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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

that adhere to the Church of England The Roman Catholicks 1. SAy and believe as by the Articles of their new Creed they are bound to believe that we are all damned and accursed persons 2. They call us Hereticks 3. They excommunicate us and abhorr to joyn with us in any Sacred action either of Prayer or Sacraments 4. Not long since they burnt us both alive and dead at their stakes and where the Edicts of Princes restrain them not they do so still as by their own Laws they have obliged themselves to do which Laws if civil respects suspend them not for the time they can put in execution at an hours warning when they please 5. They will allow us no other burial of our dead than the burial of a dog accounting their Churches and their Church-yards to be polluted if any of our people be there put into a Grave and whoever it is among them be it a Son that shall bury his Father or a Wife her Husband that dye in our Religion if they venture to make a Grave there and put the dead Corps either of a Father or a Husband or other the like into it they are bound to scrape up that Corps again with their own fingers and carry it away to be buried in a ditch or a dunghill or where else they can finde roome for it Prince or Peasant are hereni alike if they be not Roman Catholicks they shall be used no better The reformed Churches 1. SAy and believe as we do that we profess and believe whatsoever is necessary to salvation and that it is an accursed belief which the Roman Catholicks have of us 2. These acknowledge us to be true Catholicks 3. They do most willingly receive us into their Churches and frequently repair to ours joyning with us both in Prayers and Sacraments 4. These men whose Predecessors were burnt up and martyr'd as ours have been being in such times of persecution received and harbour'd in our Churches gave us the like Relief in theirs both in Germany and France where when at any time we come they have obtained freedom for us from this kind of persecution under which we might otherwise suffer and be in continual danger to lose our lives 5. They allow us not onely to bury our dead among theirs in the Church-yards which they have purchased and peculiarly set apart for that purpose but they give us leave also to use our own Office and Order of Burial at least they hinder us not to do it if the Roman-Catholicks permit it and to set up our Monuments and Inscriptions over the Graves hereby professing Vnity with us both alive and dead In all which Regards we ought no lesse to acknowledge them and to make no Schisme between our Churches and theirs however we approve not some defects that may be seen among them This remains written by the Bishop's own hand when he was in France Adjutorium nostrum in Nomine Domini qui fecit Caelum Terram In Nomine Honore ejusdem Domini Dei nostri Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti Summae ac individuae Trinitatis QVoniam Statutum est omnibus semel mori Corpus uniuseujusque dissolutum iri tempus verò dissolutionis meae cùm incertum sit de qua tamen quasi in propinquo esset assiduâ animi meditatione sollicitus frequenti Corporis infirmitate pulsatus subinde cogito Ego Johannes Cosinus humilis Ecclesiae Dei Administer modò permissione altissimi Episcopus Dunelm non ponens spem meam in praesenti hac vitâ sed ad alteram quae futura est in Caelis aeternam ex divina tandem misericordiâ adipiscendam semper anhelans humiliter orans pro salute animae meae ut per merita Jesu Christi Filii Dei vivi Redemptoris ac Mediatoris nostri unici omnia mea mihi remittantur delicta hoc Testamentum continens ultimam voluntatem meam sanâ mente puro corde condo ordino facio in hac formâ quae sequitur Ante omnia Domino nostro Deo Omnipotenti gratias ago quas possum maximas quòd me ex Fidelibus bonis Parentibus in hanc vitam nasci atque in Ecclesiâ suâ per Sanctum Baptismi Lavacrum ab ipso institutum ad vitam aeternam renasci voluerit meque à juventute meâ in doctrinâ sanâ erudiverit sanctorum suorum participem effecerit fidemque non fictam vel mortuam sed veram vivam in animo meo impresserit unà cum adjunct â spe firmâ fore posthac ut perducar ad vitam sempiternam Quae quidem fides in co consistit ut adoremus veneremur deum in eumque credamus in quem misit filium ejus dilectissimum verbum aeternum ante secula genitum Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum qui propter nos nostramque salutem ex beatissimâ Virgine Mariâ superveniente in eam spiritu sancto carnem in saeculo sumpsit homo factus est deinde natus passus crucifixus mortuus ac sepultus postquam ad inferos descendisset ex sepulchro suo resurrexit captivam ducens captivitatem adscendit in Coelos ubi ad dexteram Dei Patris sedet regnat in aeternum inde verò spiritum sanctum in quem pariter nobis credendum est misit a Patre Filioque procedentem per quem largissimè dona distribuit hominibus Ecclesiam suam Catholicam in communione sanctorum in Divinis Sacramentis in verâ fide in doctrinâ sanâ ac moribus Christianis instituit unà cum remissione peccatorum piis omnibus dignos in eadem Ecclesiâ paenitentiae fructus proferentibus impertiendâ quibus etiam quum in supremo saeculi die de Coelis rediturus ut mortuos resuscitet omnes judicet collaturus est aeternam beatitudinem reliquis verò infidelibus aut qui secundum carnem vixerint converti sive paenitentiam agere nolentibus aeternum supplicium irrogaturus In hac Fide quae totius sacrae Scriptur ae summa est absolutissimum compendium sanctis Judae vers 3. semel tradita ab Apostolis eorumque successoribus propagatâ atque ad nos usque derivata vivere me profiteor ut in ea ad ultimum vitae spiritum constanter ac sine haesitatione perseverem moriar assiduis quantum possum precibus à Deo contendo unitaetem intereà colens servans vinculum pacis ac charitatis cum omnibus ubique Christianis qui inter tanta Ecclesiae mala distractiones calamitates quibus equidem non possum non illachrymari hanc fidem integrè admittunt nullamque ejus partem in dubium vocant Spero etiam quae est Dei Christique 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servatoris nostri benignitas omnes eos qui haec à Deo revelante tradita simpliciter nobiscum crediderint piè vixerint in magno illo die Domini salvos fore etiamsi