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che faithful and trusted adherent of King r, the friend of Montague and Laud, the ived of his dignities in the University of questered from his ecclesiastical benefices tion, was no less distinguished by his uns upon the Book of Common Prayer, than vers as a controversialist. The writings of llustrious person will be always, therefore, o those who value his piety, judgment, and is those who study his life and character. been consequently excited that his works blished a in a collected form. The present t made to supply this deficiency. ough he has laboured under many difficulthe scattered works of Bishop Cosin, has ay and important advantages. He begs place to offer his thanks to the Warden e University of Durham for their kindness

enty years after sin, Dr. Thomas nforms us, that of such an emibe permitted to ntemplated the f them as were

se circumstances

in permitting him to make use of transcripts of some o unprinted remains of Bishop Cosin, which are to be four their Library. To the Venerable Charles Thorp, D.D., A deacon of Durham, and the Venerable W. F. Raymond, M Archdeacon of Northumberland, the official Trustees of Library bequeathed by Bishop Cosin to the clergy of diocese of Durham, he is indebted for the opportunit examining at his leisure the Bishop's Correspondence, Notes on the Common Prayer, and various other manuscr His warmest gratitude is due to the Dean and Chapte Durham, for their kindness in affording him the privileg inspecting the Registers and other private documents bel ing to that Cathedral Church, with which Cosin was i mately connected, first as Prebendary and afterwards Bishop, for nearly half a century. And by the liberalit the same body, he is now enabled to lay before the public Sermons which are contained in the present volume.

These Sermons embrace a period of time extending f 1621 to 1659, the first having been preached shortly a his admission into Holy Orders, and the last not long be his return from his seventeen years' exile. Although allus is made to several others, these are the only Sermons wh are preserved. Having been preached for the most upon the festivals of the Church, they are intended to il trate the events which the services of the day commemora They advocate with much skill and learning, and with inconsiderable powers of eloquence, the truths of the Go as exhibited in the doctrines of the Church of Engla opposing the erroneous extremes of modern Roman

nd of Dissent on the other. The wide or's readinge in almost every department d him to illustrate his subject from a but it is obvious that the exegetical and gof the Primitive Church formed his es of his acquaintance with the writings of more frequently with those of Andrewes", I is no less difficult to imagine how the n they were preached should have been. opishly affected,' than to reconcile some ices attributed to him, with the general octrines.

nally intended to have prefixed a Life of ircumstances occurred which induced him her part of the work the various notices cted; and instead of an original memoir, which had appeared in the Biographia narrative, although not without its faults gives a tolerably accurate account of the p's life. It is compiled chiefly from the

at the Bishop memory, and rs by so doing. cites as from is taken from ) and ascribes passage from Fragm. Comic. 1841.) their structure The preacher observations for ng the subjectith the peculiar then introduces d the text then his arrangement the sermons of m. ii. 39, 101; w other divines 3), as Basire, in eprinted in this

on Heb. xi. 4, upon the 29th of April, 1672', together a brief of the life, dignities, benefactions, principal ac and sufferings, and of the death of the said late Lord Bi of Durham; published (upon earnest request) by 1 Basire, D.D., chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, and A deacon of Northumberland." 8vo. Lond. 1673.

Basire had ample opportunities of knowing the trut what he has here recorded. In 1632 he accompanied Mo whose chaplain he then was, into the diocese of Durha and the intercourse with Cosin which then commenced, continued from that period almost without interruption. 1636 he was presented by Morton to the rectory of Egglesc on December 12, 1643, he was collated to the seventh in the Cathedral Church of Durham°; and in 1644 he appointed archdeacon of Northumberland P. In the rebel which followed, he was driven from his preferments and c pelled to reside abroad, exposed, like Cosin, to many pr tions, and, like him, steadfast to the faith of his fath When Cosin became bishop of Durham, Basire returned his archdeaconry, in fulfilling the duties of which he necessarily brought into close and frequent intercou with his diocesan. These circumstances carrying his re lections back over a space of forty years, stamp much va upon his memoir; but unfortunately, from its discursive st it contains less information than might reasonably have b anticipated.

'Vita reverendissimi et eruditissimi viri Joannis Cos episcopi Dunelmensis, scriptore Thoma Smitho, S. Theolo Doctore et Ecclesiæ Anglicana presbytero;' inserted Smith's Vitæ quorumdam eruditissimorum virorum,' Lond. 1707.