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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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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
rich and plenteous crop for the whole yeares sustenance of our soules The heathen people as Athenâ—ns one of their Greeke writers telleth vs had euery yeare a Spring-song which they did vse to sing in their streetes at the first sight of the swallow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The swallow the swallow is come bringing the good houres and the good yeare with her The like Spring-song doth Christ himselfe sing vnto his spouse the Church in the second of the Canticles the tenth verse Arise my Loue my faire one and come thy way For behold saith he the Winter is past The raine is changed and is gone away The floures appeare in the earth The time of singing of birds is come and the voyce of the Turtle is heard in our land What is this Window song this May-song this Spring-song Arise my Loue my faire one and come away c but our Sauiour Christ his rouzing of vs out of our dead Winter sleepe of sinne by the preaching of the Gospel of Repentance at the windowes of our eares which he openeth with his owne hands and the power of his spirit what is this first appearing and opening of the Spring-floures out of the winter prison of the earth which was fast-bard and lock with cold frosts afore the sunne returning beganne to resolue the frozen cold and with his heate to make a gâ—ole-deliuerie of the fruit of the vegetatiue life of earth but the first appearing and opening of the floures of Faith and Repentance by the comfortable and liuely heate of the Sunne of righteousnesse Christ Iesus who with the heat of his zealous Spirit resolueth the frozen vnfallowed ground of mens sinfull hearts dead in sinnes and trespasses and with the cold blasts of Gods desertions mollifieth quickneth them through their Lent-fast deliuereth them out of the winter-prison of ignorance infidelitie presumption securitie forgetfulnesse of God acediousnesse vnzealousnesse into which naturall concupiscence Sathans suggestions the euill examples and continuall custome of sinne in the world had either subtilly or by strong hand cast them What 's lastly this which Christ cals Our Land but the Place of his feet his Vineyard his Natiue Soile his Church whereof hee himselfe is the chiefe Member the chiefe Vine the best Plant and of whose Sion it is said that He was borne there What 's this voyce of the Turtle heard in this his and our Land but the mournefull voice of the Catechumeni Competentes Ordinary and Extraordinary Penitents mourning all the time of this forty dayes Fast of Lent as a Turtle or chattering all together as Swallowes in the dust of Ordinary and Extraordinary Repentance Like a Crane or a Swallow so did I chatter said Penitent Hezekias Isa 38.14 I did mourne as a Doue But besides this great Conueniencie of hauing this fortie dayes Haruest for our soules Humilation and Sanctification at this time of the yeere we are further for this cause to be very desirous to follow the Saints of God in the seuere keeping thereof because as Saint Austin saith it may be and ought to bee kept as a Resculptiue and Memoratiue Fast The foure Fasts in Zacharie kept by the Iewes in Babylon were all Memoratiue For the Fast of the tenth Moneth was kept in remembrance of Nabuchodonosor his first laying of siege against Ierusalem The Fast of the fourth Moneth in remembrance of the grieuous famine and taking of their Citie and killing of their Nobles The Fast of the fift Moneth in remembrance of Nabuzaradan the King of Babylons Steward his burning of the Temple and the Citie The Fast of the seuenth Moneth in remembrance of the cutting off of the last hope of their comfort namely of good Gedaliah his trecherous slaying by that ambitious and cursed Ishmael Ieremie 40. 14.16 41. 1 2.3 After the same maner this our fortie daies Fast of Lent is Memoratiue and is kept by the Churches of God to put vs into a liuely and sensible remembrance of the fortie daies Fast of Moses Elias Christ of the fortie dayes and fortie nights Raine which brought in Noahs Flood vpon that former vngodly world and of that Extraordinary and most humble Fortie-dayes Fast of the Penitent Niniuites wherby they did preuent the Vniuersall Deluge of destruction threatned by Ionas at the fortie dayes end To vse no more reasons to set out vnto our consciences The great necessitie of this our Lent-fast in all Churches Let not this still still bee the Aegyptian shame of our Church of England that when Moses is fortie dayes and fortie nights twise told Fasting in Mount Horeb the Mount of God partly at the sight of the glorious paterne of Gods true Worship partly at the sight of the Israelites idolatrous and false worship wee with those beastly prophane idolatrous wilde headed irreligious fleshly wanton caluish minded Israelites worship Our golden Calues and the vanities and lusts of our fleshly appetites Eating and drinking and rising vp to play That when Elias is in his grieuous Fast of forty dayes and fortie nights walking to the same Mount of God Horeb we with Ahab and Iesabel runne a whoring from God to the mountaine of Samaria the hautinesse and stubburnesse of our irreligious and impenitent hearts That whilest Christ himselfe is for our sakes in the wildernesse fighting vpon all disaduantages with the greatest punishment of our sinnes Famine and with the greatest enemie of our Saluation the Diuell we after the example of the Diuels instruments the fleshly Iewes altogether mindelesse of our Saluation fight for the Diuell and the flesh against Christ by our impenitencie in practising our customary maner of sinning all maner of sinnes of drunkennesse gluttony licentiousnesse wantonnesse strife enuie oppression of our poore people and tenants following the world and our suits in Law more fiercely and griedily at this time of the yeere then at any other time besides That lastly whilest godly Noah Shem and Iaphet are lamenting and exercising Continencie and Fasting at the fearefull fight of the destruction of an vngodly world whose dead carkases were continually beaten by the waters knockt against the side of the Arke to put them in mind of Gods iust wrath against sinne whilest the King of Niniue descending from his Chaire of State into the dust and ashes of Extraordinary Repentance Fasteth in Sackcloth with his Nobles and penitent People euen to the beast that perisheth because it is the instrument of mans sinne whilest Tertullian Cyprian Austin Leo Gregory Bernard and all the godly Fathers for the space of a thousand yeeres and more after Christ are euery yeere marshalling themselues their Extraordinary Penitents their Catechumeni their Competentes after the example of so worthy Precedents in dust sack cloth and ashes for their Ordinary and Extraordinary sinnes preaching once at the least euery day so long as Lent lasteth frequenting publicke Prayer thrice euery day laying aside a great part of their worldly necessary businesse watching some nights and