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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41008	The gentle lash, or, The vindication of Dr. Featley, a knowne champion of the Protestant religion also seven articles exhibited against him with his answer thereunto : together with the said Doctor his manifesto and challenge.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1644 (1644)	Wing F583; ESTC R176981	28,467	44

last March 16. 1642. he was called into the Exchequer Chamber to answer seven Articles put in against him when and where M. White being in the chaire having the said Articles before him demanded as followeth Did not you D. Featley in a Sermon say that it was blasphemie and ignorance to speake against bowing at the Name of Jesus and that all those that pull downe the Railes from the Communion Table or speake against them or oppose the Ceremonies of the Bishops are of the seed of the Serpent c. There is no name of Bishop at all in the Articles nor of other ceremonies then the ceremonies of the Church established by Law or Canon but I have read in Aristotle that there is a fallacie called Fallacia a pluribus iuterrogationibus sub una when one single answer is expected to a double or treble interrogation That I may not be intangled in such a n●…t I shall desire you M. White to propound the Articles distinctly and severally and then I will answer them punctually But before I hold up s●…ptemplicem clypeum to ward off your seven-fold stroake I am constrained to make a motion to you that some order be taken that I may safely wait upon this Honourable Committee For animam meam in manu mea porto I cannot go and come without evident perill of my life besides jeering and rayling at me by those of my accusers sect in a most unchristian and uncivill manner the grounds of my feare are these The next day after the bloody Fray at Lambeth as I landed at the staires there a souldier that stood Sentinell one Alexander Bagwood holding his Musket at my brest charged me before divers of the Parish that I was he who kindled the late fire of which words of his I tooke present witnesse and promised to call him to an account for them on the Tuesday following one of the Souldiers of Captaine Andrew●…s his Company being asked when they meant to leave the court of Guard at Lambeth said they meant not to go away till they had made an end of me this Tho. Addams testifieth upon Oath On Wednesday being the Fast day one of Kennigton told a Gent. my neighbour that she heard the souldiers spe●…ke amongst themselves that they had missed their mark and that they did look for me if they could have met with me The Munday following one of the Parishioners sent me word that a Gent. in her hearing reported that some of Captaine Andrewes his Company said that they had a Warrant to Plunder me In these regards I humbly desire that according to the custome of all Courts in this case I may have a protection both for my person and estate during my attendance here I know no such thing as you speake of therefore answer to your charge The D. being somewhat moved that so necessary a motion for the safety of his life should be so sleighted after a little pause to recollect himselfe went on in his speec●… as followeth Hoc uno die plus vixi quam oportuit this is the first day in all my life that I ever heard Articles read against me in any Court Ecclesiasticall or Temporall or Committee of Parliament For what the Prophet Ieremie spake in another case I have neither lent on usury nor men have lent to me on usury yet they curse me I may truely say in this I never drew Articles against any nor had any till now drawne against me yet they seeke not only my Living which I heard in Westminster hall was designed already for one M. Putie but as you heare my life also But my comfort is that the like hard measure hath beene offered to the Prophets of God and Ministers of Christ in all ages Nay the prince of our salvation was consecrated through afflictions and give me leave to apologize for my selfe in the words of the blessed Martyr S. Cyprian nec mihi ignominiosum est pati a meis quod passus est Christus nec illis gloriosum facere quod fecit Iudas All the favour that I shall desire is but this for as much as all humane lawes ought to vaile bonnet to divine as Iosephs brethrens sheaves bowed to his that you will not receive an accusation against an Elder under two or three witnesses and those not liable to just exceptions I beseech you to take notice of it the Apostle saith not condemne not an Elder under two or three witnesses for so no other man by the Law of God might be in case of life but receive not an accusation against an Elder and Calvin yeelds a good reason for it cur hoc singulari privilegio presbyteros munit respondeo hoc esse necessarium remedium adversus hominum malignitatem nulli enim calumniis obtrectationibus magis sunt obnoxii quam pii doctores qui quamvis exactefungantur suis partibus utneminimum quidem erratum admittant nunquam tamen mille reprehensiones effugiunt atque hic est astus Satanae alienare hominum animos a ministris ut doctrina paulatim veniat in contemptum Why doth the Apostle arme Elders with this singular priviledge above other men that no accusation may be admitted against them but under two or three witnesses I answer saith he that this is a necessary remedy against the malignity of men for no men are more subject to calumniations and back bitings then godly doctors or teachers who though they acquit themselves never so well in their function that they cannot be taxed with the least errour or fault therein yet they can never escape a world of calumnies And this is the cunning of Satan to alienate mens minds from the Ministers of God that so by degrees he may bring the Word of God into contempt As for the Articles forex suo indicio the contriver of them sufficiently discovereth himselfe the very Articles themselves shew that they were patched together by a Tailor of two names who is the accuser by the name of Ambrose Glover but brought for a witnesse by the name of Ambrose Andrewes he had time enough to have stitched them better for he confesseth that he had beene about them this twelve moneth yet how miserably are they botched there is neither method nor order nor coherence nor sense in them In the first Article there are two distinct Articles comprised in the second six in the third five in the fourth two in the fift three and to fill up the number th●… first is repeated againe in this fift in the sixt there are two in the seventh five in which Article also there is most eloquent Non sense The keyes taken from the Church and left in such hands who left them as have laid them by untill they became rustie so that Sodomie Murther Felony Pillage and Plunder is daily committed without punishment as if Sodomie Murther c. were ever punished by the Ecclesiasticall Courts or power of the keyes for