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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

unto our late Lord Bishop 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 Discourse we can hardly sever them but must sometimes coincide for instance when he was in Exile in France he did with much magnanimity do aforehand some of the Offices of a Bishop one part whereof is to stop the mouths of the gain-sayers to sound doctrine and that in a time of great necessity when both the Church and the King of England were dispersed and the members dissipated here is the patience and faith of the Saints One signal instance of his constancy and courage for the Liturgy 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 Charenton near Paris solemnly in his Priestly 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 Noble 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 England then in the wain a Church in the wilderness because under persecution when sundry were wavering from the true Religion Our Bishop did then confirm some Eminent Persons against many Imminent and Importunate Seducers another Episcopal Office which is in such ambiguous times especially to confirm the Souls of the Disciples exhorting them to continue in the Faith teaching That we must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God One notable instance of this our Bishops 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 English Benedictines at Paris supposed to be Robinson The Argument 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 about 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 preferment 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 Thy money perish with thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So far was this Great Spirit from tottering much more from turning aside from the right way Great was his Communion of Charity towards all Christian Churches if agreeing in the fundamental Articles of Salvation though different in form of Discipline and outward Ceremonies which demonstrateth that he wore in his breast Animum Catholieum that is ready to communicate with all Christians Salvâ veritate if Dissenters would not do so reciprocally 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 differences 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 so eminent for Primitive Piety Christian Prudence and Universal Learning 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 Churches was afterwards requited by a singular respect from the Chief Doctors of those Reformed Churches whom to ccondemn rashly is to storm whole Churches against Charity For our moderate connivance at their inordinate Ordination does not at all legitimate it but only declareth our Christian Charity to pity them for want of Episcopal Ordination because they cannot help themselves So long as they have Episcopatum in voto their words and writings testifie this ingenuously though to their grief they cannot have Episcopatum in Facto through Political necessity which rather deserves our compassion as blessed Bishop Morton did often bewail their infelicity for the want of Bishops they being Subjects living under a Great Monarch of a different Religion who for Reasons of State will not suffer in his Kingdome two several Bishops of two several Religions in one Diocess to preserve publick Peace and to prevent Contention and clashing of Jurisdictions to the disquiet of his Loyal 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 Ordination from Protestant Bishops depending 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 Ordained swear Allegiance This that King or Prince will not permit neither in point of prudence to prevent defection or the falling away of his Subjects 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 observed the golden maxime of that modest and wise man of Greece Pythagoras who gave this very mystical but wise advice unto his Scholars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By no means to eat their own brains intending thereby as 't is conceived that they should not keep their Reason and Learning of which the brains are an immediate instrument unto themselves but still employ them for the advantage of others for whose benefit this our Learned Prelate did publish these following Tracts viz. Printed 1. Many years agoe he did publish a Book Entituled A Collection of Private Devotions extracted out of the publick Liturgies of the Churches both Ancient and Modern very useful for good Christians well disposed and which may teach them how to offer unto God a reasonable Service every way That work at first was looked upon with an