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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

is Continencie commaunded vnto them who haue the gift thereof in that consultatorie priuate precept Math. 19.12 He that can receiue it let him receiue it Of the same sort is the renouncing of all wordly busines to follow the studie of Christs heauenly Doctrine commaunded vnto them vnto whom it is expedient by that Consultatorie precept Math. 19.21 If thou wilt be perfect Goe sell thy goods and giue them to the poore and come follow mee But of the latter sort is Decencie of apparell and a discreete constitution of Church-orders commanded in generall by that Consultatorie precept 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let all things be done comely and in order Of the same sort is this Ordinarie penitentiall fasting or this Fasting of ordinarie repentance wherof we now speake cōmanded here in speciall Then shall they fast Now as it is not in the free power of a priuate mans consultation who hath the gift of Continencie or to whom it is most expedient to leaue the world and to follow Christ altogether to disobey Christs priuate consultatorie commaunds as it is euident by Saint Paul who saith in the 15. ver of the 9. Chap. of his 1. Epi. to the Corinthians that it was better for him to die then that he should take a lawfull stipend of the Corinthians which was not then expedient so much lesse is it in the power of a publicke Officer or of the supreme Magistrate to suffer the Church of God to be ruled without all outward Decencie or to disobey Christ in not obseruing that which hee hath specially commanded by this speciall Consultatorie publicke commaunde Then shall they fast And thus haue I shewed also how things of indifferent nature left to mans free consultation not only by warrant of the word but also by Consultatorie priuate or by consultatorie publicke commandement are to be held or not to beheld to be vnder the Consultatorie power of the publicke gouernours of the Church For although those indifferent duties which are commaunded to priuate men onely by Consultatorie priuate commaund be to be performed by priuate men so onely as the spirit of God in them shall exact as it did of Saint Paul their Consultatorie obedience in the exact performance of them yet those indifferent duties which are commaunded also to publicke Officers by the speciall Consultatorie publicke commaunde of Christ the most louing Bridegroome of his Church these in different duties I say of this so speciall Consultatorie publicke commaunde cannot without neglect of dutie vnto Christ their Lord and maister the only lawgiuer able to saue and destroy be either intermitted vpon an humour or omitted and disannulled altogether by the publicke gouernours of Christs Church The neglect of these Church fasts then in any Church whatsoeuer is a token of some want of that feeling which the Church as a true louing wife should haue of the bodily absence of her louing husband according to the speach of our Sauiour in this my Text But the daies will come when the Bridegroome shall be taken from them and then shall they Fast Surely as Salomon saith Eccle. 7.6 The heart of Fooles who laugh in the face as the Apostle speaketh 2. Cor. 5.12 is in the house of mirth but the heart of wisemen who laugh in the heart are soberly and truely wise vnto saluation is alwaies in the house of mourning that is as our Sauiour heere in my Text doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth confound and turne the tearmes of Fasting and mourning making them all one in the house of fasting because it is better to goe to the house of mourning then to the house of feasting because by a sad looke the heart is made better And thus I haue assoiled the former doubt which might worthely arise touching the gouernours of the Church their absolute omission and repealing of all Church fasts To the other doubt thus much I speake briefely that though the Fast be Catholicke as is the Fast before the Communion and all our other Church-fasts except two onely that is to say though the Fast be Vniuersally constituted and decreed to be kept in all the particular Churches of the world by the Vniuersall decree and sentence of an Oecumenicall counsell yet the Oecumenicall counsell doth alwaies with this Prouiso decree it that no particular Church shall be further bound vnto it then as it is an helpe and no wayes an hindrance vnto true mortification If it be found either through the superstition of this doting old world or through any other enormitie wherewith Sathan and mans corruption doth often staine and defile the best exercises of godlines to be any whit preiudiciall to those holy duties of absolute necessitie which are commanded by absolute precept then the practise of the best particular Churches and euen of some Diocesan Bishops haue taught vs that our righter way to obey the Oecumenicall counsell is to obey rather the meaning then the bare and dead letter of their decree I confesse that Saint Austin saith wisely and well speaking of these Vniuersall customes of fasting decreed by the Plenary counsel of the whole church Si quid horū tota perorbem frequentat Ecclesia hoc quin ita faciendū sit desputare insolentissimae insaniae est If any of these things be vsed by the custome of the whole Church for a man to hold that such a thing ought not or may indifferently not be done it is a part and a tricke of most siely fondnesse and madnesse But he giueth this reason intimated both in his words following and in his words before going where he had set downe his formall difference betweene particular Church customes and betwixt Vniuersall Church customes to be the cause of this his speeach for that the Vniuersall Church neuer decreeth any thing that is Contra fidem bonos more 's against the Faith and good maners but the particular Churches may be supposed to decree some new customes both Contra fidem bonos more 's Out of which reason we may plainely see how Saint Austin did vnderstand the decrees of Vniuersall counsels and the minde of all Churches when they chanced to haue the same custome in the vse of an indifferent duty amongst them all Namely that the intention and minde and meaning of the Vniuersall Church is this to keepe or to decree no custome that is Contra fidem bonos more 's yet that his meaning is not neither was it the Catholicke meaning of the whole Church that the customarie vse of any indifferent thing not commaunded by absolute precept should therefore neuer be altered because it was once decreed by so Vniuersall a decree and consent of all Churches Though indeed whilest such indifferent matters are in vigour and force and are commanded by the Church he is worthily to be esteemed Schismaticus schismate charitatis in the highest degree who doth not obediently yeeld vnto them also Schismaticus schismate fidei if he dispute