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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

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-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

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

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