Reformation that I who have preached and printed so much against Popery heretofore now in my old dayes being ready to leave this world have fallen away from my holy profession and am in heart a Papist there being found very many popish bookes in my study And because I have learned from the mouth of S. â—…erome that though other wrongs may be put up and answered with silence committing the revenge thereof to the righteous Judge injustissime judicato justissime judicaturo yet that in suspitione haereseos râ—…eminem oportet silere that no man ought to be silent when he is charged with Heresie I have thought fit to make knowne to all whom it may concerne that being chosen Provost of Chelsey Colledge I have under the broad Seale of England a Warrant to buy have and keepe all manner of popish bookes and that I never bought or kept any of them but to this end and purpose the better to informe my selfe to refute them and for my judgement and resolution in poynt of Religion I professe before God and his holy Angels and the whole world that what I have heretofore preached written and Printed against the errors heresies Idolatry and manifold superstitions of the Romish church is the truth of God and that I am most ready and willing if I be called thereunto to signe and seale it with my blood And whereas I am certainly informed that divers Lecturers and Preachers in London and the Suburbs who have entred upon the labours of many worthy Divines and reaped their harvest doe in their owne Pulpits after a most insolent manner insult upon them demanding where are they now that dare stand up in defende of Church Hierarchy or booke of Common Prayer or any may oppose or impugne the new intended Reformation both in doctrine and discipline of the Church of England I doe here protest that I doe and will maintaine by disputation or writing against any of them these three conclusions First that the Articles of Religion agreed upon in the yeare of our Lord 1562. by both houses of Convocation and ratified by Q. Elizabeth need no alteration at all but onely an Orthodox explication in some ambiguous phrases and a vindication against false aspersions Secondly that the Discipline of the Church of England established by many lawes and Acts of Parliament that is the government by Bishops removing all late innovations and abuses in the execution thereof is agreeable to Gods Word and a truly ancient and Apostolicall Institution Thirdly that there ought to be a set forme of publike prayer and that the booke of Common Prayer the Calendar being reformed in poynt of Apochryphill Saints and Chapters some Rubricks explained and some expressions revised and the whole correctly Printed with all the Psalmes Chapters and allegations out of the old and new Testament according to the last translation is the most compleat perfect and exact Liturgie now extant in the Christian world DANIEL FEATLEY FINIS whose tongue rotted in his mouth Vide ceâ—… infra {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} D. Feâ—… Sophi Elenâ—… â—…he Doâ—…ors life â—…ught by â—…e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 White â—…5 10. After 〈◊〉 waâ—…e 〈◊〉 ed for 〈◊〉 Channâ—… and aftâ—… for M. Forebâ—… last of for M White Dorchâ—… ster. Heb. 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 19. Deut. 〈◊〉 White â—…atley 〈◊〉 M. Wâ—… D. Feâ—… Zac. 7â—… 10. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D 12. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Can M. 〈◊〉 â—…y M. was 〈◊〉 â—…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3 4 〈◊〉 6. 7. 〈◊〉 M. Wâ—… â—…atley White plus the sedtime 150. 34 〈◊〉 2 〈◊〉 To motâ—… Whâ—… turâ—… dea Mat. 17 Lu. 1â—… 13. 〈◊〉 â—…te â—…ley obâ—…n 〈◊〉 â—…r â—…udg susâ—…y of â—…f the â—…rs â—…s â—…tley 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Featly * Because he said he was as much the Lords annointed as the King 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2. 3. See the Gentle Lash 1. 2. â—…3
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 PLAUT. Istic thesaurus stultis in lingua positus est ut maledicant melioribus IMPRINTED 1644. The Gentle Lash O That wee had Faith but strong enough to exorcise these quotidian deviâ—…s so weekely appearing in our Diurnals Mercuries and Continuations who pretending to maintaine the cause of Religion scandalize both it and all goodnesse with malitious Lyes whose anonomous Reporters have even sold themselves to the Presse to abuse the Peace of this poore distracted Church and Kingdome whose audacious Pens bedabbled in the Gall of bitternesse set forth presumptuous things maligning Princes and speaking evill of Dignities who ayming at the confusion of the Church strike at her very Pillars casting their venomous Froth upon their Names whose able and Religious Quils have vindicated the true Protestant Religion from the dirty calumnies of learned Hereticks Generation of Vipers who hath bewitched you who hath infaâ—…uated you to betray Religion for five shillings a sheet and to vent so many weekely pennyworths of impiety to poore deluded People whom your teachers have brought to this degree of blindnesse that they will not see How many of the most learned and religious Diviâ—…s of this Island passively submitting to the Ordinances of men and committed to the Mercy of a Prison have your printed and shamefully permitted scandals defamed and slandered rendering them as odious to the ignorant as you are to the wise maintaining nay even deifying those whom you call your Holy Pastors whose helpe God be praised we never wanted against the Argumenâ—…s of Bellarmine Stapleton or Fisher whose Net we â—…eare had bin too cunningly said for them to have escaped Nor can I here forget that debt the Church of England owes to the sound and learned labours of that Reverend Champion of our Protestant Religion D. Featley which shall remaine in our Church as lasting Monuments of his able Piety whilst Learning and Orthodox devotion find a Friend whom at this time suffering Imprisonment for his loyalty to his Conscience and his Prince your impious saucy and sacrilegious quills as full of venome as the pen out of which Demosthenes suckt his death have vilified and traduced with such calumnious falsehoods and malicious injuries my hasty and impartiall Pen shall take the boldnesse here to vindicate To which end you shall first understand what the person is secondly what his charge He is a man whose life and doctrine need no Advocate whom detraction it selfe could not mention without addition of some Epithets of respect nay concerning whom the very Diurnalls whose nature and property is to Lye could not for their owne credits but acknowledge an honourable truth some styling him a grave some a good and others a famous Doctor And indeed to conclude him in a word no object for any evill passion but Envy and a Subject for no discourse but what ends with Admiration He is a man whose profoundnesse in learning encouraged the Houses of Parliament to commit the translation of S. Pauls Epistles to his Review Marginall Annotation and Exposition whose soundnesse of Doctrine invited the same Authority to make choice of him for the answering of a Popish and scandalous Pamphlet intituled A safeguard from Ship-wrack both performed with solid judgement and singular fidelity that extant this ready for the Presse By which Authority he was likewise chosen a Member of the Synod or Assembly of Divines for the composing of some differences and settlâ—… the peace of the distempered Church in these His Majesties Dominions As touching his charge it was unhappily occasioned by a Message sent him from His Majesty whose Chaplaine in ordinary he is which commanded him no more to joyne in that Assembly being convented without His Majesties consent and therefore without full Authority whereto returning his answer in a Letter unseal'd to the most reverend Father in God the Arch-Bishop of Armagh a chosen Member likewise of the same Assembly now at the University of Oxford the Letter was intercepted opened and falsly transcrib'd whereunto the malicions pen-man adding what would most by wronging him advantage the Cause delivered the Originall to the Messenger with hopes to intercept the Answer and dispatcht the false Transcript to the Committee for Examinations whereupon a Serjeant at Armes was sent for the Doctor who having in his examinations refused to consent to every Clause in the Scottish Covenant was forthwith committed prisoner to the Lord Peters house in Aldersgate street where now he remaines as chearefull as a good Conscience and as poore as the severest censure of Authority can make him But when the Lyon is downe how every Curre will barke Him whom of late these Sycophanticall Diurnall-mongers had in so good esteeme whilst he concurr'd in some things with them whom they have in Admiration him now they worry with their temporizing pens who render him to the world no better then to use their owne words a Prevaricator a Court-spye and a Traytor to the Assembly tryumphing in the Sentence of his downefall and mingling the bitter Cup of Justice with the Exuberance of their own Gall and Vineger The Doctor say they hath his Livings sequestred his Estate secur'd his bookes seiz'd upon and himselfe Imprisoned Spolia ampla refertis The onely Truth that Pamphlet is guilty of sed quo cecidit sub crimine What was his charge What was the heynous crime that moved to such a Ruine A Letter sent to the Arch-bishop of Armagh an elected Member of the Assembly whom all the world admires and honours unlesse some within the Line of Communication who are more worthy to unty his shooe then to judge of his Abilities But what evill hath he done He acquainted this worthy Member by that Letter with some passages in the Assembly requiring his judgement in some things there controverted concerning matters of Faith Proh nefandum Indeed his very presence in the Assembly as farre as I see yet was his greatest fault Yea but he sued covertly for a Deanry Yea that was a fault indeed to sue for something which they are now endeavouring to make nothing to purchase a house that 's pulling downe Put case he did so Is it a Crime to provide a plaister for a Sore that is now a breeding Clypeum post vulnera is folly but ante vulnus is Providence They that aime at the Ruine of the whole body will be impatient at the Preservation of a Member Is it a great fault for a Servant to begge of his Master and none at all for Subjects to begger their Prince Perfect Diurnall page 83. You have bin often told of â—…ome rotten Members in both houses of Parliament and yee may see further there are the like rotten Members in the Assâ—…mbly of Divines c. Another Truth Alas we know that too well or
else the Head had never bin so carefull to preserve it selfe But tel me what is the cause of rottennesse in a Member Is it not the restraint of the influence from the noble part Some Members there are amongst us from whom the free operations of the Animall spirits are by accident a while obstructed through the Malignity of the spleene others whose obstinacy is not capable of their naturall operation but resist all influence from the Head Tell me if thou hast Philosophy which of these are most in lining to rottennesse But you that so maligâ—…e these Members say which of your faction have lifted up a hand against the common Enemy which of them have struck a blow but against a Cushion or an Houre glasse Whilst these menbars whom you so revile have with their well arâ—…'d Arguments laid the Enemy on his back whilst these Membâ—…rs you so Rabsekize have borne the burthen of the day and alwaies have bin active in the true Religions Cause and maintained the Truâ—…h that Schisme hath so struck at Had your Members bin sound and able they would have shewen more action and not like cowards have run away to New England when old England was on fire nâ—…r crept into widows houses whom they devoured under the pretence of long Prayer Had those Members â—…in rotten you so term I feâ—…re the Truth â—…ad found but poore Champions This â—…ragious Member whom you so revile lookt the Lyon in the very face nay when he ror'd he trembled not whose holy Table when all turn'd Altars was no mâ—…veable stood he not up for the true reformed Râ—…ligion in the Kingdomes both of England and France Did not he oppose Arminianisme when it was in its fullest Ruffe And when the Crime was capitall to speake against it were his lipps sealed yet this man hath your black mouthâ—…d malice which blasphemeth the servants of the most high God reviled and stâ—…led by the Name of Rotten But take heed and rememâ—…er Nestorius the Hereticke how he died Yea but he â—…sed with the Assembly to undermine their proceedings and gave intelligence to the adverse party c Indeed he joyn'd with the Assembly so long as they joyn'd with the Truth And when they undermined it he countermined them Had he swallowd the Covenant whole and bin for sworne in some particulars he had bin as sound a Member as the best They had past as Birds all of a browne Feather and had founded a new Truth not upon the pious confession of Peter but upon the perjurions denyall of his Master But he gave intelligence of the proceedings of the Assembly I never heard before that Synodicall decisions were arcana imperii or opera tenebrarum the secrets of a Kingdome or the workes of darknesse Truth seekes no corners nor is impatient of discovery Veritas nihil eâ—…ubescit nisi abscondi But intelligence was given to the adverse party Whom meane yee the King or his evill Councell A well justified Consultation fears neither if the King be not the defender of the Faith why doe you stile him so if he be to whom should injured Truth appeal but to her chiefe defence and protector But the Doctors guiltinesse of thâ—…se crimes appear'd in a letter to Oxford intercepted which was brought to the Committee for examinations And had that Letter a name subscribed no The true Letter had viz. which the Counterfeitor being a meere English-man took for a Sheep-marke and omitted it But for the substraction of two letters he added mâ—…ny words and owes the Doctor nothing The Originall which carried his errand to Oxford spake nothing of the five times voting him out of his Living at Lambeth not a word that He was a constant visiter of the Kings prisoners in London or Lambeth recommended no suit of his for a Bishopwrick as the false Diurnall reports But as the Divell so his Children sometimes repeat a truth to the end they may abuse it This Hackney Pamphleter relates a businesse though not to the purpose yet to his owne purpose which is to wrong the Doctor and sayes that his Barne at Acton was burn by the Parliaments Souldiers but in the 84 page he poysons it with a Lye avouching that there was no Corne in it and that he suffer'd no considerable losse by it whereas it appeares under the hands of severall able and honest house-holders and vestry men of Acton that his losse amounted to the summo of 211. li. subscribed the 1 of October 1643. Varlets when your shuffling and interfering Truths are so faulty how damnable are your through paced Lyes This onely by the way but to returne to the purpose page 84. The Doctor at the Assembly past his vote with the rest upon debate of the Scottish Covenant for the quite extirpation of Popery and Prelacy To see how two aiming at one end may proceed in two contrary courses The Divell uses to take from the Truth this tri-obular newes-Merchant adds to it Two travelling contrary wayes may meet at the Antipodes He that takes from the Truth and adds to the Truth may meet in Hell as well as in their hellish intentions The Extirpation of Popery and Prelacy For the first His resolution is a perpetuall vote and his action a continuall execution For the second I call the whole Assembly of Divines some of the Peeres and divers of the House of Commons to witnesse your stupendious Lye But the Divell hath taught you this curious point of Sophistry to argue a male conjunctis ad bene divisa As for the extirpation of Popery he hath acted what others have but voted But for the clause of prelacy your Idols shall be judges upon what reasons he dissented First at his Ordination he tooke an Oath to obey his ordinary Secondly at his Institution and Induction he swore Canonical obedience to the Bishop of the dioces Thirdly his Benefice being of my Lords grace of Canterburies peculiar he tooke an Oath to maintaine the priviledges of the See of Canterbury Now how this Covenant in that particular can be consistent with the three former oathes or how any in the Assembly that takes it can be guiltlesse of perjury let every good conscience judge Besides how is God mockt in our very prayers when that mouth which as it is required and by an unrepeald Act of Parliament commanded every day beseeches him to send downe the dew of his blessing upon all Bishops and Curates shall ipso facto sweaâ—…e and vote the utter Extirpation of Bishops whom it prayes for Mercurius Brittan p. 47. It was mentioned before who was intelligencer to speake of passages in the Assembly now a word more of it That grave D I meane D. Featley that hath correspondency with the Bishop of Armagh confesseth in his letter to him that he all this while dissembled with the Assembly How uninterrupted boldnesse wil turne to brasse-browd imâ—…udence That Letter this Mercury speaks of was surely 〈◊〉 on the back of that Bull which
the Church and he notwithstanding would not so much as bow a knee I passed him for the present but when afterwards he presented himselfe againe at the same communion and I saw teares in his eyes I came to him and demanded of him whether he came prepared and refused to kneele meerely upon scruple of conscience and when he seriously affirmed that he did so I gave him the communion and wished him to come to me the next day to take away his scruples and when he caâ—…e because Andrewes his wife had said before many that this apprentice of hers could make a better Sermon then I I examined him in points of Catechisme and sound him tardy and ignorant enough The third Article He preacheth for Organs shewing how necessary they are to be in Churches and hath preached against prayer ex tempore and saith of such praying whereas such were never in so they are ever out and the said Doctor preacheth but seldâ—… ne to his people having two great livings yet he pressed hard for 2 s. 9 d. in the pound of his parishioners untill it came neere the commencing of a suit at law to prevent him Answ. For Organs I remember that commenting upon that text of the Apostle Col. 3. 16. admonishâ—…ng one another in Psalmes and hymnes and spirituall songs I said that some noted upon the word Psalmoi derived from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} tango to touch that psalmes properly signified such songs as were made to be sung and plaid upon the lute harpe or some such like instrument hereupon inferred the lawfull use of instrumentall musick vhich though I conceived to be no very strong argument because drawne from a meere etymologie yet for the doctrine it selfe I held it very sound and good that it is lawfull to proise God as well with instrumentall as vocall musick And for Organs in particular I said they were not to be accounted popish for S. Ambrose and S. Austine commended the use of them in the Church in their time at this day the protestants use them both in the low Countries and in England and for the Pope he hath none in his Chappell yet his Majesty hath in his as his predecessors had before him Howsoever I am sure that no man can testifie that ever I undertooke to shew how necessary Organs be I doe not hold them necessary but very lawfull and of good use both in the Kings Chappell Cathedrall Chutches Colledges and elsewhere The law forbiddeth them for the Act of Parliament forbiddeth any to use any other forme or manner of Prayer Service or Sacraments then is there expressed I deny your argument and my reason is an Organ is no manner or forme of singing or service but a meere instrument wherewith we stir up our affections the more to praise God and sing more tunable and delightfully As a sword is no forme or manner of fighting a toole is no forme or manner of working a knife is no forme or manner of cutting so neither is an Organ Lute or Harp any forme or manner of singing or praysing God but an instrument onely wherewith we pray or praise or sing more melodiously gracefully sith it is evident that no Organ or other musicall instruments are any types of Christ or parts of the abrogated Law of Moses I am yet to learne why we may not as lawfully use Organs in our Churches as King David used them in the Temple Praise God with the sound of the Trumpet praise him with the Psalâ—…ery and Harpe praise him with the Timbrell and Pipe praise him with the stringed instruments and Organs For praying ex tempore I never condemned it absolutely but contrariwise when I preached at Lambeth upon these words of the Apostle The spirit maketh intercession withsighes and groanes which cannot be expressed I much pressed the use thereof especially when according to our Saviours precept we retire into our closets and pray to our Father in secret but I found fault with some carelesse preachers in our dayes who came into the Pulpit at publike Fasts and presumed without any premeditation to pray many houres ex tempore in which their prayers they used much Battologie and vaine repetitions against the expresse commandement of our Saviour excluded his prayer which is the perfect pattern of all prayer The words of my Sermon transcâ—…ibed verbatim are these They expunge the Lords prayer and doe not at all rehearse before or after it their owne how long soever they make them Whereas the Reformed Churches generally conclude their prayers before Sermon with the Lords prayer partly in opposition to Papists who close up their devotions with an Ave Maria partly to supply all the defects and imperfections of their owne these leave out that sanctified forme of prayer in which it being the quintessence of all prayer one drop is more worth and hath in it more vertue being powred out in Faith then an Ocean of their conceived abortive prayers in which they are never out because indeed never in neither can they easily make an end because they never knew how to begin For my seldome preaching Besides ten distinct bookes and some of them of no small volumne which I have published in the defence of the Orthodox Protestâ—…nt Religion against Atheists Papists and Arminians I have beene a constant preacher in England and in France for these 32 yeares at least This last yeare I have preached sometimes twice and sometimes thrice in a weeke though not so often at Lambeth as I used to doe partly by reason of my attendance two moneths at Court by command of the then Lord Chamberlaine the Earle of Essex partly in regâ—…rd of a double taske recommended to me from some Members of the Honourable House of Commons the former writing annotâ—…tions upon all S. Pauls Epistles the latter an answer to a treatise of a Popish Priest Intituled A safegard from Shipwrack the former ready for the Presse the latter Printed with the approbation of the House Onely this is true that I have very seldome or never preached at Lambeth Church this yâ—…are in their hearing for five of them have not beene at Lambeth Church at divine prayer these 9 monâ—…ths for which their delinquency I humbly desire that according to the Statute they may pay their â—…2d to the poore for every Sunday and Holyday they have beene absent from their Parish Church For my two great Liâ—…ings They were I confesse good Livings if I might have my 〈◊〉 but fâ—…rst for rent of houses and the tenth part of â—…he cleare gaines of Merchants and Artificers according to the Statute of K Edward the sixt I never received a peny and for the land in the Parish whereof there was wont formerly to be 1000 acres in tillage tâ—…ere are now not above 120 the Parishioners turning their a rable land the tenth where of was worth at least 4s per acre into pasture
feast of the translation of Thomas the Martyr in the 18 yeare of his Majesties raigne that now is Iohn Goad of Lambeth Ambrose Andrewes of the same Edward Searles of the same and Iohn Hopkins of the same were by the Jury of the high Constables of the County indicted for not repairing to the parish church of Lambeth to heare divine service and the common prayers of the Church by the space of 12 sundayes but did voluntarily and obstinately absent themselves from the same contrary to the statute in that case provided Ita testor Tho. Foster clericus pacis Com. Sur. In particular I except against Io. Goad That he is a man who stands indicted at the Sessions ex record supr. That he hath spoken often as he cannot deny much in derogation of the booke of Common Prayer as namely against diverse passages in the Letany the crosse in baptisme and the forme of absolution in the visitation of the sick That he is a breaker of the Sabbath himselfe and causeth his servants to worke upon that day as he did on the 28 of November last To the former two exceptions Goad could answer nothing but to the last he said it was in case only of necessity but the D replyed it was meere covetousnesse and no necessity at all as his neighbour Andrew Bartlet an ancient vestry man would testifie against him whom the D. earnestly desired to be called in he being ready waiting in the next room but hee could not obtaine it of M. White to have him called Item against Ambrose Andrewes That he stands indicted as is abovesaid That he likewise as Goad hath spoken much in derogation of the Common Prayer book and hath not come to the prayers and Sacrament at Lambeth these nine months at least as the Reader Clerke and Sexton and Church-wardens also were ready to testifie That whilst he came to Church as he did formerly he frequently disturbed the Preacher he usually talked and laughed in the Sermon jeering at the Minister and once when the D. himselfe preached spake aloud in his sermon saying It is time thou hadst done already and other such contemptuous and disgracefull words for which by the statute 10. Mariae Sess. 2. he is if it be proved against him by two witnesses to be committed without baile or mainprise to the Goale the two witnesses said the D. are here present to testifie it Richard Hooke William Chapman but M. White would not have them called in That when his wife had said before one of the neighbours that at Lambeth Church they had nothing but pottage and that they must goe to London for rostemeat that the Church was no better then a barne or stable and that neighbour reproved her for it her husband the said Ambrose Andrewes said he would iustifie and maintaine what his wife had said Item against Edward Searles That he stands indicted at the Sessions ut supra That he confessed that the cause of their preferring Articles against D. Featley was to stay the prosecution of a bill against him the said Searles at Sessions and said that if the D. would take off the indictment thâ—… articles against the D. should soone be with-drawne this is testified by Tho. Pibus and another That this Searles is a Blasphemer of the holy Scripture say nancy against the Parliament and the proceedings thereof saying openly in his preaching that our State had sate long and done nothing comparing themto a Fowle that sitteth long and hatcheth not whose eggs be addle and to a woman that alwayes conceiveth and never bringeth forth who can be no comfort to her husband and hath not onely not given or lent to the present necessary preservation of the Kingdome but declared to others that it is not safe to give or lend to the Parliament and hath openly preached that these are resisting times and that the keyes are taken from the Church and left in such hands as have layd them by till they be rustie and that the whole tenure of the Gospell is against that which is preached commonly in London where Arme Arme Blood Blood Fight Fight is commonly preached and they pretend they fight for Religion and priviledge of Parliament and the liberty of the Subjects but the wife have lost their wisedome and the physitian his skill and the cure is worse than the disease All which the Commons in Parliament assembled taking into consideration for the provision of a Godly Learned and Orthodox Divine for the said Parish and for fit maintenance for such an one doe Order that the said Church and the profits thereof be forthwith Sequestred c. Die Martis II Iulii 1643. The Order for sequestring the Parsonage of Lambeth from D. Featley being put to the question It was resolved negatively H. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. Notwithstanding this resolution of the house of Commons in justification of D. F. a substitute of M. Whites of Dorâ—…hester who beares his character in his name stretched his Chevarel conscience so farre that to gratifie some Schismaticall Separatists at Lambeth read a Paper upon the 9. of November last in the Parish Church of Lambeth on the Lords day in which D. F. is charged with the Articles above mentioned formally in terminis which were rejected by the house of Commons as partly idle and frivolous partly false and scandalous and the D. cleared and acquitted of them all and they made the ground of the sentence of Sequestration pronounced against him September 29. Now sith a Judge cannot justly pronounce different sentences and give divers judgements upon the selfe same evidence neither is it possible after a cause is fully informed and sentenced that the same party should be both guilty and not guilty of the same Delinquencies numero And forasmuch as the sentence above mentioned whereby the D. is cleared acquitted and absolved is upon Record and may be seene by any who shall search for it in the authenticall Register of the Acts of the house of Commons It followeth necessarily and unavoydably that D. F. not onely remaineth still Rector of Lambeth as he is styled in the very forme of Sequestration but also standeth rectus in curia As for the Letter to the Primate of Armagh intercepted wherewith alone he is charged in another Declaration it is answered above It was no Letter but an unsealed note drawne from D. F. by a wile it discovers no secrets at all nor layes any imputation upon the Assembly or Parliament and is so farre from containing any offensive matter or subject to any just exception or censure that the close Committee who exactly perused it and tooke a Copy of it sent the true originall to the Primate of Armagh at Oxon who hath it in his keeping The Doctors Manifesto and CHALLENGE Whereas a false and scandalous report is bruited by the Semi-separatists and Anabaptists and readily entertained by divers Zelots of the new