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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08599	A notable and comfortable exposition, vpon the fourth of Mathevv; concerning the tentations of Christ preached in S.Peters Church, in Oxenford; By Thomas Bentham, fellovv ov Magdalin Colledge and afterwards Vyshop of Liechfeeld and Coventrie.	Bentham, Thomas, 1513-1579.	1583 (1583)	STC 1891; ESTC S111929	35,336	98

in their decrees which in God his word is both lawfull and laudable Little they regarde the leading of the holy Ghost without whose motion they shoulde enterprise nothing seeing our Sauiour Christ was led of the holy Ghost into the desart to be tempted of the Deuill The Tex● And when he had fasted fourty dayes and fourty nights he was hungry O●r 〈…〉 ius supposeth forty nights to be added of the E●angefist for a difference betweene the Lewes fastes and his For the maner of the 〈…〉 was to fast all the day and to eate at ntght But Christ did not so for the space of forty dayes and forty nights in all which tyme he hungred not Two such examples of admiration rather then imitation we haue in the olde Testament the one is of the holy Prophet or God Moses who beeing Exod. 24. commanded of God to ascend come vp into the mount Sinai to fetch the tables of the commandements which he shoulde afterwardes deliuer to his people fasted al the tyme that he continued in the Mount which was forty daies and forty nights and al that space neither eate nor darcke as is written in the booke of Exodus The other is of the Prophet Elias who fleeing from the wicked Queene Iezabell 3. King 19. Achabs wyfe and resting himselfe vnder a iuniper tree being wearie of his life and wishing to die was sed by an Angell sent to him from God with a cake baken on the co●ses and a cup of water After which refe●ion or nourishment he walked fourty dayes and fourty nightes a 〈…〉 strength therof vnto Horeb. the mount of God Our sauiour Christ therfore whom these two Prophetes did prefigure when he shoulde begin to publish and preach the Gospell departed from the company and society of man into the desart where he fasted fourty dayes and fourty nightes not exceeding the measure which Moses and Elias had before obserued least hee might seeme to passe the boundes of mans nature and by a myracle make it seeme incredible that hee was true man whom afterwards the experiēce of hunger did testify to be s● So much then as Christ is better then Moses so much is grace better then the law because that as Saint Ioh● fayth The lawe was giuen by Moses but Iohn 1. grace and truth came by Iesus Christ. For notwithstanding the lawe was written with God his own hand and pronounced with his mouth yet as S Heb. 20. Paul sayth i●●ad but a shadow of good things to come not the things to their owne fashion Wherefore if Moses fasted forty dayes twice before he receiued and ministred the law it was no derogation to Christe his dignity to fast forty dayes before he beganne to preach the Gospell which is the truth of the shadows that went before And in like sort Elias as it followeth in the 3 of Kings the 19. Chapter when he went a farre iourney and shoulde bring a great matter to passe that is anoint or as we in England tearm it Crowne two Kinges and consecrate one Prophet fasted forty dayes and forty nightes Which vndoubtedlye was a great Myracle in him both to labour a long iourney and also to fast all the iourneys space Christ therfore to shew himselfe nothing inferiour to either of them fasted forty dayes and forty nightes Vppon which fast and the fastes of Moses and Elias because the Church hath of long time taken occasion to ground and institute this fast of Lent which at this present we obserue I entend by Gods grace and your Christian patience by iust occasion of this text and by opportunitye of the time and place to speake something of this our Lent Fast First shewing the true definition of Fast and that this Fast of Lent obserued nowe by vs can neither be grounded on the old nor the new Testaments Secondarily how it was first instituted in the Church and then how farr our superstitious vsing of it differeth from the first institution Fast is not as wee commonly call and vse it forbearing of flesh in Lent or vpon Fridayes Ember dayes and such other for so no learned man did euer take it but it is an abstinence from all kinde of meate and drinks wherewith mans body is nourished and a continence from all vaine wanton pleasures wherwith mans mind may be infected This generall fast hath bene diuided into two kinds one Corporall when wee abstaine from bodily meates the other Spirituall when wee refrayne from all kinde of vice and sinne Some take Fast to be a due satisfaction of all mans senses as if a man sinne with his eyes to turns them away that they regard no Psal 119. vanities as Dauid sayth or else to pluck Math. 5. them out as Christ biddeth when they offend vs. And likewise in all other partes and senses of mans bodye Howbeit this is more spirituall then the other that I haue recited For in the other are included three kindes of fast One is abstinence from meate and drinke to keepe vnder the body that the flesh be not fierce against the spir●te and that is voluntary vsed of euery man as he seeth occasion without compulsion Such is their fast though not of like force that for their health abstaine to disgest euil sursets and superfluous meat An other kind is of necessitie not enioyned man by any lawe but by God As in time of Dearth Famine and scarsitie of victuall This fast as it is not voluntarily vsed of man so it is not obserued without great grudging and murmuring againste God which sendeth it as a plague for our sinne And this fast they that ly● in bondes and prison lacking necessary meat drinke doe susteine and abyde The thirde kinde of fast is a generall Fast of all men and women Which the Iewes often vsed especiallye in the time of great plagues warrs and such extremities absteining from meate and drinke in ashes and sackcloth al the daye long thereby to humble themselues before God Yet none of these Fasts are like that heauenlye fast of Christ Moses and Elias For their fasts were aboue these fastes in all points Wherefore touching the first part of fast which we obserue all this Lent it is most true that I sayd before It could not be grounded on the old Testament For notwithstanding that Moses fasted fourty dayes twise and Elias once yet because their fastes were miraculous we neither ought nor can sincerely follow them And besides we may by as good reason follow Moses in all other miracles that hee wrought as in this And so likewise Elias For if they had beene workes as well of imitation as admiration no doubt the Iewes which were so studious to inuent new traditions would haue made this one of their cheifest But they knew verie well that as these fastes were myracles so they were in no case of man to be imitated But in examine it more nearely Moses fasted fourty daies before Exod. 24. he receiued