In order to get a full appreciation for Francis Bacon's ideas about science, one should remember that each person is a product of their time, and although scientific thought has been appropriately secularized, it is important to remember that to Francis Bacon himself, the reason for doing science was religious in nature. In fact, one could say that he succeed largely because he imbedded his arguments about the scientific process within an ethically rooted philosophy (ethical because it focuses on what humans ought to do in order to maximize their potential).
In fact, this is so much the case that more can be said about it. Bacon did not publish this work alone, but rather, he published the document within a broader work called Instauratio Magna which literally translates to "The great instauration." Instauration refers to the restoration of the human experience back to a state of euphoria and freedom, as before the Fall of Man from the Garden of Eden. If one removes the religion from this idea, they might discover a kind of scientific modernism.
Bacon is correctly isolating the risks of human experimentation (the limits of the mind, the assumptive nature of human reasoning; Organon by Aristotle was also about these specifically, and it was The New Organon's namesake). But then he doesn't stop with that critical deconstruction alone. He constructs a new mechanism, a system for inquiry and experimentation, on that historically bloomed into what we call the Scientific Method. That is how Bacon bridged the gap between religion and science.
