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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85184	The league illegal. Wherein the late Solemn League and Covenant is seriously examined, scholastically and solidly confuted: for the right informing of weak and tender consciences, and the undeceiving of the erroneous. Written long since in prison, by Daniel Featley D.D. and never until now made known to the world. Published by John Faireclough, vulgò Featley, chaplain to the Kings most Excellent Majesty.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.; Featley, John, 1605?-1666.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1660 (1660)	Wing F591; Thomason E1040_8; ESTC R199	47,903	77

The League illegal WHEREIN The late Solemn League and Covenant is Seriously Examined Scholastically and Solidly Confuted For the Right informing of Weak and Tender Consciences and the Undeceiving of the Erroneous Written long since in Prison by DANIEL FEATLEY D. D. And never until now made known to the World Published by JOHN FAIRECLOUGH vulgò FEATLEY Chaplain to the Kings most Excellent Majesty PETR. CHRYSOL Magna debet esse in promissione discretio quia inanis promissio saepe de amicis sibi comparat inimicos HEE XI 4. By it He being dead yet speaketh LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane 1660. Resurgam Tim: Cap 4. v. 7. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith I was in Prison and ye came unto me I was sick and ye visited me Matt 25. 36. Siste gradum Viator Paucis te volo Hic situs est Daniel Featlaeus Impugnator Papismi Propugnator Reformationis Instigator Assiduae-Pietatis Tam Studio Quam Exercitio Theologus-Insignis Disputator Strenutts Concionator Egregius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Facetè Candidus Candidè Facetus Omni-Memoria-Dignissimus D. D. Featlaeus Qui Natus Charltoniae educatu Oxō Aetatis Suoe 65. Obijt Chelsei Scpultus fuit Lambethae Aprilis 17 21 Anno Salutis 1645. To the Right Honorable Sir Edward Hyde Knight Chancellor and Vnder Treasurer of his Majesties Exchequer Lord Chancellor of England and one of his Majesties Most Honorable Privy Counsel My LORD IT is a sin as great to be insensible of our mercies as to turn them into wantonness The best of Kings is the blessing of our Nations who in imitation of the a Sun of Righteousness is risen unto us with healing in his wings The rebellious are indemnisied and their sins made venial by it the Loyal and charitable admire and rejoyce in it To that over-ruling Providence therefore in the first and chiefest place belongs the sacrifice of our praise who hath b delivered his Royal servant from the strivings of his people and in the next place to his instruments Among these how much your Lordship hath merited by your constant Attendance your faithful Counsels and such unshaken Allegiance as hath neither been tainted with Suspition nor tyred by Calamities is too great and high for me to calculate Next to that private brazen wall of your serene Conscience you have the publique testimony of our most Gracious Soveraign to witness your Fidelity and it is written in golden Characters both in and for your eternal Honour He hath entrusted you with the jewel of his Conscience in relation to the sharper Laws knowing that you are Tam Marti quam Mercurio As you are Juvenals c Lawyer Qui juris nodos legum aenigmata solvis So you are his Majesties Champion and have excellent skill at the best of weapons the pointless edgeless sword of Mercy He hath entrusted you with the great Seal of his Indulgencies and Pardons to the astonishment of the very Malefactors that they may be surprised by his gentleness even above hope who had offended without fear or suspicion of this happy Revolution He hath enstrusted you with many encouragements and rewards for the Loyaller and sounder Clergy yea and with a conquest of the erring by the streams of his Munisicence And who more fit to be entrusted with Conscience Mercy and Bounty then a person Religious Gentle and Noble Your own Conscience is according to the famous d Oratour the greatest Theatre of Virtue and your Liberality is Homer's Nepenthes which cheers up the drooping Clergy It is not long since the Orthodox but despised Divines were almost every where entertained by the Mushrome Cacotopian Lords and others but with that scorn which Alexander threw upon the Cynick when he sent him e Discum ossibus refertum a messe of Bare-bones O what a blessed change both in men and manners do we now admire For as all that are vested with a Legal power and loathing the Idolatry of Avarice sincerely endeavour the Practice of Piety do foster the Levites and pour Oyl into their wounds so 't is thought that your Lordship more particularly doth strive to out-vye even Alexander Severus who quarrelled with every virtuous person that either asked nothing or but little of him and his challenge stands upon record in these very words f Quid est quod nihil petis An me tibi vis fieri debitorem You have learned of Elisha so to favour the Sons of the Prophets and their Relations as in stead of rendring them but a poor moyty of the Tithe of their Tithes which was the pia fraus and reforming sacriledge of our late Lay-preachers and Black-Saints you make it much of your business to fill their empty vessels with the Oyl of gladness The clear and winged fame of these your Noble Virtues encourageth me to Congratulate them in the Dedication of this little Book and the rather both because the Author my best of Uncles was not I presume unknown to your Lordship and because my self had the honour to be your Lordships Contemporanian in our Renowned University of Oxford Nor may I entertain the least diffidence of a Candid Acceptance since you so well know that g Non est minus regium parvula accipere quam largiri magna Artaxerxes disdained not a pitcher of water presented by a Peasant Here is my Lord a little ewre filled with such precious water as hath virtue I hope to cleanse the stains of a seduced Conscience and to open the eyes of them that were born and have continued blind The Author thereof penned it in a Prison whose honour it was that he was h Plundred Sequestred Imprisoned yea and dyed for his Religion and Loyalty Full fifteen years hath this Book continued a private and close mourner for the death of the Author and the Heresies of the later times and it had not yet appeared in the eye of the world but that I hope it will be sheltred under your Lordships Pratronage Mine it was by the right of an Executor and Yours it is by the right of Dedication The merit of the work will be improved by your acceptance the judicious and sober-minded will blesse you for delivering it from the womb of Obscurity and I shall be obliged to subscribe my self My LORD The humblest Of all your Servants John Faireclough vulgò Featley London Augst. 4. 1660. The Publishers {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} OR INTRODUCTION To the ensuing BOOK SEcond Cogitations are reputed the wiser and better because we carefully weigh them in the scales of solid judgement and serious discretion The misery of our late and wasting Maladies we have not forgotten for our Land was sufieted with bloud and our garments were rolled in bloud we carryed our lives in our hands and our Estates were exposed to rapine Heresies and Schismes did eat like a Gangrene and Religion was near lost