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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

Jesuits nay so may the whole Scripture as St Peter teacheth us which {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the ignorant unstable pervert what then must we weed up all the flowers of Paradise because hereticks like spiders suck such juice out of them which they turn into poyson 2. For the other expression ought to be received as I conceive it may be thus justified Whatsoever articles may be firmly and evidently proved out of scripture ought to be received and beleeved ar● 6. But such are all the articles of these three Creeds ergo c. 2. Those to whose office and function it belongs to declare and teach the people of God what they may and ought to receive and beleeve may use this expression But it appertains to the office of the Pastors of the Church especially met at a Synod for that end to teach the people of God what they ought to receive and believe ergo c. 3. That form of words which hath bin used in Synods held in the purest times and is at this day used not only in the harmony of all protestant confessions as was shewed by a learned brother but every day in most approved sermons may be reteined But such is this form recipi credi debere ought to be received and beleeved ergo concil. Carth. 1 Caecilius a Bilta dixit quam rem fugere ac vitare debemus a tanto scelere nos separare said which thing we ought to shun and avoyd and to keep our selves from so great a sin Concil. Elib can. 12. Lapsi in haeresin ad ecclesiam recurrentes incunctanter recipi debent poenitentia iis non est den●ganda Concil. Neo. can. 1. Those that are fallen into heresie returning to the Church ought readily to be received repentance is not to be denyed unto them Presbyter moechus ab ecclesia pelli debet an incontinent presbyter ought to be driven from the church Conc. La●d quod non oporteat angelos inv●cari that we ought not to call upon Angels can. 59. quod non oporteat libros non canonicos legi in ecclesia that books that are not canonicall ought not to be read in church But our acute and learned brother demandeth qua fide recipiendi sint hi articuli ecclesiastica an divina with what kind of faith humane or divine I answer at the first propounding of them if we have nothing to say against them fide ecclesiastica or humana by a humane faith or the faith of the church out of reverence to our mother the church but after we have examined them and compared them with Scriptures then fide divina by a divine faith as the Samaritans at the first believed fide humana by a humane faith upon the relation of the woman but afterwards when they heard Christ himself and saw his miracles fide divina The first Speech concerning the eleventh ARTICLE M. Prolocutor THere are two sorts of things which are not defined without great difficulty things of the highest and of the lowest nature the former can hardly be defined in regard of their exceeding perfection the latter for their extream imperfection of the former no definition is capable the latter are capable of no exact definition but only some imperfect description and therefore as Aristotle defines materia prima the first matter by meer negations quod nec quid nec quantum nec quale neither substance nor quantitie nor qualitie c. So Plato defines God that he is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} neither body nor colour c. To this later kind we may well referre justification of which we read that high eulogie in the Bohemian Confession Hoc caput doctrinae ex omnibus apud nos pro maximo gravissimo capite habetur ut in quo summa evangelii posita est quo christianismus fundatur in quo preciosus nobilissimusqu● thesaurus salutis aeternae unica viva cons●latio divina comprehenditur this is the chief head of doctrine in which consists the sum of the whole Gospell c This excellencie of the subject notwithstanding ought not to dull the edge of our most diligent search into it but sharpen it rather to endeavour so to define justification that wee may justifie our definition Which wee cannot doe without distinguishing of a three-fold righteousnesse first a perfect righteousnesse but not inherent of which 2 Cor. 5.21 secondly inherent but not perfect of which Luke 1.75 and Apoc. 22. 11. thirdly perfect and inherent of which Heb. 12.23 The first is the righteousnesse by which wee are justified the second by which wee are sanctified and the third by which wee are glorified The first consisteth as well of Christs active as his passive obedience and in the imputation thereof by faith consisteth the essence of our justification which may be thus defined an act of God whereby he acquitteth every penitent and beleeving sinner by not imputing to him his sins and imputing to him the perfect satisfaction and righteousnesse of Christ Every part of this definition may be proved by clear testimonies of Scripture and besides it hath that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} certain mark or touch-stone of a true definition that it meeteth with all doubts and confronteth all errors broached against the nature of justification first the error of the Libertines by that clause every penitent secondly of the Antinomians in the clause not imputing their sinne thirdly the Socinians in the clause perfect satisfaction and lastly the Arminians and Papists in the last clause imputing Christs righteousnesse no habit or act of ours no not the act of faith The testimonies of Scripture because they are readie at hand to every one I shall forbear to quote at this present and conclude with culling out of some passages of the ancient Fathers the rather to confound our Romish adversaries who putting on a brazen face challenge the champions of our Faith to produce but one testimonie of any Divine or Doctor of the Church who taught that a man was justified by another mans righteousnesse before Calvin or Luther We accept of the challenge and alledge first Iustin Martyr {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} O the inestimable and unexpected mercies of God! The transgression of many is hid in one righteous One and the righteousnesse of One acquitteth many Ierom ut nos efficeremu● justitia Dei in ipso non nostra nec in nobis that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him not ours nor in us August serm. 6. de verb Apost. Videte duo justitia Dei non nostra in ipso non in nobis observe two things it is Gods justice not ours and in him not in us Et tract. 3. in Iohan. Omnes qui ex Ad●mo in peccato peccatores omnes qui per Christum justificati justi non in se sed i● illo all that are justified by Christ are

that out of curiositie lookt into the table hanged up in the market place wherein the names of the Proscripti by Sylla were set in their order at unawares spyed his own name written in bloudie characters cuivis contingere potest quod cuiquam potest that which is any ones case may be every ones case Strengthen not the hands of those whose fingers itch at the treasure of the Church it will prove like Sejanus horse which none ever bestrid or the gold of Tholouse which none ever touched but he came to an ill end Neither revile thou the servants of the living God neither put scorns upon his Prophets be not so gracelesse as to take a pride in disgracing those whom God hath appointed to be the instruments and silver conduit-pipes to conveigh grace into thy soul A jeer only at the Prophet Elisha and that by innocents proved nocent and their bodies were all to rent and torn with Beares who touched only the thin hayr of the Prophets head crying goe thou bald-pate If thou wilt needs prove masteries with thy pen chuse thy match beware of impar congressus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He is a stark ideot who will contend with his betters for besides losse of victorie he gaines blows into the bargain If Patroclus will encounter Hector and Amycus Pollux and Dares Entellus and the Syr●ns the Muses and the blind worm the Basilisk they must take that which followed above all things shoot not thy Porcupey's quills at soveraign Majestie though thou thinkest thou goest invisible as if thou hadst Gyges ring or wer● compassed with Homers dark pavilion yet the daughter of time will descry thee and thou shalt find by wofull experience how dangerous a thing it is in eum scribere qui potest proscribere it is not safe medling with edge tooles nor scribling against him who hath power to proscribe LEX TALIONIS OR A sober reckoning with CIVICUS AFter Britanicus or rather Barbaricus had mingled his ink with the over-flowing of his own gall his brother Civicus rather to vend his sorrie pamphlet then to vent his spleen against D. F. hath a sling at the gentle lash and would fain squeez some poysonous juyce out of the Doctors spunge SECT. XVI Mercurius Civicus taken to task Occurrents Numb. 2. Ian. 12. THere is a crosse to be erected at Oxford Ian. 22. to crucifie the Parliament now at Westminster and D. F. hath prepared a lash and a vinegar spunge hoping to get an executioners place he wrote his own motto the gentle lash yet he would fain see the white flag died in blood But the Parliament have done well to clip the wings of the Clergie that they may flye into no temporall places whose tongues and p●ns have uttered such poyson against the Parliament and in their pride would willingly adhere to Rome as by many superstitions by them doted on doth plainly appear who by their Babylonian ceremonies have long endeavoured to make a bridge into the Church by Arminianisme to passe over into Poperie Sic perusse frontem de rebus What a brow of brasse and conscience seated with a hot iron hast thou Civicus that thou darest stain paper with such notorious untruths and shamelesse ●landers The●e can hardly be named any divine in this Kingdom now living who hath disputed preached written and printed more against Poperie and Arminianisme then D. F. witnesse Vertumnus Romanus printed by the command of the house of Commons the Supplement to the book of Martyrs the Fisher caught and held in his own net the Gra●d Sacriledge the case for the Spectacles Cygnea Cant. Transubstantiation exploded and Pelagius redivivus Ancilla pietati and Clavis Mystica citius crimen honestum quam turpem Ca●onem feceris thou shalt sooner be able to prove the Protestant Religion to be Poperie and Arminianisme true christianitie then the Doctor guiltie of either What crime then canst thou charge him withall a ●aynous sin and that of commission for he was many years in the commission of the peace thou shou●dst have added that all that while he neither preached sermon nor printed book les●● than before Let the Borough of Southwark with the adjacent parts inform thee whether the Common-wealth gained not more by that his impolyment then the Church lost If the Docto● to ●onfer with schismaticks and refractorie persons to the Kings ecclesiasticall laws and canons of the Church referred to him by the Judge if to compose differences between neighbours and stifle a world of litigious suits in the bi●th if to take order for the relief of hundreds of poor and diseased persons in a dangerous time of infection when other commissioners rather provided for their own safetie by flight then the safetie of others by the executing of their office he defalked some time from his sacred studies peradventure this present age rather jealous of then zealous for the Church will blame him for it but the former would have thanked him for it as they did Nissene and Ambrose and Augustine and Iewell whose temporall dignitie and power no way eclipsed their spirituall eminencie no more then it did the Priests 2 Chron. 19 8. set by Iehosaphat for the judgement and cause of the Lord Yet thou wilt say that to discharge the function of a Pastor and execute the office of a Justice of peace are incompatible No more then to teach and to make peace to preach down and to beat down vice to wound the hairie scalp of every one that goeth on in his prophanenesse and drunkennesse and uncleanesse and routs and riots both with the spirituall and temporall sword which in former ages were aiding and assisting one to the other according to Bracton his observation gladius gladium juvat but now hack and h●w one the other If all peace-makers are blessed surely as well the religious Iustice of peace as the preacher of peace and if both concur in one person he must needs have a double share in that blessing but thou art of another mind thine eye is evill because the Prince or state are good to the Church arming her with some temporall power the more effectually to compasse her spirituall ends and defend her children from violence and wrong Thou say'st the Parliament hath done well to clip the wings of the Clergie that they may flye into ●o temporall place I will not answer thee that many former Parliaments have imped them but for Acts of Parliament they are not for us to censure but to obey what the Parliament hath done their Act speaketh and therefore I will be silent Yet since that Act divers of the Clergie great in your books but none other have flown into temporall places one hath flown into an examiners place in Haberdashers-hall another into a commissioners place for Scotland a third into a Gaolers place at Lambeth arrige aures Pamphile So it seemeth it matters not much quid

percrebuit de arcta domini Featlei custodiâ Siccine tractari insignem veritatis pugilem de religione reformata optimè meritum Idque ab iis qui reformandae ecclesiae palmam aliis praeripere omnibus satagunt Neutiquam tamen hoc mirum aut insolens discipulo videri debet cum sciat ipsius magistrum a gente sua magnis in Israele Rabbinis duriora passum Tuus ex animo Iohan. Stablesius generos Ger. From Harlew to his very loving friend Master Bull health and happinesse I Am sorry to hear of the close Imprisonment of that worthy Dr. Featley what He who is and ever hath been so stout a Champion for religion to be so used by the reformers thereof But let his own Nation not the disciple think it strange when his Master suffered so much crueltie from the great Rabbins of Israel Yours from my heart Ioh. Stables Gent. Aprill 11. 1644. These testimonies of forraign Divines I had thought to suppresse because the rehearsing them cannot but wound the modestie of the party may peradventure whet the venomous tooth of envie against him yet these comming to my hands and considering in what condition the partie now is I held it a dutie of Christian charitie and equitie to impart them to the indifferent reader for the vindicating his person and adding some light to his reputation now labouring in the eclipse SECT. XVIII The sum of D. F. his apologie reduced into two unanswerable Dilemma's BEfore I put forth the horns of the Dilemma's I will lay down certain Lemma's or assertions of undeniable veritie First after D. F. had delivered his mind concerning the Scottish Covenant which he thought he might doe safely in a free Assemblie and many days before he wrote any Letter to the Primate of Armagh it was spoken openly at Westminster that the Doctor should be voted out of the Assemblie as L.M. and M. H. disclosed to D. F. Secondly that D. F. sent not to A. Warner to conveigh a Letter of his to the Primate of Armagh but A. Warner was sent to the Doctor who by probable and plausible suggestions drew this Letter unsealed from the Doctor which he no sooner received but he shewed the close Committee Thirdly that when the Doctor wrote this Letter to Armagh the Bishop was an elect Member of the Assemblie by the house of Commons and both he and Doctor Pr●d●aux and Doctor Ward and Doctor Brounerigg and Doctor Oldisworth and Doctor Harris and others well affected to the Discipline and Liturgie of the Church of England were daily expected at the Synod and some of them excused their necessarie absence for a time from the Assemblie by Letters to the Prolocu●or whereof one was presented by Doctor Featley himself and Doctor Gouge Fourthly that when the Doctor wrote his Letter to the Primate of Armagh there was no declaration or ordinance of either of the houses of Parliament forbidding correspondencie by Letters to Oxford without leave of the houses or warrant from the Lord Generall for the Doctors Letter was written about the middle of September 1643. and the ordinance prohibiting any under pain of Sequestration to hold intelligence with Oxford bears date Octob. 22. 1643. a full moneth after so that the writing of the fore-named Letter at that time was not so much as malum quia prohibitum neither could the Doctor be censured for it as a crime because as the Apostle teacheth us where there is no law there is no transgression 5. Fifthly that there was never any thing objected against the Doctor since the ●●tting of the Parliament or the Assemblie save the seven Articles prefer'd against him by the Brownists of which he was cleared acquitted and discharged in a full house after a long debate Iuly 13. and his Letter to the Primate of Ireland which was written before the ordinance of Parliament made it criminall to write any letters to Oxford without speciall leave Now Civicus call to thee Britanicus and Scoticus and Coelicus together with Patriark W. and Independent N. and set all your wits upon the renters to render some colourable answer to these two insoluble dilemma's First either the vote of the house of Commons is an undoubted oracle of truth and justice and a concludent and definitive sentence in poynt of law or not If it be so then is D. F. cleare from all aspersions cast upon him For in a full house Iuly 12. he was acquitted of all the articles objected against him as appeareth in the record under the hand of H. Elsing exemplified in the vindication of D. F. p. 21. If it be not so but as some heretofore have conceived only as the inquest of the Grand Jurie and a preparatorie to the full information of the cause upon oath and finally sentencing it in the house of Peers then the vote passed against the Doctor in the house of Commons alone without any farther proceeding in the house of Lords is of no force or validitie in law and consequently D. F. is still Rector both of Lambeth and Acton and M. W. and M. N. are no better then intruders and usurpers of another mans ●ight and possession If the Allegations brought by the Brownists against the Doctor were true how came he to be acquitted Iuly 12 if they were false how came he to condemned by the vote of the same house Sept. 29 And why were those articles from which he was cleared commanded to be read in Lambeth Church and made the ground of the sentence of sequestration against him as if he had been guiltie of them Secondly either-the unsealed letter written to the Primate of Ireland contained in it some disclosing of secrets of state or imputations upon the Parliament or some other criminall matter liable to just censure or not If the former 1. Why was the originall Letter sent by order of the close Committee to Oxford If it gave any intelligence they who sent it were the intelligencers not the Doctor his letter intercepted at London could tell no ●ales at Oxford 2. Why was not the originall under the Doctors owne hand shewed him to convince him Or at least an authenticall copi● attested by the hand of a notarie or some sworn witnesse proving the accord thereof with the originall 3. Why were not the pretended offensive particulars put to the Doctor when he was convented before the Committee and his punctuall answer required thereunto 4. Why was not the messenger or some other witnesse produced to prove that the pretended offensive particulars were in the letter signed with the Doctors own hand 5. Why all this while is the letter suppressed and not published to this day to cleare the justice of the proceedings against the Doctor If it were a legall evidence against him as it is urged in the sentence why could the Doctor by no means gain a copie of it that he might interpret his own meaning and that his answer as well as the objections against him might be