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

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            “their Language.) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12622" xml:space="preserve">have this, That by means of our ſolitary ſituatior, and of
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            “the Laws of Secrecy which we have for our Travellers, and our rare
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            “admiſſion of ſtrangers, we know well moſt part of the Habitable World,
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            “and are our ſelves unkrown. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12623" xml:space="preserve">Therefore, becauſe he that knoweth leaſt,
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            “is fitteſt to ask Queſtions, it is more reaſon, for the entertainment of the
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            “time, that ye ask me Queſtions, than that I ask you. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12624" xml:space="preserve">We anſvvered, That
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            “we humbly thanked him, that he would give us leave ſo to do, and that
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            “we conceived by the taſte we had already, that there was no worldly thing
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            “on Earth, more worthy to be known, then the ſtate of that happy Land.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12625" xml:space="preserve">“But above all (vve ſaid) ſince that vve vvere met from the ſeveral Ends of
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            “the World, and hoped aſſuredly, that vve ſhould meet one day in the
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            “Kingdom of Heaven, (for that vve vvere both parts Chriſtians) vve deſired
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            “to knovv (in reſpect that Land vvas ſo remote, and ſo divided by vaſt and
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            “unknovvn Seas, from the Land vvhere our Saviour vvalked on Earth)
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            “vvho vvas the Apoſtle of that Nation, and hovv it vvas converted to the
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            “Faith. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12626" xml:space="preserve">It appeared in his face, that he took great contentment in this our Queſtion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12627" xml:space="preserve">He
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            ſaid, “Ye knit my heart to you by asking this Queſtion in the firſt place,
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            “for it ſhevveth that you firſt ſeek the Kingdom of Heaven; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12628" xml:space="preserve">and I ſhill gladly and
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            “briefly ſatisfie your demand.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12630" xml:space="preserve">About tvventy years after the Aſcenſion of our Saviour, it came to
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            paſs, that there vvas ſeen by the people of Renfuſa (a City upon the
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            Eaſtern Coaſt of our lſland) vvithin night (the night vvas cloudy and
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            calm) as it might be ſome mile in the Sea, a great Pillar of Light, not ſharp,
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            but in form of a Column or Cylinder, riſing from the Sea a great vvay up
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            to vvards Heaven, and on the top of it was ſeen a large Croß of Light, more
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            bright and reſplendent then the Body of the Pillar: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12631" xml:space="preserve">Upon which ſo
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            ſtrange a ſpectacle the people of the City gathered apace to gether upon
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            the Sands to wonder, and ſo after put themſelves into a number of ſmall
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            Boats to go nearer to this marvellous ſight. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12632" xml:space="preserve">But when the Boats were
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            come within (about) ſixty yards of the Pillar, they found themſelves all
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            bound, and could go no further, yet ſo as they might move to go about,
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            but might not approach nearer; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12633" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the Boats ſtood all as in a Theatre,
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            beholding this Light as an Heavenly Sign. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12634" xml:space="preserve">It ſo ſell out
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            , that there was in
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            one of the Boats, one of the wiſe Men of the Society of Solomens Houſe,
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            (which Houſe or College (my good Brethren) is the very Eye of this King-
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            dom) who having a while attentively and devoutly viewed and contem-
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            plated this Pillar and Croſs, fell down upon his face, and then raiſed him-
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            ſelf upon his knees, and liſting up his hands to Heaven made his Prayers
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            in this manner.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12635" xml:space="preserve">LOrd God of Heaven and Earth, thou haſt vouch-
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            ſafed of thy Grace to thoſe of our Order, to know thy
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            Works of Creation, and true Secrets of them, and to
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            diſcern (as far as appertaineth to the Generations of Men)
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            between Divine Miracles, VVorks of Nature, VVorks
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            of Art, and Impoſtures and Illuſions of all ſorts. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12636" xml:space="preserve">I do here
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            acknowledge and teſtifie before this People, that the </s>
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