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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51447	Themis avrea the laws of the fraternity of the Rosie Crosse / written in Latin by Count Michael Maierus, and now in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honourable and mysterious society of wise and renowned philosophers ; whereto is annexed an epistle to the fraternity in Latine, from some here in England.; Themis aurea. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.	1656 (1656)	Wing M287; ESTC R21726	55,939	168

severely punished the wicked for their iniquity with eternal punishment that he rewarded the good son their integrity with a life which shall neither end nor decay Others were of an opinion that this Themis was a Prophetesse amongst the Grecians and did foretel what should happen by which endowment she got great Authority so that they esteemed her an Enthusiastesse and thought that she had familiarity with Spirits nay even with the gods themselves from whom she sprung and had her Original to whom also after her decease she was supposed to have returned where they have enlarged her Commission in relation to mankind When she was accounted the Goddesse of Justice by her Kings held their Dominions she instructed them in their duties to their Subjects and made the rude multitude pay due homage and subjection to their lawful Princes She laid the foundation of Magistracy and built an orderly structure of Politicks for which cause she was in so high estimation amongst the Heathens that they supposed the World by her Divinity to be upheld and supported They erected Temples to her and Instituted divine Rites and Ceremonies in honour of her The first that was dedicated to her was in B●●t●a neer to the River Cephissus at which after the Flood Deucali●● and Pyrrha are ●●id to have arrived where they enquired of the Oracle how mankind which had perished in the Deluge might again be restored as Ovid Lib. primo O Themis shew what Art t is that repairs Lost mankind voutchafe t' help our sunk affairs This also was Allegorically spoken concerning our Themis that she being very prudent and more beautiful then all her Contemporaries was beloved of Jupiter but after much sollicitation he was repulsed and all intercourse broken off till at length she was surprized in Macedonia and forced to be espoused to him by whom she was with childe and brought forth three Daughters Equity Justice and Peace She is reported to have had by the same Jupiter a son named Medius Fidius or the righteous being Faiths Guardian wherefore an Oath sworne by his name was sacred and unalterable and this solemnity the Roman Patriarchs challenged to themselves as their due because it was held an execrable thing for an ingenious man to be forsworne Although we are confident that there was never upon the face of the earth any such Themis who after consultation returned that Oracle much lesse that she was translated into heaven as the Heathens ignorantly imagined yet we confesse that the true Idea of Justice or an universal notion of Vertue may herein though occultly be insinuated for out of her springs good Laws and not as some think out of Vice which is onely a thing accidental This Equity keeps Kingdomes in safety Common-wealths and Cities in order and lastly emproves small beginnings to a great height and degree of perfection This Equity is that rule by which men ought to frame their words and actions Polycletus a famous Statuarie made a Book in which was proportionably expressed to the life each member in mans body and he called this a patterne by which other Artificers might examine and prove their peices Such Rules indeed there are in all Arts and Sciences named Axioms which by deduction of things from their principles do rightly conclude This Equity doth so poise all our manners and actions that they are not swayed to injustice and wickednesse whereby very many inconveniences are eschewed which happily might lead us away For as Luxury and Riot are the causes of diseases so injustice hath annexed to it as an inseperable companion losse and punishment and on the contrary as Health renders men most happy not onely because of it selfe but as it is big with other Benefits so by this Equity wholesome Laws are enacted to the great comfort and advantage of mankind But because this is so cleare to every Rational man in vain are words spent to demonstrate it CHAP. II. Those Laws which the Founder of this Fraternity prescribed to the R. C. are all good and just AS no Rational man can deny the absolute necessity of good Laws so it is most fit that such Laws should have their due praise and commendations that the sluggard hereby might be pricked on to Vertue and the diligent might have his deserved reward Seing therefore that these Positions or Laws laid down by the Father of the honourable Fraternity are worthy of special view we shall truly according to their nature and the advantages men may receive from them Crown them with due commendations counting them not onely worthy of acceptance but an Encomium First it is most reasonable that every Society if it be good should be governed by good Laws if otherwise by bad but that this Society is good and lawful we do not onely suppose but may gather from particular circumstances to which their Positions are agreeable Something may be said concerning their number of six which hath very much of perfection in it so that the Society by an abundance of Laws is not in confusion nor yet by the paucity and fewnesse tied up from all liberty When there are multitudes and great diversity of Laws we may probably conjecture that there will happen many crimes and enormities for he that sleighteth the streight path of Nature and Reason will certainly be misled into many windings and labyrniths before he comes to his journeys end From these inconveniences our Laws are free as well in quality as number they are voluntary and such to whom all may easily assent as most Rational They follow in their order 1. That every one of them who shall travel must professe Medicine and cure Gratis 2. That none of them notwithstanding their being of the Fraternity shall be enjoyned one habit but may suit themselves to the Custome and Mode of those Countries in which they reside 3. That each Brother of the Fraternity shall every yeare upon the day C. make his appearance in the place of the holy Spirit or else signifie by Letters the true cause of his Absence 4. That every Brother shall chuse a fit person to be his Successour after his decease 5. That the word R. G. shall be their Seale Character or Cognisance 6. That this Fraternity shall be conceal'd an hundred years The Brethren are solemnly sworn and strictly engaged to each other to keep and observe these Conditions and Articles in all which we finde nothing either prejudicial to themselves or hurtful and injurious to others but that they have an excellent scope and intention which is the glory of God and the good of their Neighbour We shall further prosecute these things and by running thorow their several causes and circumstances give any one a greater light into them In the first place as touching the first Author of these Lawes it will be worthy our consideration to examine whether he had power and authority to make such Laws for himselfe and others and of requiring obedience thereto then who was the Author and