Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ...

THE Lord Bacon's Theological Remains.

The Lord Bacon's Questions about the Lawfulness of a War for the Propa∣gating of Religion.

Questions wherein I desire Opinion, joyn∣ed with Arguments and Authorities.

WHether a War be lawful a∣gainst Infidels, only for the Propagation of the Christian Faith, without other cause of Hostility?

Whether a War be lawful, to recover to the Church, Countries, which formerly have

been Christian, though now Alienate, and Christians utterly extirped?

Whether a War be lawful, to free and deliver Christians that yet remain in Servi∣tude, and subjection to Infidels?

Whether a War be lawful in Revenge, or Vindication, of Blasphemy and Re∣proaches against the Deity and our Savi∣our? or for the ancient effusion of Christian Blood, and Cruelties upon Christians?

Whether a War be lawful for the Resto∣ring, and purging of the Holy Land, the Sepulchre, and other principal places of Adoration and Devotion?

Whether in the Cases aforesaid, it be not Obligatory to Christian Princes, to make such a War, and not permissive only?

Whether the making of a War against the Infidels, be not first in order of Digni∣ty, and to be preferr'd before extirpations of Heresies, reconcilements of Schisms, re∣formation of Manners, pursuits of just Temporal Quarrels, and the like Actions for the Publick Good, except there be ei∣ther a more urgent Necessity, or a more evident Facility in those Inferior Actions or except they may both go on together in some Degree?

Two Prayers compos'd by Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans.

The First Prayer, called by his Lordship, The Student's Prayer.

TO God the Father, God the Word, God the Spirit, we pour forth most humble and hearty Supplications; that He, remembring the Calamities of Mankind, and the Pilgrimage of this our Life, in which we wear out Days few and evil; would please to open to us new Refreshments out of the Fountains of his Goodness, for the alleviating of our Miseries. This also, we humbly and earnestly beg, that Humane things, may not prejudice such as are Di∣vine; neither that from the unlocking of the Gates of Sense, and the kindling of a greater Natural Light, any thing of Incre∣dulity, or Intellectual Night, may arise in our Minds towards Divine Mysteries. But rather that by our Mind, throughly clean∣sed and purged from Phancy and Vanities; and yet subject, and perfectly given up to

the Divine Oracles, there may be given unto Faith, the things that are Faith's. Amen.

The Second Prayer, called by his Lord∣ship, The Writer's Prayer.

THou, O Father! who gavest the Visible Light as the First-born of thy Crea∣tures, and didst pour into Man the Intel∣lectual Light, as the top and consummation of thy Workmanship; be pleased to pro∣tect and govern this Work, which, com∣ing from thy Goodness, returneth to thy Glory. Thou, after Thou hadst review'd the Works which thy Hands had made, beheldest that every Thing was very Good; and Thou didst rest with Complacencie in them. But Man, reflecting on the Works, which he had made, saw that all was Va∣nity and vexation of Spirit, and could, by no means, acquiesee in them. Where∣fore, if we labour in thy Works with the sweat of our Brows, Thou wilt make us partakers of thy Vision, and thy Sabbath. We humbly beg that this Mind may be stedfastly in us; and that Thou, by our Hands, and also by the Hands of others, on whom Thou shalt bestow the same Spi∣rit,

wilt please to conveigh a largeness of new Alms to thy Family of Mankind. These things we commend to Thy ever∣lasting Love, by our Iesus, thy Christ, God with us. Amen.