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A41549	The reformed bishop, or, XIX articles tendered by Philarchaiesa, well-wisher of the present government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law, in order to the further establishment thereof.	Gordon, James, Pastor of Banchory-Devenick.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1279; ESTC R10195	112,676	318

joyful Remembrance of the Nativity of our Blessed Lord on the Anniversary thereof which in the time of Dioclesian proved a dismal Solemnity to some in Bithynia and of his Resurrection every Lord's Day especially on Easter which is Caput institutionis they on the Contrary as if they had not been unvaluable Mercies but rather great Plagues to the World must needs Fast on these Dayes and alwayes on that Sunday which did immediately preceed the Lord's Day on which the Holy Communion was to be celebrated though the Anniversary of our Saviour's Passion was judged by the Ancients the much fitter season for solemn Humiliation and Preparation in order to the due Reception of that Commemorative Sacrifice of Christ's Body and Blood on Easter Day for when Persecution ceased by the Haloyonian-dayes of the Great Constantine too much of the Christian Fervour abated therewith So that in the later Centuries of the Primitive Church The Holy Eucharist was not received every day no not every Lord's day but appointed to be celebrated thrice a year viz. On the Anniversary of the Nativity and Resurrection of our Blessed Lord and of the Descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost which Canons did at last terminate in Easter Day But these Antipodes are at the Expence of a Kalendar only to shun those dayes as a S●ylla and Charybdis or the greater and lesser Syrtes And that they might give a Demonstration to the World that they are not sworn Enemies to their own Flesh and Blood and that it was not the Mortification of their own sensual Natures they designed by such Abstinence but rather that they fasted for Strife and Debate and to smite with the Fist of Wickedness under such a Religions Palliation It was usually observed that their most solemn Fasts did usher in the greatest Villanies they intended to act so that all honest-hearted men looked upon these Intimations as prodigious Meteors portending some bad Omen either to Church or State and too frequently to both But that they might make a sufficient amends to the animal Life for these few Politick Substractions they gratified the same with Feasting when they could come at it all the dayes of the Week though Epiphanius hath told us that in his time Fasting was practised throughout all the World every Wednesday and Friday unless the Anniversary of our Saviour's Nativity did happen upon one of these dayes As for Saturday's Fast though Pope Innocent pretended the Apostles Fasted that Day because Christ lay in the Grave all that time It did not so early nor universally obtain For it was not practised at Millan in the Time of S. Ambrose Yea more than so they were most willing to Feast all the time of Lent the Passionwee kwhich was deservedly termed by the Ancients Hebdomada magna Sancta Not that it hath sayes Chrysostom either more dayes or hours than other Weeks but because this is the Week in which truly great and ineffable good things were purchased for us not being excepted and were more ready to gormandize than on the Anniversary of our Saviours Passion all the Sympathy they discovered with his imparallel'd Sufferings on that Day being meerly Symbolical and that in a Physical sense too For as the Flesh of our Blessed Lord was inhumanely torne on that Day so they were ready with too greedy Appetites to tear the Flesh of Brutes hateing so much to be reputed Pythagoreans or Manicheans on that Day that they would have chosen rather to be accounted Canibals and ever since that time the Flesh-Market on that day is the greatest of all the year and though the Change of it to some other Day hath been frequently desired by some sober Persons in this Church for the avoiding of Scandal Yet such is the Prevalency of Fanaticisme in some Royal Burghs that the Bishop with his Clergy could not obtain that most reasonable Request This being one of the Cimelia è Scrinio Polonico eruta which they fail not to bring home with them per Hellespontum Danicum Whereas the Emperours Theodosius the first Valentinian the second and Gratian as we find in the Theodosian Code commanded all Suits and Processes at Law to cease and all Prisoners to be set free in this Holy week Whence it may appear these Carnivorous Animals have never seriously pondered that Typical Expostulation of our dying Redeemer which we find in the Lamentations of Ieremie Chap. 1. ver 12. interpreted by all the Ancients of Christ himself and which concerns them as much as any But that they might shew themselves Prefect in that Art of Opposition to the Primitive Church they still presumed to approach to that Holy Table absque Virgine Saliva though it was also condemned by the Ancient Canons and I wish some of them had rested satisfied with their Ordinary Repast in that great Morning of the Feast But there is good reason to fear That the Generality of Plebeian Christians shall rise in Judgment and condemn those Epicurean Fanaticks For these will not upon any account usher in that Spiritual and Incorruptible Food with any Temporal and perishing Harbinger Now if any shall say That they are afraid of Fainting I must confess Necessity hath no Law But I wish some have not contracted that Necessity by Intemperance For Nature is content with little and Grace with less I have also heard some object That Christ himself Condemned Fasting in the Pharisees But take St. Chrysostom's Answer to this ignorant Scruple who tells us That Christ did not simply Condemn the Pharisees their Fasting twice a Week or their exact payment of Tithes but their Hypocrisie and Ostentation But if we shall judge by the Practice of too many of those we have good reason to Conclude That they have perswaded themselves that Christ Condemned both these Matters in Thesi and that there is no necessity of any Hypothesis to expound the Text. But in the Last place Some of the more knowing of them are ready to adduce the Authority of Thorndyke and Ieremy Taylor both which were very far from Phanaticism that they have sufficiently evinced the Lent-Fast not to be an Apostolick Tradition as it is now Calculated by a Quadragesima dierum But that the proper Lent of the Infant Christian Church was only a Quadragesima horarum For Answer I cannot but reverence the Judgment of those great Clerks and do indeed look upon the Quadragesima horarum as the only Apostolick Tradition though the strict Observation of the whole Passion-week did begin very early in the Church But I think it a very strange Parologism to infer from thence That Feasting on Good Friday is Lawful seeing it must needs be inclusively the 〈◊〉 of that most absolute Fast of Fourty Hours But in these dayes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Animosities and Epicurisme have made the Usage of Fasts by Papists a Command to us not to use them And to conclude the Abating any thing of our Gluttony

perfidious XXX Canon of the Councel of Lateran with his Legate Pandolphus were now alive they would be found to talk of that inauspicious King of England named Iohn his constrained Resignation and it is no small wonder after so many Centuries of years to hear again in this Age any noise of that vain and illegal Pretence which all sober Persons imagined had been blown up long agoe by that Subterranean Powder-Plot but it seems they intend to give a Demonstration to the World that no Prescription of time can render a common Whore honest And if a grain-weight of Christian Ingenuity or Humanity can be found in that late prodigious Conspiracy against our Church and State let the Universality of that infernal Design with those base Appendages of diuturnal plotting vile Ingratitude Treachery and Cruelty be the sole Judges thereof And in fine it is my humble Judgment that till these Coals of Iuniper be quenched which have too long inflamed all the Vitals of the Christian Church I mean the Puritanical Papist and Jesuited Puritan our unchristian Animosities and Feuds many whereof are meer Logomachies and groundless shall never be throughly extinguished till the devouring Fire of Hell consume these lesser Flames Neither will I ever forget that notable Instance of this Concordantia Discordantiarum which that excellent Historian I. A. Thuan. affords unto us in his 56th Book where he tells us that the Daemagogues of Paris and Pulpiteers of Rochel centered in that point of treacherous inhumanity viz. to put to Death all Prisoners of War even after the publick Faith had been given unto them But Tractent fabrilia Fabri Therefore the Antisignani of the Arrians Macedonians Nestorians and Eutychians not to speak of many other Hereticks were not only conven'd before the respective General Councels which are accounted the most famous of them all but were also judicially convicted and Sentenc'd with the highest Censures of the Church before the Civil Magistrate took any other notice of them as Delinquents than to compell those erroneous Schismaticks to appear personally before the Ecclesiastical Court to which they had been legally summoned The Church in these Dayes laying down this as an inviolable Conclusion that they would not fail to do their own Duty and if the Civil Magistrate afterwards neglected his let him answer to God for it who punisheth Potentes potenter and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as saith Herodot in Chione and Seneca omne sub regno gravi●ri regnum est And in that great Audit every man must stand and fall to his own Master The Brachium Seculare being indeed fit enough to restrain exorbitant Practices but it hath no direct Influence upon irregular Judgments and I fear it makes more Hypocrites than sincere Converts Fire and Faggot the beloved Argument of the Roman Church having a more natural Tendency to a preternatural Consumption than to a Spiritual Conversion Therefore the Arrians whose Courses were generally very violent and bloody are deservedly look'd upon as the genuine Parents of these Coercive Motives and disingenuous Arts which were judged very heterogeneal to the Nature and Constitution of the Church which as it transacts only in Spiritual Matters so it could inflict no other than Spiritual Censures and Chastisements But when the fiery Dominicans arose the Dream of Dominicus his Mother being a sad Prognostick of the Violence of that Order they might justly have been termed in this Regard Arriani Redivivi so merciless was that Persecution of the poor Waldenses to which they carried both Lanterns and Faggots Which bloody Method continues to this day in the Spanish Inquisition these violent Spirits being usually the cruel Lords of that infamous Judicatory whose inhumane Machins resemble the wild and Barbarous Fancies of Mezentius and Procrustes the unnatural Bellowings of Phalaris his Bull the Turkish Gaunching and Impaleing upon Stakes much rather than the harmless Engines of the Gospel And if a Pythagorean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were possible I would imagine that there had been a transmigration of the Souls of these Dominicans into the Bodies of some late Presbyterians one egg or Fish not being found liker to another than is the Resemblance of some of these Incendiaries on which account one of their abortive Issue hath in one of his Pamphlets not unfitly termed their Covenant Taht great Instrument of Blood whereby he verifies that common Observation Omnis Apostata persequitur suum Ordinem But seeing the Dominicans were nothing else but the Emissaries of those Masters who pretend to be S. Peter's Successors and in their fierce Anger and cruel Rage have cut off more than the Ears of many who were much more innocent than that Servant of the high Priest Therefore I cannot forget to take notice in this Place of another great Abuse committed by some Popes For the Croysade which was at first design'd to rescue the Holy Sepulchre from the Possession of Infidels to which great Undertaking many Myriads of Christians were animated by the preaching and Miracles of S. Bernard was so perverted from that Primary pious Institution that it was employed to the utter Extirpation of many thousands of the simple and harmless Inhabitants of the Mountains of Languedoc and Provence Such is the Affectation of the Roman Bishops to wear the Livery of that Scarlet-coloured Beast But the bright Olybian Flames of the Primitive Church which were not Ignes comburentes sed lambentes hated with a perfect Hatred those Sanguinary Spirits as may appear from the Deportment of S. Martin of Tours who as Sulpitius Sev. reports refused to communicate with Ithasius and Idacius two Spanish Bishops because they did prosecute unto Death some of the Priscillianists and that before the Tyrant Maximus though it cannot be denyed but that they were detestable Hereticks even Manichaei Redivivi and consequently but half Christians So great was the Aversion of these truly Evangelical Spirits from Shedding of Blood even in the Cause of God Yea more than so so great was the Antipathy that S. Martin had conceived against such violent Courses that when he was informed the Tyrant had impower'd some Military Tribunes to go into Spain there to depopulate the Country pillage the goods of all those who would not conform he immediately went to that Emperour and freely told him That this pretended Zeal was not kindled by a Coal from the Altar of God but rather an infernal Fire bred in the Breasts of some furious Bishops and fomented by the Venome of that old Red Dragon the natural Feuel thereof the Event whereof could be no other than that of a furious Tempest or overflowing Inundation which bears down all before it and puts no Difference betwixt the Good and the Bad Old or Young Male or Female but sweeps away all promiscuously or like unto a number of ravenous Wolves let loose upon a Multitude of harmless and naked Animals which have not the Faculty to discriminate betwixt the mangy Sheep and those which are sound in