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they being but few, and there appearing nothing so 

 extraordinary in the composure of them, as is found 

 in his Lordship s other labours, they have not ob 

 tained an earlier mention. They are only these : 

 &quot; His Confession of Faith, written by himself in 

 English, and turned into Latin by Dr. Rawley, (a) 

 the questions about an Holy War, and the Pray 

 ers, in these Remains ; (c) and a translation of cer 

 tain of David s Psalms into English verse. With 

 this last pious exercise he diverted himself in the 

 time of his sickness, in the year twenty-five. When 

 he sent it abroad into the world, he made a dedica 

 tion of it to his good friend, Mr. George Herbert, 

 for he judged the argument to be suitable to him, 

 in his double quality of a divine and a poet.&quot; 



In the life of Lord Bacon, by Dr. Rawley, &quot; his 

 lordship s first and last chaplain,&quot; as he always 

 proudly entitles himself, there is the following pas 

 sage : &quot; This lord was religious : for though the world 

 be apt to suspect and prejudge great wits and poli 

 tics to have somewhat of the Atheist, yet he was 



(a) 1658, in the Opuscula. 



(c) Baconiana 72. In p. 99, Tenison says, &quot; Under the 

 fourth head of Theological Remains are contained only a few 

 questions about the lawfulness of a holy war; and two prayers, 

 one for a philosophical student, the other for a writer. The 

 substance of these two prayers is extant in Latin in the Organon, 

 p. 19, ad Calc partis primae,and Scripta, p. 451, and after title 

 page. See postea of this preface vii. 



In page 181, of Baconiana, are the Students and Writers 

 Prayers. See this vol. page 7. 



