PREFACE. XV 



than in the universal and adorning knowledges; 

 for though he composed the same many years before 

 his death, yet I thought that to be the fittest place, 

 as the most acceptable incense unto God of the faith 

 wherein he resigned his breath ; the crowning of all 

 his other perfections and abilities ; and the best per 

 fume of his name to the world after his death.&quot; In 

 his Life he says, &quot; He was able to render a reason 

 of the hope which was in him ; which that writing 

 of his of the Confession of the Faith doth abundantly 

 testify ;&quot; and in the address to the Reader, in the 

 Opuscula, he says, &quot; Supererat tandem script um illud 

 Confessionis Fidei ; quod auctor ipse, plurimis ante 

 obitum annis, idiomate Anglicano concepit : operae 

 pretium mihi visum est Romana civitate donare ; quo 

 non minus exteris, quam popularibus suis, palam fiat, 

 qua fide imbutus, et quibus mediis fretus, illustrissi- 

 mus heros, animam Deo reddiderit ; et quod theolo- 

 gicis studiis, a3que ac philosophicis et civilibus, cum 

 commodum esset, vacaverit. Fruere his operibus, et 

 scientiarum antistitis olim Verulamii ne obliviscaris. 

 Vale.&quot; 



This tract is thus noticed by Archbishop Teni- 

 son in the &quot; Baconiana.&quot; (g) &quot; His Confession of 

 Faith,&quot; written by him in English, and turned into 

 Latin by Dr. Rawley ; upon which there was some 

 correspondence between Dr. Maynwaring and Dr. 

 Rawley, (//) as the archbishop, in describing the 



(g) Baconiana, 72. 



(/i) The following is in the &quot; Bacouiana,&quot; p. 209 : 

 &quot; A letter written by Dr. Roger Maynwaring, to Dr. Rawley 

 concerning the Lord Bacon s Confession of Faith. 



