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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS : JOHN HEYDON. 319
emperours, grand signiours, and popes ;
I was twenty when
this book was finished, but me thinks I have outlived myself,
and begin to be weary of the Sun, although the Sun
now applies to a Trine of Mars. I have shaken hands with
delight and know all is vanity,
and I think no man can
live well once but he that could live twice, yet for my part
I would not live over my howres past, or begin again the
minutes of my dayes, not because I have lived them well,
but for fear I should live them worse. At my death I mean
to take a total adieu of the world, not caring for the burthen
of a tombstone and epitaph, nor so much as the bare memory
of my name to be found anywhere, but in the Universal
Register of God. I thank God that with joy I mention
it, I was never afraid of Hell, nor never grew pale
at the
mention of Sheol, or Tophet, &c., because I understand the
policy of a pulpit, and fix my contemplations
" I writ the '
on Heaven.
Rosie Crucian Infallible Axiomata,' in foure
books, and study not for my own sake only but for theirs
that study not for themselves. In the La\v I began to be a
perfect clerk; I writ the 'Idea of the Law,' &c., for the benefit
of my friends and practice in the King's Bench. I envy no
man that knows more than myself, but pitty them that know
lesse. For Ignorance is rude, uncivill, and will abuse any
man, as we see in bayliffs, who are often killed for their
impudent attempts ; they'll forge a warrant and fright a
fellow to fling away his money, that they may take it up ;
the devill, that did but buffet St. Paul, playes me thinks at
sharpe with me. To do no injury nor take none, was a
principle which to my former years and impatient affection
seemed to contain enough of morality, but my more settled
years and Christian constitution have fallen upon severer
resolutions. I hold there is no such thing as injury, and if
there be, there is no such injury as revenge, and no such