Lord Bacon's Essays, or counsels moral and civil

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1he Architect of his Fortune. 'OIA pisth recept of this nowledge, is to

Imitate Fature hic dot nothan in vaim, Whicli suret a Man mando, i he oes ellInteriace his Busin est, an bendiso his indio much po that hicli e principat lyintendeth. For a Man ought in very particular Action, o to carry the motion ofhis Mind, and o to have ne hin underanother, as iste cannot have that he seeheth in the best Degree yet to have it in a second, or even in a third An i he an et nos opting at ali in the thingie purposes, thento turn the ain he has ahen pon omeother End than that wheret,it was designMeand iste cannot mahe any thingi it for thepresent, et to make ii as a Seeed os seme-what in time to come Andri he an derive no soli Effect o Substanc from it, either for the present nor for the future, yet to insonae good opinion and Reputationi it, and ille like : o that he hould exa an Account of himself of very particular Action, torea sic me inhal from it, and notato stand amaz'dand confused iste fati in the principat Scope of his Intentions For nothiniis more Impolitique than to e holly and solet talien pwith onerali jug. Forte that is o luses in inite Occasions hicli intervene, an are many times more prope and propitjous for so meruli atthat he hali nee afterruards, than for that whichae urgeth sor ille presenta , and there

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oaen Fortune.

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tu is a Furtherance to a mn, ut Vir ue e

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deligit ted illi suci polluted is do in q, Dden not ut suci an ne dis Densing illi allthe Larus o Charit and Viriue, and eingwholi enuave to the pressin his Fortune, may illi more compendious nesse an speed ad vance it Bucit is in Lila, ascit is in Ways, the mortes Way is commoni the foulestanddirilest , nor indeed is the fairest Way much

That the hebes Rebar of Viriue, is Virtuo herbos; as also thae severest Plinis ment of Vice, is Vice it ses; according o hat the Poet says excellenti Quae vobis, quae digna Viri, pro talibus Ur

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divine Judgmenis, and terna Providen ce, whicli ver osten subveris au bring tonought the Machinations and vi Counseis ilio neve so profound of the ichedri, ac- cord in to that of Scripture , He at con

Spirit grove ling upo Earth, an eat in Dust like the Serpento An Observation hicli eventhe eat he could mahe

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i his ast Remedy is sor those, hos Tasle, se in sine Distem per of Mind is corrupted Let en ather Bulld pota that Foundation, whicli is a the Corner-Stonem Divinitu and Philosophy, hici asser the fame hi nil n

unio oriri an Philosophy command sonio

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that, at hic Sara laugh'd , ho there in Was an mage of Natura Reason. y hoomuch heres ore an Divine My ster is incrediscordant, and incredibie, o much the nDare Non cur is i ven to God in Belle viniit, and the Victor our Farth becomes the more No-ble. Nay even Sinners, the more the are oppressed in Conscience, et is the repose ad rus in the Merc o God for thei Salvation do by this o much the greater Honour

oetole geman's in suffer frona Sense whicli refult frona Things Materia ; ut in Beli; the Spirit suffers frona Spirit, and suci,