The essaies of Sr. Francis Bacon ... His religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed (1613)
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 · London, I. Iaggard · leaf 58
ape it. And ther-iForeir isgood to retaine finceritie,and to put it into the reckoning ofJlmhttton ^ that the higher one go-eth, the fewer trueFiiends hefiiallhauc. Perfef^ion of FriendOiip, isbut a fpeculation . It is friendfhip,v\hena rrion c2n fay to himfelfe, IloUe this man, without refpe6l of… … 14.. Of dJthetfme. Had rather beleeucalthe fables in the L<?-ffe?7d, and the v4/^^r^./jthen that this v-niucrfall frame iswithout a mind. Andtherefore God ncuer wrought my-raclc to conuincc Atheilh, becaufchis ordinary works conuince them.Ccrtaincly , ^tliiiU phi iofop hie in-clineth mans minde…
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