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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41008	The gentle lash, or, The vindication of Dr. Featley, a knowne champion of the Protestant religion also seven articles exhibited against him with his answer thereunto : together with the said Doctor his manifesto and challenge.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing F583; ESTC R176981	28,467	44

Reformation that I who have preached and printed so much against Popery heretofore now in my old dayes being ready to leave this world have fallen away from my holy profession and am in heart a Papist there being found very many popish bookes in my study And because I have learned from the mouth of S. ●…erome that though other wrongs may be put up and answered with silence committing the revenge thereof to the righteous Judge injustissime judicato justissime judicaturo yet that in suspitione haereseos r●…eminem oportet silere that no man ought to be silent when he is charged with Heresie I have thought fit to make knowne to all whom it may concerne that being chosen Provost of Chelsey Colledge I have under the broad Seale of England a Warrant to buy have and keepe all manner of popish bookes and that I never bought or kept any of them but to this end and purpose the better to informe my selfe to refute them and for my judgement and resolution in poynt of Religion I professe before God and his holy Angels and the whole world that what I have heretofore preached written and Printed against the errors heresies Idolatry and manifold superstitions of the Romish church is the truth of God and that I am most ready and willing if I be called thereunto to signe and seale it with my blood And whereas I am certainly informed that divers Lecturers and Preachers in London and the Suburbs who have entred upon the labours of many worthy Divines and reaped their harvest doe in their owne Pulpits after a most insolent manner insult upon them demanding where are they now that dare stand up in defende of Church Hierarchy or booke of Common Prayer or any may oppose or impugne the new intended Reformation both in doctrine and discipline of the Church of England I doe here protest that I doe and will maintaine by disputation or writing against any of them these three conclusions First that the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the yeare of our Lord 1562. by both houses of Convocation and ratified by Q. Elizabeth need no alteration at all but onely an Orthodox explication in some ambiguous phrases and a vindication against false aspersions Secondly that the Discipline of the Church of England established by many lawes and Acts of Parliament that is the government by Bishops removing all late innovations and abuses in the execution thereof is agreeable to Gods Word and a truly ancient and Apostolicall Institution Thirdly that there ought to be a set forme of publike prayer and that the booke of Common Prayer the Calendar being reformed in poynt of Apochryphill Saints and Chapters some Rubricks explained and some expressions revised and the whole correctly Printed with all the Psalmes Chapters and allegations out of the old and new Testament according to the last translation is the most compleat perfect and exact Liturgie now extant in the Christian world DANIEL FEATLEY FINIS whose tongue rotted in his mouth Vide ce●… infra {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} D. Fe●… Sophi Elen●… ●…he Do●…ors life ●…ught by ●…e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 White ●…5 10. After 〈◊〉 wa●…e 〈◊〉 ed for 〈◊〉 Chann●… and aft●… for M. Foreb●… last of for M White Dorch●… ster. Heb. 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 19. Deut. 〈◊〉 White ●…atley 〈◊〉 M. W●… D. Fe●… Zac. 7●… 10. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D 12. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Can M. 〈◊〉 ●…y M. was 〈◊〉 ●…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 4 〈◊〉 6. 7. 〈◊〉 M. W●… ●…atley White plus the sedtime 150. 34 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 To mot●… Wh●… tur●… dea Mat. 17 Lu. 1●… 13. 〈◊〉 ●…te ●…ley ob●…n 〈◊〉 ●…r ●…udg sus●…y of ●…f the ●…rs ●…s ●…tley 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Featly * Because he said he was as much the Lords annointed as the King 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. See the Gentle Lash 1. 2. ●…3

reconciliation Revenge not your selves but give place unto wrath for vengeance is mine I will repay it saith the Lord render to no man evill for evill nor rebuke for rebuke be not overcome of evill but overcome evill with good seek peace ensue it let righteousnesse and peace kisse each other O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love it if it be possible have peace with all men and blessed are the peace-makers for they shall see God and follow after peace and holinesse without which no man shall see God but their preaching is nothing but horrentia martis arma Arme Arme Kill Kill thunder with the Cannon Plunder c And for the last words pretended to be spoken by me in that Sermon viz. the wise have lost their wisedome and the physitian his skill and the remedy is worse then the disease they are very unfaithfully related for I uttered them not positively but suppositively and divisim not conjunctim The passage transcribed verbatim out of the originall is this Though divers remedies have beene applyed to the maladies above mentioned yet the remedies have hitherto proved in the event worse then the diseases an evident argument that either the wise physitians faile in their skill or the malady is grown incurable or God giveth no blessing to their method of curing Concerning the witnesses and the just exceptions to be taken against them let the testimony under the hand of the Clerke of the peace and the certificate of the Parish under the hands of the Churchwardens and Vestry be read All which I humbly submit to the wisedome and justice of this Honourable Committee preferring a like petition to that which the Roman Orator tendered for poore Roscius Amerina that you would be pleased to afford this cause so noble gracious and equitable a hearing that my adversaries who daily associate themselves with those souldiers against whom I have strong presumptions that they seeke not onely to deprive me of my Living but my life may never have cause to glory Eum quem militum gladiis non potuerunt vestris sententiis jugulasse At the next sitting of the Committee on Thursday last being the 23 of this instant moneth of March 1642. M. White whether he thought the other Articles frivolous and of no consequence at all or whether he and the Committee rested satisfied with the answers formerly given it is not certainly knowne but on this day he pretermitted diverse of them instanced only in a branch of the first and of the fourth and two of the fift and one of the sixt and two of the seuenth and because the D. denied them all he called in witnesses to prove them and required the D. to take legall exceptions against them if he had any To prove that the D. should say it was ignorance and blasphemy to speake against the bowing at the Name of Jesus Iohn Goad and Ambrose Andrewes were produced to prove that he said in a sermon the 25 of Iuly 1641 that all that pul downe Railes and oppose the ceremonies of the Church are the seed of the Serpent Edward Searles and Edmond Rayner a shipwright * commonly called the ancient King were produced to prove that he called Cartwright an arch Hereticke and that the state had sate long and done nothing and that the keyes were taken from the Church and laid in such hands as laid them by till they became rusty that he inveighed against the London Preachers who do nothing but cry arm arm fight fight c. Thomas Sharpe and Iohn Clerke were produced who also both testified to the first article concerning bowing at the Name of Jesus Lastly to the sixt article only M. Neariah Mormay was produced When the witnesses appeared the D. first proposed some interrogatories to them and after tooke exceptions against them both in generall and particular The interrogatories he propounded to them by M. White were these First at what time the Sermon was preached which is mentioned in the first Article and likewise when the Sermon was preached that is mentioned in the fift Article Item upon what text such sermons were preached and what they remembred else in those sermons to which they all could answer nothing Whereupon the D. desired that the Committee would give no credit to such loose and indefinite testimonies especially against the originall sermons written in his booke from which it is well knowne he never used to vary This authenticall originall wherein there was no blot scratch or rasure in the places to which the Articles had reference the D. exhibited but M. White would not looke upon it though in other Courts and namely the high Commission and Star Chamber and Councell table where ' Sermons have beene questioned the undisproved originall hath beene alwayes preferred before broken notes taken by ignorant and illiterate men The exceptions hee tooke against the witnesses in generall were that competent witnesses especially against an ecclesiastial person D. of Divinity ought to be men of good ranke quality at least without any taint or brand on them such as are free from all malevolent affections to their pastors for the rules of the law concerning witnesses to be admitted are these In teste attendenda status dignitas fidei puritas et morum gravitas item cujus conditionis cujus opinionis fuerit et ne forte aliquis contra praefatum pastorem inimicitias habuerit Item testes absque ulla infamia aut suspitione aut manifesta macula esse debent That the witnesses here produced are not so qualified I desire the certificate of the vestry under their hands which I have here to shew and there are divers of the said Vestry here present to make it good may be read but M. White said he would take no papers yet he tooke both the Articles and other notes and informations against the D. from his adversaries nor would permit the D. to read it The certificate was as followeth we the parishioners of the parish of Lambeth doe certifie that Iohn Goad Ambrose Andrewes alias Glover Edward Searles and Westmall Burrell of the said parish of Lambeth are disaffected persons to the discipline and liturgie of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament have openly depraved the booke of Common Prayer some of them doe not come to the Church at all and stand indicted as delinquents at Sessions and Assises and that they are accounted turbulent persons and sowers of strife and contention This certificate being refused the D. required that the record he had from the Sessions might be read and considered of this after M. Harper the Church warden had testified before the Committee that it was subscribed by the hand of the Clerk of the Peace and that he himselfe saw him write it was admitted for an evidence the record followeth At the generall quarter sessions of this yeare for the county of Surry holden at Gilford on Tuesday next after the