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A47258	Some remarks on the life, death, and burial of Mr. Henry Cornish, B.D., an eminent dissenting teacher who died on Sunday, Dec. 18, and was interr'd on Thursday, Dec. 22, 1698, in the church of Bisiter in the county of Oxford as received in a letter from a friend.	Kennett, White, 1660-1728.	1699 (1699)	Wing K304; ESTC R3388	10,035	15

Conditions of Subscription and Declaration which the Laws requir'd He has in private Conversation told the Minister of the Place that though he hop'd to continue preaching to his Congregation for his own Life yet he thought to perswade them All after his Death to let fall the separate Meeting and come unanimously to the Church Which I hope the honest Man sincerely meant For when the Minister afterward charg'd him with this Promise and seem'd to fear the breach of it because He had taken in a young Assistant to carry on the same Work and to keep up the same Assemblies of Opposition The old Gentleman excus'd the Matter and declar'd that the said young Person was sent for without his Orders and Advice and fetcht up from another part of the Land before He consented to it Now if these Instances of his Charity and Condescension had been faithfully related by the Funeral Preacher He had done more Justice and more Honour to the Memory of his Friend and Patron God forbid that He should have rudely rak'd into his Ashes for Faults and Reflexions on them He should rather again vindicate Him from any Matters of Fact or Fame that had been objected against Him That from his Youth He was blown up with that unhappy Ferment of Innovation that quickly ruin'd a once Glorious Church and State This might be imputed to that want of Age and Experience that drew him away before He could distinguish between Good and Evil. That He left Oxford when it was garrison'd for His Majesty and join'd himself with those that were in Rebellion This might be ascrib'd to the impetuous Tide and Tumult of those Unhappy Times That He was remanded to the same University to preach the Scholars into Obedience to the Usurping Powers This might be resolv'd into the same Cause the Running Stream and the Madness of that Age. That He took the Dignity from whence the great Dr. Sanderson was for Orthodoxy and Loyalty ejected and so was said to eat the Bread of one of the profoundest Scholars and most Pious Divines in this Nation This too might be a little excus'd from the innate Principles of Self-Love and Preservation That he was even in those Times ridicul'd and made contemptible for a Puling Saint and Sneaking Hypocrite in Drollery and Rhimes entitled Zeal over-heated Or A Relation of a Lamentable Fire in a Religious Brother's Shop where Holy Cornish teached c. This might be the Common Genius of Poetry and Profaneness That He afterward put himself into a very swimming Humour and scarce knew whether to dissent or to conform This might be his comprehensive Charity and Latitude of Love That his own old Friends have been heard to complain that He was too cold and silent that He had wrote nothing for the Cause This might arise from his Modesty and Distrust of his own Talents or perhaps from a better Sense that such controversial Writings had only inflam'd the World and turn'd away the Spirit of Religion That He was reported to have little or no Learning and that some of his Letters are said to remain a Testimony of his writing what was scarcely Sense and not English This sure must have been the Imperfection of his declining Years when he had outliv'd the sight of his Eyes when in his Sermons and Epistles he was forced to use the Pen of his Maid-Servant and when perhaps as a notable old Professor said He had forgot more than others ever learn'd Stories and scurrilous Reflexions are not so much the Talent of Men of our Communion Integrity and Truth need nothing but themselves to support themselves Far be it from Us to invent Libels and Slanders even against our greatest Adversaries much less against Him who at some Times and in some Things profest to be our Friend There is indeed a late Historian who wrote for no Interest and has therefore among some Persons gain'd the Reputation of a plain and undissembling Teller of Truth One that really knew as much of Modern Things and Men as any one Writer of this Age and Nation This Historian I say made bold to draw up and publish the Character of Mr. Cornish while He liv'd which was the more ingenuously done that He might have pleaded his own Cause and vindicated himself from any false Aspersions Perhaps Sir in your Retirement you have not the Book by you and therefore I'llcite you the Words at large But I beg your Pardon I would be only the Transcriber and leave the Truth and Propriety of it to your better Enquiries and to the Credit of the Author An. Dom. 1649. About the same time when the two last Persons were created i. e. John Wilkins and Henry Langley it was granted to Henry Cornish Batchelor of Divinity and Canon of Christ-Church that He if he please might be actually created Doctor of Divinity but he refused it and was not This Person who was Son of Will. Cornish of Ditchet in Somersetshire was originally a poor Scholar of New-Inn and an Assistant to the Butler there to put on or enter Battles in the Buttery-Book And as he had been Puritanically educated at home so more under Dr. Rogers Principal of the same Inn. Afterwards He took the Degrees in Arts and became a puling Preacher left Oxon when it was garrison'd for His Majesty preached among the Godly Party and was appointed by the Parliament with Langley before-mention'd Corbet Cheynell c. to preach the Scholars into Obedience to the then Powers For which his Service He was made Canon of Christ-Church in the Place of Dr. Robert Sanderson ejected After His Majesty's Restauration He was remov'd and preached in those Parts as a Nonconformist till the Five Mile Act was made and then retiring to Stenton Harcourt in Oxfordshire where He was patroniz'd by Sir Philip Harcourt a Favourer of such like Persons as having been educated in their Principles by one of the Parliament-Generals named Sir William Waller who had married his Mother He lived and carried on the Trade there for many Years and took all Occasions elsewhere to preach when the Indulgences for tender Consciences were granted and did sometimes after K. William III. came to the Crown preach in an antiquated Dancing-School just without the North-Gate of Oxon To which Place many People did usually resort Afterwards this Meeting was translated to a House in St. Ebbe's Parish where it now 1691. continueth and is chiefly carried on by a certain Person who had received some Education in Cambridge c. In the Year 1690. Mr. Cornish left Stanton-Harcourt and translated himself to a Market-Town in Oxfordshire called Bisiter where He now holds forth So that He who had been a Licensed Preacher by the Blessed Parliament as it was by the Brethren so call'd and had been Canon of Christ-Church and much respected by those of his Perswasion while He lived in Oxon for a Godly Man doth now in his Old Age being now about 80 Years old preach in a Barn in the said Town of Bisiter for Profit-sake to silly Women and other obstinate People such is the poor Spirit of the Person I have Sir already intimated that it shall be none of my business to justifie or refute this Character which stood upon Publick Record for several Years before the Reverend Man here describ'd did depart this World I have no more to add but my Prayers and a desire of Yours that while there seems so fair a Prospect of Universal Peace Abroad God would bless Us with Unity and Concord here at Home and grant Us All to be first Honest and Prudent and then Religious And I verily believe that Men so qualified could never desert or betray the Excellent Communion of the Church of England Your most Humble Servant Decemb. 23. 1698. FINIS Athen. Oxon. Vol. 2. P. 512. By Tho. Weaver Printed 1654. Athen. Oxon. Vol ● P. 771.