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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

Ordinary Accesses at Court And to come freque●tly into the Queens Eye who would often grace him with private and free Communication Not onely about Matters of his Profession or Businesse in Law But also about the Arduous Affairs of Estate From whom she received from time to time great Satisfaction Neverthelesse though she cheered him much with the Bounty of her Countenance yet she never cheered him with the Bounty of her Hand Having never conferred upon him any Ordinary Place or Means of Honour or Profit Save onely one dry Reversion of the Registers Office in the Star-Chamber worth about 1600 l. per Annum For which he waited in Expectation either fully or near 20. years Of which his Lordship would say in Queen Elizabeths Time That it was like another Mans Ground buttalling upon his House which might mend his Prospect but it did not fill his Barn Neverthelesse in the time of King James it fell unto him Which might be imputed Not so much to her Majesties Aversenesse or Disaffection towards him As to the Arts and Policy of a Great Statesman ●hen who laboured by all Industrious and secret Means to suppresse and keep him down Lest if he had rise● he might have obscured his Glory But though he stood long at a stay in the Dayes of his Mistresse Queen Elizabeth Yet after the change and Comming in of his New Master King James he made a great Progresse By whom he was much comforted in Places of Trust Honour and Revenue I have seen a Letter of his Lordships to King James wherein he makes Acknowledgement That He was that Master to him that had raysed and advanced him nine times Thrice in Dignity and Sixe times in Office His Offices as I conceive were Counsell Learned Extraordinary to his Majesty as he had been to Queen Elizabeth Kings Solliciter Generall His Majesties Atturney Generall Counseller of Estate being yet but Atturney Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England Lastly Lord Chanceller Which two last Places though they be the same in Au●hority and Power yet they differ in Patent Heigth and Favour of the Prince Since whose time none of his Successours did ever bear the Title of Lord Chanceller His Dignities were first Knight Then Baron of Verulam Lastly Viscount Saint Alban Besides other good Gifts and Bounties of the Hand which his Majesty gave him Both out of the Broad Seal And out of the Alienation Office Towards his Rising years not before he entred into a married Estate And took to Wife Alice one of the Daughters and Co-Heires of Benedict Barnham Esquire and Alderman of London with whom He received a sufficiently ample and liberall Portion in Marriage Children he had none which though they be the Means to perpetuate our Names after our Deaths yet he had other Issues to perpetuate his Name The Issues of his Brain In which he was ever happy and admired As Jupiter was in the production of Pallas Neither did the want of Children detract from his good usage of his Consort during the Intermarriage whom he prosecuted with much Conjugall Love and Respect with many Rich Gifts and En●owments Besides a Roab of Honour which he invested her withall which she wore untill her Dying Day Being twenty years and more after his Death The last five years of his Life being with-drawn from Civill Affaires and from an Active Life he employed wholy in Contemplation and Studies A Thing whereof his Lordsh●p would often speak during his Active Life As if he affected to dye in the Shadow and not in the Light which also may be found in severall Passages of his Works In which time he composed the greatest Part of his Books and Writings Both in English and Latin Which I will enumerate as near as I can in the just Order wherein they were written The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh Abecedarium Naturae or A Metaphysicall Piece which is lost Historia Ventorum Historia vitae Mortis Historia Densi Rari not yet Printed Historia Gravis Levis which is also lost A Discourse of a War with Spain A Dialogue touching an Holy War The Fable of the New Atlantis A Preface to a Digest of the Lawes of England The Beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth De Augmentis Scientiarum Or the Advanccment of Learning put into Latin with severall Enrichments and Enlargements Counsells Civill and Morall Or his Book of Essayes likewise Enriched and enlarged The Conversion of certain Psalms into English Verse The Translation into Latin of the History of King Henry the Seventh of the Counsells Civill and Morall of the Dialogue of the Holy War of the Fable of the New Atlantis For the Benefit of other Nations His Revising of his Book De Sapientià Veterum Inquisitio de Magnete Topica Inquisitionis de Luce Lumine Both these not yet Printed Lastly Sylva Sylvarum or the Naturall History These were the ●ruits and Productions of his last five years His Lordship also designed upon the Motion and Invitation of his late Majesty To have written the Reign of King Henry the Eighth But that Work Perished in the Designation● meerly God not lending him Life to proceed further upon it then onely in one Mornings Work Whereof there is Extant An Ex Ungue Leonem already Printed in his Lordships Miscellany Works There is a Commemoration due As well to his Abilities and Vertues as to the Course of his Life Those Abilities which commonly goe single in other Men though of prime and Observable Parts were all conjoyned and met in Him Those are Sharpnes● of Wit Memory Judgement and Elocution For the Former Three his Books doe abundantly speak them which with what Sufficiency he wrote let the World judge But with what Celerity he wrote them I can best testifie But for the Fourth his Elocution I will onely set down what I heard Sir Walter Rauleigh once speak of him by way of Comparison whose Iudgement may well be trusted That the Earl of Salisbury was an excellent Speaker but no good Pen-man That the Earl of Northampton the Lord Henry Howard was an excellent Pen-man but no good Speaker But that Sir Francis Bacon was Eminent in Both. I have been enduced to think That if there were a Beame of Knowledge derived from God upon any Man in these Modern Times it was upon Him For though he was a great Reader of Books yet he had not his Knowledge from Books But from some Grounds and Notions from within Himself Which notwithstanding he vented with great Caution and Circumspection His Book of Instauratio Magna which in his own Account was the chiefest of his works was no Slight Imagination or Fancy of his Brain But a Setled and Concocted Notion The Production of many years Labour and Travell I my Self have seen at the least Twelve Coppies of the Instauration Revised year by year one after another And every year altred and amended in the Frame thereof Till

And that it yieldeth at this day to the King the Fruit of a great Revenue But yet notwithstanding if upon the Stemme of this Tree may be raised a Pillar of support to the Crown Permanent and durable as the Marble by investing the Crown with a more ample more certain and more loving Dowry then this of Tenures we hope we propound no Matter of Disservice But to speak distinctly of both and first of Honour Wherein I pray your Lordships give me leave in a Subject that may seem supra Nos to handle it rather as we are capable then as the Matter perhaps may require Your Lordships well know the various Mixture and Composition of our House We have in our House learned Civilians that profess a Law that we reverence and sometimes consult wi●h They can tell us that all the Laws de Feodis are but Additionals to the Ancient Civill Law And that the Roman Emperours in the full Heigth of their Monarchy never knew them So that they are not Imp●riall We have grave Professours of the Common Law who will define unto us that those are Parts of Soveraignty and of the Royall Prerogative which cannot be communicated with Subjects But for Tenures in substance there is none of your Lordships but have them And few of us but have them The King indeed hath a priority or first Service of his Tenures which shewes that they are not Regall nor any point of Soveraignty We have Gentlemen of honourable Service in the Wars both by Sea and Land Who can enform us that when it is in question who shall set his foot foremost towards the Enemy it is never asked whether he hold in Knights Service or in Socage So have we many Deputy Lievtenants to your Lordships And many Commissioners that have been for Musters and Levies That can tell us that the Service and Defence of the Realm hath in these dayes little dependance upon Tenures So then we perceive that it is no Bond or Ligament of Governme●t No Spur of Honour No Bridle of Obedience Time was when it had other uses and the Name of Knights Service imports it But Vocabula manent Res fugiunt But all thi● which we have spoken we confess to be but in a vulgar Capacity which nevertheless may serve for our Excuse Though we submit the Thing it self wholy to his Majesties Judgement For Matter of Conscience Far be it from us to cast in any Thing willingly that may trouble that clear Fountain of his Majesties conscience We do confess it is a noble Protection that these young Birds of the Nobility and good Families should be ga●hered and clocked under the wings of the Crown But yet Natu●rae vis maxima And suus cuique discretus sanguis Your Lordships wil●●avour me to observe my former Methode The Common Law it self which is the best Bounds of our wisdom doth even in hoc Individuo prefer the prerogative of the Father before the prerogative of the King For if Lands descend held in chief from an Ancestour on the part of a Mother to a Mans eldest Son the Father being alive The Father shall have the Custody of the Body and not the King It is true that this is only for the Father And not any other Parent or Ancestour But then if you look to the high Law of Tutelage and Protection And of Obedience and Duty which is the Relative thereunto It is not said Honour thy Father alone But Honour thy Father and thy Mother c. Again the Civilians can tell us that there was a speciall Use of the Pretorian Power for Pupills and yet no Tenures The Citizens of London can tell us There be Courts of Orphants and yet no Tenures But all this while we pray your Lordships to conceive That we think our selves not competent to discern of the Honour of his Majesties Crown or the Shrine of his Conscience But leave it wholy unto him and alledge these things but in our own Excuse For Matter of Petition we do continue our most humble suit by your Lordships loving Conjunction that his Majesty will be please● to open unto us this entrance of his Bounty and Grace As to give us liberty to treat And lastly we know his Majestie● Times are not subordinate at all but to the Globe above About this time the Sun hath got even with the Night and will rise apace And we know Solomons Temple whereof your Lordship my Lord Treasurer spake was not built in a day And if We shall be so happy as to take the Axe to hew and the Hammer to frame in this Case We know it cannot be without Time And therefore as far as we may with Duty and without Importunity we most humbly de●ire an Acceleration of his Majesties Answer according to his good time and Royall Pleasure A Speech of the Kings Sollicitor perswading the House of Commons to desist from further Question of receiving the Kings Messages by their Speaker And from the Body of the Councell As well as from the Kings Person In the Parliament 7o. Jac. IT is my Desire that if any the Kings Business either of Honour or Profit shall pass the House It may be not onely with externall prevailing But with satisfaction of the Inward Man For in Consent where Tongue strings not Hart-strings make the Musick That Harmony may end in Discord To this I shall alwayes bend my Endeavours The Kings Soveraignty and the Liberty of Parliament are as the two Elements and Principles of this Estate which though the one be more Active the other more Pas●ive yet they do not crosse or destroy the one the other But they strengthen and maintain the one the other Take away Liberty of Parliament the Griefes of the Subject will bleed inwards Sharp and Eager Humours will not evaporate And then they must exulcerate and so may indanger the Soveraignty it self On the other side if the Kings Soveraignty receive Diminution or any Degree of Contempt with us● that are born under an Hereditary Monarchy So as the Motions of our Estate cannot work in any other Frame or Engine It must follow that we shall be a Meteore or Corpus imperfectè mistum which kind of Bodies come speedily to Confusion and Dissolution And herein it is our Happinesse that we may make the same Judgement of the King which Tacitus made of Nerva Divus Nerva res olim Dissociabiles miscuit Imperium Libertatem Nerva did temper things that before were thought incompatible Soveraignty and Liberty And it is not amis●e in a great Councell and a great Cause to put the other part of the Difference which was significantly expressed by the Judgement which Apollonius made of Nero which was thus When Vespasian came out of Iudea towards Italy to receive the Empire As he passed by Alexandria he spake with Apollonius A Man much admired And asked him a Question of State What was Nero's Fall or overthrow Apollonius said Nero could tune the Harp well but in

insinuate himself into their Favours yet I find it to be ordinary that many Pressing and Fawning Persons do misconjecture of the Humours of Men in Authority And many times Veneri immolant suem they seek to gratifie them with that which they most dislike For I have great Reason to satisfie my self touching the Judgement of my Lords the Bishops in this Matter by that which was written by one of ●hem which I mentioned before with honour Neverthelesse I note ●here is not an indifferent hand carried towa●ds these Pamphlets a they deserve For the one sort flyeth in the Dark and the other is uttered openly Wherein I might advise that side ou● of a Wise w●iter who hath set it down That punitis Ingeniis gliscit Authoritas And indeed we see it ever falleth out that the Forbidden Writing is alwaies ●hought to be certain sparks of a Truth that fly up in●o the faces of those that seek to choak it and tread it out Whereas a Booke Authorized is thought to be but Temporis Voces The Language of the Time But in plain Truth I do find to mine understanding these Pamphlets as meet to be suppressed as the other First because as the former sort doth deface the Government of the Church in the persons of the Bishops and Prelates So the other doth lead into Contempt the Exercises of Religion in the Persons of sundry Preachers So as it disgraceth an higher matter though in the meaner Person Next I find certain indiscreet and dangerous Amplifications as if the Civill ●overnment it self of this State had near lost the Force of her Sinews And were ready to enter into some Convulsion all things being full of Faction and Disorder which is as unjustly acknowledged as untruly affirmed I kow his Meaning is to enforce this unreverent and violent Impugning of the Government of Bishops to be a suspected Forerunner of a more generall Contempt And I grant there is Sympathy between the Estates But no such matter in the Civill Pollicy as deserveth so dishonourable a Taxation To conclude this Point As it were to be wished that these Writings had been abortive and never seen the Sun So the next is since they be commen abroad that they be censured by all that have Understanding and Conscience as the untemperate Extravagancies of some Light persons Yea further that Men beware except they mean to adventure to deprive themselves of all sense of Religion and to pave their own Hearts and make them as the High Way how they be conversant in them And much more how they delight in that Vein But rather to turn their Laughing into Blushing And to be ashamed as of a short Madnesse That they have in matters of Religion taken their Disport and Solace But this perchance is of these Faults which will be soonest acknowledged Though I perceive neverthelesse that there want not some who seek to blaunch and excuse it But to descend to a sincere View and Consideration of the Accidents and Circumstances of these Controversies wherein either part deserveth Blame or Imputation I find generally in Causes of Church-matters that Men do offend in some or all of these five Points The First is the Giving Occasion unto the Controversies And also the Vnconsiderate and Vngrounded Taking of Occasion The Next is the Extending and Multiplying the Controversies to a more generall Opposition or Contradiction then appeareth at the first propounding of ●hem when Mens Judgements are least partiall The Third is the Passionate and Vnbrotherly Practises and Proceedings of both Parts towards the Persons each of others for their Discredit and Suppression The Fourth is the Courses holden and entertained on either side for the drawing of their Partizans to a more straight Vnion within themselves Which ever importeth a further Distraction of the Entire Body The last is the Undue and Inconvenient Propounding publishing and Debating of the Controversies In which Point the most palpable Error hath been already spoken of As that which through the strangenesse and Freshnesse of the Abuse first offereth it self to the Conceits of all Men. Now concerning the Occasion of the Controversies It cannot be denyed but that the Imperfections in the Conversation and Government of those which have chief place in the Church have ever been principall Causes and Motives of Schismes and Divisions For whiles the Bishops and Governers of the Church continue full of Knowledge and good Works Whiles they Feed the Flock indeed Whiles they deal with the Secular States in all Liberty and Resolution according to the Majesty of their Calling and the precious care of Souls imposed upon them So long the Church is situated as it were upon an Hill No Man maketh question of it or seeketh to depart from it But when these vertues in the Fathers and Leaders of the Church have lost their Light And that they wax worldly Lovers of ●hemselves and Pleasers of Men Then Men begin to groap for the Church as in the Dark● They are in doubt whether they be the Successours of the Apostles or of the Pharises yea howsoever they sit in Moses Chair yet they can never speak Tanquam Authoritatem habentes as having Authority because they have lost their Reputation in the Consciences of Men by declining their steps from the way which they trace out to others So as Men had need continually have sounding in their Eares this same Nolite Exire Go not out So ready are they to depart from the Church upon every voice And therefore it is truly noted by one that writeth as a Naturall Man That the Humility of the Friars did for a great time maintain and bear out the Irreligion of Bishops and Prelates For this is the Double Pollicy of the spirituall Enemy either by counterfeit Holinesse of Life to Establish and Authorize Errours Or by Corruption of Manners to discredit and draw in question Truth and Things Lawfull This concerneth my Lords the Bishops unto whom I am witnesse to my self that I stand affected as I ought No Contradiction hath supplanted in me the Reverence that I owe to their Calling Neither hath any Detraction or Calumny imbased mine Opinion of their Persons I know some of them whose Names are most pierced with these Accusations to be Men of great vertues Although the Indisposition of the times and the want of Correspondence many wayes is enough to frustrate the best Endeavours in the Edifying of the Church And for the rest generally I can condemn none I am no Judge of them that belong to so High a Master Neither have I two Witnesses And I know it is truly said of Fame that Pariter Facta a●que Infecta Canebat Their Taxations arise not all from one Coast They have many and different Enemies Ready to invent Slaunder more ready ●o amplifie it and most ready to beleeve it And Magnes Mendacii Credulitas Credulity is the Adamant of Lies But if any be against whom the supream Bishop hath not a few Things but many Things

of Lawyers in Narrative● The Exercise of Sophists and Io. ad Oppositum with manifest effect Artificiall Memory greatly holpen by Exercise The Excercise of ●uffons to draw all things to Conceits Ridiculous The Meanes that help the Vnderstanding and Faculties thereof are Not Example as in the Will by Conversation And here the Conceit of Imitation already disgested with the Confutation Obiter si videbitur of Tullies Opinion advising a Man to take some one to Imitate Similitude of Faces analysed Arts Logick Rhetorick The Ancients Aristotle Plato Thaetetus Gorgias Litigiosus vel Sophista Protagoras Aristotle Schola sua Topicks Elenchs Rhetoricks Organon Cicero Hermogenes The Neotericks Ramus Agricola Nil sacri Lullius his Typocosmia studying Coopers Dictionary Mattheus Collection of proper words for Metaphors Agrippa de vanitat c. Que. if not here of Imitation Collections preparative Aristotles Similtude of a Shoomakers Shop full of Shoes of all Sorts Demosthenes Exordi● Concionum Tulli●s precept of Theses of all sorts preparative The Relying upon Exercise with the Difference of Vsing and tempering the Instrument And the Similitude ●f prescribing against the Lawes of Nature and of Estate 5. Points That Exercises are to be framed to the Life That is to say to work Ability in that kind whereof a Man in the Course of Action shall have most Vse The indirect and Oblique Exercises which do per partes and per consequentiam inable these Faculties which perhaps direct Exercise at first would but distort And these have chiefly place where the Faculty is weak not per se but per Accidens As if Want of Memory grow through Lightnesse of Wit and want of stayed Attention Then the Mathematiques or the Law helpeth Because they are Things wherein if the Mind once roam it cannot recover Of the Advantages of Exercise As to dance with heavy Shoes To march with heavy Armour and Carriage And the contrary Advantage in Natures very dull and unapt of working Alacrity by framing an Exercise with some Delight or Affection Veluti pueris dant Crustula blandi Doctores Elementa velint ut discere prima Of the Cautions of Exercise As to beware lest by evill doing as all Beginners do weakly a Man grow not and be inveterate in an ill Habit And so take not the Advantage of Custome in perfection but in confirming ill Slubbering on the Lute The Marshalling and Sequele of Sciences and practises Logick and Rhetorick● should be used to be read after Poesy History and Philosophy First Exercise to do things well and clean after promptly and readily The Exercises in the Vniversities and Schooles are of Memory and Invention Either to speak by Heart that which is set down verbatim Or to speak Extempore Whereas there is little use in Action of either of both But most things which we utter are neither verbally premeditate nor meerly Extemporall Therefore Exercise would be framed to take a little Breathing and to consider of Heads And then to fit and form the Speech Ex tempore This would be done in two manners Both with writing and Tables And without For in most Actions it is permitted and passable to use the Note Whereunto if a Man be not accustomed it will put him out There is no use of a Narrative Memory in Academiis viz with Circumstances of Times Persons and Places and with Names And it is one Art to discourse and another to Relate and Describe And herein Vse and Action is most conversant Also to Summe up and Contract is a Thing in Action of very generall Vse CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS Touching the Better PACIFICATION AND EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Dedicated to His most Excellent MAJESTY THE Vnity of your Church excellent Soveraign is a Thing no lesse precious then the Vnion of your Kingdomes Being both Works wherein your Happiness may contend with your Worthiness Having therefore presumed not without your Majesties gracious Acceptation to say somewhat of the one I am the more encouraged not to be silent in the other The rather because it is an Argument that I have travelled in heretofore But Salomon commendeth a Word spoken in Season And as our Saviour speaking of the Discerning of Seasons saith When you see a Cloud rising in the West you say it will be a shower So your Majesties Rising to this Monarchy in the West Parts of the World doth promise a sweet and fruitfull Shower of many Blessings upon this Church and Common-wealth A Shower of that Influence as the very first Deaws and Drops thereof have already layed the Stormes and Winds throughout Christendom Reducing the very Face of Europe to a more peaceable and Amiable Countenance But to the Purpose It is very true that these Ecclesiasticall Mat●ers are Things not properly appertaining to my Profession which I was not so inconsiderate but to object to my Self But finding that it is many times seen that a Man that standeth off and somewhat removed from a Plot of Ground doth better survey it and discover it then those which are upon it I thought it not impossible but that I as a Looker on might cast mine Eyes upon some Things which the Actours themselves especially some being interessed some led and addicted some declared and engaged did not or would not see And that knowing in my Conscience wheretoo God beareth witnesse that the Things which I shall speak spring out of no Vein of Popularity Ostentation Desire of Novelty Partiality to either Side Disposition to intermeddle or any the like Leven I may conceive hope that what I want in depth of Judgement may be countervailed in Simplicity and Sincerity of Affection But of all Things this did most animate me That I found in these Opinions of mine which I have long held and embraced as may appear by that which I have many years since written of them according to the proportion neverthelesse of my weakness a Consent and Confo●mity with that which your Majesty hath published of your own most Christian most Wise and Moderate Sense in these Causes wherein you have well expressed to the World that there is in●used in your Sacred Brest from God that High principle and Position of Government That you ever hold the Whole more dear then any Part. For who seeth not that Many are affected and give Opinion in these Matters as if they had not so much a desire to purge the Evill from the Good as to countenance and protect the Evill by the Good Others speak as if their Scope were onely to set forth what is Good and not to seek what is Possible which is to Wis● and not to Propound Others proceed as if they had rather a Mind of Removing then of Reforming But howsoever either Side as Men though excellent Men shall run into Extremities yet your Majesty as a most Wise Equall and Christian Moderator is disposed to find out the Golden Mediocrity in the Establishment of that which is Sound And in the Reparation of that which is Corrupt and

Affection and Intention For I hold it for a Rule that there belongeth to great Monarchs from Faith●ull Servants not onely the Tribute of Duty but the Oblations of cheerfulnesse of Heart And so I pray the Almighty to blesse this great Action with your Majesties Care And your Care with Happy Successe ADVICE TO THE KING TOUCHING Mr. SUTTONS ESTATE May it please Your MAIESTY I Find it a Positive Precept of the Old Law That there should be n● Sacrifice without Salt The Morall whereof besides the Ceremony may be That God is not pleased with the Body of a good Intention Except it be seasoned with that Spirituall Wisedome and Iudgement as it be not easily Subject to be corrupted and perverted For Salt in the Scripture is a Figure both of Wisedome and Lasting This commeth into my Mind upon this Act of Mr. Sutton Which seemeth to me as a Sacrifice without Salt Having the Materials of a Good Intention but not powdred with any such Ordinances and Institutions as may preserve the same from turning Corrupt Or at least from becomming Vnsavoury and of little Vse For though the Choice of the Feoffees be of the best yet neither can they alwayes live And the very Nature of the Work it self in the vast and unf●● Proportions thereof being apt to provoke a Mis-imployment It is no Diligence of theirs except there be a Digression from that Modell that can excuse it from running the same way that Gifts of like Condition have heretofore done For to desig● the Charter-house a Building fit for a Princes Habita●ion for an Hospitall Is all one as if one should give in Almes a Rich Embroyde●ed ●loak to a Beggar And certainly a Man may see Tanquam quae Ocul●s Cernuntur that if such an Edifice with Six Thousand pounds Revenue be erected into one Hospitall It will in small time degenerate to be made a preferment of some great Person to be Master and he to take all the sweet and the Poor to be stinted and take but the Crums As it comes to passe in divers Hospitals of this Realm Which have but the Names of Hospitalls and are but wealthy Benefice● in respect of the Mastership But the Poor which is the Propter quid little relieved And the like hath been the Fortune of much of the Almes of the Roman Religion in the Great Foundations which being begun in Vain-Glory and Ostentation● have had their Judgement upon them to end in Corruption and Abuse This Meditation hath made me presume to write these few Lines to your Majesty Being no better ●hen good Wishes which your Majesties great Wisedom may make some thing or Nothing of Wherein I desire to be thus understood That if this Foundation such as it is be perfect and Good in Law Then I am too well acquainted with your Majesties Disposition to advise any Course of power or Profit that is not grounded upon a Right Nay further if the Defects be such as a Court of Equi●y may Remedy and Cure Then I wish that as Saint Peter● shadow did cure Diseases So the very shadow of a Good Intention may cure Defects of that Nature But if there be a Right and Birth-right planted in the Heir And not Remediable by Courts of ●quity And that Right be submitted to your Majesty Whereby it is both in your power and Grace what to do Then I do wish that this rude Masse and Chaos● of a Good Deed were directed rather to a Solide Merit and Durable Charity then to a Blaze of Glory that will but crackle a little in Talk and quickly extinguish And this may be done observing the Species of Mr. Suttons Intent though varying in Individuo For it appeares that he had in Notion a Triple Good An Hospitall And a Schoole And Maintaining of a Preacher Which Individualls refer to these Three Generall Heads Relief of Poore Advancement of Learning And Propagation of Religion Now then if I shall set before your Majesty in every of these Three Kindes what it is that is most wanting in your Kingdome And what is like to be the most Fruitfull Effectuall use of such a Beneficence and least like to be perverted That I think shall be no ill Scope of my Labour how meanly soever performed For out of Variety represented Election may be best grounded Concerning the Relief of the Poore I hold some Number of Hospitalls with Competent Endowments will do far more good then one Hospitall of an Exorbitant Greatnesse For though the one Course will be the more Seene yet the other will be the more Felt. For if your Majesty erect many besides the observing the Ordinary Maxime Bonum quo communius eo melius choice may be made of those Townes and Places where there is most Need And so the Remedy may be Distributed as the Disease is Dispersed Again Greatnesse of Reliefe accumulate in one place doth rather invite a Swarm and Surcharge of Poore then relieve those that are naturally bred in that place Like to ill tempred Medicines that draw more Humour to the Part then they Evacuate from it But chiefly I rely upon the Reason that I touched in the Beginning That in these Great Hospitalls the Revenues will draw the Vse and not the Vse the Revenues And so through the Masse of the Wealth they will swiftly tumble down to a Misemployment And if any Man say that in the Two Hospitalls in London there is a President of Greatnesse concurring with Good Employment Let him consider that those Hospitalls have Annuall Governers That they are under the Superiour Care and Policy of such a state as the City of London And chiefly that their Revenues consist not upon Certainties but upon Casualties and Free Gifts Which Gifts would be with-held if they appeared once to be perverted So as it keepeth them in a continuall Good Behaviour and Awe to employ them aright None of which Points do match with the present Case The next Consideratiō may be whether this intended Hospital as it hath a more ample Endowment then other Hospitals have should not likewise work upon a better Subject then other Poore As that it should be converted to the Relief of Maimed Souldiers Decayed Merchants Householders Aged and Destitute Church-men and the like Whose Condition being of a better sor● then loose People Beg●gars deserveth both a more Liberal Stipend Allowance and some proper place of Relief not intermingled or coupled with the Basest Sort of Poore Which Project though Specious yet in my Judgement will not answer the Designment in the Event in these our Times For certainly few Men in any Vocation which have been some Body and beare a Mind somewhat according to the Conscience and Remembrance of that they have been will ever descend to that Condition as to professe to live upon Almes and to become a Corporation of Declared Beggars But rather will choose to live Obscurely and as it were to hide themselves with some private Friends So that the End of