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A00535	A briefe refutation of Iohn Traskes iudaical and nouel fancyes Stiling himselfe Minister of Gods Word, imprisoned for the lawes eternall perfection, or God's lawes perfect eternity. By B. D. Catholike Deuine.	Falconer, John, 1577-1656.	1618 (1618)	STC 10675; ESTC S114688	42,875	106

applause during his aboad with Maister Drake in Deuonshire and how his chamber lay open besides to all comers day and night for priuate instruction shewing himselfe a Foole if not a Pharisy in affecting humane prayses so palpably in all his speaches and actions Two of disciples only vnderstand Latin aswell as himselfe the one a poore seduced Gentleman better skilled in Hebrew then himself and equally conuersant in Scripture the other a Comfit-maker who lately vndertooke by Traskes directions as is probably guessed to publish his doctrinall conclusions to defend them against M. Crashaw who hath writē an idle loose refutation of them For contrary to his common Pulpit-doctrine and raylinges against Catholikes for admitting traditions and pointes of faith not contayned in Scripture he supposeth without further proofe that Christ in conuersation with his Apostles after his Resurrection taught our keeping of the Sunday in place of the Sabaoth that being a meere Tradition no where mentioned in Scripture Which sortes of aduantage are craftely obserued by Traske in all conferences of learned Protestantes with him he will not sticke in answering their arguments deduced from the authority and vniuersall practise of Christs Church in all ages before him to tell them that they fight against him with the Catholikes borrowed weapons and in their strokes at him wound themselues more deeply ouerthrowing most opinions of their own faith which are as strange and vnheard of till within the last 100. yeares as his doctrines and equally repugnant to the ancient authority and knowne practise of all Christendome in times past So that if his ground of admitting no doctrine not expressed in Scripture be shaken their Religion will totter also For the same authenticall testimonies of antiquity which serue to proue the Apostolicall obseruation of the Sunday do likewise mentiō Liturgies Massing Sacrifices celebrated by Christians in their publique sinaxes and meetings on festiuall and dominicall dayes testified by S. Augustine serm 251. de tempore by S. Cyprian de oper eleemosyn by the Fathers of the Agathen Councell cap. 47. by the 6. Oecumenicall Councell cap. 8. and sundry other ancient authors His Ipse dixit and sole assertion is a sufficient rule of fayth to all his disciples among whom if any chance to grow wiser as many of them lately haue done and to depart from his doctrine he will seeme to haue formerly feared foreknown that mans frailty and finall reprobation Thus not long since he dealt with one of them who notwithstanding then protested that Traske had heertofore vnder his owne hand warranted his true repentance and eternall election in Christ Iesus though passion at that time transported him to make a contrary iudgement of him There is nothing more troublesome to him and his disciples then to be tearmed ignorant or absurd in any of their assertions And albeit himselfe seemeth modest and temperate in his speaches and carriage yet anger and malice hidden in his hart soone breaketh out vpon very small occasions into rayling and ill tearmes such as himselfe will condemne in others by many Texts of Scripture Which his dangerous disposition tryed by one of his Protestant fellow-prisoners and other personall facts I purposely heere forbeare to relate hauing more authenticall testimonies against him His frequent Solecismes when now and then he boulteth out a word or line of Latin as to say Index expurgatorium c are for quietnes sake to be accounted but lapsus linguae vnfit to be tould him His barbarismes in speaking or writing must passe currently as Hebraismes and Scripture-phrases and all his arguments are to be accounted no other then formall and conuincing demonstrations Among which for proofe that S. Peter and the Apostles still obserued the legall difference of meates this one for example is his Achylles written to my knowledg by him in three seuerall discourses sent to one of his fellow-prisoners Qui ambulat in praecepto veteri recepto à Patre ambulat secundum legem discriminis inter animal quod comeditur animal quod non comeditur Sed Petrus ambulauit in praecepto veteri recepto à Patre Ergo ambulauit secundum legem discriminis inter animal quod comeditur animal quod non comeditur Thus Englished He that walketh in the old Commandment receaued from the Father walketh according to the Law of difference between the liuing creature that is to be eaten and the liuing creature that is not to be eaten But Peter walked in the old Commandment c. If you tell him first that his syllogisme is tedious and composed in barbarous Latin vnfit to come from the pen of an ancient schoolmaister and professed Grammarian He wil falsely tell you that Praecepto veteri recepto à Patre c. is the expresse phrase of S. Iohn in his first Canonicall Epistle If you further tell him that his argument is ridiculous in sense and forme as hauing no medium at all in the premises to proue the conclusion to walke in the old Commaundement c. and to walke according to the law of difference c being in sense all one in wordes only changed He will more absurdly tel you that by the old Commandment c. he meant Gods precept giuen to Adam in Paradise which all learned men know to haue byn a personall precept of abstayning from the fruite of one tree not cōcerning S. Peter afterwards or any Christian more then to the generall knowne doctrine of Adams transgression therof fearefully punished in his posterity And to deterre his aduersary from laughing at this argument and other more ridiculous passages of his papers he added this Caueat for a graue conclusion or memorable sentence of instruction Si fortè dum loquutus fuero postmodum verò sermonem meum subsannato If when peraduenture I shall haue spoken but afterwards laugh at my speach Wherein any learned man may plainely see indeed his wonted Ciceronian style strangely altered By reading in Eusebius history lib. 1. cap. 22. how Saint Policarpe and other holy Bishops of Asia obserued the Iewes time of keeping Easter he and his disciples are lately therein resolued to imitate them And that which he neuer read of S. Policarpe or any Christian Doctor before him he hath added to his Easter the festiuall obseruance of Azimes as is probably guessed by all his fellow prisoners seing him and his disciples after the fourtenth of March moone to eate contrary to their custome at other times white vnleauened loaues and seeming in his speaches to allow of the obseruance of that festiuity albeit of the manner he be somthing doubtfull as peraduenture whether it must be with a Phascall Lambe eaten c. He esteemeth it no arrogancy or pride of iudgment in him to dissent in his doctrines from all known Christians either liuing now or in any age before him Neither will he yield it to be a dangerous nouelty and notable giddines in him to change and coyne at his pleasure weekly doctrines

A BRIEFE REFVTATION OF IOHN TRASKES IVDAICAL AND NOVEL FANCYES Stiling himselfe Minister of Gods Word imprisoned for the Lawes eternall Perfection or Gods Lawes perfect Eternity By B. D. Catholike Deuine Gal. 3. Vers 13. Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the Law being made a curse for vs. Imprinted with Licence M. DC XVIII THE PREFACE THE Controuersies handled in this short Treatise are two The first is of the Iewes Sabaoth Apostolically translated into the euer memorable day of our Sauiours Resurection The second whether al forts of meates may be lawfully now eaten by Christiās disputed against Iohn Traske of a Puritan minister lately grown halfe a lew in his singular opinions concerning the old Sabaoth and Moysaical difference of meates held by him many other men and women obstinately professing and practising the same doctrines as morall Lawes vnreapealed by Christ and necessarily now to be obserued by Christians His only learning is a litterall knowledge of Scriptures and some little Hebrew and Greeke lately learned for the better vnderstanding of them which alone he holdeth sufficient not only to instruct vs in al points of faith but to direct vs also in our particuler thoughtes speaches actions so as no māner of speach is by Christians to be vsed no meate to be eatē no kind of apparell to be worne c. not particularly expressed and warranted in Scripture Humāe iudgment experience wherby we are originally taught to discerne the naturall goodnes and euil of al our actions and to make a conscience of them being so little regarded by him as he ridiculously deemeth it not to be any rule at all to direct Christian men in common manners and morality of life God himselfe hauing by a higher law contayned in the old new Testament particulerly instructed them in all holy and needfull knowledge Out of which ground he deduceth as I shall haue seuerall occasions to declare afterwards strange Conclusions Distinctions not easy to be distintly knowne refuted by any learned man that hath not from his owne mouth hard them This was my chiefe reasō to write these two Controuersies against him wherby sōe of his disciples may peraduenture be reclaymed from his grosse doctrines and other itching eared people now inclinable to his Sect may be moued vtterly to forsake him And one soule so happely gayned to a neerer degree of truth will make me thinke a few spare houres well bestowed from better studies Learned men also will gladly perchance spare an idle houre or two to read a new Controuersy breifly as I could contriue it and plainly expressed Smaller errours and of lesse consequence then these nouell fancies of Traske haue been by sundry holy Fathers answered in large volums which may well serue to shew my labours not wholy needles Little sparkes of fire not timely quenched soone grow into flames that deuoure houses and Citties Small wounds waxe festered soares when they are not speedily cured Single seedes of tare and cockle sowne in fields amongst good Corne make great bundles in haruest fit only for combustion And the miserable experience of these latter times abounding with nouel heretical doctrines witnesseth that as plaguy people are for feare of infecting others carefully to be secluded and small leakes in a ship are speedily to be stopped for the safety of such persons as sayle in it so all morall and pious diligence is by Gouernours and Guiders of soules to be vsed for the timely preuention and suppressing of pernicious opinions with which Traske is so stored as he is in very few pointes of our Christian fayth rightly persuaded He hath 8. arguments to proue that Melchisedech was the holy Ghost mentioned Genes 14. Hebr. 7. He is infallibly assured that he himselfe hath truly repented and is made sure of his eternall election in Christ and that he can in this life neither sinne nor repent any more Likewis he is able to collect out of Scripture when Abraham Isaac Iacob and other Saints were truly penitent and iustified in Gods sight and will often presume to tell his disciples whether at all or when they truly repented Yea he is able as I haue heard by Phisiognomy to make certaine ghesses whether particular persons shal be damned or saued His owne and his disciples prayers are commonly roaringes and such loud out-cries as may be heard in distant roomes and houses voluntarily framed and filled for the most part with frequent imprecations that God would confound the aduersaries and persecutors of his little flocke such as walke in the lust of their owne flesh eating like the Idolatrous Gentiles all prohibited and vncleane meates prophaning his holy Sabaoth and changing it into another day neuer comanded by him but by themselues inuented Frequently rendring thankes to God for keeping them so holy as hitherto he hath done and desiring him according to their vprightnes to blesse and protect them Pretended reuelations also are not wanting amongst them He will tell you of straung abstinences from food and other great austerities vsed by himselfe notwithstanding his cheekes seeme full and his body still fatt and in good liking He will with great glory vtter the singular approuement made of him in his Ministeriall ordination when other Countrey Schollers were reiected himselfe hauing neuer byn more thē a guest in any Vniuersity His excellency aboue others was chiefly occasioned by a perfect Summe of all Diuinity only abstracted by his owne Confession out of Musculus his cōmon Places When he was a schoolmaster at a Gentlemans house in Somersetshire to a few Grammer scholers he could write and speake pure latin as he grauely tould one of his fellow prisoners which in his riper and maturer studies since of Diuinity he hath quite forgotten and altered his Ciceronian wonted stile into the humble and plaine phrase of Scripture and indeed much more barbarous When he was reprehended by an Aduersary for denying the minor of an enthimeme he produced in excuse of his grosse ignorance Rhamus logique only affirming an enthimeme to be an imperfect sillogisme and sayd that Ramists and Aristotelians could not vnderstand each others termes and manner of disputing but after much practise togeather He will bragge of many bookes written and some of them dedicated by him to his Maiesty who because he eateth not willingly swines flesh he supposeth by his Princely nature halfe framed and fitted to imbrace and professe his doctrines which he is confident to haue generally one day held in our English and all other Protestant Churches Hearing that Maister Howe 's the Continuer Augmenter of Maister Stowes cronicle was desirous to see him out of a vaine desire to haue al circumstances of his person and opinions historically blazed he wrote a letter to Maister Howes fully to informe him of both mentioning therein the day order continuance of his imprisonment if he listed so to recount them He wil tel you how many publique Lectures he made weekly with great