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A07371	A sermon of fasting, and of Lent, and of the antiquitie, dignitie, and great necessitie thereof preached vpon the 14. of Februarie, anno 1607 at Shaftesbury / by Io. Mayo.	Mayo, John K.	1609 (1609)	STC 17755; ESTC S451	20,912	68

seeing S. Paul willed the Corinthians to giue no offence neither to the Jewes nor to the Grecians nor to the Church of God I can not chuse but beléeue and say that it is a sinne wilfully and without cause to breake and despise set dayes and times of Abstinence and fasting cōmanded by Authorite and this shall bee proued vnto you by 6. speciall arguments 1. By the fift Commandement 2. By the testimony of S. Paul Rom. 13. 1. 3. By the definition of Sinne. 4. By Examples 5. By the Ancient Fathers 6. By generall Councels This is proued by the fift Commandement In the 5. Commandement which is the first Commandement of the second Table we are commanded to honour our Parents where by honour is meant loue feare and obedience and by our Parents not onely our naturall Parents but all Kings Princes Gouernours and Superiours which doe rule vs. Well then if we wilfully breake and despise set dayes and times of Abstinence and fasting commaunded by Authoritie we doe not honour our Superiors If wee doe not honour our Superiors we breake this Commaundement If wee breake this Commandement I hope none will deny but we sinne This is proued by the testimony of S. Paul Rom. 13. 1. where the Apostle saith Let euery soule be subiect to the higher power Why because there is no power but of God We must not saith he resist the power for if we resist the power we resist the ordinance of God They that resist what shall they receiue They shall receiue to themselues iudgement Heerehence I frame this argument Whosoeuer doeth resist the power doth resist the ordinance of God But they that wilfullie breake and despise set daies and times of abstinence and fasting commanded by Authoritie doe resist the power Therefore they doe resist the ordinance of God If therein they doe resist the ordinance of God who can deny but that they sinne This is proued by the definition of sinne To sinne as S. Austen saith is facere quod non licet to do that which is not lawfull to doe Héerehence I drawe this argument Whosoeuer doe that which is not lawfull doe sinne but they which wilfully breake and despise set daies and times of Abstinence and fasting commanded by Authoritie doe that which is not lawfull therefore they doe sinne This is proued by Examples Adam in Paradise was commanded Gen. 2. 17. of the Lord not to eate of the tree of knowledge of good and euill If hee did hee should die the death Aarons sonnes were commanded Leuit. 10. 9 of the Lord not to drinke wine nor strong drinke in their ministerie which commandement because they brake they were slaine The man of God that came out 1. Reg. 13. of Iuda was slaine by a Lion because being seduced by the false Prophet hee did eate bread and dranke water in his house contrary to the Lords Commandement Saul would haue put his sonne 1 Sam 14. Ionathan to death because ignorantly he tooke a little honny contrary to his commandement If Adam Aarons sonnes and the Prophet of God were punished of the Lord for their not abstinence and if Ionathan was in so great danger for breaking his fathers commandement in eating a little honny Is it not a sinne before God for vs wilfully to breake and to despise set daies and times of Abstinence and fasting commanded by Authoritie seeing wee are commanded of the Lord to submit our selues to our Princes ordinances and bound in conscience truely and vnfeinedly to obey them Let vs yet goe further The noble kings Ezekias Iehosaphat and Iosias made lawes for the exercise and the recalling of Gods seruice That Christian and religious Emperor Constantine made lawes also in things pertaining to holinesse towards God and towards his Church Theodosius his successour tooke the same course King Alured or Alfred appointed and commanded set daies and times of Abstinence and fasting And so did king Edgar Anno Dom. 958. Had it beene a sinne for people in those daies to haue broken these their Princes lawes and ordinances wilfully wantonly and without cause and shall we thinke that it is not a sinne for vs in these daies to doe the like This is proued by the testimony of the ancient fathers Most certaine and assured it is that Austen Ambrose and other of the ancient fathers were of this mind and thought it a sinne wilfully to break and to despise set daies and times of Abstinence and fasting commanded by Authoritie S. Austen de temp Ser. 62. calleth them new teachers that shut out the merite of fasting and asketh what saluation we can obtaine if we blot not out our sinnes by fasting séeing saith hee the Scripture saith that fasting and almesdeeds doeth deliuer from sinne Alijs diebus ieiunare saith he remedium est aut praemium c. To fast on other daies is a remedie or reward but not to fast in Lent is a sinne S. Ambr. in ser 25. de Quadrag saith thus among many other things Non leue est peccatum Jt is no small sinne to breake a fast that is commanded Although these two ancient fathers had their errors and in some sort thought corruptly of fasting yet I will say of them and of their opinion concerning fasting as reuerend master Hooker saith lib. 5. Eccle. pol. lib. 5. pag. 208. Ecclesiast Poliicie Concerning euery mans duety herein saith he that which Austen and Ambrose are alleadged to haue done is such that all men fauouring equitie must needs allow and follow it also if they affect peace Well then if according to master Hookers iudgement al men must néeds allow this opiniō of these two Fathers if they fauour equitie and affect peace then I hope I may say that it is a sinne wilfully and without cause to breake and to despise set daies and times of Abstinence and fasting commanded by Authoritie This is prooued by generall Councels and specially by that of Chalcedon held in the yeere of our Lord 454. to confound the errour of Eutiches who held that in Christ God and Man make but one Nature The Councell of Mentz vnder Canon 35. Charles the great made this decrêe Si quis indictum ieiunium super biendo contempserit c. If any one shall with pride contemne fasting commanded and will not obserue it with other Christians let him be accursed The like was established by the Councell of Carthage in their 63. Canon By the Councell of Laodicen in their 50. Canon and by the Councell of Toletan in their 7. Canon If those Councels thought them fit to bee accursed and excommunicate that would not obserue fasting commanded by Authoritie shall not wee thinke that they thought it a sinne in them that did wilfully breake and despise the same I might stand longer and much longer vpon this question but I will conclude it with the saying of the Apostle S. Peter say vnto you euen as the Apostle Peter said to the Jewes 1. Epist 2. 13

the worthiest men of this Land are perswaded that the not Abstinence fasting and meane diet is the occasion of so many great grieuous and outragious sinnes which are committed amongst vs. There was neuer more teaching more preaching more lawes and more Statutes and yet neuer more excesse more intemperance more riot more surferting more hypocrisie and dissimulation neuer worse and worser liuing The world is bold to surfet and hath taken an habite to fry in words but to fréese in deeds to bee rather a disputant than an agent in Religion and to count sinnes no sins but to turne them from sinnes to trades and occupations The world doeth blush and doeth scorne to fast because it thinkes it to be an abridgement of Christian libertie to bee Jewish a Montanizing and rather the bewraying of a disease then the exercising of a vertue And therefore some say as they did in the 2. Chap. of Wisdome Come let vs enioy the pleasures which are present and let vs cheerefully vse the creatures as in youth c. Some say as they did of whom the Poet writeth Wee are a number Horat. ad Lollium epistol lib. 1. and we are borne to consume and eat fruites and fill our bellies Some againe will fast but when when they list themselues and not otherwise For when we fast they will feast and when we feast then they will fast And out of Lent they will eat flesh meate though not vpon other daies yet vpon Fridaies and Saterdaies and in the time of Lent they will eate flesh-meate seuen daies in the weeke behauing themselues therin much like vnto them to whom it was sayd by our Sauiour Christ himselfe We haue piped to you and yee Mat. 11. 19 haue not danced we haue mourned to you and yee haue not wept Some againe will kéepe extraordinary fasts but how without the knowledge and authoritie of the Maiestrate to preuent his decree and controle his gouernment To such kind of persons that may wel and truely bee said which a reuerend and learned Doctor hath written A wilfull law-breaker would Of obedience or Ecclesiasticall vnion sect 19. fol. 62. willingly breake the law-giuer that is he that is not a friend and welwiller to the Princes lawes can not be a friend and welwiller to the Prince himselfe Many good and wholesome lawes and Statutes haue beene made and enacted to bridle the lust and libertie of people in this point as in the 5. and 13. yeere of our late Queene ELIZABETH and in the first yeere of our now gratious dread Soueraign King IAMES which Acte because it specially concerned this matter and is fit and necessary to be heard knowen and vnderstood of all heere present I wil read vnto you as it is set down in the booke You which are now in place and authoritie looke to this good Act and to the due execution thereof as you ought to doe First you your selues giue good examples thereof in your houses to your children to your seruants and in other places also where you come Look to those Butchers and that without all fauour or partialitie that shall offend heerein and to those Tauerners Inne-keepers Ale-house-keepers which make a common course and custome of offending heerein and that without any feare or intermission You which are Parents giue good examples thereof to your children and all you which are masters mistresses and dames of houses and families giue good examples thereof to your seruants to your apprentises and to others that are with you Let the superior sort giue good examples thereof to the inferiour the richer to the poorer and the elder to the yonger without the honny of hypocrisie or the leauen of maliciousnesse contempt or wilfulnesse that wee may all liue in the feare die in the fauour rest in the peace rise in the power and remaine at last in euerlasting glorie with Jesus Christ our Sauiour to whom c. FINIS