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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

The best of us all at Dooms-day would be glad to have their grains of allowance and why should we grudge them to our betters Therefore now to draw the curtain over all humane infirmities and imperfections which may God cover in mercy and clear us all by his free pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord. And so to proceed It is certain that no man is born a Saint but 't is as certain that every good man that dies in the exercise of Repentance Faith and Charity dies a Saint such as our Hope is this our Brother died First his Name His Name was John which in the Holy Tongue signifies the Grace of God Here by the way Parents and Godfathers may take out this good Lesson not to put upon their Children fantastical much less profane and superstitious Names but prudently to chuse such Names as may be continual Memorials of some good duties to the parties so named as oft as they shall hear read or write their own Names that they may endeavour by their lives to become as good as their names Secondly His Sirname His Sirname was Cosin in Latine Cognatus quasi à Con Natus which as the famous Civilian Modestinus expoundeth it signifies a Cosin in primo gradu in his own Family This Sirname of Cosin is become famous by diverse learned men of that Name I saw once in our Prelates hand Cognati Opera and we have in our hands that excellent Apology for the Ecclesiastical Lawes by Dr. Richard Cosin that Renowned Civilian and now our Church enjoyeth that solid work Intituled A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture brought forth in his banishment by this our deceased Lord. Thirdly His Birth His Temporal Birth was on St. Andrews day 1594. His birth to Glory I mean the day of his death was Jan. 15. 1671-72 his Age 78. current greater by so much than King David's first measure 70. So that to phrase in Jobs words He came to his grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season Length of dayes is by Gods favour annexed to the fifth Commandment Honour thy Father c. which the Apostle maketh the first Commandment with promise and 't is a Glory For the hoary head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of Righteousness A good evidence of Gods acceptance upon his obedience to his Superiours Spiritual Political and Natural Parents for want of which due obedience to Parents God many times shortens the dayes of the Sons of Belial Rebellious Children Fourthly His Person God and Nature did frame his earthly Tabernacle of a goodly structure for he was both tall and erect a fit presage aforehand of the stature of his future preferments and dignities he had a Prelatical presence which he over-topped with his liberal beneficence This I am sure of he was no Dwarf neither in Stature Dignity nor Bounty as will appear by the ensuing discourse Fifthly His Family 1. Paternal his Fathers Name was Giles Cosin of Fox-hearth a Citizen of no mean City to use St. Pauls phrase who did glory in Tarsus his birth-place His City was Norwich of which more anon when we come to his Countrey He was a good Citizen a man of substance witness his liberal education of this his great Son 2. By his Maternal descent he was Son to Mrs. Elizabeth Remington of Remington-Castle an antient Family and which is worth all the rest both his Parents were of the Household of faith both born and bred in the true antient Apostolick and Catholick Religion of the Church of England which this their Son did so early imbibe that he lived and died a constant Professor and Patron of the same Thus was his Family in Lineâ rectâ As for his Collateral Line he took a Wife out of an antient Noble Family in this Countrey Frances the Daughter of Mr. Marmaduke Blakiston a Dignitary both in the Metropolitical Church of York and in this of Durham Marmaduke was Son to John Blak●ston of Blakiston Esq whose other Son was Sir William Blakiston Father to Sir Thomas His Wife was a prudent Wife and therefore from the Lord To my knowledge a true yoke-fellow not only in Prosperis as too many worldly-minded Wives but chiefly in Adversis which is the tryal of a good Wife and of a true friend indeed and these are blessings For to have the Burthen of a Wife and not the blessing of a good wife is a great cross if not a curse And here I stop from attending the rest of his Family any further perhaps I have gone too far already in presuming to blazon a Pedigree being no Herald Sixthly His Countrey To pass from his Family to his Countrey he was born a Britain and an English Man A Nation so famous for situation plenty and victories If Plato did thank the Gods that he was born a Grecian and bred a Philosopher but still a Heathen how much more ought every true English-Man to be thankful unto God for his birth under a Christian Monarchy Christian indeed if as the current of Historians do report it received the Christian Religion from one of the Apostles or one of their Apostolical Disciples some say Simon Zelotes others Joseph of Arimathea and if England as they say was the first Kingdome in all the world that first received the Gospel with the countenance of Supreme Authority under King Lucius a Britain whom Historians do place Anno Christi 170 and 't is no small addition of honour for this Kingdome that the first Christian Emperour even Constantine the Great was born in England Thus our deceased Prelate was blessed in the place of his birth but much more blessed for the state of his New Birth in such a Christian Church the most Apostolical and the purest of all Christian Churches Expertus loquor for in 15 years Ecclesiastical Pilgrimage during my voluntary banishment for my Religion and Loyalty I have surveyed with an impartial eye of observation most Christian Churches both Eastern and Western and I dare pronounce of the Church of England what David said of Goliahs Sword There is none like it both for Primitive Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government Episcopal Hierarchy the most moderate and regular For it was a singular providence of God to inspire the first Reformers of the Church of England with the Spirit of wisdome to conjoyn the zeal for verity with due reverence to Antiquity for by Cardinal Baronius his own Confession the Church of England is for her Christendome acknowledged antienter than Rome it self by nine years and 't is strange in reason and more strange in nature that the pretended Mother should be younger than the Daughter but that any thing which is rational is rejected by such as only relie upon a Magisterial pretence of Ipsa dixit which false principle smells rank of wilfull schism

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