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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28378	Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ...	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing B319; ESTC R17601	372,122	441

If any have lost his first Love If any be neither Hot nor Cold If any have stumbled too fondly at the Threshold in such sort that he cannot sit well that entred ill It is time they return whence they are fallen and confirm the Things that remain Great is the Weight of this Fault Et eorum causâ abhorrebant à Sacr●ficio Domini And For their Cause did Men abhor the Adoration of God But howsoever it be Those which have sought to deface them and cast Contempt upon them are not to be excused It is the precept of Salomo● that the Rulers be not Reproached No not in our Thought But that we draw our very Conceit into a Modest Interpretation of their Doings The Holy Angel would give no Sentence of Blasphemy against the Common Sl●underer but said Increpet te Dominus The Lord Rebuke thee The Apostle Saint Paul though against him that did pollute Sacred Justice with Tyrannous Violence he did justly denounce ●he Judgement of God saying Per●utiet te Dominus The Lord will strike thee yet in saying Paries dealbate he thought he had gone too far and retracted it Whereupon a Learned Father said Ipsum quamvis inane nomen umbram Sacerdotis expavit The ancient Councels and Synodes as is noted by the Ecclesiasticall Story when they deprived any Bishop never recorded the Offence but buried it in perpetuall Silence Only Cham purchased his Curse by revealing his Fathers Disgrace And yet a much gre●ter Fault is it to ascend from their Person to their Calling and draw that in question Many good Fathers spake rigourously and severely of the unworthinesse of Bishops As if presently it did forfeit and cease their Office One saith Sacerdotes nominamur non sumus We are called Priests but Priests we are not Another saith Nisi bonum Opus amplecta●is Episcopus esse non potes Except thou undertake the good work thou canst not be a Bishop Yet they meant nothing less then to move doubt of their Calling or Ordination The Second Occasion of Controversies is the Nature and Humour of some Men. The Church never wanteth a kind of Persons which love the Salutation of Rabbi Master Not in Ceremony or Complement but in an Inward Authority which they seek over Mens Minds in drawing them to depend upon their Opinions and to seek Knowledge at their Lips These Men are the true Successours of Diotrephes the Lover of Preheminence And not Lord Bishops Such Spirits do light upon another sort of Natures which do adhere to these Men Quorum gloria in Obsequio Stiffe Followers and such as zeal mervailously for those whom they have chosen for their Masters This latter sort for the most part are Men of young years and superficiall Understanding Car●ied away with par●iall respects of Persons Or with the Enticing Appearance of Godly Names and Pretences Pauci res ipsas sequuntur plures nomina Rerum plurimi nomina Magistrorum Few follow the things themselves more the names of the Things and most the Names of their Masters About these generall Affections are wreathed and interlaced accidentall and private Emulations and Discontentments All which together break forth into contentions Such as either violate Truth Sobriety or Peace These generalities apply themselves The Vniversities are the Seat or the Continent of this Disease Whence it hath been and is derived into the Rest of ●he Realm There Men will no longer be é numero of the Numeber There do others side themselves before they know their Right Hand from their Left So it is true which is said Transeunt ab Ignorantiâ ad praejudicium They skip from Ignorance to a prejudicate Opinion And never take a sound Ju●gement in their way But as it is well noted Inter Iuvenile Iudicium senile praejudicium omnis veritas corumpitur Through want of years when Men are not indifferent But partiall then their Judgement is weak and unripe And when it groweth to Strength and Ripenesse by that time it is forestalled with such a Number of prejudicate Opinions as it is made unprofitable So as between these two all Truth is corrupted In the mean while the Honourable Names of Sincerity Reformation and Discipline are put in the fore Ward So as Contentions and Evill Zeals cannot be touched except these Holy Things be thought first to be violated But howsoever they shall infer the Sollicitation for the Peace of the Church to proceed from Carnall Sense yet I will conclude ever with the Apostle Paul Cum sit inter vos Zelus Contentio nonne carnales estis While there is amongst you Zeal and Contention are ye not carnall And howsoever they esteem the Compounding of Controversies to savour of Mans Wisedom and Human Pollicy And think themselves led by the Wisedom which is from above yet I say with Saint James Non est ista sapientia de sursum descendens sed Terrena Animalis Diabolica Vbi enim Zelus Contentio ●bi Inconstantia omne opus pravum Of this Inconstancy it is said by a Learned Father Procedere volunt non ad perf●ctionem sed ad permutationem They seek to go forward still not to perfection but ●o change The Third Occasion of Controversies I observe to be an Extream and unlimitted Detestation of some former Heresie or Co●ruption of the Church already acknowledged and convicted This was the Cause that produced the Heresie of Arrius grounded especially upon De●estation of C●ntilism least the Christians should seem by the Assertion of the equall Divinity of our Saviour Christ to approach unto the Acknowledgement of more ●ods then One. The Detestation of the Heresie of Arrius produced that of Sabellius who holding ●or Ex●c●able the Dissimilitude which Arrius pretended in the Trinity fled so far from him as he fell upon that other extremity to deny the Distinction of Pers●ns And to say they were but onely Names of sev●rall Offices and Dispensations Yea most of the Heresies and ●ch●smes of the Church have sprung up of this Root While M●n have made it as it were their S●ale by which to measure the Bounds of the most perfect Religion Taking it by the furth●st distance from the Errour last condemned These be Posthumi Haeresium Filii Heresies that arise out of the Ashes of other Heresies that are extinct and amortized This Manner of Apprehension doth in some degree possesse many in our Times They think it the true Touchstone to try what is good and evill by measuring what is more or lesse opposite to the Institutions of the Church of Rome Be it Ceremony Be it Pollicy or Government yea be it other Institutions of greater Weight That is ever most perfect which is removed most deg●ees from that Church And that is ever polluted and blemished which participateth in any Appearance with it This is a subtile and dangerous Conceit for Men to entertain Apt to delude themselves more apt to delude the People and most apt of all to calumniate their Adversaries This

Countrey and in his own House Concerning which I will give you a Tast onely out of a Letter ●ritten from Italy The Store-House of Refined Witts to the late Earle of Devonshire Then the Lord Candish I will expect the New Essayes of my Lord Chancell●r Bacon As also his History with a great deal of Desire And whatsoever else he shall compose But in Particular of his History I promise my Self a Thing perfect and Singular especially in Henry the Seventh Where he may exercise the Talent of his Divine Understanding This Lord is more and more known And his Books here more and more delighted in And those Men that have more than ordinary Knowledge in Humane Affaires esteem him one of the most capable Spirits of this Age And he is truly such Now his Fame doth not decrease with Dayes since but rather encrease Divers of his Works have been anciently and yet lately translated into other Tongues both Learned and Modern by Forraign Pens Severall Persons of Quality during his Lordships Life crossed the Seas on purpose to gain an Opportunity of Seeing him and Discoursing with him● whereof one carried his Lordships Picture from Head to Foot over with Him into France As a Thing which he foresaw would be much desired there That so they might enjoy the Image of his Person As well as the Images of his Brain his Books Amongst the rest Marquis Fiat A French Nobleman who came Ambassadour into England in the Beginning of Queen Mary Wife to Charles● was taken with an extraordinary Desire of Seeing him For which he made way by a Friend And when he came to him being then through weaknesse confined to his Bed The Marquis saluted him with this High Expression That his Lordship had been ever to Him like the Angels of whom he had often heard And read much of them in Books But he never saw them After which they contracted an intimate Acquaintance And the Marquis did so much revere him That besides his Frequent visits They wrote Letters one to the other under the Titles and Appellations of Father and Son As for his many Salutations by Letters from Forraign Worthies devoted to Learning I forbear to mention them Because that is a Thing common to other Men of Learning or Note together with him But yet in this Matter of his Fame I speak in the Comparative onely and not in the Exclusive For his Reputation is great in his own Nation also Especially amongst those that are of a more Acute and sharper Iudgement Which I will exemplifie but with two Testimonies and no more The Former When his History of King Henry the Seventh was to come forth It was delivered to the old Lord Brooke to be perused by him who when he had dispatched it returned it to the Authour with this Eulogy Commend me to my Lord And bid him take care to get good Paper Inke For the Work is Incomparable The other shall be that of Doctor Samuel Collins late Provost of Kings Colledge in Cambridge A Man of no vulgar Wit who affirmed unto me That when he had read the Book of the Advancement of Learning He found Himself in a case to begin his Studies a new And that he had lost all the Time of his ●tudying before It hath been desired That something should be signified touching his Diet And the Regiment of his Health Of which in regard of his Universall Insight into Nature he may perhaps be to some an Example For his Diet It was rather a plentifull and liberall Diet as his Stomack would bear it then a Restrained Which he also commended in his Book of the History of Life and Death In his younger years he was much given to the Finer and Lighter sort of Meats As of Fowles and such like But afterward when he grew more Iudicious He preferred the stronger Meats such as the Shambles afforded As those Meats which bred the more firm and substantiall Juyces of the Body And lesse Dissipable upon whi●h he would often make his Meal Though he had other Meats upon the Table You may be sure He would not neglect that Himself which He so much extolled in his Writings And that was the Vse of Nitre Whereof he took in the Quantity of about three Grains in thin warm Broath every Morning for thirty years together next before his Death And for Physick he did indeed live Physically but not miserably For he took onely a Maceration of Rhubarb Infused into a Draught of White Wine and Beer mingled together for the Space of half an Hour Once in six or seven Dayes Immediately before his Meal whether Dinner or Supper that it might dry the Body lesse which as he said did carry away frequently the Grosser Humours of the Body And not diminish or carry away any of the Spirits As Sweating doth And this was no Grievous Thing to take As for other Physick in an ordinary way whatsoever hath been vulgarly spoken he took not His Receit for the Gout which did constantly ease him of his Pain within two Hours Is already set down in the End of the Naturall History It may seem the Moon had some Principall Place in the Figure of his Nativity For the Moon was never in her Passion or Eclipsed but he was surprized with a sudden Fit of Fainting And that though he observed not nor took any previous Knowledge of the Eclipse thereof And assoon as the Eclipse ceased he was restored to his former strength again He died on the 9th Day of Aprill in the year 1626● In the early Morning of the Day then celebrated for our Saviours Resurrection In the 66th year of his Age At the Earle of Arundells House in High-gate near London To which Place he casually repaired about a week before God so ordaining that he should dye there Of a Gentle Feaver accidentally accompanied with a great Cold whereby the Defluxion of Rheume fell so plentifully upon his Breast that he died by Suffocation And was buried in Saint Michaels Church at Saint Albans Being the Place designed for his Buriall by his last Will and Testament Both because the Body of his Mother was interred there And because it was the onely Church then remaining within the Precincts of old Verulam Where he hath a Monument erected for him of White Marble By the Care and Gratitude of Sir Thomas Meautys Knight formerly his Lordships Secretary Afterwards Clark of the Kings Honourable Privy Counsell under two Kings Representing his full Pourtraiture in the Posture of studying with an Inscription composed by that Accomplisht Gentleman and Rare Wit Sir Henry Wotton But howsoever his Body was Mortall yet no doubt his Memory and Works will live And will in all probability last as long as the World lasteth In order to which I have endeavoured after my poor Ability to do this Honour to his Lordship by way of conducing to the same SPEECHES IN Parliament STAR-CHAMBER Kings Bench CHANCERY AND OTHER-WHERE Of the Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON