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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

and after adding the thistle unto them Nay they had the chief hands in planting the reformed Religion in this Kingdome and some of them watered it with their bloud If in this Covenant the Wow had been to endeavour the removall of all Antichristian Prelates Popish Archbishops and Bishops corrupt Chancellours Arch-deacons and Officialls that would have been no more then as it were pulling off some withered buds from the rod of Aaron But simply to abjure Prelacie with an English glosse far worse then the Scotch Text that is Church Government by Archbishops Bishops c. is either to blast with a poysoned breath or to pluck up that rod which ever since the reformation hath happily budded in this Church and to deprive us soe farr as in them lyeth for ever of the goodly and fair Almonds it hath heretofore and no doubt will in succceding Ages bear if they be not nipt in the bud Many glorious Martyres such as were Cranmer Ridley Latimer Hooper Farrar Philpot Many noble Champions of the reformed religion as B Jewell Bilson Andrews Abbot Fr. White Dr. Reynolds Nowel Sutcliffe Field Many eminnet Preachers B. Mathews King Babbington Felton Lake Party Dr. Sinnewes Thompson Goodwin Eedes Boyse Many munificent Patrons of Learning and Religion Founders of or Benefactours to Vniversities Schools Colledges Halls and Hospitalls as Merton Chichley Wai●fleete Wickham Kemp Leichfield Fox Oldham Grindall Whitgift G. Abbot and divers others Here if they cast in our dish some Beckets and Gardiners and Bonuers which were indeed bitter Almonds we can easily rid our hands of them For it was not Prelacie but Popery that imbittered or rather poysoned them Which poyson since the reformation is drawn out and taken away from Episcopacie in England by the Oath at their Consecration which cutteth off all their dependencie from the Pope and since that none have given him a more deadly Wound then our learned and every way accomplished Vshers Mortons Halls and Prideauxes Howsoever was there not a Saul among the Prophets a Julian among the Emperours a Judas among the Apostles a Diotrophes among the Elders and a Nicholas among the Deacons and must these most sacred and divine Callings like so many trees of Paradise planted by God himself be extirpated for here and there some rotten or perished fruit found at some times upon the branches Desine paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes Yea but manifold abuses have crept into the ecclesiasticall Courts Commutations delays and excessive fees And have not the like or as bad in secular Shall we then have no Consistories or Courts at all The Bishops as it is objected but not proved have corrupted the Gospell and have not some Judges the Laws Shall we then have no more Judges upon the Bench A Synod of Priests and Elders condemned our Saviour and divers Councels have defined heresies for Doctrines Defide and set up Idolatry and Superstition shall we then have no more Aslembltes of Divines Nay truth cannot be concealed Rupto jecore exibit caprificus There have been strange passages in former Parliaments at which our Archives and Records blush must we therefore v●te down all Votes and take away all Parliaments God forbid Let all those who are now most exasperated against the reverend Fathers of the Church and others as they tearm them of the prelaticall Clergie coole their heat and put water into their Wine either with that precept of our Saviour Judge not that ye be not judged condemn not that ye be not condemned or that Item of the Apostle Devoure not l●st ye be devoured one of another or of that modest and ingenuous confessiou of a devout Father Toleramus toleramur we must bear with some things in the Clergie for they must bear with more in the Laitie Tolerari non tolerare est intolerabile He is of a most intolerable nature and disposition who expects that others should tolerate him in all things and he tolerate others in nothing for such a disposition is diametrically opposite to the Apostles precept Bear ye one anothers Burdens and so fulfil the Law of Christ Noe Oath ought to be taken or Covenant made which is against Charity For Covenants and Leagues are made to confirm and strengthen not to weaken or any way loosen those natural and civill tyes whereby we are bound one to another Charitie is the end of the Law and summe of the Gospell and bond of perfection it self As whatsoever is not done out of faith so whatsoever is not done in Charity is sin But this Covenant is against Charity and offers violence to Humanity it self For by it we are bound to loose and untie all Bonds whatsoever whether of affinytie or consanguinity or of intimate friendship cum qua mariuntur et pro qua moriuntur verae amiciliae candidat If our brother or our sonne and daughter or the wife that lyes in our bosome or our friend that is as our own soul be a malignant we are sworn by this Covenant to detect them and betray them to the seve●itie of the close Committee and barbarous cruelty of the Sequestrators and their instruments And Malignants in the sense of them who tender this Oath are all such without exception who swim against the streame or rather torrent that bears all down before it all who comply not with the times all who complain of the Liberties of Subject trencht upon and their propriety invaded of Churches prophaned monuments of the dead defaced of hundreds of able and learned and orthodox divines of irreprovable life and carriage turned out of their benefices and illeterate Ignonoramus's and zealous beautifeux's set in their rooms who preach as familiarly blasphemie and treason as they pray Non-sense Lastly who make scruple of the managing of this present warr whereby the Kings person and life is endangered It is t●ue they professe to fight for King and Parliament To rescue the one and preserve the other But as in the Civill broyles in Italie a great Commander sometimes said My sword though it have a keen edge and can divide between the bone and marrow yet it cannot distinguish a Guelf from a Gibbeline So it is most certain that the Canon or musquet bullet distinguisheth not between King and Subject much lesse between the King his Head and his Crown his Person and his power The primitive Christians though they desired nothing more then to glorifie Christ by their death who saved them by his and therefore ran with as much alacrity to Martyrdome as to silver games wherein prizes of infinite value were to be wonne yet they could never be brought by any tortures or torments to discover any Christian to the heathen persecutors that sought to bereave them of their estate liberty or life But here by vertue of this new Covenant not only a Christian Brother is bound by a strict Oath to detect another but the son his Father the Wife her Husband the Daughter her