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A01450	The cognizance of a true Christian or the outward markes whereby he may be the better knowne: consisting especially in these two duties: fasting and giuing of almes: verie needfull for these difficult times. Diuided into two seuerall treatises. Published by Samuel Gardiner, Batcheler of Diuinitie	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1597 (1597)	STC 11573; ESTC S102818	96,047	234

heauen Esdras 8 21 the Lords minister prescribed a generall fast vnto the people Acts 13 2 So did the Primatiue Church when Paul and Barnakas went their visitation trauailed to those Citties where the Gospel was not preached Infinite other such like testimonies might be produced but that they are needlesse in a cause so manifest It is not inhibited vnto any to mortifie his flesh and subdue his affections and by a godly fast to make himself fitter for godly duties whensoeuer he shal be disposed thereunto If a man bee afflicted in himselfe or in his familie he is permitted to humble himselfe and his soule with fasting and to vse any meanes to turne away Gods anger or preuent a iudgement to come But for a priuate person to call a congregation to summon a fast as it may be the cause of much publike mischiefe as much hurt hath growne to the Realme by housed conuenticles and encamped factions so we cannot finde it tollerable by the worde of God This is an office appertaining to ciuill and ecclesiasticall gouernours what priuate man therefore shal put in his sickle into this haruest as he runneth into Dathan and Abiron his sedition so hee may condignely incur their punishment Wherfore let the most vnlearnedly learned Elders of the Anabaptisticall crew and the whole rable of that vngodly disloyall and scismatical sect know that they ought not as they do most malepertly prophanely vpon euerie idle motion of their braine assemble a people and celebrate a fast Let the Pope likewise keepe himselfe in his owne bounds and meddle with those that are vnder his gouernment and preseribe lawes and Christian duties to his owne people Wee are vnder the gouernment of gratious Queene Elizabeth whom God hath set as Queen ouer the holy hil of Sion it is shee that may command general fasts publike prayers and all other exercises of a Christian man This the Pope and popelings cannot abide but the truth of it is as cleare as the Sun and Scriptures and examples do aboundantly prooue it When the Arke of God was restored did not Dauid the King play the first part Dauid beeing king made Psalmes and ditties Dauid being King danced before the Arke being king numbred all the Priests Leuits and disposed them into foure and twentie courses appoynting them continually to serue in the ministry euery one in his turne Moses the magistrate rebuked Aaron the high Priest for crecting a Golden calfe King Salomon displaced Abiathar the high Priest 1 King 2 by his kingly power 1 King 8 and placed Sadoch in his steede Also dedicating the Temple of the Lord with all his people blessed the whole congregation of Israel Also good Ezechias did put forth his hand vnto the Lords plough 2 King 8. and restored true religion of whom it is written He did that was right in the fight of the Lord according to all things that his father Dauid had done before he tooke away the groaues and brake downe Images Iudas Machabeus did purge the Temple which the Idolatrous Gentiles had before prophaned 2. King 23 25 Iosias restored Religion and reformed the temple and it was written of him That there was no king like vnto him before nor after him arose there any like him When as Artaxerxes the King gaue his regall authoritie and high commission to Esra the Priest to censure punish Church abuses the priest allowed the Kings doing and commended him for it saying Ezra 6. Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers who hath put into the Kings mind to beautifie the Lords house which is in Hierusalem By these and such like euidences it appeareth that Kings and princes in the old time had the dealing in Ecclesiasticall matters as in calling the people to Gods seruice in cutting downe groaues in destroying of Images in gathering tithes into the Lords house in dedicating the temple in blessing the people in casting down the brasen Serpent in correcting and deposing priests in commanding such things as pertaine to the seruice and worshippe of God and in due pnnishing the contrarie Christ willeth tribute to bee giuen vnto Caesar Mat. 2. and denieth not power to be giuen to Pilate from aboue Iohn 19 therfore they do not well that mangle Common-wealths and diuide them into two deuise two heads the one for the spiritualtie the other for the laitie For the Prince is the keeper of the law of God and that of both tables as well of the first that appertaineth vnto religion as of the second that tendeth to good order Hee is the head of all the cominalty and laitie and also of the ministers and clergie Rom. 13 1 Saint Paul ratifieth and confirmeth the same saying Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher power whether he be Pope Bishop or whatsoeuer he be all are vnder subiection to the Prince Of the superioritie and commanding power of the prince Tertullian speaketh thus Tertull ad feapulam Colimus imperatos rem vt hommem à deo secundum solo deo mis norem We worship the Emperour as a man next vnto God and inferiour to none but God A large and iust treatise might bee written of this matter but lette this suffice which is noted by the way and let none presume without designement and Commission of his Prince either by his publike office and authoritie or otherwise by expresse commaundement from her mouth to solemnize a general and vniuersall fast Forasmuch as a fast is a Religious dutie and the Prince is to set downe orders for Religion CHAP. XI An exhortation vnto fasting HAuing thus prescribed both the spirituall and externall fast I woulde exhort thee deare Christian carefullie and diligently when it is commaunded to performe the same If it seeme harde and greeuous to performe shewe wherein and it will soone bee aunswered For indeede if wee bee willing vnto it the yoake is easie and the burthen is light Obiectis 1 Doost thou suppose it to bee greeuous Answere Then aunswere mee vnto another question which Ambrose dooth propounde to such conceited people Amb lib Elia iciunio Qui graue die eunt terunium esse respondeat quis ietunie defecerit Multi in prundto plerig dum epulum vomunt fudere animam Quod animal leiunium sibi causam fuisse mortis ingemuit per escam laque us non cauetur in esca hamu later crbus du●●t in retia cibus visco etiā aues illigat They who suppose fusting to be burdensome greeuous let thē name vs any who haue fainted through fasting a many at their dinuers and diuers in their vomis thins haue lest their liues What liuing creature harb eyer complained that hee hath dyed by abstinence by reason of the barte the snare is not auoided The hooke is couered with the baite the baite tolleth and draweth into the nette and by it the birde with lime is soone intangled 2 obiection But

own conceite best there hath beene no end of their difference and quarrelles Calixtus 1 Calixtus the first instituted and ordained a quarterly fast restraining and limitting it to foure seasons of the yeare Pope Innocent the first Innocent gaue commaundement that the Sabboth should be fasted Gregotius The fast of Lent was founded by Gregorie the first of that name as Gratian beareth witnesse Some appointed certaine weekes especially to be fasted One would haue the time called Septuagesima another Sexagesima another Quinquagesima another Quadragesima another the Rogation dayes another the Vigtls of the Apostles to be consecrated vnto fasting There are some deuoted to a peculiar day as to Fryday some to VVednesday some to Sunday Augustine in a Letter which hee wrote to Cassulanus giueth this reason of the Wednesdayes fast Aug. de Cassulants because Christ was betrayed and solde as that day and that Fryday should bee fasted because Christ was crucified that day But whether the Sabboth shoulde bee fasted it remaineth doubtfull The Mediolanenses and the East Churches peremptorilie concluded that they were not to fast then because Christ was then free of his trouble and rested quietly the Sabboth day in his Sepulchre But the Roman Church and the church of Affrica and other Churches affirmed it to be meete that the time wherein Christ was humbled and not without ignominie shutte vppe in the graue shoulde be assigned vnto fasting Epiphanius Epiphanius is ledde by another reason then that which hath beene premised why the VVednesday shoulde bee giuen to fasting namely because Christ vppon a VVednesday ascended vp into heauen Which reason of his if wee shoulde gaine say and stande vppon it that hee ascended vppon the Thursday which is more probable wee coulde not bee conuicted This his reason grounded vppon Christs ascention is verie much applauded because that Christ himselfe did then appoynt vs for to fast when the Bridegroome shoulde bee taken from vs. Mat. 9. But the sequell of this Chapter will verie well shewe the weakenesse and absurditie of this allegation Last of all Pope Innocent inferreth this reason to perswade vs to fast vppon VVednesday and the Sabboth which is our Saturday because both those dayes the Apostles did mourne and were in trouble for Christ There might more of their friuolous contentions De lana caprina of needlesse matters and of this Circumstaunce of the speciall time that is due to fasting be ripped vp in this place but partly because there is no vse of it and partly for so muche as such traditions which haue crept in from sixe hundreth yeares after Christ do rather of right appertaine to the latter and declining age of the world then to the custome and practise of the auncient Church I do willingly passe ouer them This is verie apparant and manifest both by manifold and pregnant proofes and allegations of holie scriptures and also by the authorities and the suffrages of the auncient Fathers that only such times and seasons as are most meere for mourning when any crosse or iudgement or greeuous calamitie is brought vpon vs are fit for fasting that only when we accomplish matters of much weight and would obtaine them at Gods hand by our zealous prayer that our prayers might bee more full of spirite and life and gracious in his eyes we are to helpe them and quicken them and further them by fasting If we take a short suruey either of the priuate fastings of the godly or of the publique fastings of the holy Saintes of GOD we shall finde them alwayes vsed in great and weightie matters and in their great troubles Iob. 2 12 when the heauie hand of god was greeuous vpon Iob. The friends and kindred of Iob seeing him thus vexed and tormented with plagues they layde groueling with him vppon the grounde fasting and mourning and praying to GOD for him seuen dayes togither that thereby the furie of his miserie might bee mittigated VVhen Ioab had murthered the innocent Abner and Dauid had followed him 2. Sam 3 32 to his buriall in Hebron hee vowed with an oath not to taste breade nor anie thing else vntill the Sunne was downe VVhen Dauid was reprooued of Nathan for his sinne and woulde intreate GOD for the life of his childe 2. Sā 12 16 which was conceyued in Adulterie hee fasted and went in and layde all night vpon the earth VVhen Nebemias had heard of the afflictions of the Hebrewes which remained in Hierusalem hee afflicted himselfe with fasting and called vppon the Lorde Nehem. 1 4 VVhen as Daniel had perused Ieremias Booke Dan. 9 2 of the seuentie yeares captiuitie which the people should endure hee confessed his and the peoples sinnes and hee mourned and fasted VVhen Christ began his office of preaching Mat. 4 2 he went into the Wildernesse and fasted fortie dayes This was a matter and woorke of importance For this cause Cornelius Acts 10 3 because hee had not as yet learned Christ trusted in the Lorde and perplexed in minde gaue himselfe at the ninth houre of the day to fasting and prayer The Primatiue Chuch beeing admonished by an Oracle that Paule and Barnabas shoulde bee chosen and deputed to visit the Citties and seuerall Townes where the Gospel had beene preached because it was a verie great charge there was first of all a fast agreed vpon and solemnized Acts 13 2 And when as this businesse was ouerpast and they returned homewarde by Iconium Lystra and Antiochia they made a solemne publication of a fast they ordeined and constituted Ministers Deacons Acts 14 23 thorow out the seuerall Citties and places of their circuit When as Peter was to buckle with that peruerse and prophane wretch Simon Magus at Rome vpon the Lordes day the Church of Rome decreed that the Sabboth day shoulde be fasted which practise and course afterwardes continued Aug. Epist ad Ca●●ul Hierome sayeth that Iohn beeing intreated of the Churches to write and publish his Gospell against the heritikes Ebion and Cerinthus who denied the diuine nature of Christ answered that he wold so do if first of all the whole Church would e publiquely fast Because the casting out of a Diuill is a verie great worke and a notable my racle when we will effect such a worke it becommeth vs to fast for Christ telleth vs in the person of his Disciples Mat 17 That this kinde no otherwise goe throut but by prayer and fasting When as a wido we is bereaued of her husband shee is desolate and in miserie and in much daunger therefore it becōmeth her chiefsie then to be deuout in fasting Luke 2 36 wherefore Anns the daughter of Phanuell when shee was a Widdowe was verie zealous and religious in fasting and spent her life continuallie in the temple And Paule sayeth that shee that is a Widowe indeede will trust in God and exercise her selfe both day and night in fasting 1. Tim. 5.5 and