Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            Modis; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s334" xml:space="preserve">Which was the way that was moſt according
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            to his own heart.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s336" xml:space="preserve">Neither was He in his time leſſe gracious with the Subject
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            than with his Soveraign. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s337" xml:space="preserve">He was ever acceptable to the Houſe
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            of Commons, when he was a Member thereof. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s338" xml:space="preserve">Being the
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            Kings Atturney, and choſen to a place in Parliament; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s339" xml:space="preserve">he was
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            allowed and diſpenſed with to ſit in the Houſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s340" xml:space="preserve">which was
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            not permitted to other Atturneys.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s342" xml:space="preserve">And as he was a good Servant to his Maſter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s343" xml:space="preserve">Being never,
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            in nineteen years ſervice (as he himſelf a verred,) rebuked by
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            the King for any Thing relating to his Majeſty; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s344" xml:space="preserve">So he was
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            a good Maſter to his Servants, And rewarded their long at-
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            tendance with good Places, freely when they fell into his
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            Power. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s345" xml:space="preserve">Which was the Cauſe that ſo many young Gentle-
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            men of Blood and Quality, ſought to list themſelr
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            es in
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            his Retinue. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s346" xml:space="preserve">And if he were abuſed by any of them in their
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            Places, It was onely the Errour, of the Goodneſs, of his Na-
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            ture; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s347" xml:space="preserve">but the Badges of their Indiſcretions, and Intempe-
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            rances.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s349" xml:space="preserve">This Lord was Religious; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s350" xml:space="preserve">For though the World he apt
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            to ſuſpect, and prejudice, Great Wits, and Politicks to have
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            ſomewhat of the Atheiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s351" xml:space="preserve">ret he was converſant with God:
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s352" xml:space="preserve">As appeareth, by ſereral Paſſages, throughout the whole Cur-
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            rent of his Writings. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s353" xml:space="preserve">Otherwiſe he ſhould have croſſed
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            his own Principles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s354" xml:space="preserve">which were, That a little Philoſo-
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            phy, makerh Men apt to forget God; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s355" xml:space="preserve">As attributing
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            too much to ſecond Cauſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s356" xml:space="preserve">But Depth of Philoſophy,
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            bringeth Men back to God again. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s357" xml:space="preserve">Now I am ſure there
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            is no Man that will deny him, or account other wiſe of him,
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            but to have him been a deep Philoſopher. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s358" xml:space="preserve">And not only ſo,
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            But he was able to render a Reaſon of the Hope which
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            was in him; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s359" xml:space="preserve">Which that Writing of his, of the Confeſſion
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            of the Faith, doth abundantly testifie. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s360" xml:space="preserve">He repaired frequent-
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            ly, when his Health would permit him, to the Service of the
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            Church, To hear Sermons, To the Adminiſtration of the
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            Sacrament of the Bleſſed Body and Bloud of Chriſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s361" xml:space="preserve">And
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            died in the true Faith eſtabliſbed in the Church of Eng-
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            land.</s>
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