Resuscitatio or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the right honourable Francis Bacon : Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts. The third edition, according to the best corrected copies, together with his Lordships life. / By William Rawley, doctor in divinity, his lordships first and last Chaplain. And lately his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary.

Francis Bacon

Date:: Anno Domini 1671

Credit: Resuscitatio or, bringing into publick light several pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, and theological, hitherto sleeping of the right honourable Francis Bacon : Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban. In two parts. The third edition, according to the best corrected copies, together with his Lordships life. / By William Rawley, doctor in divinity, his lordships first and last Chaplain. And lately his Majesties Chaplain in Ordinary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$t 40 f RESVSCirJTIO. Part L ^ - peech ]ychen the \HQufc VPiS \ troubled a- \hout wnder- *. itakert. meant, or whu it ■vvas»’’Ani i do not love to oifer at that, that I do not throughly conceive. That private Men, ilaould undertake, for the of E/,gUnd , V\ hy ? A Man might as well undertake for the four EUmenii} It is a thing, fo giddy 5 and fo vaid , as cannot enter into the Brain of a foher Man. And fpecially , in a new Parliament Vs^hen it was im-^ poliible to know, who Qioiild be of the Parliament • And when all Men ! that know never fo little, the Conftitution of this Phufe y do know it to, be fo open to Rcafon j As Men do not know, when they enter into ■ thefc Doors , what mind themfelves will be of, until they hear Things ar-! gued and debated. Much lefs, can any Man make a policy of AiTuranccjwhat i Ship fliall Gomefafe home into the Harbour in thefe Seas. 1 had heard of j underfakingt in fcveral kinds: There were undertakers for the Plantations! of Derr) iindCclerane in Ireland y the better to command and bridle thofe | Parts: There were not long ago feme undertakers for the North-Weii Pa(jagey | And no w there are fome undertakers for theProjed of Died and Drefjed deaths-^ \ And in iTort,every Movcity ufeth to be ftrengthened , and made good , by a | kind of undertakihg. But for the Ancient Parliament of EhgUnd, which moves ! in a certain Manner and Sphear; To be undertakeny h^a^Qsn^y reach to^ conceive, what It lliouldbe. Muff, w'c be all andDrelJedy and no pure whites amongftus? Or muft there be anew paTage found, fot the Kings Bu^ finefs, hy a point of the Compafsy that was ‘never [ailed by before ? Or mufb rhere be fome built in thisthat may command and contain the reft .2 ( tyir. Speaker ) I know, but,two Forts in this Houfcy which il-ic King ever hath 5 The Fort of A^cSiion^ and the Fort of Reafon--, The onCjCom- mands the Dear tS) and the other Commands the.f/^’^^/y, and others, I know none, 1 think c^fop was a wife.Man that deferibed the nature of the Flj, thae fat upon the fpoke of the Chariot Wheel ^ and faid to her fclf? What aDufl: dolratfel So for my part, I think, that all this Duft is raifed, by light Rumours and Buzzcs,and not upon any folid Ground. The fccond that made me ftlcnt, was becaufe this Sufpition, and I Rumor, of undertaking, fettles upon no Perfon certain. It is like the Birds of Paradifey thatth^y have in the IndfeSy that have no Feet, and therefore, they never light upon any place, but the wind carries them away : Andfuch 1 a thing do i take this Rumour to be. And laftly, when that thehad,in his two ^eve^al//;^’^r^fyJ freed us from the main of ourFearsj in. affirming, diredtly, that there was no««- dertaking to him. And that, he would have taken it to be no lefsdcroga- jtion to his own Majejljy than to our Merits ^ To have the Ads of his j people transferred to particular perfonsithat did quiet me thus far 5 That thefe Vapours-were not gone up to the Fleadyhowfoeye: they might glow and eftuate in the Body. Neverthclefs, lince I perceive that this Cloud , ftill hangs over the Houfe^ And that it may do no hurt»as well in Fame abroad, as in the Kings Ear, I refol- ved with my fclf to do the part of an honeft voice inthls Houfe , to counfcl you , what I think to be for the beft. Wherein hrft, [ will fpeak plainly of die pernicious Effeefs of the Acci¬ dent of tins Brute and Opinion , of undertaking, towards particulars, to¬ wards thetowards the Kingy and towards the People. Secondly, I will tell you, in mine Opinion , what undertaking is tolerable, And howfaric maybe juftified, with a good mind, and on the other fidejthis Fame Ripping up of the Quejlion of undertakers^ How far it may proceed from a Pood Mind, and in what kind it may bethouc^ht malicious and danscrons. T lurd- /$

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