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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34857	The English hermite, or, Wonder of this age being a relation of the life of Roger Crab, living near Uxbridg, taken from his own mouth, shewing his strange, reserved, and unparallel'd kind of life, who counteth it a sin against his body and soule to eate any sort of flesh...or to drink any wine...he left the army and kept a shop at Chesham, and hath now left off that, and sold a considerable estate to give to the poore, shewing his reasons from the Scripture...	Crab, Roger, 1621?-1680.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6736; ESTC R25357	16,785	22

Dock-leaves Mallows or Grasse and yeelds that he ought to give God more thanks for it then formerly for roast flesh and wines and certainly concludes that this must be of God if it be done out of love and not out of selfe-ends for before the old man fought with his steel sword with his fleshly power against old men and that envy in him begat envy in them and both of the Devill in pretence of liberty and peace it is easily judged of by the event for our fighting to regulate government in the Old men we see it still as bad if not worse then it was before Therefore let us put off the old man with his fleshly Laws which reached no farther then the government of earthly bodies so that every one for their obedience to God in this fleshly Law receiveth a reward to uphold his fleshly body here upon Earth and would go no further then reason could reach in the organs of flesh Therefore this Law could never give life in the spirituall Christ but the practificers thereof were the greatest enemies to Christ as you shall see fully in their calling of Christ Devill and putting of him to death Mat. 10. Luke 23. Far worse then bloody Butchers for they destroy their fellow creatures for gaine and to feed their bodies but these destroyed that innocent Lamb of God meerly out of devillish zeale and envy against innocency this moves the Butcher to the question to know why I would forbeare eating of flesh To which I answer First I do it exemplary from the Prophet Daniel Chap. 1. which saith The Kings meate defileth his body and beseecheth that he might eate pulse and drinke water This first we ought to believe because the Scripture saith so 2. I believe it from experience 3. From reason 1. I have experience that God hath enlightned my understanding in a great measure more then before I tooke this course So that all the Tithe-mongers and selfe-ended people professing Religion are afraid to meet me in any publique dispute but lest I should judg my selfe wiser in my own conceit then my understanding will beare me out I am here ready to be tryed by any person or persons whatsoever and so much for Experience Now I shall shew some reasons My first Reason is That God never accepted of any Creature for a Sacrifice of flesh that would destroy a body of flesh to feed on and also forbid his people the Jewes to feed on them for it is a practice of Dogs and Wolves Bears and Lyons Hogs and Ravens Kites and Hawks and many such like devourers of flesh and all or any of these have no need to fear their lives but from or of some of that same kind no innocent creature need never feare his life from an innocent creature If all birds would take the Dove for an example and all beasts take the Lamb for their example and all men take Christ for their example then Mars and Saturn the two chiefe Devills would be trampled under feet Such a time is promised but not yet but God waiteth with long patience upon the vessels of wrath whilst they prepare themselves by thirsting after flesh and blood which are thereby made fit to destroy each other Therefore hearken to the Doctrine of Christ in Matth. Chap. 5. 6. Deny your selves humble your selves undo your selves of all righteousness of the flesh Become as little children like Lambs like Doves then Christ is ours and we are his Few words to the wise is sufficient I shall return to the reasonable part of the Law in this Nation which excludes Butchers from being Jury-men of life and death Surely if they are judged uncapable of being of a Jury because they kill the creatures they that buy it with their money to devour it cannot be clear for we alwayes count the Receiver more subtil and worse then the Thiefe so that the buyer is worse then the Butcher but Mars being the god of War is the governour of these destroyers and while he can get flesh to feed on he will encrease his desires to destroy flesh so that Mars being servant to the most high God breeds them up with flesh untill they are full of corruption Then he raiseth up Trangressor against Transgressor to destroy each other as you have it in Isa. 21. 2. where it saith Agrievous vision was shewed unto me the transgressor against the transgressor and the destroyer against the destroyer Goe up Flam besiege Media c. Had my parents been so innocent as to have taught me this Doctrine in the time of my youth I had saved my skull from being cloven to the braine in the late War for the Parliament against the King and also saved my selfe from the Parliaments two years imprisonment which they gave me for my paines and from my sentence to death in the Field by my Lord Protector but all those things wrought together for the best to me and in my estimation are of more value then an office of five hundred pounds a year for I in some measure know my selfe and before I neither knew God nor Devill nor my selfe but now having found out that my body was governed by the inclination of my Constitution from the starry heavens having tryed it with many sorts of food and with much fasting and praying according to the Scripure which gave me light to the constitutions of others and enabled me to administer physick to others so that I have had a hundred or sixe-score Patients at once this gave me a great light of the evil that came by eating of flesh If my Patients were any of them wounded or feaverish I sayd eating flesh or drinking strong beere would inflame their blood venom their wounds and encrease their disease so there is no proof like experience So that eating of flesh is an absolute enemy to pure nature pure nature being the workmanship of a pure God and corrupt nature under the custody of the Devill Now for the objection in 1 Tim. 4. v. 3. where it saith thus Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meates which God hath created to be received with giving thanks of them which believe and know the truth And vers. 4. it saith For every creature of God is good and nothing ought to be refused if it be received with thankesgiving This Scripture being very usefull for the purpose and will give much light to the adhearers to this opinion and conform them of sound principles within themselves for whosoever shall forbeare marrying or abstain from meate from the commandement of men which pretends his commands to be of God all that are obedient hereunto will serve the Devill and must needs be without the spirit of sanctification neither are they believers neither obey the Truth so that if they should eate of every creature there would a hundred be poysoned at a meale for want of the spirit of power and sanctification which Paul and others had by the promise which promised