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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69531	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 ...	Basier, Isaac, 1607-1676.	1673 (1673)	Wing B1031; ESTC R13369	46,947	147

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 iniquity of the Times he was not suffered 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 fundamental 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 unanswerable 3. By the same method he did compose a Book against Transubstantiation part whereof is already printed Vnprinted 1. The other part is unprinted but ready for the Press written twenty four years ago Entituled Historia Transubstantiationis Papalis 2. An Answer to a Popish Pamphlet pretending that St. Cyprian was a Papist 3. An Answer to a Paper delivered by a Popish Bishop to the Lord Inchequin 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 validity 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 imperfect 10. Against the forsakers of the Church of England and their Seducers in this time of her Tryal 11. Chronologia sacra opus imperfectum 12. A Treatise concerning the abuse 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 private Confession to the Priest as Gods Deputy by express Commission whosoever's sins you remit they are remitted in the cases of a troubled conscience And that her Children may come to the Holy Communion with full trust in God's Mercy Our Church doth admonish them that such a Confession may then be very Medicinal Yet our Church guided by the Word of God and by good Antiquity justly 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 Confession to God's Priest to be Sacramental as the Church of Rome doth affirm without any solid ground of Verity or from Antiquity These remains are earnestly recommended to his Pious Executor's care for publication for by these Fruits of his we may charitably conclude He obtained the character of the blessed Man 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 Actions abroad to his Countrey-Benefactions at home That great Prelate had this blessing from God to enjoy a large heart 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 design and with an able Body to perform his designs as God gave him Wealth so he gave him Artem fruendi for it is one thing to have wealth and another thing to enjoy and use it well by maintaining good works for necessary uses chiefly Publick and Pious Works for he was mindful of the Apostles precept To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased 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 served 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-Nimrod who seldom out-lives much less transmits his Sacrilegious Estate to the third Generation which commonly 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 sufficiently proved 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 Children not so well provided for here as beyond the Seas we Clergy-men are but Vsufructuaries 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 Rationem 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 Dotations of the Church that God himself is the Chief Treasurer of the Churches Estate The antient forms run thus Concedimus Deo Ecclesiae c. So that God himself is Entituled the Chief Lord and Proprietary 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. 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 other 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 in the eye of prudent Charity As for Vagrants or common wandring Beggars whereof this Kingdome swarms to the contempt of so many good Laws and to the great scandal of our Christian Religion Correction is the best Charity for such Wise men say that two things general 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