If he cannot make any thing of it for the present, yet to make it as a seed of somewhat in time to come. 1. the sands, as we see in M. Brutus, when he "Te colui, virtus, ut rem; at tu nomen inane es;" tired. WISDOM OF GOVERNMENT........ 238 Government is a part of knowledge, secret and re2. In the governors towards the government all things ought to be manifest. Statesmen are the proper persons to write on universal justice.. 4. Of universal justice. 8. He should reserve a power to retreat. 237 3. 9. He should be cautious in his friendships “Et ama tanquam inimicus futurus, et odi 37. Fortunes may be obtained without precept. 238 There are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams; and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains. 5. Of the wisdom of a law maker..... 238 6. Bacon intends a work in aphorisms upon universal justice.2 They come tumbling into some men's laps; 38. Of vicious precepts for self-advancement.... 237 It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way 40. In the pursuit of fortune, man ought to set before It is to small purpose to have an erected face 42. The adopting vicious precepts cannot be tolerated by the intended good ends. 43. Fortune, like a woman, if too much wooed, is the 238 further off... 44. Divinity points upwards to the kingdom of God: philosophy inwards to the goods of the mind. The human foundation hath somewhat of ment of Learning in existence, with Shakspeare's autograph 8. Of the laws of England...... 239 The whole book is not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards: so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands. Observations upon the prospects of the progress of knowledge. REVEALED RELIGION.. 239 1. It is the sabbath of all men's labours. 3. Sacred theology is grounded upon the oracle of God. 4. The use of reason in matters spiritual is exten sive. The Christain Faith, as in all things so in this, deserveth to be highly magnified; holding and preserving the golden mediocrity in this point between the law of the heathen and the law of Mahomet, which have embraced the two extremes. For the religion of the heathen had no constant belief or confession, but left all to the liberty of argument; and the religion of Mahomet, on the other side, interdicteth argument altogether: the one having the very face of error, and the other of imposture. 5. Uses of reason in spiritual matters.... 1. In the conception of revealed mysteries. 2. In inferences from revelation. 240 6. A treatise on the limits of reason in spiritual matters is wanting. The same sentiment is contained in the Essays. "It is usually said of Fortune that she has locks before, but none behind." 7. "Fortune is like Time, if you do not take him by the forelock; he turns his bald noddle to you;" or at least, turneth the handle of the bottle first to be received; and after the belly, which is hard to clasp. ■ Events are not in our power; but it always is to make a Minute Philosopher. good use of the very worst. This would be an opiate to stay and bridle not only the vanity of curious speculations, wherewith the schools labour, but the fury of controversies, wherewith the church laboureth. Parts of divinity. 1. The matter revealed. 2. The nature of the revelation.. 241 We see Moses when he saw the Israelite and the Egyptian fight, he did not say, Why strive you? but drew his sword and slew the Egyptian: but when he saw the two Israelites fight, he said, You are brethren, why strive you? seated. 2. The perfection of the laws of nature. 3. The secrets of the heart of man..... 242 4. The future succession of all ages. The coat of our Saviour was entire without 18. The expositions of Scripture are not deficient. seam, and so is the doctrine of the Scriptures 19. A work is wanted of a sound collection of texts, in itself; but the garment of the church was not dilated into commonplaces, or hunting of divers colours. after controversies, or methodized, but scattered. MATTER REVEALED... The Limits of the Information..... 241 9. Considerations respecting the limits. The Sufficiency of the Information.... 241 10. Considerations respecting the sufficiency. 1. Fundamental and perfective points of reli- They ought to be piously and wisely distin- 2. The gradations of light for the generation The Acquisition of the Information... 241 11. It rests upon the sound interpretation of Scrip ture. They are the fountains of the waters of life. 12. Different modes of interpreting Scripture. 1. Methodical. 2. Solute or at large. 20. Different sorts. 243 The one being as the internal soul of reli gion, and the other as the external body. 1. Matter of belief. 2. Matter of science. 3. Liturgy 4. Government. 1. Patrimony of the church. 2. The franchises of the church. 3. The jurisdiction of the church. 4. The laws of the church. This divine water which excelleth so much 22. Deviations from religion. that of Jacob's well, is drawn forth much in of wells and fountains; either it is first Atheism. Heresy. Idolatry. 243 Witchcraft. fetched and derived for use; or else it is 23. There is no deficience in divinity. drawn and received in buckets and vessels im- 13. Methodical mode of interpretation. It seems to be more ready, but is more subject to corrupt. 14. Objects of methodical interpretation. 1. Summary brevity. 2. Compacted strength. 3. Complete perfection. (a) HUMAN PHILOSOPHY; OR, KNOWLEDGE OF MAN. ANALYSIS OF ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. 1. THE EXCELLENCE OF, (1. Objections to Learning. 162. AND OF DISSEMINATING LEARNING. 162. 1. By divines. 162. 2. By politicians. 164. 3. From faults of learned men. 166. 12. Advantages of Learning 174. 1. Divine proofs. 174. 12. Human proofs. 176. 1. History of creatures. 187. 1. Natural. 187. 2. History of marvels. 188. 3. History of arts. 188. 3. The persons of the learned. 185. 1. Different histories. 187. 1. Memorials. 189. 2. Civil. 189. 2. Antiquities. 189. 3. Perfect history. 189. 1. Chronicles. 1. Simple. 189. 2. Biography. 3. Relations. 2. Mixed. 191. 1. History of the church. 191. 191. 2. History of prophecy. 191. 3. History of providence. 192. 2. The mind. 205. 1. Of Conversation. 228. 2. Its faculties. 51. Helps of memory. 212. 1. The Understanding. 3. Memory. 212. 2. Nature of memory. 212. 2. The Will. 218. 1. Te Image of Good. 219. 2. The Culture of the Mind. 223. ture saith of the wisest king, "That his heart was as the sands of the sea:" which though it be one of the largest bodies, yet it consisteth of the smallest and finest portions; so hath God given your majesty a composition of understanding admirable, being able to compass and comprehend the greatest matters, and nevertheless to touch and apprehend the least: whereas it should seem an impossi THERE were, under the law, excellent king, both the least occasion presented, or the least spark of daily sacrifices, and freewill-offerings; the one pro-another's knowledge delivered. And as the Scripceeding upon ordinary observance, the other upon a devout cheerfulness: in like manner there belongeth to kings from their servants both tribute of duty and presents of affection. In the former of these I hope I shall not live to be wanting, according to my most humble duty, and the good pleasure of your majesty's employments: for the latter I thought it more respective to make choice of some oblation, which might rather refer to the propriety and ex-bility in nature, for the same instrument to make itcellency of your individual person, than to the business of your crown and state. self fit for great and small works. And for your gift of speech, I call to mind what Cornelius Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar; " Augusto profluens, et quæ principem deceret, eloquentia fuit." For, if we note it well, speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty, or speech that savoureth of the affectation of art and precepts, or speech that is framed after the imitation of some pattern of eloquence, though never so excellent, all this has somewhat servile, and holding of the subject. But your majesty's manner of speech is indeed prince-like, flowing as from a fountain, and yet streaming and branching itself into nature's order, full of facility and felicity, imitating none, and inimitable by any. 'And as in your civil estate there appeareth to be an emulation and contention of your majesty's virtue with your fortune; a virtuous disposition with a fortunate regiment; a virtuous expectation, when time was, of your greater fortune, with a prosperous possession thereof in the due Wherefore, representing your majesty many times unto my mind, and beholding you not with the inquisitive eye of presumption, to discover that which the Scripture telleth me is inscrutable, but with the observant eye of duty and admiration leaving aside the other parts of your virtue and fortune, I have been touched, yea, and possessed with an extreme wonder at those your virtues and faculties, which the philosophers call intellectual; the largeness of your capacity, the faithfulness of your memory, the swiftness of your apprehension, the penetration of your judgment, and the facility and order of your elocution; and I have often thought, that of all the persons living that I have known, your majesty were the best instance to make a man of Plato's opinion, that all knowledge is but remembrance, and that the mind of man by nature knoweth all things, and hath but our own native and original motions (which by the strange-time; a virtuous observation of the laws of marriage, ness and darkness of this tabernacle of the body are sequestered) again revived and restored: such a light of nature I have observed in your majesty, and such a readiness to take flame and blaze from VOL. 1.-21 with most blessed and happy fruit of marriage; a virtuous and most Christian desire of peace, with a fortunate inclination in your neighbour princes thereunto: so likewise, in these intellectual matters 02 161 |