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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

when in the last day of the world he shall come from Heaven to raise the dead and judge all he will give eternal happiness but to the rest that are Infidels or that have lived according to the flesh and would not repent or be converted he will inflict eternal punishment In this Faith which is the summary and most absolute Abridgement of all the Holy Scripture Jude vers 3. once delivered to the Saints and which the Apostles and their Successors have spread abroad and derived down even to us I profess my self to live and that I may persevere in it constantly without doubting unto my last breath is my daily prayer in the mean time seeking after Unity by preserving the bond of Peace and Love with all Christians every where who among the great Evils Distractions and Calamities of the Church which truly I cannot but heartily bewail entirely receive this Faith and call no one part of it in question I hope also through the goodness of God and Christ God and Man our Saviour that all they that have together with us sincerely believed these things that are revealed and delivered from God and have lived a Godly life shall be saved in the great day of the Lord who although they are not able to give an account or explain the manner of every of them nor resolve the questions raised about them and though perhaps when they endeavour it they cannot avoid some mistakes and be altogether free from errour But whatsoever Heresies or Schisms heretofore by what names soever they be called the antient Catholick and Universal Church of Christ with an unanimous consent hath rejected and condemned I do in like manner condemn and reject together with all the modern Fautors of the same Heresies Sectaries and Phanaticks who being carried on with an evil Spirit do falsely give out they are inspired of God The Heresies and Schismes I say of all these I also as most addicted to the Symbols Synods and Confessions of the Church of England or rather the Catholick Church do constantly renounce condemn and reject Among whom I rank not only the Separatists the Anabaptists and their Followers Alas too too many but also the New Independents and Presbyterians of our Countrey a kind of men hurried away with the spirit of Malice Disobedience and Sedition who by a disloyal attempt the like whereof was never heard since the world began have of late committed so many great and execrable Crimes to the contempt and despite of Religion and the Christian Faith which how great they were without horrour cannot be spoken or mentioned Moreover I do profess with holy asseveration and from my very heart that I am now and have ever been from my youth altogether free and averse from the corruptions and impertinent new-fangled or papistical so commonly called superstitions and doctrines and new superadditions to the Ancient and Primitive Religion and Faith of the most commended so Orthodox and Catholick Church long since introduced contrary to the Holy Scripture and the Rules and Customes of the ancient Fathers But in what part of the World soever any Churches are extant bearing the name of Christ and professing the true Catholick Faith and Religion worshipping and calling upon God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost with one heart and voice if any where I be now hindred actually to be joyned with them either by distance of Countries or variance amongst men or by any other let whatsoever yet alwayes in my mind and affection I joyn and unite with them which I desire to be chiefly understood of Protestants and the best Reformed Churches for where the foundations are safe we may allow and therefore most friendly quietly and peaceably suffer in those Churches where we have not Authority a diversity as of Opinion so of Ceremonies about things which do but adhere to the Foundations and are neither necessary or repugnant to the practice of the Universal Church As for all them who through Evil Counsel have any way inveighed against or calumniated me and even yet do not forbear their invectives I freely pardon them and earnestly pray to God that he also would be pleased to forgive them and inspire them with a better mind In the mean while I take it to be my duty and of all my Brethren especially the Bishops and Ministers of the Church of God to do our utmost endeavours according to the measure of Grace which is given to every one of us that at last an end may be put to the differences of Religion or at least that they may be lessened and that we may follow Peace with all men and Holiness which that it may be accomplished very speedily God the Author of Peace and Concord grant whose infinite Mercy I humbly beseech that he would cleanse me who was conceived in Sin and Iniquity from every spot and corruption of humane frailty and that through his great clemency he would make me who am unworthy to become worthy and that he would apply to me the Passion and infinite Merits of his most beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord to the expiating of all mine Offences that at the last hour of my Life which I daily look for I may be carried by his Holy Angels into Abrahams bosome and being placed in the fellowship of his Saints and Elect may fully enjoy Eternal Felicity Having now declared what belongs to my Religion and the State and Salvation of my Soul which I have now delivered here in Latine The rest that belongs to my Burial and the disposal of my Temporal Estate I shall cause to be written in my Native Language and so conclude Durham Jan. 18. 1672. Vera Copia Examinata per me William Stagg Not. Publicum FINIS Gen. 35. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Basil Homil xxiii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem S. Basil Homil 2. in Psalm xiv Non adhaerendum rebus secularibus ** Conctonator non ultra Horam ne fastidium pariat auditoribus Canon Hungaricus c. Eccles 24. 31. Psal 39. 15. 2 Sam. 3. 38. * The Lord Bishop of Durham is Lieutenant General of this County as ab Antiquo ex Officio so ex abundanti per Mandatum by the Kings gracious Commission cumulativè and so still under the King who is always the Sovereign of all Estates in his Realms Eccles 70. 2. Psal 90. 12. Can. 55. Hebr. 11. Hebr. 6. 12. Exod. 14. 20. with Hebr. 12. E. Ephes 4. 18. Psal 39. 5. Gen. 2. 17. Psal 30. 5. Ephes 2. 1. Revel 20. 6. * St. Aug. de Discipl cap. 2. non potest malè mori qui benè vixerit Audeo dicere non potest malè mori qui benè vixerit Deut. 32. 29. Hebr. 9. 27. 1 Cor. 15. 51. Gen. 5. 5. Rom. 8. 19. Phil. 1. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 11. 35. Rom. 1. 31. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thes 4. 13. Genes 50. 3. 10. Rom. 14. 7 8. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

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 involun●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