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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

most men doat so much because they have no care for nor hope of a better life 2. The state of a Life after Death that is the Life of Glory implied in these words He speaketh for Speech is the evidence of a living man Ergo Abel though dead in the Body yet is still alive in the Spirit The first is a Corrosive to the state of Nature but the Second comes in as a Cordial to all those who are in the state of Grace This Text appears much like the Israelites Guide in the Wilderness 't was a Cloud and that no ordinary Cloud but such a Cloud as was Dark on the one side and Light on the other side dark towards the Egyptians but Light towards the Israelites Even so is Death dark and sad to the Unbelievers and Impenitent but lightsome and welcome to all true Penitents and Believers 1. To begin with the first The state of Death Man in the state of Innocency was created capable of three Lives the Life Corporal Life Spiritual and Life Eternal The first is the Life of Nature a Transitory Life The second is the Life of Grace a Life permanent upon condition of perseverance in uniform obedience to God The third is Life Eternal the Life of Glory the Life of the Saints Triumphant of the Elect Angels yea the Life of God himself and therefore a Life immutable interminable 2. Two of these three Lives the Life natural and spiritual man had then in present possession and the third in a sure reversion after the expiration of but one Life and that a short one too but a span long this present life is no more by King David's just measure Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long 3. Man by his Apostasie from God through the first original sin of willful incogitancy and through pride did soon deprive himself of all these three Lives at once and so according to the just sentence of God pronounced upon man aforehand for a fair warning Morte moriêris Thou shalt die the Death man was justly precipitated from that high state of Innocence into the base and damnable state of sin and misery whereby every man none excepted but the God and man Christ Jesus is now by original sin become subject to a threefold Death First Corporal Secondly Spiritual and thirdly without Repentance Eternal The first is Death Corporal which is a total but not final separation of the Soul from the Body the sad Real Text before our Eyes The second is Death Spiritual a far worse kind of death a state of sin which is a separation of the soul from the Grace and Favour of God which is life it self without which we are all by nature dead in trespasses and sins Children of wrath no better The third and worst of all is Death Eternal and therefore called in Holy Scripture The great Death the second Death because it is a final total and eternal separation of both Soul and Body from the Glorious Presence Beatifical Vision and admirable and unspeakable Fruition of God himself whom as to serve here on Earth is the Life of Grace so to enjoy in Heaven is the Life of Glory which is life everlasting 4. The first of these three Death Temporal none of us can avoid die we must die we shall God prepare us all for it But as the thing Death is certain for the matter so for the manner how we shall die in or out of our wits as in Frenzies c. where we shall die amongst Friends or amongst Foes when we shall die whether in youth or in old Age how we shall die whether by a suddain violent or painful Death which God in mercy avert from us all none of us all knows and therefore our best course is while we may by a lively faith timely repentance and real amendment of life to prepare for Death and then come Death in what shape it will and welcome we shall not die unprepared Yet it concerns us all frequently and seriously to think of these great Quatuor novissima Death Judgment Heaven and Hell 'T is Moses his passionate wish O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end Since 't is appointed for all men once to die and after that comes Judgment The Vulgar Translation renders it statutum est Death is an universal Statute Law to all mankind and so it is both for authority of coaction and certainty of execution for it is grounded upon two of the greatest Attributes of God which are First God's infallible Truth for the Commination was directed unto man and that also in mercy to forwarn him that he might not sin Secondly God's exact Justice which requires the execution of the Divine Sentence to be done upon the same nature that had sinned Man did sin therefore man must suffer that is man must die and because the first man Adam was the Original Root and General Representative of all mankind Adam's off-spring therefore all men must die pray God we all may die well or if they live to the end of the world yet they must suffer a Change at the least at the last which Change whatever ever it be for 't is a Mystery will be equivalent to a Death so that there lies an universal necessity to undergo a Death some kind of Death In the Antient Register of the Macrobii those long liv'd Patriarchs Adam liv'd 930 years and he died Methuselah the longest liver of all Mankind lived 969 years and he died c. that is the burthen song of them all Neither Methuselah the antientest nor Sampson the strongest nor Solomon the wisest of men could exempt themselves from the fatal necessity of Death Seneca himself though but a Heathen Philosopher being ignorant of the original cause of Death yet observing the generality of the event of Death drew his Topick of Consolation to his Friend Polybius sad for the Death of his Brother from this necessity of Death But God be thanked we Christians have better Topicks of Comfort for the Death of our Christian Friends past or our own Death a coming by opposing through Faith against the terrour of our Dissolution by Death the consideration of our admirable and comfortable conjunction with Christ our Head after Death This glorious state is by St. Paul styled the manifestation of the Sons of God for which by a natural instinct the whole Creation groaneth with an earnest expectation of the accomplishment The word in the Original is very significant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which betokens the looking for some Person or thing with lifting up of the Head or stretching out their Necks with earnest intention and observation to see when the person or thing looked for shall appear as a poor Prisoner condemned looks out at the Grates for a gracious Pardon And if the Creatures inanimate c. do so earnestly

none of Solomon's Proverbs to be sure This great Man here lying before us may be a standing Monument for a real confutation and may rise up in judgment against all such base slanderers of our Church and Religion Behold how great and goodly works one single English Prelate hath done in so short a time and that after twenty years long Sequestration and voluntary Banishment only for his Religion and Allegiance Neither doth this our Bishop want his Peers even in this present age our great Arch-Bishops Dr. Laud that glorious Martyr Dr. Juxon Dr. Shelden Bishop Warner those constant Confessors and how many more whose eminent magnificence may on the other hand choak the mouth of that English Bel and the Dragon and of all such Rabshakehs who out of their Bulimia or the greedy worm do eat much but as it is observed thrive little are still gaping after the sweet morsel of Sacriledge though in the digestion it will prove first or last a bitter Pill in the maw of their conscience They I say looking upon the Bishops and Clergy with the squint eyes of envy and malice shoot out their venemous tongues against these good men and their whole order inhancing by a false rule of hyperbolical multiplication the Bishops revenues in Fines c. never talking the ingenuous pains to ballance in the account their Incomes with their just deductions in their vast publick and pious expences but through a diabolical detraction and malignant subtraction they do wilfully suppress the great Out-lets of these great Revenues This Example may restrain a third sort of censorious men who being more jealous than zealous of good works object the suspicion of vain Glory in the case wresting to their own damnation that passage of our Lord Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth though this Caution be expresly restrained by our Lord to secret Alms far different from the case of publick works of Charity concerning which our Lord gives an express command to the contrary else what mean these words Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in Heaven That they may see your good works not as though the sight of them should be intentio operantis but conditio operandi thereby to provoke others to a Godly imitation to the Glory of God which must be the ultimate end of all our actions for whilst we praise the Instruments such worthy men as in life and death have endeavonred to be beneficial unto their Generations We must not forget the Principal which is God the Father of lights from whom cometh down every good giving and every perfect gift Enough once for all to gagg those evil men who being out of charity with Charity it self want that Christian Charity which thinketh no evil His Passions or Sufferings For Multa fecit tulitque 1. Publick and that first at home Annis 1640 and 1641. when he was both Sequestred and Angariated before a Sacrilegious and Rebellious Assembly of Lay-men which the seduced Crew did nick-name A grand Committee for Religion his Magnanimity and Constancy in maintaining the truly Apostolick and Catholick Doctrine and Religion of our Holy Mother the Church of England was such that he came off clear from all calumnies laid to his charge in base Articles and Pamphlets to the notorious amazement disappointment and shame at last of his malicious false and furious Adversaries And this I can the better depose for that I had the honour then and there to be a fellow-sufferer not only by Sympathy with him and for him but also by my own Idiopathy yet God delivered him and my self out of all these troubles 2. His sufferings abroad as in France where he underwent another Tryal only for upholding under the King then in the French Court the Publick Liturgy or Common-Prayer-Book of the Church of England for wherever he was he retained still and exerted a publick spirit And his Constancy the Character of sincerity was so much the greater that for all those his Tryals both at home and abroad he was never moved much less removed from his stedfast Belief and Uniform Practice of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England when at home swarms of unstable men were carried away with the terrible torrent of the Times both from the True Religion and their due Allegiance For this great Man was resolved and resolute to be one of those not too many who would never defile his Holy Garment neither his Surplice when a Priest nor his Rochet if he could then have been a Bishop with any Sacrilegious Covenant or Rebellious Engagement and I thank God so was I whereby he saved himself the labour of a sad Repentance and requisite Recantation before God and Men for those great sins of Perjury Rebellion and Sacriledge and so he did wisely prevent that scruple or singultum cordis the hiccough of Conscience for so some do translate it which they of the Clergy who against their multiplyed Oaths to God the Church and the King have committed may be put upon here or hereafter which is the best way to clear themselves from shame and reproach 3. His Personal Sufferings which were by his frequent Sicknesses 1. By Nature acute as the Stone c. which usually he called his roaring Pains whereby he was at last overcome together with a Pectoral Dropsie 2. The length of his Disease for two years before his death he was much crazed by many furious fits and so he did bend his chief care to prepare for his latter end fore-feeled in himself and fore-told by himself to his private Friends and forespoken in his Last Will. 'T is the Observation both of Divines and Philosophers That when the Soul of Man is near its final though not total separation from the Body it withdraws it self and so becomes receptible of a kind of Prophetical or Prognostick Inspiration concerning its departure It was his blessing from God to give him such forewarnings and so to hear his prayer in the Letany to deliver him from suddain death which though to a Godly Man it may prove suddain in respect of expectation for the manner or circumstance concerning time and place for all things come alike to all yet in point of preparation for the matter and substance it 's never suddain This fore-sight of his departure at hand made him often in his sicknesses to ingeminate in the Royal Prophets words O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I fly away and be at rest His Death And thereat his last Actions as 1. His Benedictions to his Children and at their desires his blessing also upon the Divines then present and upon God's Church chiefly for Purity and Peace 2. His Solemn Invitation to God's Priest for his last Viaticum and then the Priest about him asking him whether by reason of his weakness he would have

the Bread only dipt he answered No but he would receive it in both kinds according to Christ's Institution and being through weakness lifted up into his Chair and having a violent pain in his head for the ease whereof it was fast bound he would needs have it all undone and sit bare-headed and so he received it an hour and a half before his death from the hands of Mr. William Flower his Lordships Domestical Chaplain 3. And when being so near unto death he could not kneel he then devoutly repeated often that part of the penitent Prayer of King Manasses Lord I bow the knee of my heart 4. Having often reiterated his Invitation of Christ in the words of the Spirit and of the Church Lord Jesus come quickly His last act was the Elevation of his hand with this his last Ejaculation Lord wherewith he expired without pain according to his frequent prayer to God That he might not dye of a suddain or painful death such was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Augustus his wish and I pray God for every one of us that from heart and mouth our last breath may prove like that of our late Bishop Amen His Burial The Ecclesiastical Office was solemnly Celebrated by the Right Reverend Father in God Guy Lord Bishop of Bristol The Political Offices were performed decently and in order which was in all publick actions the method of our late Lord Bishop when living and the same he enjoyed at and after his death the particular Narration of which I do civilly recommend to those Dunmviri the worthy Heralds for the Funeral pomp was very solemn who did constantly attend his late Lordship's state at London and all the way to Durham and there and at Auckland the place of his Rest where requiescat in pace and from thence God send him a joyful Resurrection at which prayer none but ignorant or malicious men will take offence for the meaning is no more but that the dead may enjoy a happy Re-union of the Soul with the body at the general Resurrection and a final and full consummation of both in bliss and after the utter abolition of sin by death a blessed conjunction of us that survive with them that are dead which is the Orthodox sence of our Office at Burials the ancient sence of the Primitive Church when we pray over the dead whose Souls in Christian Charity we hope are past the necessity of our Prayers for their Relief or Release from any imaginary first Pagan after Popish Purgatory The Summ of all The Text and Sermon is a dead mans real speech To hear a dead man speak now were such a Prodigy as would certainly both stir up attention and strike amazement into us and all the hearers yet that Great Chancellour of Paris John Gerson relates a strange History which happened about the year 1060. at the Funeral of a Grave Doctor there a man otherwise reputed for the strictness of his life at the interring of whom when the Priest came to the then used form R●sponde mihi or answer me the Corps sat upright in the Biere and to the amazement of all there present the first day cryed out Justo Dei judicio accusatus sum At the Just Tribunal of God I am accused and so laid immediately down in its first posture the astonished Company deferring the burial till the next day when the dead man with a hideous noise cryed out again Justo Dei judicio judicatus sum By the just judgement of God I am judged whereupon the burial was deferred a day longer and the dead man rose up the third time and cryed out his last Justo Dci judicio condemnatus sum By the Just judgement of God I am condemned whereat as the whole company was sadly affrighted so Brimo then an Eminent Doctor in the same University being effectually affected calling his Scholars together retired from the world and as the manner of those Times was then became the Founder of the Order of the Carthusians A strange Prodigy and a loud warning-piece to us all living to admonish us not to confide much less presume upon our outward Righteousness for I dare not deny Historical Credit to this premised Relation from John Gerson But blessed be God dead Abel in the Text and the dead Bishop on this Hearse speak better things This Hearse is now our Bishop's Throne or his Pulpit and so our Bier must be the last Pulpit of us all of the Clergy high and low all must come to this God knows how soon I may be the next God send us all an happy Nunc dimittis of which we may live and dye assured if we imitate them for they being dead yet speak and as you have heard at large do preach unto us all Faith Hope and Charity the only strait way to Heaven all evidenced by their works of Piety which if not imitated by us may justly rise up in judgement against us To Recapitulate and summ up our Bishops Vertues under three Heads I will remind you with 1. His Intellectual 2. His Moral 3. His Theological Vertues 1. As to his Intellectual Vertues his Natural understanding he was endowed with a sound understanding which he enjoyed to the last a great blessing for though for the outward manner of death all things come alike to all and there may be one event to good and bad both may lose their understanding at their latter end through the malignity or vehemency of some acute sicknesses which should teach us all in health to make good use of our understandings yet for a man to dye sanâ mente or in his right wits is a great comfort both to the dying party and to the surviving friends 2. His acquired learning witness his writings fore-mentioned and his diligent researches into the magazine of the best Antiquity I may truly say Here lies now dead before us one of our Chief Ritualists 3. He was punctual in his Methods for to my knowledge he loved Order in his Studies and Functions and he often repeated and generally observed the Apostles Canon Let all things be done decently and in order He was so exact in putting in practice the Discipline of our Church that he strictly enjoyned according to the Rubrick the daily Publick Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer within the Churches of his Diocess which since the decay of the Primitive Devotion of daily Communions in the old Christianity is instead of the Juge Sacrificium of the Jews the daily sacrifice of a Lamb Morning and Evening And 't is both our sin and shame that since God is graciously pleased under the Gospel to spare our lambs we Christians should in requital grudge our good God except in case of real necessity the Calves of our lips to praise him daily in the publick Congregations Without vanity I have through Gods providence travelled and taken an impartial survey of both the Eastern and Western Churches and can assert upon