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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

but quis not what the imployment is but who it is that is imployed for if he be a malignant all is trash that he takes but if a confiding man all is fish that comes to his net yea that golden table which the Miletian fishers caught and Apollo adjudged to the wisest man then living Howsoever to be in the commission of the peace without seeking it and to discharge that trust faithfully without any abatement or diminution of diligence in his pastorall function was no blemish but an ornament no disgrace but a dignitie to the Doctor It gave him more power it took nothing from his reputation it blurred not but blazon'd his armes Yet thou pickest a quarrell with him for executing justice upon unlicensed scriblers as before upon unlicensed tiplers thou feelest the smart of his gentle lash and put'st finger in the eye crying and complaining there is a crosse to be erected at Oxford Ian. 22. to crucifie the Parliament now at Westminster Say it over again a crosse erected at Oxford to crucifie c. then there are forty seven miles at least between the crosse and the persons to be fastened to it a strange thing to erect a crosse at Oxford to crucifie supposed delinquents at Westminster and more strange that an act of pardon and grace the holding out of a golden scepter of mercy to all that will take hold of it should be taken to be the erecting a crosse to crucifie or a gibbet to execute any but our late intelligencers nae intelligendo faciant ut nihil intelligant forfeit their wits as well as they have made shipwrack of their consciences else thou wouldst never tell us of a gentle lash at the crosse for neither were any according to the Roman laws lashed at the crosse nor was that a gentle lash with which our Redeemer was scourged for it set him all in a gore blood and made him such a ruefull spectacle that Pilate himself whose conscience was as red as his scarlet robe yet cryed out in compassion ecce hom● behold the man and as absur'd is thy application of the spunge for the Doctors was a spunge full of fair water to wash away some foul aspersions cast upon him by the Brownists the other a spunge full of vinegar to suck out drink that the Prophesie might be fulfilled literally when I was a thirst they gave me vinegar to drink and if all who make use of a spunge in the former kind are to be tearmed executioners your noted noters of sermons and elect Ladies who cleanse their table-books especially before your fast sermons of which all men now begin to surfeit must own that odious title Yea but though he wrote his own motto the gentle lash yet he would fain see the white flag dyed in blood A lye dyed in grain for which thy conscience will check thee one day if thou hast any for in the very narration of the Doctor intituled the spunge which thou here quotest and alludest unto one of the a●ticles preferred by the s●paratists to the committee for plundered Ministers against him was that he taxed the lecturers in London and the suburbs for being bou●efeus and incendiaries by in●●igating the people to these civill or rather uncivill and unnaturall wars crying out for the cause of God and quarrell of the Gospell fight fight kill kill battel battel blood blood nay so far is the Doctor from wishing that the white fl●g should be dyed in blood that he desireth from his heart that there were never a flag or streamer to be seen in the field nor drum or phife to be heard nor sword to be drawn nor pike to be advanced in these kingdoms but that it would please the Prince of peace our only peace-maker upon the lifting up of millions of hands in publike and private upon the prayers and tea●s o●o●Scotland sighs and groans of England and last ga●ping breath of Ireland to turn all our drums into tab●e●s and phifes into Recorders and swords into syths and pole-a●es into mattocks and streamers into winding sheets to wrap up all the differences between Prince and people church and common wealth together with all the direfull effects thereof and to bury them all in perpetuall oblivion dulce est nomen pacis res ipsa p●rqu●m salutaris sweet is the name of peace and the thing it self most healthfull qua non solum homines sed agri tecta laetar● videntur The King-fishers as Plutarch writeth never breed but in a calm sea and S. Iames teacheth us that the fruits of righteousnesse are sown in peace of them that love peace On the contrarie we reade in Plinie's Nat. Hist. l. 9. c. 35. that in the generation of Margarites or pearle if it thunder the work of nature is quite marred and that which would have been an orient gem becomes a crude moisture and how many pearles have of late miscarried since the thunder of warre both the Universities will tell you with pearls in their eyes For it is not only true silent leges inter arma but musae also that the laws are suspended in the times of bloodie warres but the Prophets too and the Muses also As Marius was wont to ●ay where there is cla●hing and clattering of Arms neither laws of God nor man can be heard and where the laws cannot be heard all out-cryes are heard and all out-rages are committed no man hath proprieti● of or in any thing save losses and wounds nor can purchase ought but spoyls nor build anywhere but upon ruines O the thundering in the ayre and plundering on the land the suspending and interdicting not so much of Preachers as Churches O the carkasses as well of Cities as men and Coffins rather of houses then corpses and rooting up rather of families and countries then of gardens These and other dismall effects of warre extort from all those who have any thing yet to lose and have not forfeited the libertie of their speech with the libertie of their persons this unanimous and harmonious Vote Come blessed peace Nulla salus bello pacem te p●scimus omnes Of all the messengers of Gods vengeance the sword is the swif●●st of all swords the civill is the keenest especially when it is wh●t with a pretext of Religion This is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} gladius anceps a two-edged sword cutting on both sides English men Protestants brethren branches of the same root subjects to the same Prince ●ay members of the same mysticall body In all other warres the victorie is joyfull on the one side but in this like as in the Cadmean neither good for the conquerour nor for the conquered for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} He that conquers weepeth for the losse of his countrey-men friends kinsmen and allies and he that is conquered is lost Which side soever gains the King and the Countrey loseth ● O dismall Ensignes O banned Banners O stained

Creed that whichis commonly called the Apostles Creed ought thorowly to be received and beleeved for they may be proved by most certain warrants of holy Scripture Concerning this eighth Article vide 2 speeches pag. 13. ARTICLE 11. Of the Justification of MAN WE are accompted righteous before God only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ by faith and not for our own works or deservings Wherefore that we are justified by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Iustification Concerning this eleventh Article vide 5 speeches pag. 20. The two first clauses of the Covenant as they were offered to the Assembly licensed and entred into the Hall book according to Order September 4. 1643. and Printed at London for Philip Lane 1. THat we shall all and each one of us sincerely readily and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in on● severall places and callings the preservation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the reformation of Religion in the Church of England this Explication to be at the end of the Covenant as far as we doe or shall in our consciences conceive to be according to the Word of God according to the same holy Word the Example of the last Reformed Churches and as may b●ing the Church of God in both Nations to the neerest conjunction and Uniformity in Religion confession of Faith Forme of Church● government directory for Worship and Catechizing that we and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the Extirpation of Popery Prelacie Superstition Heresie Schisme and Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse in both Nation● lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be endangered to receive of their plagues that the Lord may be one and his Name one in both Kingdoms To which first printed copie the Doctors speech delivered in the Assembly relateth pag. 48. The two clauses of the Covenant as they were altered and Printed by Order of the House of COMMONS 1. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government agai●st our common Enemies the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches and shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest Conjunction and Uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government Directory for Worship and Catechizing that wee and our Posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Poperie Prelacie that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellours Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-deacons and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on the Hierarchie Superstition Heresie Schism Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms Errata Epist. to the reader l. 19. in r. to p. 12. l. 23. dazled r. so dazled p. 15. in marg. Vos de 36. r. Vos de tribus symbo p. 40. l. 1. 2. Cor. 1.30 r. 1. Cor. 1.30 p. 43. l. 13. speciei r. specie p. 52. l. 24. Acts. 3.1 r. 1.3 p. 61. adde in marg. Aug. de civit Dei l. 19. c. 19. l. ult. p. 66. l. 22. thought r. sought p. 69. l. 25. there r. then p. 87. l. 14. dele his owne Nation for Primate of Armagh r. Primate of Ireland SECTION I. The Character of Britanicus DIego writeth That Barcaeus meeting with the Devill sitting at his ease upon a Chaire bid him rise up and give place to his better The tale Britanicus is morallized in thee thou mayst very well chalenge the precedencie of Satan and thrust him out of his Chaire The seat of the scornfull wherein thou hast sate for these many moneths and out-railest all the Shimie's and Rabsekehs and out-Lyest all the Simmeasses and Pseudolusses that ever sate in that Chaire And although Tacitus whispers me in the eare Maledicta si irascaris agnita videntur spreta exolescunt Contumelious speeches if they put thee into a chafe seeme to argue guilt Yet because a wiser then he adviseth in some case to answer a foole according to his folli● lest he be wise in his owne conceit And because it is rather an argument of stupiditie then innocencie to be altogether unsensible when our integritie or the reputation of our friend is touched though it be but with the scratch of a goose quill I though fit potius vexatum castiga●um quam despectum dimitt●re Vatinium rather to dismisse Vatinius well cudgelled then slighted I meane that scorne of all the learned and hate of all good men Britanicus or rather Brutanicus not from Brutus but Brutum For he is no better then one of Cerberus whelpes at which Hercules would not vouchsafe to give a Kick in his returne from Hell yet because since he hath lickt cleane the Expraetors trencher he never leaveth barking at all who adore not the cap of maintenance nor canonize the synagogue of orbicular independents I was desired to strike him baculo pastorali and teach him from henceforth sua potius lambere ulcera quam aliorum famam arrodere rather to use his tongue in licking his owne sores then his teeth in biting them upon whom heretofore he basely fawned The best is he to whose appologie I have consecrated my Pen is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} out of the danger of this haile shot above these nebulas nebulonum his reputation is safe both from the tongue of detraction and teeth of envie being treasured up in the hearts of all that sincerely love the truth Anthonie proscribed Cicero for the space onely that the Triumvirate in Rome lasted but Cicero proscribed Anthonie to all ages The more Camomile is trod upon the sweeter smell it gives and the black aspersions of malice serve but as a dark foyle to set off the lustre of eminent vertue For thee Britanicus seeing thou knowest not thy selfe I will send thee to S. Ierome for thy Character under the name of the Else Helvidius Loquacitatem facundiam existimat maledicere omnibus bonae conscientiae signum arbitratur he accounts