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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07949	The tryall of the nevv religion Contayning a plaine demonstration, that the late faith and doctrine of the Church of Rome, is indeede the new religion. By Thomas Bell.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1608 (1608)	STC 1832; ESTC S101552	27,259	56

as they may wel end 〈◊〉 the naxt day Sixtly because great iniury is done to the poorer sort by this kind of Popish fasti●● For where at the rich in ●ort are either neere the sua or else haue store of Fishes within themselus or at least haue money enough to prouide the same and other daineties withall others haue all others want all This not with standing the Popish Law abandoneth the poore as well as the rich from Egges Cheese Butter milke the onely foode they haue to liue vpon Seauenthly because all the day long they commonly will drink wine eate bread funnels manchets fruites and fed thereon at night as if it were an ordinary setled dinner And if they deferre theyr dinner till night as sundry do for better liking Iundry times and as Englishmen haue done of latter dayes generally on Christmas-Eeue then doe they practise the former priuiledge in eating drinking l●octally at noone Where I wish the Reader to obserue this with me that the popish Lent-fast cannot be broken with drinking though one be drunken twenty times a day no learned papist can this deny For albeit hee sinne by their law so often as he is drunken yet doth he not thereby breake their holy fast O wondo● of all wonders in the Christian world Hurtfull to the soule because by meanes heereof many haue belieued false doctrine to be the word of God and not onely so but they haue also-ludged rondemned themselues for transgressing mens traditions as the very lawes of God Wherein while they sought to establish their own tighteousnes they fell from the righteousnes of God For to put religion in mans traditions is flarly to abandon the worship of the liuing God Yea by reason of these fasts their soules were after in damnable stare I prooue it because they perswade thēselues that they were aswell bound to keepe the Popes lawes therein as the flat commaundements of God and consequently so often as they brake them which was norare thing so often did they commit damnable sinne because their acts were not of fayth Hurtf●ll to the body First because many haue shortned their dayes by forbearing necessary foode which they did through fond perswasion of popish holiness● Secondly because the poore soules are so wringed with these superstitious f●sts that by reason of their excessiue hunger they reioyce aboue measure when the fast is at an end Yea they keepe a better reckoning how Lent passeth and how they may fall to flesh againe then euer they did of and for their sinnes Thirdly because Lent-fast is not proportionable to mans body or to the season of the yeere For as there be foure distinct times of the yeere the Spring-time Summer Autumne and Winter so be there foure different diets aptly corespondent to the same Whosoeuer wi●l eate temperately and in measure must eate according to the force equabilitie of his digestion and cons●quently he ought to moderate and rule his diet after the qualification and season of the yeere Natiue heate is the proper workman of digestion as granteth euery skilfull Phisition and cōsequently because our bodies are most hote in vvinter as saith Hippocrates at that time they stand in need of most meate And because our bodies be then cold and moist hote and dry meates be conuenient In Summer because natiue heate is dispersed by exhalations concoction is weakened and so lesse meate required And because our bodies then be hote and dry cold and moist meats are proportionall In Autumne because the extrinsecall heate is more remisse then in Summer and the naturall heat thereby more vnited meate ought more largely to bee vsed The Spring-time keepeth a meane between Winter and Summer and taketh part of them both and therfore out diet then must neither be altogether of hote and dry mea●es as in Winter 〈◊〉 either yet altogether of cold moist meats as in Summer And consequently popish institution of Lent was not onely superstitious and vngodly but also altogether preuidieiall to the health of the body I proue it because as Hypocrates w●iteth all suddaine murations are dangerous ● so after aboundant eating of flesh all the Winter season suddainly to abstaine wholy from the same cannot but be euill This is confirmed vnto vs sundry wayes first because there is like proportion in cating fish suddenly after flesh as there is in eating flesh suddainly after fish Which alteration how dangerous it is the vsuall infirmities in Easter-weeke doe witnes Secondly because the nourishment of fish is cold and moist and so very disproportionable to the Spring time Thirdly because concoction is very strong as well for the ambrient restraint termed Antiperistasis as by reason of long sleepe And therefore since much meate is necessarie at that time our popish Lent-fast prescribing little meate must needes be preiudiciall Although there were in the auncient Church a free kinde of yeerely fast whereof the Papists pretend an Apish imitation yet is their vsuall Popish Lent-fast not onely superstitious but altogether different from the same Superstitious because they intend thereby to satisfie for their sinnes and to merrite heauen Different many wayes First because the anncient Church neuer intended any meirite by het fast Secondly because the saide fast commonly called Lent was not vniformely practised in the 〈◊〉 Church but lest indifferent to the discretion of thery one The old Romans fasted three weekes before Easter intermitting their fast weekely vpon their Saturdayes and Sondai●e The Slauonians Alexandrians and Greecians fasted 〈◊〉 weekes Others continued their fast senueil weekes but they fasted onely fine dayes in euery weeke Thirdly because the fast of the aunclent Church was free voluntary and not commaunded by anie Law Fourthly because as in the auncient Church the time was variable so was also the manner of their diet For some ate nothing that liueth some of liuing things ate nothing but onely fish some are both fish and also byrds some ate onely herbs and egges some onely becade othersome nothing at all other-some at night are all kind of meates All which Cassiodorus both summarily pithily compriseth in these golden words Because there is no Lawe made for fasting I thinke saith hee the Apostles left this matter to our owne consideration that euery one should doe without feare or necessitie what seemed most conuenient for himselfe Fiftly because S. Spiredion a man so holy that he was renowned with miracles in his life time refused not to care flesh in the time of Lent no not in his owne house Yea he did not onely eate flesh himselfe but also earnestly introated a Stranger that lodged with him to eate as he did And whē the Stranger refused to eate flesh with him alledging for his refusall that he was a Christian and so prohibited to eate flesh at that time S. Spiridion replyed said that he ought the rather to eate because he was a christian For saith S. Spiridion All