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A short and plaine discourse Fully containing the vvhole doctrine of euangelicall fastes. By George Buddle, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and parson of Whikkenby in Lincolne-shire.
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Buddle, George, b. ca. 1568.
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1609
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STC 4014; ESTC S106772
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A SHORT AND PLAINE Discourse Fully containing the whole doctrine of Euangelicall FASTES By GEORGE BVDDLE Bachelour of Diuinitie and Parson of Whikkenby in Lincolne-shire Orae ieinua LONDON Printed for MATHEVV LAVV and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-yard neere vnto Saint Austines Gate at the Signe of the Foxe 1609. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER in God WILLIAM BARLOVV Lord Bishoppe of Lincolne strength of faith in this last sinfull age RIGHT Reuerend Father in the common congratulation and great reioycing of the Clergie of this Diocesse at our very first most ioyfull hearing of your Lordships designation vnto this Episcopall Sea of Lincolne The mercifull Prouidence of God hath assigned me this as my Peculiar that my Vniuersitie-father is become vnto me my Diocesan-father My earnest desire is that in the common iudgment of the best of our Clergie my commending of this present Discourse concerning Euangelicall Fasts vnto so fit a Patrone may be accepted as a Peculiar of duetie fitly answerable vnto so fortunate a Peculiar of the Prouidence It is indeed a Part of an annuall Rent which for some yeeres yet to come I haue heretofore promised in priuate to our Second Jewell of Salisbury out of my Diuinity-studie But that which once in our Cambridge Philosophy Schooles I sung out of Pindarus with a yonger voice as a Dittie possibly propheticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same I may now in riper yeares more truely sing out an higher chaire Howsoeuer my qiuer full of sharp-headed arrowes may sound well in the hearing and vnderstanding of them who haue learned with Socrates of Aesop 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yet surely I shall please the multitude neither in the maner nor in the matter thereof For my experience of the Countrie is euen the same that good Hooker a faithfull minister of God in the parts of Kent and of worthy memorie sometimes complaineth of It hath vnto me as it did vnto him verified Trismegistus and found him a true man of his word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Howbeit with the same worthy Hooker after the example of the Apostle I labour in all things and haue laboured specially what I could in this to please also and satisfie euen our common multitude of my brethren in Christ to their best vnderstanding and profit so farre forth as I might without hurt or preiudice vnto the matter of my Discourse which hath beene too vnfaithfully dealt withal by many before me who by seruing humorous people too much haue beene too vndutifull vnto their Text. The Lord Iesus who hath doubled outward honour in his Church vnto you his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his wel-ruling Elder double treble multiply his Elizaeus like spirit vpon you that by your profitable labours night and day in the Word and Doctrine you may as a second Iohn Baptist ioyning with the rest of our zealous Bishops in your vnited force of zeale against the Schismes and shamelesse sinning of this last vngodly world prepare the way of the Lord vnto his second comming Amen Whikkenby 1608. Iunij 6. Your Lordships right humbly deuoted GEORGE BVDDLE ⧠To the Christian Reader The death of Sinne and the life of Christs righteousnesse THey that are Christs saith the Apostle haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof The right Christian moderation of Fasting vsed in the Primitiue Churches is Christs Decumanus Clauus that is to say is Christs great Naile wherewith Christian Reader thou hauing the good example of the Orthodoxall Fathers and of their most orthodoxal Children the learned Protestants of this Age as an Hammer in thy hand doest crucifie and naile these affections and lusts of thy flesh to the Crosse of Christ The Forge of this Naile and the Head of this Hammer is the Word of God Take only this Manuall for thy Manubrium or Handle of the Hammer it is so sinned for thy hand if thou haue any sensible vnderstanding of Christ or strength of Grace in thee as as that thou mayest soone driue the Naile to the head and strike the dead stroke of true Mortification into thy fleshly heart The Lord Iesus direct thy stroke that no fond preiudice cause thee to miscensure or handle it amisse Farewell A SHORT AND Plaine Discourse concerning Euangelicall Fasts Vpon these words But the dayes will come when the Bridegroome shall be taken from them and then shall they fast Mat. 9.15 CHAP. I. Containing the Coherence and the Analysis THe seed of the woman the true Messias Christ Iesus had hetherto till towardes the end of this his first yeares publike preaching of the gospel sought onely the destruction of the works of the Serpent of the Deuils mischieuous power No otherwise thē accidentally had our blessed glorious Sauiour destroied the person either of wicked Angel or wicked man But the Deuill the Serpent by himselfe and his seed had hetherto first wrought against our Sauiours person to destroy it by Violence and Infamy Violence against his soule by suggestions in the forty dayes temptation in the wildernes against his body by Herod in his infancy by the Pharisees Iob. 4 1. when hee first baptized by the barbarous Clownes of Nazaret Luke 4.29 when hee first preached publikely Infamy by hauing obiected the basenes of his trade Is not this the Carpenter Maries sonne of his kindred and parentage Are not Iames and Ioses Iuda and Simon his kinsmen Mar. 6.3 Is not this goodman Iosephs sonne Luke 4.22 And when nothing would fadge either by Violence or Infamy to the destroying of Christs person then euen before the end of this his first yeares publicke preaching against his publike and priuate worke to destroy it It is two fold Sauing doctrine Good life Against Christs doctrine That it is blasphemous Luk. 5. and this Cha. 3. ver This man speaketh blasphemies who can forgiue sinnes but God Against Christs life That Moses neuer broke the two materiall tables more plainely with his two hands then Christ hath broken the two morall tables of the law both by his sinnes of Commission against the Negatiue prohibitions thereof and by sinnes of Omission against the Affirmatiue commaunds By sinnes of Commission against the first table For Iohn the 5. by vttering blasphemie at the feast of Tabernacles and by making himselfe the sonne of God hee breakes the three first commaundements by breaking the Sabboath at the same feast and by healing a bedred man vpon the Sabboath day he breakes the fourth commandement By sinnes of Commission and Omission against the second table For this Cha. 11. v. in that he companieth with gluttons and drunkards in Leui a common tol-gatherer a bad fellowes house he breakes the negatiue part of the sixt and seuenth commandements to the manifest murdering and effeminating or corrupting the pure soules of men destroying that opinion of necessary austerenes which Iohn the Baptist and the Pharises had by their austere liues inured the people vnto and in