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A44239	The Holy fast of Lent defended against all its prophaners, or, A Discourse shewing that Lent-fast was first taught the world by the apostles, as Dr. Gunning, now Bishop of Ely learnedly proved in a sermon printed by him in the year 1662 by His Majesties special command together with a practical direction how to fast.	Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing H2525; ESTC R40999	45,046	54

we shall be able to overcome the Devil when by 40. days we have been through fasting Victors over our Carnal desires For neither Brethren is it a little fault to break by greediness of the Belly the Lent indicted to Believers and the Consecrated Fast. Serm. de Jejunio Elia. Behold through the mercy of God we have past through the indicted Fasts of Lent and have fulfill'd by the devotion of Abstinence the Commands of our Lord. Theophilus Patriarch of Alexandria lib. 3. Pasch ad totius Aegypti Episcopos By no means let us in the days of Lent as Luxurious Rich men are wont to do long after a Cup of Wine They that keep the Precepts of the Laws tast not Wine on fasting days refuse to eat Flesh c. S. Hierom in his Comment upon Ionah c. 3. Our Lord himself the true Jonas sent to Preach unto the World fasted 40. days and leaving us the Inheritance of fasting under this number prepares our souls for the eating of his Body In his Comment on Isaiah 58. Our Lord fasted 40. days in the Wilderness that he might leave unto us the solemn days of Fasts S. Chrysostom in his 11th Lent-Sermon upon Genesis Wherefore in every thing due measure and moderation is best According whereunto therefore concerning this season also of the Holy Lent we shall now find it to have been ruled out unto us For as in publick Conveyance of Travellers there are certain Stages and Inns that the wearied Passengers may rest themselves and intermitting their Labours they may again set upon their Iourney In like manner here also in Holy Lent our Lord has indulged these two weekly days the Saturday and the Lords-day to such as undertake this course of this fast like certain Stages or Inns Shores or Havens that both the body may be a little relaxed from its labours of fasting and the mind comforted that when these two days shall be past over they may again with chearfulness set upon this their good and profitable Travelling in this way S. Gregory Nyssen in his zd. Oration of the Resurrection Matthew added the time when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week The Night saith he was so far passed that it was now the time of Cock-crowing which giveth warning that the light of the approaching day is at hand For this cause also at this time viz. far in the Night before Easter-day and not in the very Evening of the Saturday dissolving or ending the Fastings we begin the Ioy the Custom that obtains with all men consenting thereto This for the fourth Age. In the 5th Age S. Augustin in his 119th Epist to Ianuarius The Lent truly of Fastings has Authority both in the old Books out of the Fast of Moses and Elias and out of the Gospel because our Lord Fasted so many days In what part therefore of the year more aptly could the Observation of Lent be Constituted then in that which is Conterminous and next unto the Passion of our Lord. That those 40. days before Easter should be observed the Custom of the Church has Corroborated In his 118. Epist to the same Januar. But those things which we keep being not written but delivered down which are observed throughout the whole world are given us to understand that they are retain'd as commended and appointed either by the Apostles themselves or by Plenary Councils whose Authority in the Church is most wholsome as for example that the Passion of our Lord and his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven and the coming of the Holy Ghost are Celebrated with an Anniversary Solemnity S. Leo the Great Bishop of Rome in his 6. Sermon of Lent That the Apostolical Institution may be fulfilled in the Fast of forty days not by sparing from our Dyet only but especially by abstinence from sins And in his 9th Serm of Lent In which days of the Paschal Fast with good cause severer Fastings were ordained by the Apostles through the teaching of the Holy Ghost that by a common comparticipation of the Cross of Christ we also should do something in that which he did for us as the Apostle says if we suffer with him we shall also be glorified with him S. Chrysologus That we Fast Lent is not a human Invention it is of Divine Authority S. Cyril Patriarch of Alexandria is above-cited at large This for the 5th Age. In the following Ages the observation of Lent in all Christian Countrys is so manifest that no body any whit Versed in Church History can possibly doubt of it Now after the manifest Testimonies of so many and so Learned and so holy Doctors of Christs Church the Opposers of the Holy Fast of Lent must give me leave to bespeak them in the words of the great S. Augustin by him directed to Iulian the Pelagian after a like Citation about another matter of these very Holy Fathers by me now cited as to a great part of them Tu qui am crebro c. Thou sadly deluded Zelot that doest so often object to us Catholick Christians the name of Will-worshippers the crime of Superstition for Religiously observing the Holy Fast of Lent If thou beest awake see what and what kind of men and glorious defenders of the Christian Faith thou darest to bespatter under our names with so execrable a Crimination Go now and object to us the crime of Superstition dissemble and feign thy self not to know what they say in this point overlook them as it were and attack us only as not knowing that under our name they are reviled and confidently insult over so many and so great Doctors of the Church of Christ who after a most Saintly Life and having beaten down the Errors of their times most gloriously went out of this Life before you and your Comrades bubled up Doest thou see with what kind of Men we sustain thy Reproaches Doest thou see with whom we have the same common cause which without any sober consideration thou calumniates and endeavours to expugn Doest thou see proud Zelot how pernicious it is unto thy self to object so horriable a Crime of Will-worship to such men as these and how glorious it is to us to sustain the charge of any Crime together with such Doctors as these Or if thou doest see see and hold thy peace and let so many Catholick tongues silence thy Phanatical tongue The Ruffian Polemus to compleat his wild ramble would needs early in the morning half drunk with his Night Revels go to the School of the grave Sophist Xenocrates to affront him and his Schollars But he was no sooner entred the School of that sober Platonist but the very sight of the modest and grave Comportment of the Philosopher and his Schollars did so strike my young Gallant that he was quite out of Countenance and ashamed of himself he pull'd off his Drunken Bayes and composed himself to modesty and became his Convert whom be came on purpose to deride and scoff at