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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

Merit and Condignitie of Christs Fasting One part of this Reward is intimated in this next Parable The new shred suteably and rightly applied in the mending of Christs new cloth the new wine being put orderly into Christs new bottels shall both be preserued together that is to say Both Gospel Fast and Gospel Faster shall be ioyntly preserued from losse and hellish destruction An other part is set downe by Moses vnto Gods Israel in the 8. Deuter. 16. God fed thee in the Wildernesse with that drie Manna which thy fathers knew not to humble thee and to prooue thee to the end that he might doe thee good at thy latter end A third part is prophecied by Isay 58.8 Then shall thy light breake forth as the morning and thine health shall grow speedily thy righteousnesse shall goe before thee and the glory of the Lord shall embrace thee Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answere thou shalt crie and hee shalt say Here I am A fourth Promise is made againe by Christ in the sixt of Matthew 17.18 vers and that euen to priuate and domesticall Fasters When thou doest Fast saith Christ thy secret priuate Fast truely and vnfraudulently as vnto God and not vnto men Thy Father and the Father of thy Fast who seeth thee and it in secret will reward thee openly as he did Cornelius in the tenth of the Acts. Fiftly and lastly not onely are excellent Promises made vnto our Publicke and Priuate Fasting in regard of the Blessings which shall thence redound vnto our owne soules and bodies or vnto our wiues children seruants neighbours kindred friends but also in regard of a plentifull Haruest of spiritual temporal blessings which shal thence redound to the whole Diocesse Prouince Country Nation Church where we Fast Eccles 10.16.17 Woe we to thee O Land when thy King is a child and thy Princes like vnto those worse kind of Persian kings eate in the morning as though they were borne of Sardanapalus that is for nothing but bed and board But Blessed blessed art thou O Land when thy King is the sonne of Nobles and thy Princes eat in time like chast Hippolyti with Hunters stomacks in the afternoone Ad Robur non ad compotationem for the necessarie strengthening of their exercised and toiled bodies If the Magistrates their temperate eating which oftentimes is euen naturall vnto many men bring such a blessing with it to the Land and Country where they rule in what Vintages of all kinds of Blessings will not their right Religious Euangelicall Fasting commanded and commended here by the King of kings and Lord of lords the Sonne of God procure and purchase to Gods Church at Gods most mercifull and boundtifull hand CHAP. IIII. The Peroration or Hortatorie conclusion of this Discourse ANd thus at length haue I hasted what I could to finish my Lenten penance this leane and tedious discourse of Fasting which is to vse Quintilians terme exossata oratio nothing but hard and harsh skin and bone thus at length haue I hasted to pay my long vowes to this short Text which few doe vnderstand manie haue misvnderstood none of vs with that Seueritie and Holinesse doe Christianly practise wherwith Christ himselfe the onely Law giuer able to saue and destroy in these two parables would haue it to be practised and wherewith not onely these children of the Bridechamber but also the Bride herselfe in the first thousand yeares after her Bridegroomes departure did most deuoutly discreetly and obediently practise it Christ the Bridegroome hath seene and knowne how I haue behaued my selfe in the handling of this Text. Before him I doe in all humilitie of spirite protest that I haue not prophecied anything out of mine owne braine nor vsurped violently vpon the Text as if it were Nasus cereus a nose of waxe to wrest or descant vpon at my pleasure neither haue I vttered any thing vnnecessarie or impertinent nor could I more briefely handle it vnlesse I should haue plaide the part of a deceitfull workeman and beene vnfaithfull vnto it What now remaineth but that as our vnderstandings haue suffered their Lent-penance in taking the tedious information of so vnpleasant a discourse so now our wils and affections doe take their Lenten penance also by suffering the words of exhortation That if the Deuill the world or the flesh haue catcht any hold and made any dangerous rent in thē as in Christs new garments we wold be wise carefull presently to make it vp againe with the shred of this new piece out of Christs wardrop this Euangelicall Fasting If the Deuill the world or the flesh haue vented abated or any whit diminished the vigour strength quantitie or substance of Christs new vvine the graces of his spirit of Regeneration in them being as Christs new bottels we would presently restore and repaire the losse againe by the readie supplie of this new wine this Euangelicall Fasting which the Church of God publickely we our selues priuately are to drawe out of this Cellar so called in the second of the Canticles this Gospell commaunde and word of Christ Then shall they Fast If we be not able to follow or imitate the miraculous and extraordinarie Fasts of Christ himselfe of Moses of Elias yet striue we to keepe those Fasts which the children of the Bride-chamber kept and appointed to be kept when the Bridegroome was taken away from them If their new piece also be vnsuteable if their nowe wine be of too strong a grape because they were men of an extraordinarie spirit yet let vs not shrinke or refuse to hold out our Fasts with Tertullian Cyprian Austin Leo Gregorie Bernard or but with their people lay men men altogether of our own size strength mettall and fashion These are but one meale a day throughout the yeare If we be not able to humble our selues so lowe to mourne with them so long as the whole yeare through yet let it not grieue vs in this former spring of the yeare to consecrate with them this tenth part of the yeare I meane This fortie dayes Fast of Lent as an holy tenth vnto Christ the auncient of dayes that the first fruits of our blood being purged and holy in the first beginning of the yeare the whole yeare following may bee sanctified and blessed vnto vs. We are euery yeare very carefull in the latter spring of the yeare to sweat and toyle to the great hazard of our healths fortie dayes together at the least that we may inne a plentifull haruest for the sustenance of our bodies the whole yeare following Surely we haue farre greater reason to plie this Lent time which the Fathers vsually cal the Christian haruest of our soules and euen to hazard our healths by swearing drops of our heart-blood at the sight of Gods wrath against our ordinarie and extraordinarie sinnes by weeping Fasting and praying and by continuall hearing and reading the word of God to the end we may inne a