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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58946	A seasonable treatise for this age occasioned by a letter written by one Mr. Woolsey prisoner in Norwich, to the then-exiled Church at Amsterdam; in which he endeavours to prove it unlawful to eat blood, things strangled, and things offered to idols, now in the times of the Gospel. Which letter is by the consent of the said Church answered; the grounds and reasons therein, examined and refuted; and the contrary thereunto proved from scripture: by Francis Johnson pastor Henry Ainsworth teacher Daniel Studley Stanshal Mercer elders of the same church. Written long since, but never published till now.	Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.; Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622?	1657 (1657)	Wing S2245; ESTC R220970	16,657	24

require your blood wherein your lives are at the hand of every Beast c. Whereby he sheweth how precious the blood of men was in his eyes that would punish the shedding thereof both on men and Beasts and therefore to the end they might forbeare the spilling of each others life he withheld them from eating the life that is the blood of Beasts It might seeme a kinde of cruelty to eat Beasts blood and want of humane clemencie wherefore Solomon noteth a righteous man even by this that he regardeth the life of his Beast and addeth on the contrary But the mercies of the wicked are cruel By which opposition it appeareth that God in restrayning the life or blood of Beasts intended hereby to restrain men from cruelty 3. We hold the abstinence from blood to be figurative and temporarie upon that which is written Col. 2.16,17 Let no man condemn you in meat and in drink or in respect of an holy day or new moon or sabbaths which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ Where he plainly reckoneth meat and drink among other shaddows and excepteth not any meat no not blood nor any feast no not the Sabbath If it be said Paul speaketh of meats and drinks under Moses law onely and not of blood which was forbidden long before to Noah wee answer 1. that blood was also forbidden in Moses law amongst other meats therefore is here also abrogated among other meats 2. Again as much may be said for the Sabbath of the seventh day as for blood yea more both in regard of the antiquitie and of the use and end For the prohibition of blood began but in Noahs time but the seventh day was sanctified from the beginning of the world so that if blood may be exempted from the Apostles general abrogating of meats because that edict was more ancient then the Law then much more may the seventh day be exempted from amongst the other sabbaths because it was of farre greater antiquitie The use and end also of the seventh day was more excellent then that of blood for blood was forbidden as you alledge because it was the life of the Beast but worke on the seventh day was forbidden for a rememberance of the creation of the world and rest of God and for a signe that we might know that the Lord doth sanctifie us so that the end of the sabbath in this respect excelleth the end of blood And if further it be said as afterwards in your Letter you urge that blood was forbidden because it was the life and seeing it is the life to this day therefore to this day it may not be eaten we answer As much may be said for the Sabbaths that to this day and always a rememberance is to be kept of the creation of the world and rest of God now and always it is the Lord that sanctifieth us Wherefore we conclude from this Testimonie of Pauls that if none may condemn us in respect of the seventh day more then of the other feasts and sabbaths so neither may any condemne us for blood more then other meats or drinks which were shaddows of things to come whose body wee have in Christ 4. That the prohibition of eating blood in Gen. 9. was figurative appeareth by the punishment of murther there presently annexed the Lord saying Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed Yea at the hand of every Beast as well as of every man God required the blood of man And of the beast he required it thus as at the publishing of the law appeareth that the oxe which goared to death man or woman should be stoned to death and the flesh thereof not eaten Exod. 21.28 And that this was figurative your self we think will not deny for you mention no scruple thereof in your Letter But if any would make conscience of suffering such a beast to live or eating the flesh thereof he might fetch his ground from Noahs time as well as you that will eat no blood 5. It may be shewed to be a Type or shadow and now abrogated by the same reason that Paul alledgeth for eating all other meats saying Every thing that is sold in the Shambles eat ye making no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lords and the plenty thereof which testimonie of David if it be of weight to settle the conscience touching other meats then of blood also seeing it is a part of the plenty of the earth and the Lords as well as any other thing which now he hath given us free use of by Christ according as it is written that this world and all other things are ours we Christs and Christ Gods 1 Cor. 3 21,22-23 Thus have we shewed you something of that which may be said against the perpetuity of that law in Gen. 9. which is the ground of your erronious building The next reason by you alleadged from the law of Moses falleth with the former and by all the arguments which we have brought is shewed to be Typical and you may aswel deny any other of Moses ordinances to be shaddows as this Yet you say that Levit. 17.11 is misalledged where God saith For the soul of the flesh it is in the blood and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls If this be misalledged as you write and proveth it not to be a shaddow then we must believe it is the substance and truth Then atonement for mens sins is wrought by the blood of Beasts in deed and truth not in Type and figure See whither your error leadeth you The Holy-Ghost saith It is unpossible that the Bloud of Bulls and goats should take away sins Heb. 10.4 but it is the blood of Christ that cleanseth us from all sins 2 Joh. 1.7 Whereas therefore the Law saith I have given Beasts blood upon the altar to make atonement for your souls it must needs be figuratively spoken And you are greatly to blame to write as you have done that this Scripture is misalledged Yet to qualifie the matter and help your self you write that you confesse as the truth is that the sacrificial blood had two causes why it might not be eaten the one general because it was the life the other particular because it was the atonement But this is not to confesse as the truth is for you confesse not at all that it was typical which you must do except you will renounce Christ who is the truth Nay afterward you write very peremptorily that It was not is not nor ever shall be proved that the not eating of all blood was typical Yea that it had not any foot of type or ceremony in it And further from the truth is that which followeth in your Letter that the cause of forbidding common blood was one onely to wit because it is the life which remaineth still the cause before the

Lord why it might not be eaten and shall remaine the cause till the comming of Christ Herein you deceive your self and would deceive others making a figurative and temporary cause to be a cause in truth and for ever For the strength of your reason seemeth to be this Blood might not then be eaten because it was the life the same cause continueth now for it is the life still and so shall continue till the coming of Christ therefore it may not now be eaten The falsehood of which Argument we will shew you by the like In Levit. 11.7 God saith The swine because it parteth the hoofe but cheweth not the Cud it shall be uncleane unto you you shall not eat thereof Whereupon the Jew might thus argue Of a swine we might not then eat because it parted the hoof but cheweth not the Cud and the same cause continueth still for to this day the swine parteth the hoofe but cheweth not the Cud therefore to this day we may not eat of swines flesh Such is your reason against eating of blood whiles you make the cause to be in the nature of the Creature which you should put in the will and appointment of the Creator For why might not Beasts that chewed not the Cud be eaten then as well as Beasts that did chew the Cud but because it pleased God to exempt them in Type and figure for otherwise all Gods Creatures are in their own nature good and cleane Gen. 1.31 Rom. 14.14 Even so may it be said Why might not the blood be eaten as well as the flesh but because God would exempt it also in Type and figure as before we have proved He that said Ye shall not eat the blood because it is the soul might also have said if so it had pleased him You shall not eat the flesh because it is the body But of his mercie he permitted them the flesh for the comfort of their Bodies and of his Soveraignty and like mercy he restained the blood for the instruction of their souls even as by other like shaddows he led them to Christ If you say the sacrificial blood was a figure because it was used in the worship of God upon the altar c. yet the common blood of all beasts was no figure for thereof was no use in the worship of God it is not of weight for neither was there any use of swine or other uncleane Beasts in the worship of God yet were they all Types and figures as the Scripture teacheth us Act. 10.11,12 c. and so we have before proved all blood to be Unto which proofs we will add this one reason further and so conclude this point The restraint of blood before Christs comming seemeth to be for the honour of the Son in whom and by whom the Father would give all good things to his Church both for soul and body and without whom we have no right to any thing having lost our Soveraignty by Adams fall And first for spiritual things Paul teacheth us that the Revelation of the mystery of the Gospel and mans salvation was kept secret since the world began till now under Christ it is opened and published among all nations by the scriptures of the Prophets at the commandment of the everlasting God None in heaven or in earth could open the book or loose the seales but that Lyon of the Tribe of Juda And as heavenly so earthly things are loosed and restored by Christ Before his coming the Land of Canaan was Gods peculiar possession and the Jews his chosen Heritage now all the ends of the earth are given to Christ all peoples and nations are his no difference either Jew or Gentile male or female freeman or servant In like sort men were debarred of many earthly Creatures before his coming and were nourtured as Children under the School-Master of the law with Touch not taste not handle not and the like restraints But now all power is given to Christ in heaven and in earth all things are put in subjection under his feet sheep and oxen all of them yea and the Beasts of the field the fowls of the air and the fishes of the sea and now also by Christ all things are made ours we being the heirs of God through him so that no man may condemn us for meat or drink for we know and are perswaded through the Lord Jesus that there is nothing uncleane of it self neither can any thing that goeth in at the mouth defile the man We may eat the soul of the Beast aswel as the body for the earth is the Lords and the plenty thereof 1 Cor. 10.25.26 This honour hath the Father given to the Son and the Son to all the Saints Wherefore we conclude that this forbidding of any meat even of blood derogateth from the power and liberty of Christ which he hath given to all that believe in his name and so it is a false and pernitious Doctrine even a Doctrine of devils as Paul calleth it turning men back from Christ to the beggerly rudiments and types of the Law But you say If it had any jet of Type or ceremony in it the Apostles would never have forbidden it to the Gentiles no not for an hour for that had been to Bring them into bondage It remaineth therefore that now we examine your third reason and see what it was that they forbad the Gentiles and for what cause In the 18. of the Acts it was determined that those Gentiles whom certaine Pharisees had troubled with words and cumbred their minds should be written unto to abstain from pollutions of Idols that is things offered to Idols and fornication and the strangled thing and from blood The reason hereof is also shewed to be this For Moses from old times hath them that preach him in every city being read in the Synagogues every Sabbath Now the occasion of this Edict and the end thereof with all other Circumstances of the same and the practice of the Apostles and Churches afterwards all plainly teach us that this was no permanent law but for the present time and occasion not for any unlawfulness in the Creatures themselves of Idolathites strangled things or blood but for bearing with the Jews which were so zealous of Moses law and for the quiet of the Church And this we confirm by these reasons 1. Because we find not that such abstinence from meats was ever taught by any of the Apostles before this present time and occasion which if they had been permanent and not legal shadows we are to think they would have preached with other Doctrines of the Gospel 1. In the disputation about this Question Peter calleth the Doctrine by them urged a tempting of God a yoke not able to be born Paul and Barnabas confirme it by telling the wonders that God had done among the Gentiles by them without exception or