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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65267	The Right Reverend Doctor John Cosin, late Lord Bishop of Durham his opinion (when Dean of Peterburgh, and in exile) for communicating rather with Geneva than Rome ... / by Ri. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1684 (1684)	Wing W1094; ESTC R15810	37,284	110

arguments for Canon or Rubrick which is equlvalent and the opposite for prevailing Custom was pressed so far as on either side they would bear and my Lord of London whose Translation to the Metropolitan See of Canterbury was near approaching petitioned by me to be as I knew he would be an impartial Arbiter in the case What my Lord of Sarum most sharply insisted on was That no Parochial Priest ought to difser in practice from that of his Diocesan nor presume to withdraw his Church or Congregation from the precedent of his Cathedral that being little better than to set up Altar against Altar and consequently begin a Schism I humbly asked leave of his Lordship to make observation what advantage unawares he yeilded me in paralleling the practice he would have reintroduced into my Church with that which already was on solemn Festivals only to gratifie an accessional Auditory that had not prayed with him in his own the difference between them I shall make appear by and by and his more charitable opinion of me than to believe I affected any thing in matter or form that tended toward any wilful opposition or humorous disparity in that I conformed all I could to what was practised in his Quire to which alone I had regard not concerning my self with what his Lordship suffered perhaps not commanded in the Nave of his Church before his mixt assembly could be well setled and the Preacher pass from a greater distance to ascend the Pulpit For the Psalms in prose were alternately Said with us as they were Sung in his Quire and might have been Sung so too if my people were so well inclined to learn those Tunes as they were industrious to retrieve the other And if I may not be bold to fay what was taken up by Custom in the Area or body of his Cathedral had not been Usus Sarum from the beginning of the Reformation I would affirm unlicensed that if I did the same in my Church between the Lessons or Services first and second as my ignorant people fondly required I should then indeed do litle less than erect Altar against Altar Meeter against Prose a lewd Chant against a solemn Harmony both in matter and form opposite for I heard of no such practice in the Quire of his Lordships Cathedral nor any other Which difference between Quire and Naves in the present case being overlooked or inobserved by his Lordship exempted me from censure and justified my aversion from acting any thing so contrary to the Rubrick in our Common-Prayer Book at my urging which inadvertisement if so I may call it his Lordship seeming to be somewhat surprized my Lord of London immediately started up from the Couch and laying his hand gently on my Shoulder said as if he meant it in good earnest Hold thine own man which I was willing to interpret his award in the case or determination of the question laid and fairly discoursed before his Lordship Which so happily ended I heard no more from my Reverend Diocesan about it But from his very worthy successour some further swasive importunity I sustained and more yet from his learned Chancellour Sir William Turner with the annex of a very plausible and tempting promise That if I would comply with my Parishioners in these two particulars 1. Singing the vulgar Psalms as turned into Meeter 2. Reading the Communion-Service in the Desk and not go up into the Chancel he would see that the most contentious of them all should pay me peaceably the full due of my Tythes without trouble or suit at Law which otherwise he foresaw I would not be able to get in without charge and disturbance I understood Sir well enough how much his affectual assistance might contribute to my Peace and Profit yet was loth to purchase it at so dear a rate as the forfeiture of my observance or forbearance of my duty to the express order of the Church but his power being great if he would issue out from his Court a countermand to my Curate and I found him influenced by it when I came down into the Countrey for we were then in London I would not discontinue what practice my Curate had entered on by his order but leave the burthen of praetercanonical or praeterrubrical acting in the Offices of the Church on him who was better able to answer it than my self So far was Sir William from taking offence at this my freedom or becalmed by it in the vindication of my title to some Tythes injuriously detained that being asterward entertained by me as my Advocate in the Arches not withstanding potent opposition made upon a false and frivolous suggestion over facilely hearkened to he by argument of Law and skilful Mesnage carried my cause on to the period of being in readiness for a sentence which the Dean of the Arches openly declared he ought in justice and equity to pronounce on my part and had done it if a prohibition had not issued from above which traversed the cause to another Judicatory where it was skilfully pleaded in my behalf by the late Lord Chief Justice Sanders at which Sir William was so much concerned that having some Books and Papers in his hand he threw them down with great indignation in the midst of the Court saying somewhat resolutely to this purpose If so just a cause as this must be wrested from us after a fair hearing and sentence ready to be pronounced for us I will never act here in causa deoimarum more And I think he was so good as his word to his dying day Sir at the next occasion of my waiting upon his Principal the Right Reverend Bishop Earles though my business with him at that time was of a different nature yet I could not escape a rubbing up of the old sore a mild reprehension for my outing or disusing the Singing Psalms to whom when I had made the like reply as formerly I found it necessary to produce the copy of this very Letter of the Reverend Dean's with whom his Lordship had been so intimate abroad in exile as I might reasonably suppose this argument among many other relating to our publick practices in the Church had not escaped their discussion in private converse Having read it over and returned the paper to my hand he said thus in short I do not question this writing to be other than what you affirm it but whatsoever was the Bishops opinion then for a great Bishop was the Dean become after his Majesties return I am sure he is now of another mind in the particular of Singing Psalms I cannot help that my Lord said I nor can I change the opinion I was confirmed in chiefly by this authority under his own hand which I have to shew until our Church doth change her Rubrick or I may be otherwise convinced Soon after this I departed fairly and enjoyed my freedom Sir If my Lord of D's change of his opinion should seem to invalidate what before the Dean