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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

applause during his aboad with Maister Drake in Deuonshire and how his chamber lay open besides to all comers day and night for priuate instruction shewing himselfe a Foole if not a Pharisy in affecting humane prayses so palpably in all his speaches and actions Two of disciples only vnderstand Latin aswell as himselfe the one a poore seduced Gentleman better skilled in Hebrew then himself and equally conuersant in Scripture the other a Comfit-maker who lately vndertooke by Traskes directions as is probably guessed to publish his doctrinall conclusions to defend them against M. Crashaw who hath writeÌ„ an idle loose refutation of them For contrary to his common Pulpit-doctrine and raylinges against Catholikes for admitting traditions and pointes of faith not contayned in Scripture he supposeth without further proofe that Christ in conuersation with his Apostles after his Resurrection taught our keeping of the Sunday in place of the Sabaoth that being a meere Tradition no where mentioned in Scripture Which sortes of aduantage are craftely obserued by Traske in all conferences of learned Protestantes with him he will not sticke in answering their arguments deduced from the authority and vniuersall practise of Christs Church in all ages before him to tell them that they fight against him with the Catholikes borrowed weapons and in their strokes at him wound themselues more deeply ouerthrowing most opinions of their own faith which are as strange and vnheard of till within the last 100. yeares as his doctrines and equally repugnant to the ancient authority and knowne practise of all Christendome in times past So that if his ground of admitting no doctrine not expressed in Scripture be shaken their Religion will totter also For the same authenticall testimonies of antiquity which serue to proue the Apostolicall obseruation of the Sunday do likewise mentioÌ„ Liturgies Massing Sacrifices celebrated by Christians in their publique sinaxes and meetings on festiuall and dominicall dayes testified by S. Augustine serm 251. de tempore by S. Cyprian de oper eleemosyn by the Fathers of the Agathen Councell cap. 47. by the 6. Oecumenicall Councell cap. 8. and sundry other ancient authors His Ipse dixit and sole assertion is a sufficient rule of fayth to all his disciples among whom if any chance to grow wiser as many of them lately haue done and to depart from his doctrine he will seeme to haue formerly feared foreknown that mans frailty and finall reprobation Thus not long since he dealt with one of them who notwithstanding then protested that Traske had heertofore vnder his owne hand warranted his true repentance and eternall election in Christ Iesus though passion at that time transported him to make a contrary iudgement of him There is nothing more troublesome to him and his disciples then to be tearmed ignorant or absurd in any of their assertions And albeit himselfe seemeth modest and temperate in his speaches and carriage yet anger and malice hidden in his hart soone breaketh out vpon very small occasions into rayling and ill tearmes such as himselfe will condemne in others by many Texts of Scripture Which his dangerous disposition tryed by one of his Protestant fellow-prisoners and other personall facts I purposely heere forbeare to relate hauing more authenticall testimonies against him His frequent Solecismes when now and then he boulteth out a word or line of Latin as to say Index expurgatorium c are for quietnes sake to be accounted but lapsus linguae vnfit to be tould him His barbarismes in speaking or writing must passe currently as Hebraismes and Scripture-phrases and all his arguments are to be accounted no other then formall and conuincing demonstrations Among which for proofe that S. Peter and the Apostles still obserued the legall difference of meates this one for example is his Achylles written to my knowledg by him in three seuerall discourses sent to one of his fellow-prisoners Qui ambulat in praecepto veteri recepto Ã Patre ambulat secundum legem discriminis inter animal quod comeditur animal quod non comeditur Sed Petrus ambulauit in praecepto veteri recepto Ã Patre Ergo ambulauit secundum legem discriminis inter animal quod comeditur animal quod non comeditur Thus Englished He that walketh in the old Commandment receaued from the Father walketh according to the Law of difference between the liuing creature that is to be eaten and the liuing creature that is not to be eaten But Peter walked in the old Commandment c. If you tell him first that his syllogisme is tedious and composed in barbarous Latin vnfit to come from the pen of an ancient schoolmaister and professed Grammarian He wil falsely tell you that Praecepto veteri recepto Ã Patre c. is the expresse phrase of S. Iohn in his first Canonicall Epistle If you further tell him that his argument is ridiculous in sense and forme as hauing no medium at all in the premises to proue the conclusion to walke in the old Commaundement c. and to walke according to the law of difference c being in sense all one in wordes only changed He will more absurdly tel you that by the old Commandment c. he meant Gods precept giuen to Adam in Paradise which all learned men know to haue byn a personall precept of abstayning from the fruite of one tree not coÌ„cerning S. Peter afterwards or any Christian more then to the generall knowne doctrine of Adams transgression therof fearefully punished in his posterity And to deterre his aduersary from laughing at this argument and other more ridiculous passages of his papers he added this Caueat for a graue conclusion or memorable sentence of instruction Si fortÃ¨ dum loquutus fuero postmodum verÃ² sermonem meum subsannato If when peraduenture I shall haue spoken but afterwards laugh at my speach Wherein any learned man may plainely see indeed his wonted Ciceronian style strangely altered By reading in Eusebius history lib. 1. cap. 22. how Saint Policarpe and other holy Bishops of Asia obserued the Iewes time of keeping Easter he and his disciples are lately therein resolued to imitate them And that which he neuer read of S. Policarpe or any Christian Doctor before him he hath added to his Easter the festiuall obseruance of Azimes as is probably guessed by all his fellow prisoners seing him and his disciples after the fourtenth of March moone to eate contrary to their custome at other times white vnleauened loaues and seeming in his speaches to allow of the obseruance of that festiuity albeit of the manner he be somthing doubtfull as peraduenture whether it must be with a Phascall Lambe eaten c. He esteemeth it no arrogancy or pride of iudgment in him to dissent in his doctrines from all known Christians either liuing now or in any age before him Neither will he yield it to be a dangerous nouelty and notable giddines in him to change and coyne at his pleasure weekly doctrines

in Moyses declaration of that precept instancing against those captious accusers of himselfe his disciples the exercises of Priests labouring about sacrifices in the Temple yet not violating the Sabaoth the practise of Circumcision on the eight day albeit it happened on the Sabaoth their vsuall custome of leading out their cattle to water and drawing them out of pittes and places of daunger on the Sabaoth day without any sinfull breach thereof as may be gathered out of our Sauiours manner of speach Luke 13. 14. importing no reprehension of them for such facts but produced rather by him as fit examples apt to authorize his miraculous workes done with lesse labour and more charity and vtility to such as were by his voice or a touch of his hand or garment in soule and body perfectly cured So that Iohn Traske and other Puritanes in their cerimoniall and precise manner of obseruing the Sabaoth are rather superstirious imitators of the Iewes our Sauiours aduersaries then humble and faithfull members of Christs Catholike Church euer knowne to haue practised a morall and not the Iewish and cerimonial obseruance of the Sunday QVESTION III. Concerning the abrogation of the Iewes Sabaoth IOHN Traske adhering more constantly and consequently then other Protestants do to their dangerous ground of beleeuing nothing not expresly mentioned in Scriptures or thence necessarily deduced hath of late vpon conference with others and more diligent search then he had made before of many texts in the old and new Testament like a weather-cocke turned with euery blast of his owne ignorant fancy and iudgment hath determined himselfe and drawne his disciples to a most strict keeping of Saturday the Iewish Sabaoth comaunded saith he by God out of fire and written with his owne finger in the first Table of the Decalogue holily likewise by Christ and his disciples afterwards obserued as a sacred memoriall of Gods rest on the 7. day and therfore now also as a morall and diuine precept still to continue Presse him with the vniuersall practise of Christs Church present past since the Apostles certainely knowne to haue reiected the Iewish Sabaoth and insteed thereof to haue obserued the first day of the weeke in continuall memory of our Sauiours Resurection and he will in horrible pride and pertinacity of iudgment affirme it to haue ben a corrupt and abusiue practise little by him regarded as not being at al grounded in Scripture but repugnant vnto it Vrge him with Christs promises of being present with his Church to the worlds end Matth. 28. vers 20. of establishing it so surely on a rocke that hell gates shall neuer preuaile against it Matth. 16. vers 18. of comforting it with his spirit of loue leading it into all truth Iob 14. vers 16. 17. 26. which fitly therfore is said to be Columâ—â— firmameÌ„tum veritatis the suporting pillar and foundation of true faith 1. Tim. 3. vers 15. to whose holy obedience all Christians are tied vnder paine of being by their brethreÌ„ accounted as Ethnickes and Publicans Matth. 18. v. 17. he will ridiculously tell you as he did to one of his fellow prisoners conferring with him on this very point that the true Church of which these and the like texts were written is knowne to very few consisting of 2. or 3. gathered togeather in Christs name himselfe promising to be in the midst of them Matth. 18. vers 20. that is to say a small number of such little ones as haue truly repented and are made sure of their election in Christ hated and persecuted by men but beloued by God guarded by Angells seeing the face of their Heauenly Father Matth. ibid. vers 10. And examining him further on this point he will in processe of speach tell such as he will be confident with all that himselfe and his brethren are those little ones the only Gnostiks illuminated members of Christs Church others belonging therunto no further then true faith repentance and morality of life shall lead them and ignorance with all excuse them for not actually professing his singular doctrines So he foolishly seeketh with Ebion and other ancient Heretikes to breath life and spirit into the ceremonious carcasse and buried rites of the Iewish law feeding his grosse children with such vnsauery excrements for so the Apostle tearmeth them ad Philip. 3. vers 8. as Christ long since in the ending of that Law hath cast out of the mystical body of his church as not conteining any true norishment of soules in them vainely endeauoureth to illuminate those which obserue shadows who haue happily since Christs time liued in the cleere sunshine of heauenly graces planting like a foolish builder such new points of his faith on the sandy fleeting foundation of the Iewish law and seeking to set vp againe medium parietem maceriae that parting wall of ceremonies which distinguished Iewes and Gentills subuerted and quite ouerthrowne by Christ ad Eph. 2. vers 14. 15. euacuating al such legall decres and ceremonial comandements that he might build on himselfe the foundation and corner stone both people in a Holy Temple and habitation of God c. purifiyng alike their hares by faith Act. 15. vers 9. And that amongest other cerimoniall precepts and decrees of Moyses Law abrogated by Christ the Sabaoth was one holily rraÌ„slated by the Apostles themselues into our Sunday as shall bee proued in my next Question is by S. Paul ad Coloss 2. vers 16. 17. expresly affirmed willing his disciples not to be iudged or discouered in their faithfull profession in meate or drinke or new moones or any part of a festiuall day or Sabaoth which are shadowes of future good thinges By which Sabaoth cannot be meant the feasts of Trumpets Tabernacles Expiation and other such ceremoniall and Iewish festiuities as Traske heretically coÌ„menteth For albeit those feasts be called indeed Leuit. 23. Sabboths or daies of rest because all externall workes were alike forbidden in them as on the seauenth day yet the Apostle rest rayneth the word Sabaoth in this place to signifie the weekly Sabaoths of the Iewes as appeareth first in that hee numbreth such Iewish festiual daies distinctly from the Sabaoth equally forbiding the obseruance of them both His second reason why he prohibiteth them conteyned in that part of the text quae sunt vmbra c. which are shaldowes of future good thinges equally agreeth to them both for as those feasts were shaddows and types so were the weekly Sabaoths also Wherfore Ebion and his disciples the first hereticall obseruers of our Lords day and the Iewish Sabaoths togeather as witnesseth S. Epiphanius haers 30. S. Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 26. pressed with the authority of this place and perceauing the vnanswerablenes therof rather then they would therunto conforme their doctrines absolutly reiected all S. Paules Epistles and accounted him an Apostata from the Iewish faith The which Iohn Traske seemeth not yet to do albeit hee dared once to say of

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