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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07431	Two treatises. 1. The holy exercise of a true fast, described out of God's word. / Written by T.C. ; 2. The substance of the Lordes Supper. / Written by T.W..	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1610 (1610)	STC 4314; ESTC S91274	43,382	204

Promises made to any of them according as the Lord threatneth Leui. 23.29 Luk. 5 35. that who so euer shall not afflict or humble his soule with the rest that he will destroy them from among his people The time of Fasting is the time of affliction either for want of some great benefite needfull or through feeling of some great iudgement present or to come Where the Popish Fast must passe an other condemnation which maketh no difference or choyce of time but appoynteth euery Fryday and other set Euens yearely whether the time be prosperous or vnprosperous whether it be peace or warre health or sicknes dearth or plentie Which is all one as if the Physition should now appoynt his patient this day twentie or fourtie yeares hence to take a Purgation or to be let blood In which case either he must be a Prophet rather then a Physitian to know that he shall on that day haue need of it or else he must be a Physitian of no value ignorant or vnfaythfull As therefore the PhysitiaÌ„ openeth no vaine but with obseruation where the signe is giueth no Purgation without heede taking to the time of the yeare whether it be Spring or Fall whether it be hot or cold so it behooueth the spirituall Physitian to haue an eye vnto the time when this Medicine is in season And so much the more heere rather then there as the danger is greater For as a new peece of Cloth added to an olde Garment taketh something from the olde Luke 5.36 causeth the rent to be worse then before so Fasting vnfitly applyed to the state of those that are enioyned to keepe it maketh them worse then they were before the Fast Yea that which more is Luke 5.37 as the new Wine put into olde vessels doth not onely make them worse but breake them all to peeces So this Fast thrust vpon those which are not either for the time or for some other cause apt for it doeth vtterly destroy them Whereby men may perceiue what cause wee haue to make a great conscience of the Popish Fast as that which is able of it selfe if there were no other corruptioÌ„s amongst them to driue a man to eternall destruction According also to the greatnesse of the affliction Leui. 23.27 28. the time of the Fast is taken by the discretion of those to whom it belongeth at the least for a whole day And if the wrath of the Lord be hotter then two dayes or * Ester 4.16 else three as it appeareth by the example of the Iewes in Hesters time Act. 9.9 and of Saint Paul And this time what so euer hath the nature of a Saboth Leuit. 23.30.31 For therein men are bound to abstaine from their bodily labours according to the same straightnesse with the same exceptions that they are bounde to obserue the Saboth Ioel. 2.12 Leui. 23.32 And therefore the Prophet willeth them to sanctifie a Fast And the Lord threateneth that who so euer shall doe any worke on that day him shall he cut off from amongest his people The end whereof is that men setting them selues apart from their dayly occupations might be wholly bestowed in the spirituall exercises aboue specified Whereby that we may know that there was neuer a Thread in the olde Cloth of the Popish Fast which was not throughly infected with the spirituall leprosie of disobedience vnto the Lord It is to be noted that where they ordayned many both wicked and vnnecessarie Holy dayes this * one and besides the Saboth the onely Holy day appointed of the Lord they quite rased out of their Kalender And of the Fast in generall thus farre The kindes or sortes of Fastes doe follow which are either priuate or publique The priuate Fast is that which is vndertaken vpon some particular calamitie by the discretion of them against whom the calamitie is sent And it is either of a particular man or householde In the former wherof it is to be obserued that for as much as the Fast is ioyned with a separation from their dayly occupations that neither Children nor Scholers nor Seruants nor any other which be at the disposition gouernement of others can chuse any such day appointed for commoÌ„ occupations without the consent of those that haue commaundement ouer them Without which consent they must be forced to hold their Fastes vpon the Lordes day or other dayes of rest established in the places of their abode For heere the Law of the Lord hath place that if the Wife Sonne or Daughter Num. 30.4 vow a Vow vnto the Lord that the Husband or Father shall haue power to breake it The publique Fast is that which is vndertaken vpon some more generall calamitie of the Church at the appoyntment of them which vnder Christ haue the gouernement of the places Ioel. 2.15 where the fast is holden In this Fast because a publique assembly is coÌ„maunded it followeth that the chiefe instruction of the foresayd profession of repentance is to be fetched from the publique preaching of the word Now leauing the causes of the priuate Fastes to the examination of euery one which can best iudge of their owne estate let vs consider what causes there be of a generall Fast amongest vs. Wherein that it may be seene that the Trumpet of Fasting is blowen rather by the breath of God then by the mouth of man let vs take a short view of the causes of the Fastes mentioned in the Scriptures The cause of the Fast is the wrath of God against the Church where is to be considered that the people of God haue not onely regarded this wrath against them selues particularly but against others also of the same societie fellowship in religion that they were of through a mutuall feeling and compassion which they haue one with an other as in the example of the Church of Antioch Actes 13.2 whose Fast appeareth to haue been taken in hand rather for the miserie of the Church of Jerusalem then for them selues Now the Churches rounde about vs being fallen into great decay partly by the spirituall miseries as well of the heresies of Papistes Arrians Anabaptistes the Familie of loue c. as also of the Schisme of Lutheranisme dayly preuayling partly by bodily plagues of the Pestilence almost in all places of the Sworde in our neighbour countries and of the Famine which waiteth commonly vpon the same It is euident that thereby groweth one cause of humbling our selues before our God And when this wrath is considered either in that which is already come or in that which may be feared shortly to come to whether so euer of the causes we looke we shall finde that we haue cause to Fast For what spirituall euill is in any of al their Churches which are not altogeather in ours not one of those detestable Heresies but are lodged amongst vs. And although the Schisme of Lutheranisme be not among vs yet there is

almost a great distraction of mindes for the Church gouernement beside the diuersities of iudgementes in many other matters And among bodily punishmentes the Plague hath indifferently fedde and yet doth feede vpon vs. The Sword hath been shaken at vs both in the North by Traytors and in the South by disordered wicked persons And shold it not strike vs that her Maiestie was of late in danger of her life by a Shotte Which that it was not meant towardes her ought not to abate our care for her maiestie but rather encrease it as that which was more neerely directed against her of the Lord to make both her and vs to cry for his gratious couer and protection ouer her And if we consider the wrath that hangeth ouer our heads the notes thereof are taken by the example of the people of God Ezra 9.3 and first of Ezra who vnderstaÌ„ding that the people had married strange women fasted where vpon wee haue this note of the wrath to come that considering how that sinne is committed openly in the land in diuers sortes that therefore anger is at hand Here may be handled with godly and discreete wisedome the Sinnes of the Land The seconde note to know the tempest to come is taken from the Niniuites Fast Ionas 3.5 Wherevpon wee gather that for so much as we are grieuously threatened as well by the Ministers and Seruantes of the Lord that speake in his name vnto vs as also by his late shaking of the Earth that sharpe iudgement without repentaunce must speedily come vpon vs. The third is taken from signes of the wrath of God which may breake out against vs Hester 4.6 as in Hester where it was concluded at the request of Hamon of the destruction of the whole Church wherewith may fitly be compared the Holy League as they say and Decree of the late Councell of Trent against the whole Church and against ours particularly An other signe is the preparation made against the Church or an indeauour to execute malice which draue Josaphat and other moe 2 Paral. 20. to a Fast Here the loftie countenaunces and vnduetifull demeanour of the Papistes may be considered with their rebellious attemptes in Ireland as also the Spanish Nauie and great preparation made amongst them of the Holy league with the troubles in Scotland and Gun-pouder treason in England and like accidentes sufficient to procure the practise of this holy exercise A GENERAL CONFESSION OF Sinnes to be made at the exercise of Fasting the more particular confession being taken according to the estate of the seuerall Churches by the good discretion of the minister vpon the knowledge thereof O Lord which art glorious in power and holinesse wee being but Dust and Ashes with the casting of our selues downe at the foote of thy high Maiestie confesse that wee are most vile sinners conceiued borne in sinne that we are by nature nothing else but a lumpe of all wickednesse whose natural propertie is to grow in sin as wee grow in yeares to waxe strong in wickednesse as the powers of our mindes and bodies receiue strength There is in vs no holesome nor sounde knowledge how to obey there is no manner of good will or affection to please thee finally there dwelleth no good thing in our flesh And although our cursed estate doth herein greatly appeare yet our sinne is made out of measure sinfull through the exceding grace which thou offerest by the Gospell of thy deare Sonne whereby wee are so farre from profiting that of our selues we should waxe worse and worse For the more light of knowledge is shewed the blinder would we remaine the greater obedience is taught the frowarder and stubberner would wee become if thou by the mightie working of thy holy spirite shouldest not cause it to be fruitfull And although we haue this naturall corruption in common with the whole rotten race of Adam yet wee confesse that in vs it hath budded shot foorth so much more then in others as we haue had moe meanes to kil it and to cause it to wither then others haue had Where first of all the gracious offer of the treasure of thy holy Gospell vnto vs maketh vs guiltie many waies For where passing by many other nations thou hast trusted our natioÌ„ withall yet with a number of vs hath it found as small entertainment and felt as great resistance as amongst them at whose Gates it neuer knocked For a great portion of the land partly neuer yeelding them selues to the obedience therof and partly falling from it after they had once yeelded stande proudly as it were at the staues end with thee The rest which make profession of their submittaunce vnto it doe it not accordingly For first there be heapes of our people which either through an yrcksomnesse of the yron-yoke of the Popish Religion or through a wicked opinioÌ„ which they nourish of embracing any Religion set foorth so cast aside the former Poperie as they stil abide in an vtter ignorance of the truth it selfe in such sort that through want of Preaching they are as raw in the knowledge of the true seruice of thee as they were expert before in the seruice of the Deuill And where knowledge is to any such sufficiencie as is requisite for the inheritours of the kingdome of Heauen there is it for a great part ioyned with such hypocrisie as maketh them more detestable before thee which searchest the very Raines then if they had still continued in their ignoraunce Now for the remnant of vs which through Grace haue truly and faythfully beleeued it is with so great weaknesse of Fayth and so small reformation of Manners that our glorious profession of the Gospell supported and borne out with so small shew of the fruites which the excellencie thereof doth require maketh not onely the enimies to condemne vs but our selues to suspect one another whether wee belong vnto thee or no. Wherein O Lord wee acknowledge that to be our great and horrible sinne that being put in trust with this vnspeakable treasure of thy holy Gospell and preferred to our neighbours professours about vs yet we are in thankfull obedience vnto thee behind them all first in knowledge last in zeale before them in the doctrine of thy holy Gospell behinde them in the discipline of the same The yoke of the slauerie of our bodyes which the Popish Religion layed vpon vs we willingly shake off but the holy bandes of thy Law whereby our riotous life and affections should be brought into bondage wee do hardly and heauily admitte The Gospell which brought a freer vse of our lawfull honors pleasures commodities was welcome vnto vs but the same Gospell which restraineth the vnlawfull licentiousnesse of our ambition intemperancie and couetousnesse is not so Finally so much of the Gospel as doth more neerely respect our saluation we seeme to haue some care to retaine but so much of it as doth more directly respect thy

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