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A65267	The Right Reverend Doctor John Cosin, late Lord Bishop of Durham his opinion (when Dean of Peterburgh, and in exile) for communicating rather with Geneva than Rome ... / by Ri. Watson ...	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1684 (1684)	Wing W1094; ESTC R15810	37,284	110

arguments for Canon or Rubrick which is equlvalent and the opposite for prevailing Custom was pressed so far as on either side they would bear and my Lord of London whose Translation to the Metropolitan See of Canterbury was near approaching petitioned by me to be as I knew he would be an impartial Arbiter in the case What my Lord of Sarum most sharply insisted on was That no Parochial Priest ought to difser in practice from that of his Diocesan nor presume to withdraw his Church or Congregation from the precedent of his Cathedral that being little better than to set up Altar against Altar and consequently begin a Schism I humbly asked leave of his Lordship to make observation what advantage unawares he yeilded me in paralleling the practice he would have reintroduced into my Church with that which already was on solemn Festivals only to gratifie an accessional Auditory that had not prayed with him in his own the difference between them I shall make appear by and by and his more charitable opinion of me than to believe I affected any thing in matter or form that tended toward any wilful opposition or humorous disparity in that I conformed all I could to what was practised in his Quire to which alone I had regard not concerning my self with what his Lordship suffered perhaps not commanded in the Nave of his Church before his mixt assembly could be well setled and the Preacher pass from a greater distance to ascend the Pulpit For the Psalms in prose were alternately Said with us as they were Sung in his Quire and might have been Sung so too if my people were so well inclined to learn those Tunes as they were industrious to retrieve the other And if I may not be bold to fay what was taken up by Custom in the Area or body of his Cathedral had not been Usus Sarum from the beginning of the Reformation I would affirm unlicensed that if I did the same in my Church between the Lessons or Services first and second as my ignorant people fondly required I should then indeed do litle less than erect Altar against Altar Meeter against Prose a lewd Chant against a solemn Harmony both in matter and form opposite for I heard of no such practice in the Quire of his Lordships Cathedral nor any other Which difference between Quire and Naves in the present case being overlooked or inobserved by his Lordship exempted me from censure and justified my aversion from acting any thing so contrary to the Rubrick in our Common-Prayer Book at my urging which inadvertisement if so I may call it his Lordship seeming to be somewhat surprized my Lord of London immediately started up from the Couch and laying his hand gently on my Shoulder said as if he meant it in good earnest Hold thine own man which I was willing to interpret his award in the case or determination of the question laid and fairly discoursed before his Lordship Which so happily ended I heard no more from my Reverend Diocesan about it But from his very worthy successour some further swasive importunity I sustained and more yet from his learned Chancellour Sir William Turner with the annex of a very plausible and tempting promise That if I would comply with my Parishioners in these two particulars 1. Singing the vulgar Psalms as turned into Meeter 2. Reading the Communion-Service in the Desk and not go up into the Chancel he would see that the most contentious of them all should pay me peaceably the full due of my Tythes without trouble or suit at Law which otherwise he foresaw I would not be able to get in without charge and disturbance I understood Sir well enough how much his affectual assistance might contribute to my Peace and Profit yet was loth to purchase it at so dear a rate as the forfeiture of my observance or forbearance of my duty to the express order of the Church but his power being great if he would issue out from his Court a countermand to my Curate and I found him influenced by it when I came down into the Countrey for we were then in London I would not discontinue what practice my Curate had entered on by his order but leave the burthen of praetercanonical or praeterrubrical acting in the Offices of the Church on him who was better able to answer it than my self So far was Sir William from taking offence at this my freedom or becalmed by it in the vindication of my title to some Tythes injuriously detained that being asterward entertained by me as my Advocate in the Arches not withstanding potent opposition made upon a false and frivolous suggestion over facilely hearkened to he by argument of Law and skilful Mesnage carried my cause on to the period of being in readiness for a sentence which the Dean of the Arches openly declared he ought in justice and equity to pronounce on my part and had done it if a prohibition had not issued from above which traversed the cause to another Judicatory where it was skilfully pleaded in my behalf by the late Lord Chief Justice Sanders at which Sir William was so much concerned that having some Books and Papers in his hand he threw them down with great indignation in the midst of the Court saying somewhat resolutely to this purpose If so just a cause as this must be wrested from us after a fair hearing and sentence ready to be pronounced for us I will never act here in causa deoimarum more And I think he was so good as his word to his dying day Sir at the next occasion of my waiting upon his Principal the Right Reverend Bishop Earles though my business with him at that time was of a different nature yet I could not escape a rubbing up of the old sore a mild reprehension for my outing or disusing the Singing Psalms to whom when I had made the like reply as formerly I found it necessary to produce the copy of this very Letter of the Reverend Dean's with whom his Lordship had been so intimate abroad in exile as I might reasonably suppose this argument among many other relating to our publick practices in the Church had not escaped their discussion in private converse Having read it over and returned the paper to my hand he said thus in short I do not question this writing to be other than what you affirm it but whatsoever was the Bishops opinion then for a great Bishop was the Dean become after his Majesties return I am sure he is now of another mind in the particular of Singing Psalms I cannot help that my Lord said I nor can I change the opinion I was confirmed in chiefly by this authority under his own hand which I have to shew until our Church doth change her Rubrick or I may be otherwise convinced Soon after this I departed fairly and enjoyed my freedom Sir If my Lord of D's change of his opinion should seem to invalidate what before the Dean

Beza's Psalms to cherish and encourage one another in their Rebellious attacks and Sacrilegious spoils The Dutch and Germans have employed theirs to a like good purpose but what their Poets name was I have not hitherto been informed Our Puritans have done the like in our late Civil Wars with Sternhold and Hopkins when they have gone about to charge their more Loyal Countrey-men then in Arms for the King as may be made good from their forces in Lincolnshire and other Countries Nay I fear we have outdone the Foreigners in one very profane practice I have observed that I mean is libelling parties yea and single persons in the choice of a Psalm the sense whereof shall be forced to reproach a Sentence judicially pronounced at the end of some suit at Law and sometimes to ridicule conformity to the order of our Church That our Rebels guilt made them jealous of the like project in those whom they suspected for more Legal principles than their own is not amiss noted from that act of folly if not more criminal I have read perpetrated by Isaac Penington London's Lord Chief Justice in his time who sent a fellow to Newgate perhaps a Clerk of some Church there only for setting a Malignant Psalm as he did another for Reading a Malignant Chapter possibly the 13th to the Romans such a one as he would have had encerped among many others toward constituting a new Apocrypha to secure a Scriptural Canon if he and other such misereants could have compiled it to countenance their Rebellion as they did in misapplied Texts too often by Holy Writ Some other improper uses they made of 'em as at their City Feasts in the place of more artificial Musick that commonly attend such entertainments And as an hypocritical property to gain the reputation of Piety in the strict observance of family-duties as they call them whereof some of their own Children have taken notice as did that Boy who being reproached by his Play-fellow That they Sung no Psalms upon Sabbath days in the Evening as his Father and the rest did at their House received this in answer with too much truth as the young Gamester ingenuously meant it That the reason why at his Fathers house no Psalms were wont to be Sung was because they had no Window toward the street Many odd passages in reference to those Psalms have affected the minds of most judicious persons whose ears they have arrived but none upon that account have in their merriment made more reflections in contempt and scorn of our Religion which they will needs suppose either allows or tolerates 'em than some in the Roman Communion who to my knowledge mimically sing their Tunes and act such Farces with ridiculous circumstances as have been credibly reported to 'em observing also the rusticity of their language and inconsonancy of their Rhime as no man in his right mind can better temper an excuse of what he must not disown than by a smile and silence To what end they were first ordained may be shrewdly guessed by the critical season of their composition which we read was about the same time when by the formality of a Commission accompanied with the irregularity of Riotous and Sacrilegious people not only the Plate and rich Ornaments of the Altars were seized on in the Kings name E. 6. for their own commodity but most furniture of all sorts belonging to the several Quires throughout the Realm were rifled and the very structures in a great part demolished or defaced that in St. Paul's Cathedral it self not escaping as if so well the daily Sacrifice of praising God in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs whatsoever the new Liturgy order'd otherwise were thence to be exterminated as that of the Mass. They that had such apprehension or other conceit in fancy for innovation might easily be induced to entertain this new device at least in their private Houses and as formerly they had been gratified with the priviledge of reading the Scripture in our vulgar language so now be yet more pleased with the liberty they might enjoy at will of singing their Psalter thus Poetically improved in the same Howsoever this may be not invidiously nor partially observed from the first publication of 'em that they were by none more regarded nor more eagerly contended for than by those that were most seditiously inclined and disaffected to the established order of the Church which in this particular among others was carefully provided for especially after the coming of the precise Brethren from Geneva where they had not only learned from their great Master Calvin a new Institution or System of Religion but acquainted themselves well with his subtile methods of Sacriledge or Sequestation of any Church Revenue which they could pretend to have been superstitiously employed that is in more truth applied to the external decency or solemnity of Divine Service and Religious Worship of God in his Holy Temple for little less than a suspicion of Rapine in some such sort seemeth to be implied in the 49 Injunction of Queen Elizabeth whereunto it occurs thus Because in divers Collegiate and also some Parish Churches heretofore there have been livings appointed for the maintenance of Men and Children to use singing in the Church by means whereof the laudable service of Musick hath been had in estimation and preserved in knowledge the Queens Majesty neither meaning in any wise the decay of any thing that might conveniently tend to the use and continuance of the said Science neither to have the same in any part so abused in the Church that thereby the Common Prayer should be the worse understanded of the hearers willeth and commandeth that first no alterations be made of such assignments of living as heretofore hath been appointed to the use of Singing or Musick in the Church but that the same so remain And that there be a modest and distinct Song so used in all parts of the Common Prayers in the Church that the same may be as plainly understanded as if it were read without singing and yet nevertheless for the comforting of such that delight in Musick it may be permitted that in the beginning or in the end of Common Prayers either at Morning or Evening there may be sung an Hymn or such like Song to the praise of Almighty God in the best sort of Melody and Musick that may be conveniently devised having respect that the Sentence of the Hymn may be understanded and perceived My Remarks upon which Injunction are these 1. That not only in Cathedrals but in some Parochial Churches also means had been setled upon Singing-men and younger Choristers to begin and carry on the Solemn Tunes of the Psalms in Prose as they are Verse after Verse prickt out by a middle distinction to that purpose 2. That the said settlement advanced the estimation of Musick accounted a laudable Service when diligently attended and performed according to the true intent and first institution thereof 3. That