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<P>Featlaei <GAP DESC="foreign">: OR, Doctor <HI>Daniel Featley</HI> REVIVED: Proving, <HI>That the Prote&s;tant Church</HI> (and not the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI>) <HI>is the onely Catholick and true Church.</HI></P>
<P>In a MANUAL pre&s;er|ved from the hands of the Plunderers.</P>
<P>With a Succinct HISTORY OF HIS Life and Death.</P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by <HI>John Featley,</HI> Chaplain to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Nath. Brook,</HI> at the <HI>Angel</HI> in <HI>Cornhil.</HI> 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Sacred Maje&s;ty OF Our Royal Sovereign, CHARLES II. By Divine Providence King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;ty,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>SUbjects without their Sovereign are but <GAP DESC="foreign">; a <HI>Headle&s;s</HI> Trunk; and there|fore a <HI>heedle&s;s</HI> peo|ple. This hath been for
<PB REF="3">many years (ah, too many!) the <HI>Mayme</HI> and <HI>Malady</HI> of the&s;e Your Maje&s;ties di&s;tra|cted Kingdomes; wherein through the Rage and Ty|ranny of Faction,
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 12.21.</NOTE> the <HI>hand</HI> &s;aid unto the <HI>eye</HI> (if I may invert the words of the A|po&s;tle,) and the <HI>feet</HI> unto the <HI>head, we have no need of you:</HI> yea,
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Ver. 23.</NOTE> and tho&s;e members of the body which we <HI>know</HI> to be le&s;s honor|able, on them <HI>the Errours of the times</HI> be&s;towed more abundant honor.</P>
<P>But it becometh not me to be one of <HI>Solomon's
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Prov. 20 3.</NOTE> med|dlers;</HI> or <HI>infandum renovare dolorem.</HI> Our long and &s;ad Laments are now (even a|bove hope) drowned in our Joys; and our <HI>Groanes</HI> and
<PB REF="3"><HI>Cryes</HI> are converted into <HI>Ho|&s;anna's</HI> to that All-mighty <HI>King of Kings,</HI> who alone hath (even to the exta&s;ie of our Admiration) both pre|&s;erved Your &s;acred Per&s;on; and re&s;tored You to Your People. This year is there|fore mo&s;t truly ANNUS LIBERTATIS AN|GLIAE; <HI>The Year of</HI> your Subjects &s;afe&s;t <HI>Liberty:</HI> For
<Q><L>&mdash;<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">An&s;on.</NOTE> Nunquam-libertas gratior extat,</L>
<L>Quam &s;ub rege pio. &mdash;</L></Q></P>
<P><NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">Heb. 12.3.</NOTE> The <HI>contradiction of &s;in|ners,</HI> and the Romane FU|GALIA, are turned into <HI>Acclamations</HI> of Chri&s;tian <HI>Loyalty,</HI> and <HI>the Voice of Gladne&s;s.</HI> We, alas, <HI>&s;lept</HI> out too many years in a dark and &s;tupid <HI>Lethargy:</HI> and
<PB REF="4">yet <HI>now</HI> al&s;o, even in this unexpected
<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">P&s;alm 126.1.</NOTE> turning of our Captivity, we are but like unto them that <HI>dream.</HI> The Lord <HI>awake</HI> us into a quick &s;en&s;e of our great Deliver|ances; that the Glory may be <HI>his,</HI> and <HI>his</HI> onely,
<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">P&s;alm 136.4.</NOTE> who alone doth great wonders; who alone doth
<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 65.7.</NOTE> &s;till the noi&s;e of the <HI>Seas,</HI> the noi&s;e of their <HI>waves,</HI> and <HI>the tu|mult of the people.</HI></P>
<P>Every Loyal Subject &s;ome way or other te&s;tifieth his joy for the Miracle of Your Maje&s;ties Return: and ma|ny expre&s;s it by their <HI>Free|will Offerings.</HI> I am there|fore unwilling to appeare <HI>empty;</HI> although this little <HI>Honorary</HI> may be unworthy Your Maje&s;ties reception.
<PB REF="4">The Author thereof (my deare&s;t Uncle) intended it for Your Royal <HI>Father;</HI> to whom both <HI>he,</HI> and <HI>mine</HI> unworthy <HI>&s;elf,</HI> were mo&s;t obliged &s;ervants: but being denied that honour by the churli&s;hne&s;s of the Times, he committed it to <HI>my</HI> tru&s;t, even at a time when (to pre&s;erve mine <HI>Allegiance</HI>) I was compelled to <HI>flie upon the wings of the winde.</HI></P>
<P>But,
<Q>Diffugere nives, redeunt jam gramina campis.</Q> That <HI>Storm</HI> is turned into a <HI>Calm:</HI> Now therefore, even by the Command of Chri&s;t, QUAE CAESARIS CAESARI. This Book is due to Your Maje&s;ty,
<PB REF="5">both as you are the ju&s;t and undoubted Heir of Your Glorious Father; and as to me a mo&s;t gracious Ma&s;ter. <HI>Little</HI> it is; but the <HI>Iliades</HI> in a <HI>Nut-&s;hell</HI> found accept|ance. The &s;ubject matter (I &s;uppo&s;e) is not un&s;ea&s;onable; it being Your Maje&s;ties pre|&s;ent De&s;ign to re&s;tore <HI>the true Reformed Prote&s;tant Church</HI> in the&s;e Your Dominions to her <HI>Purity,</HI> and pri&s;tine <HI>Glory:</HI> in the <HI>pro&s;e&s;sion</HI> of who&s;e mo&s;t holy <HI>Faith</HI> you have been &s;o wonderfully <HI>pre&s;er|ved.</HI></P>
<P>You, GREAT SIR, are not onely <HI>Pater patriae,</HI> but al&s;o
<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">I&s;a. 49.23.</NOTE> <HI>Nutritius Eccle&s;ia;</HI> under the &s;hadow of who&s;e wings &s;he findes protection. For even the <HI>Church</HI> it &s;elf is
<PB REF="5">enforced to take <HI>Sanctuary,</HI> to &s;hun the &s;ubtilty and rage of
<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">Nehem. 2 19.</NOTE> <HI>Sanballat</HI> and <HI>Tobiah;</HI> the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> on the one &s;ide; and the <HI>Sectaries</HI> and <HI>Schi&s;ma|ticks</HI> on the other. That hea|venly <HI>grace,</HI> and Princely <HI>pie|ty</HI> and <HI>prudence</HI> which con|centre in Your Maje&s;ty; to|gether with Your Royal and Ju&s;t Title of DEFEN|DER OF THE FAITH; a&s;&s;ure us that you will ten|derly cheri&s;h this
<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Cant. 2.2</NOTE> <HI>Lilie a|mong the thorns;</HI> and (if not retarded by our <HI>impati|ence</HI>) <HI>ha&s;ten</HI> her <HI>Re&s;taura|tion.</HI> Sad, I confe&s;s, is the pre&s;ent condition of our <HI>Mo|ther</HI> the <HI>Church; Jacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;aeu</HI> &s;trugling in her womb: yet not the ra&s;h <HI>violence,</HI> but the <HI>patience</HI> and <HI>skill</HI> of her
<PB REF="6"><HI>Midwife</HI> mu&s;t help to deli|ver her. The tender i&s;&s;ue of our younger Brother <HI>Benja|min</HI> (who <HI>think</HI> they can
<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg">Judges 20.16</NOTE> &s;ling &s;tones with their <HI>left hands</HI> at an haires breadth) might more highly advan|tage (as I humbly conceive) the Work of Chri&s;t, if they would be more forward to approve of what the <HI>right hand</HI> doth. Certainly a mo|derate <HI>Complyance,</HI> and a di&s;|creet <HI>Conde&s;cen&s;ion</HI> in things <HI>indifferent,</HI> even on both &s;ides, will be&s;t &s;avour of that Heavenly <HI>Wi&s;dom,</HI> which is fir&s;t pure, then peaceable, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> It was the <HI>Dove,</HI> not the <HI>Ra|ven,</HI> which brought the <HI>O|live-leaf</HI> into <HI>Noahs Ark.</HI> That famous Speech of <HI>A|bram</HI> to <HI>Lot</HI> is &s;till canonical,
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<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Gen. 13.8.</NOTE> <HI>Let there be no &s;trife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are bre|thren.</HI> I &s;uppo&s;e that the le|gitimate and faithful <HI>&s;ons</HI> of the <HI>Church,</HI> (remembring how lately they <HI>really &s;uffer|ed</HI> what the
<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h 9.4, 5</NOTE> Gibeoniti&s;h Emba&s;&s;adors did but <HI>counter|feit</HI>) will now rather
<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Ezra 3.12, 13.</NOTE> <HI>&s;hout</HI> for <HI>joy</HI> that Your Maje&s;ty bath laid again the Founda|tion of the hou&s;e of the Lord; then <HI>weep</HI> in remembrance of the former glory. A tho|row Reformation (not hypo|critically pretended as of late, but really effected) will be a Work of <HI>time:</HI> and doubt|le&s;s that God who hath brought to the <HI>birth,</HI> will in his owne <HI>due time</HI> give
<PB REF="7">&s;trength to <HI>bring forth. Bro|ken joynts</HI> may &s;oon be well <HI>&s;et;</HI> but the members mu&s;t be content to recover <HI>&s;trength</HI> by degrees. The Lord in mercy pre&s;erve your Maje|&s;ty; and make You a Glori|ous and La&s;ting In&s;trument to <HI>repair</HI> all our <HI>breaches;</HI> and to <HI>build again the old wa&s;te places</HI> of his <HI>Church</HI> among&s;t us. Thus prayeth</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Maje&s;ties loyal Subject, and mo&s;t faithful &s;ervant,</HI> John Featley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>CERTAIN DOUBTS OF <HI>S. B.</HI> Re&s;olved by Dr. <HI>Dan. Featly,</HI> again&s;t Popery, a&s;&s;erting the Prote&s;tants Church to be the onely Catholick and true Church.</HEAD>
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<HEAD><HI>Dr.</HI> Featley's <HI>Provi&s;e touch|ing the Prote&s;tants Evi|dence.</HI></HEAD>
<P><Q>I Per&s;wade my &s;elf, that <HI>S. B.</HI> makes not the&s;e men in each age cited, the onely Profe&s;&s;ors of the true Church; but that then the Roman Church was a true one, though &s;ick and di|&s;ea&s;ed; and that the&s;e men
<PB N="2" REF="8">and they were members of the &s;ame one Catholick Church; al&s;o, the&s;e &s;tout|ly oppo&s;e tho&s;e odde in|ventions which the prevail|ing and more populous &s;ide pinned and annexed to the Unity of Faith.</Q></P>
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<HEAD><HI>The An&s;wer of</HI> Dr. <HI>D. F.</HI></HEAD>
<P>SIr, <MILESTONE N="i."> it grieves me much to &s;ee Men of War of the &s;ame Fleet, and &s;ailing under the fame Admiral, and with the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion to fight again&s;t Antichri&s;t, <HI>fall foul</HI> one of the other; although they have <HI>Sea room enough,</HI> and might &s;afely hold on in their own cour&s;e, and one need not cro&s;&s;e the others haw&s;er; for <HI>Ithacus velit &amp;
<PB N="3" REF="8">magno mercentur Achivi:</HI> This &s;ole con&s;ideration with|held me from interpo&s;ing my judgement in the late unhap|py differences between the Champions of the Go&s;pel, concerning the pre&s;ent &s;tate of the Roman Church: though I was required &s;o to do by a worthy and reverend Prelate of this Kingdom. Yet becau&s;e I know you love the truth in &s;incerity, and propo&s;e that among your o|ther doubts, not any way to entangle me, but expedite your &s;elf, or &s;atisfie &s;ome of your friends: I will return a punctual an&s;wer to the cen|&s;ure of your book:</P>
<P>And fir&s;t, Whereas the reverend and learned Prelate would have your book read
<PB N="4" REF="9">with this Provi&s;o,
<Q>That you make not tho&s;e men in every age cited by you, to be the onely Profe&s;&s;ors of the true Church:</Q> I con|ceive that caution to be need|le&s;s: for neither do you a&s;|&s;ume to your &s;elf, neither did the Adver&s;ary put the task upon you, to cite <HI>all</HI> the Pro|fe&s;&s;ors of the true Religion in all ages; (which had been <HI>opus Iliae majus</HI>) but to pro|duce &s;ome eminent witne&s;&s;es in each age; which you have done faithfully, and thereby procur'd you as many friends as you have alleaded te&s;timo|nies. What the Orator &s;pake of the <HI>State,</HI> is true in the <HI>Church,</HI> the Church hath a large field: many may run their races in it, &amp; be crown'd
<PB N="5" REF="9">with honor.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cic. Phil.</HI> 4.</NOTE> <HI>Magnus e&s;t in Eccle&s;ia campus, multis patet apertus cur&s;us ad laudem.</HI> You have run well, and out-&s;tript many: it may be &s;ome here|after may out&s;trip you: I know you will account that no lo&s;s, becau&s;e it will be the truths gain. The <HI>Evidence</HI> which you take out of good Records, and well &s;orted ac|cording to every <HI>age,</HI> is e|nough to convince the Ro|mi&s;h adver&s;ary: and fairer and clearer in any one Writter I have not &s;een. Yet I mu&s;t confe&s;s, that our cau&s;e doth not depend onely upon tho&s;e evidences: Neither doe I think any Prote&s;tant in the world, will undertake to pro|duce all Records and Te&s;ti|monies which may be found
<PB N="6" REF="10">for the truth of our Religion in all Antiquity.</P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> whereas he add|eth,
<Q>That even then the Roman Church was a true Church, though &s;ick and di|&s;ea&s;ed; and that the&s;e men and they were members of the &s;ame true Catholick Church:</Q> I apprehend not &s;ufficiently either the truth of his a&s;&s;ertion, or the &s;ince|rity of his intention. For what have we to do with the Roman Church? I blu&s;h, that any Prote&s;tant &s;hould open his mouth for that <HI>Whore of</HI> Babylon, <HI>who hath dyed her garments &s;carlet red in the blood of the Noble fore|runners of our faith:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">udg. 6.3.</NOTE> If</HI> Baal <HI>be a god, let him plead for him&s;elf;</HI> if the Pope of <HI>Rome</HI>
<PB N="7" REF="10">hath any right, either to the Catholick Church, or any true &amp; vi&s;ible member there|of; let him plead his title by him&s;elf, or his <HI>learned Coun|cil.</HI> We are <HI>retained by the adver&s;e part</HI> again&s;t him; but his intention and others, who of late times have &s;et on foot this title of the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> I leave to the &s;earcher of all hearts. As for our a&s;|&s;ertion, I will make bold to demur upon it; and the ra|ther, becau&s;e Prote&s;tants and Papi&s;ts at this time &s;tand up|on the &s;ame tearms as <HI>Brutus</HI> and <HI>Autonie</HI> did after <HI>Julius Cae&s;ars</HI> death:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cie. Phit.</HI> 4.</NOTE> <HI>Si con&s;ul An|tonius, Brutus ho&s;tis: &s;i con|&s;ervator reipub. Brutus, ho&s;tis Autonius:</HI> If the Roman Church be the true Church,
<PB N="8" REF="11">the Reformed Churches, which are condemned, and excommunicated, and per|&s;ecuted to death by her, mu&s;t needs be fal&s;e Churches: If Papi&s;ts are <HI>Catholicks</HI> ac|cording to the common ac|ception of the word, Prote|&s;tants, which are the <HI>mem|brum contradivi&s;um,</HI> the op|po&s;ite number, mu&s;t needs be Hereticks. And this the late Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbu|ry,</HI> and the re&s;t of his Maje|&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners, made a clear ca&s;e in the cen&s;ure of the Lady <HI>Wotton,</HI> who was fined 500 <HI>l.</HI> for an in&s;cription on the Monument of her Hus|band, dying a Recu&s;ant, <HI>Il|lu&s;tri&s;sim<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, &amp;c. D.</HI> Wottono <HI>Catholico, ego catholica hoc po&s;ui:</HI> To the mo&s;t renown|ed,
<PB N="9" REF="11"><HI>&amp;c.</HI> the Lord <HI>Wotton,</HI> a Catholick; I, his Widow, a Catholick al&s;o, have erected this Monument.</P>
<P><HI>Catholique,</HI> if we have re|gard to the Greek Etymo|logie, fignifieth nothing but <HI>General</HI> and <HI>Univer&s;al;</HI> and according to the &s;ubject to which it is applied, is either taken in the good &s;en&s;e, or in the ill. For as we read in the Phy&s;icians of <HI>Catholick Re|medies,</HI> &s;uch as are good a|gain&s;t all, or the greater part of di&s;ea&s;es: &s;o they tell us al&s;o of <HI>Catholique,</HI> or epide|mical <HI>Di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> &s;uch as run through whole Countreys: And in &s;uch a &s;en&s;e, I will not eagerly conte&s;t with the Romani&s;ts, but that <HI>Popery</HI> may be called <HI>Catholick;</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="12">becau&s;e it cannot be denied, but that the greate&s;t part of <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Italy</HI> are infected with this di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
<P>As for the &s;en&s;e of the word, as it is attributed to the <HI>Church,</HI> it is double: 1. Either it &s;ignifieth <HI>Univer|&s;al,</HI> or <HI>Oecumenical:</HI> and &s;o it is taken in the Creed, and is oppo&s;ed to the Synagogue of the Jews which was con|fined to a certain time, per|&s;ons, and places: whereas the <HI>Catholick</HI> Chri&s;tian Church, is ab&s;olutely illimitted, ad|mitting into it believers of all &s;orts, in all places, at all times. 2. Or it &s;ignifieth <HI>Or|thodoxal,</HI> in all points needful to &s;alvation: and fo it is taken for the mo&s;t part in the Wri|tings of ancient Fathers: by
<PB N="11" REF="12">name by Saint <HI>Cyril,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>c.</HI> 8. <HI>cate|chi&s;|my&s;tag.</HI></NOTE> who advi&s;eth, <HI>When thou co|me&s;t into any City to de|mand, Where is the Catholick Church? for that is the pro|per name of the Holy Church, which is the Mother of us all: and &s;he is &s;o termed, becau&s;e &s;he catholickly and perfectly teacheth all Doctrines which men are bound to know,</HI> &amp;c. and <HI>Paciamus,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ep. ad Spin Pron.</NOTE> Chri&s;tian is my name, and Catholick my &s;ir|name: by the one I am known from Infidels, by the other from Hereticks and Schi&s;ma|ticks.</HI> And by S. <HI>Au&s;tine, Although every here&s;ie would &s;eem to be,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>L. Con Ep. fund. c</HI> 4. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">exet po|&s;tremo &amp; ip&s;um Catholicae nemen, quod non &s;ine cau&s;a inter tam multas baere&s;es i&s;ta fola Eccle&s;ia hoo nomen obti|nuit</HI></NOTE> and affecteth to be called the Catholick Church: yet when Hereticks are asked
<PB N="12" REF="13">of Pagans, Where is the place in which Catholickes meet? none of them dares point to his own hou&s;e or church.</HI> And again, <HI>The very Title of the Catholick Church holdeth me, which name among &s;o many here&s;ies &s;he alone retaineth.</HI> And by <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> the Em|peror,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sozomen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 7 <HI>c.</HI> 4. <HI>The|odo&s;ius de|crevit, ut illorum ce|cle&s;ia dun|taxat Ca|tholica di|ceretur, quae Trini|tatem ae|quali hono|re coleret.</HI></NOTE> <HI>who made a decree that the Church of them &s;hould a|lone be called Catholick, which equally wor&s;hipped and glori|fied the three per&s;ons in the ble&s;&s;ed Trinity.</HI> In neither of the&s;e &s;en&s;es can the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> without either ab|&s;urdity or impiety, be termed <HI>Catholick.</HI></P>
<P>Not in the fir&s;t &s;en&s;e: <MILESTONE N="i."> for the Roman Church is no more the <HI>Univer&s;al</HI> Church, then <HI>Rome,</HI> or the Roman Juri&s;di|diction,
<PB N="13" REF="13">is the whole world. This Grand impo&s;ture is &s;o di&s;covered by the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Durham,</HI> that I &s;uppo&s;e, as the Roman South-&s;ayers could not look one upon the other without &s;miling, &s;o neither can any Papi&s;t tearm another <HI>Catholick</HI> in this &s;en&s;e, with|out laughing in his &s;leeve. <HI>Pacianus</HI> &s;aith pertinently, <HI>That the name</HI> Catholick <HI>be|longeth to the &s;tock of the Tree, which remaineth the &s;ame;</HI> &amp; e&s;t quid totum, <HI>and is a kinde of whole and entire thing.</HI> The Roman Church at the be&s;t is but a great Branch, and &s;uch a one as we can prove is much withered; and St. <HI>Paul</HI> teacheth,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom</HI> 11.21, 22.</NOTE> <HI>may be cut off: If God &s;pared not the natural branches, take heed
<PB N="10" REF="14">le&s;t he &s;pare not thee. Behold therefore the goodne&s;s and &s;everity of God: on them which fell, &s;everity; but to|wards thee goodne&s;s, if thou continue in his goodne&s;s; o|therwi&s;e thou &s;halt bee cut off.</HI></P>
<P>Much le&s;s in the &s;econd &s;en&s;e can the church of <HI>Rome</HI> be tearmed <HI>Catholick:</HI> <MILESTONE N="ii."> for whereas other hereticks were &s;o termed, becau&s;e they held but &s;ome <HI>one</HI> error or other again&s;t the <HI>Catholick</HI> Faith: the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> main|taineth <HI>many,</HI> and tho&s;e mo&s;t grievous and pernicious: as in the Articles, Homilies, and Apology of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> and in the Har|mony of all Prore&s;tants Con|fe&s;&s;ions, is ocularly demon|&s;trated.
<PB N="11" REF="14">If any Prote&s;tant therefore tearm the Roman Church <HI>Catholick,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Whitaker <HI>d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Eccle&s; con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> 2 <HI>q</HI> 5 <HI>Nos illos non atiter vocamus Catholicos, quam illi <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">os refor|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tos &amp; Eva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">geli|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">&punc; hoc e&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ronice <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ntum &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on ex ani|mo.</HI></NOTE> it is but by an Ironie, or bitter Sar|ca&s;m: like to that of the <HI>La|cedemonians,</HI> whereby they &s;tyled <HI>Alexander</HI> a God; <HI>Quia Alexander vult e&s;&s;e Deus, &s;it Deus:</HI> Becau&s;e <HI>A|lexander</HI> will be a God, let him be a God. Or that of St. <HI>Bernard,</HI> whereby he &s;ty|leth certain hereticks <HI>Apo&s;to|licks,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>In Cant. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er</HI> 66. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">+ctant &s;e e&s;&s;e Apo&s;tolo rum &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ores &amp; Apo&s;tolte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s nominant: nullum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a|men Apo|ctolatus &s;ui &s;ignum va|lentes o|&s;tendere.</HI></NOTE> becau&s;e they arrogantly challenged to them&s;elves that title: The&s;e,</HI> for&s;ooth, <HI>call them&s;elves</HI> Apo&s;tolicks, <HI>and yet they are not able to &s;hew any &s;ign or token of their A|po&s;tle&s;hip:</HI> &s;o may we &s;ay, and mo&s;t truly, Papi&s;ts call them|&s;elves <HI>Catholicks;</HI> yet cannot &s;hew any note or true mark
<PB N="16" REF="15">of a <HI>Catholick</HI> in them.</P>
<P>Thus much for the fir&s;t At|tribute, <HI>Catholick:</HI> the next to which he Entituleth the Roman Church, <HI>viz. True,</HI> is either ambiguous and frivo|lous, or fal&s;e and &s;candalous.</P>
<P>For fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> if he &s;peak of Metaphy&s;ical Truth (which is of as large extent as <HI>entity,</HI> or being) his A&s;&s;ertion, That the Roman Church is a <HI>True Church</HI> (that is no phanta&s;m or chymaera) is, as the French u&s;e to &s;peak, <HI>an extream ve|rity;</HI> a thing &s;o evident and notorious, that no wi&s;e man would contend for it; be|cau&s;e no fool ever called it in que&s;tion. Who knoweth not what we finde in <HI>Tertullian, that Wa&s;ps have their hives, as well as Bees?</HI> and that <HI>he|reticks</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="15">have had their Con|gregations no le&s;s vi&s;ible (nay &s;ometimes more vi&s;ible) then <HI>Catholtcks?</HI> Nay, not onely Hereticks, but Jews, Mahu|metans, and Heathen Idola|ters, have had for many ages multitudes of profe&s;&s;ours of their Impieties and Super&s;ti|tions: and not onely <HI>vi&s;ible,</HI> but <HI>celebrious</HI> and &s;olemn A&s;&s;emblies, in mo&s;t parts of the Chri&s;tian world. <HI>Truth of exi&s;tence</HI> they have all, but <HI>exi&s;tence of truth</HI> (e&s;pecially all &s;aving truth) they have not. <MILESTONE N="ii."> If by <HI>truth</HI> he under|&s;tand <HI>Logical,</HI> or rather <HI>Theo|logical truth,</HI> oppo&s;ed to Er|rors and Here&s;ies in matters of Faith. <MILESTONE N="i."> Then he mu&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;arily revoke his &s;ub&s;crip|tion to the Articles of the
<PB N="18" REF="16">Church of <HI>England,</HI> which charge the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> by name,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Art.</HI> 19</NOTE> with <HI>bla&s;phemous figments, pernicious impo|&s;tures, and dangerous errours even in matter of faith.</HI></P>
<P>He mu&s;t condemn the apolo|gy of the church of <HI>England,</HI> <MILESTONE N="ii."> wherein it is alledged for our &s;eparation from <HI>Rome,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Apoli y Church of</HI> England <HI>c</HI> 16 <HI>divi&s;</HI> 1. <HI>part</HI> 6.</NOTE> that regard of our own &s;alvation con&s;trained us &s;o to do: and that we are fallen from the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Rome,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Part</HI> 6. <HI>divi&s;.</HI> 2. <HI>c</HI> 20.</NOTE> <HI>becau&s;e the ca&s;e &s;tood &s;o, that unle&s;s we left him, we could not come to Chri&s;t:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Part</HI> 5. <HI>cap</HI> 15. <HI>divi&s;</HI> 3.</NOTE> and that we have re|nounced that Church wherein there was nothing able to &s;tay a wi&s;e man, or one that hath con&s;ideration of his own &s;afety</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <MILESTONE N="iii."> he mu&s;t take to task all <HI>Davids</HI> Worthies
<PB N="19" REF="16">that have lifted up their &s;pears again&s;t the Romane Antichri&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Whitaker Succliff <HI>Tract. dc Eccle&s;.</HI> Downam <HI>de Anti+chri&s;to.</HI> Willet <HI>Spnops.</HI></NOTE> who convince that Church, &s;ome of &s;cores, &s;ome of hundreds, &s;ome of five hundred Errors and Here|&s;ies. All they who grace that Church with the title of a <HI>true Church,</HI> mu&s;t needs in|tend her to be &s;o either in the fir&s;t &s;en&s;e, or in the latter.</P>
<P>If in the fir&s;t &s;en&s;e, <MILESTONE N="i."> the church of <HI>Rome</HI> is nothing beholden to them: for they give her therein no prerogative above any heretical or &s;chi&s;matical church exi&s;tent in the world: The <HI>truth of being</HI> is com|mon to them all.</P>
<P>If in the latter &s;en&s;e, <MILESTONE N="ii."> the refor|med Churches are le&s;s behol|den to them for by <HI>licking the blot of Here&s;ie</HI> out of the Ro|man
<PB N="20" REF="17">Church, they ca&s;t a <HI>foul blur</HI> of Schi&s;m upon all the Reformed Churches. There can be no <HI>medium</HI> given: ei|ther the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is <HI>heretical,</HI> and hath departed from the Faith of the ancient Church; or <HI>we</HI> are <HI>&s;chi&s;ma|tical</HI> who have for&s;aken her communion. Either the faith of the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is not ju&s;tifiable; or our &s;eparation from her is not ju&s;tifiable: For no man ought to &s;epa|rate from the true Church of Chri&s;t, but hold good quar|ter and corre&s;pondence with her. As we believe our Creed, &s;o we ought to embrace in our practi&s;e the communion of Saints. The <HI>true Church</HI> of Chri&s;t is his my&s;tical bo|dy; from which who&s;oever i|divided,
<PB N="21" REF="17">is divided from the Head, and con&s;equently from all influence of his &s;pirit: as the Author of the Sermons to the brethren in the de&s;ert, (&s;uppo&s;ed to be St. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI>) &s;trongly inferreth, &s;aying, <HI>Membrum amputatum non &s;equitur &s;piritus: cum in cor|pore erat, vivebat; preci&s;um, amittit &s;piritum.</HI> The Life doth not runne in a member which is cut off: while&s;t it was a part of that body, it retained life; but being divi|ded from it, it hath lo&s;t its &s;pirits. With whom St. <HI>Cy|prian</HI> agrees, <HI>Qui&s;quis ab ec|cle&s;ia &s;egregatur, a promi&s;sis eccle&s;iae &s;eparatur: nec perti|net ad Chri&s;ti praemia, qui re|linquit eccle&s;iam Chri&s;ti. Ali|enus e&s;t, prophanus e&s;t, ho&s;t is
<PB N="22" REF="18">e&s;t. Habere jam non pote&s;t De|um patrem, qui eccle&s;iam non habet matrem.</HI> Who&s;oever is divided from the Church, he is &s;eparated from the promi|&s;es made to the Church: nor hath he any &s;hare in Chri&s;t's rewards, who leaves the Church of Chri&s;t. He is a &s;tranger, he is profane, he is an enemy. He cannot call God his Father, who hath not the Church for his Mother. Were not <HI>Novatus,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Reynold <HI>prelect.</HI> 1. <HI>p.</HI> 6. <HI>error chfirmatus in haere&s;em eva&s;it.</HI></NOTE> and af|ter him <HI>Donatus,</HI> de&s;ervedly branded with an indelible mark of <HI>Schi&s;m,</HI> for &s;epara|ting them&s;elves from the Ca|tholick Church? and did not their Schi&s;m improved, be|come in the end Here&s;ie? I tremble to rehear&s;e thedread|ful Sentence which St. <HI>Cy|prian</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="18">pronounceth again&s;t all of the &s;eparation: <HI>Tales eti|am&s;i occi&s;i in confe&s;sione no|minis Chri&s;ti fuerint, macula i&s;ta nec &s;anguine abluitur. E&s;&s;e martyr non pote&s;t, qui in eccle&s;ia non e&s;t. Occidi pote&s;t, coronari non pote&s;t.</HI> Such per&s;ons are no Martyrs, al|though they lo&s;e their lives for confe&s;sing the Name of Chri&s;t: this &s;tain will not be &s;cowred clean, no not with blood. Killed they may be, but crowned they &s;hall never be. And do they then good &s;ervice to the Prote&s;tant Churches, who pluck the thorn of Here&s;ie out of the foot of the Roman Church, and put as &s;harp, and a &s;harp|er thorn of Schi&s;m into the foot of their own Mother?</P>
<PB N="24" REF="19">
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> the <HI>true Church</HI> is di&s;cerned by two notes e|&s;pecially, <HI>viz.</HI> the pure prea|ching of the word, and right admini&s;tration of the Sacra|ments; as is expre&s;ly affir|med in the Doctrine of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> Art. 19. the <HI>Belgick</HI> Confe&s;sion, Art. 20. the <HI>Augu&s;tan,</HI> Art. 7. the <HI>Saxon,</HI> Art. 11. <HI>Eccle&s;ia vi|&s;ibilis e&s;t caetus fidelium, in quo verbum Dei purum praedi|catur, &amp; &s;acramenta (quo ad ea quae nece&s;&s;ario exiguntur) juxta Chri&s;ti in&s;titutum recte admini&s;trantur. i.e.</HI> The vi&s;i|ble Church is the company of faithful Believers, among whom the pure word of God is preached, and the Sacra|ments (according to tho&s;e things which are truly requi|&s;ite)
<PB N="25" REF="19">are rightly admini&s;tred according to Chri&s;ts in&s;titu|tion. Belg <HI>His notis vera ec|cle&s;ia a fal&s;a di&s;cernitur, &s;i in illa pura evangelis praedicatio, ligitima&abque; &s;acramentorum ex Chri&s;ti prae&s;cripto admini&s;tra|tio vigeat.</HI> The <HI>true</HI> Church is di&s;owned from the <HI>fal&s;e</HI> by the&s;e marks; if therein the Go&s;pel be purely preached, and the Sacraments rightly admini&s;tred, according to the in&s;titution of Chri&s;t. Aug. <HI>Habet Eccle&s;ia proprie dicta &s;igna &s;ua &s;cilicet puram &amp; &s;a|num evangelii doctrinam &amp; rectum u&s;um &s;acramentorum.</HI> The Churrch, truly &s;o cal|led, hath two proper marks; <HI>viz.</HI> The pure and &s;aving do|ctrine of the Go&s;pel, and the right u&s;e of the Sacraments.
<PB N="26" REF="20">Sax. <HI>praecipue ex voce doctri|nae judicandum e&s;t quae &amp; ubi &s;it vera eccle&s;ia: quae voce ve rae doctrine, deinde &amp; legiti|mo u&s;u &s;acramentorum ab aliis di&s;cernitur.</HI> By the doctrine we may chiefly determine what, and where is the <HI>true church:</HI> w^c^h is di&s;cerned from the <HI>fal&s;e</HI> ones by the &s;ound|ne&s;s of doctrine, and the law|ful u&s;e of the Sacraments.</P>
<P>And it is mo&s;t &s;trongly confirmed by <HI>Whitaker Prae|lec. q.</HI> 5. <HI>Field</HI> of the Church, <HI>l.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 2. <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rton Apol. Cathol. l.</HI> 2. <HI>c.</HI> 38. <HI>Willet,</HI> Controver|&s;ies in <HI>Gen. de Notis Eccle&s;. q.</HI> 4. Rivet, <HI>&s;um. controver&s;. tract.</HI> 2. <HI>q</HI> 7. <HI>Junius, Animad|ver&s;. in Bel. l.</HI> 4 <HI>controver&s;.</HI> 4. <HI>c.</HI> 2. <HI>&amp; deniceps Chemni&s;. ex|amen, concil. Trid. p</HI> 49. <HI>&amp;
<PB N="27" REF="20">part.</HI> 3. <HI>Locor. Theol p.</HI> 292. <HI>Mornaeus, tract. de Eccle&s; c.</HI> 2. <HI>p.</HI> 15. But the&s;e marks are not to be found in the pre|tended church of <HI>Rome,</HI> but two contrary foul &s;cars; <HI>viz.</HI> Impurity of doctrine, &amp; ma|nifold corruption of the ho|ly Sacraments: &s;ee <HI>Hom.</HI> 16. <HI>in Pentico&s;t. Gallic. confe&s;. art.</HI> 28. <HI>Papi&s;ticos conventos dam|namus quod pura Dei veritas ab illis exulet: in quibus eti|am &s;acramenta fidei corrupta &s;unt, adulterata, fal&s;ificata, vel poenitus etiam abolita:</HI> We condemn the Popi&s;h Syna|gogues, becau&s;e they have not the pure truth of God in them; and by rea&s;on that the Sacraments of faith are ei|thercorrupted, adulterated, &amp; fal&s;ified by them, or utterly
<PB N="28" REF="21">aboli&s;hed and rejected: For in the Roman Church, as it is at this day, the pure word of God is not preached, but partly Apochryphal Scri|ptures, partly unwritten tra|ditions, are mixed with it. As for that pure Word of God which they preach (namely, the canonical Scriptures, ac|knowledged by both of us) they preach it not purely, but manife&s;tly detort and pervert it, either by fal&s;e tran&s;lations, or glo&s;&s;es and interpretations in all points in controver&s;ie between us: And as for the Sacraments, they admini&s;ter more by five then Chri&s;t e|ver in&s;tituted for &s;uch, in the Go&s;pel: And as for tho&s;e that are in&s;tituted by him, they corruptly admini&s;ter them;
<PB N="29" REF="21">for they defile Bapti&s;m with cream and &s;pittle, and divers &s;uper&s;titious rites: And they violate the Lords H. Supper, by taking away the cup from the Laity, and the &s;ub&s;tance of both elements, bread and wine, and quite overthrowing the nature thereof of a com|munion, making it a private ma&s;s; and of a Sacrament, a Sacrifice, properly &s;o called.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <MILESTONE N="iii."> The church of <HI>Rome</HI> can in no true &s;en&s;e challenge to her &s;elf the title of a <HI>true Church:</HI> for que&s;ti|onle&s;s, that can be no <HI>true Church,</HI> which neither teach|eth nor practi&s;eth the <HI>truth,</HI> which is &s;ometimes taken in holy Scripture, <HI>pro veritate &s;ub&s;tantiae,</HI> for &s;ub&s;tantial truth: &s;o called, in oppo&s;ition
<PB N="30" REF="22">to the types, figures, and &s;ha|dows of the Law: ometimes <HI>pro veritate doctrinae,</HI> for do|ctrinal truth, oppo&s;ite to all errors and here&s;ies in matters of faith: Sometimes <HI>pro ve|ritate morali,</HI> for moral truth or hone&s;ty, oppo&s;ite to fraud, di&s;simulation &amp; lying. Speak we of any of the&s;e three, cer|tain it is, the Roman church either hath it not, or not en|tirely.</P>
<P>Not the fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> <HI>Veritatem &s;ub&s;tantia,</HI> the truth of &s;ub|&s;tance: For the pre&s;ence of the body nece&s;&s;arily exclu|deth the &s;hadows: but the church of <HI>Rome</HI> at this day retaineth many legal &s;hadows and figures, as the year of Jubile, con&s;ecration of Oyl, Altars, properly &s;o called, and
<PB N="31" REF="22">a material and &s;en&s;ible Sacri|fice, the Aronical Mitre and Ve&s;tments, and other the like <HI>Beggarly Rudiments</HI> of the Law, wherewith &s;he endea|vou eth to <HI>p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tch the &s;eamle&s;s coat of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Not the &s;econd: <MILESTONE N="ii."> for the Articles of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> to which we have all &s;ub&s;cribed, and the Ho|milies confirmed in the Arti|cles, charge the church of <HI>Rome</HI> with errour in matter of faith. So we read Article 19. the church of <HI>Rome</HI> hath er|red, not only in their living, &amp; and maner of ceremonies; but al&s;o <HI>in matter of faith.</HI> And in the Hom. for <HI>Whit&s;unday,</HI> &s;econd part, <HI>If it be po&s;sible the Spirit of Truth &s;hould be there where the true church
<PB N="32" REF="23">is not, then is it at</HI> Rome. And again, <HI>The church of</HI> Rome, <HI>as it is at this pre&s;ent, is not built upon the foundation of the Apo&s;tles and Prophets, re|taining the &s;ound and pure do|ctrine of Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI> And Apologie of the Church of <HI>England,</HI> c. 16. Divi&s;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> p 6. <HI>We are gone from that church, which Chri&s;t, who cannot err, told &s;o long before &s;hould err.</HI> With whom accordeth the French church in her confe&s;|&s;ion, &s;et down in the harmo|ny of Prote&s;tant churches, Article 28. <HI>Papi&s;ticos conven|tus damnamus, quoa pura Dei veritas ab illis exulet, &amp;c.</HI> We condemn the Popi&s;h Sy|nagogue, becau&s;e &s;he &s;hutteth her eyes again&s;t the pure truth of God, &amp;c.</P>
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<P>And as little can be &s;aid for her <HI>moral truth:</HI> <MILESTONE N="iii."> For (to &s;peak nothing of the power which &s;he maintaineth, in the Pope to di&s;pence with the breach of Oathes and Vows, be they never &s;o &s;olemn and &s;acred) <HI>Navarrus,</HI> comment. in cap. human. aures: <HI>Far&s;ons</HI> Mitigation, c. 7. <HI>Eudemon Jo|hannes,</HI> in his Apology for <HI>Garnet: Greg de Val.</HI> upon <HI>Thomas Southwell,</HI> and divers other Je&s;uits, have lately raked out of the a&s;hes, or rather cin|dars of hell, the here&s;ie of the <HI>Pri&s;cilliani&s;ts, Qui dogmati|zabant mendacium:</HI> Who taught lies for &s;ound Do|ctrine. For they teach, That a man may &s;peak, nay &s;wear, that which is fal&s;e, in words, &s;o he &s;alve it with
<PB N="34" REF="24">&s;ome mental re&s;ervation: for example, a Romi&s;h Prie&s;t may take his corporal Oath that he is no &s;eminary Prie&s;t, re&s;erving in his minde, <HI>viz.</HI> of <HI>Apollo:</HI> That the Pope is not head of the church, re&s;erving in his minde, a head of bra&s;s, like that &s;et over <HI>Bra&s;en-no&s;e</HI> colledge. Neither is this a proper <HI>&s;car</HI> of the Je&s;uits on|ly, but a foul <HI>mark</HI> of the whole Roman church al&s;o: For the &s;ecular Prie&s;ts among them, as well as the Je&s;uits, are for this new art of lying, called <HI>equivocation:</HI> though they would not have it to be u&s;ed hand overhead, but the&s;e their <HI>Re&s;ervations</HI> to be <HI>re|&s;erved</HI> for &s;pecial u&s;e in &s;ome ca&s;es. There is no que&s;tion to be made of it: &s;uch <HI>Wat&s;on</HI>
<PB N="35" REF="24">in his <HI>Quodlibits,</HI> Quodl. 3. Art. 4. but that in &s;ome &s;en&s;e, and in &s;ome ca&s;es, doubtful an&s;wers &amp; equivocations may be lawful: and the Treaties above cited of the Je&s;uits, were &s;et forth with publique approbation: neither hath the Pope, nor the church of <HI>Rome</HI> by any publique brief, canon, or decree, branded this Je|&s;uitical art as impious and re|pugnant to the Law of God, and light of nature.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, I cannot conceive how the malignant, and <HI>true</HI> militant church of Chri&s;t, can con&s;i&s;t in one and the &s;ame Society, no more than <HI>Da|gon</HI> and the Ark, light and darkne&s;s, Chri&s;t and <HI>Belial:</HI> for they are not only <HI>diver&s;ae,</HI> but <HI>adver&s;ae,</HI> or oppo&s;ite. But
<PB N="36" REF="25">the church of <HI>Rome</HI> is the malignant church, and hath &s;o been for many hundreds of years, having put to death (as appeareth in the Rubricks of Eccle&s;ia&s;tical calenders) many thou&s;ands of true pro|fe&s;&s;ors, under the name of Dulcine&s;ts, Walden&s;es, Albi|gen&s;es, Wicklife&s;ts, Hu&s;&s;ites, Hugonots, Calvini&s;ts, Luthe|rans, and Prote&s;tants. If all the water in <HI>Tybris</HI> cannot wa&s;h away the &s;tains of blood wherewith the garment of the Whore of <HI>Babylon</HI> is &s;potted, they may wel blu&s;h for &s;hame who &s;tile this &s;carlet Strum|pet, the <HI>true Spou&s;e of Chri&s;t:</HI> for whom yet they plead, though (like a Lawyer that hath taken a light fee) very weakly and coldly.</P>
<PB N="37" REF="25">
<P>Fir&s;t, they argue thus, <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="obj.">
<Q><HI>Ens &amp; verum convertuntur:</HI> i.e. <HI>being</HI> and <HI>true,</HI> are converti|ble terms one with the o|ther; and every thing which hath a being, is truly that being which it is, in truth of &s;ub&s;tance. A very Thief (&s;ay they) is a <HI>true man</HI> in the verity of his e&s;&s;ence, as he is a rea&s;onable creature; for this none can &s;teal from him, nor he from him&s;elf, but death: But the church of <HI>Rome,</HI> be &s;he never &s;o corrupt in faith &amp; manners, is confe&s;&s;ed to be a vi&s;ible Chri&s;tian Church; <MILESTONE UNIT="sol."> <HI>ergo</HI> a true Church.</Q></P>
<P>This is to <HI>overdo,</HI> and &s;o far to <HI>over-reach them&s;elves,</HI> that they lame their arm, and thereby le&s;&s;en their own
<PB N="38" REF="26">&s;troke. The more they &s;eem to &s;ay, the le&s;s indeed they &s;ay for the Church of <HI>Rome.</HI> In flying to a Metaphy&s;ick-truth, they in effect acknow|ledge her to be de&s;titute of Theological. If out of the la|titude of their charity, they will extend a <HI>true Church</HI> &s;o far as <HI>verum &amp; ens,</HI> i.e. true, and being, will go; all the Conventicles of Arians, Ne|&s;torians, Socinians, Anabap|ti&s;ts, &amp; Famili&s;ts, <HI>will come in for a &s;hare in the true Church:</HI> For they are all compa|nies of men and women, pro|fe&s;&s;ing the Chri&s;tian faith; they are all Churches, and (if this <HI>metaphy&s;ical &s;tring crack not) true Churches:</HI> Nay, by this rea&s;on, <HI>P&s;eudolus,</HI> the arrante&s;t cheater in theworld,
<PB N="39" REF="26">may be proved to be a true man: <HI>Me&s;&s;alina,</HI> the mo&s;t notorious Strumpet that ever lay by Princes &s;ide, a true wife: <HI>Nero,</HI> that mon&s;ter of men, a good man: The De|vil him&s;elf, both a true, and a good Angel: For as <HI>Ens &amp; verum,</HI> i.e. being, and true, &s;o <HI>Ens &amp; bonum,</HI> i. e. being, and good, are convertible terms; and they may as &s;oon prove by this argument, the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> to be a <HI>good Church,</HI> as to be a <HI>true;</HI> which palpable ab&s;urdities, &amp; gro&s;s inconveniences, they can no otherwi&s;e avoid, then by ca|&s;ting away the former argu|ment; which like an Egypti|an reed, if it be leaned upon, breaketh, and runneth into their own &s;ides. The truth is,
<PB N="40" REF="27">This Argument (how much &s;oever it is made of by many) is no better then a meer fala|cy, or Syllogi&s;m, con&s;i&s;ting of four terms. For <HI>truth,</HI> as it is applied to <HI>Ens,</HI> or being, <HI>in genere,</HI> or generally, in the major; or as it is applied to <HI>Eccle&s;ia,</HI> or Church, which is a determinate &s;pecies of <HI>Ens,</HI> or being, is not one and the &s;elf &s;ame tearm. <HI>Truth,</HI> as it is applied in the major, to the genus, &s;ignifieth no more then <HI>veritatem entis,</HI> or <HI>exi&s;ten|tive,</HI> truth of being or exi&s;t|ence; but in the conclu&s;ion, as it is applied to the <HI>Church,</HI> it &s;ignifieth <HI>veritatem entis tales,</HI> the <HI>truth</HI> of &s;uch a be|ing: to which more is requi|red then to <HI>Ens in genere,</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e. being, in general. And as it
<PB N="41" REF="27">will not follow, the Devil is a true creature; <HI>Ergo,</HI> a true Angel; or <HI>Me&s;&s;alina</HI> is a true woman, <HI>ergo,</HI> a true wife; &s;o neither will it follow, the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is <HI>verus cae|tus,</HI> or <HI>verum ens,</HI> i. e. a true company, or true being, er|go, <HI>Vera eccle&s;ia, i. e.</HI> a <HI>true Church.</HI> The argument wil no way follow from truth in <HI>&s;en&s;u metaphi&s;ico,</HI> i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> e. in a metaphy&s;ical &s;en&s;e; to a truth in <HI>&s;en&s;u thealogico,</HI> i. e. in a theological &s;en&s;e: no more then it will follow from truth in <HI>&s;en&s;u phy&s;ico,</HI> i.e. in phy&s;i|cal &s;en&s;e, to truth in <HI>&s;en&s;u mo|rale,</HI> or, in a moral &s;en&s;e. As if a man &s;hould conclude, the great Thief <HI>Harpulus</HI> is a true man, in <HI>&s;en&s;u phy&s;ico,</HI> or in a phy&s;ical &s;en&s;e: for he hath
<PB N="42" REF="28">the e&s;&s;ence of a man, therefore he is a true man in <HI>&s;en&s;u mo|rale,</HI> that is, an hone&s;t man. This fir&s;t argument of theirs therefore, is like a fal&s;e &s;tring in an in&s;trument, which can never be tuned to make any good mu&s;ick.</P>
<P>The 2^d <HI>&s;tring</HI> is not much better: <MILESTONE N="2" UNIT="obj."> which they thus <HI>&s;train,</HI></P>
<P><Q>Where there is true bap|ti&s;m, there is a true church: But in the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> there is true bapti&s;m, confe&s;&s;ed on all hands, for tho&s;e which are baptized in that Church, we rebaptize not; <HI>ergo,</HI> the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> is a true Church.</Q></P>
<P>In this Argument, they <HI>&s;cower up the old harne&s;s of the Donati&s;ts.</HI> Augu&s;t. l 1. de Bap. cont. Dona. c. 10. where|with
<PB N="43" REF="28">they thus fought again&s;t the Catholick Church
<Q>How could we (&s;ay they) gene|rate &amp; bring forth children to the Church (which you confe&s;s we do by our bap|ti&s;m) if we were not a mo|ther, and a <HI>true Church,</HI> &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P><HI>Au&s;tine</HI> an&s;wereth that, <MILESTONE UNIT="sol."> <HI>They who &s;eparated them|&s;elves from others, breaking the bond of unity and charity, if they retained nothing of all tho&s;e things in the former &s;o|ciety,</HI> in omnibus &s;eparati&s;unt, <HI>then they were utterly, and in each part, &s;eparated from the Church: But if they retained &s;ome things which were the &s;ame,</HI> non &s;e in iis &s;eparave|runt, <HI>then in tho&s;e things they did not &s;ever them&s;elves
<PB N="44" REF="29">from the Church;</HI> &amp; ex ea parte intexturae compage de|tinen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ur, <HI>in that part wherein they retained the &s;ame, they were fa&s;tned, and held to the Church in that joynt, though in others &s;evered: and there|fore he whom they gathered to them&s;elves,</HI> ex ea parte ne|ctitur Eccle&s;iae, in qua nec illi &s;eparati &s;unt, <HI>is joyned to the Church on that part wherein them&s;elves are not disjoyned.</HI> And after this, applying it to the former que&s;tion, he &s;aith, That <HI>hereticks generate chil|dren to the Church, by that wherein they are joyned to the Church; not by that wherein they are &s;evered from it They are &s;evered from the band of charity and peace, but they are joyned in one bapti&s;m.</HI></P>
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<P>Yet, to <HI>hew,</HI> and further to <HI>batter in pieces</HI> this <HI>harne&s;s</HI> of the Donati&s;ts, I will an|&s;wer particularly to each pro|po&s;ition: And fir&s;t to the ma|jor;</P>
<P>It is mo&s;t certain, <MILESTONE N="i."> that true bapti&s;m cannor be &s;evered from the <HI>true Church;</HI> yet is not bapti&s;m &s;o proper to the <HI>true Church,</HI> but that it may be found in a fal&s;e and here|tical Church: as S. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> accutely ob&s;erves, that the <HI>Rivers of Paradi&s;e ran out of Paradi&s;e.</HI> Where&s;oever the <HI>true Church</HI> is, there is true bapti&s;m, but not <HI>vice ver&s;a.</HI> Where&s;oever is true bapti&s;m, there is the <HI>true Church:</HI> for much more is required to the <HI>true Church,</HI> then true bap|ti&s;m onely: There mu&s;t be in
<PB N="46" REF="30">it the true preaching of the Word, at lea&s;t, in all funda|mental points; and the right admini&s;tration of both the Sacraments. Saint <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> makes no bones, <HI>totidem ver|bis,</HI> to deny the <HI>major,</HI> de bap|cont. Donat. l. 6 c. 23. <HI>Eccle|&s;iam &s;icut habent eacholici non habent heretici, &amp; tamen bap|ti&s;mum habent: Ita&abque; &s;icut po|te&s;tbapti&s;ma e&s;&s;e, &amp; unde &s;e au|ret &s;piritus &s;anctus. ita pote&s;t bapti&s;ma e&s;se ubi non e&s;t eccle|&s;ia.</HI> Heret cks have not the Church, as Catholicks have, and yet they have bapti&s;m. Therefore, as there may be a bapti&s;m from which the Ho|ly Gho&s;t may withdraw him|&s;elf, &s;o there may be a bap|ti&s;m where the Church is not. <HI>Et cap.</HI> 16. <HI>Non omnes
<PB N="47" REF="30">qui tenent bapti&s;mum, tenent eccle&s;iam: &s;icut non omnes qui tenent eccle&s;iam, tenent &amp; vi|tam eternam.</HI> All that hold with bapti&s;m, do not hold with the Church; as all do not hold eternal life, who hold bapti&s;m. <HI>Et c.</HI> 7 <HI>Bapti&s;|mum legitimum habent, &s;ed non legitime habent.</HI> They hold bapti&s;m lawful, but they u&s;e it not lawfully.</P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> to the <HI>minor</HI> I an&s;wer, That though in the Church of <HI>Rome</HI> there is <HI>true bapti&s;m, quo ad legitimam formam verborum,</HI> according to the true pre&s;cribed form of words by Chri&s;t: and therefore is not to be reite|rated, becau&s;e it hath all in it that is e&s;&s;entially required to bapti&s;m: yet is it not <HI>true
<PB N="48" REF="31">bapti&s;m, quo ad purum ritum,</HI> according to the pure rite: much le&s;s <HI>quo ad &s;alutarem effectum,</HI> according to the &s;a|ving effect.</P>
<P>It is not true bapti&s;m, according to the pure rite and manner of Admini|&s;tration thereof (for they mingle water with cream, &s;alt and &s;pittle: and thereby, as much as in them lieth, de|file this mo&s;t holy <HI>Laver;</HI> and according to their own Tenets, they <HI>&s;et this &s;eal to a blank.</HI> For whereas bap|ti&s;m is the &s;eal of the righte|ou&s;ne&s;s of faith, and the Co|venant of grace, they deny|ing this righteou&s;ne&s;s of faith, con&s;equently <HI>&s;et this &s;eal to a blank.</HI></P>
<P><MILESTONE N="ii."> Neither is their bapti&s;m
<PB N="49" REF="31">true, <HI>quo ad &s;alutarem ef|fectum, i. e.</HI> according to the &s;aving effect. For &s;o St. <HI>Au|&s;tine</HI> expre&s;ly teacheth con|cerning the Bapti&s;m of all Hereticks, <HI>l. de Vinco. Bapt. cont. Petil. c.</HI> 6. <HI>Nihil prode&s;t hereticis ad &s;alutem, quod ex|tra eccle&s;iam verum bapti&s;|mum pignorantium &amp; tra|dunt &amp; tenent.</HI> It is no way advantagious to the &s;alvati|on of Hereticks, that though they are out of the Church, yet they hold Bapti&s;m, and make u&s;e thereof. <HI>Et l.</HI> 4. <HI>cont. Donat. c.</HI> 1. <HI>Eccle&s;ia Paradi&s;o comparata indicat nobis, po&s;&s;e quidem ejus bap|ti&s;mum homines etiam fores accipere; &s;ed &s;alutem beati|tudines extra eam neminem vel percipere, vel tenere. Ita
<PB N="50" REF="32">fit ut cum Paradi&s;i aqua &s;it extra Paradi&s;um; beatitudo tamen non &s;it ni&s;i intra Pa|radi&s;um: Sic ergo Bapti&s;mus eccle&s;ia pote&s;t e&s;&s;e extra ec|cle&s;iam munus autem beatae vitae, non ni&s;i intra eccle&s;iam reperitur.</HI> The Church be|ing compared to Paradi&s;e, teacheth us, that even men that are out of the Church may retain the Bapti&s;m of the Church; but none out of the Church can partake of the ble&s;&s;ed Salvation. Hence it cometh to pa&s;s, that although the &s;treams of wa|ter do run out of Paradi&s;e, yet Salvation is to be had onely in Paradi&s;e. So al&s;o the Bapti&s;m of the Church may be admini&s;tred out of the Church, but the ble&s;&s;ing
<PB N="51" REF="32">of eternal Life is no where to be found but within the church.</P>
<P>They al&s;o lay great &s;tre&s;s upon this Argument, <MILESTONE N="3" UNIT="obj."> which is as weak as the former, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><Q>The church of <HI>Rome</HI> is no wor&s;e then the church of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> under the revolted kingdom of <HI>Jeroboam,</HI> and his Succe&s;&s;ors, who erected Calves in <HI>Dan</HI> and <HI>Bethel,</HI> which they went a whoring after; Yet notwith&s;tanding this defection from the true Wor&s;hip of God, becau&s;e they continued a profe&s;&s;ion of God, and of the Law, and retained the holy Seals of his Covenant, they were even then a part of the <HI>true</HI> vi&s;ible <HI>church</HI> of God, and
<PB N="52" REF="33">tearmed Gods people, and his children. Therefore the church of <HI>Rome,</HI> though ve|ry corrupt in faith and man|ners, mu&s;t be accounted a true church of God.</Q></P>
<P>Hereunto I an&s;wer, <MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="sol."> That the ca&s;e of the Roman church is wor&s;e then that of the ten Tribes: For they committed Idolatry but in one kinde, the church of <HI>Rome</HI> in many: the corruption and idolatry in them was practi&s;ed <HI>de facto,</HI> but not &s;olemnly ratified by any Decree or Canon of their whole Church, as the &s;uper|&s;tition and idolatry of the Romi&s;h church are.</P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> Tho&s;e who wor|&s;hipped <HI>Jeroboams</HI> Calves, without repentance could not be &s;aved; for <HI>no Idolater &s;hall
<PB N="53" REF="33">enter into the Kingdom of God,</HI> &s;aith the Apo&s;tle.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Cor</HI> 6.9, 10.</NOTE> The Prophets which were &s;ent to the ten Tribes, &s;tyle that Common-wealth a <HI>Harlot,</HI> and her children <HI>ba&s;tard chil|dren:</HI> and as a Harlot before &s;he be divorced, is a wife, but not a true and loyal wife; &s;o was the church of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> in tho&s;e days: and &s;o now we grant the church of <HI>Rome</HI> to be, a <HI>church,</HI> but not a <HI>true church.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <MILESTONE N="iii."> If any of the an|cient or later Divines &s;ay, there was the <HI>true church</HI> of God among the <HI>ten Tribes,</HI> becau&s;e they had true Pro|phets among them, and the true Word of God, and the Sacraments appointed by him; their words are to be
<PB N="54" REF="34">under&s;tood, not of the out|ward face of that church, and prevalent part in it which ad|hered to <HI>Jeroboam</HI> and the Calves, as they were wor|&s;hipped, the Calves he &s;et up; but of tho&s;e many thou&s;ands which God re&s;erved to him|&s;elf within tho&s;e Dominions, who never bowed the knee to <HI>Baal,</HI> neither lift up their hands to the golden calves: the&s;e we grant were members of the true church, as are all &s;uch who even in <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elf and other parts, &s;ubject to the Pope, live among Papi&s;ts, and communicate with them in common Acts and Duties of Chri&s;tianity, but partake not with them in their here|tical Tenents, or idolatrous and &s;uper&s;titious Rites. We
<PB N="55" REF="34">owe a clearer manife&s;tation of the truth in this point, to the candor of B. <HI>Whitgift,</HI> who in the Defence of his An&s;wer to the Admonition, <HI>p.</HI> 625. thus paralelleth the Papi&s;ts and <HI>I&s;raelites:</HI>
<Q>The Papi&s;t (&s;aith he) are like the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> under <HI>Jeroboam;</HI> for as tho&s;e <HI>I&s;raelites,</HI> &s;o Papi&s;ts pretend the Law of God, u&s;e the Sacraments, profe&s;s Chri&s;tianity, and are not in all points &s;traying from Chri&s;tian Faith; but yet have corrupted the &s;ame with idolatrous wor&s;hip|ping, and divers other kinde of &s;uper&s;titions and errors.</Q> Therefore <HI>Beza</HI> &s;aid very well. <HI>Eccle&s;ia e&s;t velut im|mer&s;a in papatu.</HI> The church is as it were covered, or
<PB N="56" REF="35">drowned in Papi&s;me.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <MILESTONE N="4" UNIT="obj."> They &s;eem al&s;o much to triumph in this Ar|gument, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><Q>Antichri&s;t &s;itteth in the Temple of God.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;. 2.4. <HI>&s;hewing him&s;elf that he is God.</HI></NOTE> By the Temple of God is here meant the true church: But the Pope is Antichri&s;t: <HI>Ergo</HI> the church of <HI>Rome</HI> in which he &s;its, as in the Temple of God, is a true church.</Q></P>
<P>With this weapon they do but <HI>flouri&s;h,</HI> <MILESTONE N="i.">
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>See An|&s;wer to the</HI> Gagg.</NOTE> they <HI>fight not in good earne&s;t;</HI> for they who thus argue, believe not the Pope to be Antichri&s;t. They finde &s;even hills at <HI>Con&s;tanti|nople,</HI> and Antichri&s;t at the <HI>Seraglia:</HI> Yet, if as the mo|ther of <HI>Gratian</HI> and <HI>Peter Lumbard,</HI> cho&s;e rather to be
<PB N="57" REF="35">accounted a &s;trumpet; then not to be held the <HI>true mo|ther</HI> of tho&s;e great Clerks; &s;o in <HI>&s;ober &s;adne&s;s</HI> they will rather yield <HI>Rome</HI> to be <HI>Ba|bylon,</HI> and the Pope to be Antichri&s;t, then not have the church of <HI>Rome</HI> to be ac|knowledged a true church.</P>
<P>I further an&s;wer, <MILESTONE N="ii."> That al|though it &s;eems to me mo&s;t probable, that by the Tem|ple of God the Apo&s;tle mea|neth not the Temple at <HI>Je|ru&s;alem,</HI> which was &s;oon after he wrote this Epi&s;tle de&s;troy|ed, and is likely never to be built again, but the church of God, as <HI>Au&s;tine,</HI> and <HI>Je|rome,</HI> and St. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom,</HI> and <HI>Theodoret,</HI> and <HI>Prima&s;ius,</HI> and <HI>Calvin</HI> him&s;elf, and <HI>Beza</HI> re|&s;olve on this Text: yet this
<PB N="58" REF="36">Interpretation will little, or nothing at all help the cau&s;e. I &s;ub&s;cribe fully to St. <HI>Au|&s;tine</HI> l. 20. <HI>De Civitat. Dei,</HI> c. 19. and St. <HI>Jerome</HI> in his q. 11. <HI>ad Alga&s;iam,</HI> That <HI>An|tichri&s;t &s;hall fit in the church of God:</HI> and to <HI>Severianus</HI> alledged by <HI>Orcumenius,</HI> that the Apo&s;tle &s;peaks not of the temple of <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> but the church of God: or rather to St. <HI>Chry&s;o&s;tom,</HI> That <HI>Anti|chri&s;t &s;hall command him&s;elf to be wor&s;hipped in the &s;tead of God, not onely at</HI> Jeru&s;a|lem, <HI>but al&s;o in the churches:</HI> And to <HI>Theodoret,</HI> He <HI>calleth the temple of God the church in which Antichri&s;t &s;hall arro|gate unto him&s;elf the chief Seat, endeavouring to &s;hew him&s;elf as God:</HI> And to <HI>Theo|phylact,</HI>
<PB N="59" REF="36">He <HI>&s;itteth not in the temple, which is</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>e&s;pecially; but &s;imply in the churches, and in every temple of God:</HI> And to <HI>Calvin,</HI> comment. in Ep. ad The&s;&s;al. That <HI>the Apo&s;tle calleth the Den of &s;o many &s;uper&s;titions,</HI> (viz. <HI>the Roman church</HI>) <HI>the temple of God, becau&s;e there is a</HI> re&s;idium, <HI>a remainder &s;till of the Proprieties of the church among them, in regard whereof it is the temple of God, though profaned:</HI> And to <HI>Beza, Predicit Apo&s;tolus Antichri&s;tum, id e&s;t qui&s;quis &s;edem illam Apo&s;tolicam oc|cupavit, non regnaturum ex|tra eccle&s;iam, &s;ed in eccle&s;iae &s;inu: i. e.</HI> That by the Tem|ple is under&s;tood the church of God, in which the man of
<PB N="60" REF="37">&s;in &s;itteth, u&s;urping the Do|minion thereof. <HI>Appellatione Templi Dei &s;ignificatur ip&s;a eccle&s;ia, in qua homo ille per|ditus etiam nunc &s;edet, impe|riam fibi u&s;urpans.</HI> And I hold, from this very Text it may be demon&s;trated, that the great Antichri&s;t whom the Apo&s;tle here &s;ets out in his colours, &s;hall not be a Jew, Turk, Pagan, or Infidel, but a profe&s;&s;ed Chri&s;tian, re|&s;iding in <HI>the bo&s;ome of the church.</HI> And yet I deny the Rhemi&s;ts con&s;equence here|upon, That therefore the church of <HI>Rome</HI> mu&s;t be ac|knowledged the true church, and the Pope a member thereof. For though the wild Bore break into the Lords vineyard, and be in the mid&s;t
<PB N="61" REF="37">of it, rooting up the choice&s;t plants; yet he is no part of the vineyard: and though the wolf get into the flock, <HI>wor|rying Chri&s;ts Lambs,</HI> and de|vouring his fatte&s;t &s;heep, yet he is not any part of the flock. To rebate therefore the edge, and turn the point of the former Argument upon the adver&s;ary, I &s;ay:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> That the Apo&s;tle calleth the Seat of Antichri&s;t the temple or church of God, becau&s;e it was &s;o: as our Sa|viour calleth the temple of <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> the holy place, <HI>Math.</HI> 24.15. becau&s;e it had been &s;o, although at that time wherein that <HI>abominable de&s;olation &s;hould &s;tand there,</HI> (which he prophe&s;ied of) it was a mo&s;t dete&s;table place;
<PB N="62" REF="38">namely, when the Romans came to de&s;troy it: A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> we often call the dead Corp&s;es of a man, by his name who&s;e &s;ometimes it was before it fell to be a carca&s;e. So is the Popes See called the Temple of God, in regard of what it was before he &s;et his &s;eat there. For after he fixed his throne there, it became <HI>Ca|thedra pe&s;tilentia,</HI> Babylon, <HI>and &s;piritual</HI> Sodom, <HI>and an habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul &s;pirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird,</HI> Apoc. 18.2.</P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> That the place where Antichri&s;t &s;itteth as God, boa&s;ting him&s;elf that he is God, may be taken for the true Church of God, and yet the pre&s;ent Roman church
<PB N="63" REF="38">never the nearer. For it is certain, that the Pope hath his &s;eat in the very heart of the Catholicke Chri&s;tian Church; and that he chal|lengeth a kinde of Divine Sovereignty over the whole church; and mo&s;t of all exer|ci&s;eth his tyranny upon the &s;incere Profe&s;&s;ors of the Go|&s;pel, who are the found mem|bers of the true Church.</P>
<P>Thirdly, As a Temple, <MILESTONE N="iii."> though it be profaned and polluted, and in part ruined, is yet a Temple in re&s;pect of the Dedication to Gods ho|nor, and divers parts of Gods Wor&s;hip truly performed in it: &s;o even the Roman church it &s;elf, as it con&s;i&s;teth of the Pope and his adherents, who bear all the &s;way in it, may
<PB N="64" REF="39">truely bee &s;aid to bee a church of Chri&s;t, in regard of the profe&s;sion of Chri|&s;tianity in it, though not a true and Orthodox church: As neither can we tearm a Temple after it is de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">led, or in decay, a pure and a per|fect Temple before it be re|purged and repaired. And upon the&s;e tearmes all the learned Prote&s;tants, who have wrote upon this point, will come in, and ea&s;ily be reconciled. Tho&s;e who deny her to be a Church, exclude her not &s;imply from being at all of the church; but from being <HI>in Orthodoxei,</HI> and en|tire profe&s;&s;ion of the Catho|lick Faith, a <HI>true church.</HI> Tho&s;e who &s;tyle her a <HI>true church,</HI> mean no more then a
<PB N="65" REF="39">truly vi&s;ible company, pro|fe&s;&s;ing the Chri&s;tian Faith. <HI>When</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Calvin,</HI> In&s;titut. l. 4. c. 2.) <HI>we refu&s;e ab&s;o|lutely to grant the title of the Church unto Papi&s;ts, we do not therefore deny that there are churches among them, but we &s;trive for the true and lawful con&s;titution of the church, who&s;e communion in prayer and doctrine is to be kept.</HI> And a little after, <HI>See|ing the See of Antichri&s;t, or of the Pope, is placed in the temple of God, it is thereby &s;ignified, that his reign &s;hall be &s;uch as doth neither abo|li&s;h, nor take from the name of Chri&s;tians, or the church. Wherefore it is manife&s;t that we do not deny but that chur|ches remain under the Popes
<PB N="66" REF="40">tyranny, though prophaned with &s;acrilegious Impiety.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Peter Martyr</HI> in 1 <HI>Kings c.</HI> 12. propoundeth this que|&s;tion to him&s;elf, Whether &s;ince the Papacy erected, there be a church among Pa|pi&s;ts? And he an&s;wereth, <HI>That the church was then &s;ha|ken, and dayly is more and more ruinated; &s;o that there remains no more then</HI> rudera &amp; fru&s;tra parietum, <HI>certain broken pieces, and rubbi&s;h of the wall. Wherefore we ac|knowledge their Bapti&s;m, we reverence and read the &s;ame &s;acred books as they do; and thus we under&s;tand Antichri&s;t to &s;it in the temple of God, becau&s;e it was once &s;o, and as yet retaineth</HI> quaedam eccle|&s;iae ve&s;tigia, <HI>certain points of the church.</HI></P>
<PB N="67" REF="40">
<P><HI>Reynolds</HI> and <HI>Hooker,</HI> very eminent men both in their kinde, dealing again&s;t adver|&s;aries mo&s;t differently affect|ed, the one &s;ort arrogating too much, the other yielding too little to the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> again&s;t them both concur in this truth, That though it be neither the Ca|tholick church, nor a &s;ound member thereof, yet it is a member. <HI>Reynold</HI> The&s; 5. <HI>Romana eccle&s;ia nec e&s;t catho|lica, nec &s;anum membrum ca|tholicae eccle&s;iae;</HI> yet that it is a part of the vi&s;ible church, though maimed; and a mem|ber, though un&s;ound. <HI>Hoo|ker</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;t. Pol. l. 5. c. 68. l. 3. c. 1. For <HI>apparent it is</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Hooker</HI>) <HI>that all men are of nece&s;sity either chri|&s;tians,
<PB N="68" REF="41">or not chri&s;tians. If by external profe&s;sion they be chri&s;tians (as all Papi&s;ts are) they are of the vi&s;ible church of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P><Q>A Church (&s;aith <HI>Philip Morney</HI>) may be &s;o far in|fected with here&s;ies, that from the crown of the head to the &s;ole of the foot, there may be nothing &s;ound and whole, and yet &s;o long as they are heretical, they do not cea&s;e to be the churches of Chri&s;t, no more then a man cea&s;eth to be a man by rea&s;on of &s;ome great &s;ick|ne&s;s. Nay, even hereby it may be proved that they are &s;till churches, becau&s;e they are heretical in the doctrine of Chri&s;t; no otherwi&s;e then we know by the Di&s;ea&s;es
<PB N="69" REF="41">wherewith one is effected or pained, that he is a live man, and not a dead corp&s;e. But if any fall from here&s;ie to infidelity, and a total de|nial of the Faith, then in|deed they cea&s;e to be chur|ches.</Q> And afterwards ap|plying this, which generally concerns all impure and cor|rupt churches, to the church of <HI>Rome,</HI> he truly calleth it <HI>Omnium impuri&s;simam, &amp; per aliis omnibus quae ad huc fuerunt hereticam:</HI> Of all mo&s;t impure, placed in a more eminent degree of er|ror then all the re&s;t; and he|retical above all that ever yet were: yea &s;uch as is univer|&s;ally di&s;tempered, and hath &s;o heaped here&s;ies upon he|re&s;ies, that it may &s;eem ra|ther
<PB N="70" REF="42">to be a Di&s;ea&s;e it &s;elf, then fallen into di&s;ea&s;es. Yet of this Romane he &s;aith, <HI>Quamdiu vel tenue illud filum reliquum manet eccle&s;iae no|men, non denegamus,</HI> &amp;c. We deny not unto it the name of a church, &s;o long as it holds by this &s;lender threed; as we deny not him the name of a man, who lives, though in a langui&s;hing con&s;umption.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Doctor <HI>Craken|thorp</HI> in his mo&s;t learned and accurate <HI>Defence of the church of</HI> England, again&s;t the revolted Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Spallatta,</HI> cap. 16. <HI>This your Roman Church</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>mu&s;t be accounted both to be in the church, and to be a church, not &s;imply, nor according to the integrity of the faith, nor
<PB N="71" REF="42">according to any inward ver|tue; nor &s;o effectually, that it &s;hould avail to &s;alvation for a man to be in it: but yet a church it is in &s;ome re&s;pects, according to the external pro|fe&s;sion of faith, and of the word of God, and according to the administration of the Sacraments, and according to &s;ome doctrines of true belief; by which, as by &s;o many out|ward ligaments, &s;he is yet knit to the Orthodox and Cathelick Church</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, They di&s;pute thus: <MILESTONE N="5" UNIT="obj.">
<LIST>
<ITEM>Out of the <HI>true church</HI> there is no &s;alvation:</ITEM>
<ITEM>But in the Roman church there is &s;alvation:
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ergo,</HI> the Roman church is the <HI>true church.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="72" REF="43">
<P>That out of the true church there is no &s;alvation, they confirm by the te&s;timony of St. <HI>Cyprian: Non potest ha|bere Deum patrem, qui Ec|cle&s;iam non habet matrem:</HI> He cannot have God to his Father, who acknowledgeth not the Church for his Mo|ther. And by an Argument rather typick then topick,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Ark was a type of the church:</ITEM>
<ITEM>But out of the Ark none were &s;aved from the De|luge:</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ergo,</HI> out of the church none are &s;aved from the <HI>gulph of de&s;truction,</HI> but are cer|tainly <HI>drowned in perdi|tion.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>The a&s;&s;umption they make good out of the confe&s;sion
<PB N="73" REF="43">of many learned Prote&s;tants: Of <HI>Luther,</HI> l. de Serm. arbit. Of <HI>Morney,</HI> tract de Eccle&s;. c. 9. <HI>George Abbot.</HI> An&s;wer to <HI>Hull.</HI> Rea&s;on 1. Sect. 30. <HI>Hooker</HI> l. 3. Eccle&s;ia&s;. Polit. Sect. 1. &amp; concio. in <HI>Abba|cuck</HI> 1. <HI>Field,</HI> of the church. l. 3. c. 47. <HI>Morton,</HI> Catho|lick Appeal. lib. 4. cap. 1. &amp; Grand Impo&s;t. cap. 15. And if any re&s;t not &s;atisfied with the&s;e concurrent Judgements of learned Prote&s;tants, they put weak con&s;ciences to the rack with the&s;e, or the like Interrogatories, <HI>viz.</HI>
<Q>What think you? Were all the Founders of Colledges and Halls, all the Kings and Princes of the&s;e Realmes, nay all your Grand-fathers, and Great Grand-fathers,
<PB N="74" REF="44">who lived before the Re|formation in <HI>Luthers</HI> time, damned, and now fry in the flames of Hell?</Q></P>
<P>Becau&s;e with this kinde of rea&s;oning they prevail much with men of a tender con&s;ci|ence, <MILESTONE UNIT="sol."> and charitable di&s;po&s;i|tion; of whom we may truly &s;ay, as <HI>Paterculus</HI> doth of <HI>Cato, Optimo animo nocuit Reipublicae:</HI> Out of a pious minde and good nature, they &s;o re&s;olve the former doubt, that they &s;ome way wrong and prejudice the Prote&s;tant Cau&s;e. I will put this fair Piece of Coyn, currant a|mong very many, to the Te&s;t of a more particular Exami|nation, then hath yet been done by any to my know|ledge.</P>
<PB N="55" REF="44">
<P>Fir&s;t therefore, <MILESTONE N="i."> I retort the Argument upon the Adver|&s;ary, that he may thereby ei|ther feel the &s;trength of it again&s;t him&s;elf, or &s;ee the weakne&s;s thereof as it is ur|ged again&s;t us.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>'Out of the true church 'there is no &s;alvation:</ITEM>
<ITEM>'But out of the Roman church there is &s;alvation:</ITEM>
<ITEM>'<HI>Ergo,</HI> the Roman church is 'not the true church.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>In this Syllogi&s;m the <HI>major</HI> is theirs. The a&s;&s;umption they will not deny, unle&s;s they will confe&s;s either that they are within the Roman church, or are out of the &s;tate of &s;alvation. To &s;ay nothing of the Greek Churches un|der the Patriarch of <HI>Con&s;tan|tinople,</HI>
<PB N="76" REF="45">and the Egyptians under the Patriarch of <HI>Alex|andria,</HI> and infinite other Chri&s;tian churches in <HI>Afri|ca</HI> and <HI>A&s;ia,</HI> which (as <HI>The|vetus</HI> a Popi&s;h Co&s;mogra|pher confe&s;&s;eth) are &s;o far from &s;ubjection to the Ro|man church, that they know not whether there be any &s;uch or no; and (yet I am &s;ure the&s;e men will not <HI>cast the Dy upon their &s;alvation</HI>) let them look to it, how they can keep off the conclu&s;ion, <HI>viz.</HI> The Roman church is not the <HI>true church.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> I an&s;wer by way of di&s;tinction of the tearms, of which this Argument con|&s;i&s;teth; of which are, 1. Out of the true church. 2. Salva|tion. 3. The Roman church.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="77" REF="45">1. <MILESTONE N="i."> A man may be &s;aid to be out of the <HI>church</HI> in a dou|ble &s;en&s;e:</P>
<P N="1">1. Either becau&s;e he is <HI>out of the communion</HI> of the Church.</P>
<P N="2">2. Or becau&s;e he is <HI>out of the pale,</HI> confines, or juri&s;di|ction of any church.</P>
<P>A church may be &s;aid to be <HI>true.</HI> 1. <MILESTONE N="ii."> Either &s;imply and univer&s;ally, namely &s;uch a church as holdeth no error at all in any point that tren|cheth upon &s;alvation, or is nece&s;&s;ary to be required to be believed by any Chri&s;tian <HI>implicit&egrave;,</HI> or <HI>explicit&egrave;;</HI> but maintaineth entirely all Ca|tholick truths in this nature. 2. <HI>Secundum quid,</HI> or in part; namely &s;uch a church as hol|deth no error in &s;uch points
<PB N="78" REF="46">as are ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation; and all men are bound explicitely to believe, under pain of Damnation: &s;uch as are the fir&s;t principles of Divinity, and fundamen|tal Articles of our Chri&s;tian Belief.</P>
<P N="1">1. <MILESTONE N="iii."> When there is a que|&s;tion of Salvation, the mean|ing may be,
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Either of the <HI>po&s;sibility, viz.</HI> whether in &s;uch a church &s;alvation by any means may po&s;sibly be had?</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Or of the <HI>certainty of Salvation;</HI> whether by the holding of the Do|ctrine of that church, and living conformable there|unto, a man &s;hall certainly &amp; undoubtedly be &s;aved?</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<PB N="79" REF="46">
<P>The Roman church may be, <MILESTONE N="iv.">
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. Either taken for all chur|ches profe&s;sing the Chri|&s;tian Faith in <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>Italy,</HI> and other countreys &s;ubject to the Popes Ju|ri&s;diction:</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Or for the outward face of the Roman church, holding Pope <HI>Pius</HI> his Creed, affixed to the Council of <HI>Trent;</HI> and maintaining and practi|&s;ing all the idolatrous and &s;uper&s;titious Rites enjoy|ned by the Pope and his Cardinals.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>According to the&s;e Di&s;tin|ctions, in full &s;atisfaction of the former Argument, I &s;et down the&s;e A&s;&s;ertions fol|lowing, which weaken all the
<PB N="80" REF="47">&s;inews, and loo&s;en the joynts thereof, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> <HI>A man may be &s;aved who is out of the confines or juri&s;diction of any Church.</HI> For a true Believer in the wil|derne&s;s, or under the Pole, or in <HI>Japan,</HI> or <HI>China,</HI> or in any part out of the Chri&s;tian world, among the Pagans and Infidels may be &s;aved: yet no man can be &s;aved out of the communion of the <HI>true church</HI> of Chri&s;t, either actu|al and in profe&s;sion, or at lea&s;t virtual, or in de&s;ire: For all that are &s;aved, mu&s;t believe the communion of Saints, and be members of Chri&s;ts my&s;tical body, and have &s;ome fellow&s;hip both with the Head, and other members. And this is the meaning of
<PB N="81" REF="47">Saint <HI>Cyprian,</HI> That &s;uch he|reticks or &s;chi&s;maticks who renounce all communion with the church their mother, &s;o long as they continue in that minde, cannot have God to be their father.</P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> Out of <HI>the true church in the fir&s;t &s;en&s;e (that is, a church which holdeth en|tirely all doctrines of Faith, implicitely or explicitely, to be believed, as principles or conclu&s;ions deducted from them) there may be had &s;al|vation:</HI> but out of a true church in the &s;econd &s;en&s;e there can be ordinarily no &s;alvation. For a &s;ound be|lief in all &s;uch fundamental Points, is ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;a|ry to the very e&s;&s;ence of a church: and where there is
<PB N="82" REF="48">ab&s;olutely no church, there is no calling by the Word and Sacraments: and where no &s;uch calling, no ordinary meanes of Salvation. But where the&s;e Doctrines are taught (though many perni|cious errors by con&s;equence overthrowing the very foun|dation, are held) there may be Salvation. For it is very po&s;sible that tho&s;e who live in &s;uch a corrupt church, may (with the <HI>Bereans</HI>) examine the Doctrine of their Teach|ers by the Scriptures, and embrace &s;uch Doctrines as their Teachers propound un|to them agreeable thereunto, and reject tho&s;e that are con|trary, as many thou&s;ands did in the Arian churches,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hilar. cont. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="4 letters">ent.</NOTE> <HI>who&s;e eares were purer then the
<PB N="83" REF="48">mouthes of their Teachers.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <MILESTONE N="iii."> <HI>In a very corrupt church there mu&s;t be acknow|ledged a po&s;sibility of &s;alva|tion, but no certainty and in|fallibility</HI> our of a pure and orthodox church. A po&s;si|bility of &s;alvation cannot be denied the ignorant e&s;pecial|ly, becau&s;e they hold the foundation, and &s;urvey not the Building: and the foun|dation can deceive no man that re&s;ts upon it. But a &s;e|cure way they cannot goe where they meet with &s;uch corruptions.</P>
<P><Q>Now wi&s;dom there can be none, in &s;uch a point as &s;alvation is, to for&s;ake a church in which there is cer|tainty of &s;alvation, to fol|low a church in which there
<PB N="84" REF="49">is a bare po&s;sibility.</Q> Nay St. <HI>Au&s;tine</HI> (l. 1. de Bapt. cont. Donat. c. 3. <HI>Graviter peccarent in rebus ad &s;alutem animae pertinentibus eo &s;olo quod certa in certis prepone|rent: i. e.</HI> they &s;hould grie|vou&s;ly &s;in in matters concer|ning the &s;alvation of their &s;ouls, if they prefer things doubtful before things cer|tain) chargeth them with a great &s;in, who in point of &s;al|vation preferre uncertainties and naked po&s;sibilities, be|fore an evident and certain cour&s;e.</P>
<P>Fourthly, <MILESTONE N="iv."> <HI>There may be cer|tainty of &s;alvation to many thou&s;ands of chri&s;tians, who live within the circuit of the Popes Juri&s;diction, and have communion with the Roman
<PB N="85" REF="49">church in common points of Chri&s;tianity, &s;o they joyn not with her in her errors and &s;u|per&s;titions.</HI> And farther we cannot deny a po&s;sibility of &s;alvation to tho&s;e who held many of her errours, (as no doubt many of our Ance&s;t|ors did) &s;o long as they held the main foundation of Pro|te&s;tant Doctrine, to wit, &s;al|vation onely by the merits of Chri&s;t (which all generally did before the Council of <HI>Trent,</HI> as appears by the <HI>Or|do vi&s;itandi infirmos,</HI> allowed till then by the church of <HI>Rome</HI>) and asked God for|givene&s;s at their death, of all their errours known or un|known. But there can be rea|&s;onably granted neither cer|tainty, nor po&s;sibility of &s;al|vation,
<PB N="86" REF="50">to &s;uch as in the light of the Go&s;pel (where they have means better to inform them&s;elves) hold all the er|rors and corruptions of the Roman church, and die in the explicite maintenance thereof. For the rule of the Apo&s;tle is mo&s;t certain, no Idolater (remaining &s;uch, that is without repentance) &s;hall inherit the kingdom of God. And (be&s;ides Here&s;ies) the pre&s;ent church of <HI>Rome</HI> (that is, the prevalent faction there|in) is ju&s;tly charged by the Reformed churches with ma|nifold Idolatry.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, <MILESTONE N="6" UNIT="obj."> They go about to ob&s;cure the matter with a cloud of Allegations and Te|&s;timonies; which yet is not &s;o thick, but that the truth
<PB N="87" REF="50">pierceth it, and breaketh through with her bright beams.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t place they &s;et <HI>Luther</HI> again&s;t us,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ep. Pleb. &amp; Anabat</NOTE> affirming in one of his Epi&s;tles, That <HI>there is in the Papacy true Scripture, true Bapti&s;m, the true Sacraments, much chri|&s;tian good; nay all chri&s;tian good: nay moreover, that under the Papacy is true Chri|&s;tianity;</HI> imo verus nucluus chri&s;tianitatis, <HI>the very kernel of chri&s;tianity.</HI></P>
<P>Next, <HI>Calvin</HI> In&s;tit. lib 4. <MILESTONE N="ii."> cap. 2. Sect. 12. <HI>Hinc patet, nos minime negare quia &s;ub Romani ontificis tryanide ec|cle&s;ia maneant,</HI> we deny not but that there remain chur|ches under the tyranny of the Pope; who&s;e &s;eat is placed
<PB N="88" REF="51">in the temple of God: where|by it is intimated, that his kingdome &s;hall be &s;uch, <HI>quod nec Chri&s;ti, ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> eccle&s;ia no|men aboleat,</HI> as doth neither aboli&s;h, or take from the name of Chri&s;t, or of the Church.</P>
<P><HI>Junius,</HI> <MILESTONE N="iii."> lib &s;ingular de ec|cle&s;. <HI>Eccle&s;ia Romana, qua id habet in &s;e quod ad eccle&s;iae definitionem pertinet, e&s;t ec|cle&s;iae, i. e.</HI> the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> as it hath in it that which belongs to the defini|tion of a church, is a church.</P>
<P><HI>Field,</HI> <MILESTONE N="iv."> the church of <HI>Rome</HI> is truly a Church</P>
<P><HI>Zanchius,</HI> <MILESTONE N="v."> Pref. l. de Nat. Dei. <HI>Satan could not in the very Roman church do what he li&s;ted, as he had done in the Ea&s;tern; to bring all
<PB N="89" REF="51">things to &s;uch a pa&s;s, as that it &s;hould have no more the form of a chri&s;tian church:</HI> And a little after, <HI>I do not a&s;&s;ent to them which would have the church of</HI> Rome <HI>to have no le&s;s cea&s;ed to be the church of Chri&s;t, than tho&s;e Ea&s;tern churches, which af|terwards turned Mahumetan. What church was ever more corrupt then the church of the ten Tribes? yet we learn from the Scriptures, that it was &s;till the church of God. And how doth St.</HI> Paul <HI>call that church wherein Anti|chri&s;t &s;hall &s;it, the temple of God? Neither is it any Bap|ti&s;m at all that is admini&s;tred out of the church of Chri&s;t. The wife that is an adultere&s;s, doth not cea&s;e to be a wife,
<PB N="90" REF="52">unle&s;s being de&s;poiled of her Marriage-ring, &s;he be mani|fe&s;tly divorced. The church of</HI> Rome <HI>therefore is yet the church of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Doctor <HI>Crathenthorp,</HI> <MILESTONE N="vi."> tract. M. S. <HI>The church of</HI> Rome <HI>is a true, but un&s;ound, vi&s;ible church: for where&s;oever the outward profe&s;sion of Faith, and of the Word of God is found, among &s;uch as be uni|ted by the Sacraments of Christ, and with that mu|tual duty which is betweene Pa&s;tours and their Flocks, the &s;ame cannot but be acknow|ledged for a vi&s;ible church, or</HI> coetus vocatorum, <HI>&s;uch a &s;ociety of men as are outward|ly called to the participation of grace and glory.</HI></P>
<P>The Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exon,</HI> <MILESTONE N="vii.">
<PB N="91" REF="52">in his Treati&s;e called, <HI>The old Religion,</HI> cap. 1. <HI>Fundamen|tal truth is like that</HI> Maro|nean <HI>Wine, which if it be mixed with twenty times &s;o much water, holds his &s;trength The Sepulchre of Chri&s;t was overwhelmed by the Pagans without earth and rubbi&s;h, and more then &s;o: over it they built a temple to their im|pure</HI> Venus, <HI>yet &s;till in &s;pite of malice, there was the Se|pulchre of Chri&s;t. And it is a ruled ca&s;e of</HI> Papinian, <HI>That a &s;acred place loo&s;eth not the holine&s;s with the demoli&s;hed walls, no more doth the Ro|man loo&s;e the claim of a true vi&s;ible church, by her mani|fold and deplorable corrup|tions.</HI></P>
<P>And this te&s;timony of his
<PB N="92" REF="53">is backed with the Approba|tions of two right Reverend, and mo&s;t Learned Fathers in our Church, the Bi&s;hops of <HI>Dure&s;m</HI> and <HI>Salisbury;</HI> and two Eminent Doctors, the Kings Profe&s;&s;or at <HI>Oxford;</HI> and Doctor <HI>Primero&s;e</HI> Prea|cher to the French Church in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>To an&s;wer unto, <MILESTONE UNIT="sol."> or rather interpret the above-alledged te&s;timonies in order:</P>
<P>To the fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> which is <HI>Lu|thers,</HI> I &s;ay, That though <HI>Luther</HI> in writing again&s;t the Anabapti&s;ts (who denied Bapti&s;m in the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> wherein <HI>Luther</HI> him|&s;elf was chri&s;tianed) had rea|&s;on to make the be&s;t he could of that church; yet he attri|buteth no more to it than
<PB N="93" REF="53">Saint <HI>Au&s;tine,</HI> and other Fa|thers do to the <HI>Donatists</HI> and other Hereticks, whom they acknowledge to have among them the Word and Sacra|ments; which yet they held to be no way beneficial to their &s;alvation, if they per|&s;i&s;ted in their Schi&s;mes and Here&s;ies; but would be then available unto them, when they &s;hould repent and return to the bo&s;ome of the true church. Neither doth <HI>Lu|ther</HI> &s;ay, that <HI>papatus e&s;t omne bonum chri&s;tianum,</HI> or <HI>nucle|us chri&s;tianitatis;</HI> that the Papacy is all Chri&s;tian good, or the kernel of Chri&s;tianity: but, <HI>in,</HI> or <HI>&s;ub papatu;</HI> in, or under the Papacy, is the true Creed, the true Decalogue, the true Lords Prayer, which
<PB N="94" REF="54">he tearmeth the Kernel of Chri&s;tianity. Wherein he ac|cords with other Prote&s;tants, that by rea&s;on of the&s;e Re|mains in the Roman church, God may have, and hath, his true church, even where An|tichri&s;t hath his &s;eat: or that there are many true Belie|vers throughout all the Popes juri&s;diction; or (to u&s;e their own words) the Papacy is in the church and <HI>the church is in the papacy: yet the papacy is not the church, but a botch, or blain, or plague-&s;ore in it, under which there is &s;ound fle&s;h; yet the plague &s;ore is not the &s;ound fle&s;h</HI> For otherways, if we under&s;tand by the Roman church not the true Believers (which &s;e|cretly in it wor&s;hip God in
<PB N="95" REF="54">&s;pirit and truth, and mourn for tho&s;e abu&s;es which it is not in their power to reform) but the predominant Faction which adhereth to the Pope, and maintaineth all the Er|rors and Corruptions of that Church. <HI>Luther</HI> held the Roman church in that &s;en&s;e to be the <HI>whore of Babylon,</HI> and <HI>Synagogue of Antichri&s;t,</HI> as he who li&s;ts may read in his Book, Entituled, <HI>Capti|vitas Babylonica,</HI> and in his An&s;wer to the Pop<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Bull, which he tearmeth, <HI>The exe|crable Bull of Antichri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>To the &s;econd, <MILESTONE N="ii."> which is <HI>Calvins,</HI> I &s;ay, That if his te&s;timony had been alledged entirely, it would have &s;ha|med the Alledgers. For though he deny not the title
<PB N="96" REF="55">of a Church to Papi&s;ts, yet in the &s;ame place he flatly denieth them the title of a <HI>true Church,</HI> which is the <HI>car|do que&s;tionis.</HI> His words are, <HI>Cum ergo Eccle&s;iae titulum non &s;impliciter volumus con|cedere Papi&s;tis, nonideo ec|cle&s;ias apud eos e&s;&s;e inficia|mur, &s;ed tantum litigamus de vera &amp; legitima eccle&s;iae con|&s;titutione, &amp;c. i. e.</HI> When as we refu&s;e ab&s;olutely to grant the Title of Church unto Papi&s;ts, we do not there|fore deny that there are chur|ches among them; but we &s;trive for the true and lawful con&s;titution of the church, which is required as well in the participation of the Sa|craments, as e&s;pecially the Doctrine.</P>
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<P>Churches he grants to be, to remain under the Popes tyranny; but impiou&s;ly pro|faned, mi&s;erably afflicted and corrupted with pernicious er|rors: <HI>In quibus &s;emi&s;epultus latet Chri&s;tus, obrutum Evan|gelium, profligata pietas, cul|tus Dei fer&egrave; abolitus; in qui|bus danique omnia &s;ic &s;unt conturbata, ut Babylonis po|tius quam civitatis &s;anctae fu|cies apareat.</HI> Wherein Chri&s;t lieth buried, the Go&s;pel over|whelmed, Piety bani&s;hed, and the Wor&s;hip of God almo&s;t aboli&s;hed: La&s;tly, where all things are &s;o confu&s;ed, that it appeareth rather to be <HI>Baby|lon,</HI> then to have &s;o much as a &s;hew of the holy City.</P>
<P>To the third, <MILESTONE N="iii."> As <HI>Calvin</HI> before, &s;o <HI>Junius</HI> is cited to
<PB N="98" REF="56">halfs. The full pa&s;&s;age &s;tan|deth thus in him: <HI>The church of</HI> Rome <HI>(as it hath that in it which belongs to the defini|tion of a church) is a church:</HI> qua vero habet in &s;e adna|tum malum, quod Papalita|tem dicimus, eo re&s;pectu ec|cle&s;ia non e&s;t: <HI>as it hath a di&s;ea&s;e, or evil growing in it, which we call Papacy, in that re&s;pect it is not a church.</HI> In this place he fitly compares the church to a body or &s;ub|ject, capable both of health and &s;ickne&s;s: the &s;incere and Catholick Profe&s;&s;ion he re|&s;embles to Health; the Pa|pacy, or Papal Hierarchy, and other corrupt Doctrines of the Church, he rightly and very &s;ignificantly calleth <HI>a Di&s;ea&s;e or Sickne&s;s;</HI> a <HI>plague</HI>
<PB N="99" REF="56">or <HI>canker,</HI> a <HI>con&s;umption</HI> or <HI>poy&s;on</HI> in this body: and then concludes, <HI>That the Roman Synagogue is a church, but a corrupt church: a church tain|ted with &s;o &s;trong a poy&s;on, as unle&s;s it purge out the &s;ame, cunnot be &s;aved: and &s;till as more or le&s;s Papality is in it, the more weak or &s;trong it groweth: and if God &s;hall (which we earne&s;tly de&s;ire he may) admini&s;ter a &s;trong an|tidote, it may recover the health which once it had; but if the poy&s;on &s;till continue in it, it cannot chu&s;e but at length all the vital &s;pirits and pa&s;&s;ages of breath and life, which now it draweth in a fainting and langui&s;hing ma|ner, will be utterly &s;tifled and &s;topped.</HI></P>
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<P>To the fourth, <MILESTONE N="iv."> which is <HI>Fields,</HI> I need not an&s;wer at all: for I grant his A&s;&s;ertion <HI>in terminis;</HI> e&s;pecially with his Addition in the &s;ame place, <HI>not a true church. The Romi&s;h Synagogue is truely a church, thut is, a company of men pro&s;e&s;sing the Christian Faith: not a true church, that is, an Orthodox or right be|lieving church, but very er|ronious and heretieal.</HI></P>
<P>To the fifth, <MILESTONE N="v."> which is <HI>Zan|chius,</HI> He (as <HI>Field,</HI> and the re&s;t before) &s;hould have ra|ther been produced as a wit|ne&s;s on our &s;ide, and not a|gain&s;t us: for he &s;aith in the very place alledged by the Adver&s;ary, That <HI>if we bring the Roman church to the touch, &s;he will be ca&s;t for a meer coun|terfeit:
<PB N="101" REF="57">&s;he is as far from truth, as truth from fal&s;hood. Yet a church &s;he is; but</HI> (as he there addeth) <HI>&s;o corrupted and depraved, and with &s;o great tyranny oppre&s;&s;ed, that you can neither with a good con&s;cience partake with her in holy things, nor &s;afely dwell by her. She is</HI> (to u&s;e his &s;i|militude) <HI>like an adulterc&s;s wife, not divorced by her hu&s;|band; but yet not onely defa|med, but openly convinced of whoredom.</HI> Such a woman, &s;o long as her husband is plea|&s;ed not to &s;ue out a Bill of Divorce again&s;t her, is a wife, but no true or loyall wife.</P>
<P>To the &s;ixth, <MILESTONE N="vi."> which is Do|ctor <HI>Crakenthorps,</HI> I an&s;wer: Though in my Copy, in the
<PB N="102" REF="58">title of his Treati&s;e I finde the <HI>church of</HI> Rome a <HI>true vi|&s;ible church,</HI> yet all that is proved in the Argument al|ledged above out of him, or in that whole Treati&s;e, is but, That the Roman Synagogue is <HI>a church;</HI> to which the out|ward preaching of the Word, and admini&s;tration of the Sa|craments, is &s;ufficient. But to prove her to be a <HI>true church</HI> he mu&s;t have demon&s;trated the marks of a true church in her, which are <HI>pura verbi predicatio, &amp; legitima &s;acra|mentorum admini&s;tratio;</HI> pure preaching of the word, and right admini&s;tration of the &s;acraments. The&s;e marks he proveth <HI>not</HI> to be in her mo&s;t truly and &s;olidly; and there|fore his meaning mu&s;t needs
<PB N="103" REF="58">be onely this, That &s;he is <HI>tru|ly a church, but not a true or right believing church:</HI> a church wherein there is <HI>po&s;|&s;ibility of &s;alvation,</HI> not a <HI>true church</HI> wherein there is <HI>certainty.</HI></P>
<P>To the &s;eventh, <MILESTONE N="vii."> which is Doctor <HI>Halls</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Ex|on,</HI> I an&s;wer: That he, as Doctor <HI>Crakenthorp</HI> before, referreth <HI>true</HI> to <HI>vi&s;ible,</HI> not to <HI>church;</HI> and his meaning is, That the Roman is a <HI>true vi&s;ible,</HI> but not a <HI>true church.</HI> Fundamental <HI>truth,</HI> I grant, is like that <HI>Maronean Wine</HI> (as I &s;aid before) <HI>which if it be mixt with twenty times &s;o much water, holds it &s;trength:</HI> but the Romi&s;h Doctrine is rather like that Wine in the chalice given to Pope <HI>Victor,</HI>
<PB N="104" REF="59">which was mingled with poy|&s;on. As the earth and rub|bi&s;h wherewith the Pagans overwhelmed the Sepulchre of Chri&s;t, was not the Se|pulchre of Chri&s;t; and much le&s;s was the temple of impure <HI>Venus</HI> which they built over it, his &s;epulchre; yet his fe|pulchre was truly under it: So the Papacy is not the church, though under it the church be. And that this was the meaning of that mo&s;t learned and judicious Bi&s;hop, appeares in his Reconciler, <HI>page</HI> 60. where he thus inter|preteth his owne meaning, <HI>viz.</HI>
<Q>I &s;ay, that &s;he is <HI>a true church,</HI> but I &s;ay withal that &s;he is <HI>a fal&s;e church: true</HI> in exi&s;tence, but <HI>fal&s;e</HI> in belief. <HI>Truene&s;s</HI> of <HI>being,</HI> and out|ward
<PB N="105" REF="59">vi&s;ibility, are no prai&s;e to her; yea, they are ag|gravations to her fal&s;hood. And as a cheater is a true, though fal&s;e, man; &s;o we may &amp; mu&s;t &s;ay, the church of <HI>Rome</HI> is a <HI>true,</HI> though <HI>fal&s;e,</HI> church. Certainely there hath been a <HI>true</HI> error and mi&s;taking of the &s;en&s;e, that is guilty of this quar|rel: And again, that face, that profe&s;&s;ion, tho&s;e avowed principles which the church of <HI>Rome</HI> alloweth, are e|nough to give it claim to a true outward vi&s;ibility of a Chri&s;tian Church; while tho&s;e damnable inferences which it maketh from them are enough to feoffe it in the true &s;tyle of Here&s;ie and Antichri&s;tiani&s;m.</Q></P>
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<P>As for the renowned Se|conds of this Bi&s;hop, they rather purge him from any ill meaning, than ju&s;tifie that &s;peech of his. For by name the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Sarum</HI> writeth, that this Propo&s;ition of the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Exons,</HI> to wit, that the <HI>Roman church remains a true vi&s;ible church, is an ill &s;ounding Propo&s;ition in the ears of Prote&s;tants, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are not throughly ac|quainted with School di&s;tin|ctions.</HI> For though men skil|led in Metaphy&s;icks hold it for a Maxime, <HI>Ens verum &amp; bonum convertuntur;</HI> that which is true, is good: and that which is good, is true: yet with us he that &s;hall af|firm &s;uch a one is a <HI>true</HI> chri|&s;tian, a <HI>true</HI> Gentleman, a
<PB N="107" REF="60"><HI>true</HI> Scholar, or the like, is conceived not only to a&s;cribe <HI>truene&s;s</HI> of <HI>being</HI> to all the&s;e, but tho&s;e due qualities, or re|qui&s;ite actions, whereby they are made commendable, or prai&s;e-worthy in their &s;everal kindes. In this &s;en&s;e the Ro|man church is not more a <HI>true Church</HI> in re&s;pect of Chri&s;t, or tho&s;e due qualities or proper Actions which Chri&s;t requires, than an ar|rant whore is a true and loy|al Wife to her Husband. I dur&s;t upon my Oath be one or your Compurgators, that you never intended to adorn that &s;trumpet with the title of a <HI>trne Church</HI> in this mea|ning, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Thus we &s;ee the Te&s;timo|nies for the <HI>truth</HI> of the Ro|man
<PB N="108" REF="61">man <HI>church</HI> are but few; and the&s;e neither direct, nor ex|pre&s;s: whereas the contrary Te&s;timonies are far more, and more expre&s;s, and of more credit. Therefore if the Suf|frages on both &s;ides are truly numbred, or indifferently weighed, we &s;hall &s;urely carry it. For if we adde to the Greek, and Affrican, and A|&s;iatick, and Ethiopian, and Aby&s;&s;en, and Indian, and Mu&s;covite Churches, the Re|formed in <HI>England, France,</HI> the <HI>Low-countreys,</HI> and <HI>Ger|many;</HI> we &s;hall finde that the whole world in a maner con|&s;pireth in this truth, <HI>That the church of</HI> Rome <HI>is not the true church.</HI> As the Te&s;timonies on this &s;ide are infinitely more in number, &s;o much
<PB N="109" REF="61">more direct and expre&s;&s;e. They that &s;ay the Roman is a <HI>true church,</HI> do but &s;peak it <HI>li&s;pingly,</HI> in <HI>&s;ome &s;en&s;e,</HI> and with <HI>divers re&s;trictions and limitations:</HI> but tho&s;e who deny it, and di&s;prove it to be a <HI>true church,</HI> &s;peak <HI>plainly and roundly, without any am|biguity at all.</HI> In the Homily for Whit-&s;unday, page 213. We <HI>may well conclude accord|ing to the rule of St.</HI> Au&s;tine, <HI>That the Bi&s;hop of</HI> Rome <HI>and their adherents, are not the true church: and if we com|pare the definition of the true church, with the church of</HI> Rome, <HI>not as it was in the beginning, but as it is pre|&s;ently; then &s;hall we perceive the &s;tate thereof to be &s;o far wide from the nature of the
<PB N="110" REF="62">true church, as nothing can be more.</HI></P>
<P>Doctor <HI>Whitaker</HI> (that gol|den Taper of <HI>Cambridge</HI>) cont. 2. q. 6. cap. 1. propoun|ding this que&s;tion in <HI>termi|nis, An eccle&s;ia Romana &s;it vera eccle&s;ia Chri&s;ti vi&s;ibilis, i. e.</HI> Whether the Roman Church be a true vi&s;ible church of Chri&s;t? thus de|termineth it: <HI>We &s;ay it is not onely not the onely catholick, but not at all catholick: not onely not catholick, to wit, univer&s;al, but we contend it is not a true church of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>And <HI>Willet</HI> in his &s;econd Controver&s;ie concerning the Church, que&s;t. 4. page 115. undertaketh to prove this Conclu&s;ion <HI>terminis termi|nantibus,</HI> as the Schooles
<PB N="111" REF="62">&s;peak, <HI>i. e.</HI> in concluding tearms, <HI>That the Roman is not a true vi&s;ible church.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, as the Te&s;timonies on our &s;ide are more direct and expre&s;s, &s;o they are much more to be credited then tho&s;e which are brought for the adver&s;e part: For one man that &s;ealeth a Truth with his blood, is of more worth then ten who &s;igned it onely with Ink: one Marryr pre|ponderateth ten Confe&s;&s;ors. Now whereas tho&s;e on the contrary opinion cannot pro|duce one true Martyr who died for maintaining this A&s;|&s;ertion, That the Roman church is a <HI>true church,</HI> we can produce divers holy Mar|tyrs, as namely,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fox <HI>Acts and Monu|ments.</HI></NOTE> Ma&s;ter <HI>San|ders, Thomas O&s;mond, Wil|liam
<PB N="112" REF="63">Bamford, Nicholas Chamberlain, Robert Glover, Thomas Man,</HI> and others; who have &s;ealed this Truth with their la&s;t Breath, and <HI>illu&s;trated</HI> it <HI>by the fire of their Martyrdom, That the Popi&s;h Church is not the true church of Chri&s;t.</HI> The&s;e are now arrayed with <HI>long white robes;</HI> and God forbid that any true Profe&s;&s;or of the Go&s;|pel &s;hould go about to <HI>&s;tain them with this foul a&s;per&s;ion,</HI> That they died like fools, and &s;uffered for errour, or ob&s;tinacy, or uncharitably cen&s;uring of the church of <HI>Rome.</HI> I conclude therefore, That though the Romi&s;h Sy|nagogue may be truely and rightly &s;tyled <HI>a church,</HI> both oppo&s;ite (in oppo&s;ition to
<PB N="113" REF="63">Jews, Turks, Pagans, and Infidels, which are apparant|ly out of the church) and po&s;itive) po&s;itively al&s;o in re|&s;pect of Gods right to her, and tolerating her, (though &s;he de&s;erve to be divorced) and his calling &s;ome to the knowledge of the Truth by the Word preached in her, though corruptly; and in re|&s;pect of her profe&s;&s;ion of &s;uch fundamental Truths as are ab&s;olutely requi&s;ite to the be|ing of a church: yet that &s;he cannot be called <HI>a true church,</HI> neither in the ordinary ac|ception of the word in the Engli&s;h tongue: nor <HI>in &s;en&s;u Theologico,</HI> in the &s;en&s;e of all the reformed Divines, who have profe&s;&s;edly handled the great Que&s;tion between us,
<PB N="114" REF="64">and the church of <HI>Rome, de notis verae eccle&s;iae,</HI> of the notes of the true church.</P>
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<HEAD>A Succinct HISTORY OF THE Life and Death Of the Learned and famous Divine, <HI>Daniel Featley</HI> Do|ctor in Divinity.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Gentle Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Mu&s;t begin with a Peti|tion, both for thy <HI>Pity,</HI> and for thy <HI>Pardon.</HI> A friend|ly importunity (which &s;eem|eth to have &s;ome tincture of tyranny) impo&s;eth this task, and admitteth no excu&s;e.
<PB N="2" REF="66">The guilt of my weakne&s;s and in&s;ufficiency is control|led by the &s;trength of Argu|ments drawn from the due|tye of Con&s;anguinity; of ju|&s;tice to the dead, of bringing glory to God in an endea|vor to pre&s;erve
<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 112 6.</NOTE> the righte|ous in everla&s;ting remember|ance, with many more, which for brevity &s;ake I purpo&s;ely omit. I am therefore &s;o divi|ded in mine own thoughts, that even that alone might &s;atisfie others, and be an A|pology for my &s;ilence. But nece&s;sity is laid upon me, and I <HI>mu&s;t</HI> obey. Sighs abound|ing at this unwelcome office of <HI>winding up in a &s;heet</HI> an Uncle &s;o loving, a Friend &s;o faithful, and an In&s;tructer &s;o Learned and Orthodox, are
<PB N="3" REF="66">humble Orators, and beg thy <HI>pity:</HI> and my pre&s;ent ab&s;ence from mine own &s;tudy, and the &s;en&s;e of mine inabilities to an&s;wer expectation, &s;ue for thy <HI>pardon.</HI> In hope of both I return thee a promi&s;e, That neither propinquity of blood, nor an uncharitable (although in the language of the world <HI>de&s;erved</HI>) revenge, nor any thing el&s;e &s;hall bya&s;s me to write a voluntary untruth: But (according to the Rule of the Great Orator) what I write, &s;hall be not onely <HI>Te&s;tis temporum,</HI> but al&s;o <HI>Lux ve|ritatis.</HI> Be confident hereof, and read as followeth.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t &s;ubject I &s;hall in|&s;i&s;t upon, is the <HI>Quid nomi|nis,</HI> the Name of <HI>Featley:</HI> which indeed belonged not
<PB N="4" REF="67">to the Doctor; but was the i&s;&s;ue of the ignorance and corruption of the times. His right name was <HI>Faireclough;</HI> and by that name he was or|dained both Deacon and Mi|ni&s;ter, as his Letters of Or|ders witne&s;&s;ed. All the an|cient Deeds, Evidences, and Conveyances of his Elder brother, his father, his grand|father, and the re&s;t of his An|ce&s;tors, ran in the name of <HI>Faireclough;</HI> yea, and his el|der brother (my dear Father) did con&s;tantly write his name <HI>John Faireclough,</HI> as I can ju&s;tly witne&s;s. But even in the days of my good Father, the name (by the mi&s;takes of people) varied and altered from <HI>Faireclough</HI> to <HI>Faire|cley,</HI> then to <HI>Fateley,</HI> and at
<PB N="5" REF="67">length to <HI>Featley,</HI> which name he fir&s;t owned in print of all our Family. He was extracted originally out of <HI>Lanca&s;hire,</HI> where many of the Family do to this day re|tain the ancient and primitive name of <HI>Faircelough,</HI> and give the &s;elf &s;ame Coat of Arms with us, without the lea&s;t di&s;tinction or alteration; which (if I had lei&s;ure and op|portunity to &s;earch) I doubt not but I &s;hould prove to be much more ancient then Ma|&s;ter <HI>Peacham</HI> in his Book of <HI>Heraldry</HI> would make it, who deriveth it but from <HI>Bo&s;worth</HI> Field, in the time of King <HI>Henry</HI> the Seventh. The name at fir&s;t aro&s;e from that <HI>fair Cliff</HI> where his Ance&s;t|ors long &s;ince were &s;eated;
<PB N="6" REF="68">for in the Dialect of that County, as well as &s;ome o|thers, a <HI>Cliff</HI> was anciently written <HI>Clough;</HI> and &s;o from their Seat the Family took denomination of <HI>Fairclough,</HI> retaining the ancient way of &s;pelling the word. But of this enough.</P>
<P>My next &s;ubject mu&s;t be the <HI>quid rei,</HI> or <HI>per&s;onae,</HI> the per&s;on him&s;elf. The Family of the <HI>Faire<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">loughs</HI> in for|mer times growing numer|ous, their E&s;tate le&s;&s;ened by the increa&s;e of their I&s;&s;ue; for the Land was given by par|cels to their children, and each Generation chipped and pared the ancient Deme&s;nry. Among&s;t tho&s;e many &s;lips which &s;prung from the fir&s;t Root, &s;ome kept their po&s;|&s;e&s;sion
<PB N="7" REF="68">at home, but &s;ome were tran&s;planted into one County, and &s;ome into an|other: Tho&s;e at home grew in their own native Soyl, but flouri&s;hed not much, becau&s;e they bore &s;o fa&s;t. Tho&s;e a|broad betook them&s;elves to &s;everal employments, and their fortunes were various. The good old Father of Do|ctor <HI>Featley,</HI> was one of tho&s;e whom Providence removed into another county, and pla|ced in <HI>Oxford&s;hire.</HI> There in his youthful days he married Mi&s;tre&s;s <HI>Marian Thrift,</HI> and by her he had i&s;&s;ue three &s;ons, <HI>John, Daniel,</HI> and <HI>Wil|liam;</HI> and two daughters, <HI>Margaret</HI> and <HI>Anne. Daniel</HI> the &s;econd &s;on, was born at <HI>Charlton</HI> upon <HI>Oatemoor,</HI> and
<PB N="8" REF="69">being a &s;tudious and ingeni|ous childe, he profited at School beyond expectation, in&s;omuch as when he was but twelve years old, he gained no &s;mall credit and applau&s;e by the Latine and Greek ver|&s;es which he frequently, wit|tily, and elegantly compo&s;ed. His father entertaining an employment in <HI>Oxford,</HI> gai|ned an opportunity to prefer his forward &s;on <HI>Daniel</HI> to be fir&s;t a Scholar, and then Fel|low of <HI>Corpus Chri&s;ti</HI> Col|ledge, when Doctor <HI>Reig|nolds</HI> was Pre&s;ident thereof. There he &s;pent many years in his &s;tudies, and took his De|grees of Batchelor and Ma|&s;ter of Arts, performing his Exerci&s;es to the Admiration of the Univer&s;ity. When he
<PB N="9" REF="69">proceeded Ma&s;ter, he was made <HI>Terrae-filius</HI> at the Act, and gained &s;uch honor, that his fame grew high in both the Univer&s;ities. Then he wholly applied him&s;elf to the &s;tudy of Divinity, and having laid a &s;olid foundation in the po&s;itive part, he betook him|&s;elf to the Fathers, Councils, School-men, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> His ad mi|red Di&s;putations, his excel|lent Sermons, his grave, yet affable Demeanor, and his other rare Accompli&s;hments made him &s;o renowned, that Sir <HI>Thomas Edmonds</HI> being di&s;patched by King <HI>James</HI> to lye Leiger-Emba&s;&s;adour in <HI>France,</HI> he made choice of this Gentleman to travel with him as his chaplain. The com|mand he obeyed, and &s;pent
<PB N="10" REF="70">three years in <HI>France</HI> in the hou&s;e of the Emba&s;&s;adour. During that time he became the Honor both of our Reli|gion and Nation; in&s;omuch as his many Conflicts with, and Conque&s;ts of the learned <HI>Sorboni&s;ts,</HI> in defence of the Prote&s;tants, and oppo&s;ition to the Papi&s;ts, cau&s;ed even tho&s;e his Adver&s;aries to give him this Encomium, that he was <HI>Featlaeus acuti&s;simas a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cerrimu&s;que.</HI> Upon his re|turn into <HI>England</HI> he repair|ed to his Colledge again; where having &s;pent &s;ome time, he proceeded Batche|lor of Divinity, and preached that elegant, &s;olid, and &s;mart Latine Sermon which is ex|tant in his <HI>Clavis my&s;tica;</HI> wherein among tho&s;e &s;eventy
<PB N="11" REF="70">Sermons, the Reader may finde al&s;o many Engli&s;h ones preached at <HI>Paris,</HI> and tho&s;e likewi&s;e which he rehear&s;ed both in <HI>Oxford,</HI> and at <HI>Pauls</HI> Cro&s;s. From <HI>Oxford</HI> he was invited by Mr. <HI>Ezekiel A&s;|cot</HI> (one of his Pupils) to ac|cept the Rectory of <HI>North|hill</HI> in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> and leaving the Univer&s;ity, he betook him&s;elf thither. But his great renown &s;uffered not his Can|dle to continue under a bu|&s;hel; for <HI>George Abbot</HI> Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI> &s;ent for him thence, and per&s;waded him to be his Dome&s;tick Chaplain, and to leave <HI>North|hill</HI> to accept of <HI>Lambeth</HI> Rectory, although the Re|venues thereof exceeded not the other. To <HI>Lambeth</HI> he
<PB N="12" REF="71">went, where (after he had continued a while in the Archbi&s;hops hou&s;e) his Lord prevailed with him to take his degree of Doctor in <HI>Oxford,</HI> that he might entertain the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Spalato</HI> with an Academick Treatment. He yielded to the motion, and acquitted him&s;elf with &s;o much honor, that the Doctor of the Chair thought him&s;elf affronted by his &s;on <HI>Featleys</HI> acutene&s;s of Learning, &s;harp|ne&s;s of Wit, &s;olidity of Judgement, &s;mart An&s;wers, and undainted Courage. The grave Father being puzzelled by his ingenious Son, and in the face of both Univer&s;ities, and the Flower of the Eng|li&s;h Nobility and Gentry, be|&s;ides many foreiners, he made
<PB N="13" REF="71">that a quarrel which his &s;on <HI>Featley</HI> made but his defence: and it proved at length the Task of the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI> to compo&s;e the difference. From <HI>Oxford</HI> he returned loaden with learned Honor to his Lord again, and <HI>Spalato</HI> was &s;o plea&s;ed with his <HI>Oxford</HI> Junkets, that he not onely rendred thanks to <HI>Canterbury</HI> for his Chaplains gallant deportment, but al&s;o gratified Doctor <HI>Featley</HI> with a Fellow&s;hip, or Brothers|place in the <HI>Savoy,</HI> whereof he was then Ma&s;ter. Long die he continue a Menial &s;er|vant to the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Canterbury</HI> without any pre|ferment: peradventure he was too good to ri&s;e, and too learned to be promoted, le&s;t
<PB N="14" REF="72">he &s;hould eclip&s;e the glory of his Seniors. At length the di&s;contents of the Court and City, becau&s;e Doctor <HI>Feat|ley</HI> was kept &s;till behinde the Hangings, flew to the ears of the Archbi&s;hop, whereupon he &s;hortly after gave him the Rectory of <HI>Alhallows Broad|&s;treet:</HI> But by rea&s;on of the thickne&s;s of the <HI>London</HI> air, and the many inconvenien|cies which he daily met with, upon many &s;olicitations his Lord yielded to an exchange of <HI>Broad-&s;treet</HI> for <HI>Acton,</HI> which is &s;ix miles from <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and in a plea&s;ant and healthful &s;cituation. About the year 1642. and about the forty and fourth year of his age, the Doctor married an ancient, grave Gentlewoman
<PB N="15" REF="72">called Mi&s;tre&s;s <HI>Joyce Hallo|way,</HI> the Relict of Mr. <HI>Hal|loway,</HI> and formerly the Re|lict of Mr. <HI>Thomp&s;on</HI> (both Merchants of <HI>London</HI>) and daughter of one Mr. <HI>Kerwin,</HI> who lived in a hand&s;om hou&s;e of her own in <HI>Kennington</HI> in <HI>Lambeth</HI> Pari&s;h, and being a great Flori&s;t, nouri&s;hed a Garden which admini&s;tred a &s;weet and delicate delight: But this Marriage he for a time concealed, and continu|ed in the dome&s;tick &s;ervice of his Lord. In the year 1625. (that great year of the raging pe&s;tilence in <HI>London</HI>) the Archbi&s;hop remov'd with his whole family from <HI>Lon|don</HI> to <HI>Croydon,</HI> for fear of the infection; where it fell out on a day that Doctor
<PB N="16" REF="73"><HI>Featley</HI> found him&s;elf &s;ome|what indi&s;po&s;ed in point of health, but endeavoured to &s;hake it off. How&s;oever the Bi&s;hop was &s;oon acquain|ted with it, (for great men want not their whi&s;pering in|telligencers) and pre&s;ently he commanded the Doctors &s;peedy removal out of his hou&s;e. Honor, and wealth, and age, and the Mini&s;terial function, were too weak ora|tors to per&s;wade the Bi&s;hop to with&s;tand the fear of &s;ick|ne&s;s and death. The wea|ther was rainy, the ways foul, the Doctor not well, yet all the&s;e &s;ignified nothing, nor prevailed &s;o much with his Lord, as to allow him to &s;tay either in the hou&s;e or town, or to lend him a Coach for
<PB N="17" REF="73">his ea&s;ier and &s;afer journey. The Doctor took hor&s;e, and by the providence of a better Lord, rode &s;afely (though in much angui&s;h and grief) to his own hou&s;e at <HI>Kenning|ton,</HI> where by the care and nur&s;ery of his skilful and lo|ving wife, and a divine ble&s;|&s;ing upon the means, he &s;oon recovered; for his di&s;temper was but a Cold. Upon his recovery, he removed his Books and other goods from <HI>Lambeth</HI> Palace to his own hou&s;e, and &s;o de&s;erted the &s;ervice of his Lord. Here I might recollect his many di&s;|putes with &s;everal Je&s;uits, as <HI>Sweet, Fi&s;her, Musket,</HI> and others, which being long &s;ince printed, I voluntarily pretermit, that I may not be
<PB N="18" REF="74">tedious. I might remember the frowns he received for Licen&s;ing a Book of Mr. <HI>El|tons</HI> upon the <HI>Colo&s;ians,</HI> and how he acquitted him&s;elf be|fore King <HI>James,</HI> proving that tho&s;e &s;heets which gave offence, were added to the Book after his <HI>Imprimatur,</HI> and &s;o neither licen&s;ed, nor &s;o much as &s;een by him. Here|upon his Maje&s;ty receiving &s;uch &s;atisfaction, and having heard of the fame of Doctor <HI>Featley</HI> for his acutene&s;s in Di&s;putations, he was graci|ou&s;ly plea&s;ed to engage with the Doctor in a Schola&s;tick Duel; whereof the Reader may have a full account in that printed Book which is called <HI>Cygneacantio.</HI> I might call to minde that Book of
<PB N="19" REF="74">his, called <HI>The Hand-maid to Devotion,</HI> that hath lived &s;o many Impre&s;&s;ions, and which he compo&s;ed in that pe&s;ti|lential year, upon his return from <HI>Croydon:</HI> for he was &s;o &s;en&s;ible of the general cala|mity, that he laid by his Po|lemick Divinity, and wholly devoted him&s;elf to the &s;tudy and practice of Piety and Charity. I might al&s;o adde many more pa&s;&s;ages of his former life, mo&s;t worthy to live to future ages, but that I &s;tudy brevity, and indeed I want &s;ome helps, my memo|ry being treacherous, and my remembrancers dead. I &s;hall therefore ha&s;ten to the even|ing of his life, wherein I &s;hall be the more copious and con|fident, becau&s;e &s;ome things
<PB N="20" REF="75">remain very fre&s;h in my me|mory, whereof I was an eye and an ear witne&s;s, and the re&s;t I &s;hall borrow from the mouthes of per&s;ons of a clear and untainted repute.</P>
<P>In the year 1642. (for far|ther back I intend not to look) the Drums and Trum|pets awaked our Nation, and the Riddle of the Parliament puzzelled the under&s;tandings of our learnede&s;t Divines. Soldiers were rai&s;ed <HI>for the King and Parliament,</HI> but how little they conduced to the honor, profit, or &s;afety of the King, time and bad men di&s;covered to the world. The &s;oft and wanton peace of our nation was &s;oon turned into rough and bloody Wars, <HI>Ju&s;que datum &s;celeri:</HI> into
<PB N="21" REF="75">un-chri&s;tian (or how&s;oever un-Prote&s;tant) rebellion and In&s;urrection again&s;t their lawful Prince: and a faction of Reformers &s;o pretended to new in&s;pirations, as if the private whi&s;pers of a fana|tick &s;pirit had more and true Divinitie then the whole Church of <HI>England.</HI> The pretences were &s;pecious and prevalent; but the politick fraud, the (<HI>Anguis in herba,</HI> was carefully concealed. The <HI>King</HI> ('tis true) could not erre (for as yet they pretended to a&s;&s;ert this Maxime of State:) but his <HI>evil coun&s;ellers</HI> might To &s;ave therefore and defend the Honour and Maje&s;ty of the <HI>King,</HI> his <HI>bad Councel</HI> mu&s;t be removed, (they wan|ted a true and faithful Gla&s;s
<PB N="22" REF="76">to make them &s;ee <HI>them&s;elves</HI>) and this mu&s;t be done by un|di&s;tingui&s;hing Weapons of Wars, and Engines of the greate&s;t Ho&s;tility: not (oh by no means) to hurt the <HI>King;</HI> but onely to remove his <HI>evil Advi&s;ers.</HI> In brief, upon this very account <HI>Kenton</HI> Field was &s;urfeited with blood: and &s;hortly after that, the <HI>Thames</HI> at <HI>Brainford</HI> was coloured with the <HI>Red-coats,</HI> who&s;e tin|cture was as well a <HI>London &s;tain,</HI> as an <HI>Edge-hill dy.</HI> Yet a fag end of the&s;e <HI>fle&s;h-mon|gers,</HI> (a rump of the City <HI>Butchers</HI>) who e&s;caped <HI>dip|ping</HI> in the river, ha&s;tened to <HI>Acton</HI> where our <HI>Doctor</HI> was beneficed, and where my &s;elf then lived, and con&s;tantly preached. So &s;oon as they
<PB N="23" REF="76">came thither, to the <HI>Church</HI> they went: peradventure you may &s;uppo&s;e they were zeal|ous and good <HI>Chri&s;tians.</HI> But be not deceived: they went not thither to <HI>pray,</HI> but to <HI>plunder;</HI> not for <HI>devotion,</HI> but <HI>de&s;olation:</HI> to <HI>&s;upport</HI> it by <HI>de&s;troying</HI> it; as they had lately fought to <HI>&s;ave</HI> the <HI>King,</HI> by their endeavors to <HI>&s;lay</HI> him. Fir&s;t therefore they fell upon the <HI>Rails</HI> (perhaps taking them for <HI>Smithfield|pens,</HI>) and broke them down and burned them. Had tho&s;e <HI>Reformers</HI> been &s;acrificed in their own holy fire, the in|nocent &s;heep and lambs of Chri&s;t might have hoped to e&s;cape. Their next inqui&s;i|tion was for the Book of <HI>Com|mon-prayer</HI> (for as they could
<PB N="24" REF="77">not do their work <HI>without book,</HI> &s;o they could not pre|termit <HI>that book</HI> which &s;mel|led &s;o <HI>rank</HI> of <HI>piety</HI> and <HI>loyal|ty:</HI>) but a young childe of mine, of his own accord, hid it from their di&s;covery, and &s;o &s;aved it from their vio|lence. And truly if the <HI>Bible</HI> it &s;elf had been in their way, it is probable they would have condemned even <HI>that</HI> al&s;o to their devouring flames as heterodox to their new Opinions. Having burned the Rails, pulled down the Font, broken the Windows, &s;earched for (but mi&s;led) the Book of Common-prayer, they grew weary of their vil|lany for that time, and re&s;ted them&s;elves a while. To the <HI>Communion-Table</HI> they pre|&s;ently
<PB N="25" REF="77">repaired, where they &s;ate tipling &s;o long, and &s;o freely, (not onely the &s;tron|ge&s;t Beer, but the &s;tronge&s;t Waters al&s;o) that having drank too deep of tho&s;e <HI>en|lightning &s;pirits,</HI> they utter|ed their minds in the Doctors &s;eat, and in the very Pulpit did that which is wor&s;e. The whole Church at length was converted into a Lay-&s;tall, in&s;omuch as when the Pari|&s;hioners a&s;&s;embled there a|gain, the Religion of the&s;e Reformers <HI>turned their &s;to|machs,</HI> and <HI>&s;tank</HI> in their no|&s;trils. Yet all this in the judgement of the actors was piety, not profanene&s;s: they had done too little. This con|cerned but the <HI>Steeple hou&s;e,</HI> they had higher thoughts
<PB N="26" REF="78">yet; they aimed at the <HI>Do|ctor.</HI> But for as much as he re&s;ided not at <HI>Acton,</HI> &s;ome of <HI>Urrey's</HI> &s;oldiers re&s;olved to keep hou&s;e for him in his ab|&s;ence, and quartered them|&s;elves at the Par&s;onage, where (not content with an ho&s;pita|ble accommodation) they re|&s;olved to offer another &s;acri|fice to <HI>Vulcan.</HI> Two of his &s;tables they burned to the ground, yea and his barn full of corn: the lo&s;s amounting to two hundred and eleven pounds. The zeal of the&s;e Incendiaries waxed &s;o hot and furious, that nothing would &s;atisfie them but fire and flames: and when the <HI>corn-fed</HI> bodies of them&s;elves and their hor&s;es were <HI>pricked with their provender,</HI> they
<PB N="27" REF="78">made them&s;elves merry with their the <HI>frolick</HI> of their <HI>bone|fires.</HI> Yet was not their ma|lice to the Doctor quenched with the&s;e flames: &s;ome of their tribe pur&s;ued him to <HI>Lambeth</HI> where he then re&s;i|ded, and on the nineteenth day of <HI>February</HI> in the &s;ame year (being 1642.) even on the Lords-day, five of the new doctrined and di&s;cipli|ned men of War ru&s;hed into the Church where he was then to preach, even in the time of divine Service, with Pi&s;tols and drawn Swords, not to defend, but to de&s;troy the Go&s;pel, and the Profe&s;|&s;ors thereof; and to murther one of the mo&s;t learned and faithful Di&s;pen&s;ers of the Word &amp; Sacraments. There
<PB N="28" REF="79">they enquired diligently, and eagerly &s;earched for the Do|ctor: but Providence &s;natch|ed him <HI>as a brand out of the fire;</HI> for an hone&s;t Pari&s;hion|er &s;topped his journey when he was near the Church, and relating the news, di&s;&s;waded him from running into &s;uch apparent danger. In the mean while tho&s;e Janizaries growing impatient, and &s;u&s;|pecting the Doctor had met with &s;ome intelligence to di|vert him from preaching; in their fury they mortally wounded one of the Pari&s;hi|oners even in the <HI>Church,</HI> and &s;hot dead another, who but onely pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p'd over the church yard wall. So fierce and bar|barous were the&s;e new-in&s;pi|red Zealots, that neither the
<PB N="29" REF="79">&s;anctity of the day, nor the company of Chri&s;tians a&s;|&s;embled together for the Wor&s;hip of the onely true God, nor the relative holine&s;s of the Place, nor the &s;acred duty of Prayer, nor the hor|rid crimes of Profanene&s;s, Sacriledge, Murther of Chri|&s;tians, and &s;hedding the in|nocent blood of the Shep|herd and &s;heep of Chri&s;t, nor any thing el&s;e could make them relent; but &s;till they continued their re&s;olutions to de&s;troy the pious and harm|le&s;s Doctor. And when at length they found there was no hope of his coming, what they could not execute in deeds, they performed in words; for they <HI>breathed out &s;laughter</HI> and &s;alvage murther
<PB N="30" REF="80">again&s;t him, threatning to <HI>chap him as &s;mall as herbs to the pot,</HI> for &s;uffering the Common-Prayer (which in the height of contempt they called <HI>Porridge</HI>) to be read in his Church. Surely if God had permitted them to be ma&s;ter of their de&s;ign, &s;uch <HI>Porridge</HI> would have lo&s;t no <HI>&s;avour</HI> by having &s;o <HI>&s;weet</HI> and whole&s;om an <HI>herb chopped</HI> into them. Others of the&s;e mad <HI>brothers of the blade</HI> reported, that they would <HI>&s;queeze the Pope out of the Doctors belly.</HI> A &s;ubtile di&s;|covery, a prodigious menace. He who was one of the mo&s;t re&s;olute, and mo&s;t victorious Champions of the Reformed Prote&s;tant Religion, and of the &s;marte&s;t Scourges of the
<PB N="31" REF="80">Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> was now accu&s;ed for having <HI>a Pope in his belly:</HI> and the way to con|fute him was by a martial <HI>&s;queeze,</HI> by &s;trength of arms and dint of &s;word. <HI>O tempo|ra! O mores! O calamito&s;am rerum divinarum &amp; humana|rum faciem!</HI> O the &s;adne&s;s of tho&s;e times, when accur|&s;ed <HI>covetou&s;ne&s;s</HI> painted over with a di&s;&s;embled <HI>&s;anctity,</HI> &s;eered and cru&s;ted the con|&s;ciences of her paramours; and made them pur&s;ue their ungodly de&s;igns by calum|nious lyes, in&s;urrections, trea|&s;on, &s;acriledge, murther, and what not? The <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> was &s;uppo&s;ed the only <HI>enemy</HI> (but indeed the greate&s;t <HI>abbetter</HI>) of the new Reformers of the Church: and where&s;oever
<PB N="32" REF="81">their black de&s;igns met with oppo&s;ition, the bare imputa|tion of <HI>Popery</HI> gave them a Commi&s;&s;ion to kill and plun|der. Every one was then ac|cu&s;ed for a <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> that would not be a <HI>Sectary;</HI> and none were e&s;teemed the <HI>Godly par|ty,</HI> but tho&s;e alone who hel|ped to ruine the <HI>State,</HI> and de&s;troy the <HI>Church.</HI> Now, alas, was that <HI>con&s;ummata in|foelicitas</HI> which <HI>Seneca</HI> &s;peak|eth of, <HI>Ubi iurpia non &s;olum delectant, &s;ed etiam placent:</HI> the <HI>abomination of de&s;olation</HI> was come upon us, when all &s;orts of villanies were not onely acted with delight, but al&s;o ju&s;tified as righteous. Well therefore might we mourn out that &s;ad complaint of the &s;ame Philo&s;opher, <HI>De|&s;init
<PB N="33" REF="81">e&s;&s;e remedio locus, ubi quae fuerant vitia, mores fi|unt.</HI> Farewel Religion, when the <HI>old vices</HI> pa&s;&s;ed currant for <HI>new vertues;</HI> and the mo&s;t piacular <HI>crimes</HI> were ju&s;tified and applauded by the very <HI>Reformers.</HI> The intoxicated and infatuated people di&s;clai|med <HI>Popery,</HI> to <HI>idolize</HI> &s;ome few of their <HI>Repre&s;entatives:</HI> and pinning their <HI>implicite faith</HI> upon the &s;leeves of judg|ling Sophi&s;ters, they took all for <HI>Orthodox</HI> which the o|thers voted for <HI>oracles.</HI> Thus did they in&s;en&s;ibly lo&s;e at once not onely their rea&s;on, but al&s;o their Prince, their Loyalty, their Religion, their Propriety, and their Peace. But the more &s;ober and ju|dicious <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in the
<PB N="34" REF="82">mean while cou&s;ulted with true Divinity, and the Di|ctates of well-guided Con|&s;ciences: and weighed not the pre&s;ent Di&s;tractions in the fal&s;e &s;cales of the cheating Zealots, but in <HI>the ballance of the Sanctuary.</HI> They found our Proprieties invaded, our Hou&s;es plundered, our Liber|ty confined, and (that which is deare&s;t unto us) our pure <HI>Religion</HI> adulterated with impure &s;chi&s;ms, and even <HI>do|ctrines of devils.</HI> Each day produced &s;ome new Opinion tending to the ruine both of Church and State; and tho&s;e Enthu&s;ia&s;ts who pretended to the guidance of a new and &s;hining <HI>light,</HI> walked in the <HI>darkne&s;s</HI> of impiety and un|charitablene&s;s, trampling up|on
<PB N="35" REF="82">our Church as the Edo|mites upon <HI>Jeru&s;alem,</HI> and crying, <HI>Raze it, raze it, even to the ground. Old</HI> and &s;ound Truths were exploded, and ju&s;tled out as <HI>ob&s;olete,</HI> by a new-found divinity: and a <HI>Juncto</HI> of <HI>Noveli&s;ts</HI> (&s;ome whereof peradventure had lately, and too ju&s;tly been offended with un-warrantable innovations) made the world believe that they had heaven in a &s;tring, as the <HI>Trent</HI>-Fa|thers had the Holy Gho&s;t in a Port-manteau. Kings were by them accounted u&s;ele&s;s; Allegiance &s;uper&s;titious; &s;a|cred Oaths to our Sovereign Lord, ra&s;h and fooli&s;h Vows, rather to be penitently retra|cted, then con&s;cientiou&s;ly ob|&s;erved; the Calling of Bi|&s;hops
<PB N="36" REF="83">anti-chri&s;tian; the Ec|cle&s;ia&s;tical Di&s;cipline, a rag of <HI>Rome:</HI> and all our &s;heaves mu&s;t bow to that of <HI>New-England</HI> and <HI>Am&s;terdam.</HI> In the mid&s;t of the&s;e growing Here&s;ies and Factions, our Doctor (with &s;ome others) preached up Loyalty and &s;ound Divinity: yet not with|out the frowns of our <HI>Gran|dees,</HI> and menaces of an ap|proaching <HI>Per&s;ecution.</HI> Here|upon I frequently repaired to him, to con&s;ult and advi&s;e about the duty and &s;afety of us both: for we clearly fore|&s;aw that although the <HI>black Cloud</HI> which hung over our heads was yet no broader than the palm of <HI>a mans hand;</HI> yet it might &s;oon <HI>over-&s;pread the whole heaven</HI> of our
<PB N="37" REF="83">Church. We apprehended that <HI>that gate</HI> which was o|pened to the wrangling and infatuated Sectaries, would prove a <HI>trap-door</HI> to them that were &s;ound and ortho|dox: and that tho&s;e who prea|ched <HI>up</HI> the Doctrine of our Church, would &s;oon preach them&s;elves <HI>out</HI> of their Li|vings and Liberties. It was therefore his re&s;olution that one of us &s;hould <HI>travel;</HI> for he was unwilling that our Mother the Church <HI>&s;hould be deprived of us both in one day;</HI> although I account my &s;elf one of the &s;malle&s;t and mo&s;t incon&s;iderable Acomes, and as the lea&s;t du&s;t of the Ballance. To this purpo&s;e both <HI>he</HI> had received an invi|tation from the Univer&s;ity of
<PB N="38" REF="84"><HI>Leyden</HI> in <HI>Holland,</HI> to be <HI>Do|ctor of the Chair</HI> for Divini|ty; and I from a very dear friend, to withdraw to Saint <HI>Chri&s;tophers</HI> in the We&s;tern <HI>Indies,</HI> where I had the honor to be the fir&s;t Preacher of the Go&s;pel in the infancy of that Mother-Colony, in the year 1626. The choice was in him, who (concluding him|&s;elf unfit to alter his climate, by rea&s;on of age, and other infirmities; and for other rea&s;ons which I purpo&s;ely o|mit) re&s;olved that I mu&s;t pro|vide and fit my &s;elf for the Voyage. His coun&s;el I fol|lowed, and away I &s;oon pac|ked; accompanied with my wife, children, &s;ervants, and what nece&s;&s;aries my &s;lender fortune at that time afforded
<PB N="39" REF="84">me. Sadly we parted; yet hoped that when the &s;torm &s;hould cea&s;e we might meet again. But before my depar|ture he committed the pre|ceding Book, (which he had compo&s;ed at the reque&s;t of Mr. <HI>S. Birbeck,</HI> the Author of the Book Entituled, <HI>Chri|&s;tian Evidences</HI>) as a &s;acred <HI>depo&s;itum;</HI> to my tru&s;t and care, re&s;erving yet a Copy thereof to him&s;elf; and ho|ping that if either of us &s;hould &s;urvive the pre&s;ent di&s;temp|ers, it might one day appear in publick, for the edification of the Church. On <HI>June</HI> 24. 1643. I weighed Anchor at <HI>Tilbury-Hope,</HI> and thence proceeded in my Voyage, in a Ship &s;ufficiently pe&s;tered with Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts,
<PB N="40" REF="85">Antinomians, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> In the mean while <HI>he</HI> &s;tayed at home to <HI>fight with bea&s;ts at</HI> Ephe|&s;us, and defend the Truth. And indeed he had a fair op|portunity for it, being cho|&s;en a Member of the A&s;&s;em|bly of Divines, and wanting no courage either to preach the Truth in the Pulpit, or to a&s;&s;ert and defend it in the Synod. In <HI>Lambeth</HI> Church (according to his cu&s;tom) he &s;o &s;courged the Times, that in <HI>July</HI> following three me|chanick Browni&s;ts there pre|&s;ent, exhibited again&s;t him no le&s;s than &s;even Articles to the <HI>Committee for Plundred Mini&s;ters,</HI> Mr. <HI>White</HI> (no great friend to orthodox Di|vines) having then the Chair. The Articles are extant in a
<PB N="41" REF="85">Book Entituled, <HI>The gentle La&s;h,</HI> together with the Do|ctors An&s;wers; whither for brevity &s;ake, I refer the Rea|der. There he may find how earne&s;tly the Doctor &s;ued for a protection, that he might without peril of his <HI>life</HI> at|tend the Committee: and he grounded his fears upon the jeers of his fanatick Adver|&s;aries continually &s;corning him; the musket of one <HI>Bag|wood,</HI> a &s;oldier, pre&s;ented at him; the report of another &s;oldier under the Command of Captain <HI>Andrews, That the Court of Guard at</HI> Lam|beth <HI>&s;hould not be di&s;charged until they had made an end of the Doctor;</HI> and, <HI>that they had a Warrant to plunder him.</HI> But how thick and dull
<PB N="42" REF="86">(though <HI>long</HI> enough) were the ears of that Chair-man, and how impertinently he an&s;wered the Doctors re|que&s;t, by a pretence of igno|rance of what was alledged, the judicious Reader may be &s;atisfied in the <HI>Gentle La&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>And now appeared indeed the <HI>dubia crepu&s;cula lucis,</HI> the <HI>twilight</HI> of the Doctors age: for he began his An&s;wer to tho&s;e Articles, with this hea|vy Complaint, <HI>Hoc uno die plus vixi quam oportuit;</HI> this is the fir&s;t day in all my life, that I ever heard Articles read again&s;t me in any Court Eccle&s;ia&s;tical or Temporal, or Committee of Parlament. But he comforted him&s;elf with the example of Chri&s;t, the <HI>Prince of our &s;alvation,</HI>
<PB N="43" REF="86">who was <HI>con&s;ecrated through afflictions;</HI> and with that A|pology of St. <HI>Cyprian, Nec mihi ignominio&s;um e&s;t pati a meis quod pa&s;&s;us e&s;t Chri&s;tus; nec illis glorio&s;um facere quod fecit Judas, i.e.</HI> it is no di&s;ho|nor to me to &s;uffer of my coun|trey-men what Chri&s;t endu|red; nor gain they any glo|ry by doing like <HI>Judas.</HI> In brief, the Articles were &s;o fal&s;e, &s;candalous, undige&s;ted, and indeed fooli&s;h, that the Doctor was acquitted; and the compiler of them (one <HI>Ambro&s;e Glover,</HI> alias, <HI>An|drews,</HI> a <HI>Botcher,</HI> who had &s;pent a whole year in &s;titch|ing them together) was di&s;|mi&s;&s;ed with &s;ufficient di&s;|grace. But the&s;e were not times for Sectaries to be foy|led,
<PB N="44" REF="87">(e&s;pecially at a Commit|tee where the Chair-man was one of their &s;toute&s;t Cham|pions) and an Orthodox Di|vine go away with the Con|que&s;t. The Articles were af|terward taken into debate by four (too few for a Quorum) of the &s;eventeen Members of that Committee, and right or wrong, they voted him out of his Living at <HI>Lambeth,</HI> Yet here they pau&s;ed, and deferred the Report of their Order for above two months together. At length Ma&s;ter <HI>White,</HI> or &s;ome other for him, reported to the Hou&s;e of Commons their procee|dings again&s;t the Doctor: where it was put to the Que|&s;tion, Whether he &s;hould be Seque&s;tred, or not? and it
<PB N="45" REF="87">was Re&s;olved in the Nega|tive.</P>
<P>Now the Doctor having his <HI>Quietus,</HI> he thought him|&s;elf to be at liberty again to follow his Calling, and mo&s;t weighty affairs: he therefore betook him&s;elf to his &s;tudies, both for the Service of God in the Pulpit, and for the di&s;|charge of his Tru&s;t in the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of Divines. But his Religion and his Loyalty were Crimes unpardonable: and his Vindication of the Truth in tho&s;e erroneous times, betrayed him to the malice of new Adver&s;aries, and their mi&s;chievous Con|trivements. The <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> be|ing voted down, and the <HI>Hie|rarchy</HI> of our Church <HI>blown</HI> away with an <HI>un&s;avoury
<PB N="46" REF="88">breath,</HI> every one's brain (<HI>mens</HI> &amp; <HI>womens</HI> of all &s;orts) hammered and projected a new Church-Government, (forgetting in the mean while that they had almo&s;t lo&s;t the very <HI>Church</HI> it &s;elf:) and a|mong the many &s;uperfaetati|ons, <HI>that</HI> of the <HI>Presbytery</HI> appear'd mo&s;t prevalent. The profe&s;&s;ors thereof in <HI>England</HI> learned their Le&s;&s;on of their brethren in <HI>Scotland;</HI> who&s;e fir&s;t and greate&s;t Lecture was the <HI>Solemn League and Co|venant.</HI> it was hatched in <HI>Scotland,</HI> and &s;ent to the A&s;|&s;embly of Divines in <HI>Eng|land</HI> for their Concurrence. Being propo&s;ed in our <HI>Synod,</HI> the Doctor in a grave and learned Speech, and with &s;o|lid and judicious Arguments,
<PB N="47" REF="88">&s;o &s;trongly oppo&s;ed it; that tho&s;e who wanted <HI>Learning</HI> to <HI>an&s;wer</HI> him, wanted not <HI>malice</HI> to <HI>ruine</HI> him. The Reader may be plea&s;ed to &s;ave me the labor of reciting the Speech, if <HI>he</HI> vouch&s;afe to peru&s;e it in a Book Enti|tuled <HI>Sacra Neme&s;is,</HI> Or, <HI>The Levites &s;courge.</HI> There he may finde not onely <HI>this</HI> Speech printed at large; but al&s;o <HI>others</HI> of great Concern|ment; as al&s;o his <HI>Sixteen Rea&s;ons</HI> for <HI>Epi&s;copal Go|vernment;</HI> and many other things well worthy his per|u&s;al.</P>
<P>It &s;eems the times would not bear <HI>&s;ound Doctrine:</HI> it was therefore concluded by a factious party, that either the <HI>Covenant</HI> mu&s;t be &s;up|pre&s;s'd,
<PB N="48" REF="89">or the Doctors mouth mu&s;t be &s;topped. Every <HI>Se|ctary</HI> was willing to help for|ward the <HI>latter,</HI> in a &s;eeming defence of the <HI>former:</HI> al|though the zeal of &s;ome of them was not grounded &s;o much upon their <HI>love</HI> to the <HI>Covenant,</HI> as upon their <HI>envying</HI> his <HI>abilities,</HI> and <HI>madne&s;s</HI> at his &s;tout and re&s;o|lute defending the <HI>truth.</HI> At at la&s;t a Plot was laid by <HI>Schi&s;maticks</HI> and <HI>Sectaries</HI> of &s;everal judgments (who all concurred (in the great de|&s;ign of &s;ilencing the Doctor) &amp; they built upon that Mar|tial Policy, <HI>Dolus, an virtus, quis in ho&s;te requirit? Strata|gems</HI> in wars are as lawful as <HI>battels.</HI> To this purpo&s;e, about the middle of <HI>Sept.</HI> in the
<PB N="49" REF="89">year 1643, one <HI>Armiger Wardner</HI> (a proper E&s;quire, a de&s;picable Felt-maker at that time in <HI>Southwark,</HI> and after|ward a <HI>Sutler</HI> in the Army at St. <HI>Albans)</HI> made his Appli|cation to the Doctor under pretence of friend&s;hip; &amp; pri|vately informed him, as from the <HI>Lord Primate of Armagh</HI> at <HI>Oxford</HI> (from whence he pretended he was newly come)
<Q>That the King was ve|ry much offended at his com|plying with the A&s;&s;embly: and that he charged him upon his high di&s;plea&s;ure, never more to meet with the Divines in <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;evenths Chappel.</Q> The credulous Doctor intending no harm, &s;u&s;pected none: nor con&s;idered how &s;trongly
<PB N="50" REF="90">and &s;toutly he had (but a fort|night &s;ince) <HI>&s;courged</HI> the <HI>Co|venant</HI> in that very <HI>A&s;&s;embly;</HI> and that this therefore might be a Plot to affright him into a future <HI>complyance,</HI> or at lea&s;t <HI>&s;ilence,</HI> in the <HI>Synode;</HI> or that it might be a <HI>&s;nare</HI> to catch him, and to bring him into <HI>trouble. Evil be to him that evil thinketh;</HI> the Do|ctor thought none: but he &s;eemed indeed a little <HI>un&s;a|tisfied,</HI> in that the Primate had not <HI>written</HI> unto him: but the cunning <HI>deceiver</HI> ex|cu&s;ed <HI>that</HI> by the danger of the times either to write, or carry intelligence of &s;uch concernment. The good Doctor was truly very much troubled at the <HI>contrary com|mands</HI> of the <HI>King</HI> at <HI>Ox|ford,</HI>
<PB N="51" REF="90">and the <HI>Parliament</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter:</HI> but the me&s;|&s;enger &s;eemed to be <HI>grieved</HI> for him; and to <HI>contrive</HI> &s;ome means to quiet his thoughts. At length he told the Doctor, that a word of the <HI>Primat's</HI> mouth to the <HI>King</HI> would &s;et all aright a|gain: and that <HI>he</HI> was pre&s;ent|ly to return to <HI>Oxford;</HI> by whom if the Doctor would write a few lines to his <HI>Grace,</HI> acquainting him with &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages in the <HI>A&s;sembly;</HI> and with his de&s;ire of his Maje|&s;ties leave to continue his at|tendance <HI>there:</HI> he would not onely deliver the Letter with much fidelity, but al&s;o bring him an an&s;wer on tue&s;day following. Upon the&s;e fair &s;hews of <HI>Armiger Waraners</HI>
<PB N="52" REF="91">friend&s;hip, &amp; many promi&s;es of his faithfulne&s;s &amp; &s;ecrecy; the Doctor cau&s;ed a kin&s;man of his to write what he dicta|ted, <HI>Armiger Wardner</HI> being in pre&s;ence: and when he had fini&s;hed, and read it to them both; the Doctor asked <HI>Ar|miger Wardners</HI> opinion, <HI>Whether he thought there could be any danger in &s;end|ing what was written?</HI> The <HI>Sutler</HI> pretended a <HI>confidence</HI> that there could be <HI>no danger</HI> in it: and therecupon the Do|ctor &s;ub&s;cribed it with the two fir&s;t letters of his name in Greek, one within ano|ther, thus <FIGURE REND="inline">
</FIGURE>; which afterward by the <HI>quiblet</HI> of a Member of Parliament was interpreted <HI>fidelity.</HI> He ha|ving
<PB N="53" REF="91">thus &s;ub&s;cribed it, and folded it up after the manner of an ordinary written Pa|per, (not like a <HI>Letter,</HI> nor yet <HI>&s;ealing</HI> it) he delivered it to <HI>Armiger Wardner</HI> (al|though his <HI>Kin&s;man</HI> labored much by urgent Arguments to <HI>di&s;&s;wade</HI> him from it:) who &s;oon departed, <HI>laughing in his &s;leeve.</HI> Towards <HI>South|wark</HI> he marched: but at the <HI>Skonce</HI> by the way (as it &s;eems the Plot had been laid) he was &s;trictly examined, and &s;earched for <HI>Letters.</HI> In his pocket was <HI>&s;oon</HI> found this <HI>written Paper;</HI> and <HI>as &s;oon</HI> it was confe&s;&s;ed that he brought it from <HI>Doctor Feat|ley,</HI> and was to carry it to the <HI>Primate of Armagh</HI> at <HI>Ox|ford</HI> The me&s;&s;enger was pre|&s;ently
<PB N="54" REF="92">(for fa&s;hions &s;ake) clapped up for a <HI>Spie;</HI> but &s;oon enlarged: and the <HI>Note</HI> or <HI>writing</HI> was &s;peedily &s;ent to the <HI>clo&s;e Committee.</HI> They immediately peru&s;ed it, and coppied it out: and then gave it again to the &s;elf &s;ame me&s;&s;enger to carry it to <HI>Oxford;</HI> hoping by the&s;e means to di&s;cover that <HI>intel|ligence</HI> which (by their <HI>own</HI> encouragement) might af|terward pa&s;s between the <HI>Primate</HI> and the <HI>Doctor.</HI> In conclu&s;ion, after &s;ome dayes had pa&s;&s;ed, and the thing was brought to maturity; the Doctor was &s;ent for by the <HI>Clo&s;e Committee;</HI> and charged as a <HI>Spie</HI> and <HI>Intel|ligencer.</HI> He an&s;wered, that what he &s;ent was but an open
<PB N="55" REF="92"><HI>note,</HI> and no formal or <HI>&s;ea|led Letter:</HI> and if it had been a <HI>Letter,</HI> yet it contained no matter of <HI>intelligence</HI> con|cerning the affairs of either <HI>War</HI> or <HI>State;</HI> but onely gave an account of &s;ome pro|ceedings in the <HI>A&s;sembly</HI> touching Religion; and <HI>that</HI> al&s;o, not to any <HI>enemy,</HI> but to a cho&s;en <HI>member</HI> of the &s;ame <HI>A&s;sembly;</HI> with friend|ly coun&s;el to the Primate to begge of his Maje&s;ty the Deanery of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> then void, for his own ne|ce&s;&s;ary <HI>&s;upport.</HI> Moreover, if it had been indeed a <HI>Letter</HI> (as it was not;) and there|by he had &s;ent <HI>&s;ecret intelli|gence;</HI> yea, and of matters of <HI>State;</HI> and all this to a known and profe&s;&s;ed <HI>enemy</HI>
<PB N="56" REF="93">to the <HI>State;</HI> yet &s;uch a Letter could not in rea&s;on &amp; ju&s;tice bring him within the compa&s;s of danger, becau&s;e it was not a <HI>tran&s;gre&s;sion of any known Law:</HI> for the Ordinance of Parliament forbidding corre&s;pondency by Letters to <HI>Oxford,</HI> with|out leave of the Hou&s;es, or warrant from the Lord Ge|neral; was not then in <HI>being;</HI> but was made on <HI>Octob.</HI> 22th 1643: which was a full Moneth after this <HI>Note, E|&s;cript,</HI> or pretended <HI>Letter,</HI> was written. Again; if that note contained any dange|rous <HI>intelligence,</HI> or <HI>corre|&s;pondency with any enemy:</HI> why did the Committee <HI>&s;end</HI> it to <HI>Oxford;</HI> and not rather <HI>&s;uppre&s;s</HI> it? Or why
<PB N="57" REF="93">did not the Committee cau&s;e it to be afterward <HI>printed,</HI> that the world might know the <HI>crime</HI> of the Doctor? But the Doctors <HI>defence</HI> was not <HI>armour of proof</HI> again&s;t the malicious re&s;olutions of his mortal Adver&s;aries. The more rea&s;ons <HI>he</HI> urged, the more <HI>they</HI> were enraged: for what they were not able to an&s;wer by the&s;trength of <HI>rea|&s;on,</HI> they how&s;oever could ma&s;ter by the &s;trength of <HI>power.</HI> The <HI>Prolocutor</HI> was netled becau&s;e the Doctor had written an <HI>Encomium</HI> of his &s;pecial gift in praying not &s;o much <HI>ex tempore</HI> as <HI>de tempore:</HI> and the <HI>Presbyte|rians</HI> were offended becau&s;e he oppo&s;ed the <HI>Covenant:</HI> and the Sectaries in general
<PB N="58" REF="94">were highly di&s;plea&s;ed, be|cau&s;e he both di&s;covered and oppo&s;ed their <HI>Schi&s;ms.</HI> Here|upon the Committee (being of the <HI>di&s;contented party</HI>) re|&s;olved to <HI>&s;ilence</HI> him: and pre|&s;ently he was voted both out of the <HI>A&s;sembly,</HI> and out of his <HI>E&s;tate</HI> and <HI>Liberty.</HI> On September 30^t^h a <HI>Warrant</HI> (mentioning no <HI>crime</HI>) was brought from the Commit|tee, to <HI>commit</HI> the poor Do|ctor: and the Officer condu|cted him to the Lord <HI>Peter's</HI> Hou&s;e in <HI>Alder&s;gate-&s;treet:</HI> before which he was &s;o <HI>plun|dered,</HI> that he had no more money left him than one bare <HI>five &s;hillings</HI> Piece of Gold; which he be&s;towed upon the Officer. So &s;oon as he was <HI>laid up,</HI> tho&s;e who&s;e <HI>mouthes</HI>
<PB N="59" REF="94">had long <HI>gaped</HI> and <HI>watered</HI> at his two <HI>Livings,</HI> and un|doubtedly had been very in|&s;trumental to <HI>clap</HI> him <HI>up, skipped</HI> ha&s;tily into them: Mr. <HI>White</HI> of <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> into <HI>Lambeth,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Philip Nye</HI> (this was <HI>that</HI> Nye, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>) into <HI>Acton.</HI> Thus (oh thus) was the poor Doctor plundered, &s;eque&s;tred, impri&s;oned, and even quite lo&s;t to the world. Yet (as if malice had plead|ed for <HI>eternity</HI>) they left him not <HI>thus:</HI> for while&s;t he was penn'd up in that noy&s;om Pri&s;on, he yet <HI>preached</HI> con|&s;tantly every Lords-day to his fellow-&s;ufferers (for they were many, and per&s;ons of quality; and their &s;inne was <HI>Loyalty:</HI>) until at length <HI>I&s;aac Pennington,</HI> the pre|tended
<PB N="60" REF="95">Lord Major of <HI>Lon|don,</HI> &s;topped his mouth; and gave order that he &s;hould preach no more. Many &s;ad moneths did he &s;pend in pri|&s;on, wanting the &s;weet and plea&s;ant <HI>air</HI> at <HI>Kennington,</HI> the comfortable Society of his <HI>Books,</HI> his ju&s;t <HI>Revenue,</HI> a convenient <HI>accommodation,</HI> a well-ordered <HI>dyet,</HI> the com|pany of his old and bo&s;om <HI>friends;</HI> and indeed all things (except a <HI>good Con&s;cience</HI>) which might qualifie the bit|terne&s;s of a tedious life. In the height of the&s;e his &s;uffer|ings, it happened that a <HI>Pa|pi&s;t</HI> &s;ent a bold <HI>challenge</HI> a|broad into the world, con|cerning the <HI>Antiquity, Unity, Univer&s;ality, Succe&s;sion, and perpetual Vi&s;ibility</HI> of the <HI>true
<PB N="61" REF="95">Church:</HI> which threw <HI>dirt</HI> in the <HI>face</HI> of the <HI>Protestant Church;</HI> and (as the Author thought) <HI>invincibly</HI> a&s;&s;erted the Tenets of the <HI>Romani&s;ts.</HI> The Parliament <HI>&s;aw</HI> the <HI>chal|lenge;</HI> but neither could <HI>an|&s;wer</HI> it them&s;elves, nor per|&s;wade the Reverend <HI>Synod,</HI> (wherein were yet left many per&s;ons of great <HI>learning,</HI> and much <HI>e&s;timation:</HI>) but it was recommended to the <HI>Doctor;</HI> whom they knew to be well ver&s;ed in the matters in que|&s;tion. Had they fir&s;t vindi|cated him from the <HI>a&s;per&s;i|ons</HI> of the hackney <HI>Mercuries</HI> of the times, as <HI>Britannicus, Civicus</HI> &amp;c. and repaired his <HI>Lo&s;ses,</HI> and re&s;tored his <HI>Li|vings,</HI> and enlarged his <HI>Per|&s;on,</HI> and &s;ent him with honor
<PB N="62" REF="96">to take his place again in the A&s;&s;embly; they had given him a ju&s;t and noble <HI>encou|ragement</HI> to an&s;wer their de|&s;ires. But he was a poor <HI>I&s;|raelite</HI> under the <HI>Egyptian yoke;</HI> and mu&s;t be content to abate the <HI>&s;traw,</HI> yet make the <HI>brick.</HI> When no denial, or excu&s;e, would &s;atisfie; he com|plained that he wanted his <HI>Books:</HI> and without <HI>them</HI> he could not an&s;wer expectati|on. The Hou&s;e therefore vo|ted, <HI>That he &s;hould have any of his own Bookes which he &s;hould require; provided that he &s;hould never have more than three of them at one time.</HI> By this Vote in the fir&s;t place his <HI>Library</HI> was for a while pre&s;erved from the <HI>itching hands</HI> of Mr. <HI>White</HI>
<PB N="63" REF="96">of <HI>Dorche&s;ter</HI> (who had got|ten an Order, that <HI>he</HI> &s;hould have the Doctors <HI>Books,</HI> un|til the Doctor could get back Mr. <HI>Whites,</HI> which &s;ome un|der the Command of Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> had &s;eized at <HI>Dorche|&s;ter:</HI>) and the Doctor got a welcome <HI>imployment,</HI> which <HI>diverted</HI> the <HI>irk&s;omne&s;s</HI> of his &s;ad <HI>impri&s;onment.</HI> To work he went, and at length he fi|ni&s;hed and publi&s;hed his An|&s;wer to the Challenge, on <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1. 1644. in a Book Entituled, <HI>Roma Ruens.</HI> Nor may I here forget <HI>another Book</HI> which he had perfected and publi&s;hed the <HI>&s;ame year</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> and other <HI>Sectaries,</HI> called <HI>The Dippers dipt:</HI> both the&s;e Bookes being meanes to in|crea&s;e
<PB N="64" REF="97">his <HI>afflictions</HI> by the fury of &s;o many <HI>Heretickes</HI> and <HI>Schi&s;matickes;</HI> and few &s;ound and &s;olid <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> left, to <HI>vi&s;it</HI> &amp; comfort him. Nor may I omit tho&s;e foul and odious <HI>a&s;per&s;ions</HI> which the <HI>Sectaries</HI> (being enraged with madne&s;s at his <HI>Dippers dipt</HI>) and &s;ome others threw upon him, <HI>viz.</HI> That <HI>Doctor</HI> Featley <HI>was turned <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">apist.</HI> This abhorred <HI>imputation</HI> &s;o terribly <HI>tormented</HI> him (much beyond his <HI>lo&s;ses,</HI> and <HI>impri|&s;onment</HI>) that it compel'd him to <HI>vindicate</HI> him&s;elf in man|ner following.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Doctor</HI> Featley's <HI>Manife&s;to and Challenge.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>VVHereas a fal&s;e and &s;candalous
<PB N="65" REF="97">report is <HI>bruited</HI> by the <HI>Se|mi &s;eparati&s;ts</HI> and <HI>Anabap|ti&s;ts,</HI> and readily <HI>entertain|ed</HI> by diver&s;e <HI>zealots</HI> of the <HI>new reformation, That I</HI> (who have preach'd &s;o much again&s;t <HI>Popery</HI> heretofore) <HI>now in my old dayes</HI> (being ready to leave this world) <HI>have fallen away from my holy profe&s;sion, and am in heart a Papi&s;t;</HI> there being found many <HI>Popi&s;h books</HI> in my Study: And becau&s;e I have learned from the mouth of St. <HI>Jerome,</HI> that <HI>though other wrongs may be put up, and an&s;wered with &s;ilence, committing the re|venge thereof to the Righ|teous Judge,</HI> Inju&s;ti&s;&s;ime judicato ju&s;ti&s;sime judicatu|ro, i.e. <HI>to him who will
<PB N="66" REF="98">judge righteou&s;ly, although him&s;elf was unrighteou&s;ly judged; yet that</HI> in &s;u&s;pi|cione haere&s;eos neminem o|portet e&s;&s;e patientem. <HI>i. e. no man ought to be &s;ilent, when he is charged with he|re&s;ie:</HI> I have thought fit to make known to all whom it may concern, that being cho&s;en <HI>Provo&s;t of Chel&s;ey-Colledge,</HI> I have under the <HI>Broad Seal of England</HI> a Warrant to <HI>buy, have, and keep all manner of Popi&s;h Books:</HI> and that I never bought or kept any of them but to the end and purpo&s;e, the better to inform my &s;elf to refute them. And for my <HI>judgement</HI> and <HI>re&s;oluti|on</HI> in point of <HI>Religion, I profe&s;s before God, and his
<PB N="67" REF="98">holy angels, and the whole world, that what I have here tofore preached, written, and printed again&s;t the errours, here&s;ies, idolatry, and mani|fold &s;uper&s;titions of the Ro|mi&s;h Church, I believe to be the truth of God; and that I am mo&s;t ready and willing, if I be called thereunto, to &s;ign and &s;eal it with my blood</HI> And whereas I am certainly in ormed, that divers <HI>Lectu|rers</HI> and <HI>Preachers</HI> in <HI>Lon|don,</HI> and the Suburbs (who have <HI>entred upon the Labors</HI> of many worthy <HI>Divines,</HI> and <HI>reaped their harve&s;ts) do in their Pulpits,</HI> after a mo&s;t in&s;olent manner, in&s;ult upon them; demanding, <HI>Where are they now that dare &s;tand up in defence of church-hierarchy,
<PB N="68" REF="99">or Book of Com|mon-prayer; or any way op|po&s;e or impugn the New in|tended Reformation; both in doctrine and di&s;cipline of the Church of</HI> England? I do here prote&s;t, That I do and will maintain, by <HI>di&s;pu|tation,</HI> or <HI>writing,</HI> again&s;t a|ny of them, the&s;e three <HI>Conclu&s;ions,</HI> viz.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <MILESTONE N="i."> That the <HI>Articles of Religion,</HI> agreed upon in the year of our Lord 1562. by both Hou&s;es of <HI>Convo|cation,</HI> &amp; ratified by Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> need no <HI>altera|tion</HI> at all; but onely an <HI>Or|thodox explication</HI> in &s;ome <HI>ambiguous phra&s;es;</HI> and a <HI>vindication</HI> again&s;t <HI>fal&s;e a&s;|per&s;ions.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, <MILESTONE N="ii."> That the <HI>Di&s;ci|pline</HI>
<PB N="69" REF="99">of the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed by many <HI>Laws,</HI> and <HI>Acts</HI> of Parlia|ment; that is, The Govern|ment by <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> (removing all <HI>innovations</HI> and <HI>abu&s;es</HI> in the <HI>execution</HI> thereof) is agreeable to <HI>Gods word;</HI> and a truely <HI>ancient</HI> and <HI>Apo&s;to|lical in&s;titution.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, <MILESTONE N="iii."> That there ought to be a <HI>&s;et-form</HI> of <HI>publick prayer:</HI> and that the Book of <HI>Common-prayer</HI> (the <HI>Ka|lender</HI> being reformed in point of <HI>Apochryphal Saints</HI> and <HI>Chapters;</HI> &s;ome <HI>Rubricks</HI> explained; and &s;ome <HI>expre&s;|&s;ions</HI> revi&s;ed, and the whole <HI>correctedly</HI> printed; with all the <HI>P&s;alms, Chapters,</HI> and <HI>Allegations</HI> out of the Old and New <HI>Te&s;tament,</HI> accor|ding
<PB N="70" REF="100">to the <HI>la&s;t Tran&s;lation</HI>) is the <HI>mo&s;t compleat, perfect, and exact Liturgy</HI> now ex|tant in the Chri&s;tian world.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Daniel Featley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>After the Doctor had made publick this his <HI>Manife&s;to</HI> and <HI>Challenge</HI> (or how&s;oever owned it, as it is printed in <HI>The Gentle La&s;h</HI>) I could ne|ver hear that any <HI>confident Pen</HI> dur&s;t an&s;wer his <HI>Chal|lenge;</HI> or ever (otherwi&s;e than by &s;ome <HI>impudent lying Mercuries,</HI> or &s;uch <HI>&s;currilous pamphlets</HI>) ca&s;t any further A&s;per&s;ions of <HI>Popery</HI> upon him.</P>
<P>To draw near to a Conclu|&s;ion: Notwith&s;tanding the great &s;ervice which the Do|ctor
<PB N="71" REF="100">had done for the <HI>Church</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> at the reque&s;t of the <HI>Parliament,</HI> by his An|&s;wer to that <HI>Popi&s;h Challenge</HI> in his <HI>Roma ruens;</HI> yet they &s;uffered him to continue in <HI>Limbo,</HI> in his old <HI>pri&s;on.</HI> But when (after his long and mi|&s;erable durance) through the clo&s;ene&s;s and corruption of the <HI>air,</HI> the noi&s;om <HI>&s;tenches</HI> of the pri&s;on, his bad <HI>dyet</HI> and ill <HI>lodging,</HI> the want of <HI>exer|ci&s;e,</HI> and many other <HI>incon|veniencies,</HI> he fell into a <HI>Drop&s;ie,</HI> and other di&s;ea&s;es: he became an humble Petiti|oner to the Parliament, that he might have leave to re|move to <HI>Chel&s;ey-Colledge,</HI> where the <HI>air</HI> was <HI>fre&s;h</HI> and <HI>whole&s;om:</HI> and his Phy&s;icians <HI>Certificate</HI> was annexed to
<PB N="72" REF="101">his <HI>Petition,</HI> declaring that he could not po&s;sibly <HI>live,</HI> with|out the benefit of better air. Full &s;ixteen Weekes did his friends and &s;ervants be&s;tow upon a daily and weari&s;ome Attendance on the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> in pur&s;uance of his reque&s;t: for &s;ome <HI>Members</HI> would, but <HI>dur&s;t not</HI> move for him; &s;ome <HI>dur&s;t,</HI> but <HI>would not.</HI> His <HI>friends</HI> were <HI>fearful;</HI> but his <HI>enemies</HI> bold, and <HI>violent.</HI> At length (when his Adver|&s;aries were a&s;&s;ured that his <HI>death</HI> approached; &s;o that now there could be no fear of his further writing, or prea|ching either again&s;t the <HI>Co|venant,</HI> or any <HI>Anabapti&s;ti|cal Tenets</HI>) they granted him an Order to <HI>remove</HI> to <HI>Chel|&s;ey-Colledge</HI> for &s;ix weekes:
<PB N="73" REF="101">for (although they proved prophets, yet) they &s;u&s;pected that if he &s;hould be in any hope of recovery, he would fall again to his old game of Oppo&s;ing the Here&s;ies of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he times:) <HI>provided always,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat he &s;hould fir&s;t give good <HI>Bayl</HI> for his <HI>return</HI> to pri&s;on at the &s;ix weeks end. By ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ue of this long looked-for Order he was <HI>removed</HI> to <HI>Chel&s;ey-Colledge</HI> about the b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ginning of <HI>March,</HI> in the year 1644, but neither <HI>phy&s;ick,</HI> nor <HI>air,</HI> nor <HI>dyet,</HI> nor better <HI>lodging</HI> nor <HI>company,</HI> nor <HI>cordials,</HI> nor any thing el&s;e could <HI>remove</HI> his <HI>di&s;ea&s;es,</HI> or give him hope of <HI>recovery.</HI> There he &s;pun out a &s;hort time in much <HI>pie|ty,</HI> and holy exerci&s;es; al|though wearied with pains,
<PB N="74" REF="102">and worn out with <HI>afflicti|ons;</HI> whereof none were &s;o grievous to him, as the pre|&s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>di&s;tractions</HI> in the <HI>Church</HI> and <HI>State.</HI> On the fourteenth day of the next moneth (be|ing <HI>April,</HI> in the year 1645.) the harbingers of death a&s;|&s;uring him of his near-ap|proaching di&s;&s;olution, he <HI>&s;et his hou&s;e in order,</HI> and made his la&s;t Will and Te&s;tament; which began thus:</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>A Model of an in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ended Will to be Confirmed and Executed, if ever Peace return upon</HI> I&s;rael.</HEAD>
<P><Q>FIr&s;t for my <HI>Soul,</HI> I com|mend it to <HI>him</HI> who&s;e due it is by a three-fold right; My <HI>Creator,</HI> who in|fu&s;ed it into me; My <HI>Redee|mer,</HI>
<PB N="75" REF="102">who freely ran&s;omed it with his deare&s;t blood; My <HI>Sanctifier,</HI> who a&s;si&s;t|eth me now in the greate&s;t and late&s;t a&s;&s;aults of temp|tation. As for <HI>humane me|rits,</HI> I renounce them all; accounting nothing in this kinde more truly honorable and meritorious, than the contempt of all me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ts: ac|cording to that of St. <HI>Ber|nard, Sufficit ad meritum &s;cire quod non &s;ufficiunt me|rita,</HI> &amp;c.</Q></P>
<P>The next day he made a Confe&s;&s;ion of his Faith to Doctor <HI>Loe,</HI> and the Dutch Emba&s;&s;ador's Chaplains; &s;ay|ing moreover,
<Q><HI>That the do|ctrine which he had alwayes preached, and the Bookes
<PB N="76" REF="103">which he had printed again&s;t-A|nabapti&s;ts, and other Sectaries, were agreeable to Gods word: and that he would S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al the Pro|te&s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Religion, as it was e&s;ta|bli&s;hed by the Acts of three pious Princes, with his blood. As for the Solemn League and Cove|nant,</HI> he &s;aid <HI>it was a damnable and execrable Oath&punc; made pur|po&s;ely to en&s;nare poor &s;ouls; and and full of malice and trea&s;on a|gain&s;t our Gracious Sovereign.</HI> As for the <HI>Church Government</HI> then controverted, he &s;aid, <HI>I dare boldly affirm, That the Hierarchy of Bi&s;hops is mo&s;t a|greeable to the Word of God, as being of Apo&s;tolical In&s;titution; the taking away whereof is dam|nable: and that by con&s;equence both the Presbyterian and Inde|pendent Governments are ab&s;urd, and erroneous; neither of them being ever heard of in the Church of God, till of late at</HI>
<PB N="77" REF="103">Geneva: <HI>nor is there &s;o much as any colour for them in Holy Writ. It is evident</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>that as the Prie&s;ts in the Old Te|ment were above the Levites; &s;o in the New, the Apo&s;tles were above the di&s;ciples: and that the &s;even Angels of the &s;even Chur|ches in the</HI> Apocalips, <HI>were &s;e|ven Bi&s;hops: and that</HI> Polycar|pus <HI>was Bi&s;hop of</HI> Smyrna, <HI>and</HI> Timotheus <HI>of</HI> Ephe&s;us. <HI>And for the Laity, no pregnant proof can be produced that they ever med|led with the Prie&s;ts Function; or had any power to ordain Mini|&s;ters. And the&s;e things</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>I intended to have publi&s;hed to the world, if God had &s;pared me longer life: which I might tho|row his goodne&s;s have enjoyed, had I not been unju&s;tly impri|&s;oned.</HI></Q></P>
<P>On the next day, being <HI>April</HI> 17. 1645. (which was
<PB N="78" REF="104">the very la&s;t day of tho&s;e <HI>&s;ix weeks</HI> which <HI>the tender mer|cies</HI> (that yet are <HI>cruel</HI>) of his enemies had alotted him for his continuance in <HI>Chel&s;ey-Colledge</HI>) his <HI>&s;pirit waxed faint;</HI> and (drawing neer to <HI>the gates of the grave</HI>) he prayed as followeth:</P>
<P><Q><HI>Lord, &s;trike through the reins of them that ri&s;e a|gain&s;t the Church, and King; and let them be as chaff be|fore the wind, and as &s;tubble before the fire. Let them be &s;cattered as Partridges up|on the mountains, and let the breath of the Lord con|&s;ume them: but upon our Gracious Sovereign, and his Po&s;terity, let the Crown flou|ri&s;h. This</HI> (&s;aid he) <HI>is the hearty and earne&s;t prayer of
<PB N="79" REF="104">a poor &s;ick creature.</HI></Q> With which words, and many hea|venly Ejaculations, <HI>commen|ding his &s;oul into the hands of his faithful Creator,</HI> he <HI>fell a&s;leep.</HI> So &s;oon as he &s;eemed to be <HI>departed,</HI> his Nephew, my dear Brother Mr. <HI>H. F.</HI> (not knowing what had happened) came thither to &s;ee him: but was enter|tained with the &s;ad news of his Uncles <HI>decea&s;e.</HI> This &s;truck him into &s;uch a grief, and a&s;toni&s;hment; that (im|patient of delay) he pre&s;ent|ly cau&s;ed a &s;mall <HI>do&s;e</HI> of the Doctor's rare and precious <HI>Cordial Spirits</HI> to be admini|&s;tred unto him; which made him once more to open his eyes: and looking about him, and both <HI>&s;eeing</HI> the tears of
<PB N="80" REF="105">his mourning Kin&s;man, and <HI>hearing</HI> his pa&s;&s;ionate reque&s;t to &s;peak unto him; he &s;aid, <HI>Ah Cou&s;in</HI> H. <HI>the poor Church of God is torn in pieces</HI> More he &s;aid not; but &s;weetly and gently groaned out his wea|ried and fainting &s;pirit; and re&s;igned his Soul into the extended arms of his merci|ful Redeemer.</P>
<P>And now (being above the further malice and blood|thir&s;ty cruelty of his &s;alvage enemies) provi&s;ion was made for his honorable Interment: and in <HI>Lambeth</HI>-Chancel (ac|cording to his de&s;ire) he was &s;olemnly <HI>buried;</HI> a very great multitude of per&s;ons of <HI>ho|nor</HI> and <HI>quality</HI> attending the Funeral Rites; and Doctor <HI>Loc</HI> entertaining them with a
<PB N="81" REF="105">learned and pious <HI>Sermon,</HI> which was afterward printed: to which I refer the Reader for &s;uch further &s;atisfaction concerning tho&s;e rare Ac|compli&s;hments of the Decea|&s;ed, which <HI>mode&s;ty,</HI> and the feared &s;u&s;picion of <HI>partiality,</HI> makes me forbear. All that I &s;hall further write of him, &s;hall be but a <HI>&s;hort</HI> Character of his <HI>Per&s;on</HI> and <HI>Graces.</HI> He was low of <HI>&s;tature;</HI> yet of a lovely graceful <HI>countenance;</HI> and of a convenient &s;trength and health of body. He was of a mo&s;t &s;weet <HI>di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> being <HI>affable</HI> and <HI>courteous</HI> to all; without the lea&s;t com|mixture of that &s;ullen <HI>moro&s;i|ty</HI> which &s;ome men mi&s;s-take for <HI>gravity.</HI> He was gene|rally free from all &s;igns and
<PB N="82" REF="106">&s;hews both of <HI>pride</HI> and <HI>an|ger:</HI> onely when he di&s;puted with <HI>Hereticks</HI> or <HI>Schi&s;ma|ticks</HI> in defence of the &s;acred <HI>Truth,</HI> his <HI>Zeal</HI> and <HI>dexterity</HI> made them unju&s;tly &s;u&s;pect that he had been <HI>cholerick.</HI> He was &s;uch a <HI>Compendium</HI> of the learned <HI>Tongues,</HI> and all the Liberal <HI>Arts</HI> and <HI>Sci|ences;</HI> that you would have thought him <HI>Learning it &s;elf</HI> bound up in a little and &s;mall Volume. He was mo&s;t &s;eri|ou&s;ly and &s;oundly <HI>pious</HI> and <HI>devout;</HI> freely <HI>charitable</HI> both in <HI>giving,</HI> and <HI>forgiving;</HI> and a faithful and true <HI>&s;on of the Church of</HI> England. He was very <HI>temperate</HI> and <HI>&s;ober</HI> in his <HI>dyet:</HI> yet &s;uch <HI>a lover of ho&s;pitality,</HI> that he requently and freely entertained &s;tran|gers
<PB N="83" REF="106">at his plentiful (yet not prodigal) Table; &s;ea&s;oning his Di&s;cour&s;e with ingenuous, fa|cetious, and harmle&s;s mirth; yet never forgetting the gra|vity of a Divine. He dyed in the &s;ixty fifth year of his age: yet truly if his unju&s;t and bar|barous <HI>impri&s;onment</HI> had not &s;huffled tho&s;e <HI>di&s;ea&s;es</HI> upon him which ha&s;tened his end, in humane probability he might have attained to the yeares of his aged Father, which were reckoned above an hundred.</P>
<P>Thus lived, and thus died the deare&s;t to me of all my able&s;t friends; who very of|ten profe&s;&s;ed, That <HI>all his earthly care was for me, and mine.</HI> Yet as he was rendred unable to perform what he
<PB N="84" REF="107">&s;eriou&s;ly intended me; &s;o was I made uncapable of his in|tended favors, by being then in mine <HI>exile.</HI> Little did I think that a Gentleman &s;o healthful and temperate, was de&s;igned for &s;o <HI>&s;hort</HI> a <HI>life,</HI> or (in &s;ome kinde) an <HI>untimely death.</HI> Oh my grief is re|newed by this impo&s;ed duty, and I am compelled to write <HI>in the angui&s;h of my &s;pirit.</HI> Yet &s;ome comfort I receive from the words of Saint <HI>Au|gu&s;tine, Vocantur ante tem|pus boni, ne diutius vexentur a noxiis: mali vero &amp; impii tolluntur, ne diutius bonos per&s;equantur, i. e.</HI> The <HI>good</HI> are <HI>taken away,</HI> even before their time, that their per&s;ecu|tions may have a period: and the <HI>bad</HI> are <HI>hurried away,</HI> that
<PB N="85" REF="107">they may per&s;ecute no more. My private and <HI>particular lo&s;s</HI> of him in this world, I can better <HI>bewayl</HI> than <HI>com|pute:</HI> and truely how much our <HI>Church</HI> in <HI>general</HI> will mi&s;s him, nothing &s;o much as bad times (I &s;uppo&s;e) will di&s;|cover. Peradventure one day <HI>that</HI> may be &s;aid of him, which that eloquent and fa|mous Orator of <HI>Oxford</HI> &s;aid of <HI>Zanchie, Beza, Reignolds, Junius,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Cum nondum per aetatem ae&s;timare potui|mus, (proh dolor!) ami&s;imus. i. e.</HI> Whom we <HI>prized not</HI> while&s;t he <HI>lived,</HI> we <HI>lament</HI> now he is <HI>dead.</HI> In brief, he lived and dyed a <HI>Confe&s;&s;our,</HI> and a holy <HI>Martyr</HI> for <HI>God and the King:</HI> and he left behinde him &s;uch <HI>Monuments</HI>
<PB N="86" REF="108">of both; that peradventure future Ages will alter the name in the Poet, to honor <HI>him</HI> with the ver&s;e,
<Q>Marmora <HI>Featlaei</HI> vincunt monumenta libelli:</Q></P>
<P>Reader, I have done; and thanking thee for thy pati|ence, and begging thy chari|table pardon of what thou finde&s;t ami&s;s; I re&s;t</P>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thine in all humility, and true Chri&s;tianity,</HI> John Fairclough, <HI>vulgo</HI> Featley.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>London,</HI> <DATE>July 13. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Mi&s;takes of the pre&s;s correct as followeth, viz. In the Vindication, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>PAge 2. line Ult. read Hoc. p. 4. l. 13. r. Iliads. l. 18. r. alledged. p. 25. l. 5. r. Evangelij. l. 9. r. di&s;cern|ed. l. 17. r. &s;anam. p. 34. l. ult. r. &s;aith. p. 35. l. 5. read treati&s;es. p. 40. l. 20. r. talis. p. 41. l. 21. r. Harpalus. p. 46. l. 12. dele et. l. 13. r. aufert. p. 49. l. 20. foris. l. 22. r. beatitudinis. p. 54. l. 5. d. were. p. 62. l. 3. r. corp&s;e. p. 66. l. 13. r. fru&s;ta. l. 22. r. reteins. l. 23. r. prints p. 100. l. 15. r. Zanchies.</P>
<P>In the Life and Death, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Page 6. l. 20. r. demea&s;ne. p. 12. l. 17. r. undaunted. p. 14. l. 9 and l. 16. r. Bread&s;treet. l. 20. r. 1624. p. 21. l. 8. r. truer. p. 24. l. 18. r. mi&s;&s;ed. p. 30. l. 2. r. chop. l. 9. r. ma&s;ters. p. 42. l. 10. r. dubiae.</P>
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