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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

one beleeueth that he may eate all thinges But he that is weake to wit the scrupulous Iew that will neither eate meates prohibited in Moyses Law nor sacrificed by the Gentils let him eate hearbes Let not him that eateth dispise him that eateth not he that eateth not let him not iudge him that eateth to wit all sortes of meates for God hath assumed him to himself c. and he eateth to our Lord vers 6. for he giueth thinkes to God c. Why iudgest thou thy brother speaking to the Iew vers 10. for his liberty of eating all thinges And speaking to the Gentills why despisest thou thy brother for his weaknesse in putting a differnce betwene meates I know saith he vers 14. and am persuaded in our Lord Christ that nothing is common or vncleane of it selfe But to him that supposeth any thing to be como or vncleane to him it is common to wit for the errour of his conscience making it-seeme so All things indeed are cleane vers 20 but it is ill for the man that eateth with offence c. to wit of his weake brother concluding thus his advice to Iew and Gentill Hast thou faith that is to say ar●… 〈◊〉 firmely persuaded of the lawfulnes of al meates haue it with thy selfe befor God c. But he that discerneth or maketh a difference of meates is damned or cōmitteth a damnable sinne if hee ●ie because 〈◊〉 of faith or because he is not fully persuaded of the lawfulnes of that meate which he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for all that is not of faith is sinne to wit euery thing that a man doth against his owne knowledg and conscience is sinne Which discourse of S. Paul is so cleare in selfe for refutation of Traskes doctrine and so vn●●●●●…lly vnderstood by ancient Fathers and m●de ●●e Expositours aswell Protestantes as Catholikes that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 deuises wherby some of Traskes difciples haue sought to delude so many playne passages of this Chapter may well seeme to learned men not iudiciously imbraced but in an hereticall pride and a desire of nouelty and singularity purposely affected by them In so much as one of them being pressed with the litterall plaines of so many texts concluding in expresse termes directly against his contrary doctrine first he ridiculously deuised a new argument of this Chāpter and pretended that S. Paul endeauoured therein to instruct such Christians as being inuited to mourning and lamentation might thinke it vnlawfull to eate any meates at all idly citing many Propheticall textes commending●… such ti●● abstinence from nourishing and delightful meates Whereas S. Paul speaketh no one word in that Chapter of inuiting Christians to mourning and lamentation but only endeauoureth to compose controuersies and occasions of offence betweene Iewes and Gentills and to make their ordinary conuersation particulerly about meates and festiuall dayes peacefully and charitably togeather They seeme also to haue sundry other fancies to auoyd the pressing authority of these textes but so grossly as I hold them not w●●●●… to be heere recited much lesse particulerly refuted whippes being the best answere to such arguments Bedlam● or Bridewell the fittest schoole for such a Sectmaister and disciples to dispute in QVESTION V. VVherein is proued that Bloud and strangled meates may be lawfully now eaten by Christians MY purpose in this Question is not so much to refute Iohn Traske in his Iewish and absurd doctrine of meates sufficiently already in my former Questions discussed as particulerly to ouerthrow the Puritanicall abstinence of some percise people who wholy grounding their faith vpon he authority of Scripturs litle crediting any Christian practise or doctrine not expressed in them are in many places knowne strictly to obserue the Apostolicall decree Act. 15. commaunding Christians to abstaine from strangled meates bloud c. Which say they was a precept expresly giuen by God in the law of nature Genes 9. and renewed by the Apostles a a law necessary to be obserued by the Gentills conuerted and is not found to haue beene repealed as was the like prohibition of meates offered to Idolls 1. ad Corin. cap. 8 10. by any latter doctrine or practise of the Apostles But contrarily it may be by many ancient and authenticall testimonies of antiquity certainely proued that many hundred yeares togeather after Christ holy people obserued this abstinence from stragled meats and bloud as a doctrine taught them by the Apostles Tertullian for example in Apologia cap. 9. expresly affirmeth Christians not to 〈◊〉 bloud at all but to abstaine for that cause from beasts dying of themselues or strangled least they should be defiled with bloud c. Blandina also in her Martyrdome mentioned by Eusebius lib. 5. hist cap. 1. telleth the Gentils that they did much erre in thinking Christians to eate the bloud of infants who sayd she vse not the bloud of beasts which is testifyed also of Christians by Minutius Felix in Octauio by Origen contra Celsum lib. 8. sundry later Councells haue vnder great penalties forbidden the eating of such meates Apostolically prohibited to all Christians So that their doctrine and practise is not Iewishly grounded as Iohn Traskes opinions are on a cerimonious precept of the old law certainly abrogated as is already proued but they obserue it as a precept giuen to Noah by God himselfe in the law of nature repeated in Moyses law and renewed by the Apostles The difficulty also of this question is increased and made more hard and vneasy to be solued by reason that the Aduersaries against whome I am to dispute admit no infallible authority of any ancient or moderne Church guided by Christs holy Spirit and lead into all truth so that faithfull people may securely and without danger of erring imbrace her communion follow her directions rest in her iudgment as the supporting pillar foundation of Truth according to the Apostle 1. Tim. 3. They admit no Apostolicall Tradition or certayne rule to know any vnwritten doctrin to haue byn held and practised since Christ successiuely and vniuersally by Christians Finally they little regard any reasonable discourse or Theologicall deduction not litterally and playnely expressed in Scripture the only Rule of their faith and Iudge of controuersies betweene vs. According to which their vsuall and vnreasonable manner I cannot more forcibly endeauour to disproue this their Puritanicall abstinence from bloud and strangled meates then by orderly prouing three thinges 1. That this precept giuē to Noah Gen. 9. vers 4. was mysterious and not morall in it selfe 2. That it was not but for a time only and for ends now wholy ceased decreed by the Apostles Act. 15. vers 20. 28. 3. That it hath beene since by a holy and lawfull practise of Christs Church generally repealed so as it is a singular fancy for Christians now againe to renew the obseruance thereof And that this abstinence from bloud and strangled meates was not a morall precept I proue first by the

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