Daniel Featley - Works

Works

He was involved in the translation of the King James Version of the Bible. In the project, Featley served in the "First Oxford Company", responsible for the later books of the Old Testament.

His works include:

• Life of John Jewel prefixed to the bishop's collected works in 1609, and again in 1611, mostly an abridgment of the life by Laurence Humphrey. It was reproduced, together with his lives of Rainolds, Robert Abbot, bishop of Salisbury, and others, in Thomas Fuller's 'Abel Redevivus,' 1651.
• 'Parallelismus nov-antiqui erroris Pelagiarminiani,' London, 1630, an anonymous tract against Richard Montagu.
• 'Pelagius Redivivus, or Pelagius raked out of the ashes by Arminius and his schollers,' London, 1620, anonymous, containing a translation of the preceding tract.
• 'A Second Parallel together with a Writ of Error sued against the Appealer' (i.e. Bishop Montagu), London, 1620.
• 'The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome in taking away the sacred cup from the Laiety in the Lord's Table . . . Together with two conferences, the former at Paris with D. Smith ... the later at London with Mr. Everard,' London, 1630.
• 'Hexalexium : or, six Cordials to strengthen the Heart of every faithful Christian against the Terrors of Death,' London, 1637.
• 'Transubstantiation exploded; or an encounter with Richard the Titularie Bishop of Chalcedon, concerning Christ his presence at his holy Table. . . . Whereunto is annexed a . . . Disputation held at Paris with C. Bagshaw,' London, 1638.
• 'Θρήνοικος. The House of Mourning; furnished with directions for the houre of death. Delivered in 47 sermons, preached at the funeralls of . . . divers Servants of Christ. By Dr. D. Featly and other, . divines.' London, 1640; another edition, London, 1660.
• 'The Gentle Lash, or the Vindication of Dr. Featley, a knowne Champion of the Protestant Religion; also Seven Articles exhibited against him. With his Answer thereunto. Together with the said Doctor his Manifesto and Challenge,' 2 parts (Oxford), 1644; another edition the same year.
• 'Sacra Nemesis, the Levites Scourge; or, Mercurius Britain. Civicus, disciplin'd. Also diverse remarkable Disputes and Resolvs in the Assembly of Divines related, Episcopacy asserted. Truth righted, Innocency vindicated against detraction' (anon.). Oxford, 1644.
• 'Pedum Pastorale et Methodus Concionandi,' Utrecht, 1657.
• 'Featlei Παλιγγενεσία; or, Dr. Daniel Featley revived: proving that the Protestant Church (and not the Romish) is the onely Catholick and true Church. . ., With a succinct History of his Life and Death. Published by John Featley,' 2 parts, London, 1660.
• 'The League illegal: wherein the late solemn league is … examined … and confuted; … written long since in prison by Daniel Featley. … Published by John Faireclough, vulgo Featley. (D. F. his speech before the assembly of divines, concerning the new league and covenant. Dr. Featley's sixteen reasons for Episcopal government, which he intended to have delivered in the assembly . . . but was not permitted,' &c., London, 1660.

Featley also published, London, 1638, Sir Humphrey Lynde's posthumous reply to the Jesuit Robert Jenison, entitled 'A Case for the Spectacle, or a Defence of Via Tuta,' together with a treatise of his own called 'Strictura in Lyndomasttigem, by way of supplement to the Knight's Answer,' and a 'Sermon preached at his Funerall at Cobham, June the 14th, 1636;' reprinted in the supplement to Edmund Gibson's Preservative from Popery (vol. v. ed. 1849). A set of Latin verses, written by him in 1606, giving an exposition of Jesuitical amphibology, was prefixed to Henry Mason's New Art of Lying, London, 1634.