stupendious proof of omnipotence Neither is it otherwise with the invisible hoast of heaven If the power of one Angel be such that he were able at his makers appointment to redact the world to nothing and the nature of any one so eminent that it far surmounts any part of the visible Creation what shal we say to those next-to-infinite numbers of mighty and majestical spirits wherewith the great God of heaven hath furnished his throne and footstool I know not upon what grounds that by some magnified Prophetesse could so precisely compute that if all men should be reckoned up from the first Adam to the last man that shal stand upon the earth there might be to each man assigned more then ten Angels Ambroses account is yet fuller who makes all mankind to be that one lost sheep in the parable and the Angels whose chore the great shepheard left for a time to come down to this earthly wildernesse to be the ninety and nine Lo here wel-near an hundred for one Yet even that number is poor in comparison of the reckoning of him who pretends to fetch it from the chosen vessel rapt into Paradise who presumes to tell us there are greater numbers of Angels in every several rank then there is of the particulars of whatsoever material things in this world The Bishop of Herbipolis instanceth boldly in stars in leaves in spires of grasse But sure I am had that Dennis of Areopagus been in S. Pauls room and supplyed his rapture he could no more have computed the number of Angels then the best Arithmetician standing upon an hill seeing a huge Xerxes-like Army swarming in the valley can give a just reckoning of the number of those heads Surely when our Saviour speaks of more then twelve legions of Angels he doth not say how many â—ore If those twelve according to Hieroms though too short computation amount to seventy-two thousand the more then twelve were doubtlesse more then many millions He that made them can tell us The beloved Disciple in Pathmos as by inspiration from that God sayes I beheld and I heard the voice of many Angels round about the throne and the Beasts and the Elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands now the Elders were but 24. and the Beasts were but four all those other thousands were Angels and if so many were about his throne how many do we think were about his missions Before him the Prophet Daniel betwixt whom and the Evangelist there is so perfect correspondence that we may well say Daniel was the John of the old Testament and John the Daniel of the new hath made the like reckoning Thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him But Bildad the Shuhite in one word sayes more then all Is there any number of his Armies Lo his Armies are past all number how much more his several souldiers so as it may not perhaps seem hard to beleeve Dionysius that the Angels of but one rank are more then can be comprehended by any Arithmetical number or Gregory who determines them numerable only to God that made them to men innumerable O great God of heaven how doth this set forth the infinite majesty of thine omnipotent Deity to be thus attended we judge of the magnificence of Princes according to the number and quality of their retinue and guard and other their military powers and yet each one of these hath an equally absolute life and being of his own receiving only a pay from his Soveraign What shall we then think of thee the great King of eternal glory that hast before thy throne innumerable hosts of powerfull and glorious spirits of thine own making and upholding And how safe are we under so many and so mighty Protectors It might be perhaps well meant and is confessed to be seconded with much reverend antiquity the conceit that each man hath a special Angel designed for his custody and if but so we are secure enough from all the danger of whatsoever hostile machinations however this may seem some scanting of the bountiful provision of the Almighty who hath pleased to expresse his gracious respects to one man in the allotment of many guardians For if Jacob speak of one Angel David speaks of more He shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes And even those which have thought good to abet this piece of Platonick Divinity concerning the single Guardianship of Angels have yet yielded that according to several relations each one hath many spiritual keepers Insomuch as the forecited * Fornerus late Bâ—shop of Wirtzburg durst assure his auditors that each of them had ten Angels at least assigned to his custody according to the respects of their subordinate interests besides their own person of their Family Parish Fraternity City Diocese Countrey Office Church World Yet even this computation is niggardly and * pinching since the abundant store and bounty of the Almighty can as well afford Centuries as Decades of Guardians Howsoever why should it not be all one to us since there is no lesse safety in the hands of one then many no lesse care of us from many then from one should but one Angel guard millions of men his power could secure them no lesse then a single charge but now that we are guarded with millions of Angels what can the gates of hell do But what number soever be imployed about us sure I am that together with them those that attend the throne of their maker make up no lesse as Nazianzen justly accounts them then a world of spirits A world so much more excellent then this visible by how much it is more abstracted from our weak senses O ye blessed spirits ye are ever by me ever with me ever about me I do as good as see you for I know you to be here I reverence your glorious persons I blesse God for you I walk awfully because I am ever in your eyes I walk confidently because I am ever in your hands How should I be ashamed that in this piece of Theology I should be out-bid by very Turks whose Priests shut up their Devotions with an precatory mention of your presence as if this were the upshot of all blessings I am sure it is that wherein next to my God and Saviour I shall ever place my greatest comfort and confidence neither hath earth or heaven any other besides that looks like it SECT. IV. The power of Angels MUltitudes even of the smallest and weakest creatures have been able to produce great effects The swarms of but Flies and Lice could amate the great and mighty King of Egypt all his forces could not free him and his Peers from so impotent adversaries but when multitude is seconded with strength how must it needs be irresistible so it is in these blessed spirits
when it was for a plague to Egypt they were supernaturally produced Hail an ordinary meteore murrain of Cattel an ordinary disease yet for a plague to obdured Pharaoh miraculously wrought Neither need there be any great difficulty in discerning when such like events run in a natural course and when spirits are actors in them the manner of their operation the occasions and effects of them shall soon discry them to a judicious eye for when we shall finde that they do manifestly deviate from the road of nature and work above the power of secondary causes it is easie to determine them to be of an higher efficiency I could instance irrefragrably in severall tempests and thunderstorms which to the unspeakable terrour of the inhabitants were in my time seen heard felt in the Western parts wherein the translocation and transportation of huge massy stones and irons of the Churches above the possibility of naturall distance together with the strange preservation of the persons assembled with other accidents sensibly accompanying those astonishing works of God still fresh in the minds of many shewed them plainly to be wrought by a stronger hand then natures * And whither else should we ascribe many events which ignorance teacheth us to wonder at in silence If murders be descryed by the fresh bleeding of cold and almost putrefied carcasses If a man by some strong instinct be warned to change that lodging which he constantly held for some years and findes his wonted sleeping place that night crushed with the unexpected fall of an unsuspected contignation If a man distressed with care for the missing of an important evidence †such a one I have known shal be informed in his dream in what hole of his Dove-cote he shall find it hid If a man without all observation of Physical criticisms shall receive and give intelligence many dayes before what hour shal be his last to what cause can we attribute these but to our attending Angels If a man shall in his dream as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus professes receive the prescript of the remedy of his disease which the Physitians it seems could not cure whence can this be but by the suggestion of spirits And surely since I am convinced that their unfelt hands are in many occurrences of my life I have learned so much wit and grace as rather to yeeld them too much then too little stroke in ordering all my concernments O ye blessed spirits many things I know ye do for me which I discern not whiles ye do them but after they are done and many things ye may do more which I know not I blesse my God and yours as the author of all ye doe I blesse you as the means of all that is done by you for me SECT. VII The Degrees and Orders of Angels HEaven hath nothing in it but perfection but even perfection it self hath degrees as the glorified souls so the blessed Angels have their heights of excellency and glory He will be known for the God of Order observeth no doubt a most exact order in his Court of heaven nearest to the residence of his Majesty Equality hath no place either in earth or in hell we have no reason to seek it in heaven He that was rapt into the third heaven can tell us of Thrones Dominions Principalities Angels and Arch-angels in that region of blessednesse We cannot be so simple as to think these to be but one classe of spirits doubtlesse they are distinctions of divers orders But what their severall ranks offices employments are he were not more wise that could tell then he is bold that dare speak What modest indignation can forbear stamping at the presumption of those men who as if upon Domingo Gonsales his engine they had been mounted by his Gansaes from the Moon to the Empyreall heaven and admitted to be the heralds or masters of ceremonies in that higher world have taken upon them to marshall these Angelicall spirits into their severall rooms proportioning their stations dignities services according to the model of earthly Courts disposing them into Ternions of three generall Hierarchies the first relating to the immediate attendance of the Almighty the other two to the government of the Creature both generall and particular In the first of Assistents placing the Seraphim as Lords of the chamber Cherubim as Lords of the cabinet-counsel Thrones as entire Favourites in whom the Almighty placeth his rest In the second of universall Regency finding Dominions to be the great Officers of State who as Chancellours Marshals Treasurers govern the affairs of the world Mights to be the Generals of the heavenly Militia Powers as the Judges Itinerant that serve for generall retributions of good and evil In the third of speciall government placing Principalities as rulers of severall Kingdoms and Provinces Archangels as guardians to severall Cities and Countreys and lastly Angels as guardians of several persons And withall presuming to define the differences of degrees in each order above other in respect of the goodlinesse and excellency of their nature making the Arch-angels no lesse then ten times to surpasse the beauty of Angels Principalities twenty times above the Arch-angels Powers forty times more then Principalities Mights fifty more then Powers Domininions sixty above Mights Thrones seventy above Dominions Cherubim eighty above thrones Seraphim ninety times exceeding the Cherubim For me I must crave leave to wonder at this boldnesse and professe my self as far to seek whence this learning should come as how to beleeve it I do verily beleeve there are divers orders of celestial spirits I beleeve they are not to be beleeved that dare to determine them especially when I see him that was rapt into the third heaven varying the order of their places in his severall mentions of them Neither can I trust to the Revelation of that Sainted Prophetesse who hath ranged the degrees of the beatitude of glorified souls into the several chores of these heavenly Hierarchies according to their dispositions and demeanures here on earth admitting those who have been charitably helpfull to the poor sick strangers into the orb of Angels Those who have given themselves to meditation and prayer to the rank of Archangels those who have vanquished all offensive lusts in themselves to the order of Principalities to the height of Powers those whose care and vigilance hath restrained from evil and induced to good such as have been committed to their oversight and governance To the place of Mights those who for the honour of God have undauntedly and valiantly suffered and whose patience hath triumphed over evils To the company of Dominions those who prefer poverty to riches and devoutly conform their wills in all things to their Makers To the society of Thrones those who do so inure themselves to the continuall contemplation of heavenly things as that they have disposed their hearts to be a fit resting place for the Almighty To the honour of Cherubim those
thine essence separable thy continuance eviternall But what do we call in reason and nature to this parle where faith by which Christianity teacheth us to be regulated finds so full and pregnant demonstrations No lesse then halfe our Creed sounds this way either by expression or inference where in whiles we professe to believe that Christ our Saviour rose from the dead and ascended we implie that his body was â—ot more dead then his soul living and active That was whereof he said Father into thy hands I commend my spirit now we cannot imagine one life of the head and another of the body his state therefore is ours every way are we conform to him as our bodies then shall be once like to his glorious so our souls cannot be but as his severed by death crowned with immortality and if he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead those dead whom he shall judge must be living for as our Saviour said in the like case God is not the Judge of the dead as dead but the Judge of the living that were dead and therefore living in death and after death And whereof doth the Church Catholick consist but of some members warfaring on earth others triumphant in heaven and what doth that triumph suppose but both a beeing and a beeing glorious What communion were there of Saints if the departed souls were not and the soul when it begins to be perfect should cease to be to what purpose were the resurrection of the body but to meet with his old partner the soul and that meeting only implies both a separation and existence Lastly what life can there be properly but of the soul and how can that life be everlasting which is not continued or that continued that is not If then he may be a man certainly a Christian he cannot be who is more assured that he hath a soul in his body then that his soul shall once have a being without his body Death may tyrannize over our earthly parts the worst he can do to the spirituall is to free it from a friendly bondage Chear up thy self therefore O my soul against all the fears of thy dissolution thy departure is not more certain then thy advantage thy being shall not be lesse sure but more free and absolute Is it such a trouble to thee to be rid of a clog or art thou so loath to take leave of a miserable companion for a while on condition that he shall ere long meet thee happy SECT. II. Of the instant vision of God upon the egression of the soul and the present condition till then BUt if in the mean while we shall let fall our eyes upon the present condition of the soul it will appear how apt we are to misknow our selves and that which gives us the being of men The most men how ever they conceive they have a soul within them by which they receive their animation yet they entertain but dull and gloomy thoughts concerning it as if it were no lesse void of light and activity then it is of materiality and shape not apprehending the spirituall agility and clearly-lightsome nature of that whereby they are enlived wherein it will not a little availe us to have our judgements thoroughly rectified and to know that as God is light so the soul of man which comes immediately from him and bears his image is justly even here dignified with that glorious title I speâ—k not only of the regenerate soul illuminated by divine inspirations and supernaturall knowledge but also even of that rationall soul which every man bears in his bosome The spirit of man saith wise Solomon is the candle of the Lord Prov. 20.27 searching all the inward parts of the belly And the dear Apostle In him was life and the life was the light of men Joh. 1.4 and more fully soon after That light was the true light that lightneth every man that cometh into the world v. 9. No man can be so fondly charitable as to think every man that comes into the world illightned by the spirit of regeneration It is then that intellectuall light of common nature which the great illuminator of the world beams forth into every soul in such proportion as he finds agreeable to the capacity of every subject Know thy self therefore O man and know thy maker God hath not put into thee a dark soul or shut up thy inward powers in a dungeon of comfortlesse obscuritie but he hath set up a bright shining Lamp in thy breast whereby thou maiest sufficiently discern naturall and morall truths the principles and conclusions whether of nature or art herein advancing thee above all other visible Creatures whom he hath confined at the best to a mere opacity of outward and common sense But if our naturall light shall through the blessing of God be so happily improved as freely to give place to the spirituall reason to faith so that the soul can now attain to see him that is invisible and in his light to see light now even whiles it is over-shaded with the interposition of this earth it is already entered within the verge of glorie But so soon as this vaâ—â— oâ— wretched mortality is done away now it enjoyes a clear heaven for ever and sees as it is seen Amongst many heavenly thoughts wherewith my everdear and most honoured and now blessed friend the late Edward Earl of Norwich had wont to animate himself against the encounter with our last enemy Death this was one not of the meanest that in the very instant of his souls departing out of his body it should immediately enjoy the vâ—sion of God And certainly so it is The spirits of just men need not stand upon dâ—stances of place or space of time for this beatificall sight but so soon as ever they are out of their clay lodging they are in their spirituâ—ll heaven even whiles they are happily conveying to the locall for since nothing hindred them from that happy sight but the interposition of this earth which we carry about us the spirit being once free from that impediment sees as it is seen being instantly passed into a condition like unto the Angels wel therefore are these coupled together by the blessed Apostle who in his divine rapture had seen them both Ye are come saith he unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels and to the spirits of just men made perfect As then the Angels of God wheresoever they are though imployed about the affairs of this lower world yet do still see and enjoy the vision of God so do the souls of the righteous when they are once eased of this earthly load Doubtlesse as they passed through degrees of Grace whiles they took up with these homely lodgings of clay so they may passe through degrees of blisse when they are once severed And if as some great
incredulity as to charge so many grave Judges and credible historians with lyes Amongst such fastidious choice of whole dry-fats of voluminous relations I cannot forbear to single out that one famous story of Magdalene de la Groix in the year of our Lord Christ 1545. * who being borne at Cordova in Spain whether for the indigence or devotion of her parents was at five yeares age put into a Covent of Nuns at that age an evill spirit presented himselfe to her in the form of a Blackmore soul and hideous she startled at the sight not without much horror but with faire speeches and promises of all those gay â—oyes wherewith children are wont to be delighted she was won to hold society with him not without strong charges of silence and secrecy In the mean time giving proof of a notable quick wit and more then the ordinary ability incident into her age so as she was highly esteemed both of the young novices and of the aged Nuns No sooner was she come to the age of 12 or 13 years then the Devill solicits her to marry with him and for her dowry promises her that for the space of 30 years she shall live in such fame and honour for the opinion of her sanctity as that she shall be for that time the wonder of all Spain Whiles this wicked spirit held his unclean conversation with her in her chamber he delegates another of his hellish complices to supply the place and form of his Magdalene in the Church in the Cloister in all their meetings not without marvailous appearance of gravity and devotion disclosing unto her also the affairs of the world abroad and furnishing her with such advertisements as made her wondred at and won her the reputation not of an holy virgin only but of a Prophetesse Out of which height of estimation although she was not for years capable of that dignity she was by the general votes of the sister-hood chosen unanimously to be the Abbesse of that Covent Wonderfull were the feats which she then did The Priest cries out in his celebration that he missed one of the holy Hosts which he had consecrated and lo thaâ— was by her wonted Angell invisibly conveighed to holy Magdalene The wall that was betwixt her lodging and the Quire at the elevation of the host clave asunder that holy Magdalene might see that sacred act And which was yet more notorious on solemn festivals when the Nuns made their procession Magdalene was in the sight of all the beholders lift up from the earth the height of three cubits as if she should have been rapt up to heaven and sometimes while she bore in her armâ— little image of the child Jesus new born and naked weeping like a true Magdalene abundantly over the babe her hair seemed by miracle suddainly lengthened so low as to reach unto her ankles for the covering of the naked child which so soon as she had laid aside that dear burden returned suddenly to the wonted length These and many other the like miracles made her so famous that Popes Emperour the Grandees of Spain wrote to her beseeching her in their letters to recommend their affairs to God in her powerful devotions and in requiring her advise advertisements in matters of high importance as appeared afterwards by the letters found in her Cabinet And the great Ladies of Spain and other parts would not wrap their new-born infants in any clouts or swathing-bands but such as the sacred hands of Abbess Magdalene had first touched blessed All the Nuns of Spain were proud of so great an honour of their order and such miraculous proofs of their sanctity At last it pleased God to lay open this notable fraud of the Divell for Magdalene after thirty years acquaintance with this her paramour having been Abbess now twelve years began to conceive some remorse for her former practises and growing to a detestation of her horrible society with that evill spirit found means freely to discover to the Visitors of her Order all the whole carriage of this abominable and prodigious wickedness Although some credible wise and learned persons have reported that she perceiving the Nuns to have taken secret notice of her foul pranks lest she should run into a deserved condemnation did under the favour of those laws which give pardon to self-accusing offenders voluntarily confesse her monstrous villany and impiety This confession blankt many of her favourers and admirers and seemed so strange that it was held fit not to beleeve it without strict and legall examinations and proceedings Magdalene was close imprisoned in her Covent and being called to question confessed all this mysterie of iniquity Yet still her Moore continued his illusions for while she was fast lockt up in her Cell with a strong guard upon her dores the Nuns were no sooner come into the Quire towards morning to say their Mattins then this deputy-apparition of Magdalene took up her wonted stall and was seen devoutly tossing her beads amongst her sisters so as they thought the Visitors had surely freed her of the crimes objected upon her vehement penitence But hearing that Magdalene was still fast caged in her prison they acquainted the Visitors with what they had seen the morning before who upon full examination found that she had never lookt out of the dores of her Gaole The processe was at last sent up to Rome whence since the confession was voluntary she had her absolution A Story of great note and use for many occasions and too well known to the world to admit of either deniall or doubt and ratified as by the known consent of the time so by the faithfull records of Zuingerus Bodin Reney Goulartius Lord God! what cunning conveyances are here of the foul spirit what subtile hypocrisie what powerfull illusions enough to make sanctity it self suspected enough to shame the pretence of miracles He can for an advantage be an holy Nun as well as an ugly Moore he can be as devout at Mattins Sacraments Processions as the best What wonder when he can at pleasure counterfeit an Angell of light In that glorious form did he appear to Simeon Stylites of old to Girtrude of Westphalia not without the entertainment of her joy and devotion till Hermanus of Arnsburgh descryed the fraud and taught her to avoid it by a means no lesse advantagious to that ill spirit then her former devotion Yea yet higher to Pachomius and to Valens the Monk as Palladius reports he durst appear and call for adoration and had it under the form of the Lord of life blessed for ever How vain is the observation of those Authors who make this the difference betwixt the apparitions of good Angels and evill that the good make choice of the shapes either of beautifull persons or of those creatures which are clean and hurtlesse as of the shape of a Lamb to Clement or an Hart to Eustace or a Dove to Gummarus whereas the evill put themselves into
lesse open then they are hid to us As for the glorified Saints of God who are gone before us to our home with what spirituall joy should we be ravished at the consideration of their blessed condition who now have attained to the end of their hopes glory and bliss without end ever seeing ever enjoying him at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore how should we blesse God for their blessedness and long for our own Lastly how should our joy be seasoned with a cautious fear when we cast our eyes upon those objects of dread and horrour the principalities and powers of darkness not so confined to their hell as to leave us untempted and increasing their sin and torment by our temptation How should our hearts bleed with sorrow and commiseration of those wretched souls which we see daily intangled in the snares of the Devill and captived by him at his will here on earth and frying under his everlasting torments in the pit of hell How should our hearts be pre-possessed with a most earnest and vigilant care to resist all the dangerous assaults of those wicked spirits and to prevent the perill of our own like-wofull destruction If we i shall make this use of our beeing in this visible world happy are we that ever we came into it more happy in our going out of it for having thus used it as if we used it not we shall so enjoy the other as those that shall ever enjoy it and in it all glory honour immortality Lo then O my soul the glorious world which thou art now aspiring unto yea whereinto thou art now entring There there fix thy self never to be removed Look down upon these inferiour things with an overly contempt forget what is past as if it had never been Bid a willing farewel to this visible world wherein as thy Creatour hath a just interest of glory for that the substance of it is the wondrous workmanship of his hands so Satan styled he Prince of it claimeth no small share in regard of its sinfull depravation Farewell then ye frivolous and windy honours whose management is ever wont to be in others hands not in our own which have ever been no lesse fickle then the breath ye have depended upon whose chief use hath been for temptation to puffe up the heart with a proud conceit of eminence above others not requiting in the mean while the danger with any solid contentment Farewell ye deceitfull Riches which when we have we cannot hold and even while we hold we cannot enjoy and if we offer and affect to enjoy is it not with our spirituall losse for what love we yeeld to cast away upon you we abate to him that is the true and all-sufficient good More then for necessary use we are never the better for you often times the worse your load is more uneasie then your worth is precious Farewell pleasures if I ever knew what ye were which have alwayes wont to afford more sting then honey whose onely scope hath professedly been under a pretence of delectation to debauch and emasculate the mind and to dis-relish all spirituall comforts where your expectation hath been somewhat delightfull your fruition hath been unsatisfiingâ— your loose displeasing your remembrance irksome Farewell friends some of whose unsteadinesse and unfaithfulnesse hath helpt to adde to my load which the fidelity of others had not power to ease whose love might be apt to condole my shipwrack but could not spare me a plank to swim to the shore Shortly whose common misery may be more ready to receive then give comfort The honour that I now reach at is no lesse then a crown and that no fading and corruptible as all these earthly Diadems are but immarcescibly eternall a crown of righteousnesse a crown of glory The riches that I am now for are not such as are digged out of the base entrails of the earth obnoxious to spoil and plunder but treasures laid up in heaven The pleasures that I now affect are the fulnesse of joy at the right hand of the Almighty for eve more The friends that I ambitiously sue for are those that shall receive me into everlasting habitation Lastly farewell vanishing life and welcome blessed eaernity Even so Lord Jesu come quickly FINIS THE CONTENTS THE FIRST BOOK Of God and his Angels THe Preface 1. That there is an Invisible world 2. The distribution of the Invisible world 3. Of the Angels of heaven Their Numbers 4. The power of Angels 5. The knowledg of Angels 6. The Imployment and operations of Angels 7. The Degrees and Orders of Angels 8. The Apparitions of Angels 9. The respects which we owe to the Angels The Second Book Of the souls of blessed men 1 Of their Separation and Immortality 2. Of the present vision of God upon the egression of the soul 3. Of the perpetuall vigilance of the soul and its fruition of God 4. Of the knowledge of the glorified 5. Of the glory of heaven enjoyed by blessed souls 6. Wherein the glory of the Saints above consisteth and how they are imployed 7. In what terms the departed Saints stand to us and what respects they bear us 8. The re-union of the body to the soul and both glorified The third Book Of the Devils and damned Souls 1. Of the evill Angels Of their first sin and fall 2. Of the number of Apostate Spirits 3. Of the power of Devils 4. Of the knowledge and malice of wicked Spirits 5. Of the variety of the spirituall assaults of evill Spirits 6. Of the apparitions and shapes assumed of the evill Spirits 7. The vehemence of Satans last conflicts 8. Of our carriage towards wicked Spirits 9. How we are to proceed against evill Spirits 10. Of the wofull estate of the damned souls 11 A recapitulation of the whole discourse 12. The comparison of both worlds And how our thoughts and affections should be taken up with the Invisible world FINIS COURTEOUS READER These Books following are Printed for John Place and are to be sold at his Shop at Furnivalls-Inn Gate in Holborn Books in Folio 1. THe History of the World by Sir VValter Raleigh Knight 2. Things new and old or a Store-house of Similies Sentence Allegories Addages Apologies Divine Morall and Politicall by John Spencer of Sion Colledge 3. Observations on Caesars Commentaries by Sir Clement Edmunds Kt. 4. Shepparts Epitomy of the Law 5. The Reports of the learned Judge Popham sometime Lord chief Justice of England 6. The Reports of the learned Judge Owen chief Justice of the Common Pleas 7. Londinopolis or a History of the Cities of London and Westminster by James Howell 8. The History of Swedes Gothes and Vandals by Olaus Magnus Bishop of Vpsall 9. The Reports of the learned Serjeant Bridgman 10. Cowells Interpreter of hard words in the Law c. 11. Maximes of Reason or the Reason of the Common Law by Edward VVingat Esq late one of the Benchers of Grays-Inn 12. The