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A47258	Some remarks on the life, death, and burial of Mr. Henry Cornish, B.D., an eminent dissenting teacher who died on Sunday, Dec. 18, and was interr'd on Thursday, Dec. 22, 1698, in the church of Bisiter in the county of Oxford as received in a letter from a friend.	Kennett, White, 1660-1728.	1699 (1699)	Wing K304; ESTC R3388	10,035	15

retire to it to spend hours of Devotion at it to put them in mind of Mortality and prepare themselves to depart in Peace It could be no Superstition in our Dissenting Friends to use the like preparatory Methods of Holy Dying I mean frequently to visit the Sacred Place allotted for their Burial and there exercise themselves to that Godliness which will be profitable for them He might further have thought fit to encourage those Brethren not to forsake the assembling themselves together in that Holy Place where the Mournful Occasion had now brought them For they might perceive there was no such harm in the Church or the Service of it The Ground was not polluted with Idolatrous Worship if it had their Reverend Teacher would not have desir'd to find there an Ark of Rest for his Earthly Tabernacle The Surplice and the Liturgy were no such abominable Things for they had now seen them innocently us'd in the Conduct of their good Old Pastor to the Grave Nay and they had seen six of their Living Teachers walking after them bare-headed with as much Decency and Respect as good Manners and good Conscience could advise What false Spies are they who have brought this Evil Report upon the Church as if it were hideous and intolerable and would eat up the Inhabitants We see no such thing The Ceremonies are few and inoffensive The Prayers are devout and pathetically good The Sermons are practical and plain The People seem generally sincere and without Hypocrisie Let us dwell with them together in Unity I was glad when they said unto me we will go into the House of the Lord. Our Feet shall stand in thy Gates O Jerusalem And when He had come to speak more expresly of the Person and Character of the Dead He should have made a fair and ingenuous Apology for those Strokes of Life and Conversation which some People had objected as Blots and Blemishes to Him He might have plausibly said that his being cast into those Ways of Separation seem'd not so much his Choice and his Judgment as his Birth and his Breeding and his Engagements in the World For that He was born of Puritanical Paients and taught from a Child to censure and condemn what He could not understand That with these Prejudices He was admitted in Oxford under the Government of a noted Admirer of that way and being there imploy'd in a servile Office He was the more oblig'd to let his Conscience be at the Command of his Superiors That he took Orders at a fatal Juncture when it was Popularity and Gain to preach down the King and the Church That his Zeal in this Cause had recommended Him to the Parliament so call'd who sent him back with other chosen Brethren to preach up Reformation in Oxford And for his Pains there taken did soon reward Him with a Canonry in Christ-Church one of the best Preferments in England which the Iniquity of those Times had left capable to be enjoy'd That these Obligations were enough to contract Him to that Cause by which he got his Wealth and Honour whereas the Church had offered little or nothing to retain him at first or to bring him back again For when He was forc'd to leave his own i. e. Another's Place in the College He saw afterward no I emptation to conform He fell under the near Influence of a Gentleman who encourag'd and supported his Nonconformity and made him perhaps dream of the Glorious Times of Restitution In the mean time He was drove on the Necessities of teaching in Separate Congregations which Course of Life put him upon some Troubles and Afflictions that might incense Humane Nature and provoke Him to be more dis-affected to the Church by which He seem'd to have suffer'd much and to have lost All. But herein He purchas'd what really deserves to be call'd a good Report For notwithstanding these many Disadvantages of Education and Interest and Resentment yet after All He was no Bigot no violent Angry Man He had really a Meekness of Disposition that kept him much from Wrangles and Disputes He had a Goodness of Nature that inclin'd Him to a fair Correspondence with some Church-Divines and it seem'd his peculiar Frame of Spirit to be reserv'd and inoffensive In the short Discourses which I know to have been held with Him like a Wise and Good Man He took only the defensive part He never in my hearing rail'd at or run down the Constitution of the Church but pleaded calmly for Moderation and Liberty of Conscience and bearing with One Another He would often chuse to make as it were some Apology for keeping up a separate Meeting in Opposition to the Church He would say He was brought thither by the Invitation and Importunity of such as He thought good People That it was not his Intention to keep them altogether from the Church but should sometimes set them the Example of going thither himself And He did at first resolve to begin and end his Publick Exercises at such hours as should not interfere with the Solemn Service of the Church but dismiss them from one place to attend at the other He seem'd to desire no better Character than what had been truly given of his Predecessor in that Town Mr. John Troughton He was not of so busie turbulent and furious a Spirit as Those of his Perswasion commonly are but very moderate And although he often preached as Occasions offered themselves in prohibited Assemblies yet He did not make it his business by employing all the little Tricks and Artifices too frequently practised by other hot-headed Zealots of his Fraternity viz. by vilifying and railing at the Established Ordinances of the Church libelling the conformable Ministry by keeping their Meetings at that very time when the Services and Administrations of the Church are regularly performing c. He did not I say by these and such like most unwarrantable Contrivances endeavour to withdraw weaker Persons from the sacred Bosom of the Church in order to fix and herd them in associated defying Conventicles He was respected by and maintain'd an amicable Correspondence with some of the Conformable Clergy because of his great Knowledge and Moderation Mr. John Troughton had this good Character given Him by a Writer that had not the Custom of flattering that Party nor used He to speak better of Persons than they commonly deserv'd And truly such in most respects Mr. Henry Cornish seem'd to be peaceable and quietly dispos'd He was known to have valued himself on this Happiness that he had receiv'd Holy Orders from a Bishop of the Church of England and therefore could not be thought an Intruder into the Ministerial Office I remember He has upon several Occasions call'd himself and wrote himself Episcopally Ordain'd and under that Character would distinguish himself from other ordinary Dissenting Teachers He married one of his Daughters to a Conforming Divine and used his Interest to possess Him of a better Benefice under the