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A41016	Sacra nemesis, the Levites scourge, or, Mercurius Britan. disciplin'd, [Mercurius] civicvs [disciplin'd] also deverse remarkable disputes and resolvs in the Assembly of Divines related, episcopacy asserted, truth righted, innocency vindicated against detraction.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing F593; ESTC R2806	73,187	105

third Figure and also of a Prison Ovid M●tam l. 1. terras Astraea reliquit See the gentle Lash p. 5. Brit. pag. 67. Ans. Apol. Eccl. Ang. p. 2. c. 1. divis 1. Vid. Vossium de 36 Symbolis The second Speech to the eighth Article Act 14 Trin In ep. ad Polon Iohn 5.26 Hom. de temp. 88. The definition of justification The second Speech to the eleventh Article Calvin praefat. Institut Cypri de ce●t Dom. Piscator and Tilenus Obj. Sol 1 Obj. Sol. 2. Sol. 3. Sol. 4. Sol. 5. The third Speech to the eleventh Article The fourth speech to the eleventh Article Obj. 1. Obj. 2. Obj. 3. Sol. Obj. 4. Sol. Obj. 5. Sol. The fifth speech to the eleventh Article Arg. 1. Resp. Replic. Arg. 2. Advers. Resp. Replicatio Arg. 3. Resp. Advers. Replic. In Rom. 5. assumpt. But the ●●ghteousnesse of Christ as he was a sacrifice for sin was to be unspotted wholly and without sin Hebr. Ergo as he was a sacrifice for sin his holinesse was imputed unto us Arg. 4. Advers. Sol. Replicatio The VOTE Eccl. 7.29 1 Pet. 2.25 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Act. 1.20 * Ambros com in Ephes. c. 4. v. 10. Apostoli sunt Episcopi Ierom. ad Marcel apud nos Apostolorum locum tenent Episcopi Cyp. ep. l. 3. Apostolos id est Episcopos praepositos Dominus elegit August in Ps. 45. loco patrum erunt filii ●d est Apostolorum Episcopi Et ibid. dilatatum est Evangelium in omnibus finibus mundi in quibus principes ecclesia id est Episcopi sunt constituti * Aug. ep. 162 comment in Apoc. hom 2. Ambrose 1 1 Cor. 11.16 ●●cumeniu● Areth●s Marlorat Pareus in Apoc. c 1.2 Policarp Episcopus Smyrnae Onesimus Ephesi Antipa● Pergami c. * Edi● Teclae it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} thy wife which demonstrateth that the A●gell there signifieth one singular man of authority in the Church and not the whole clergy of that place Ep ad Episc. Winton * Concil. Nice can. 5. conc. Antioch can 6. Conc. Sard. can. 14. conc Chal. act 15. c. 29. ●gnatius in ep. ad Philad. Irenaeus l. ● c. 3. Tertul. l. de baptismo Euse. l. ● c. 40. Ierom ep ad Nep●t Optatus l. 1. cont. Parmen. Amb. in Eph. cap. 4. Basil. Eph. 70. Epiphanius haeres 75. p. 295. Aug ad quod vult D●u● A●riam ab AErio quodam sunt nominati qui cum esse● presbyter dolu●sse fertur quod Episcop●● non potuit ordinari di●●bat presbyterum ab Ep●scopo nulla ●is●r●ntia debere disce●n● Hieron. in Tit. Con. 1. art 15. c. 29 Episcopum in presbyteri gradum reducere est sacrilegium Anatolius constant Episcop dixit i●qui dicuntu● ab Episcopal● dignitat● ad presbyteri ordinem descendi●●e si 〈…〉 causis condemnanturnec presbyteri honore digni sunt See Art 36. ● de consecrat It is evident to all men reading holy Scriptures ancient authors that from the Apostles time there have bin these three orders in the Church of Christ and that a Bishop ought to correct and punish such as are unquiet ●riminous and disobedient within his diocesse according to such authoritie as he hath by the word of God * Vide record in Exchequer I wil preserve and maintain to you the Churches cōmitted to your charges all Canonicall priviledges and I will be your protector and defender to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his kingdome in right ought to defend the Bishops and Churches under their government c. Then laying his hand on the book on the communion table he sayth the things which I have before promised I shall perform and keep so help me God and by the contents of this book * Cic. Tusc. quaest. * Pro Mur. tolle no●en Catonis * Statut. Ed. 3. ann. 25. The Church of England was founded in the state of prelacie c. for we owe to it our best laws made in the Saxon times and Charta magna it self The union of the two Roses Yo●k and Lancaster the marriage with Scotland and above all the plantation reformation of true religion See Vindication of Episcopacie page 23 24. See also the statute book of 16. Rich. 2. where the Commons ●hew that the Prelates were much profitable and necessarie to their Soveraign Lord the K. and the realm c. * Ierome advers. Luc. c. 4. Ecclesiae salu● à summi sacerdot● dignitate pendet cui si non ●xors quaedam ab omnibus em●nens detur protestas tot in ecclesia efficientur schismata quot sacerdotes Cypr. ep. 3. non aliunde haereses abortae sunt aut nata schismata quam inde quod sacerdoti Dei non obtemperatur nec unus in ecclesia ad tempus sacerdos ad tempus judex● vice Christi cogitatur * Athanas. apol. 2. Colithus quidam presbyter in ecclesia Alexandrina alios presbyteros ordinare praesumpserat sed rescissa fuit ejus ordinatio omnes ab eo constituti presbyteri in laic●rum ordinem redacti See Epiph. haer. 75. The order of Bishops begets Fathers in the Church but the order of Presbyters sonnes in baptisme but no Fathers or Doctors See also ● Abbot in his 〈◊〉 of the visibilitie of the Church and in his answer to Hill * Apol. confess Augustan c. de numero usu sacrament ●os saepe pro●estati sumus summa cum voluntate conservare p●litiam eccl●siasticam g●adus in ecclesia factos etiam summa authoritate scimus enim utili consilio ecclesiacticam disciplina hanc modo quo vet●res eam d●scribunt constitutam Luther tom. 2. p. 320. Nemo contra statū episcoporum veros episcopos vel bonos pastores dictum putet quicquid contra hos tyrannos dicitur * Gerard de ministerio eccles. Nemo nostrum dicit nihil interesse inter episcopum presbyterum sed agnoscimus distinctionem graduum propter {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ecclesiae ut concordia conservetur * Calv. de necess reform ecclesiae Talem nobis hierarchiam s● exbibeant in qua sic emin●a●t episcopi ut Ch●isto subeste non recusent ut ab illo tanquam unico capite pendeant ad ipsum referantur in qua sic inter se fraternam societa●em colant ut non alio modo quam ejus veritate si●t colligati tum vero nullo non anathemate dignos fateo● si qui erunt qui non ●am ●everenter summaque obedientia observent * Beza de grad. minist. evang. c. 18. Sess. 3. Quod si nunc ecclesiae instau●atae Anglicanae suorum Episcoporum Archiepisc●porum authoritate suffultae perstant quemadmodum hoc illis nostra memoria contigit ut eju● ordinis homines non ●antum insignes Dei Martyres sed etiam praestantissimos Doctores Pastores habuerit c. Brit. p. 67. Ans. M. Nye Brit. p. 68. Ans. See the testimonies of Dr. Moulin and other forraign divines in the Coroll●●ie The handmaid to devotio● The Author of the book intituled A safeguard from Ship wrak A●●s forbiddeth not all usurie but biting usurie in his Cases of Consciences Plutarch Apopl● Brit. p. 68. Answ. Turtul praescript * Cook at the Bridge foot Cic. pro Sylla Isocr ad Daem●nicum Hesiod l. 1 ●p dies Adag. Homerica nube tectus Ve●itas tempo●is filia A Book so intituled Ans. Mat. 5. ● See the statu● 16. Rich. 2. and the 25 of Edw. 3. See Sphyni● Philosophica Ps●l 69 2● Basil. ●p 62. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Guillaume Herbert in the Epistle dedicatorie prefixed to his translation of Doct. Featley's Handmaid of devotion into French Wolsgangus Meyer in his Epistle dedicatorie before his Dutch translation The Grand Sacriledge printed Lond. 1630. In the Vote Sept. 29. against the Dr. all the other articles are waved see the record supr. Cic. pro Cl●●as

Super-indendents in Germanie Presidents in the reformed Synods in France and Masters Provosts and Heads of Colledges and Halls in our Universities who have a kind of prelacie and authoritie over the fellows and students whereof the major part are Divines and in holy orders Here I conceive it will be said that none of these are aimed at but only Diocesan Bishops alreadie banished out of Scotland and prelates indeed they are in a more eminent degree and if prelacie be restrained to them it is Episcopacie that is principally shot at to the extirpation whereof I dare not yeeld my vote or suffrage lest this new Oath intangle me in perjurie For both my self and all who have received orders in this Kingdom by the imposition of Episcopall hands have freely engaged our selves by oath to obey our Ordinarie and to submit to his godly judgement and in all things lawfull and honest to receive his commands if then we now swear to endeavour the abolishing of Epscopacy we swear to renounce our canonicall obedience that is as I apprehend we swear to forswear our selves It is true that the Dr was furnished with many other reasons for episcopacy besides these and of some he gave a hint in the assembly it self upon other occasions as namely SECT. VIII Sixteen reasons for episcopall government THat the name of episcopacy even as it signifieth a degree of eminency in the Church is a sacred and venerable title first in holy scripture ascribed to our blessed Redeemer who as he is dominus dominantium lord of lords so also episcopus episcoporum bishop of bishops the shepheard and bishop of all our souls next to the Apostles whose office in the Church is stiled by the holy Ghost Episcope a bishoprick let another take his bishoprick though it be translated let another take his office yet the originall signifies not an office at large but an episcopall function that office which Iuda● lost and Matthias was elected into which was the office and dignitie of an Apostle * lastly to those whom the Apostles set over the Churches as namely to Timothy and Titus who in the subscription of the Apostles letters divinely inspired are stiled Bishops in the restrained sense of the word 2 Tim. 4. written from Rome to Timoth●us the first bishop elected of the church of Ephesus and to Titus the first elect Bishop of the church of the Cretians how ancient these subscriptions are it is not certain among the learned if they bear not the same date with the Epistles themselves the contrary wherof neither is nor can be demonstrated yet they are undoubtedly very ancient and of great authority and in them the word bishop cannot be taken at large for any minister or presbyter but for a singular person in place and dignitie above other pastors for there were many other presbyters in Ephesus both before and besides Timothy Acts 20.27.18 and in the Island of Creet or Candie there must of necessity be more then one pastor or minister Besides S. Paul investeth Timothy in episcopall power making him a judge of presbyters both to rebuke them 1 Tim. 5.1 and to prefer and reward them ver. 17. and to censure them ver. 19. Against an elder receive no accusation but under two or three witnesses and he giveth to Titus expressely both potestatem ordinis jurisdictionis of order and jurisdiction of order in those words c. 1.5 That thou shouldst ordain elders in every citie and of jurisdiction I left thee in Creet that thou shouldst continue {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to correct or redresse the things that remained or those things which the Apostle before intended to amend but had not redressed 2. The Angels of the seven churches Apoc. 10.20 were no other in the judgement of the best learned * commentators both ancient and later then the bishops of those sees for in those provinces or territories there cannot be conceived to be lesse then many hundred ordinary preachers and pastors yet there were but seven precisely answering to the seven golden candlesticks seven candlesticks seven lights burning in them these can be no other then seven prime pastors who had the oversight of the rest for the errors and abuses in all those churches are imputed to them and they reproved for not redressing them c. 2.14 Thou hast them that maintain the doctrine of Baalam and v. 20. Thou sufferest the * woman Iezebel to teach c. 3. It is confessed by Molinaeus and other learned patrons of presbyteriall government themselves that episcopacy is a plant either set in the church by the Apostles themselves or their immediate successors in the first and best ages of the Church and is it agreeable to piety to swear the extirpation of such a plant 4. It cannot be denyed that when the Church most flourished and was of far larger extent then now it is over the face of the christian world there was no * other government then episcopacy regulated by divine precepts and ecclesiasticall canons and shall we swear to extirpate that government under the which the church most thrived and flourished Shall we swear against our prayers viz. for the rooting out of that upon which we are enjoyned to pray God to pour down the dew of his blessing surely the dew of heaven burns not the root of any plant upon earth but waters it and makes it grow 5. They were bishops who had the chiefest hand first in the plantation of christian religion in the dayes of Lucius king of Britain and after in the ●estitution in the days of Etheldred King of Kent and in the reformation of it in the reign of Edward the 〈◊〉 and Queen Elizabeth and is it a religiou● act to e●adicate tha● government and power which both planted and pr●ned religion it 〈◊〉 6. Christ died not intestate he made his last Will and Testament and by it bequeathed many legacies ●o his Church and among them not onely catholike doctrine but di●cipline also thi● discipline if it be not Episcopall government moderated by Evangelicall and Apostolicall rules the whole Church is guiltie of the losse of a sacred and precious jewell for certain it is out of records of all ages of the Church that no other wa● ever retained or can be found save thi● before the religious reformer and magistrates of Geneva having banished their Popish Bishops were after a sort necessitated to draw a new plat-forme of Ecclesiasticall discipline by Lay-Elders Christ as the Apostle teacheth us was faithfull in the house of God as Moses and if Moses after his fortie dayes speech with God on the mount received a pattern from God and delivered it to the Iewes not only of doctrine but of discipline also which continued till Christs comming in the flesh it cannot be conceived but that Christ lest a pattern of government to his Church to continue till the end of the world and doubtlesse his Apostles with whom he conversed forty

hereby conceive that I speak any thing against the state of Bishops but onely against Rom●sh wolves and tyrant● Neither are the Lutherans of another mind at this day witnesse their every-way accomplished * Gerard none of us saith he affirmeth that there is no difference between a Bishop or Presbyter or Priest but we acknowledge a difference of degrees for good order s●ke and to preserve concord in the Church Here me thinks I see the Smec●y●nians bend their brows and answer with some indignation what have we to doe with Luthera●s who have Images in their Churches and auricular confession and maintain consubs●antiation and ubiquitie and intercision of grace and many other errors We are of Calvin and hold with the doctrine and discipline of Geneva which hath no allay at all of error and superstition but is like the pure angell-gold Here though I might as many have done crave leave to put in a legall exception against the authoritie of Calvin and Beza in matter of discipline because they had a hand in thrusting out the Bishop of Geneva and the Lay Presbyterian government was the issue of their brain and we know it is naturall for parents to dote upon their own children and accompt them farre fairer and more beautifull then indeed they are yet such was the ingenuitie of those worthie reformers and such is the evidence and strength of truth that in this point concerning the abolition of Episcopacie in the Church of England I dare chuse them as Umpires First let * Calvin speak in his exquisite Treatise concerning the necessitie of reforming the Church the most proper place if anywhere clearly to deliver his judgement in this controversie where having ript up the abuses of the Romish Hierarchie in the end thus he resolves let them shew us such an Hierarchie in which the Bishops may have such prehemine●cie that yet they refuse n●t themselves to be subject to Christ that they depend upon him as the onely Head and ref●rre all to him and so embrace brotherly societie that they are knit together by no other means then his truth and I will confesse they deserve any cu●se if there be any who will not observe such an Hierarchie with reverence and greatest obedience After him let us hear * Beza in that very booke which he wrote against Saravia a Prebend of Canterbury concerning different degrees in the Clergie but saith he if the reformed Churches of England remain still supported with the authoritie of their Arch-bishops and Bishops as it hath come to passe in our memorie that they have had men of that rank not only famous Martyrs but most excellent Doctors and Pastours which happinesse I for my part wish that they may continually enjoy c. Surely he that so highly extolled our Bishops and wished that that order might like the tree in the Poet continually bring forth such golden boughs and fruit would not readily swear to endeavour the utter extirpation thereof With these and other shafts the Doctors quiver was full though he drew out but one only considering the time and the auditorie which he took from the oath at the ordination of the Divines in that Assembly which as he conceived tied up their hands fast enough from subscribing to the second Clause in the Covenant for all persons so ordained who swear for the extirpation of Episcopacie forswear their Canonicall obedience and question the validitie of their Orders given them upon condition of performing such obedience and submission as that oath enjoyneth SECT. IX Britanicus his scurrilous jests at spirituall Courts retorted and extemporarie prayers and sermons deservedly censured HE sayes the Doctor excepted against the Scotch covenant as not agreeable to Gods Word this is not all For the Doctor would not like it a jot worse for that but there are not so many reverend conveniences you cannot have libertie of conscience and pluralities at once you cannot keep an orthodoxall coach and four horses you cannot mind your businesse of State and ease for the ceremonie of constant preaching you shall want the good companie of Chancellours and Commissaries and the gainfull equitie of the canon law and the goodly tyrannie of the high Commission Courts and the comfortable use of the keyes over a pottle of Sack in the Chancellours chamber If thou hadst any vermilion tincture of modestie Britanicus thou wouldst blush to charge the Doctor with negligence in preaching or coaching it with four horses or gleeking it on the Lords day for it is well known to all that know him that he never kept coach with four horses nor playd at gleek in his life much lesse on the Lords day And for his constant diligence in preaching for 35 years and more if I should hold my peace the prime and chief pulpits in the Universitie and London would say enough to stop thy mouth and open all ingenuous mens to yield a testimonie to a known truth But thou art possessed with Martin Marprelates devill which Urbanus will shortly conjure out of thee The power of the keyes is a great eye-sore to thee for those of thy sect like not to stand in white sheets though if the world belye you not none better deserve it for Papists and Brownists like Sampsons foxes though they are severed in the heads they are joyned in the tails And doubtlesse when thou wert summoned by an Apparitor for committing follie with an elect Sister waitedst in the Chancellors chamber it was then that thou heldst thy nose so long over a pottle of Sack till thy brains crowed For what Chimera's Tragelaphusses and Hippocentaurs dost thou talk of reverend conveniences orthodoxall coaches and businesse of State and ease the ceremonie of constant preaching and goodly tyrannie of the high commission Court as if that court now stood What thy intoxicated brain conceiveth or thy loose tongue would have understood by reverend conveniences and orthodoxall coaches I understand not unlesse thou alludest to that noble mans conveniencie who had a reverend coachman for his preacher whose doctrine very agreeable to his profession was that a stable was every way as holy a● a Church and for my part I wish those of his strain may have no other Church or thou hadst a s●ing at the Doctors successour in Acton who rideth every Lords day in triumph in a coach drawn with four horses to exercise there What thou talkest of businesse of state and ease thou understandest not thy self if there be businesse in state surely there is little ●ase bus●nesse of state and ease are a kind of asystata non bene conveniunt nec in una s●de morantur if there were ever such a calm● in the state that the steer●men might take their ease yet certainly never since your Boreas blew in the Church If that character might truly be given of any it may of your sect turba gravis paci placidaequ● immica quieti you are the naturall sons of Ismael your hands are