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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

that out of curiositie lookt into the table hanged up in the market place wherein the names of the Proscripti by Sylla were set in their order at unawares spyed his own name written in bloudie characters cuivis contingere potest quod cuiquam potest that which is any ones case may be every ones case Strengthen not the hands of those whose fingers itch at the treasure of the Church it will prove like Sejanus horse which none ever bestrid or the gold of Tholouse which none ever touched but he came to an ill end Neither revile thou the servants of the living God neither put scorns upon his Prophets be not so gracelesse as to take a pride in disgracing those whom God hath appointed to be the instruments and silver conduit-pipes to conveigh grace into thy soul A jeer only at the Prophet Elisha and that by innocents proved nocent and their bodies were all to rent and torn with Beares who touched only the thin hayr of the Prophets head crying goe thou bald-pate If thou wilt needs prove masteries with thy pen chuse thy match beware of impar congressus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He is a stark ideot who will contend with his betters for besides losse of victorie he gaines blows into the bargain If Patroclus will encounter Hector and Amycus Pollux and Dares Entellus and the Syr●ns the Muses and the blind worm the Basilisk they must take that which followed above all things shoot not thy Porcupey's quills at soveraign Majestie though thou thinkest thou goest invisible as if thou hadst Gyges ring or wer● compassed with Homers dark pavilion yet the daughter of time will descry thee and thou shalt find by wofull experience how dangerous a thing it is in eum scribere qui potest proscribere it is not safe medling with edge tooles nor scribling against him who hath power to proscribe LEX TALIONIS OR A sober reckoning with CIVICUS AFter Britanicus or rather Barbaricus had mingled his ink with the over-flowing of his own gall his brother Civicus rather to vend his sorrie pamphlet then to vent his spleen against D. F. hath a sling at the gentle lash and would fain squeez some poysonous juyce out of the Doctors spunge SECT. XVI Mercurius Civicus taken to task Occurrents Numb. 2. Ian. 12. THere is a crosse to be erected at Oxford Ian. 22. to crucifie the Parliament now at Westminster and D. F. hath prepared a lash and a vinegar spunge hoping to get an executioners place he wrote his own motto the gentle lash yet he would fain see the white flag died in blood But the Parliament have done well to clip the wings of the Clergie that they may flye into no temporall places whose tongues and p●ns have uttered such poyson against the Parliament and in their pride would willingly adhere to Rome as by many superstitions by them doted on doth plainly appear who by their Babylonian ceremonies have long endeavoured to make a bridge into the Church by Arminianisme to passe over into Poperie Sic perusse frontem de rebus What a brow of brasse and conscience seated with a hot iron hast thou Civicus that thou darest stain paper with such notorious untruths and shamelesse ●landers The●e can hardly be named any divine in this Kingdom now living who hath disputed preached written and printed more against Poperie and Arminianisme then D. F. witnesse Vertumnus Romanus printed by the command of the house of Commons the Supplement to the book of Martyrs the Fisher caught and held in his own net the Gra●d Sacriledge the case for the Spectacles Cygnea Cant. Transubstantiation exploded and Pelagius redivivus Ancilla pietati and Clavis Mystica citius crimen honestum quam turpem Ca●onem feceris thou shalt sooner be able to prove the Protestant Religion to be Poperie and Arminianisme true christianitie then the Doctor guiltie of either What crime then canst thou charge him withall a ●aynous sin and that of commission for he was many years in the commission of the peace thou shou●dst have added that all that while he neither preached sermon nor printed book les●● than before Let the Borough of Southwark with the adjacent parts inform thee whether the Common-wealth gained not more by that his impolyment then the Church lost If the Docto● to ●onfer with schismaticks and refractorie persons to the Kings ecclesiasticall laws and canons of the Church referred to him by the Judge if to compose differences between neighbours and stifle a world of litigious suits in the bi●th if to take order for the relief of hundreds of poor and diseased persons in a dangerous time of infection when other commissioners rather provided for their own safetie by flight then the safetie of others by the executing of their office he defalked some time from his sacred studies peradventure this present age rather jealous of then zealous for the Church will blame him for it but the former would have thanked him for it as they did Nissene and Ambrose and Augustine and Iewell whose temporall dignitie and power no way eclipsed their spirituall eminencie no more then it did the Priests 2 Chron. 19 8. set by Iehosaphat for the judgement and cause of the Lord Yet thou wilt say that to discharge the function of a Pastor and execute the office of a Justice of peace are incompatible No more then to teach and to make peace to preach down and to beat down vice to wound the hairie scalp of every one that goeth on in his prophanenesse and drunkennesse and uncleanesse and routs and riots both with the spirituall and temporall sword which in former ages were aiding and assisting one to the other according to Bracton his observation gladius gladium juvat but now hack and h●w one the other If all peace-makers are blessed surely as well the religious Iustice of peace as the preacher of peace and if both concur in one person he must needs have a double share in that blessing but thou art of another mind thine eye is evill because the Prince or state are good to the Church arming her with some temporall power the more effectually to compasse her spirituall ends and defend her children from violence and wrong Thou say'st the Parliament hath done well to clip the wings of the Clergie that they may flye into ●o temporall place I will not answer thee that many former Parliaments have imped them but for Acts of Parliament they are not for us to censure but to obey what the Parliament hath done their Act speaketh and therefore I will be silent Yet since that Act divers of the Clergie great in your books but none other have flown into temporall places one hath flown into an examiners place in Haberdashers-hall another into a commissioners place for Scotland a third into a Gaolers place at Lambeth arrige aures Pamphile So it seemeth it matters not much quid

uniting of all christians in the faith first given to the Saints and the doctrine of the primitive Church yet he could never en●ure those who went about to sodder the Roman and reformed religion and to bring Christ and Anti-christ to an enterview neither would he ever be brought to varie in his practice a nailes breadth from the canons of the Church of England and rubrick of the Common Prayer 4. After the scene was turned and many who before had layen in obscuritie were brought upon the stage who like the statues of Brutus and Cassius eò praefulgebant quod non visebantur did shine the brighter the more they were hid The Doctor among others was chosen by 390 votes to be a member of the Assemblie and among many other of eminent parts and worth was designed by the whole house of commons to answer a popish Priest which he did accordingly and was in so fair a way that if his conscience had been a Lesbian rule and would have bowed that way where preferments are now offered he might not only have held both his benefices but expected such farther priviledges as the chief of the Assemblie now enjoy But when a covenant was tendered wherein he must of necessitie proclaim his ingratitude to the world by swearing to endeavour the ruine of those upon whom under God he built his chief hopes and intangle his conscience in evident perjurie by swearing to break all his canonicall oaths necessitie constrained him to break off from the Assemblie and for this cause he is now in bonds and stript of all his ecclesiasticall preferments and temporall revenues nudus nudum Christum sequitur and followes his naked Saviour himself also stark naked But to leave off this sad and melancholie discourse and come to the beneficiall positions and sattin cassock thou talked of and game at gleek thou shouldest have said noddie a game at which thou playest at as well Sundays as working-days For beneficiall positions I know none held by the prelaticall clergie as your schismaticall laicks tearm them save this which the Apostle hath delivered that godlinesse is great gain and hath the promises of this life and the life to come but I can tell you of fruitfull doctrines and beneficiall uses raysed by your Enthusiasts as namely that usurie after it hath been with a barber chyrurgion and hath its teeth pluckt out is very lawfull and that those of your sect alone have a right to the creature and that the wicked have no right or title to any thing they possesse and that therefore when you plunder any Malignant you steal not but take your own from them and agreeable to your positions is your practise you make no bones to devoure widows houses under colour of long prayers like vultures you hover over dead corpses and thereout suck no small advantage if any rich man be going the way of all flesh some of your fraternitie must be sent for with all speed to pray his soul ex tempore into heaven and after you have perswaded him to set his house in order for he must dye and not live and he is going to draw his last will and testament you will be sure to have a ●inger in it or rather a claw or naile to scrape and scratch something for your selves under the title of pious legacies SECT. XIII Of ministeriall habits recreations on the Lords day and how the Brownists and sectaries prophane the Christian Sabbath HAst thou yet any better stuff in thy shop Britanicus besides the large mourning weed beg'd artificially at the last funerall of a saint Yes a sattin cassock surely a decent garment for a grave divine especially on high dayes what wouldst thou have the reverend clergy to weare wouldst thou have them go in cuerpo like your new England and Holland theologues or in a rocket liued through with plush or taffata as some of the Assembly men flaunt it or in a short jacket much like the riding coat of Davids Embassadors which was cut off at o● sacrum the huckle bone Here Brit. thou playst the base cynick ●alcas fastum Platonis thou tramplest upon Plato's pride but remember what Plato repli'd calcas fastum sed alio fastu thou tramplest upon the pride of some of the clergy in their apparell but thou dost it in a worse kind of pride As for card-playing I need not gle●k it with thee for we are at play already thy earnest is nothing but jests and those very scurrilous and ridiculous and therefore either to be scorned or retorted upon thee in sober sadnesse The Doctor is no player at cards or dice nor approveth at all any recreations on the Lords day but such as like Aarons golden plate in his miter have holinesse stamped on them As for those of thy precise sect they indeed will not for a world play a game at cards or tables on the Lords day after evening prayer but they do far worse they take away morning and evening prayer both and jear out the sacred liturgy of the church if thou art come to thy self Brit. and hast thy wits about thee prethee tell me is it not better playing a game at tables on the christian sabbath wherin a wooden man is taken up without any losse or hurt or at chesse in which there is an image of men set in battail array there to cast the bloody die of war on that day to kill to pillage to plunder of the two I had rather see latrunculos on that day then latrones chesse-men then pressed-men notwithstanding to chuse you rifle houses and sequester malignants on that day your city magistrates and Officers will not suffer a poor waterman to rowe on the Thames yet they permit the souldiers in all the courts of guard and forts and ships to drink and swell all the day a physitian may not passe over the river to save the life of the body not a divine to save the life of the soul yet they account it a sanctifying of the sabbath to beat up drums and presse souldiers to kill men on that day O precise hypocrisie or rather hypocriticall precisenesse A devout father sharply reprooving the evill conversation of some christians in his time told them to their faces gentes agitis sub nomine Christi you act the parts of Gentiles in the habit of Christians but I may truly say of you Iudaeos agitis sub nomine Christi you act the parts of Iewes in the habit of Christians Iewes I say in the rigid observation of the Sabbath of Iewes in venting your spleen and malice against Christ by excluding his prayer out of your liturgie by defacing his name Iesus wheresoever you see it written in golden characters or wrought in cloth of gold or tissue or stampt in holy vessels calling it the Iesuits trim or ga●b by inveighing against keeping the feast of the nativity resurrection and ascension and terrifying those that in a religious compassion fast