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their Law of keeping out Strangers, is a Law of Pufillmimity, and 
fare. But this reftraint of ours, bath one onely Exception, "which 
is admirable j Preferuing the good 'which commeth by communica¬ 
ting -with Strangers, and auoyding the Hurt ; And 1 will now open it 
to you. And here IJhaUfeemealittle todigreffe, but you will by and 
by finde it pertinent. Tee/baft njnderflandfmy deare Friends,) that 
among ft the E xcellent ABsofthat King, one aboue all hath thepre- 
heminence.lt yeas the Erection, and lnftitution of an Order, or So¬ 
ciety, which wee call Salomons Houfe ; The Noble ft Foundati- 
onfas we tbmke>)tbat euer was Vpon the Earth^Jnd the Lanthorn 
of this Kingdoms. It is dedicated to the Study oj the Workes, and 
Creatures ofG o d. Some thinke it beareth the Founders Name a 
little corrupted , as ifitfhould bee Solamona’s Houfe, But the 
R ecords write it, as it is jpoken . So as 1 take it to bee denominate of 
the King of the Hcbrcwcs, which is famous with you, and no 
Stranger to njs. For wee hauefome Parts of his Workes, which with 
you are loft j Namely that Narurall Hiftory, which he wrote of all 
Plant s } from the Cedar of Libanus,* 0 */tf MofTe that groweth 
outof theWall , Andofall things chat haue Life and Motion. 
This maketh me thinke,that our King finding himfelfe to Symbolize 
in many things, with that King of the Hebrcwes (which lined ma¬ 
ny years before him)konouredbm with tbeTitle of this Foundation. 
Andl am the rather induced to bee of this Opinion, for that I finde 
in Ancient Records, this Order or Society is Jometimes called 
Salomons Houfe ; And fometimes the College of the Six 
Dayes Workes : Whereby I am fatufied , That our Excellent 
King bad learned from tbeHzbxvNcs j That G o u had created 
the World, and all that therein is, within fix Daies ; And therefore 
hee inftituting that Houle, for the finding outof the true Nature 
of all things, ( whereby GOD mought haue the more Glorie 
in the Workemanfbipof them, and Men the more fruit in the fe\ 
of them, ) did giue it alfo that fecond Name. But now to 
come to our prefent purpo/e. When the King had forbidden to 
all his People, Nauigation into any Part, that was not <vnder 
his Crowne, bee made neuerthelejfe this Ordinance ; That euery 
twelueyeares there fhould beefetforth, out of this Kingdotnc, two 
Ships, appointed to feuerall Voyages ; That in either of thefe 
Ships, 
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