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A06783	A fruitful treatise of fasting wherin is declared what ye Christen fast is, how we ought to fast, [and] what ye true vse of fastyng is. Newlye made by Thomas Becon.	Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.	1551 (1551)	STC 1722; ESTC S114404	40,728	146

mynde and inwarde mā mai haue the purersenses to vnderstande the cleare sighte to beholde the more open eares to heare and the gredier stomacks to digest the holi misteries of god For likewise as he is no mete mā to pray vnto God that commeth out of the Tauern sweating and set on fire with drincking of whot wine eatīg of delicious meats so in like maner is he no fit man either to reade or to hear y ● word of god that hath a ful gorge and stuffed belly The more the body is filled the more is the mind dulled made vnapt to receiue any message from god But albe it y ● outward man decay be made feble for a tyme yet the inwarde man is renewed day by day and made strong And this meant the holy fathers godlye bishops of Christes churche in tymes paste when they appointed fastinge on the euēs of solempne feastes that the people by their fasting might be made the more apt the day folowing when they came to the tēple to heare the blessed worde of theyr saluacion The holy letters do testify that when Moses receiued the law he was in the mount with God and fasted .xl. daies and .xl. nights before the ta●les of the law wer deliuered vnto him where of wee maye learne howe reuerently we oughte to take the word of god au● not to come vnto it with vnwashed fete as they vse to say And this is to be noted by y ● way that as Moses fasting was foūd worthy to receiue the law of god so likewise when he came downe from the mount saw the people droncke and mad singinge piping daūcīg lea●ing he threw down the tables of y e law brake them on peces by this declaring that Epicures and belly gods be no worthy and mete vessels to receiue the new wine of gods word When the children of Israell at a certaine time came together to read the boke of the law of the Lord they fasted the whole day that they mighte reade the holye scriptures with the more reuerēce and bee made the more mete to haue the holy ghost present with them to teache them by hys godlye inspiracion Esdras also being greatly desirous to haue certaine secretes opened vnto him was commaunded of Uriel the angel to fast vii daies first of al. Whych thing he did and had hys desyre satisfied In like manner after the Prophet Daniel had fasted and praied vnto the Lord for knowledge of certain misteries Gabriel the aungell of God came and reueled vnto him the secretes of Christes incarnatiō passion death c When Baruche red hys boke before the kinge and the kinges councell and before all the people they all wepte fasted prayed before the Lorde Before that oure sauyoure Christe tooke vppon hym the office of preachinge to declare vnto the people the ioyfull tidinges that he broughte frome heauen he fasted .xl. daies and .xl. nights and dyd eate nothinge at all geuinge vs example by his fasting not to faste the like fast which is impossible and aboue y e natural strengthes of ani mā but to come vnto the word of god thorow fasting with al reuerence humilitie whither we reade or heare it The Apostles of Christ lykewise before they vniuersally preached the kyngdom of Christ fasted and praied and as they wer fastyng and prayinge the hollye Ghoste came downe vpon them and endued them with the knowledge of al languages taught them the true vnderstandynge of Gods holy misteries To ende Cornelius being very desierous to knowe y ● true and approued religiō before God fasted praied vnto the Lord and god gracious●● satisfied his desire The .xxiiii. Chapter TThus le we that all godlye men both of the old and new Testament vsed abstinence for the most part whē they shuld eyther preach heare or read the worde of God that they myghte come the more reuerentlye vnto it and be made the more mete to handle so holye and worthye misteries It is conueniēt therfore y ● we also if we wyll vse fastinge aright do folowe the examples of these holi men whensoeuer we entende eyther to preache reade or heare the worde or God and not vnreuerentlye to come vnto the holy scripture as vnto prophane wrightings after the example of many vngodly parsons which w t out al humilitie reuerēce read the woorde of god as thoughe it wer an Ethnike chronicle a boke of mannes statutes of Beuise of Hampton of Gye of Warwicke of Robinhoode and suche other lyke fonde and foolyshe fansyes yea ther wāt not the greater shal be our plage which scorn y ● word of god and moste shamefullye abuse it some vnto ●koffynge and iesting some vnto the tauntinge of other some vnto y ● vpholdīg of their fleshly liberty corrupt māners some vnto the maint eining of wicked opinions c. whose destruccion slepeth not whose damnacion is at hand For if it be not lawful to cast pearles before hogs nor to gyue that is holy to dogs nether is it lawful for hogges to touch pearles nor dogs to taste y ● is holi If thei wer punished that did eate vnleuended bread at the feast of the passeouer if Uza wer striken vnto y ● death for touching the arcke if that geast y t came vnto the maryage not hauinge the wedding garmente was bounde hand and feete and ●ast into vtter darcknes wher weping and gnashinge of teethe is if the Corinthes wer plaged for abusinge the lords supper let not those swinish Epicures doggish papistes Licencious Libertines vngodly Anabaptistes grosse gospellers and wicked worldlinges thincke that they shal escape vnpunished if they go forth to abuse the word of god or to come vnreuerentlye vnto it For the holye scripture is the message of god brought vnto vs from heauen by his holy Embassadoures the Prophetes Apostles yea by his own dearly be loued sonne that kinge of glory which sealed confirmed it with the sheding of his most precious blud it may not therfore be lightly regarded nor vnreuerētli hādled For if the y t despyseth Moses law saith S. Paul dieth w toute mercy vnder .ii. or .iii. wytnesses how much sorer suppose ye shal he be punished which tredeth vnder fote the son of god counteth the blud of the Testament whe● with he was sanctifed as an vnholy thyng and doth dishonoure to the spirit of Grace That we therfore maye humbly reuerētly deuo●tely honorably come vnto the preachyng hearing or reading of the blessed word of God let vs not neglecte thys noble vertue of fasting but after the exāple of the aforesayd godly men pr●pare our selues by the diligent exercise therof to be mete to handle so holye and heauenly misteries By this meanes shal it come to passe y ● god which is the author of the holi scripture shal alwaye be present wyth vs

Who so euer doothe so feare God and stande in awe of hys indygnacyon and heauye displeasure that he is loth to offende hym and therefore seeketh al meanes possible to please hym and if at anye tyme thorow fraylenesse of nature hee chaunceth to offende hee is strayghte-wayes angrye wyth hym selfe repēteth of his former misdedes and conceiueth suche an inward sorowe in hys hearte that hee delyteth in no worldlye thynge neyther in meate dryncke apparell rychesse pastimes pleasures c. but contynuallye soroweth for hys dysobedyente vnkyndenesse and vnkynde dysobedyence against God our heauenly father so that the verye trouble of hys heart wyl not suffer him to eat or drynke tyl thorow continual callyng on the name of the Lord he feeleth in hys mynde some token of Gods goodnes grace and fauour toward hym and is thorow faythe in Christes bloude fullye perswaded that all hys synnes are forgeuen hym and he again receyued into fauoure the faste of suche one is an acceptable sacryfyce vnto God Of thys inwarde sorowe of the hearte dyd the fastes of manye good menne heretofore ryse as the holye Scryptures do declare and therefore dydde they hyghlye please God in so muche that God graunted theym theyr requestes and was theyr merciful and most louing lord Examples hereof are the Israelytes that were gathered together a● Mispha the Niniuites Either her companye Iudith wyth the citisenses of Bethulia Achab diuers other whose fasts God allowed because they proceded frō the heartes of suche as humbled them selues in his sighte repenpented them of theyr sinnes asked forgeuenesse and promysed amendmente of lyfe The .viii. Chapter NOwe as touchinge that fast which springeth of a minde geuen to godlynes it canne not be disalowed of God For hee that seeketh to please God and to auaunce hys glory by any godly meanes and that h● may haue the grace soto doo fasteth prayeth studieth laboureth his fastīg his prayinge his studyinge hys labouringe canne not but please God and haue good and fortunate successe On thys maner fasted Daniell that he myghte be the more apt to receiue the knowledge of goddes misteries which were afterwarde declared vnto hym of the aungel So lykewise dyd Esdras Of thys godlie māner of fastynge spake Christe whē the Disciples of Ihon came vnto hym and demaunded whye hys Disciples fasted not as they and the Pharises dyd To whome Christe aunswered and sayde Canne the brydegromes chyldren mourne so longe as the brydegrome is wyth theym But the dayes wyll come when the brydegrome shall be taken from them and then shall they faste Accordynge to thys Prophecye when Christ whych is the bridegrome was taken from them I speake concernynge hys corporal presence for by hys spirite he is wyth the faithful vnto the end of the worlde they mourned fasted and praied for the gift of the holy Ghost whych was promised to be sent vnto thē for to be theyr Comfortour and teacher and to lede thē into al truth the holye ghoste was geuē vnto thē accordīg to y ● promise of Christ their expectaciō They fasted also and prayed after they had receyued the holy Ghost that they myghte worthelye fulfyl that offyce whiche was commited vnto theym that by theyr preachynge manye thousandes myght be conuetted and saued and it so came to pas The holy and deuoute wyddow Anna fasted and prayed continaallye in the temple for the commyng of the promised Messias she sawe him before her death Cor●elius that godly mā beyng troubled in his mynde as it may be thoughte wyth the multitude of religions whych at that tyme reygned in the world as the religion of the Gentyles of the Iewes of the Pharise is of the Saduces of the Essees and the late sprong vp religion of the Christians humbled hym selfe in the syghte of God mourned fasted gaue almesse and prayed that it woulde please God to declare vnto hym whych amonge theym al was the true relygyon that he myght obserue the same frame hys life according vnto that and so please God And to obtayne thys thing of God he continued long fastyng and praying God therfore accepted hys fast heard hys prayer and graunted hym hys request The Prophets and Preachers at Antioche fasted prayed that bothe they them selues might preach wyth frut and that other also myght be sente of God and appoynted vnto that offyce that the glorye of God myght be set forth that his word myght be receaued and that all nacions of the earth myghte beleue in hym and in hys Sonne Iesu Christ. Theyr fastyng and praying wer alowed before god and theyr desyres were fatisfied For the holye ghoste sayde vnto them separat me Barnabas and Saule for the woorke whereunto I haue called them And when they had fasted and prayed and layed their handes on them thei lette them go Paule and Barnabas also fasted when they praied for the congregacions of Listra Iconium Antioche and Pisydya and when they ordayned them elders in euery congregacion to teache and instructe them in their absence and to confirme them in the faythe and doctryne whiche they had all readye receiued And God gaue good succes to theyr doctryne and ministracion Al these fasted of a minde feruentlye geuen vnto godlinesse Hitherto haue we learned oute of the holye scryptures what the true and Christen faste is Nowe let vs se in fewe woordes whether the Popyshe manner of fastinge whiche we haue so manye yeares vnfruitefullye obserued be lyke vnto that trade of fasting which we haue so many yeres vnfruitfully obserued be lyke vnto that trade of fastinge whiche the word of God hathe painted and setforthe vnto vs. The .ix. Chapter THe true and Christen fast is done frely and willingli and commeth frō the feruent mocion of the spirit The popish and supersticious faste serueth the custome onli and is done at the commaundemēt of man with a grudgynge and vnwillinge mynde which beinge lothe to faste if the custome mans ordinaunce wer not wisheth both the fast and the commaunder of the fast at the deuil And if any in so great a multitude do willinglye fast yet is it done partly to satisfy the custome partly because they wil be coūted good deuout catholike mē partly to honour some sainct partli to deserue remiscion of theyr sins to win euerlasting life Can thys kinde of fasting plese god They worship me in vain saith Christ teachinge doctrines that are the cōmaundements of men Sainct Paule also saith Whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne The true christen fast during y ● time of fasting is to abstain frō al kinde of meates drinkes except very necessiti requireth y ● cōtrary frō al those things wher in the flesh deliteth For y t was y ● maner of fasting amōg y e fathers of the old law as we herd afore● Hierome confirminge the same The Iewes saithe he on those daies y