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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35983	Observations vpon Religio medici occasionally written by Sir Kenelme Digby, Knight.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing D1441; ESTC R20589	25,029	128

affections to it and desires of it which cannot be barren ones but will presse upon us to gaine some knowledge by way of advance here and the more we attaine unto the more we shall be in Lovè with what remaineth behind To this reason then adding the other how knowledge is the surest proppe and guide of our present life and how it perfecteth a man in that which constituteth him a man his Reason and how it enableth him to read boldly steadily constantly and knowingly in all his wayes And I am confident All men that shall heare the case thus debated will joyne with mee in making it a Suit to our Physitian that hee will keepe his Bookes open and continue that Progresse he hath so happily begun But I believe your Lordship will scarcely joyne with him in his with that wee might procreate and beget Children without the helpe of women or without any conjunction or commerce with that sweete and bewitching Sex Plato taxed his fellow Philosopher though other wise a learned and brave man for not sacrificing to the Graces those gentle female goddesses What thinketh your Lordship of our Physitians bitter censure of that action which Mahomet maketh the essence of his Paradise Indeed besides those his unkindnesses or rather frowardnesses at that tender-hearted Sex which must needes take it ill at his hands me thinketh he setreth marryage at too low a rate which is assuredly the highest and devinest linke of humane society And where he speaketh of Cupid and of Beauty it is in such a phrase as putteth mee in mind of the Learned Greeke Reader in Cambridge his courting of his Mistris out of Stephens his Thesaurus My next observation upon his discourse draweth me to a Logicall consideration of the nature of an exact Syllogisine which kind of reflection though it use to open the doore in the course of Learning and study yet it will necre shut it in my discourse which my following the thred that my Author spinneth assigneth to this place If he had well and throughly considered all that is required to that strict way of managing our Reason he would not have censured Aristotle for condemning the fourth figure out of no other motive but because it was not consonant to his owne principles that it would not fit with the foundations himself had laid though it doe with reason saith he and bee consonant to that which indeed it doth not at all times and in all Circumstances In a perfect Syllogisme the predicate must bee identified with the subject and each extreame with the middle terme and so consequently all three with one another But in Galens fourth figure the case may so fall out as these rules will not be current there As for the good and excellency that he considereth in the worst things and how farre from solitude any man is in a wildernesse These are in his discourse but aequivocall considerations of Good and of Lonclinesse nor are they any wayes pertinent to the morality of that part where he treateth of them I have much adoe to believe what he speaketh confidently that hee is more beholding to Morpheus for Learned and rationall as well as pleasing Dreames then to Mercury for smart and facetious conceptions whom Saturne it seemeth by his relation hath looked asquint upon in his geniture In his concluding Prayer wherein he summeth up all he wisheth me thinketh his arrow is not winged with that fire which I should have expected from him upon this occasion for it is not the peace of Conscience nor the bridling up of ones affections that expresseth the highest delightfulnes and happiest state of a perfect Christian It is love onely that can give us Heaven upon earth as well as in Heaven and bringeth us thither too so that the Thuscan Virgill had reason to say In alte dolcezze Non si puo gioir se non amando And this love must be imployed upon the noblest and highest object not terminated in our friends But of this transcendent and divine part of Charity that looketh directly and immediately upon God himselfe and that is the intrinsecall forme the utmost perfection the scope and finall period of true Religion this Gentlemans intended Theame as I conceive I have no occasion to speak any thing since my Author doth but transiently mention it and that too in such a phrase as ordinary Catechismes speake of it to vulgar capacities Thus my Lord having run through the booke God knowes how sleightly upon so great a suddaine which your Lordship commanded mee to give you an account of there remaineth yet a weightier taske upon me to performe which is to excuse my selfe of presumption for daring to consider any moles in that face which you had marked for a beauty But who shall well consider my manner of proceeding in these remarkes will free me from that censure I offer not at Iudging the prudence and wisedome of this discourse Those are fit enquiries for your Lordships Court of highest appeale in my inferiour one I meddle onely with little knotty peeces of particuler Sciences Matinae apis instar operosa parvus carmina fingo In which it were peradventure a fault for your Lordship to be too well versed your imployments are of a higher and nobler Straine and that concerne the welfare of millions of men Tu regere imperio populos Sackville memento Hae tibi erunt artes pacique imponere morem Such little Studies as these belong onely to those persons that are low in the ranke they hold in the Commonwealth low in their conceptions and low in a languishing and iusting leisure such a one as Virgill calleth Ignobile otium and such a one as I am now dulled withall If Alexander or Caesar should have commended a tract of Land as fit to fight a Battaile in for the Empire of the World or to build a City upon to be the Magazine and staple of all the adjacent countries No body could justly condemne that husbandman who according to his owne narrow art and rules should censure the plaines of Arbela or Pharsalia for being in some places sterile or the meadowes about Alexandria for being sometimes subject to bee overflowen or could taxe ought he should say in that kinde for a contadiction unto the others commendations of those places which are built upon higher and larger principles So my Lord I am confident I shall not be reproached of unmannerlinesse for putting in a demurrer unto a few little particularities in that Noble discourse which your Lordship gave a generall applause unto And by doing so I have given your Lordship the best account I can of my selfe as well as of your Commands You hereby see what my entertainements are and how I play away my time Dorset dum magnus ad alrum Fulminat Oxonium bello victorque volentes Per populos dat jura viamque affectat Olympo May your Counsels there bee happy and successefull ones to bring about that Peace which if wee bee not quickly blessed withall a generall ruine threatneth the whole Kingdome From Winchester house the 22. I thinke I may lay the 23. for I am sure it is morning and I thinke it is day of December 1642. Your Lordships most humble and obedient servant KENELME DIGBY The Postscript My Lord LOoking over these loose papers to point them I perceive I have forgotten what I promised in the eight shee to touch in a word concerning Grace doe not conceive it to be a quality in fused by God Almighty into a Soule Such kind of discoursing satisfiet mee no more in Divinity then in Philosophy I take it to be the whole complex of such reall motives as a soli● account may be given of them that incline a man to vertue and piety an● are set on foote by Gods particular Grace and favour to bring that worke to passe As for example To à man planged in Sensuality some great misfortune happeneth that mouldeth his heart to a tendernesse and inclineth him to much thoughtfulnesse In this temper hee meeseth with a Booke or a Preacher that representeth lively to him the danger of his owne condition and giveth him hopes of greater contentment in other objects after hee shall have taken leave of his former beloved Sinnes This begetteth further conversation with prudent and pious men and experienced Physitians in curing the Soules Maladies whereby hee is at last perfectly converted and setled in a coure of Solid Vertue and Piety Now ithese accidents of his misfortune the gentlenesse and softnesse of his nature his falling upon a good Booke his encountring with a patheticke Preacher the impremeditated Chance that brought him to heare his Sermon his meeting with other worthy men and the whole concatenation of all the intervening accidents to worke this good effect in him and that were ranged and disposed from all Eternity by Gods particular goodnesse and providence for his Salvation and without which hee had inevitably beene damned this chaine of causes ordered by God to produce this effect I understand to bee Grace FINIS This story I hav but upon relation yet of a very good hand