declinatione morbi but will intend to purge and corroborate To which purpose I send you mine opinion without labour of words in the inclosed and sure I am that if you shall enter into the matter according to the vivacity of your own spirit nothing can make unto you a more gainfull return For you shall make the Queens felicity compleat which now as it is incomparable and for your self you shall make your self as good a Patriot as you are thought Politique and to have no less generous ends then dexterous delivery of your self towards your ends and as well to have true arts and grounds of government as the facility and felicity of practice and negotiation and to be as well seen in the periods and tides of estates as in your own circle and way then the which I suppose nothing can be a better addition and accumulation of honour unto you This I hope I may in privateness write either as a Kinsman that may be bolder or as a

terrible blows but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be content for though she cause our truest friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart then to the most cowardly to strike us though an hours continuance countervail an age of prosperity though she cast in our dish all that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but onely to break such as too much prosperity hath made stiff in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fitted for renewing when the wise rather gather from thence profit and wisdom by the example of David who said Before I was chastised I went wrong Now then he that knoweth the right way will look better to his footing Cardan saith That weeping fasting and sighing are the chief purgers of griefes Indeed naturally they help to asswage sorrow but God in this case is the onely and best Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both Physitian and Cure For friends although your Lordship be scant yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be do but look on good books they are true friends that will neither flatter nor dissemble be you but true to your self applying what they teach unto the party gtieved and you shall need no other comfort nor counsell To them and to Gods holy Spirit directing you in the reading of them I commend your Lordship beseeching him to send you a good issue out of these troubles and from henceforth to work a reformation in all that is amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the bettering of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull servant whilst you remain I remain a faithfull servant to you To Sir Vincent Skinner expostulatory Sir Vincent Skinner I See that by your needless delayes this matter is grown to a new question wherein for the matter it self if it had been staid at the begining by my Lord Treasurer and my Lord Chrncellor I should not so much have stood upon it For the great and daily travels which I take in his Majesties service either are rewarded in themselves in that they are but my duty or else may deserve a much greater matter Neither can I think amiss of any man that in furtherance of the Kings benefit moved the doubt that I knew not what warrant you had But my wrong is that you having had my Lord Treasurers and Mr. Chancellors warrant for payment above a moneth since you I say making your payments belike upon such differences as are better known to your self then agreeable to due respect of his Majesties service have delayed all this time otherwise then I might have expected either from our antient acquaintance or from that regard as one in your place may owe to one in mine By occasion whereof there ensueth to me a greater inconvenience that now my name in sort must be in question amongst you as if I were a man likely to demand that that were unreasonable or to be denied that that is reasonable And this must be because you can pleasure men at pleasure But this I leave with this that it is the first matter wherein I had occasion to discern of your friendship which I see to fall to this That whereas Mr. Chancellor the last time in my mans hearing very honourably said that he would not discontent any man in my place it seems you have no such caution But my writing to you now is to know of you where now the stay is without being any more beholden to you to whom indeed no man ought to be beholden in those cases in a right course And so I bid you farewell FR. BACON To Mr. Toby Matthews Mr. Matthews DO not think me forgetfull or altered towards you But if I should say I could do you any good I should make my power more then it is I do fear that which I am right sorry for that you grow more impatient and busie then at first which makes me exceedingly fear the issue of that which seemeth not to stand at a stay I my self am out of doubt that you have been miserably abused when you were first seduced and that which I take in compassion others may take in severity I pray God that understands us all better then we understand one another continue you as I hope he will at least within the bounds of loyalty to his Majesty and natural piety to your Country And I intreat you much to meditate sometimes upon the effect of Superstition in this last Powder-Treason fit to be tabled and pictur'd in the chambers of Meditation as another Hell above the ground and well justifying the censure of the Heathen that Superstition is far worse then Atheism by how much it is less evil to have no good opinion of God at all then such as are impious towards his divine Majesty and goodness Good Mr. Matthews receive your self back from these courses of perdition Willing to have written a great deal more I continue Your c. FR. BACON To the Lord Treasurer concerning the Sollicitors place AFter the remembrance of my humble duty though I know by late experience how mindfull your Lordship vouchsafeth to be of me and my poor fortune and since it pleased your Lordship during your indisposition when her Majesty came to visit your Lordship to make mention of me for my imployment and preferment yet being now in the Country I do presume that your Lordship who of your self had an honorable care of the matter will not think it a trouble to be sollicited therein My hope is this that whereas your Lordship told me her Majesty was somwhat gravelled upon the offence she took at my Speech in Parliament your Lordships favourable endeavour who hath assured me that for your own part you construe that I spake to the best will be as a good tide to remove her from that shelf And it is not unknown unto your good Lordship that I was the first of the ordinary sort of the lower House that spake for the Subsidie and that which I after spake in difference was but in circumstance of time which methinks was no great matter since there is variety allowed in Councel as a Discord in Musick to make it more perfect But I may justly doubt her Majesties impression upon this particular as her conceipt otherwise of my insufficiencie and unworthiness which though I acknowledge to be great yet it will be the less because I purpose not to divide my self between her Majesty and the causes of other men as others have done but to attend her business only hoping that a whole man meanly able may do as well as half a man better able And if her Majesty thinketh that she shall make an adventure in using one that is rather a man of study then of

give him the Authors of the said Conjuration this being the sole means whereby their own honor might be preserved c. whereby their great zeal and care they had pretended to have of his person might appear But instead of confirming the great zeal they had pretended to bear him all the answer they made him consisted of Arguments against the discovery of the Conspirators So that for the confirmation of the said report there remained no other means then the examination of some of his Councell of State and principall subjects which he put in execution and made them take oath every one particularly in his own presence and commanded that such interrogatories and questions should be propounded unto them that were most pertinent to the accusation so that neither part particle or circumstance remained which was not exactly examined and winnowed and he found in the Duke and the rest that were accused a sincere Innocency touching the accusations and imputation wherewith they were charged This being so he turned to make new instances unto the said Ambassadors that they should not prefer the discovery of the names of the Conspirators to the security of his Royall person and truth and honor of thmeselves and the hazard of an opinion to be held and judged the Traytors of a plot of such malice sedition and danger But the Ambassadors remaining in a knotty kind of obstinacy resolved to conceal the Authors Nevertheless afterterwards he gave them an audience wherein the Marquess of Injiosa took his leave Few days after they demanded new audience pretending that they had somthing to say that concerned the publique good and conduced to the entire restitution of the Palatinate with desire to lose no opportunity that might conduce thereunto and therewith the confirmation and conservation of the friendship with your Majesty having suspended some few days to give them audience thinking that being thereby better advised they would resolve upon a wiser course and declare the Authors of so pernitious an action and having since made many instances and attended the success of so long patience he sent his Secretary and Sir Francis Cottington Secretary to the Prince commanding them that they should signifie unto the Ambassadors that he desired nothing more then the continuance of the friendship 'twixt both the Crowns and if so they had any thing to say they would communicate it to the said Secretaries as persons of so great trust which he sent to that end And if they made difficulty of this that they would chuse amongst his Councell of State those which they liked best and he would command that they should presently repair unto them and if this did not likewise seem best unto them that they would send what they had to say in a Letter sealed up by whom should seem best unto them and he would receive it with his own hands But the Ambassadors misbehaving themselves in all that was propounded the said Secretaries according to the order which they brought told them that they being the Authors of an information so dangerous and seditious had made themselves uncapable to treat further with the King their Master and were it not for the respect to the King his dear and beloved brother and their Master and in contemplation of their condition as Ambassadors of such a Majesty he would and could by the Law of Nations and the right of his own Royall Justice proceed against them with such severity as their offence deserved but for the reasons aforesaid he would leave the reparation hereof to the justice of their King of whom he would demand and require it In conformity whereof the said Ambassador of the King of Great Britain saith that the King his Master hath commanded him to demand reparation satisfaction of your Majesty against the said Marquis de Injiosa and Don Carlos Colomma making your Majesty Judge of the great scandall and enormous offence which they have committed against them and the publick right and expect justice from your Majesty in the demonstrations and chastisements which your Majesty shall inflict upon them which for his proceeding sake with your Majesty and out of your Majesties own uprightness and goodness ought to be expected Furthermore he saith that the King his Master hath commanded him to assure your Majesty that till now he hath not mingled the correspondence and friendship he held with your Majesty with the faults and offences of your Ministers but leaves and restrains them to their own persons and that he remains with your Majesty in the true and ancient friendship and brotherhood as heretofore and that he is ready to give hearing to any thing that shall be reason and to answer thereunto and when your Majesty is pleased to send your Ambassadors thither he will make them all good treaty and receive them with that good love that is due For conclusion the said Ambassador humbly beseecheth your Majesty will be pleased to observe and weigh the care and tenderness wherewith the King his Master proceeded with your Majesties Ambassadors not obliging to precipitate resolutions but giving them much time to prove and give light of that which they had spoken and besides opening unto them many ways that they might comply with their orders if they had any such Which course if they had taken they might well have given satisfaction to the King his Master and moderated the so grounded opinion of their ill proceedings against the peace and so good intelligence and correspondence betwixt both the Crowns Madrid Aug. 5. 1624. The Petition of Francis Philips to King James for the release of Sir Robert Philips Prisoner in the Tower Most dread Soveraign IF the Thrones of Heaven and Earth were to be sollicited one and the same way I should have learned by my often praying to God for your Majesty how to pray to your Majesty for others But the Liturgies of the Church and Court are different as in many other points so especially in this That in the one there is not so poor a friend but may offer his vows immediately to the Almighty whereas in the other a right loyal subject may pour out his soul in vain without an Ora pro nobis Now such is the obscure condition of your humble Suppliant as I know no Saint about your sacred Majesty to whom I can address my orisons or in whose mediation I dare repose the least assurance Let it be therefore lawful for me in this extraordinary occasion to pass the ordinary forms and raising my spirits above uncertainties to fix my intire faith upon your Majesties supreme goodness which is and ever ought to be esteemed both the best Tribunal and the best Sanctuary for a good cause But how good soever my cause be it would be high presumption in me to stand upon it I have therefore chosen rather to cast my self at your Majesties feet from whence I would not willingly rise but remain a monument of sorrow and humility till I have obtained

By which Quadrat I conceive that he meaneth the four principall humours in mans body to wit Choler Blood Flegme and Melancholy which if they be distempered and unfitly mingled the dissolution of the whole doth ensue like to a building which falleth to ruine if the Foundation or Base of it be unsound or disordered and in some of these the vitall spirits are contained and preserved which the other do keep in a convenient temper and as long as they do so the soul and the body dwell together like good friends So that these four are the Base of the conjunction of the other two both which hee saith are Proportion'd equally by Seven and Nine In which words I understand that hee meaneth the influences of the superior substances which govern the inferiour into these two differing parts of man to wit of the Stars the most powerfull of which are the seven Planets into his body and of the Angels which are divided into nine Hierarchies or Orders into the soul which in his Astrophel he saith is By Soveraign choice from the Heavenly Quires select And lineally deriv'd from Angels race And as much as the one do govern the body so much the other do the minde wherein it is to be considered that some are of opinion how at the instant of the conception of a child or rather more effectually at the instant of his birth the conceived Sperme or the tender body doth receive such influence of the heavens as then reigneth over that place where the conception or birth is made and all the Starrs and virtuall places of the Celestiall Orbs participating of the qualities of the seven planets according to the which they are distributed into so many Classes or the compounds of them it cometh to passe that according to the variety of the several aspects of the one and of the other there are various inclinations and qualities in mens bodies but all reduced to seven general heads and the Compounds of them which being to be varied innumerable waies causeth as many different effects yet the influence of some one planet continually predominating but when the matter in the womans womb is capable of a soule to informe it then God sendeth one from heaven into it Eternal God In Paradise whilome did plant this flower Whence he it fetcht out of her native place And did in stock of earthly flesh enrace And this opinion the Author expresseth himself more plainely to be of in another work where he saith There Shee beholds with high aspiring thought The Cradle of her owne Creation Amongst the seats of Angels heavenly wrought Which whether it hath been created ever since the beginning of the world and reserved in some fit place until due time or be created upon the Emergent occasion no man can tell but certaine it is that it is immortal according to that I said when I spake of the Circle which hath no ending and an uncertaine beginning The messengers to convey which soule into the body are the Intelligences that move the Orbs of heaven who according to their several natures do communicate unto it several proprieties and they who are governors of those Stars that have at that instant the superiority in the Planetary aspects whereby it cometh to passe that in all inclinations there is much affinity betweene the soule and the body being that the like is between the Intelligences and the Stars both which communicate their vertues to each of them And these Angels being as I said before of nine severall Hierarchies there are so many principal differences in humane souls which doe participate most of their proprieties with whom in their descent they make longest stay and that had most active power to work upon them and accompanied them with a peculiar Genius which is according to their several governments like the same kind of water that running through various conduits wherein several aromatical and odoriferous things are laid doth acquire several kinds of taste and smells for it is supposed that in their first Creation all soules are alike and that their differing proprieteis arrive unto them afterwards when they passe through the spheers of the governing Intelligences so that by such their influence it may truly be said Nine was the Circle set in heavens place Which verse by assigning his office to the nine and the proper place of the Circle doth give much light to what is said before And for further confirmation that this is he Authors opinion read attentively the sixth Canto of the third booke where most learnedly and at large he delivereth the Tenets of this Philosophy and of that I recommend to you to take particular notice of the second and thirty second Stanzaes and also of the last staffe of his Epithalamium and surveying his workes you shall find him constant disciple of Plato's School All which compacted made a goodly Diapase In nature there is not to be found a more complete and more excellent concordance of all parts then that which is betweene the compaction and uniting together of the body and soul of man both which although they consist of many and most differing faculties and parts yet when they keepe due time with one another do altogether make the most perfect harmony that can be imagined and as the nature of sounds that consist of friendly consonants and accords is to mingle with one another and to slide into the eare with much sweetnesse where by their unity they last a long time and delight it whereas on the contrary side discords do continually jar and fight together and wil not mingle with one another but all of them striving to have the victorie their reluctation and disorder giveth a soone end to their sounds which strike the eare in a harsh and offensive manner and they die in the very beginning of their conflict In like sort when a mans actions are regular and that being directed towards God they become like the lines of a Circle which all meet in the Center then his musick is excellent and compleat and all together are the Authors of that blessed harmony which maketh him hapyy in the glorious vision of Gods perfections wherein the mind is filled with high knowledges and most pleasing contemplations and the senses are as it were drowned with eternal delight and nothing can interrupt this joy this happinesse which is an everlasting Diapase whereas on the contrary part if a mans actions be disorderly and consisting of discord which is When the sensitive part rebelleth and wrastleth with the rational and striveth to oppresse it then this Musick is spoiled and instead of eternal life pleasure and joy it causeth perpetuall death horrour paine and misery which unfortunate estate the Poet describeth elsewhere as in the conclusion of this staffe he intimateth The other happy one which is the never failing reward of such an obedient body and etherial and vertuous mind as he maketh to be the seat of the bright Virgin Alma mans