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merits; and besides, they certify us, that which 

 the Scripture also tendereth for satisfaction ; &quot; that 

 no new thing is happened unto us.&quot; &quot; In this 

 kind of consolation I have not been wanting to my 

 self, though as a Christian, I have tasted, through 

 God s great goodness, of higher remedies;&quot; and 

 his last will thus begins : t( First, I bequeath 

 my soul and body into the hands of God by 

 the blessed oblation of my Saviour ; the one at 

 the time of my dissolution, the other at the time of 

 my resurrection. For my burial, I desire it may be 

 in St. Michael s church, near St. Alban s : there was 

 my mother buried, and it is the parish church of my 

 mansion-house of Gorhambury, and it is the only 

 Christian church within the walls of Old Veru- 

 lam.&quot; 



PRAYERS, (a) 



Of the prayers contained in this volume, the 

 first (u}, entitled, &quot; A Prayer, or Psalm, made by the 



(a) In Sloane s MSS. 23, there is a MS. prayer. 



(M) Although the first part of the. Resuscitatio was published by 

 Dr. Rawley, and the second part (which contains this prayer) 

 was published in his name, and during his life, it contains matter 

 of which Lord Bacon was not the author. Archbishop Tenison, 

 in his Baconiana,p. 59, speaking of the apopthegms, says, &quot; Be 

 sides, his Lordship hath received much injury by late editions, 

 of which some have much enlarged, but not at all enriched the 

 collection, stuffing it with tales and sayings, too infacetious for a 

 ploughman s chimney-corner.&quot; And, in a note he adds, &quot; Even 

 by that added (but not by Dr. Rawley) to the Resuscitatio, 

 Ed. III.&quot; I mention this fact, not as intending to infer that 

 this prayer was not &quot; made by Lord Bacon,&quot; but that the evi 

 dence may be duly weighed. B. M. 



