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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$Commonlyjhc chac hath the Head to dcvifc it, hath not the Heart to undertake it: And the that is ufodjlbrnetimc faileth in Coura^f, fometime failcth in Opporiu/7/tj, fometimcs is touched with Remorce, Em to publilli and main¬ tain chat it may be lawful! for any Man living to attempt the Life of a this Dodrine is a Venomous Sop; Or as a Legion of Malign Spirits; Or an I univerfal temptation doth enter at once into the Hearts of all that are any way prepared or of any Prcdifpoficion to be Trajtors; So that whatfoever failcth in any one, is fupplied in many; If one Man faint, another will dare If one man hah not the oportunity , another hath .* If one‘man Relent ano- will be Defperate. And Thirdly pmicuhr Confpiracies, have their Periods Time, within which, if they be not taken , they vaniQi, fut this isend- Icfs and importeth Perpetuity of fpringing Confpiracies. And fo much concerning the Nature of the Fa8. For the Third Point ^ which is the DoBrine^^ that upon an Excommu- nication of the Pope ^ with fentence of Depijing-^ a King by any Son of Adam may be flaughtered 5 and that it is ]ufice, and no Murther; and that their are abfolved of their Allegiances And the Kings themfelvcsex- pofed to fpo)I and P/^;. I faid before that I would not argue the fubtilty of the Quejtion : It is rather to be fpoken to, by way of Accufacion of the Opinion as Impious > then by way of difpute of it as Dcubtfull. Nay I fay, it defervethrather, fomeA/o/;*ir4^, or Leaguet amongft all Chrifian Princes i of cither Religton-^ for the extirpating and Razing of the Opinion,and the x^u- thors thereof, from the face of the Earth ; then the Stile of Pen, or Speech. Therefore in this kind I will fpeakroit, a few words and not otherwife. Nay, Iproteftif I were a I fhould fayasmych* Nay, I (liould fpeak it per¬ haps with more Indignation and Feeling. For this Opinion , is our Advantage, and it is their Reproach, and will be their Riiinc. This Monfer of Opinion is to be accufed of three moft evident and moft mi- ferablc slanders, • Firft.ofthe Slander it bringeth to thejOh^ijian Faith^ beingaplain plan¬ tation of Irreligfon and Athetfm, Secondly, the Subverfion which it intt^oduceth into all Pollicy and Govern¬ ment. Thirdly, the great Calamity it bringeth upon themfelvcs, of which the more moderate fort, asmenmifled, arc to be pittied. For the Firft, if a man doth \ ifit the foul, and polluted Opinions,Cuftomes, or pra6tiresof Heathet ifmy Mahometifm y and Herefie, he fhall find they do not attain to this Height, Take the Examples of damnable Memoryjamongft the Heathen, The Proferiptions inAo^^of Sjllas and afterwards of theTri- umvirs ^ what were they? They were; „but of a finite Number of, Perfons, and thofe not many that were expofed unto any Mans Sword, ^ut what ts that to the proferibing of a King, and all that fhall take his part ? And what was the reward of a Souldier dnsLt amongft them, killed one of the pro- feribed a fmall piece of money, but what is now the reward of one that fliall liW giKing} The Kingdom of Heaven, The cuftome among the Heathen^ that was moltfcandalized was, thatfometimes the Priefi (acnficed Mens but yet you fliall not read of any /’^^/V/i^ofl^that facrificed Kings, The Mahometansy make it a part of their Religion to propogate their by the Sword^ but ftill by honourable Wars, never by Villanies and fccret Murthers. Nay, I find that the Saracen Prince of whom the name of the AjjaJJins 3 is derived > which had divers Votaries at Commandement, which hefent and imployed tothe killing of divers Princes in the Baft 5 (by one of I whom 59_ I A charge in I I the Star- | Chambtr 4- ] gainflM.L, | and others, j i « 3 \ ;$

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