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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

but quis not what the imployment is but who it is that is imployed for if he be a malignant all is trash that he takes but if a confiding man all is fish that comes to his net yea that golden table which the Miletian fishers caught and Apollo adjudged to the wisest man then living Howsoever to be in the commission of the peace without seeking it and to discharge that trust faithfully without any abatement or diminution of diligence in his pastorall function was no blemish but an ornament no disgrace but a dignitie to the Doctor It gave him more power it took nothing from his reputation it blurred not but blazon'd his armes Yet thou pickest a quarrell with him for executing justice upon unlicensed scriblers as before upon unlicensed tiplers thou feelest the smart of his gentle lash and put'st finger in the eye crying and complaining there is a crosse to be erected at Oxford Ian. 22. to crucifie the Parliament now at Westminster Say it over again a crosse erected at Oxford to crucifie c. then there are forty seven miles at least between the crosse and the persons to be fastened to it a strange thing to erect a crosse at Oxford to crucifie supposed delinquents at Westminster and more strange that an act of pardon and grace the holding out of a golden scepter of mercy to all that will take hold of it should be taken to be the erecting a crosse to crucifie or a gibbet to execute any but our late intelligencers nae intelligendo faciant ut nihil intelligant forfeit their wits as well as they have made shipwrack of their consciences else thou wouldst never tell us of a gentle lash at the crosse for neither were any according to the Roman laws lashed at the crosse nor was that a gentle lash with which our Redeemer was scourged for it set him all in a gore blood and made him such a ruefull spectacle that Pilate himself whose conscience was as red as his scarlet robe yet cryed out in compassion ecce hom● behold the man and as absur'd is thy application of the spunge for the Doctors was a spunge full of fair water to wash away some foul aspersions cast upon him by the Brownists the other a spunge full of vinegar to suck out drink that the Prophesie might be fulfilled literally when I was a thirst they gave me vinegar to drink and if all who make use of a spunge in the former kind are to be tearmed executioners your noted noters of sermons and elect Ladies who cleanse their table-table-books especially before your fast sermons of which all men now begin to surfeit must own that odious title Yea but though he wrote his own motto the gentle lash yet he would fain see the white flag dyed in blood A lye dyed in grain for which thy conscience will check thee one day if thou hast any for in the very narration of the Doctor intituled the spunge which thou here quotest and alludest unto one of the a●ticles preferred by the s●paratists to the committee for plundered Ministers against him was that he taxed the lecturers in London and the suburbs for being bou●efeus and incendiaries by in●●igating the people to these civill or rather uncivill and unnaturall wars crying out for the cause of God and quarrell of the Gospell fight fight kill kill battel battel blood blood nay so far is the Doctor from wishing that the white fl●g should be dyed in blood that he desireth from his heart that there were never a flag or streamer to be seen in the field nor drum or phife to be heard nor sword to be drawn nor pike to be advanced in these kingdoms but that it would please the Prince of peace our only peace-maker upon the lifting up of millions of hands in publike and private upon the prayers and tea●s o●Scotland sighs and groans of England and last ga●ping breath of Ireland to turn all our drums into tab●e●s and phifes into Recorders and swords into syths and pole-a●es into mattocks and streamers into winding sheets to wrap up all the differences between Prince and people church and common wealth together with all the direfull effects thereof and to bury them all in perpetuall oblivion dulce est nomen pacis res ipsa p●rqu●m salutaris sweet is the name of peace and the thing it self most healthfull qua non solum homines sed agri tecta laetar● videntur The King-fishers as Plutarch writeth never breed but in a calm sea and S. Iames teacheth us that the fruits of righteousnesse are sown in peace of them that love peace On the contrarie we reade in Plinie's Nat. Hist. l. 9. c. 35. that in the generation of Margarites or pearle if it thunder the work of nature is quite marred and that which would have been an orient gem becomes a crude moisture and how many pearles have of late miscarried since the thunder of warre both the Universities will tell you with pearls in their eyes For it is not only true silent leges inter arma but musae also that the laws are suspended in the times of bloodie warres but the Prophets too and the Muses also As Marius was wont to ●ay where there is cla●hing and clattering of Arms neither laws of God nor man can be heard and where the laws cannot be heard all out-cryes are heard and all out-rages are committed no man hath proprieti● of or in any thing save losses and wounds nor can purchase ought but spoyls nor build anywhere but upon ruines O the thundering in the ayre and plundering on the land the suspending and interdicting not so much of Preachers as Churches O the carkasses as well of Cities as men and Coffins rather of houses then corpses and rooting up rather of families and countries then of gardens These and other dismall effects of warre extort from all those who have any thing yet to lose and have not forfeited the libertie of their speech with the libertie of their persons this unanimous and harmonious Vote Come blessed peace Nulla salus bello pacem te p●scimus omnes Of all the messengers of Gods vengeance the sword is the swif●●st of all swords the civill is the keenest especially when it is wh●t with a pretext of Religion This is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} gladius anceps a two-edged sword cutting on both sides English men Protestants brethren branches of the same root subjects to the same Prince ●ay members of the same mysticall body In all other warres the victorie is joyfull on the one side but in this like as in the Cadmean neither good for the conquerour nor for the conquered for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that conquers weepeth for the losse of his countrey-men friends kinsmen and allies and he that is conquered is lost Which side soever gains the King and the Countrey loseth ● O dismall Ensignes O banned Banners O stained

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

it is either evill because prohibited or prohibited because evill in it self It is not evill because prohibited because the law of God no where sets out the limits of parishes nor confineth the pains of a pastor within such narrow limits all that the divine law requires is that every pastor carefully by himself and by his fellow-labourers which the holy Scripture expressely mentioneth feed that flock whereof the holy Ghost hath made him over-seer and from whence he is to receive comfortable maintenance whether this flock be comprised within the limits of one parish or no For parishes were first distinguished not by Gods law but by the Popes and with such disproportion that some parishes are too much for any one to supplie them and others make not a convenient flock for a man of meanest parts to feed and attend on Neither is Pluralitie prohibited by any law quia malum in se because it is evill in it self for none of the precisest make scruple of conscience to hold any one benefice of never so great value which notwithstanding hath divers chappells of ease annexed unto it in which it is impossible for a man to be resident and officiate the cure in person at once If they will say he may discharge both by himself and his curate so may he also do who hath two benefices and let the parishioners both of Lambeth and Acton testifie whether those benefices were not better supplyed by the Doctor himself and his two learned and able curates then now they are by those two who enjoy the sequestration of his benefices who have been perpetually non-resident from both and neither by themselves nor substitutes so much as once administred the Sacrament of the Lords Supper unto them though the best of the parishioners have most earnestly desired it SECT. XI That the abjuration of Episcopacie especially in the Clergie of England involveth them in perjurie and sacriledge THe Doctor excepted against the extirpation of prelacie Deanes Prebends because he thought it not of Apostolical institution no there is another reason of more force with the Doctor and the prelaticall partie they must have another kind of divinitie and more beneficiall positions they love not these naked truths which are not able to maintain their sattin cassocks nor those rigid opinions which will not allow a game at gleek after evening prayer Canis festinans caecos parit catulos thou or the Printer Britanicus making more haste then good speed hast stumbled at pons asinorum and thou stammerest out perfect non-sense thou sayest the Doctor excepted against the extirpation of prelacie because he thought it not of Apostolicall institution thou should'st have said because he thought it to be of Apostolicall institution for so indeed he thinketh and will maintain his tenet against all the disciples of AErius the heretick the first patron of paritie in the clergy whether they be plant-animals I mean lay-presbyters or atomes that is Independents whose arguments are like themselves all together independent and inconsequent But why dost thou deliver the Doctors mind by halfs He did not only except against that clause in the new covenant wherein Episcopacie is abjured and the extirpation vowed of that plant which the Apostles themselves planted and we in our publique liturgie established by law pray to God to pour upon them the continuall dew of his blessing because he held such an oath to be repugnant to an Apostolicall institution but also because he conceived that horrible sacriledge was couched under it For upon the taking away of Episcopacie root and branch will undoubtedly follow the confiscation of the lands of Bishops and cathedrall Churches or at least alienation from those holy uses to the maintenance whereof they were dedicated and is it a small matter thinkest thou Britanicus to violate the sacred testaments and last wills of many hundred religious christians and to draw the guilt of sacriledge in the highest degree upon the land which alreadie groaneth under the heavie burden of too many haynous sins and bewayleth them in all parts of this Realm with tears of blood SECT. XII Of profitable doctrines and beneficiall positions held by Brownists and Sectaries AS for that thou wouldst imply that the Doctor advanced Episcopacie to an Apostolicall institution as Cicero extolled eloquence to the skie that he might be li●ted up with her thou fouly mistakest the matter the Doctor is known to affect that Dutch Worthie his temper upon whose grave Iames Dowza strewed that flower among others honor●s quia merebatur contempsit quia contempsit magis merebatur because he deserved honours he contemned them and because he contemned them he much more deserved them The whole course of his life refutes that base calumnie thou castest upon him For 1. After he first shewed himself in publique preaching in his course at S. Maries in Oxford he was commended by the Vice-chancellor and Universitie to the Kings Majesties Embassador Lidget in France where Cardinall Perone homo famae potius magnae quam bonae by his agents thought to inveagle him to Popery by promise o● far greater preferments then ever he could expect in England but the Doctor esteemed no better of that motion then of the devills offer to our Saviour all th●se things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me for he was so far from turning out of his course to take up these golden apples that contrariewise he followed the harder after the price of his high calling and encountred all the Romish Priests Jesuits and So●bon Doctors wheresoever he met them even to the hazard of his life and God gave such a blessing to his many combats for the faith there that he reclaimed divers from poperie and confirmed many that were wavering in the true reformed religion 2. After his return into England when the great favourite bore all the sway and the Doctor might have climbed to preferment by that ladder by reason of his ancient acquaintance with the Duke and the dedication of a book to his dearest consort which she very much desired yet understanding that the Duke for some politick ends sided with the Arminian faction he brake off all dependence upon that favouri●e and wrote a smart book against the Arminians called Pelagius redivivus and thereby dashed all hopes of his preferment then at court 3. After the Dukes death when those that sate at the helm of the Church and had great power also at court to procure the greater libertie to the Protestants in popish Countries and to draw her Majestie to a better liking of the reformed religion sought to reduce the Church of England to a nearer conformitie to the Roman at least in some scholasticall tenets and outward ceremonies and gestures with them and to smooth the more rugged pos●tions of poperie was thought a readie means to facilitate the way to prefermet the Doctor declined this rode also though he desired nothing more then the