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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

third Figure and also of a Prison Ovid M●tam l. 1. terras Astraea reliquit See the gentle Lash p. 5. Brit. pag. 67. Ans. Apol. Eccl. Ang. p. 2. c. 1. divis 1. Vid. Vossium de 36 Symbolis The second Speech to the eighth Article Act 14 Trin In ep. ad Polon Iohn 5.26 Hom. de temp. 88. The definition of justification The second Speech to the eleventh Article Calvin praefat. Institut Cypri de ce●t Dom. Piscator and Tilenus Obj. Sol 1 Obj. Sol. 2. Sol. 3. Sol. 4. Sol. 5. The third Speech to the eleventh Article The fourth speech to the eleventh Article Obj. 1. Obj. 2. Obj. 3. Sol. Obj. 4. Sol. Obj. 5. Sol. The fifth speech to the eleventh Article Arg. 1. Resp. Replic. Arg. 2. Advers. Resp. Replicatio Arg. 3. Resp. Advers. Replic. In Rom. 5. assumpt. But the ●●ghteousnesse of Christ as he was a sacrifice for sin was to be unspotted wholly and without sin Hebr. Ergo as he was a sacrifice for sin his holinesse was imputed unto us Arg. 4. Advers. Sol. Replicatio The VOTE Eccl. 7.29 1 Pet. 2.25 {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Act. 1.20 * Ambros com in Ephes. c. 4. v. 10. Apostoli sunt Episcopi Ierom. ad Marcel apud nos Apostolorum locum tenent Episcopi Cyp. ep. l. 3. Apostolos id est Episcopos praepositos Dominus elegit August in Ps. 45. loco patrum erunt filii ●d est Apostolorum Episcopi Et ibid. dilatatum est Evangelium in omnibus finibus mundi in quibus principes ecclesia id est Episcopi sunt constituti * Aug. ep. 162 comment in Apoc. hom 2. Ambrose 1 1 Cor. 11.16 ●●cumeniu● Areth●s Marlorat Pareus in Apoc. c 1.2 Policarp Episcopus Smyrnae Onesimus Ephesi Antipa● Pergami c. * Edi● Teclae it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} thy wife which demonstrateth that the A●gell there signifieth one singular man of authority in the Church and not the whole clergy of that place Ep ad Episc. Winton * Concil. Nice can. 5. conc. Antioch can 6. Conc. Sard. can. 14. conc Chal. act 15. c. 29. ●gnatius in ep. ad Philad. Irenaeus l. ● c. 3. Tertul. l. de baptismo Euse. l. ● c. 40. Ierom ep ad Nep●t Optatus l. 1. cont. Parmen. Amb. in Eph. cap. 4. Basil. Eph. 70. Epiphanius haeres 75. p. 295. Aug ad quod vult D●u● A●riam ab AErio quodam sunt nominati qui cum esse● presbyter dolu●sse fertur quod Episcop●● non potuit ordinari di●●bat presbyterum ab Ep●scopo nulla ●is●r●ntia debere disce●n● Hieron. in Tit. Con. 1. art 15. c. 29 Episcopum in presbyteri gradum reducere est sacrilegium Anatolius constant Episcop dixit i●qui dicuntu● ab Episcopal● dignitat● ad presbyteri ordinem descendi●●e si 〈…〉 causis condemnanturnec presbyteri honore digni sunt See Art 36. ● de consecrat It is evident to all men reading holy Scriptures ancient authors that from the Apostles time there have bin these three orders in the Church of Christ and that a Bishop ought to correct and punish such as are unquiet ●riminous and disobedient within his diocesse according to such authoritie as he hath by the word of God * Vide record in Exchequer I wil preserve and maintain to you the Churches cōmitted to your charges all Canonicall priviledges and I will be your protector and defender to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his kingdome in right ought to defend the Bishops and Churches under their government c. Then laying his hand on the book on the communion table he sayth the things which I have before promised I shall perform and keep so help me God and by the contents of this book * Cic. Tusc. quaest. * Pro Mur. tolle no●en Catonis * Statut. Ed. 3. ann. 25. The Church of England was founded in the state of prelacie c. for we owe to it our best laws made in the Saxon times and Charta magna it self The union of the two Roses Yo●k and Lancaster the marriage with Scotland and above all the plantation reformation of true religion See Vindication of Episcopacie page 23 24. See also the statute book of 16. Rich. 2. where the Commons ●hew that the Prelates were much profitable and necessarie to their Soveraign Lord the K. and the realm c. * Ierome advers. Luc. c. 4. Ecclesiae salu● à summi sacerdot● dignitate pendet cui si non ●xors quaedam ab omnibus em●nens detur protestas tot in ecclesia efficientur schismata quot sacerdotes Cypr. ep. 3. non aliunde haereses abortae sunt aut nata schismata quam inde quod sacerdoti Dei non obtemperatur nec unus in ecclesia ad tempus sacerdos ad tempus judex● vice Christi cogitatur * Athanas. apol. 2. Colithus quidam presbyter in ecclesia Alexandrina alios presbyteros ordinare praesumpserat sed rescissa fuit ejus ordinatio omnes ab eo constituti presbyteri in laic●rum ordinem redacti See Epiph. haer. 75. The order of Bishops begets Fathers in the Church but the order of Presbyters sonnes in baptisme but no Fathers or Doctors See also ● Abbot in his 〈◊〉 of the visibilitie of the Church and in his answer to Hill * Apol. confess Augustan c. de numero usu sacrament ●os saepe pro●estati sumus summa cum voluntate conservare p●litiam eccl●siasticam g●adus in ecclesia factos etiam summa authoritate scimus enim utili consilio ecclesiacticam disciplina hanc modo quo vet●res eam d●scribunt constitutam Luther tom. 2. p. 320. Nemo contra statū episcoporum veros episcopos vel bonos pastores dictum putet quicquid contra hos tyrannos dicitur * Gerard de ministerio eccles. Nemo nostrum dicit nihil interesse inter episcopum presbyterum sed agnoscimus distinctionem graduum propter {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ecclesiae ut concordia conservetur * Calv. de necess reform ecclesiae Talem nobis hierarchiam s● exbibeant in qua sic emin●a●t episcopi ut Ch●isto subeste non recusent ut ab illo tanquam unico capite pendeant ad ipsum referantur in qua sic inter se fraternam societa●em colant ut non alio modo quam ejus veritate si●t colligati tum vero nullo non anathemate dignos fateo● si qui erunt qui non ●am ●everenter summaque obedientia observent * Beza de grad. minist. evang. c. 18. Sess. 3. Quod si nunc ecclesiae instau●atae Anglicanae suorum Episcoporum Archiepisc●porum authoritate suffultae perstant quemadmodum hoc illis nostra memoria contigit ut eju● ordinis homines non ●antum insignes Dei Martyres sed etiam praestantissimos Doctores Pastores habuerit c. Brit. p. 67. Ans. M. Nye Brit. p. 68. Ans. See the testimonies of Dr. Moulin and other forraign divines in the Coroll●●ie The handmaid to devotio● The Author of the book intituled A safeguard from Ship wrak A●●s forbiddeth not all usurie but biting usurie in his Cases of Consciences Plutarch Apopl● Brit. p. 68. Answ. Turtul praescript * Cook at the Bridge foot Cic. pro Sylla Isocr ad Daem●nicum Hesiod l. 1 ●p dies Adag. Homerica nube tectus Ve●itas tempo●is filia A Book so intituled Ans. Mat. 5. ● See the statu● 16. Rich. 2. and the 25 of Edw. 3. See Sphyni● Philosophica Ps●l 69 2● Basil. ●p 62. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Guillaume Herbert in the Epistle dedicatorie prefixed to his translation of Doct. Featley's Handmaid of devotion into French Wolsgangus Meyer in his Epistle dedicatorie before his Dutch translation The Grand Sacriledge printed Lond. 1630. In the Vote Sept. 29. against the Dr. all the other articles are waved see the record supr. Cic. pro Cl●●as

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