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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

times thinks himselfe to have no grace at all and yet how poor and afflicted soever he be besides he would not change conditions with the most prosperous man under Heaven that is a manifest Worldling XXVI He thinkes sometimes that the Ordinance of God doe him no good yet he would rather part with his life then be deprived of them XXVII He was born dead yet so that it had been Murther in any to have taken his life away After he began to live he was ever dying XXVIII And though hee hath an eternall life begun in him yet hee makes account he hath a death to passe through XXIX He counts self murther a hainour sinne yet is ever busied in crucifying the flesh and in putting to death his earthly Members not doubting but there will come a time of glory where he shall be esteemed precious in the sight of the great God of Heaven and Earth appearing with boldnesse at his Throne and asking any thing he needs being endued with humility by acknowledging his great crimes and offences and that he deserveth nothing but severe punishment XXX He believes his soul and body shall be as full of glory as them that have more and no more full then theirs that have lesse XXXI He lives invisible to those that see him and those that know him best do but guesse at him yet those many times judge more truly of hm then he doth of himself XXXII The world will sometimes account him a Saint when GOD accounted him a hypocrite and afterwards when the World branded him for an Hypocrite then God owned him for a Saint XXXIII His death makes not an end of him His soule which was put into his body is not to be perfected without his body yet his soul is more happy when it is separated from his body then when it was joyned unto it And his body though torn in pieces burnt in ashes ground to powder turned to rottennesse shall be no loser XXXIV His Advocate his Surety shall be his Judge his mortall part shall become immortall and what was sowne in cor●…ption shall be raised in incorruption and glory and a finite Creature shall possesse an infinite happinesse A Confession of the Faith Written by Sir Francis Bacon Knight Viscount of St. Alban about the time he was Sollicitour Generall to our late Soverign Lord King James I Believe That nothing is without beginning but GOD nor Nature no Matter no Spirit but one only and the same GOD That GOD as he is Eternall Almighty only wise only God in his Nature so he is eternally Father Sonne and holy Spirit in Persons I believe That God is so holy pure realous that it is impossible for him to be pleased in any Creature though the work of his own hand so that neither Angel Man nor World could stand or can stand one moment in his eyes without beholding the same in the face of a Mediator And therefore that before him with whom all things are present The Lambe of God was slain before all Worlds without which Eternal Councel of his it was impossible for him to have descended to any work of Creation but should have enjoyed the blessed and individuall Society of three Persons in God head only for ever but that out of his eternall and infinite goodnesse and love purposing to become a Creator and to communicate with his Creatures he ordained in his Eternall Councell That one Person of the God head should in time be united to one Nature and to one particular of his Creatures That so in the person of the Mediator the true sadder might be fixed whereby God might descend to his Creatures and the Creatures might ascend to God So that by the reconciliation of the Mediatour turning his Countenance towards his Creatures though not in the same degree made way unto the disposition of his most holy and sacred will whereby some of his Creatures might stand and keep their State others might fall and be restored into their state but yet remaine in Being though under wrath and corruption all in the vertue of the Mediator which is the great Mystery and perfect Centry of all Gods ways with his Creatures unto which all his other works and wonders do but serve and refer That he chose according to his good pleasure Man to be that Creature to whose Nature the Eternal Son of God should be united and among the Generations of men elected a small flock to whom the participation of himself he purposed to expresse the riches of his glory All the ministration of Angels damnation of Divels and Reprobats and universall administration of all Creatures and dispensation of all times have no other end but as the wayes and Ambages of God to be furthet glorified of his Saints who are one with the Mediator who is one with God That by vertue of his Eternall Councel touching a Mediator he descendeth at his own good pleasure and according to times seasons to himself known to become a Creator and by his Eternall Word created all things and by his Eternall Spirit doth comfort and preserve them That he made all things in their first estate good and removed from himself the begining of all evill and vanity unto the liberty of the Creature but reserved in himself the begining of all restistitution and the liberty of his grace using neverthelesse and turning the falling and desention of the Creature which to his Presciens was eternally known to make way to his Eternall Councell touching a Mediator and the Work he purposed to accomplish in him That God created Spirits whereof some kept their standing and others fell He created Heaven and Earth and all their Armies and Generations and gave unto them constant and everlasting Laws which we call Nature which is nothing else but the Laws of Creation which Laws neverthelesse have had three changes or times and are to have a fourth and last 1. The first When the matter of Heaven and Earth was created without formes 2. The second The interim of every dayes work 3. The third By the Curse which notwithstanding was no new Creation but a Privation of part of the first Creature And the last end of the world the manner where of is not yet revealed So as the lawes of Nature which now remaine and govern Inviolably till the end of the world begin to be in force when God first rested from his works and ceased to create But received a revocation in part by the curse since which timey the changed not That notwithstanding God hath rested and ceased from creating since the first Sabboth yet neverthelesse he doth accomplish and fullfill his divine will in all things great and small singular and generall as fully and exactly by providence as he would by miracle new creation though his worke be not immediate direct but by compasse not violating Nature which is his owne law upon his Creatures That as at the first the Soule of Man was

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

encounter the main Battell the Wings are yet unbroken they may charge you at an instant as Death therefore walk circumspectly And if at length by the means of our good Masters and Governours you recover the favour you have lost give God the glory in actions not in words only and remember us with some of your past misfortune whose estate and undoings hath doth and may hereafterly in the power of your breath There is great mercy in dispatch delayes are tortures where-with by degrees we are 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 goodnesse or meant not to make a second hazard in Gods house But rather let this crosse make you more zealons in Gods cause sensible in ours and more sensible in all that expresse thus You have been a great enemy of the Papists if you love God be so still but more indeed then heretofore for much of your zeal before was wasted in words call to remembrance they were the Persons that thus prophesied of this Crosse of yours long before it hapned they saw the storm coming being the principall contrivers and furtherers of the Plot these men blew the coals heat the irons and make 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 you your Faith so to the best good work you can do is to do the best you can against them that is to see the Laws severely justly and diligently executed And now we beseech you My Lord seem sensible both of the stroke and hand that strikes you learn of David to leave Shemy and look upon God he hath some great work to do and he prepares you for i● he would not have you faint nor yet bear this Crosse with a Stoicall resolution there is a Christian mediocritie worthy your greatnesse I must be plain perhaps rash had every note you had taken at Sermons bin written in your heart to practise this work had been done long since without the errour of your enemies but when we will not mend our selves God if we belong to him takes us in hand and because he sees maius nitus dolem us per hoc quod foris patimur He therefore sends us outward Crosses which while they cause us to mourn they do comfort us being assured testimonies of his love that sends them To humble our selves therefore to God is the part of a Christian but for the World and our Enemies that councell of the Poet is apt Rebus angustus animosus atque forte apparere sapienter item contrahes vento in nostrum secundo turgida vela The last part of this you forgot yet none need to be ashamed to make use of it and so being armed against casualties you may stand firm against the assaults on the right hand and on the left for this is cer●ain the mind that is most prone to be puffed up with prosperity is most weak and apt to be dejected with the least touch of adversity indeed she is able to stagger a strong man striking terrible blowes especially Immerito veniens paena dolonda venit but true Christian wisdom gives us armour of proof against all these assaults and teacheth us in all estates to be contented for though she cause our trencher friends to declare themselves our enemies though she give heart to the most coward to strike us though an hours continuance countervails an Age of prosperity though she cast in our dishes all the evils that ever we have done yet hath she no power to hurt the humble and wise but only to break such as too much prosperity hath made stift in their own thoughts but weak indeed and fit for ruine when the wise from thence rather gather profit and wisdom by the example of David who saith Before I was chastis●d I went wrong Now then he knows the right way and will look better to his footing Cardans●… saith that weeping fasting and sighing are three great purges of grief Indeed naturally they help to assway Sorrow but God in this Case is the best and only Physician the means he hath ordained are the advice of friends the amendment of our selves for amendment is both the Physick and the Cure For friends though your Lordship be scanted yet I hope you are not altogether destitute if you be look on good books they are true friends that will neither slatter nor dissemble be you betwixt your self applying what they teach to the party grieved and you shall need no other comfort nor Counsellours To them and to Gods holy spirit directing you in the reading of them I commit your Lordship beseeching him to send a good issue of these your troubles and from henceforth to work a Reformation in what hath been amiss and a resolute perseverance proceeding and growth in all that is good and that for his glory the benefit of your self this Church and Common-wealth whose faithfull Servant while you remain I remain a faithfull Servant to you Suppose this boldnesse occasioned by something I hear which I dare not write be not so secure though you see some Clouds break up all crosses and damages may be compared to a Woolf which coming upon a man suddenly causeth his voice and heart to fail but the danger that is expected is toothlesse and half prevented A Letter to my Lord Treasurer in excuse of his Speech in Parliament against the Treble Subsidie It may please your good Lordship I Was sorry to find by your Lordships Speech yesterday that my hastie Speech in Parliament delivered in discharge of my Conscience my duty to God her Majesty and my Countrey was offensive If it were misreported I would be glad to attend your Lordship to disavow any thing I said not If it were misconstrued I would be glad to expound my words to exclude any sense I meant not if my heart be mis-judged by imputation of popularity or opposition I have great wrong and the greater because the manner of my Speech did most evidently shew that I spake simply and only to satisfie my conscience and not with any advantage or policie to sway the cause And my terms carryed all signification of duty zeal towards her Majesty and her service It is very true that from the beginning whatsoever was a double Subsidie J did wish might for presidents sake appear to be extraordinary and for discontents sake might not have been levyed upon the poverty though otherwise J wished it as rising as J think this will prove and more this was my mind J confesse it And therefore J do most humbly pray your good Lordship First to continue me in your own good opinion and then to perform the part of an Honourable friend towards your poor humble and obedient Servant and Allyance in drawing Her MAJESTIE to accept of the sinceritie and simplicitie of my zeal and

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