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

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            we now ſee before our eyes is thy Finger, and atrue Mi-
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            racle. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12637" xml:space="preserve">And foraſmuch as we learn in our Books, that thou
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            never workeſt Miracles but to a Divine and excellent End,
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            (for the Laws of Nature, are thine own Laws, and thou
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            exceedeſt them not but upon good cauſe) we moſt humbly be-
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            ſeech thee to proſper this great Sign, and to give us the Inter-
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            pretation, and uſe of it in mercy, which thou doſt in ſome part
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            ſecretly promiſe, by ſending it unto us.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12639" xml:space="preserve">When he had made his Prayer, he preſently found the Boat he was
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            in, moveable and unbound, whereas all the reſt remained ſtill fiſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12640" xml:space="preserve">and
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            taking that for an aſſurance of leave to approach, he cauſed the Boat to be
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            ſoftly, and with ſilence, rowed towards the Pillar; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12641" xml:space="preserve">but ere he came near it,
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            the Pillar and Croß of Light brake up, and caſt it ſelf abroad, as it were, into
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            a Firmament of many Stars; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12642" xml:space="preserve">which alſo vaniſhed ſoon after, and there was
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            nothing leſt to be ſeen but a ſmall Ark or Cheſt of Cedar, dry, and not wet
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            at all with Water, though it ſwam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12643" xml:space="preserve">and in thefore end of it, which was
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            towards him, grew a ſmall green Branch of Palm. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12644" xml:space="preserve">And when the Wire-
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            man had taken it with all reverence into his Boat, it opened of it ſelf, and
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            there was found in it a Book and a Letter, both written in fine Parchment,
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            and wrapped in Sindons of Linnen. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12645" xml:space="preserve">The Book contained all the Canonical
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            Books of the Old and New Teſtament, according as you have them, (for we
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            know well what the Churches with you receive;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12646" xml:space="preserve">and the Apocalypſe it ſel,
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            and ſome other Books of the New Teſtament, which were not at that time
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            written, were nevertheleſs in the Book. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12647" xml:space="preserve">And for the Letter, it was in theſe
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            words.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12648" xml:space="preserve">IBartholomew, a Servant of the Higheſt, and
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            Apoſtle of FESVS CHRIST, was warn-
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            ed by an Angel that appeared to me in a
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            Viſion of Glory, that I should commit this
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            Ark to the Flouds of the Sea. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12649" xml:space="preserve">Therefore I
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            do teſtifie and declare unto that People, where
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            GOD shall ordain this Ark to come to Land,
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            that in the ſame day is come unto them Salva-
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            tion, and Peace, and Good Will from the
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            FATHER, and from the LORD FESVS.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s12651" xml:space="preserve">“There was alſo in both theſe Writings, as well the Book as the
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            “Letter, wrought a great Miracle, conform to that of the Apoſtles in the
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            “Original Gift of Tengues. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s12652" xml:space="preserve">For there being at that time in this Land Hebrews,
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            “Perſians, and Indians, beſides the Natives, every one read upon the </s>
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