The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

398 EDITOR'S PREFACE.
AN ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING THE CONTROVERSIES OF THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND.
This was first published in the year 1641, without the author's name., The following is the
title:
A Wise and Moderate Discourse,
concerning
Church Affaires,
As it was written, long since, by the famous Authour of those Considerations, which seem to
have some reference
to this.
Now published for the common good.
Imprinted in the yeere 1641.
It was next published with the present title, in the Resuscitatio.
In this tract upon Church Controversies, an arrangement, although not formerly declared, may,
as in the Sylva Sylvarum,2 easily be perceived.3 The method, with a few extracts well worthy
the consideration of ecclesiastical controversialists, is as follows:
I. It.
1. RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES WILL EXIST, II. NATURE OF RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES.
AND PARTICULARLY IN TIMES OF PEACE. 1. High nature.
When the fiery trial of persecution ceaseth, The high mysteries of faith.... *...... 412
there succeedeth another trial, which, as it were, The great parts of the worship of God..... ib.
by contrary blasts of doctrine doth sift and winnow 2. Minor nature, ceremonies, and things indifmen's faith. ferent, or those parts of religion which pertain to time, not to eternity............. ib.
T ere is a copy in the British Museum, and MSS. Ays. 4263
In EIackburne's edition, vol. i. 192, he thus notices this tract: " Next follows an Advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England, p. 418. This treatise was originally printed in the year 1641, without the author's name and
under a different title: called, "A wise and moderate discourse concerning church affairs; as it was written long since, by
the famous author of those considerations, which seem to have some reference to this." It is plain from p. 428, that it was
wrote in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Dr. Sancroft had collated and corrected this piece in more than a hundred places:
and I am to ask the reader's pardon for mislaying the copy containing these his farther emendations.
P. 419, 1. 23, parts, r. some things, his.
P. 420, 1. 6, zeal, r. hate.
1. 38, resemble, r. agree.
P. 423, 1. 33, r. pretend zeal.
P. 424, 1. 39, r. seduce the people.
P. 428, i. 3, exercise,.. waste.
P. 429, I. 18, r. grope for.
So that I conceive abundant justice is done to this part of our noble author's works.
2 Dr. Rawley, in his address to the Reader, in the Sylva Sylvarum, says —' I have heard his lordship say also, that one
great reason why he would not put these particulars into any exact method, (though he that looketh attentively into them
shall find that they have a secret order, was, because he conceived that other men would now think that they could do the
like."
3 The following is an analysis of this subject, at all times of importance, but particularly to a Christian in Christian
Controversy.
1. Religious controversies will exist, and particularly in times of peace.
2. Nature of Religious Controversies.
3. Virtues of Religious Controversies.
1. Christian Forbearance.
2. Christian Demeanor.
3. Christian Language.
4. Vices in Controversies.
1. The Vices of the Clergy.
2. Nature and Humour of Men, 415.
3. Detestation of former Heresy, ib.
4. Imitation of Foreign Churches, 416.
2. In their extension, 417.
Conduct of Reformers
Anti-reformers
3. Unbrotherly Proceedings, 418.
By the Possessors of Church Government.
By the opposers.
4. Improper Publications, 419.