ABSTRACT
Words and knives were the weapons of anatomists when it came to revealing the wonders of the body and God's design for mankind. Suffering and its relation to religious faith was a constant theme in John Evelyn's Kalendarium, as it was in many early modern English diaries and common place books. Both the philosophy and the religion emphasized control over the self, fortitude, resilience and the acceptance of one's fate. Like Epicureanism, Stoicism was revived during the Renaissance by humanists interested in classical languages. John Ward, like many ordained ministers in the Church of England, appears to have been a Latitudinarian. The Latitudinarian, or Low Church Party, grew out of the Great Tew Circle', which included Edward Hyde, William Chillingworth, Robert Sanderson, John Hales and Gilbert Sheldon. The new image and the new way of doing science after the Restoration were spurred on by reforms in the Church of England that focused on language.
