pass. As for example: to a man plunged in sensuality, some great misfortune happeneth, that mouldeth his heart to a tenderness, and inclineth him to much thoughtfulness : in this temper, he meeteth with a book or preacher, that representeth lively to him the danger of his own condition; and giveth him hopes of greater contentment in other objects, after he shall have taken leave of his former beloved sins. This begetteth further conversation with prudent and pious men, and experienced physicians, in curing the soul's maladies; whereby he is at last perfectly converted, and settled in a course of solid virtue and piety. Now, these accidents of his misfortune,-the gentleness and softness of his nature, his falling upon a good book, his encountering with a pathetick preacher, the impremeditated chance that brought him to hear his sermon, his meeting with other worthy men, and the whole concatenation of all the intervening accidents, to work this good effect in him, and that were ranged and disposed from all eternity, by God's particular goodness and providence for his salvation, and without which he had inevitably been damned, this chain of causes, ordered by God to produce this effect, I understand to be grace. END OF RELIGIO MEDICI, ETC. THE GARDEN OF CYRUS; OR, THE QUINCUNCIAL LOZENGE, OR NET-WORK PLANTATIONS OF THE ANCIENTS, ARTIFICIALLY, NATURALLY, MYSTICALLY, CONSIDERED. EIGHTH EDITION. WITH NOTES, AND VARIOUS READINGS FROM MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1658. EDITOR'S PREFACE. IN arranging the present edition, I have endeavoured to preserve the order in which the several works were first published; and at the same time to bring together, as far as possible, similar subjects. To secure these objects, I have placed the Hydriotaphia between the Garden of Cyrus and the Brampton Urns ; though in the first edition of the two former pieces, the author placed the Garden of Cyrus last. That edition was published in 1658, in small 8vo. 66 The Second edition is that which appeared with the Fourth edition of Pseudodoxia, under the direction of its author; who has prefixed to the volume two pages of Marginal Illustrations omitted, or to be added to the Discourses of Urn-burial, and of the Garden of Cyrus." The Third edition, in double columns, was printed with the sixth of Religio Medici, as an addition to the third (erroneously called the fourth) of Pseudodoxia, in folio. The Fourth edition of the two Discourses was printed with the fifth of Pseudodoxia, in 1669. But, most absurdly, the "Marginal Illustrations," &c., instead of being incorporated in the edition, are reprinted as a table, and not even the pages altered to suit the edition! The (Fifth) edition was published by Abp. Tenison, with the "Works" in folio, 1686. In 1736, Curl reprinted (in an 8vo. tract of 60 pages, with 6 pp. of Epistles, &c.), the Hydriotaphia, Brampton Urns, and the ninth of the Miscellany Tracts, "Of Artificial Hills, &c." followed by the three first chapters only (unless my copy is imperfect) of the Garden of Cyrus-in 40 pages-with 6 pp. of Title and Epistle Dedicatory. This is called the Fourth edition, but is in fact the Sixth. The First edition of the account of the Brampton Urns was published with the Posthumous Works, in 1712; the Second by Curl (as just mentioned) in 1736. I have not met with any MS. copy either of Hydriotaphia or the Garden of Cyrus, though many passages occur in MSS. Sloan. 1847, 1848, and in 1882-which were evidently written for these discourses. Of the Brampton Urns I have met with three copies, differing from each other and more or less complete, in the British Museum |