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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	epistle_n	paul_n	timothy_n	1,469	5	10.7239	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17136	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.	Buddle, George, b. ca. 1568.	1609 (1609)	STC 4014; ESTC S106772	51,380	96

houshold in fasting and p●●i●r are Demostratiue precedents to the Supreme Magistrate the whole comminaltie of the 〈◊〉 Tribes of Israel together with their Elders and Phinees the High-Priest in the 20. chapter of the Iudges and the euiled Iewes ioyned in one as one man in the tenth of Ezra are authenticall proofes to authorise whole Councels and Synods But yet there is one kinde of Church-Fasts which now a dayes we call I●●●nia quatuer temporum called in times past 〈◊〉 sacrorum Ordinum the Fasts of holy Orders the commaund whereof doth most properly and principally lie vpon the charge of our Bishops and Clergie whensoeuer they either ordaine or institute Ministers For it is plaine out of the storie of the Apostles Actes that these children of the Bride-chamber did neuer lay their hands vpon any Minister of the word and Sacraments either at his ordination or Institution afore they had first appointed solemne fasting an prayer And surely although such fasting bee not of the Esse yet it is of the Bene esse and melius fieri of holy Institutions and Orders It pertaineth also most principally to Saint Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abstemious temperate Bishop that hee call vpon the supreme Magistrate and vpon the whole people of Christ and bee a liuely precedent vnto them for the execution of this consultatorie commaund Then shall they Fast From whom did S. Austin and his mother Monica priuate persons take their right paterne of fasting when they liued in Millaine but from Saint Ambrose the Bishop of Millaine whom doth S Austin counsell his friend Casulan to follow in the order of Church fasts but chiefely his Prouinciall or Diocesan Bishop Episcopo tuo in hacre noli resistere Quod ipse facit sine vllo scrupulo aut disceptatione sectare Crosse not thy Bishop in this matter of a Saterday Fast but in this and the like what thou seest thy Bishop doe that do thou without any scruple or controuersie Secondly if it be demaunded whether as it is in the consultation of the Church to repeale intermit or change these publike Fasts of ordinarie Repentance so it is in their consultatorie power altogether to omit and disannull them and whether Catholicke Fasts may be intermitted or repealed by Particular gouernours of Particular Churches or by Nationall counsels I answere first to the former part of the demaunde that there are in the Scripture two kinds of indifferent things not commaunded by absolute precept left vnto Christian mens free consultation as the Spirit of God in his children shall iudge them to be expedient or vnexpedient to be done Of the first kind are such indifferent matters and duties as are made lawfull vnto vs only by Warrant and not also by any so much as consultatorie commaund or counsell And these againe are of two sorts For either they are both warranted and commended as are the Voluntarie vowes of perpetuall Virginity and widowhead of Pouertie of paying all or part of our goods to poore Christ whether they be proper voluntarie vowes or solemne publicke voluntary vowes or they are permitted onely and tolerated in the booke of God as lawfull but no where commended also as laudable as is that best kind of Vsurie where a man doth no otherwise deale with his brother thē he himself in the like case would be very willing to be dealt withal It is in the consultatorie power of the publicke gouernours of Christs Church either altogether to disannull and abrogate or at their discretion to restraine and correct the abuse of this latter either by ciuill punishment in their ciuill gouernement or by Excommunication or suspension in their Cleargie gouernement But as touching the former which are both warranted and commended in the Scripture it is not in the consultatorie power of Christs Church gouernours either publikely to commande them or publikely to disannull and altogether forbid them whether they be priuate and proper voluntarie vowes or solemne and publicke voluntarie vowes of perpetuall continencie pouertie or such like When thou absteinest from such proper or solemne vowes saith the only lawgiuer able to saue and destroy Deuter. 23.22 it shall be no sinne vnto thee who then can binde me in foro conscientiae either to vow single life though a thing warranted and commended or forbid me to vow it publickly I say either to commaunde these commended holy Voluntarie vowes or to disannull and altogether forbid them is not in the power of any publicke gouernours whatsoeuer Onely it is in their power to restraine and correct the abuses of them if either the Votarie doe vow that rashly which is not likely to be in his power and abilitie to performe or doe vowe that wickedly or to a wicked vngodly superstitious end which he ought not to performe Certaine young Widdowes made a solemne vow of perpetuall widow head in Saint Paules time But Saint Paule seeing by experience of them their great vnablenesse to performe such vowes discommends them greatly in the fift chapter of his former Epistle to Timothy and chargeth Bishop Timothy to restraine the solemne vowes of such Votaries vntill they came to the age of threescore yeares Certaine also of the lewd Hypocrits amongst the Israelites in the time of Moses law as it is plaine in the 18. ver of the 23. of Deuteronomie had wantonly brought the hire of their Whores and the prices of their Dogges for holy solemne Voluntarie vowes into the house of God as many superstitious wanton Votaries haue done and doe still vnder the reigne of Popish superstition and as idolatrous people doe and haue done who haue solemnely dedicated and bequeathed their money lands goods vnto Masse Priests to sing Dirdges for their soules or to say Prayers for the deliuerance of their soules out of Purgatorie or to the maintenance of the Supremacie and Hierarchie of the Iudaicall and Donatisticall Pseudocatholicke Church of Rome God would haue these solemne Voluntarie vowes both restrained and corrected For so saith the Law Deut. 23.18 Thou shall neither bring the hire of an whore nor the price of a Dogge into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow For euen both these are an abomination vnto the Lord thy God Thus haue I shewed how things of indifferent nature warranted onely but not at all commaunded in Gods word are to be held or not to be held to be vnder the consultatorie power of the publicke gouernours of Christs Church Another kind of duties and things indifferent not commaunded by absolute precept but left to Christian mens free consultation is of those which are not onely warranted in Gods word but are also commaunded by that kind of commande and precept which I haue tearmed Consultatorie These againe are of two sorts For either they are by such Consultatorie commaundement commaunded onely vnto priuate men or they are also commaunded both to priuate men and to publicke officers Of the former sort