evil eye and hissed at by some serpentine Tongues and Pens to suppress it they were none but Schismaticks but yet to this present time it hath had the blessing to out-live a fifth publick Edition 2. During his Sequestration and Banishment when through the iniquity of the Times he was not suffered to preach in England he did in France compose an excellent Book Entituled A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture drawn out from the Judaical Church to the Sixteenth Century of years A fundamental work which proves him to have been a perfect Herald of the true Pedigree of the Holy Scripture This Work was first Printed 1657. when still Sequestred and in Exile and since reprinted Anno 1672. but to this day unanswered for the space of fifteen years and more we may suppose the reason is because the Evidences therein are unanswerable 3. By the same method he did compose a Book against Transubstantiation part whereof is already printed Vnprinted 1. The other part is unprinted but ready for the Press written twenty four years ago Entituled Historia Transubstantiationis Papalis 2. An Answer to a Popish Pamphlet pretending that St. Cyprian was a Papist 3. An Answer to a Paper delivered by a Popish Bishop to the Lord Inchequin 4. An Answer to four Queries of a Roman Catholick about Protestant Religion 5. Annales Eccl. Opus Imperfect 6. Dr. Cosin's Answer to Father Robinson's Papers concerning the validity of the Ordinations in the Church of England 7. Summarium Doctrinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae 8. The differences and agreement of the Church of England from and with the Church of Rome 9. Historia Conciliorum opus imperfect 10. Against the forsakers of the Church of England and their Seducers in this time of her Tryal 11. Chronologia sacra opus imperfectum 12. A Treatise concerning the abuse of Auricular Confession against the Church of Rome For though the Church of England both by grave Exhortation and Godly practice in her Holy Offices doth allow of private Confession to the Priest as Gods Deputy by express Commission whosoever's sins you remit they are remitted in the cases of a troubled conscience And that her Children may come to the Holy Communion with full trust in God's Mercy Our Church doth admonish them that such a Confession may then be very Medicinal Yet our Church guided by the Word of God and by good Antiquity justly denies Auricular Confession to be absolutely necessary to the Remission of sins provided the party be truly penitent With much more reason doth our Church deny private Confession to God's Priest to be Sacramental as the Church of Rome doth affirm without any solid ground of Verity or from Antiquity These remains are earnestly recommended to his Pious Executor's care for publication for by these Fruits of his we may charitably conclude He obtained the character of the blessed Man whose leaf shall not wither and by these his excellent Works our dead Prelate being dead yet speaketh His Benefactions To pass now from his forreign Actions abroad to his Countrey-Benefactions at home That great Prelate had this blessing from God to enjoy a large heart that is an heart capable not only to know but also to do great things for his time both to his Chruch and Country He was indowed with an Active Spirit to design and with an able Body to perform his designs as God gave him Wealth so he gave him Artem fruendi for it is one thing to have wealth and another thing to enjoy and use it well by maintaining good works for necessary uses chiefly Publick and Pious Works for he was mindful of the Apostles precept To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased and therefore he was both more careful of and also chearful in the distribution of his Munificence for these pious uses and his Posterity may from thence raise up their hope to thrive better for it for after God in the Poor and God's Church out of the Chruches Patrimony is well served a little well gotten and left by an honest Clergy-man may stretch much further and stick much longer in his Godly Posterity than a Church-Estate ill-gotten by some Lay-Nimrod who seldom out-lives much less transmits his Sacrilegious Estate to the third Generation which commonly and visibly verifies the old Proverb De malè quaesitis vix gaudet tertius Haeres And here I must crave leave for a very material digression concerning the Clergy's Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Estates for although as I hope I have else-where sufficiently proved that by the Law of God and Man the Clergy of England have as good and as legal that I say not a better Title to their Benefices and Dignities pro tempore as any Lay-Subject of England to their temporal Inheritances and so may justly call their Estates their own in foro externo yet indeed and in truth and by sad experience to Clergy-mens Widows and Children not so well provided for here as beyond the Seas we Clergy-men are but Vsufructuaries God is the great Proprietor Paramount of all that Clergy-men enjoy which gives them an high Title to what they enjoy under God to whom at last they all must one day give a strict account when they must hear of a Redde Rationem God knows how soon and then we must be no longer Stewards here for it is evident by the forms of the antient Donations to and Dotations of the Church that God himself is the Chief Treasurer of the Churches Estate The antient forms run thus Concedimus Deo Ecclesiae c. So that God himself is Entituled the Chief Lord and Proprietary to all Clergy-men's Estates to whom all their Church-Lands under God are granted 1. To provide for God's Moral Houses 2. God's Material Houses 1. Gods Moral Houses are chiefly the Poor to bestow upon the truly poor and impotent through Age or made so by Providence through fire or other involunâ—ary mischances or to such who though they labour by their industry to maintain their own Families yet being over-burthened by their Wives and many Children are not able to relieve them all these are the best poor and therefore most worthy to be relieved in the eye of prudent Charity As for Vagrants or common wandring Beggars whereof this Kingdome swarms to the contempt of so many good Laws and to the great scandal of our Christian Religion Correction is the best Charity for such Wise men say that two things general Experience and Memory make up a wise man Modesty will not suffer me to pretend to that wisdom but if I may declare my observation I have lived some years in Holland and never saw a Beggar there I have lived some other years in Turkey and never saw a Beggar there The reason is plain because to the Authority of their good Laws they add the severity of due Execution We have as good and as
For 6. Upon the Kings wonderful Restauration He was by His Majesty first designed Dean of Durham but upon the Kings Gracious Reflection on his constant Attendance and Services beyond the Seas he was declared by the King of a Dean intended to be the Actual Bishop of Durham His immediate Predecessour was that great Luminary of our Church Blessed Thomas Morton famous for his Holy Life solid Learning and bountiful works of Charity and Hospitality and for his manifold learned Works against the Adversaries of the Church of England on the right hand and on the left as for the Doctrine against Hereticks so for the Discipline against the Schismaticks of his time beyond any satisfactory Answer to any of his Works unto this day To whose Memory I should be unthankful if I should not acknowledge for which I do still bless God's Providence that I had for above an Apprenticeship the happiness to be brought up as Domestick Chaplain at the feet of such an Eminent Gamaliel To be Bishop of Durham is no ordinary State but an high Dignity for besides the Spiritual Dignity of a Bishop it includes the Temporal Power of Count Palatine of Durham and Sadberge a singular Synastria as I may say or Constellation is this concurrence of two great Dignities the Spiritual with the Temporal For whatever Envy may object to the contrary yet these two are not in reason incompatible Such was the State under the Patriarchs c. the Eldest Son being both Prince and Priest Neither in practice unusual in this noble Kingdome but that the same person may be both a good Minister and also a good Magistrate Provided alwayes that the Clergy-man do not affect it out of Ambition Wise men see no cause why he may not lawfully accept the Commission in due submission to Supreme Authority under which the same person may be without offence both a Bishop and Count Palatine for which respect of two arch-Arch-Bishops and twenty four Bishops in England and Wales the Bishop of Durham is by Act of Parliament ranked in the fourth place next to the Bishop of London And here 't is worth the observing that God the immense Geometer of all the World was pleased by his providence to proportion the height of this great Prelate's Exaltation to the depth of his Humiliation for Loyalty c. under Sequestration and Banishment in that he was by the Royal Bounty promoted from the Order of a Priest immediately to be a Bishop and that Bishop of Durham To fulfill the Rule in the Gospel Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted He was the 68 Bishop of this Diocess from Aidanus the first Bishop of Lindisfarne Anno 637. St. Cuthbert's renowned Cathedral in the Holy Island the Mother of this Church of Durham of Great Antiquity for from the first foundation of this Church Anno 637. unto this present year 1672. the succession of this Church hath out-lasted above 1000 years and so still may it last unto the Worlds end But now to consider a Bishop in general A Bishop A Bishop is the most eminent office in the Order of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy for though the Lords Arch-Bishops be Superiours to the Bishops in their Degree yet in respect of Order the Bishops quatenus Bishops are equal de Jure and therefore need de facto no new Consecration when they are made Archbishops A Bishop is by the judgement of Antiquity and by the major part of sound and sober Modern Divines deemed an Apostolical Office because derived from the Apostles themselves who after they had planted Christian Churches as Oecumenical Ministers of Christ were setled in particular Diocesses where they were to exercise both the Episcopal Powers of Ordination and Jurisdiction this none but Aerian Hereticks will or can deny for 't is clear both from Holy Scripture the Epistles of St. Paul to Timothy and Titus and the strong current of Ecclesiastical History A high Office again in respect of Christ every Priest under Christ the Supreme Everlasting Priest bears a part in Christ his Priest-hood so every Bishop being a Successour lawfully descended from the Apostles of Christ bears a part of Christs Apostleship for Christ is styled an Apostle and therefore the Glorious Martyr St. Ignatius who was St. John the Apostle's Disciple gives this Rule to the Christian Churches of his time That we ought to be subject to the Bishop as unto the Lord. However this high Office by furious Fanaticks hath been by a prodigious pride of late in these Rebellious Times much slander-beaten disgraced yea degraded which Crime General Councils have made the stigma or brand of downright Hereticks in a larger sence And here God be thanked that of all the Reformed Churches the Bishops of the Church of England can clearly derive their Succession from the Apostles themselves as hath been made good abundantly by the worthy Champions of our Church And now upon the consideration of the Antiquity Eminency and Utility of a Bishop in this Diocess which is now in the state of an Ecclesiastical Widow-hood or to phrase it with St. Greg. Naz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shepheardless since the King's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water and he turneth it whithersoever he will We pray and hope that it may please God to incline the heart of the King in his Royal wisdome to bless us in due season with a Successour worthy of his Predecessours a Godly Learned laborious and vigilant Bishop the more necessary both for Spiritual and Temporal Government in these Northern parts being so far remote from the Sun of Justice and Honour the King and too near to some ill affected neighbours only blinded by prejudice or ignorance and so much the rather because of the conjunction of this Bishoprick the Spiritual Dignity with the Temporal Power of the County Palatine perpetual County Palatine 1. For Antiquity as old at least as William the Conquerour as we are informed by our Learned Antiquaries and that not by Creation or by Act of Parliament as other Counties Palatine but by long Prescription confirmed afterwards by several Acts of Parliament and by the Protection of our Gracious Kings from time to time 2. For Authority the Bishops of Durham freely enjoying alwayes under the King as Supreme Jura Regalia within this County insomuch that 't is a maxime in Law that Quicquid Rex potest extra Episcopatum potest Episcopus intrà Salvo semper Domino Regi supremo jure vitae necis c. In regard whereof by way of compensation for the Court of Wards belonging of old to this County Palatine but for the exigence of the bad Times taken away of late by Act of Parliament His present Majesty our Gracious King Charles II. whom God long preserve out of his wonted Royal Equity was graciously pleased to Grant
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
wise Laws in England as any Nation under Heaven but Execution is the life of the Law which is but a dead Letter yea deadly if some do make a conscience of observing the good Laws and others neglect it The lawful remedy of this too publick mischief is wholly and humbly represented and submitted to God and to the King under God 2. Clergy-men are obliged to bestow part of their Ecclesiastical estates upon Gods Material Houses Churches and Chancels and Ecclesiastical Houses to repair or preserve them from ruine which would defraud their Successours and oppress their miserable Relicts and Relations upon the account of just dilapidations 3. The Premisses being well provided for which is left to the Chancery in his breast that is to the Clergy-mans conscience and prudence out of the just remainder of his Ecclesiastical Estate the honest Clergy-man may lawfully provide for himself and Family for by the Apostle's Canon he is worse than an infidel that provideth not for his own especially those of his own house Herein our Saviour's Rule is the best guide these things you ought to have done and not to leave the other undone But if contrary to the pious intentions of the Religious Founders and Donors Clergy-men do intervert the spiritual estate of the Chruch chiefly or only to raise up or enrich their private temporal Families with the neglect of the publick God's Houses whether moral or material They may as too many leave their Children beggars besides which I am afraid of a strict Audit at the great day of account that they may clear themselves from Ecclesiastical Sacriledge from which now and at Dooms-day good Lord deliver us all For my part I do here profess and protest with thankfulness to God that out of my signal experience of God's eminent providence over me though unworthy this hath been my honest intention and constant endeavour in this world to make friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness in hope of God's word That when we fail they may receive us and ours into everlasting habitations and I am confident that neither I nor mine shall fare the worse for it what ever Carnal Relations may murmur against this just and honest course objecting the worlds false maxime contrary to God's true maxime look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others That every man must make much of his own Time to which this may be a full reply That we all must make much more of Eternity By these Godly methods our late Lord Bishop did proceed in providing as for the Poor Gods moral Houses so for Gods material Houses in both which regards we may truly say our Bishop held his See ad Aedificationem yet not neglecting those of his own Houshold and for a reward of those his Pious Works God gave him leave to live so long as not to leave his Relations unprovided for God be thanked And now should I launch out into the deep of his great Benefactions I fear the particulars will overflow both your attention and my expression you may see them at large in his Temporal Will written in English where you may read so many Items so many good Works 1. To the Quire of Durham 2. To the Preacher at his Funeral 3. Tokens to the Dean and Prebends for memorials of their mortality 4. To the vicar of St. Andrews Auckland an addition of sixteen pound per annum 5. To his Almes-men of Durham and Auckland 6. After his Burial to the Countrey-Poor 7. For the magnificent repairing of the Episcopal Chappels of Durham and Auckland and for Furniture Plate Books and other Ornaments c. in the said Chappels freely left to the Bishops his Successours And in this he was a good imitator of his great Patron Bishop Neile who in less than ten years did bestow upon the same as I am informed about seven thousand pound for indeed he was Vir Architectonicus 8. He did erect a goodly Chappel in the Castle of Auckland consecrated by himself on St. Peters day 1665. Two goodly Chappels formerly erected there in which I have also officiated for some years of peace being blown up by Sir Arthu Hasterig in the Gunpowder-plot of the late Rebellion Now if the Centurion who built only a Synagogue wherein Christ was never worshipped deserved praise how much more he who built such a house of God wherein Christ is constantly worshipped 9. For several other Publick Works as the repairing the boysterous Banks of Howden-shire belonging to this Bishoprick 10. To two Schools at Durham 11. For five Scholars places in St. Peter's Colledge in Cambridge ten pound a piece per annum For Three Scholars in Gonvile and Caius Colledge twenty Nobles a piece per annum Eight pounds yearly for the Common Chest of those Colledges respectively But for the particulars of his Benefactions and Legacies I have referred my self to the Bishops Will it self written in English in which the Bishop modestly declares that He mentions these as works of Duty and not for Ostentation 12. The next is for the Redemption of Christian Captives 13. For the Relief of the distressed Loyal Party 14. For a great Publick Library in Durham 15. To the poor Prisoners of all places where he had relation by birth or preferment 16. To the poor the like 17. For the re-building of St. Paul's Church London c. And what shall I say more for the time will fail me to tell of his manifold Legacies to his Friends dead and living as monuments of his gratitude to his Domestical Relations Kindred and Servants all which particulars as I am still informed do amount to above twenty five thousand pound 'T is to be observed that his Lordship was Consecrated Anno 1660. and was translated from Earth to Heaven Anno 1671. so that he enjoyed his Bishoprick but Eleven years and so computing his premised Benefactions he spent above two thousand pound a year in these pious uses A worthy Example of Episcopal Magnificence and Christian Charity Upon a serious search of the whole Line of the Bishops of Durham from the first of Lindisfarm to this our late Bishop sixty eight in number there are found upon the Ecclesiastical Records but eight Bishops in 1034. years that may seem to have equalled but not exceeded this our Bishop in the noble vertues of Magnificence and Beneficence and 't is worthy the consideration of our Age that the valuation of workmen and materials c. was far less in those antient times than in ours now much dearer every way We have been the longer in setting forth this notable Example of Episcopal bounty in the Church of England that it may burst with envy such of the Church of Rome for all amongst them are not alike some being more ingenuous till they vomit out their false foul and rotten say That Pater Noster built Churches but Our Father pulleth them down The Devils Proverb
mine own experience that in the Eastern Churches the Greeks and Armenians c. constantly observe their daily publick Service of God and in the Western Churches I passing through Germany to take the like survey did with comfort behold the same daily publick Offices with full Congregations in those they call the Lutherans and Calvinists I do hate but through the iniquity of the times I cannot avoid those Schismatical names expressed only for distinctions sake nay to give Rome her due they in their way though erroneous observe the same daily practice strictly And truly when the Laity doth daily plow sow work and provide for the Clergy 't is but Christian Equity that the Clergy should daily offer publick Prayers and Praises for the Laborious Laity Item Our late Bishop did much reform and regulate the good Behaviour and Canonical Habit of the Clergy under his Government He did also regulate their Office in bidding prayer before their Sermons according to the common sence of our Churches Canon LV. and confin'd their conceived prayers too much abused and groundless in our Liturgy and also contrary to the ancient practice of our Church and other Reformed Churches and I who have lived in this Diocess of Durham forty years and have been an unworthy Arch-Deacon of Northumberland as also a Prebend of this Church for the space of thirty years never saw it more Regular since the sad twenty years of Schism and War and so of Confusion whereby his Successour whoever he be may enjoy the comfort of a Regular Diocess 2. His Moral Vertues 1. And first His liberal Hospitality at his Table according to the Apostolical Canon That a Bishop must be given to Hospitality which to maintain honestly he must in all reason and equity be allowed proportionable Revenues according to that Proverb Ne sit Promus fortior Condo This once again may strangle Bel and the Dragon 2. We have already mentioned his Princely Magnificence in his buildings 3. His Christian Magnanimity in his undertakings and sufferings we purposely omit some of them whereby he did prevent Innovations within his County Palatine because we would prevent malice and envy at the recital of them But we must needs express again the Royal Favour procured by him to exempt this See from the great burthen of eight hundred and eighty pounds per An. paid for many years by the Bishops of Durham to the Queens of England 3. His Theological Vertues Which were his Faith Hope and Charity 1. His Faith evidenced by his faithful constancy in the True Religion and by his full Confession of that Holy Faith in his Last Will the antient way of the Holy Fathers in their Testaments 2. His Hope expressed by his Patience under his sufferings knowing that Tribulation worketh Patience and Patience experience and experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed His sore fits of sickness especially for the two last years of his life often did break his crazed body but never did break his Christian patience 3. His Charity apparent by his pious Dedications to God and bountifull Donations to men so that I wish that in his Epitaph that character of Gods Servant might be stamped He hath dispersed abroad he hath given to the Poor his Righteousness remaineth for ever his born shall be exalted with honour a consequent blessing upon such Benefactors for this Godly Seed is a Metaphor taken from a Husbandman who by scattering of his Seed into the ground in due season reapeth a plentiful increase in due time And now here lies before us the remains of a great man indeed 1. Great by his Dignities lawfully obtained He was 1. A Fellow of Caius Colledge in Cambridge 2. A Priest in God's Church 3. Master of Peter-house in Cambridge 4. A Prebendary here 5. Arch-Deacon 6. Deane 7. At last by these orderly degrees he was through the providence of God and under God by the Royal Favour of our most Gracious King in Reward of his Constant and Loyal Services and Sufferings at Home and Abroad exalted to the Throne of a Bishop and such a Bishop as was a Count Palatine in England and so as I may say a petty King as having the Royalties in this County belonging to him but still with due Subordination to a Great King Transcendent above him and all Subjects within this Kingdome but still a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our Translation a Noble Man in the vulgar Latine a Regulus in St. Hierome Palatinus a parallel Title to that part of our Bishops Dignity But now he is dead and who knows but that God took him away from the evil to come And as great as he was you may see now that a small plat of ground must contain and confine him Sic transit gloria mundi He can carry none of all those Dignities to his grave onely his Faith and good Works do attend him to his grave and beyond his grave for his Works do follow him and that as high as Heaven where he now rests from his labours but without Faith and good works when a man is dead vanity of vanities all is vanity 2. This great man was Greater yet by his Actions and great Benefactions concerning which when in the prosecution of his Great Buildings he was interpelled by some with the mention of his Children his usual answer was The Church is my first-born a Noble Speech yea a Divine Sentence worthy of a King who may envy it out of a Bishops mouth Indeed the Church is the Kings first-born and the best of his Titles is to be the Defender of it I am confident that his Noble Relations will Erect unto him a more lasting Monument than this our transient Speech or withering pen or failing Press can fully express Indeed for his time he did great things and he lived and died also with good intentions of doing greater things for he was pregnant of generous designs 3. He was greatest of all by his constant sufferings in which sence St. John Baptist is styled magnus coram Domino not so much for his doings though they were great for John did no Miracles as for his sufferings in which Sence our late Bishop was greatest for he was a constant Confessor for Christ and his True Religion and so but one degree removed from the Noble Army of Martyrs into whose blessed Society our hope is that he is now gathered to which blessed state of Glory he bring us all at last who hath both by his precious blood purchased and by his Free Grace prepared it for us even Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit three Persons and one God be ascribed again from Angels from us and from all men all Praise Power Majesty Dominion and Glory for ever and ever Amen AN APPENDIX Of the late Lord Bishop OF DVRESME's PROFESSION and PRACTICE And of his Last Will concerning RELIGION The State of us
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