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A92757	Scrinia sacra; secrets of empire, in letters of illustrious persons. A supplement of the Cabala. In which business of the same quality and grandeur is contained: with many famous passages of the late reigns of K. Henry 8. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charls.; Cábala. Part 2.	Bedell, Gabriel, d. 1668.; Collins, Thomas, fl. 1650-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing S2110; Thomason E228_2; ESTC R8769	210,018	264

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 Scholar that hath liberty of discourse without committing of any absurdity If not I pray your Honour to believe I ever loved her Majesty and the State and now love your self and there is never any vehement love without some absurdity as the Spaniard well saith De suario con la calentura So desiring your Honours pardon I ever continue c. FR. BACON Considerations touching the Queens service in Ireland by Sir Francis Bacon THe Reduction of the Country as well to Civility and Justice as to Obedience and Peace which things as th' affairs now stand I hold to be unspeakable consisteth in four points 1. The extinguishing of the Reliques of War 2. The Recovery or the hearts of the People 3. The removing of the root and occasions of new trouble● 4. Plantation and buildings For the first concerning the places times and particularities of further prosecution in fact I leave it to the opinion of men of war onely the difficulty is to distinguish and discern the propositions which shall be according to the ends of the State here that is final and summary towards the extirpation of the trouble sfrom those which though they pretend the publick ends yet may referre indeed to the more private and compendious ends of the Councel there or other particular Governors or Captains But still as I touched in my letter I do think much letting blood in declinatione morbi is against method of cure and that it will but exasperate necessity and despair and per case discover the hollowness of that which is done already which none blazeth to the best shew For Taglaes ●nd proscription of two or three of the principall Rebels they are no doubt jure Gentium lawfull in Italy usually practised upon the Banditi best in season when a side goeth down and may do good in two kinds the one if it take effect the other in the distrust which followeth amongst the Rebels themselves But of all other points to my understanding the most effectuall is the well expressing or impressing of the design of this State upon that miserable and desolate kingdom containing the same between these two lists or boundaries the one that the Queen seeketh not an extirpation of the people but a reduction and now that she hath chastised them by Royall power and Arms according to the necessity of the occasion her Majesty taketh no pleasure in effusion of blood or displanting of ancient generations the other that her Majesties Princely care is principally and intentionally bent upon that action of Ireland and that she seeketh not so much the ease of charge as the Royall performance of her Office of Protection and reclaim of those her Subjects And in a word that the case is allowed as far as may stand with the honor of the time past which it is easie to reconcile as in my last note I shewed And again I do repeat that if her Majesties design be ex professo to reduce wild and barbarous people to civility and justice as well as to reduce Rebels to obedidience it maketh weakness true Christianity and conditions turn graces and so hath a fineness in turning utility upon point of honor or these times And besides if her Majesty shall suddenly abate the lists of her Forces and shall do nothing to countervail it in the point of reputation of a publick proceeding I doubt things may too soon fall back into the state they were in Next to this adding reputation to the cause by imprinting an opinion of her Majesties care and intention

called in question must go away uncensured yet consider that accusations make wounds and leave scarres and though you see your tale behind your back your self free and the Covert before yet remember there are stands trust not a reconciled enemies but think the peace is but to secure you for further advantage expect a second and a third encounter the main battell the wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant or death before them walk therefore circumspectly and if at length by means of our good endeavours and yours you recover the favour that you have lost give God the glory in action not in words onely and remember us with sense of your past misfortune whose estate hath doth and may hereafter lye in the power of your breath There is a great mercy in dispatch delays are tortures wherewith we are by degrees rent out of our estates do not you if you be restored as some others do fly from the service of vertue to serve the time as if they repented their goodness or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods House but rather let this cross make you zealous in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all which express thus You have been a great enemy to Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal was heretofore wasted in words call to remembrance that they were the persons that prophesied of that cross of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the plot the men that blew the coals heat the Iron and made all things ready they owe you a good turn and will if they can pay it you you see their hearts by their deeds prove then your faith so too The best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Law severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you my Lord be sensible both of the stroak and hand that striketh learn of David to leave Shimei and call upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepareth you for it he would neither have you faint nor yet bear this cross with a Stoical resolution There is a Christian mediocrity worthy of your greatness I must be plain perhaps rash Had some notes which you have taken at Sermons been written in your heart to practise this work had been done long ago without the envy of your enemies But when we will not mind our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he seeth that we have unbridled stomacks therefore he sends outward crosses which while they cause us to mourn do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them to humble our selves therefore before God is the part of a Christian but for the world and our enemies the counsell of the Poet is apt Tune cede malis sed contra andentior ito The last part of this counsell you forget yet none need be asham'd to make use of it that so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left For this is certain the mind that is most prone to be puft up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least puff of adversity Indeed she is strong enough to make an able man stagger striking 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 Gardan 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 at true friends that will neither flatter nor dissemble be you but true to your self applying what they teach unto the party grieved 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 Chancellor 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

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 anything 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 tn 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 to other But the Liturgies of the Church and Court are different as in many other points to 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 an 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 some gracious answer to my Petition For though your Majesties thoughts cannot discern so low as to conceive how much it importeth a poor distressed Suppliant to be reviled neglected yet you may be pleased to believe that we are as highly affected and as much anguished with the extremities that press our little fortunes as Princes are with theirs Which I speak not out of any pride I take in comparing small things with great but only to dispose your Maiesty to a favourable construction of my words if they seem to be overcharged with zeal and affection or to express more earnestness then perhaps your Majesty may think the business merits as my self values it The suit I am to make to your Majesty is no sleight one it may be easily granted without references For I dare assure your Majesty upon my life it is neither against the Laws of the Kingdom nor will diminish any of your treasure either that of your coffers or that of your peoples hearts it being an act of clemencie or rather a word for even that will satisfie to create in your poor dejected Suppliant a new heart and send him away as full of content as he is now of grief and despair Nor is it for my self I thus implore your Majesties grace but for one that is far more worthy and in whom all that I am consists my dear Brother who I know not by what misfortune hath fallen or rather been pushed into your Majesties displeasure not in dark and crooked ways as corrupt and ill-affected subjects use to walk and near to break their necks in but even in the great road which both himself all good Englishmen that know not the paths of the Court would have sworn would have led most safely and most directly to your Majesties service from your Majesties displeasure there needs no other invention to crucifie a generous and honest-minded suppliant upon whom hath issued and been derived a whole torrent of exemplary punishment wher●in his reputation his person and his estate grievously suffered For having upon the last process of Parliament retired himself to his poor house in the Countrey with hope a while to breathe after these trouble some affairs and still breathing nothing but your Majesties service he was sent for ere he had finished his Christmas by a Sergeant at Arms who arrested him in his own house with as much terror as belongs to the apprehending of treason it self But thanks be to God his conscience never started and for his obedience herein shewed it was not in the power of any authority to surprize it For at the instant without asking one minutes time of resolution he rendered himself to the officers discretion who according to his directions brought him up captive and presented him at the Councell Table as a Delinquent from whence he was as soon committed to Tower where he ever since hath been kept close prisoner and that with so strict a hand as his own beloved wife and my self having sometime since urgent and unffaigned ●●●casion to speak with him about some private business of his Family and here upon making humble petition to the Lords of your Majesties most honorable Privy Councell for the favour of accesse we were to our great discomforts denied it by reason as their Lordships were pleased to declare unto us that he had not satisfied your Majesty fully in some points which being so far from being his fault as I dare say it is the greatest part of his affliction that he sees himself debarred from means of doing it The Lords Commissioners that were appointed by your Majesty to examine his offence since the first week of his imprisonment have not done him the honor to be with him by which means not onely his body but the most part of his

line and a superficies or body and in numbers by an Unity a Denary and a Centenary The first which is onely pure and single like an indivisible point or an Unity hath relation onely to the Divine Nature that point then moving in a sphericall manner which serveth to express the perfections of Gods actions describeth the circle of our souls and of Angels and of intellectual substances which are of a pure and simple nature but receiveth that from what is so in a perfecter manner and that hath his from none else like lines that are made from the flowing of points or denaries that are composed of unities beyond both which there is nothing In the last place bodies are to be ranked which are composed of the Elements and they likewise suffer composition and may very well be compared to the lowest of figures which are composed of lines that owe their being to points and such are Triangles or to Centenaries that are composed of Denaries and they of Unites but if wee will compare these together by proportion God must be left out since there is an infinite distance between the simplicity and perfection of his nature and the composition and imperfection of all created substances as there is between an indivisible point and a continuate quantity or between a simple unity and compounded number so that onely the other two kindes of substances do enter into this consideration and of them I have already proved that mans soule is of the one the noblest being dignified by Hypostaticall union above all other intellectual substances and his elementated body of the other the most low and corruptible whereby it is evident that these two are the first and last proportions both in respect of their owne figure and of what they expresse The one imperfect mortal faeminine Th' other immortal perfect masculine Mans body hath all the properties of imperfect matter it is but the patient of it self alone it can doe nothing it is lyable to corruption and dissolution if it once be deprived of the forme which actuateth it selfe and is incorruptible and immortal And as the feminine sex is imperfect and receiveth perfection from the masculine so doth the body from the soul which to it is in lieu of a Male and as in corporall generations the Female doth afford but grosse and passive matter unto which the Male giveth active heat and prolificall vertue so in spirituall generations which are the operations of the Mind the body administreth only the Organs which if they were not imployed by the Soul would of themselves serve to nothing And as there is a mutuall appetence between the male and the female between matter and form so there is between the body and soul of a man but what ligament they have that our Author defineth not and peradventure Reason is not able to attaine unto it yet he telleth us what is the Foundation that this Machine resteth upon and what keepeth the Parts together in these words And 'twixt them both a Quadrat was the base 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 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 setcht 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