Baxter - BX1763 B28

(S things ; Fifh they would gladly eat, if they couldget it. There arenow among them fuch as with many Children have for a long time lived almoft only on brown Rye bread and Water : Many of them take it for a Iùfficient quantity to eat one temperate Meal a day, though they are in no want ; and the Papift that forbearethFlefh, and eateth better than the Puritan feafteth with, or that faft- eth withone Meal a day, which is many Puritans fulleft Dyet, doth condemn the poor Puritan as an Heretick, and perhaps burn him at a Stake, or calf him into the In- quifition, for not Fatting. Poor 7ohn Calvin did eat but one final' Meal a day, and the Papift who fat} much at the rate as Calvin feafted, record .him for a gluttonous perfon. And fo did the Pharifees by Chrift and his Dif- eiples ; why do not thy Difeiples fall, "c. IL Your fecond Inftance is, [The Prelatick. Prate"lant *onders the Puritan Jhould fcruple adorning the Commu- nion Table, with two wax rapers, &e.' Anf. The former Anfwer leryeth to this : Hear, O ye Puritans, wherein the Roman Religion doth furpafs yours ! Their Altars have lighted rapers on : Do younot deferve tQ be burnt your-felves, if you will not burn Candles on your Altars ? Yea the Pope, whohath'power to fet upand takedown Emperoursand Kings, being not only the Kingof Rome, but the Monarch of the whole. World, loth appoint tliefe Lights as aProfe ng'fi z(E" before God and Man, "that he is of that church t'hich in the Primitive Times sc fir fear of Perfecution ferved. God by Candle- light in "Dens and Caves,] And is4not this toprove the immuta- bility of their Church;' thàt vary not in a circumflance from the Apogolical 'rajitraton ? ,Loth. his domineering overKings and Nations, a "theHoftsOf' Great Princes, I f' Cardinals,

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