Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus) : the English Rosicrucian : life and writings / by J. B. Craven.
- James Brown Craven
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Doctor Robert Fludd (Robertus de Fluctibus) : the English Rosicrucian : life and writings / by J. B. Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![scholar and gentleman, the tutor to some of the noblest youths of his time, the cultured and refined physician, whose perfect devotion to the Great Master of souls shines so brightly in his Tractatus Theologo-Philosophicus,” and the Yorkshire land agent, in some ways no doubt a worthy and painstaking student, but who had no training in youth either in letters or society, is so evident as to need no further demonstration. APPENDIX III. THE “ RELIGIO EXCULPATA.” This volume is a small 4to of 459 pages. It has a very plain, rather coarse, title, and no illustrations. There are two ornaments. That at the title seems to represent an opening pomegranate, surrounded by foliage and flowers ; that at the end, a fruit of the same kind, ripe, and shedding its seed. The title, “ Religio Exculpata, autore Alitophilo Reli- gionis ductibus dudum immerso, tandem per Dei gratiam et indefessam enatandi Operam emerso ”—no place of issue, but said to be from Ratisbon, merely “ anno M. DC. LXXXIV. J. N. J.”—prefixes a preface of two pages. The work itself consists of four sections :— 1. “ Religio Opponitur Irreligioni.” This contains eleven chapters. 2. '' Religio Concorporationem desiderat,” contains six chapters. 3. “ Religio nititur ambulare ad sanctitatem per Viam justitiae,” contains thirteen chapters. 4. “ Religio in timore cultum divinum peragere satagit,” contains twenty-five chapters. The work bears no printer’s name. It is very odd why this book should have been considered as Fludd’s. It is probable that the word “ fluctibus ” on the title- ])age, having caught the eye of a catalogue maker, or a bookseller, has been the cause of the error. The work is a Roman Catholic production. It sets forth in studied modest}^ and with some attractive force, the different distinguishing elements of that religion. It is true that the defence of the service of the altar, and of the vestments of the Church’s ministers, might have been written by a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28034612_0280.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
