📔 Religio Medici

It is hard to place those soules in Hell whose worthy lives doe teach us vertue on earth; methinks amongst those many subdivisions of hel, there might have been one Limbo left for these: […]

[W]here there is an obscurity too deep for our Reason, 'tis good to sit down with a description, periphrasis, or adumbration; for by acquainting our reason how unable it is to display the visible and obvious effects of nature, it becomes more humble and submissive unto the subtilties of faith: [...]

It is the common wonder of all men how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike: Now contrary, I wonder as much how there should be any; he that shall consider how many thousand severall words have beene carelesly and without study composed out of 24 Letters; withall how many hundred lines there are to be drawne in the fabricke of one man; shall easily finde that this variety is necessary: […]

Philosophers that opinioned the worlds destruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, which is beyond the power of sublunary causes; for the last and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glasse, and therefore some of our Chymicks factiously affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the last fire all shall be crystallized and reverberated into Glasse, which is the utmost action of that element.

I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront, or enhardem me.