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A42331	The Paschal or Lent-Fast, apostolical & perpetual at first deliver'd in a sermon preached before His Majesty in Lent and since enlarged : wherein the judgment of antiquity is laid down : with an appendix containing an answer to the late printed objections of the Presbyterians against the fast of Lent / by Peter Gunning ...	Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1662 (1662)	Wing G2236; ESTC R5920	244,843	370

know but evidently the Providence of God disposed him to that Vision by something a longer delayed and increased hunger In all this some time is spent beyond Noon and a hunger raised beyond ordinary However popularly speaking since it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it might be called St. Peter's Fast till Noon Here you mentioning your selves and your temperance and something of Princes and Students and some Tradesmen not all surely seem to forget that the Fast of Lent as St. Bernard may have taught us was intended ordinarily for the generality of all Christians in ordinary strength of years and body when not in the accident of extraordinary labour so that the ordinary labourers are herein included 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. 〈◊〉 B●…shop Mo●… 〈◊〉 Appea●… p. 310 l. 2. c. 24 The Romanists free all ●…der twenty years of age c. and whosoever are imployed in bodily 〈◊〉 The Protestants charge all Christians to fast some time so far as the ●…ndifferent ●…bility of Nature permits who are known necessarily to require their mornings repast as our Saviour in his morning-Travel Mat. 21. 18 19. Now forasmuch as Fasting is properly a voluntary substraction of food in such a degree as may afflict the body let any judge whither if the ordinary labourers are to bear some part in the Churches common Fast though not in that degree that sedentary men and the like are and if they shall extend their Fast but to St. Peter's time of eating in that Text Acts 10. whither it shall not be to them a Fast A greater voluntary Affliction of their body then other mens abstaining till night And so St. Peters Fast in respect of some in the Church concerned in her Fast for ought you have said needed not to be an occasion of your magnifying your temperance or fear of bringing the Clergy under suspition of intemperance by calling your ordinary wholesome temperance by the name of Peter's Fast. * B●…sh Andrewes Se●…m 5 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Fasting page 225. Pet●…rs Fast they find and that is the lowest he was fasting till past the sixth hour till then Thus in●… ●…he ●…he Church is for thes●… are not without example in Scripture we see not unknown to 〈◊〉 When Daniels Fast is described Chap. 10. for ought we can perceive the abstinence in quality of his Dyet that neither flesh nor wine came into his m●…uth and that he ate no pleasant bread c. till three full weeks were fulfilled with diminution of his food no doubt without any mention of his food delaid till evening is there called the chastening of his body Lastly We come to the Act of Parliament concerning which you thus begin your Reply If when the expres words of a Statute c. are cited Who would not herein think that our Brethren had brought some part of a Statute wherein the religious Fast of Lent as contain'd in our Common-Prayer-Book were expressed But there is no such matter Whereas your Answerers had produced an express Act of 1. Eliz. made on purpose to confirm their Common-Prayer-Book and every part of it and so to be sure the twenty five leaves thereof that contain all things whatsoever the Common-Prayer-Book hath of the Religious Fast of Lent That Act adding severe Penalties against any person or persons whatsoever that shall by any open words declare or speak any thing in derogation of the same Book or any thing therein contained or any part thereof Such as the twenty five leaues concerning the Religious Fast of Lent undeniably is and your very proposal supposes On the other side the Act by you mentioned speaks not any word of any thing mentioned in any part of the Common-Prayer-Book Except you think that when the Church prayes that we may use such god●…y abstinence that the flesh may be ●…ubdued to the Spirit c. that such godly abstinence cannot be but b●… the difference of fish and flesh the only thing 〈◊〉 there which were a superstition grosser then the Papists are gu●… of so that we have a whole Act standing in force on purpose mad●… 〈◊〉 defend amongst other parts of our Liturgy the religious Fast of 〈◊〉 as it is in the Common Prayer-Book contained and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. Eliz. relating only to the difference of fish and flesh of wh●… there is no word in the common-Prayer you must now confe●…s to be wholly nothing to our question unless you medled beyond your commi●…ion touching Lent besides what it is set forth as a religious Fast in the Common-Prayer-Book But now because by this your discourse you have wronged the piety of our Laws and Acts of Parliament I proceed to make good against you that according to the Statutes of this Realm the comm●…nd in Lent made not by the Common-Prayer-Book b●…t by the Statutes to fo●…bear Flesh is declared by Acts of Parliament now in force to be partly for the subduing of the flesh to the Spirit and as a means to vertue and that in the Statute by you produced there is nothing to the contrary which that it may appear look over your Law again consult the Statute 5 Eliz. 5 and you shall find That there is nothing as to fasting in that Statute but these two things 1. The superaddition of Wednesday to the former Fish-dayes which part of the Statute stands repealed 3. Car. c. 4. 2. The increase of the penalty only upon any transgressors of the former Acts concerning Fish-dayes Both these that Statute declares to be only for political ends as other Politique Laws are and be viz. both the superaddition of Wednesday wherein they gave leave to have flesh also at Table so that the wonted fish were there served up also and also the augmented penalty to be only in favour to the political concernment and who think you believes that any forbearing of flesh or eating of fish mentioned in that Statute is of any necessity for the saving of the soul of man and yet that mentioned in the preamble of the 2. and 3. Edwardi 6. c. 19. may be and is a mean to vertue and to subdue the flesh unto the Spirit which is not at all mentioned in this of 5. Eliz. 5. as to the constituting and enacting part but only as to another penalty upon the other the politick end Ask the learned in the Law whither that of the 2. and 3. Edward 6. c. 19. were repealed by this but of that you were wise to take no notice at all 3. No Act did not repeal in any word any part of that 2. and 3. Edvardi 6. c. 19. But in all Acts touching dayes of Abstinence as 5 and 6. Edward 6. c. 3. great regard is had by a special clause that none should mistake as if the present Act did extend to abrogate or take away the Abstinence in L●…nt commanded in the Act of 2. and 3. Edward 6. c. 19. Now therefore hear you the words of the Statute 2. and 3. Edwar. 6. c. 19. Albeit the Kings

Subjects now having a more perfect and clear light of the Gospel and true word of God through the infinite mercy and clemency of Almighty God by the hands of the Kings Majesty and his most noble Father of famous memory promulgate shewe●… declared and opened and thereby perceiving that one day or one meat of it self is not more holy more pure or more clean then another for that all dayes and all meats be of their nature of one equal purity cleanness and holiness and that all men should by them live to the glory of God and at all times and for all meats give thanks unto him of which meats none can defile 〈◊〉 men or make them unclean at any time to whom all mea●…s be l●…wfull and pure so that they be not used in disobedience or vice yet for ●…smuch a dive●… of the Kings Subjects turning their knowledge therein to satisfie their sensuality when they should thereby ere case in vertue have of late time more then in times past broken and contemned such Abstinence which hath been used in th●… Re●…lm upon the Friday and Saturday the Embring dayes and other days commonly c●…lled V●…gils and in the time commonly call●… 〈◊〉 and ●…her accustomed times the Kings Majesty considering Th●… due and godly 〈◊〉 is a mean to vertue and to subdue mens bodies to their soul and spirit and considering also that Fishers and men using the Tra●… of living by Fishing in the Sea may thereby the rather be set on work and that by eating of Fish much flesh shall be saved and encre●…ed and also for divers other considerations and commodities of this Realm doth Ordain and Enact with the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Common 〈◊〉 this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons of what 〈◊〉 degree 〈◊〉 condition he or they be shall at any time after the fist day of May in the year of our Lord God 1549. willingly and wittingly eat any manner of flesh after what manner of kind or sort soever it shall be ordered dressed or used upon any Fridy or Saturday or the Embring dayes or in any day in the time commonly called Lent c. The scope and reason and motive of which Law if it be considered according to the principal end of it subduing the flesh to the Soul and Spirit for there is added another end also which was political may well admonish us though it was hard to contain the particulars in a Law to abstain also at such times of Mortification from whatsoever food else is more delicate costly of hotter nature and of higher nourishment The formers of that Law which is now the Law of out Land had no doubt before their eyes the approbation of God and his gracious answer to Daniel so chastening himself as in the holy Scripture is described I ate no pleasant bread neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth Dan 10. 2 3 12. which that Ministers of Gods Word should not as well have before their eyes as our civil Magistrate is a great shame But if you look back to the Common-Prayer-Book which was the matter of your Commission and of your grand debate as you call it and of your Proposal there if you think the Act of Parliament ratifying and establishing the Common-Prayer-Book and therein the religious Fast of Lent designed the end to be the service of God no otherwise then as other Political Laws are and be you should evidently contradict that Act of Parliament which professes there and then an establishment of the order of the publick and divine service and should imagin the prayer for the first Sunday of Lent to have the suspition of such a sense as this O Lord who for our sakes didst fast forty dayes and forty nights give us grace to use such abstinence that our seafaring men and Mariners and young Cattle and the like may be maintained how worthy a conceit were this To conclude this Chapter for the substance of the Paschal or Lent-Fast we have heard To name no more now then S. Austine Habet Authoritatem in veteribus libris ex Evangelio Epist 119. praecipitur enim nobis ex lege ex Prophetis ex ipso Evangelio idem ad Psal. 110. and the same also l. 30. con Faustum c. 3 5. avowing Abstinence from some sort of meats of Delicacy and higher nourishment Flesh c. Edomandi corporis ●…usa propter corporis castigationem sicut saith he per Quadragesimam fere omnes to be commanded from the Apostles and the Prophets you have tried it now as to the kind of flesh or fish by our Law and let the Reader judge of the Issue CHAP. 9. The judgment which the Ancient Fathers made of such as opposed the Churches set Fasts or Feasts and particularly this Paschal or Lent-Fast SAint Augustine in his Book of Heresies n. 53. writing of the Aërians thus saith Aëriani ab Aerio quodam sunt nominati qui in Arrianorum haeresim lapsus propria quoque dogmata addi●…isse nonnulla fertur dicens nec statuta solenniter celebranda esse jejunia sed cùm quisque voluerit jejunandum ne videatur esse sub lege dicebat etiam Presbyterum ab Episcopo nullâ differentiâ debere discerni That is the Aërians are named from one Aërius who having fallen into the Heresie of the Arrians did add thereto some opinions of his own affirming that the solemn set Fasts were not to be observed but that every man was to fast when he pleased least he should seem to be under the law He also said that there was no difference to be put between a Priest and a Bishop And n. 82. of the same Book he thus saith of the Iovinianists A Ioviniano quodam monach●… illa haeresis orta est aetate nostrâ cum adhuc juvenes essemus dicebat non aliquid prodesse jejunia vel a cibis aliquibus abstinentiam cito tamen illa haeresis oppressa extincta est nec usque ad d●…eptionem aliquorum sacerdotum potuit pervenire That is the Heresie of the Jovinianists in my time when I was young sprang from one Iovinian A MONK who said that fasting and abstinence from certain meats was not at all profitable But this herefie was soon extinct and proceeded not so far as to deceive any Priests Iohannes Damascenus in his 6. Book of Heresies writeth thus of the Aërians or Eustachians Aëriani ab Aërio Pontico fuit autem sacerdos Eustachii Episcopi Arriani filius ejus Eustachij qui jejunium feriâ quartâ sexta quadraginta diebus servari pascha celebrari prohibet Stata haec damnat omnia quod si quis jejunium servare velit id ab eo certis statisque diebus servari negat oportere sed quando volet negat enim se lege teneri negat etiam quicquam inter Presbyterum Episcopum interesse That is the Aërians were named of Aerius of