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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

To the AUTHOR upon his FRONTIS-PIECE Eagle who e'r thou art it is a prize Not worth thy wing shall eagles stoop at flies True they have blown thy prey but in thy stead The vulgar fly-flap might have struck them dead But they have sported with the flame of Kings That very flame would soon have burnt their wings If not Arachne in her watchfull seat As sure as Greg'ries hand had done the feat But 't is too late some honour it will be Above their merits to be crush't by thee SACRA NEMESIS THE Levites Scourge OR Mercurius BRITAN CIVICVS Disciplin'd ALSO Diverse remarkable Disputes and Resolvs in the ASSEMBLY of Divines related Episcopacy asserted Truth righted Innocency vindicated against detraction Nazianzen Epist. 11. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Anonymus de pace ecclesiae Nunquam veritas rea fuit ut non in eodem foro causam ageret innocentia The truth of religion was never indicted but innocency was arraigned at the same bar DEUT. 33.11 Strike through the loyns of them that rise up against Levi and of them that hate him that they rise not again OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield printer to the Universitie 1644. To the READER WHen the hart is smitten and sore hurt all the raskall deer run away and leave him alone to the crueltie of the blood-hounds so it is with the vulgar sort when a person of qualitie in Church or common-wealth is wounded by the Nimrods of this age in his estate libertie or reputation though not in conscience they all shun him and shift as well as they can for themselves none dare give a pluck at the arrow much lesse chase away the hounds that follow eagerly upon the hot sent and never leave till they have pluckt the deer down O the miserie of these days by so much the more woful because not bemoaned these things are come upon thee who will lament thee What! said I bemoaned nay scorned and derided nay insulted insolently upon nay uncharitably censured If the viper light upon Pauls hand surely he is a murderer not worthy to live if a man be committed certainly he hath committed some great fault in the judgement of the ignobile vulgus who forget of whom the Apostle spake in the Hebrews they were tryed by mockings and scourgings yea moreover by bonds and imprisonment whom the world was not worthy of They who are in durance are judged not to be worthy to live in the world whereas by the judgement of the holy Ghost if they suffer in this kind for a good conscience the world is not worthie of them yet now calamitie is accompted a crime and misery guilt and durance malignancie and to visit those that are imprisoned a sufficient cause of bonds Never was there since the Reformation no not in Q. Maries dayes when the clearest skie of the Church was over-cast with a bloody cloud such a lamentable cry heard from the sons of Levi their wives and children being thrust out of the sanctuarie spoyled of all their goods stript stark naked and starved with hunger and cold as at this present Neither is this all but every tressis agaso every hackney pamphleter every mercenary scribler casts blots on their faces and adds affliction to the afflicted and powreth vinegar into their wounds in stead of oyl Among these Britanicus is the busiest who in the ensuing treatise is called to an accompt But who he is in particular or his antagonist appeares not for they fight like Andabatae in tenebris in the dark or rather like whifflers with vizards on their faces And marvail not at it for truth seldom appears now adays on either side but masked And if Britanicus who is a favourite of the time Gallinae filiu● albae whose daring pen weekly provoketh not only the crozure but the Scepter yet conceals his proper name how much more needed his adversarie so to doe who was before in nimbo and now is in limbo where usually no light is seen but through a chink nor men but through a gra●e who hath lost all pro Christo Domino Domini Christo for the Lord Christ and the Lord his Christ that is his anoynted save the testimonie of a good conscience and a vehement desire to quench the fire kindled of late in the bowels of the Church even with his blood as the Astapani sometimes did and bury it in his ashes The speciall Contents of this treatise with the arguments of every section SECTION I. The character of Britanicus p. 1. SECT. II. The censure of the diurnalls and scouts p. 2. SECT. III. Six shamelesse untruths uttered by Britanicus in three lines and the true cause set down why D. F. was voted out of the Assembly of Divines p. 3. SECT. IV. How the parsonage of Lambeth and Acton came to be sequestred and why p. 5. SECT. V. That D. F. was no intelligencer or spie to Oxford and the censure past upon him Sept. 29. discussed p. 8. SECT. VI Aulicus truly relateth the reasons alledged by D. F. against the new covenant in the open Assemblie p. 11. SECT. VII Divers remarkable passages in the Assemblie of Divines related in a letter to the Primate of Ireland together with severall speeches there made concerning the three creeds the imputation of Christs active and passive obedience and King Iames his advice to the Synod held in France at Privase concerning the second clause in the new covenant p. 12. SECT. VIII Sixteen reasons for Episcopall government unanswered by the Smectymnians together with the judgement of all the reformed Churches for Episcopacie p. 50. SECT. IX Britanicus his scurrilous jests at spirituall Courts retorted and ex tempore prayers and exercises censured p. 60. SECT. X. The abuse of appropriations of benefices and the necessitie of pluralities as the case stands p. 62. SECT. XI That the abjuration of Episcopacie especially in the Clergie of England involveth all them who take such an oath in perjury and Sacriledge p. 65. SECT. XII Of profitable doctrines and beneficiall positions held by Brownists and Sectaries p. 66. SECT. XIII Of ministeriall habits the strict observance of the christian Sabbath and how the Brownists and other Sectaries prophane it p. 68. SECT. XIV Of the subscription of the letter written to the Primate of Ireland and the strange interpretation thereof by Sir W. E. p. 70. SECT. XV Wholesome and seasonable advice to Britanicus p. 72. SECT. XVI A sober reckoning with Civicus p. 74. SECT. XVII A Corollarium consisting of the testimonies and Eulogies of many foraign Divines of eminent note concerning D. F. p. 79. SECT. XVIII The sum of D. F. his apologie reduced into two unanswerable dilemma's p. 88. SECT. ult. A true transcript of the most materiall part of D. F. his letter to the Primate of Ireland and an accompt of the whole See pag. 100. ARTICLE 8. Of the three Creeds THe three Creeds Nice Creed Athanasius