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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

Creed that whichis commonly called the Apostles Creed ought thorowly to be received and beleeved for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture Concerning this eighth Article vide 2 speeches pag. 13. ARTICLE 11. Of the Justification of MAN WE are accompted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Iustification Concerning this eleventh Article vide 5 speeches pag. 20. The two first clauses of the Covenant as they were offered to the Assembly licensed and entred into the Hall book according to Order September 4. 1643. and Printed at London for Philip Lane 1. THat we shall all and each one of us sincerely readily and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in on● severall places and callings the preservation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the reformation of Religion in the Church of England this Explication to be at the end of the Covenant as far as we doe or shall in our consciences conceive to be according to the Word of God according to the same holy Word the Example of the last Reformed Churches and as may b●ing the Church of God in both Nations to the neerest conjunction and Uniformity in Religion confession of Faith Forme of Church● government directory for Worship and Catechizing that we and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the Extirpation of Popery Prelacie Superstition Heresie Schisme and Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse in both Nation● lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be endangered to receive of their plagues that the Lord may be one and his Name one in both Kingdoms To which first printed copie the Doctors speech delivered in the Assembly relateth pag. 48. The two clauses of the Covenant as they were altered and Printed by Order of the House of COMMONS 1. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government agai●st our common Enemies the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches and shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest Conjunction and Uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government Directory for Worship and Catechizing that wee and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Poperie Prelacie that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellours Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-deacons and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on the Hierarchie Superstition Heresie Schism Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms Errata Epist. to the reader l. 19. in r. to p. 12. l. 23. dazled r. so dazled p. 15. in marg. Vos de 36. r. Vos de tribus symbo p. 40. l. 1. 2. Cor. 1.30 r. 1. Cor. 1.30 p. 43. l. 13. speciei r. specie p. 52. l. 24. Acts. 3.1 r. 1.3 p. 61. adde in marg. Aug. de civit Dei l. 19. c. 19. l. ult. p. 66. l. 22. thought r. sought p. 69. l. 25. there r. then p. 87. l. 14. dele his owne Nation for Primate of Armagh r. Primate of Ireland SECTION I. The Character of Britanicus DIego writeth That Barcaeus meeting with the Devill sitting at his ease upon a Chaire bid him rise up and give place to his better The tale Britanicus is morallized in thee thou mayst very well chalenge the precedencie of Satan and thrust him out of his Chaire The seat of the scornfull wherein thou hast sate for these many moneths and out-railest all the Shimie's and Rabsekehs and out-Lyest all the Simmeasses and Pseudolusses that ever sate in that Chaire And although Tacitus whispers me in the eare Maledicta si irascaris agnita videntur spreta exolescunt Contumelious speeches if they put thee into a chafe seeme to argue guilt Yet because a wiser then he adviseth in some case to answer a foole according to his folli● lest he be wise in his owne conceit And because it is rather an argument of stupiditie then innocencie to be altogether unsensible when our integritie or the reputation of our friend is touched though it be but with the scratch of a goose quill I though fit potius vexatum castiga●um quam despectum dimitt●re Vatinium rather to dismisse Vatinius well cudgelled then slighted I meane that scorne of all the learned and hate of all good men Britanicus or rather Brutanicus not from Brutus but Brutum For he is no better then one of Cerberus whelpes at which Hercules would not vouchsafe to give a Kick in his returne from Hell yet because since he hath lickt cleane the Expraetors trencher he never leaveth barking at all who adore not the cap of maintenance nor canonize the synagogue of orbicular independents I was desired to strike him baculo pastorali and teach him from henceforth sua potius lambere ulcera quam aliorum famam arrodere rather to use his tongue in licking his owne sores then his teeth in biting them upon whom heretofore he basely fawned The best is he to whose appologie I have consecrated my Pen is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} out of the danger of this haile shot above these nebulas nebulonum his reputation is safe both from the tongue of detraction and teeth of envie being treasured up in the hearts of all that sincerely love the truth Anthonie proscribed Cicero for the space onely that the Triumvirate in Rome lasted but Cicero proscribed Anthonie to all ages The more Camomile is trod upon the sweeter smell it gives and the black aspersions of malice serve but as a dark foyle to set off the lustre of eminent vertue For thee Britanicus seeing thou knowest not thy selfe I will send thee to S. Ierome for thy Character under the name of the Else Helvidius Loquacitatem facundiam existimat maledicere omnibus bonae conscientiae signum arbitratur he accounts

a lawful way not by popular tumults but by a Bill passed in Parliament and that to be tendered to his Majestie for his royall assent and how such a bill can be pressed upon his Majestie who hath taken an oath * at his Coronation to preserve Bishops in their legall rights I must learn from our great masters of the law For by the Gospel all inducements to sin are sin and solicitations to perjurie are tainted with that guilt neither is there any power upon earth to dispence with the breach of oaths lawfully taken 15. If we desire that this Church of England should flourish like the garden of Eden we must have an eye to the nurseries of good learning and religion the two Univers●ties which will never be furnished with choice plants if there be no preferments and incouragements to the students there who for the farre greater part bend their studies to the Queen of all professions Divinitie which will make but a slow progresse if Bishopricks Deanries Archdeaconries and Prebendaries and all other Ecclesiasticall dignities which like silver spurs prick on the industrie of those who consecrate their labours and endeavours to the glorifying of God in imploying their tal●nt in the ministerie of the Gospel be taken away What ●ayls are to a ship that are affections to the soul which if they be not filled with the hope of some rewards and deserved preferments as a prosperous gale of wind our sacred studies and endeavours will soon be calmed for * honos abit artos omnesqu● incenduntur studio gloriae jacentquo ea semper quae apud quosquo improbantur honour nourisheth arts and all men are inflamed with the desire of glory and those professions fall and decay which are in no esteem with most men And if there are places both of great profit honour and power propounded to States-men and those that are learned in the law like rich prizes to those that prove masteries shall the professors of the divine law be had in lesse esteem then the students and practisers in the municipall And shall that profession onely be barred from ●ntring into the temple of honour which directeth all men to the temple of vertue and hath best right to honour by the promise of God honorantes nic honorab● those that honour me I will honour because they most honour God in every action of their function which immediately tendeth to his glory They will say that Episcopall government hath proved inconvenient and prejudiciall to the State and therefore the Hierarchie is to be cut down root and branch Of this argument we may say as Cicero doth of Cato his exceptions against * Murenae set aside the authoritie of the objectors the objection hath very little weight in it For it is liable to many and just exceptions and admitteth of divers replyes First it is said that Episcopall government is inconvenient and mischievous and prejudiciall to the State but it was never proved to be so Secondly admit some good proof could be brought of it yet if Episcopacie be of divine institution as hath been proved it must not be therefore rooted out but the luxurious stems of it pruned and those additions to the first institution from whence these inconveniences have grown ought to be retranched Thirdly if Episcopacie hath proved inconvenient and mischievous in this age which was most * beneficiall and profitable in all former ages the fault may be in the maladies of the patient not in the method of cure This age is to be reformed not Episcopacie abrogated that the libertie and loosenesse of these times will not brook the sacred bands of Episcopall discipline is rather a proof of the integritie thereof then a true argument of any maligr●tie in it to the state without which no effectuall * meanes or course can be taken either for the suppressing schismaticks or the continuation of a lawfull and undenyable succession in the Ministery 16. Lastly though some of late think they have brought gold and silver and precious stones to build the house of God by producing some stuff out of antiquitie to prove the ordination of presbyters by meer presbyters yet being put to the test it proves meer trash for there can be no instance brought out of Scripture of any ordination without imposition of Apostolicall or Episcopall hands neither hath prime antiquitie ever approved of meer presbyters laying hands one upon another but in orthodoxall Councels revoked cassated and disannulled all such ordinations as we may read in the Apologies of * Athanasius and elsewhere What shall I need to adde more save the testimonie of all Chistians of what denomination soever under the cope of heaven save only the mushrom sect of Brownists sprung up the other night all who have given their name to Christ and acknowledge and have some dependence on either the Patriarch of Constantinople in the East or of Rome in the West or of Muscovia in the North or of Alexandria in the South together with the Cophti● Maro●ites Abissenes and Chineses not onely admit of Episcopall government and most willingly submit to it but never had or at this day have any other Neither is this or can it be denyed by our Aërians but they tell us that these are Christians at large who hold many errors and superstitions with the fundamentals of Christian doctrine their Churches are like oare not cleansed from earth like gold not purged from drosse like threshed wheat not fanned from the chaff like meale not sifted from the bran like wine not drawn off the lees we are say they upon a reformation and the new Covenant engageth us to endeavour the reformation of the Church of England in doctrine worship discipline and government according to the Word of God and according to the example of the best reformed Churches The best reformed which are they whether the remainders of the Waldenses and Albigenses in Piemont and the parts adjoyning or of the Taborites in Bohemia or of the Lutherans in Germanie or those that are called after the name of Calvin in France and elsewhere First for the Waldenses the fore-runners of Luther as he himself confesseth they had Bishops who ordained their Pastours a catalogue whereof we may see in the historie of the Waldenses first written in French and after translated into English by a learned Herald Secondly for the Lutheran Churches they have Prelates governing them under the titles of Arch-bishops and Bishops in Poland Denmark and Swethland but under the name of Superintendents and Intendents in Germanie and as for their judgement in the point it is expressely set down in the * apologie of the Augusta●e confession in these words we have often protested our earnest desires to conserve the discipline of degrees in the Church by Bishops Nay Luther himself who of all men most bitterly inveighed against the Antichristian Hierarchie yet puts water into his wine adding l●t no man

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