The dead mans real speech a funeral sermon preached on Hebr. xi. 4, upon the 29th day of April, 1672 : together with a brief of the life, dignities, benefactions, principal actions, and sufferings, and of the death of the said late Lord Bishop of Durham / published (upon earnest request) by Isaac Basire ...

THE Dead Man's REAL SPEECH.

BUt before we enter into this due Office of Comme∣moration, (for to preach or pray over the dead, is Justa persolvere) we must by way of prevention enter this solemn Protestation against this our censorious Age, That we do abjure all manner of flattery, passive, or active, being, God be thanked, settled above all slavish fear or base hope from the living, much more from the dead. Was King David a Flatterer for composing and publishing those

goodly Epitaphs upon Saul and Ab∣ner,* 1.1 who yet were no very good men?* 1.2 or were the godly widows, flatterers for shewing the Coats and Garments which Dorcas made whilst she was alive? In the ensuing rehear∣sal our intention is, and our endea∣vour shall be to publish nothing but vera & utilia. As for the verity, as I am confident of the Ingenuity of my In∣structors (Persons of Quality and of good credit;) so (as I said before) I am convinced and confirmed of the verity of the matter, by the last will (a sacred thing in Law) of our late Lord Bishop. And as for the utility of this due office of Commemoration, we commit our Meditations to Gods direction; and commend them to your attention. If there be any Adder that dare hiss against this dead Prelate, or the live∣ing for giving the dead his due, or shall object, Was this man one in quo Adam non peccavit? Was he a man all made of Vertues? Had he no faults? Our answer is that Pro∣verb of Charity; De mortuis nil nisi benè 'tis an honest old say; as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,

to gnaw on dead mens bones, is an inhumane, brutish, unnatural hu∣mour: Such Cannibals as do delight to feed on dead mans flesh, by tearing of their Fame, do take the Devils Of∣fice out of his hand: Yet, the Devil, if one may say so, was more a Gentle∣man, more civil to Job, for the Devil slander'd him indeed, but 'twas when he was alive, and so might and did answer for himself.* 1.3 Far be it from me to usurp the Office of a Coroner, over the state of the Dead; the Rule of Charity, and practice of our Church, in the Office for the dead have taught me better Divinity. I know by ex∣perience, that an evil eye looking up∣on the Dead, through the wrong end of the perspective, I mean Envy, will not only spear out, but also espy, and that with aggravation the infirmities or faults of the dead; I wish all such seriously to consider themselves, and well to weigh St. James* 1.4 his Obser∣vation; Was not Elias a man subject to the like passions as we are? and yet by the Pens of the Prophets and Apo∣stles dipt in Charity we read nothing

but commendations of Elias; nor of Job,* 1.5 Ye have heard of the patience of Job: not a word of his impatience,* 1.6 tho' confessed by himself (whom some think to be the Authour of the most part of that Book.)

When I have done with the due praises of this Great Man,* 1.7 some Shi∣mei with his Serpents tongue may still hiss at,* 1.8 though he can never hurt, this dead man: To stop all such foul mouths I wish them to reflect upon themselves, and let them know that there must be faults as long as there are men; and with a serious reflexion upon themselves, let them fore-know that after him who lies here before us, we must all, every one of us, be weighed in the ballance at last; and for my own part I must confess I am perpetually afraid to have my share in that Article against Belshazzar; I dread his Tekel,* 1.9 that final doom, Thou art weighed in the ballance and found wanting. The best of us all at Dooms∣day would be glad to have their grains of allowance, and why should we grudge them to our betters?

Therefore now to draw the curtain over all humane infirmities and im∣perfections, which may God cover in mercy, and clear us all by his free pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And so to proceed:

It is certain that no man is born a Saint; but 'tis as certain that every good man that dies in the exercise of Repentance, Faith and Charity dies a Saint; such as our Hope is, this our Brother died.

First, his Name.

His Name was John, which in the Holy Tongue signifies the Grace of God. Here, by the way, Parents and Godfathers may take out this good Lesson, not to put upon their Chil∣dren fantastical, much less profane and superstitious Names, but prudently to chuse such Names as may be con∣tinual Memorials of some good duties to the parties so named, as oft as they shall hear, read or write their own Names, that they may endeavour by

their lives to become as good as their names.

Secondly, His Sirname.

His Sirname was Cosin, in Latine Cognatus, quasi à Con & Natus, which (as the famous Civilian Modestinus expoundeth it) signifies a Cosin in primo gradu in his own Family. This Sirname of Cosin is become famous by diverse learned men of that Name. I saw once in our Prelates hand Cognati Opera; and we have in our hands that excellent Apology for the Ec∣clesiastical Lawes by Dr. Richard Co∣sin that Renowned Civilian; and now our Church enjoyeth that solid work Intituled,

A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture; brought forth in his banishment, by this our deceased Lord.

Thirdly, His Birth.

His Temporal Birth was on St. An∣drews day, 1594. His birth to Glory,

(I mean the day of his death) was Jan. 15. 1671-72. his Age 78. current,* 1.10 greater by so much than King David's first measure 70. So that, to phrase in Jobs words,* 1.11 He came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season. Length of dayes is by Gods favour annexed to the fifth Commandment [Honour thy Father, &c.] which the Apostle maketh the first Commandment with promise;* 1.12 and 'tis a Glory: For the hoary head is a Crown of Glory,* 1.13 if it be found in the way of Righteousness: A good evi∣dence of Gods acceptance upon his obedience to his Superiours, Spiritual, Political and Natural Parents, for want of which due obedience to Parents, God many times shortens the dayes of the Sons of Belial, Rebellious Children.

Fourthly, His Person.

God and Nature did frame his earthly Tabernacle of a goodly stru∣cture, for he was both tall and erect; a fit presage aforehand of the stature

of his future preferments and digni∣ties;* 1.14 he had a Prelatical presence, which he over-topped with his libe∣ral beneficence. This I am sure of, he was no Dwarf, neither in Stature, Dignity nor Bounty, as will appear by the ensuing discourse.

Fifthly, His Family.

1. Paternal, his Fathers Name was Giles Cosin of Fox-hearth;* 1.15 a Citizen of no mean City (to use St. Pauls phrase, who did glory in Tarsus his birth-place.)

His City was Norwich, of which more anon, when we come to his Countrey. He was a good Citizen, a man of substance, witness his liberal education of this his great Son.

2. By his Maternal descent, he was Son to Mrs. Elizabeth Remington, of Remington-Castle, an antient Family, and which is worth all the rest, both his Parents were of the Household of faith,* 1.16 both born and bred in the true, antient, Apostolick and Catholick Religion of the Church of England,

which this their Son did so early im∣bibe, that he lived and died a con∣stant Professor, and Patron of the same: Thus was his Family in Lineâ rectâ.

As for his Collateral Line, he took a Wife out of an antient Noble Fa∣mily in this Countrey, Frances, the Daughter of Mr. Marmaduke Blaki∣ston (a Dignitary both in the Metro∣political Church of York, and in this of Durham) Marmaduke was Son to John Blak••ston of Blakiston Esq; whose other Son was Sir William Blakiston Father to Sir Thomas. His Wife was a prudent Wife, and there∣fore from the Lord: To my know∣ledge a true yoke-fellow,* 1.17 not only in Prosperis, (as too many worldly-mind∣ed Wives) but chiefly in Adversis, which is the tryal of a good Wife, and of a true friend indeed; and these are blessings! For to have the Burthen of a Wife, and not the bles∣sing of a good wife is a great cross, if not a curse.

And here I stop from attending the rest of his Family any further; per∣haps

I have gone too far already in presuming to blazon a Pedigree, be∣ing no Herald.

Sixthly, His Countrey.

To pass from his Family to his Countrey, he was born a Britain and an English Man. A Nation so famous for situation,* 1.18 plenty and victories. If Plato did thank the Gods that he was born a Grecian and bred a Philosopher, but still a Heathen: how much more ought every true English-Man to be thankful unto God for his birth un∣der a Christian Monarchy? Christian indeed, if, as the current of Historians do report, it received the Christian Religion from one of the Apostles, or one of their Apostolical Disciples; some say Simon Zelotes, others Joseph of Arimathea: and if England (as they say) was the first Kingdome in all the world that first received the Gospel, with the countenance of Su∣preme Authority under King Lucius a Britain (whom Historians do place Anno Christi 170, and 'tis no small ad∣dition

of honour for this Kingdome, that the first Christian Emperour, even Constantine* 1.19 the Great was born in England. Thus our deceased Prelate was blessed in the place of his birth,* 1.20 but much more blessed for the state of his New Birth in such a Chri∣stian Church, the most Apostolical and the purest of all Christian Churches;* 1.21 Expertus loquor, for in 15 years Ecclesiastical Pilgrimage (du∣ring my voluntary banishment for my Religion and Loyalty) I have sur∣veyed with an impartial eye of ob∣servation most Christian Churches both Eastern and Western; and I dare pronounce of the Church of England, what David said of Goliahs Sword, There is none like it,* 1.22 both for Primi∣tive Doctrine,* 1.23 Worship,* 1.24 Discipline and Government, Episcopal Hierarchy, the most moderate and regular: For it was a singular providence of God to inspire the first Reformers of the Church of England with the Spirit of wisdome, to conjoyn the zeal for ve∣rity with due reverence to Antiquity: for by Cardinal Baronius his own

Confession,* 1.25 the Church of England is for her Christendome acknowledged antienter than Rome it self by nine years; and 'tis strange in reason, and more strange in nature, that the pre∣tended Mother should be younger than the Daughter, but that any thing which is rational is rejected by such as only relie upon a Magisterial pre∣tence of Ipsa dixit, which false prin∣ciple smells rank of wilfull schism, and also wrongful in causa propria. And here without suspicion of ingra∣titude, I cannot but bless God, that by his providence he was pleased to ingraft me into this Holy Church, wherein I have had the honour to bear the office of an unworthy Priest, above 43 years. To pass on from England, the general Countrey of the deceased, to his particular Countrey; He was born in Norwich,* 1.26 an Ancient, Great,* 1.27 Famous and Opulent City, and the more opulent now by his late liberal Gifts and Legacies to that City, expressed in his English Will.

Seventhly, His Education.

To pass from his Countrey to his Education: He was planted in the Free School of Norwich, watered by that famous Fountain of this Land, the University of Cambridge;* 1.28 and God gave the increase both of solid Piety and sound Learning, first in Caius Colledge, whereof he was Fel∣low, and afterwards he had the ho∣nour to be brought up at the feet of that great Gamaliel Dr. John Overall, an Apostolical Bishop first of Litch∣field, after of Norwich, whose Secre∣tary he was for his Learning and Coe∣ligraphy;* 1.29 for he had the Pen of a ready Writer in a singular way, and so might deserve the praise of the Tribe of Zabulon;* 1.30 so well could he handle the Pen of the Writer. Bishop Overal (who sent him from time to time to the University to keep his Acts) ad∣vised him to direct his studies in or∣der to Divinity. His Elias being ta∣ken from his head, he was preferred to be Domestical Chaplain to that great

Patron of the Church, Dr. Richard Neile, who having passed thorow five Bishopricks, ascended at last to the Archiepiscopal Throne of York; and this gives me a fair hint to pass from his Education to

Eighthly, His Dignities.

Our great Prelate did not, as some more ambitious than worthy, a∣scend to the Episcopal Throne per Saltum, but by the Canonical De∣grees: As first, he was lawfully Or∣dained Priest, and afterwards was in∣stalled Prebendary of this Church of Duresme, wherein he was not slack to search, and study the Rights and An∣tiquities of the same, and among o∣thers to promote one of the Honours of it by his constant Residences, both Ordinary and Extraordinary with lau∣dable Hospitality, according to the Statutes (Salvis Canonibus) sealed with a Sacred Oath, and therefore to be observed; for he was so far from pressing upon his Majesty for (impor∣tunate) Dispensations, (which are al∣wayes

the Soveraigns most just Pre∣rogative, in cases of real and legal ne∣cessity) that upon search of our Churches Register, I find not one dis∣pensation for him in all the time he continued Prebend, which was about 36 Years. And I knew a man, who in two cases of invincible necessity, had the Royal favour of two dispensati∣ons (the one unsought for by him) who yet preferring the publick good and honour of the Church, to his own private interest, did voluntarily wave both. The first for the Peace of the Church, then but newly resto∣red; the other for the honour of the Church, then for sundry months de∣stitute of Residentiaries, which also proved an effectual Precedent to re∣strain some from troubling the King for Dispensations intended otherwise. After he became Bishop of the same Church, he was so careful to preserve this honour of Hospitable residence, that at his last personal visitation of the Dean and Chapter, An. 1668. among other Injunctions this was one; That such Prebends as do not keep due Re∣sidences,

according to the Statutes, shall be deprived of their Quotidians and Dividends, grounding also this his in∣junction upon right reason, viz. Qui enim Emolumentum alicujus loci perci∣piunt,* 1.31 onera etiam ejusdem loci sentire,* 1.32 & ferre debent; which practice is conformable to good Conscience and Equity, and worthy the imitation of his Colleagues, whether Incumbents or Successors; for 'tis a Rule in Law, Beneficium propter Officium, and there∣fore for causeless habitual Non-Resi∣dents, chiefly in Cathedrals or Mo∣ther Churches, (which admit not such Deputies or Coadjutors in their Cha∣pters, as by the Laws are allowed in particular cures) for Non-residents (without real necessity) to claim or to enjoy equal profits with the Resi∣dents, who do bear the burdens both real and personal, seems to be against the Rule of Proportion, which forbids, Dare aequalia inaequalibus;* 1.33 and comes near also to a kind of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,* 1.34 a partial respect of persons,* 1.35 which God so frequently forbids (I would I could say,* 1.36 God forbid; and also that

I may prove a false Prophet, for un∣less things be amended I fear parti∣ality and non-residence may prove the ruine of the Church.) But there is an∣other Rule in Equity, That though some Dispensations, in case of manifest necessity, may pass as lawful in foro soli; yet (if without that necessity) they may prove unlawful ad hominem, in foro poli, where he may appear in the shape of the austere man in the Gospel,* 1.37 if he reap there where he does not sow in proportion; for in every Society every good man should bear his own burthen.* 1.38 And it may further be offered to common prudence, nay, as a case of Conscience; whether such Dispensees who presume upon the Grace of the Royal Dispensor (only upon pretence, or chiefly out of co∣vetousness) ought not to make resti∣tution to the extent of their Power;* 1.39 for what sentence is justly left upon Record by a grave Prelate against the old Sequestrators, may, sub modo, be applyed also to the case of the new wilful Non-residents:* 1.40 His Sen∣tence is this, That of all the Command∣ments

the eighth is most dangerous; for the breach of other Commandments obligeth to Repentance, but the breach of the eighth Commandment obligeth both to Repentance and Restitution; according to St. Austins Rule of good Conscience, Non remittetur peccatum, nisi restituatur ablatum. And certain∣ly there is appointed a great day of account for both, at which day Lord have mercy upon us all, and pardon our sins of Omission, from which in this particular our Bishop was clear.

2. He was Arch-deacon of the East-riding in the Diocess of York.

3. He was Master of Peter-house.

4. He was Vice-Chancellour of that University Anno 1640. when he had the honour to send the publick Plate to the King, then in his Recess, to supply in part his Princes necessity for the present; and then also I had the honour to be admitted Doctor of Divinity between his hands, and with his Benediction.

5. He came to be Dean of Peter∣borough, from whence he had the ho∣nour to be preferred to the Order of

Confessors, that is, for his Religion and Allegiance, to become a Seque∣stred Man for near upon 20 years. Here by the way, I may insert an Ob∣servation (it may be called a Predi∣ction) that as I am informed, Doctor Easedale in the year 1636. gave him some small thing upon condition he should pay a greater summ when he were made a Bishop: Such was the expectation men of understanding had then of his future greatness. For,

6. Upon the Kings wonderful Re∣stauration, He was by His Majesty first designed Dean of Durham; but upon the Kings Gracious Reflection on his constant Attendance and Ser∣vices beyond the Seas, he was decla∣red by the King, of a Dean intend∣ed, to be the Actual Bishop of Dur∣ham. His immediate Predecessour was that great Luminary of our Church, Blessed Thomas Morton, famous for his Holy Life, solid Learning, and boun∣tiful works of Charity and Hospita∣lity; and for his manifold learned Works against the Adversaries of the Church of England on the right hand

and on the left; as for the Doctrine against Hereticks, so for the Disci∣pline, against the Schismaticks of his time, beyond any satisfactory Answer to any of his Works unto this day: To whose Memory I should be un∣thankful, if I should not acknowledge (for which I do still bless God's Pro∣vidence) that I had for above an Apprenticeship the happiness to be brought up as Domestick Chaplain at the feet of such an Eminent Gama∣liel.

To be Bishop of Durham is no ordi∣nary State, but an high Dignity; for besides the Spiritual Dignity of a Bi∣shop it includes the Temporal Power of Count Palatine of Durham and Sad∣berge; a singular Synastria, as I may say, or Constellation, is this concur∣rence of two great Dignities, the Spi∣ritual with the Temporal: For, what∣ever Envy may object to the contra∣ry, yet these two are not in reason in∣compatible. Such was the State un∣der the Patriarchs, &c. the Eldest Son being both Prince and Priest. Neither in practice unusual in this no∣ble

Kingdome, but that the same per∣son may be both a good Minister and also a good Magistrate: Provided al∣wayes, that the Clergy-man do not affect it out of Ambition. Wise men see no cause why he may not lawful∣ly accept the Commission in due sub∣mission to Supreme Authority, under which the same person may be, with∣out offence, both a Bishop and Count Palatine; for which respect, of two Arch-Bishops, and twenty four Bishops in England and Wales,* 1.41 the Bishop of Durham is by Act of Parliament rank∣ed in the fourth place, next to the Bi∣shop of London. And here 'tis worth the observing, that God, the immense Geometer of all the World,* 1.42 was plea∣sed by his providence to proportion the height of this great Prelate's Ex∣altation to the depth of his Humilia∣tion for Loyalty,* 1.43 &c. under Seque∣stration and Banishment, in that he was by the Royal Bounty promoted from the Order of a Priest, immedi∣ately to be a Bishop, and that, Bishop of Durham.* 1.44 To fulfill the Rule in the Gospel, Whosoever exalteth him∣self

shall be abased, and he that hum∣bleth himself shall be exalted.

He was the 68 Bishop of this Dio∣cess from Aidanus the first Bishop of Lindisfarne, Anno 637. (St. Cuthbert's renowned Cathedral in the Holy Island) the Mother of this Church of Durham, of Great Antiquity; for from the first foundation of this Church Anno 637. unto this present year 1672. the succession of this Church hath out-lasted above 1000 years, and so still may it last unto the Worlds end. But now to con∣sider a Bishop in general.

A Bishop.

A Bishop is the most eminent office in the Order of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, for though the Lords Arch-Bishops be Superiours to the Bishops in their Degree, yet in re∣spect of Order, the Bishops, quatenus Bishops, are equal, de Jure, and there∣fore need, de facto, no new Con∣secration when they are made Arch∣bishops.

A Bishop is by the judgement of Antiquity, and by the major part of sound and sober Modern Divines, deemed an Apostolical Office, because derived from the Apostles themselves, who after they had planted Christian Churches, as Oecumenical Ministers of Christ, were setled in particular Dio∣cesses, where they were to exercise both the Episcopal Powers of Ordina∣tion and Jurisdiction; (this none but Aerian Hereticks will or can deny;) for 'tis clear both from Holy Scri∣pture, the Epistles of St.* 1.45 Paul to Ti∣mothy and Titus,* 1.46 and the strong cur∣rent of Ecclesiastical History.* 1.47 A high Office again in respect of Christ, eve∣ry Priest under Christ, the Supreme Everlasting Priest, bears a part in Christ his Priest-hood; so every Bi∣shop being a Successour lawfully de∣scended from the Apostles of Christ, bears a part of Christs Apostleship, for Christ is styled an Apostle,* 1.48 and therefore the Glorious Martyr* 1.49 St.

Ignatius, who was St. John the Apo∣stle's Disciple, gives this Rule to the Christian Churches of his time;* 1.50 That we ought to be subject to the Bishop as unto the Lord. However this high Office, by furious Fanaticks hath been, by a prodigious pride of late, in these Rebellious Times, much slan∣der-beaten, disgraced, yea degraded; which Crime,* 1.51 General Councils have made the stigma or brand of down∣right Hereticks in a larger sence.* 1.52

And here, God be thanked, that of all the Reformed Churches,* 1.53 the Bishops of the Church of England can clearly derive their Succession from the Apostles themselves,* 1.54 as hath been made good abundantly by the worthy Champions of our Church.* 1.55

And now upon the consideration of the Antiquity, Eminency and Uti∣lity of a Bishop in this Diocess, which is now in the state of an Ecclesiastical Widow-hood, or to phrase it with St. Greg. Naz. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Shepheardless; since the King's heart is in the hand of the Lord,* 1.56 as the rivers of water, and he turneth it whithersoever he will;

We pray, and hope that it may please God to incline the heart of the King in his Royal wisdome, to bless us in due season with a Successour, worthy of his Predecessours; a Godly, Learn∣ed, laborious and vigilant Bishop, the more necessary both for Spiritual and Temporal Government in these Nor∣thern parts, being so far remote from the Sun of Justice and Honour, the King, and too near to some ill affect∣ed neighbours only blinded by pre∣judice or ignorance; and so much the rather, because of the conjuncti∣on of this Bishoprick, the Spiritual Dignity with the Temporal Power of the County Palatine perpetual.

County Palatine.

1. For Antiquity, as old at least as William the Conquerour,* 1.57 as we are in∣formed by our Learned Antiquaries;

and that, not by Creation, or by Act of Parliament (as other Counties Pa∣latine) but by long Prescription,* 1.58 con∣firmed afterwards by several Acts of Parliament,* 1.59 and by the Protection of our Gracious Kings from time to time.

2. For Authority, the Bishops of Durham freely enjoying (alwayes un∣der the King as Supreme) Jura Rega∣lia, within this County, insomuch that 'tis a maxime in Law, that, Quic∣quid Rex potest extra Episcopatum, po∣test Episcopus intrà: Salvo semper Do∣mino Regi supremo jure vitae & necis, &c. In regard whereof, by way of compensation for the Court of Wards belonging of old to this County Pa∣latine, but for the exigence of the bad Times, taken away of late by Act of Parliament, His present Majesty our Gracious King Charles II. (whom God long preserve) out of his wont∣ed Royal Equity, was graciously plea∣sed to Grant unto our late Lord Bi∣shop an Exemption from the Annuity of eight hundred eighty pound per Ann. belonging to the late Queen Mother,

in Reversion after her death unto this our Bishop and his Successours (much elder than the Queen Mother, and so in the course of nature not likely to enjoy it in his own time, but in his intention to procure it for the good of his Successours.) A special Royal Bounty, for which no doubt God will reward the King and his Royal Successours.

Ninthly, His Actions.

They are so intermixed with his Passions or Sufferings, that in our Dis∣course we can hardly sever them, but must sometimes coincide; for in∣stance, when he was in Exile in France, he did with much magnani∣mity, do aforehand some of the Of∣fices of a Bishop, one part whereof is to stop the mouths of the gain-sayers to sound doctrine,* 1.60 and that in a time of great necessity, when both the Church and the King of England were dispersed, and the members dissipa∣ted;* 1.61 here is the patience and faith of the Saints. One signal instance of his

constancy and courage for the Litur∣gy of the Church of England, may not be omitted, that is, Anno 1645. He did, with the consent of the Ministers of the Reformed Church of Charen∣ton near Paris, solemnly in his Priest∣ly Habit, with his Surplice, and with the Office of Burial, used in the Church of England, Interr there the body of Sir William Carnaby, a No∣ble and Loyal Knight; not without the troublesome contradiction and contention of the Romish Curate there.

At that time, many that were pore∣blind, and not able to see the then less visible face of the Church of Eng∣land then in the wain; a Church in the wilderness, because under perse∣cution, when sundry were wavering from the true Religion; Our Bishop did then confirm some Eminent Per∣sons against many Imminent and Im∣portunate Seducers;* 1.62 (another Epi∣scopal

Office) which is in such ambi∣guous times especially,* 1.63 to confirm the Souls of the Disciples, exhorting them to continue in the Faith;* 1.64 teaching, That we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God.

One notable instance of this our Bi∣shops Constancy and Zeal in this kind we may not omit which was a solemn conference 〈◊〉〈◊〉 by word and writing

betwixt him and the Prior of the En∣glish Benedictines at Paris, supposed to be Robinson. The Argu∣ment was concerning the validity of the Ordination of our Priests, &c. in the Church of England. The Issue was, our Doctor had the better so far, that he could never get from the Prior any Reply to his last Answer. This Conference was undertaken to fix a person of Honour, then wavering a∣bout that point: The summ of which Conference (as I am imformed) was written by Doctor Cosin to Doctor Morley, the now Right Reverend Lord Bishop of Winchester, in two Letters bearing date

• June 11.
• July 11.

1645.

His Noble contempt of great pre∣ferment on the right hand and on the left, if he would comply with, or but connive at the erroneous positions and practices of the Seducers; to all whom his real and resolute answer was that of St. Peter to Simon Magus,* 1.65 Thy money perish with thee [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.]

So far was this Great Spirit from tottering, much more from turn∣ing aside from the right way.

Great was his Communion of Cha∣rity towards all Christian Churches, if agreeing in the fundamental Arti∣cles of Salvation, though different in form of Discipline and outward Ce∣remonies; which demonstrateth that he wore in his breast Animum Catho∣lieum, that is, ready to communicate with all Christians, Salvâ veritate: if Dissenters would not do so recipro∣cally, for want of Charity, he by his Christian moderation would leave the Schism at their doors; so far was he from the unseasonable, that I say not, unreasonable severity of some that presume to Non-Church whole Churches for such circumstantial dif∣ferences, as long as they hold the substance of Christian Doctrine and Worship: And in this he did follow happily the wise Example of that Great Prelate Bishop Andrews,* 1.66 so

eminent for Primitive Piety,* 1.67 Chri∣stian Prudence, and Universal Learn∣ing: For wise men do not think it safe to multiply Adversaries (of whom we have enough already (God knows;) we must be very wary to avoid the mischief of an unnecessary Schisme, which may harden the worse Adversaries in Heresie.

This his Christian condescension towards the Reformed* 1.68 Churches

was afterwards requited by a singular respect from the Chief Doctors of those Reformed Churches,* 1.69 whom to ccondemn rashly is to storm whole Churches against Charity. For our moderate connivance at their inordi∣nate Ordination, does not at all legi∣timate it, but only declareth our Christian Charity, to pity them for want of Episcopal Ordination, be∣cause they cannot help themselves: So long as they have Episcopatum in voto* 1.70 (their words and writings te∣stifie this ingenuously) though to their grief they cannot have Episco∣patum in Facto through Political ne∣cessity, which rather deserves our compassion, as blessed Bishop Morton did often bewail their infelicity for the want of Bishops, they being Sub∣jects living under a Great Monarch of a different Religion, who for Rea∣sons of State, will not suffer in his Kingdome two several Bishops of two several Religions in one Diocess, to preserve publick Peace, and to pre∣vent* 1.71

Contention, and clashing of Ju∣risdictions, to the disquiet of his Loy∣al Subjects; much less would such a King suffer his Native Subjects of the Reformed Religion to go out of his Kingdome to a forreign Kingdome, there to receive Episcopal Ordinati∣on from Protestant Bishops, depend∣ing upon a forreign Prince, to whom every person that is to be Ordained a Deacon, Priest or Bishop, must by the Statute Laws and Canons of that Land and Church, and by the form of Ordination, before he be Ordain∣ed swear Allegiance. This that King or Prince will not permit, neither in point of prudence to prevent defe∣ction, or the falling away of his Sub∣jects to a forreign Power.

His Works.

We pass now from our late Lord Bishops Actions transient, to his Works more permanent; his Scholastical Works, whereof some are Printed, and some yet unprinted: for he ob∣served the golden maxime, of that

modest and wise man of Greece, Py∣thagoras, who gave this very mystical but wise advice unto his Scholars, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] By no means to eat their own brains; intending there∣by (as 'tis conceived) that they should not keep their Reason and Learning (of which the brains are an immediate instrument) unto them∣selves, but still employ them for the advantage of others, for whose be∣nefit this our Learned Prelate did publish these following Tracts, viz.

Printed,

1. Many years agoe he did pub∣lish a Book Entituled, A Collection of Private Devotions, extracted out of the publick Liturgies of the Churches both Ancient and Modern; very use∣ful for good Christians well disposed, and which may teach them how to offer unto God a reasonable Service every way.* 1.72 That work at first was looked upon with an evil eye, and hissed at by some serpentine Tongues and Pens to suppress it; (they were

none but Schismaticks) but yet to this present time it hath had the blessing to out-live a fifth publick Edition.

2. During his Sequestration and Banishment, when through the ini∣quity of the Times he was not suffer∣ed to preach in England, he did in France compose an excellent Book, Entituled, A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture, drawn out from the Judaical Church to the Sixteenth Century of years. A funda∣mental work, which proves him to have been a perfect Herald of the true Pedigree of the Holy Scripture. This Work was first Printed, 1657. when still Sequestred and in Exile, and since reprinted Anno 1672. but to this day unanswered, for the space of fifteen years and more; we may suppose the reason is, because the Evidences therein are unanswer∣able.

3. By the same method he did compose a Book against Transubstan∣tiation, part whereof is already printed.

Ʋnprinted.

1. The other part is unprinted, but ready for the Press, written twen∣ty four years ago; Entituled, Histo∣ria Transubstantiationis Papalis.

2. An Answer to a Popish Pam∣phlet, pretending that St. Cyprian was a Papist.

3. An Answer to a Paper delivered by a Popish Bishop to the Lord In∣chequin.

4. An Answer to four Queries of a Roman Catholick about Protestant Religion.

5. Annales Eccl. Opus Imperfect.

6. Dr. Cosin's Answer to Father Robinson's Papers concerning the va∣lidity of the Ordinations in the Church of England.

7. Summarium Doctrinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae.

8. The differences and agreement of the Church of England from and with the Church of Rome.

9. Historia Conciliorum, opus im∣perfect.

10. Against the forsakers of the Church of England, and their Sedu∣cers, in this time of her Tryal.

11. Chronologia sacra, opus imper∣fectum.

12. A Treatise concerning the a∣buse of Auricular Confession against the Church of Rome. For though the Church of England both by grave Exhortation and Godly practice in her Holy Offices, doth allow of pri∣vate Confession to the Priest as Gods Deputy by express Commission [who∣soever's sins you remit they are remit∣ted] in the cases of a troubled con∣science:* 1.73 And that her Children may come to the Holy Communion with full trust in God's Mercy:* 1.74 Our Church doth admonish them that such a Con∣fession may then be very Medicinal: Yet, our Church guided by the Word of God, and by good Antiquity, just∣ly denies Auricular Confession to be absolutely necessary to the Remission of sins, provided the party be truly penitent. With much more reason doth our Church deny private Con∣fession to God's Priest to be Sacra∣mental,

as the Church of Rome doth affirm without any solid ground of Verity, or from Antiquity. These re∣mains are earnestly recommended to his Pious Executor's care for publi∣cation; for by these Fruits of his, we may charitably conclude, He ob∣tained the character of the blessed Man,* 1.75 whose leaf shall not wither: and by these his excellent Works our dead Prelate, being dead, yet speaketh.

His Benefactions.

To pass now from his forreign Acti∣ons abroad to his Countrey-Benefacti∣ons at home. That great Prelate had this blessing from God to enjoy a large heart,* 1.76 that is, an heart capable, not only to know, but also to do great things (for his time) both to his Chruch and Country. He was indowed with an Active Spirit to de∣sign, and with an able Body to per∣form his designs; as God gave him Wealth, so he gave him Artem fruen∣di; for it is one thing to have wealth, and another thing to enjoy

and use it well, by maintaining good works for necessary uses,* 1.77 chiefly Pub∣lick and Pious Works, for he was mindful of the Apostles precept;* 1.78 To do good and to communicate forget not, for with such sacrifices God is well plea∣sed; and therefore he was both more careful of, and also chearful in the distribution of his Munificence for these pious uses; and his Posterity may from thence raise up their hope to thrive better for it; for after God in the Poor, and God's Church, out of the Chruches Patrimony is well serv∣ed, a little well gotten, and left by an honest Clergy-man, may stretch much further, and stick much longer in his Godly Posterity, than a Church-Estate ill-gotten by some Lay-Nim∣rod, who seldom out-lives, much less transmits his Sacrilegious Estate to the third Generation, which com∣monly and visibly verifies the old Proverb, De malè quaesitis vix gaudet tertius Haeres:

And here I must crave leave for a very material digression concerning the Clergy's Spiritual or Ecclesiastical

Estates; for although, as I hope, I have else-where* 1.79 sufficiently pro∣ved, that by the Law of God and Man, the Clergy of England have as good and as legal (that I say not a better) Title to their Benefices and Dignities pro tempore, as any Lay-Subject of England to their temporal Inheritances, and so may justly call their Estates their own, in foro externo; yet indeed and in truth (and by sad experience to Clergy-mens Widows and Chil∣dren, not so well provided for here, as beyond the Seas) we Clergy-men are but Ʋsufructuaries, God is the great Proprietor Paramount of all that Clergy-men enjoy, which gives them an high Title to what they enjoy under God, to whom at last they all must one day give a strict account, when they must hear of a Redde Ra∣tionem,* 1.80 (God knows how soon!) and then we must be no longer Stewards here; for it is evident by the forms of the antient Donations, to, and Do∣tations of the Church, that God him∣self is the Chief Treasurer of the Churches Estate: The antient forms

run thus, Concedimus Deo, & Ecclesiae, &c.* 1.81 So that God himself is Enti∣tuled the Chief Lord and Proprie∣tary to all Clergy-men's Estates, to whom all their Church-Lands under God are granted.

1. To provide for God's Moral Houses.

2. God's Material Houses.

1.* 1.82 Gods Moral Houses are chiefly the Poor, to bestow upon the truly poor and impotent through Age, or made so by Providence, through fire or o∣ther involun••ary mischances, or to such who though they labour by their industry, to maintain their own Families, yet being over-burthened by their Wives and many Children, are not able to relieve them all; these are the best poor, and therefore most worthy to be relieved* 1.83 in the eye of prudent Charity. As for Vagrants or common wandring Beggars, whereof this Kingdome swarms, to the con∣tempt of so many good Laws, and to the great scandal of our Christian Re∣ligion; Correction is the best Cha∣rity for such.

Wise men say that two things, ge∣neral Experience and Memory, make up a wise man: Modesty will not suffer me to pretend to that wisdom, but if I may declare my observation, I have lived some years in Holland and never saw a Beggar there; I have lived some other years in Turkey and never saw a Beggar there.

The reason is plain, because to the Authority of their good Laws, they add the severity of due Execution: We have as good and as wise Laws in England as any Nation under Hea∣ven; but Execution is the life of the Law, which is but a dead Letter, yea deadly, if some do make a conscience of observing the good Laws and o∣thers neglect it. The lawful remedy of this too publick mischief is wholly and humbly represented and submit∣ted to God, and to the King under God.

2. Clergy-men are obliged to be∣stow part of their Ecclesiastical estates upon Gods Material Houses, Churches and Chancels, and Ecclesiastical Houses to repair or preserve them

from ruine, which would defraud their Successours, and oppress their miserable Relicts and Relations upon the account of just dilapidations.

3. The Premisses being well pro∣vided for (which is left to the Chan∣cery in his breast, that is, to the Cler∣gy-mans conscience and prudence) out of the just remainder of his Ec∣clesiastical Estate, the honest Clergy∣man may lawfully provide for him∣self and Family; for by the Apostle's Canon,* 1.84 he is worse than an infidel that provideth not for his own, especially those of his own house. Herein our Sa∣viour's Rule is the best guide;* 1.85 these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

But if contrary to the pious inten∣tions of the Religious Founders and Donors Clergy-men do intervert the spiritual estate of the Chruch, chiefly or only to raise up or enrich their pri∣vate temporal Families, with the neg∣lect of the publick God's Houses, whe∣ther moral or material: They may (as too many) leave their Children beg∣gars, besides (which I am afraid of)

a strict Audit at the great day of ac∣count, that they may clear themselves from Ecclesiastical Sacriledge, from which now, and at Dooms-day▪ good Lord deliver us all. For my part I do here profess, and protest with thankfulness to God, that out of my signal experience of God's eminent providence over me (though unwor∣thy) this hath been my honest in∣tention and constant endeavour in this world to make friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness in hope of God's word,* 1.86 That when we fail they may receive us and ours into everlast∣ing habitations; and I am confident, that neither I nor mine shall fare the worse for it; what ever Carnal Rela∣tions may murmur against this just and honest course, objecting the worlds false maxime, (contrary to God's true maxime,* 1.87 look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others,) That every man must make much of his own Time, to which this may be a full reply, That we all must make much more of Eternity.

By these Godly methods, our late Lord Bishop did proceed in provi∣ding, as for the Poor (Gods moral Houses) so for Gods material Houses; in both which regards we may truly say our Bishop held his See ad Aedifi∣cationem, yet not neglecting those of his own Houshold; and for a reward of those his Pious Works, God gave him leave to live so long, as not to leave his Relations unprovided for, God be thanked.

And now should I launch out into the deep of his great Benefactions, I fear the particulars will overflow both your attention and my expres∣sion; you may see them at large in his Temporal Will written in English, where you may read so many Items, so many good Works.

1. To the Quire of Durham.

2. To the Preacher at his Funeral.

3. Tokens to the Dean and Pre∣bends for memorials of their morta∣lity.

4. To the vicar of St. Andrews Auckland, an addition of sixteen pound per annum.

5. To his Almes-men of Durham and Auckland.

6. After his Burial to the Countrey-Poor.

7. For the magnificent repairing of the Episcopal Chappels of Durham and Auckland, and for Furniture, Plate, Books, and other Ornaments, &c. in the said Chappels, freely left to the Bishops his Successours. And in this he was a good imitator of his great Patron Bishop Neile, who in less than ten years did bestow upon the same (as I am informed) about seven thousand pound, for indeed he was Vir Architectonicus.

8. He did erect a goodly Chappel in the Castle of Auckland, consecrated by himself on St. Peters day, 1665. Two goodly Chappels formerly ere∣cted there (in which I have also offi∣ciated for some years of peace) being blown up by Sir Arthu Hasterig in the Gunpowder-plot of the late Rebel∣lion.* 1.88 Now if the Centurion, who built only a Synagogue, wherein Christ was never worshipped, deserv∣ed praise, how much more he who

built such a house of God, wherein Christ is constantly worshipped* 1.89?

9. For several other Publick Works, as the repairing the boyster∣ous Banks of Howden-shire belonging to this Bishoprick.

10. To two Schools at Durham.

11. For five Scholars places in St. Peter's Colledge in Cambridge, ten pound a piece per annum.

For Three Scholars in Gonvile and Caius Colledge twenty Nobles a piece per annum.

Eight pounds yearly for the Com∣mon Chest of those Colledges respe∣ctively.

But for the particulars of his Bene∣factions and Legacies, I have referred my self to the Bishops Will it self, writ∣ten in English; in which the Bishop modestly declares, that He mentions

these as works of Duty, and not for Ostentation.

12. The next is, for the Redempti∣on of Christian Captives.

13. For the Relief of the distressed Loyal Party.

14. For a great Publick Library in Durham.

15. To the poor Prisoners of all places where he had relation by birth or preferment.

16. To the poor the like.

17. For the re-building of St. Paul's Church London, &c.

And what shall I say more,* 1.90 for the time will fail me to tell of his mani∣fold Legacies to his Friends dead and living (as monuments of his grati∣tude) to his Domestical Relations, Kindred and Servants, all which par∣ticulars (as I am still informed) do amount to above twenty five thou∣sand pound.

'Tis to be observed that his Lord∣ship was Consecrated, Anno 1660. and was translated from Earth to Heaven Anno 1671. so that he enjoyed his Bishoprick but Eleven years, and so

computing his premised Benefactions, he spent above two thousand pound a year in these pious uses. A worthy Example of Episcopal Magnificence and Christian Charity. Upon a seri∣ous search of the whole Line of the Bishops of Durham from the first of Lindisfarm to this our late Bishop, sixty eight in number, there are found upon the Ecclesiastical Records but* 1.91 eight Bishops (in 1034. years) that may seem to have equalled, but not exceeded this our Bishop in the noble vertues of Magnificence and Benefi∣cence; and 'tis worthy the considera∣tion of our Age, that the valuation of workmen, and materials, &c. was far less in those antient times than in ours, now much dearer every way.* 1.92

We have been the longer in set∣ting forth this notable Example of Episcopal bounty in the Church of Eng∣land, that it may burst with envy such of the Church of Rome;* 1.93 (for all amongst them are not alike, some be∣ing more ingenuous) till they vomit out their false, foul and rotten say, That Pater Noster built Churches, but Our Father pulleth them down. (The Devils Proverb! none of Solomon's Proverbs to be sure.) This great Man here lying before us may be a stand∣ing Monument for a real confutation, and may rise up in judgment against all such base slanderers of our Church and Religion.

Behold! how great and goodly works one single English Prelate hath done in so short a time, and that af∣ter twenty years long Sequestration, and voluntary Banishment, only for his Religion and Allegiance.

Neither doth this our Bishop want his Peers even in this present age, our great Arch-Bishops Dr. Laud that glo∣rious Martyr, Dr. Juxon, Dr. Shelden, Bishop Warner, those constant Con∣fessors,

and how many more whose eminent magnificence may on the o∣ther hand choak the mouth of that English Bel and the Dragon, and of all such Rabshakehs, who out of their Bu∣limia or the greedy worm, do eat much, but as it is observed thrive lit∣tle, are still gaping after the sweet morsel of Sacriledge, though in the digestion it will prove first or last a bitter Pill in the maw of their con∣science. They, I say, looking upon the Bishops and Clergy with the squint eyes of envy and malice, shoot out their venemous tongues against these good men, and their whole order, inhancing by a false rule of hyperbolical multiplication, the Bishops revenues in Fines, &c. never talking the ingenuous pains to ballance in the account their Incomes with their just deductions in their vast publick and pious expences, but through a diabolical detraction and malignant subtraction, they do wilfully suppress the great Out-lets of these great Re∣venues. This Example may restrain a third sort of censorious men, who

being more jealous than zealous of good works, object the suspicion of vain Glory in the case, wresting to their own damnation that passage of our Lord,* 1.94 Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth; though this Caution be expresly restrained by our Lord to secret Alms; far dif∣ferent from the case of publick works of Charity, concerning which our Lord gives an express command to the contrary; else what mean these words;* 1.95 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven—That they may see your good works; not as though the sight of them should be intentio operantis, but conditio operandi, thereby to pro∣voke others to a Godly imitation, to the Glory of God,* 1.96 which must be the ultimate end of all our actions: for whilst we praise the Instruments, such worthy men as in life and death have endeavonred to be beneficial unto their Generations; We must not for∣get the Principal, which is God the Father of lights,* 1.97 from whom cometh

down every good giving, and every per∣fect gift.

Enough, once for all, to gagg those evil men, who being out of charity with Charity it self, want that Chri∣stian Charity which thinketh no evil.* 1.98

His Passions or Sufferings.

For, Multa fecit tulit{que}—

1. Publick, and that first at home Annis 1640, and 1641. when he was both Sequestred and Angariated be∣fore a Sacrilegious and Rebellious Assembly of Lay-men, which the se∣duced Crew did nick-name A grand Committee for Religion, his Magnani∣mity and Constancy in maintaining the truly Apostolick and Catholick Do∣ctrine and Religion of our Holy Mo∣ther the Church of England was such, that he came off clear from all calum∣nies laid to his charge in base Arti∣cles and Pamphlets, to the notorious amazement, disappointment and shame, at last, of his malicious, false and furious Adversaries: And this I can the better depose, for that I had

the honour then and there to be a fellow-sufferer, not only by Sympathy with him and for him, but also by my own Idiopathy, yet God deliver∣ed him and my self out of all these troubles.

2. His sufferings abroad; as in France where he underwent another Tryal, only for upholding (under the King then in the French Court) the Publick Liturgy or Common-Prayer-Book of the Church of England; for wherever he was, he retained still, and exerted a publick spirit: And his Constancy (the Character of sincerity) was so much the greater, that for all those his Tryals, both at home and abroad, he was never moved, much less removed from his stedfast Belief, and Uniform Practice of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of Eng∣land; when at home swarms of un∣stable men were carried away with the terrible torrent of the Times, both from the True Religion, and their due Allegiance: For this great Man was resolved and resolute to be one of those (not too many) who

would never defile his Holy Garment,* 1.99 neither his Surplice when a Priest, nor his Rochet (if he could then have been a Bishop) with any Sacrilegious Covenant or Rebellious Engagement; and I thank God so was I; whereby he saved himself the labour of a sad Repentance, and requisite Recantation before God and Men, for those great sins of Perjury, Rebellion and Sacri∣ledge; and so he did wisely prevent that scruple, or singultum cordis, the hiccough of Conscience (for so some do translate it) which they of the Cler∣gy, who against their multiplyed Oaths to God, the Church and the King have committed, may be put upon here or hereafter,* 1.100 which is the best way to clear themselves from shame and reproach.

3. His Personal Sufferings, which were by his frequent Sicknesses.

1. By Nature, acute, as the Stone* 1.101, &c. which usually he called his roar∣ing Pains, whereby he was at last

overcome, together with a Pectoral Dropsie.

2. The length of his Disease; for two years before his death he was much crazed by many furious fits, and so he did bend his chief care to prepare for his latter end, fore-feeled in himself, and fore-told by himself to his private Friends, and fore∣spoken in his Last Will.

'Tis the Observation both of Di∣vines and Philosophers, That when the Soul of Man is near its final (though not total) separation from the Body, it withdraws it self, and so becomes receptible of a kind of Pro∣phetical or Prognostick Inspiration con∣cerning its departure. It was his bles∣sing from God to give him such fore∣warnings, and so to hear his prayer in the Letany, to deliver him from suddain death, which though to a Godly Man it may prove suddain, in respect of expectation, for the manner or circumstance concerning time and place;* 1.102 (for all things come alike to all) yet in point of preparation, for the matter and substance it's never

suddain: This fore-sight of his de∣parture at hand, made him often in his sicknesses to ingeminate in the Royal Prophets words;* 1.103 O that I had wings like a Dove, for then would I fly away, and be at rest!

His Death.

And thereat his last Actions, as,

1. His Benedictions to his Chil∣dren, and at their desires, his bles∣sing also upon the Divines then pre∣sent, and upon God's Church chiefly for Purity and Peace.

2. His Solemn Invitation to God's Priest for his last Viaticum; and then the Priest about him asking him whe∣ther (by reason of his weakness) he would have the Bread only dipt, he answered No; but he would receive it in both kinds, according to Christ's Institution; and being through weakness lifted up into his Chair, and having a violent pain in his head, for the ease whereof it was fast bound, he would needs have it all undone and sit bare-headed, and so

he received it, an hour and a half be∣fore his death, from the hands of Mr. William Flower his Lordships Do∣mestical Chaplain.

3. And when being so near unto death he could not kneel, he then devoutly repeated often that part of the penitent Prayer of King Manasses, Lord,* 1.104 I bow the knee of my heart.

4. Having often reiterated his In∣vitation of Christ in the words of the Spirit, and of the Church, Lord Jesus come quickly. His last act was the Ele∣vation of his hand, with this his last Ejaculation, Lord! wherewith he ex∣pired without pain, according to his frequent prayer to God, That he might not dye of a suddain, or painful death; such was his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (Augustus his wish) and I pray God for every one of us, that from heart and mouth our last breath may prove like that of our late Bishop, Amen.

His Burial.

The Ecclesiastical Office was solemnly Celebrated by the Right Reverend Fa∣ther

in God Guy Lord Bishop of Bri∣stol: The Political Offices were per∣formed decently and in order, which was in all publick actions the method of our late Lord Bishop when living, and the same he enjoyed at and af∣ter his death: the particular Narration of which I do civilly recommend to those Dunmviri the worthy Heralds (for the Funeral pomp was very so∣lemn) who did constantly attend his late Lordship's state at London, and all the way to Durham, and there, and at Auckland, the place of his Rest, where requiescat in pace, and from thence God send him a joyful Resur∣rection: at which prayer none but ignorant or malicious men will take offence; for the meaning is no more, but that the dead may enjoy a happy Re-union of the Soul with the body at the general Resurrection, and a final and full consummation of both in bliss; (and after the utter abolition of sin by death) a blessed conjunction of us that survive with them that are dead, which is the Orthodox sence of our Office at Burials (the ancient sence

of the Primitive Church) when we pray over the dead, whose Souls in Christian Charity we hope are past the necessity of our Prayers for their Re∣lief or Release from any imaginary (first Pagan,* 1.105 after Popish) Purgatory.

The Summ of all.

The Text and Sermon is a dead mans real speech:* 1.106 To hear a dead man speak now were such a Prodigy as would certainly both stir up atten∣tion, and strike amazement into us, and all the hearers; yet that Great Chancellour of Paris, John Gerson, re∣lates a strange History which hap∣pened about the year 1060. at the Funeral of a Grave Doctor there, a man otherwise reputed for the strict∣ness of his life; at the interring of whom, when the Priest came to the then used form R••sponde mihi, or an∣swer me, the Corps sat upright in the Biere, and to the amazement of all there present, the first day cryed out, Justo Dei judicio accusatus sum, At the Just Tribunal of God I am ac∣cused,

and so laid immediately down in its first posture; the astonished Company deferring the burial till the next day, when the dead man with a hideous noise cryed out again, Ju∣sto Dei judicio judicatus sum, By the just judgement of God I am judged; where∣upon the burial was deferred a day longer, and the dead man rose up the third time and cryed out his last, Justo Dci judicio condemnatus sum, By the Just judgement of God I am con∣demned; whereat, as the whole com∣pany was sadly affrighted, so Brimo, then an Eminent Doctor in the same University being effectually affected calling his Scholars together, retired from the world, and as the manner of those Times was then, became the Founder of the Order of the Carthu∣sians. A strange Prodigy! and a loud warning-piece to us all living, to ad∣monish us not to confide, much less presume upon our outward Righteous∣ness; for I dare not deny Historical Credit to this premised Relation from John Gerson.

But blessed be God, dead Abel in

the Text, and the dead Bishop on this Hearse speak better things. This Hearse is now our Bishop's Throne or his Pulpit, and so our Bier must be the last Pulpit of us all of the Clergy; high and low all must come to this, God knows how soon; (I may be the next:) God send us all an happy Nunc dimittis, of which we may live and dye assured if we imitate them, for they being dead yet speak, and as you have heard at large do preach unto us all Faith, Hope and Charity (the only strait way to Heaven) all evidenced by their works of Piety, which if not imitated by us,* 1.107 may justly rise up in judgement against us.

To Recapitulate and summ up our Bishops Vertues under three Heads, I will remind you with,

• 1. His Intellectual,
• 2. His Moral,
• 3. His Theological

Vertues.

1. As to his Intellectual Vertues, his Natural understanding, he was en∣dowed with a sound understanding,

which he enjoyed to the last; a great blessing▪* 1.108 for though for the outward manner of death all things come alike to all, and there may be one event to good and bad, both may lose their understanding at their latter end, through the malignity or vehemency of some acute sicknesses (which should teach us all in health to make good use of our understandings;) yet for a man to dye, sanâ mente, or in his right wits, is a great comfort both to the dying party, and to the surviving friends.

2. His acquired learning, witness his writings fore-mentioned, and his diligent researches into the magazine of the best Antiquity. I may truly say, Here lies now dead before us one of our Chief Ritualists.

3. He was punctual in his Methods, for to my knowledge he loved Order in his Studies and Functions, and he often repeated, and generally ob∣served the Apostles Canon,* 1.109 Let all things be done decently and in order. He was so exact in putting in practice the Discipline of our Church, that

he strictly enjoyned, according to the Rubrick, the daily Publick Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer within the Churches of his Diocess, which since the decay of the Primitive De∣votion of daily Communions in the old Christianity, is instead of the Juge Sacrificium of the Jews, the daily sa∣crifice of a Lamb Morning and Even∣ing:* 1.110 And 'tis both our sin and shame, that since God is graciously pleased (under the Gospel) to spare our lambs, we Christians should in requital grudge our good God (except in case of real necessity) the Calves of our lips;* 1.111 to praise him daily in the publick Congregations. Without va∣nity. I have (through Gods provi∣dence) travelled and taken an im∣partial survey of both the Eastern and Western Churches, and can assert upon mine own experience, that in the Eastern Churches, the Greeks and Ar∣menians, &c. constantly observe their daily publick Service of God; and in the Western Churches, I passing through Germany (to take the like survey) did with comfort behold the

same daily publick Offices with full Congregations in those they call the Lutherans and Calvinists, (I do hate, but through the iniquity of the times, I cannot avoid those Schismatical names expressed only for distinctions sake) nay to give Rome her due, they in their way (though erroneous) ob∣serve the same daily practice strictly. And truly when the Laity doth daily plow, sow, work and provide for the Clergy, 'tis but Christian Equity that the Clergy should daily offer publick Prayers and Praises for the Laborious Laity.

Item, Our late Bishop did much re∣form and regulate the good Behavi∣our, and Canonical Habit of the Clergy under his Government. He did also regulate their Office in bidding prayer before their Sermons, according to the common sence of our Churches Canon LV. and confin'd their con∣ceived prayers too much abused and groundless in our Liturgy, and also contrary to the ancient practice of our Church,* 1.112 and other Reformed

Churches; and I who have lived in this Diocess of Durham forty years, and have been an unworthy Arch-Deacon of Northumberland, as also a Prebend of this Church for the space of thirty years, never saw it more Re∣gular, (since the sad twenty years of Schism and War, and so of Confu∣sion) whereby his Successour, who∣ever he be, may enjoy the comfort of a Regular Diocess.

2. His Moral Vertues.

1. And first His liberal Hospitality at his Table, according to the Apo∣stolical Canon,* 1.113 That a Bishop must be

given to Hospitality, which to main∣tain honestly, he must in all reason and equity be allowed proportion∣able Revenues, according to that Proverb, Ne sit Promus fortior Condo. This once again may strangle Bel and the Dragon.

2. We have already mentioned his Princely Magnificence in his build∣ings.

3. His Christian Magnanimity in his undertakings and sufferings, we pur∣posely omit some of them, whereby he did prevent Innovations within his County Palatine, because we would prevent malice and envy at the recital of them: But we must needs express again the Royal Favour procured by him, to exempt this See from the great burthen of eight hun∣dred and eighty pounds per An. paid for many years by the Bishops of Dur∣ham to the Queens of England.

3. His Theological Vertues.

Which were his Faith, Hope and Charity:

1. His Faith, evidenced by his faith∣ful constancy in the True Religion, and by his full Confession of that Holy Faith in his Last Will (the antient way of the Holy Fathers in their Te∣staments.)

2. His Hope, expressed by his Pa∣tience under his sufferings, knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience, and Patience experience,* 1.114 and experience Hope, and Hope maketh not ashamed. His sore fits of sickness, especially for the two last years of his life, often did break his crazed body, but ne∣ver did break his Christian patience.

3. His Charity apparent by his pi∣ous Dedications to God, and bounti∣full Donations to men, so that I wish, that in his Epitaph that character of Gods Servant might be stamped,* 1.115 He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the Poor,* 1.116 his Righteousness remain∣eth for ever, his born shall be exalted with honour; a consequent blessing upon such Benefactors; for this God∣ly Seed is a Metaphor, taken from a Husbandman, who by scattering of his Seed into the ground in due sea∣son,

reapeth a plentiful increase in due time. And now here lies before us the remains of a great man indeed.

1. Great by his Dignities lawfully obtained. He was,

1. A Fellow of Caius Colledge in Cambridge.

2. A Priest in God's Church.

3. Master of Peter-house in Cam∣bridge.

4. A Prebendary here.

5. Arch-Deacon.

6. Deane.

7. At last, by these orderly de∣grees he was, through the providence of God, and under God by the Roy∣al Favour of our most Gracious King, in Reward of his Constant and Loyal Services and Sufferings at Home and Abroad, exalted to the Throne of a Bishop, and such a Bishop as was a Count Palatine in England, and so as I may say a petty King, as having the Royalties in this County belonging to him, but still with due Subordina∣tion to a Great King Transcendent a∣bove him, and all Subjects within this Kingdome; but still a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉

in our Translation, a Noble Man; in the vulgar Latine,* 1.117 a Regulus; in St. Hie∣rome, Palatinus;* 1.118 a parallel Title to that part of our Bishops Dignity.

But now he is dead, and who knows but that God took him away from the evil to come?* 1.119 And as great as he was you may see now, that a small plat of ground must contain and confine him,* 1.120 Sic transit gloria mundi. He can carry none of all those Dig∣nities to his grave,* 1.121 onely his Faith and good Works do attend him to his grave, and beyond his grave,* 1.122 for his Works do follow him, and that as high as Heaven where he now rests from his labours; but without Faith and good works, when a man is dead, vanity of vanities all is vanity.* 1.123

2. This great man was Greater yet by his Actions and great Benefactions, concerning which, when in the pro∣secution of his Great Buildings, he

was interpelled by some, with the mention of his Children, his usual answer was, The Church is my first∣born; a Noble Speech, yea, a Divine Sentence, worthy of a King, who may envy it out of a Bishops mouth. In∣deed the Church is the Kings first∣born, and the best of his Titles is to be the Defender of it. I am confident that his Noble Relations will Erect unto him a more lasting Monument than this our transient Speech or wi∣thering pen, or failing Press can fully express. Indeed for his time he did great things, and he lived and died also with good intentions of doing greater things; for he was pregnant of generous designs.

3. He was greatest of all by his constant sufferings; in which sence St.* 1.124 John Baptist is styled, magnus co∣ram Domino: not so much for his doings (though they were great) for John did no Miracles,* 1.125 as for his sufferings, in which Sence our late Bishop was greatest, for he was a constant Confessor for Christ and his True Religion, and so but one de∣gree

removed from the Noble Army of Martyrs,* 1.126 into whose blessed Society our hope is that he is now gathered: to which blessed state of Glory he bring us all at last, who hath both by his precious blood purchased, and by his Free Grace prepared it for us, even Jesus Christ the Righteous. To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit, three Persons and one God, be ascribed again from Angels, from us, and from all men; all Praise, Power, Majesty, Dominion and Glory for ever and ever, Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2 Sam. 1. 3.
• * 1.2

  Acts 9. 39.
• * 1.3

  Job 1. & seq.
• * 1.4

  James 5. 17.
• * 1.5

  James 5. 11.
• * 1.6

  Job 42. 3, 5, 6.
• * 1.7

  Ecclus. 44. 1.
• * 1.8

  Let us now praise famous men, and our Fa∣thers that begat us.
• * 1.9

  Dan. 5. 27.
• * 1.10

  Psal. 90. 10.
• * 1.11

  Job 5. 26.
• * 1.12

  Eph. 6. 1, 2.
• * 1.13

  Prov. 16. 31.
• * 1.14

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Eurip.
• * 1.15

  Acts 21. 39.
• * 1.16

  Gal. 6. 10.
• * 1.17

  Prov. 19. 14.
• * 1.18

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cambd. Brit. &c. Vegetius a∣bove 1200 ago wit∣nesseth that the climate of Britain is of that tempera∣ture, out of which 'tis fittest to chuse valiant Souldiers.
• * 1.19

  Sabelli∣cus R. Ar∣chiep. usher Praefat. ad Britan.
• * 1.20

  Eccles.
• * 1.21

  Primond. ex Euseb. Theodoret.
• * 1.22

  1 Sam. 21. 9.
• * 1.23

  Casaub.
• * 1.24

  Epist. ad Salmasi∣um.
• * 1.25

  Baron. ad an. Christi 35. & ad an. Tib. Imp. 10. where he affirms that Bri∣tain was converted by Joseph of Arima∣thea. The like is af∣firmed by Gildas Co∣varrus and others.
• * 1.26

  Cambd.
• * 1.27

  Brit.
• * 1.28

  1 Cor. 3. 5.
• * 1.29

  Psal. 45. 2.
• * 1.30

  Judg. 5. 14.
• * 1.31

  Injunct.
• * 1.32

  Quint.
• * 1.33

  Lev. 19. 15.
• * 1.34

  Prov. 18. 5.
• * 1.35

  Rom. 11. 11.
• * 1.36

  Gal. 11. 5. &c.
• * 1.37

  Luk. 19. 21.
• * 1.38

  Gal. 6. 5.
• * 1.39

  Bishop Bramhals Vindicati∣on, &c.
• * 1.40

  An. 1672. pag. 16.
• * 1.41

  31 H. 8. c. 10.
• * 1.42

  Plato.
• * 1.43

  'O 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉,
• * 1.44

  Luk. 14. 11.
• * 1.45

  1 Tim. 5. 22.
• * 1.46

  Titus 1. 5.
• * 1.47

  Euseb.
• * 1.48

  Heb. 3. 1.
• * 1.49

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. S. Ignatius, Epist. ad T••al∣lianos, princ. The Father grounds his Injunction upon the Apostles Canon, Heb. 13. 17.
• * 1.50

  Ignat. Ep.
• * 1.51

  Coucil.
• * 1.52

  Constant.
• * 1.53

  Hooker Ec∣cles. Polit.
• * 1.54

  Mason de Minist.
• * 1.55

  Anglic. Dr. Bram∣hall, &c.
• * 1.56

  Prov. 21. 1.
• * 1.57

  Cambden. Selden, Titles of Honour, part. 2. cap. 5. who observes that the Bishop of Durhams style, in his Patents, &c. runs thus, Dei Gratiâ Episcopus Dunelm. &c. And I have observed for this forty years, that at the General Assizes and Sessions, the Publick Cryer concludes in this usual form, God save the King and my Lord of Durham.
• * 1.58

  11 H. 6. & Pasch.
• * 1.59

  21 Eliz. 1.
• * 1.60

  Tit. 1. 9, 10, 11.
• * 1.61

  Rev. 13. 10.
• * 1.62

  This truth is confessed by some body, (otherwise a good man) who yet seems no great friend to our Bishop, but being convinced by the reality of these his Actions, especially abroad, hath these words: This must be re∣ported to the due commendation of Dr. Cosin, that when he was in France, he neither joyned with the Church of French Protestants at Charenton nigh Paris, [False] nor kept any Communion with the Papists therein; but confined himself to the Church of Old English Protestants therein, where, by his pious living, and constant pray∣ing and preaching, he reduced some Recusants to, and confirmed more doubters in the Protestant Religion. Many were his Incoun∣ters with Jesuites and Priests, defeating the suspicions of his Foes, and exceeding the expectation of his friends in the success of such Disputes. Church-History by Mr. Tho. Fuller, Cent. 17. Book 11. Sect. 38. pag. 173. His many mistakes about Mr. Peter Smart his Prosecutions (or rather Persecutions) of our Bishop are confuted by the Bishops own express Letter to Mr. Waring and Dr. Reves, April 6. 1658. in which Letter also our Bishop censures at large Mr. Fullers Calumny, wherein he affirms, that Dr. Cosin did not joyn with the French Protestants at Charen∣ton, against which Assertion the Dr. declares to all the world, that he never refused to joyn with the Prot••stants there, or any where else, in all things wherein they joyn'd with the Church of England. And that our Dr. was constant in this his judge∣ment, may further appear by a former full Letter of his from Paris, Feb. 7. 1650. written to one Mr. Cordel then at Bloys, who seemed shy to communicate with the Protestants there up∣on this very scruple of their inorderly Ordination, &c. as Dr. Co∣sin styled it, who there and then determined the Question in the Affirmative for our Communion with them; Salvo semper jure Ecclesiae Anglicana.
• * 1.63

  Tit. 1. 11.
• * 1.64

  Acts 14. 22.
• * 1.65

  Act. 8. 20.
• * 1.66

  Nec ta∣men si no∣stra [Poli∣teia] divini juris sit, inde sequitur, vel quod siue ea salus non sit, vel quod stare non possit Ecclesia. Caecus sit, qui non videat stantes fine ea Ecclesias. Ferreus sit, qui salutem eis neget. Nos non sumus illi Ferrei: latum inter ista discrimen ponimus. Potest abesse ali∣quid, quod Divini Juris sit (in exteriore quidem Regimine) ut ta∣men substet salus.
• * 1.67

  Item Epist. tertia. Quaeris tum peccéntue in Jus Divinum Ec∣clesiae vestrae, non dixi. Id tantum dixi, abesse ab Ecclesiis vestris, aliquid quod de Jure Divino sit, Culpâ autem vestrâ non abesse, sed Injuriâ Temporum. Non enim tam propitios habuisse Reges Gal∣liam vestram in Ecclesiâ reformandâ, quam habuit Britannia no∣stra. Interim, ut dabit meliora Deus, & hoc quoqùe quod jam ab∣est, per Del Gratiam suppletum iri. Opuscula posthuma D. Ep. Andrews, in Epist. secunda ad V. L. D. Peter Molin. See more at large the Reasons of this our Christian Moderation towards those forreign Churches, in the learned Bishop Bramhal's vin∣dication of the Episcopal Clergy, &c. against Mr. Baxter, Printed Anno 1672. p. 30, 31, &c.
• * 1.68

  It is an express Article in our Bishops last Will (we might call it his Spiritual Will) written in Latine, which because of the Excellency of it, both for mat∣ter and form, hath been thought fit by his Executors to be an∣nexed to this Brief of his Life, which contains a full Confes∣sion of his Faith and Religion, the first occasion and chief mat∣ter, as of the Patriarch's, Gen. 49. so of the Primitive Chri∣stians Testaments. In this also a worthy imitator of his Pre∣decessour learned Bishop Morton, who hath left the like free full Confession in his Last Will.
• * 1.69

  Amyrald.
• * 1.70

  See Dr. Durel's learned and labo∣rious Work. Entituled, Of the Go∣vernment, &c. in the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas, p. 13. See Dr. Steward at Paris, Anno 1647. when this was put to the Question.
• * 1.71

  Dr. Deodat Epist. ad Convent. Eccl. &c.
• * 1.72

  Rom. 12. 1.
• * 1.73

  St. John 20. 21, 22, 23.
• * 1.74

  See in the Book of Common Prayer, the first Exhorta∣tion be∣fore the Commu∣nion.
• * 1.75

  Psal. 1. 4.
• * 1.76

  1 Kings 4. 29.
• * 1.77

  Tit. 3. 14.
• * 1.78

  Heb. 13. 16.
• * 1.79

  See my Book of sacri∣ledge, pag. 45. 49. &c.
• * 1.80

  Luk. 16. 2.
• * 1.81

  V. Capi∣tula Caroli M. item Miraeum de Donat. Belgi••.
• * 1.82

  Mat. 25.
• * 1.83

  V. Speed's Chron. p.
• * 1.84

  1 Tim. 5. 8.
• * 1.85

  Mat. 23. 23.
• * 1.86

  Luk. 16. 9.
• * 1.87

  Phip. 11. 4.
• * 1.88

  Luk. 7. 5.
• * 1.89

  Si Cen∣turio com∣mendatur Domino qui aedificavit Synagogam, quanto est com∣mendatior qui aedificavit Ecclesiam? & si is▪ meretur gratiam qui Iimpietati Receptaculum praestitit▪ quanto majorem meretur Gratiam qui Religioni Domicilium praeparavit? Et si ille Coelesti miseri∣cordiâ visitatur, qui construxit locum ubi Christus semper negatur, quanto magis visitandus est, qui fabricari fecit Tabernaculum ubi Christus quotidiè praedicatur? St. Ambro. Serm. 89. de Dedic. Basilic.
• * 1.90

  Heb. 11. 32.
• * 1.91

  Those Bishops Benefa∣ctors in the See of Durham were eight. [Isaack∣son's Chrono∣logy,]
• * 1.92

  • Aldwinus—Godwin Fol.—99
  • Egelrius—101
  • Ranulphus Flambard—112
  • Hugo Pudsey—113
  • Anthonius Beake—125
  • Walterius Skirlaw—134
  • Tho. Hatfield—133
  • Cuthbertus Tunstal—138

  Cardinal Tho. Langley may be the ninth to make up the number of the Muses, but we crave pardon, that some are of Opinion, upon the survey of his works, that he came short of this our Bishop.
• * 1.93

  Master Knox the Jesuite.
• * 1.94

  Mat. 6. 3.
• * 1.95

  Mat. 5. 16.
• * 1.96

  1 Cor. 10. 31.
• * 1.97

  Jam. 1. 17.
• * 1.98

  1 Cor. 13. 5.
• * 1.99

  Rev. 3. 4.
• * 1.100

  1 Sam. 25. ••1.
• * 1.101

  It is ob∣served of that Civil Lawyer Mathaeus W••sembecius, that for his sharp Diseases, in his latter Age▪ he did change his Sir-name, and would be called Mathaeus de Afflictis.
• * 1.102

  Eccles. 9. 11.
• * 1.103

  Psalm 55. 6.
• * 1.104

  Manasses Prayer.
• * 1.105

  Virg.
• * 1.106

  Heb. 8. 1.
• * 1.107

  Mat. 12. 42.
• * 1.108

  Eccl. 9. 2.
• * 1.109

  1 Cor. 14. 40.
• * 1.110

  Exod. 29. 39.
• * 1.111

  Hos. 14. 2.
• * 1.112

  Bishop Latimer, Bishop Hooper, (both Martyrs) Bishop Jewel, Bishop Andrews, &c. used no other: Our Litur∣gy being so Comprehensive there needs no other. See this at large made good, both for Antiquity and Conformity in the practice of the form of Bidding Prayer, in that excellent work in Latine of the Learned and Laborious Dr. Durel, Entitu∣led, S. Eccles. Anglic. Vindic. Cap. 9. p. 66. where he proves clearly that the practice of the Reformed Churches in Poland, Lithuania, and Zurick in Switherland, is the same with ours in England. Nay the same Author further affirms, that Calvin him∣self did use such a form; See Calvin's Sermons upon Job▪ tran∣slated into English, Printed at London Anno 1580▪ where•••• the latter end you have a plain form of Bidding of ••••ayer by way of Allocution of the people, and not of d••rect Invocation of God, saying, Let us pray; and alway concluding with the Lords Prayer as we do. See further, The Alliance of Divine Offices, &c. by Hamon L' Estrange Esq; chap. 6. p. 180.
• * 1.113

  1 Tim. 3. 2.
• * 1.114

  Rom. ••. 3, 4, 5.
• * 1.115

  Psal. 112. 9.
• * 1.116

  2 Cor. 9. 9.
• * 1.117

  John 4. 46.
• * 1.118

  Hier. in Isa. 65. Princ. By the Sages of the Law, he is styled Dominus Regalis, who hath thus long enjoyed the Jura Regalia. See Rotul. Parl. & Pasch. 21 Eliz. Rotul. quint. which the Lord Cook calls a nota∣ble Record of the Liberties of the Bishop of Durham, and is therefore allowed for such in the Kings Courts.
• * 1.119

  Isa. 57. 1.
• * 1.120

  Omnia mors aequat.
• * 1.121

  Claudian.
• * 1.122

  Rev. 14. 13.
• * 1.123

  Eccl. 1. 2.
• * 1.124

  Luke 1. 15.
• * 1.125

  John 10. 41.
• * 1.126

  Heb. 12. 22. to 24.