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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50133	Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Swarton, Hannah.	1697 (1697)	Wing M1116; ESTC R19464	26,849	74

be a Canaan for the Rest the Peace the Plenty which would be therein vouchsafed unto us II. The Exercises of a Sacred Fast have a particular and peculiar Character of Humiliation in them and we are to Humble our selves with Fasting before the Lord. Thus the Psalmist of old manifested his Humiliation in Psal 35.13 I Humbled my Soul with Fasting There is that Call Now and Often perhaps not often enough heard thro' the Province in Joel 1.14 Sanctify a Fast Call a Solemn Assembly Gather the Elders and all the Inhabitants of the Land into the House of your God and Cry unto the Lord. And I perswade my self that we generally concur in the General Principle hitherto Espoused by the Church of God in every Generation That a Religions Fast is a Needful Duty pro Temporibus et Causis as Tertullian long since well stated it on Just and Great Occasions for it That Merry Sect who Explode Fasting as a thing not Agreeable to our Gospel Times appear not among us We know that Fasting hath in all Ag●s been esteem'd a Duty incumbent on the People of God We find such Fasting used in Elder Times Judg. 20.26 and 1 Sam. 7.6 Both more publickly 2 Chron. 20.30 and Ezr. 8 21. And more privately 2 Sam. 12.16 Neb. 1.4 What tho' these things were in the Dayes of the Old-Testament I hope the Old Testament is not become Apoc●ypha with any of us But in the New-Testament also we have a Praediction of our Fasting Math. 9.15 Yea and a Praescription for it M●th 6.16 For d●ing it more pub●ickly we have 〈◊〉 W●●rant Act. 14.23 and more privately too 1 Cor. 7.5 Yea we are told that there are certain Blessings which cannot now be obtained but in such a way Mar. 9.29 And I am sure of one thing more when the Apostles and the Believers in the Primitive Times were most Filled with the Holy Spirit of Christ then it was that they were most in Fasting before the Lord Now if our Fast be such a Fast as the Lord hath chosen we shall therein Humble our selves most acceptably most profitably most efficaciously And because the Right Performance of this Duty is a thing of great Consequence in Christianity 't is what is frequently required and much Weal or Wo will follow upon the management of it I will set before you the Rules of that Sacred Fast wherein we are to Humble our Souls Having first Praepared our selves for our Fast as one would for an Extraordinary Sabbath we have these things to do First There is the Internal Humiliation of our Fast The Duties of Praying Repenting and Believing are the Soul of that Fast wherein we are to Humble our Souls and we are to Labour in those Duties The Duties of a Fast are those in 2 Chron. 7.14 My People shall then Humble themselves and Pray and Seek my Face and Turn from their wicked wayes For men to think that they Serve God by a Fast wherein they do nothing but Fast from Corporal Sustenance and they draw not near to God in Devotions all the Day long 't is a plece of Ignorance yea more than one Commandment of God is broken by this piece of Ignorance When we Celebrate a Fast we are in more than ordinary Prayers to Acknowledge our own Sinfulness and the Greatness and Justice of God in Chastising our Sinfulness and we are to Supplicate those Favours of Heaven which our Sins our Wants and our Fears make Necessary for us The Thing which we have to do on a Fast is what the Praying Daniel did in Dan. 9.3 I set my Face unto the Lord God to seek by Prayer and Supplications with Fasting And haing thus Quoted the Ninth Chapter of Daniel I may Remark That there are Three N●nths which admirably well describe the Task of a Fast unto us the Ninth Chapter of Ezra the Ninth Chapter of Nehemiah and the Ninth Chapter of Daniel When the Fast comes Remember Christians to consult those Three Chapters with Lively Meditations thereupon A Day of Fast is to be a Day of Prayer As in Act. 13.3 so elsewhere Fasting and Praying are what God has joyned and here Man may not separate them Would you hear what you have to Do when a Fast is to be kept The words of an Order for a Fast once ran so in Jon. 3.8 Cry mightily unto God Prayer 't is That whereof the Jewes in one of their Ancient Adagies tell us Nulla est pulchrior virtus hac ipsa There is no vertue like it It is beyond all Oblations But Repenting and Believing as well as Praying must signalize our Fast Reconciliation with God is the End of a Fast without Repenting and Believing this Reconciliation is not applied unto us A Fast is but a Form an Hungry and Empty Form if we do not therein heartily Repent of our Miscarriages Thus we are advised in Isa 58.6 7 8. Is not this the Fast that I have chosen To Loose the Bonds of Wickedness On a Fast Let us be those Ephraimites who shail bemoan themselves Thou hast Chastised me O Lord and I was Chastised Turn thou me and I shall be Turned On a Fast Let us take those Directions in the midst of our Lamentations Let us Search and Try our ways and Turn again unto the Lord. A Fasting Day must be a Soul grieving Day and a Sin killing Day or 't is nothing Our Fast are to Slay our Lusts those are the Beasts which are then to be slaughtered Indeed when ever a Fast recurrs we should go the whole Work of Conversion over again Our Fast will notably be Ci●us virtutis if we do so Again The Satisfaction and Intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ must on a Fast ●e Repaired unto and we must Be●●eve in it for our Atonement It was the ●ite appointed for a Fast in Lev. 16.27 ●0 The Blood of the Sin Offering must be ●rought in to make Atonement On that Day all the Priest make Atonement for you to ●eanse you that you may be clean from all ●ur Sins before the Lord. Our Lord Jesus ●hrist is our Priest What He hath done ●r our Atonement must be this Day ●ith a strong Faith Laid hold upon A Fast is a Day of Expiation but we know it is only the Lord Jesus Christ that hath by His Unknown Sufferings as the Greek Church at this Day express●s it made Expiation for our Sins Hence on a Fast we must Renew the Dependance of our Souls on the Obedience which our Lord Jesus Christ our Surety hath yielded unto God for us Our Sin has procured the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ In a Fast our Faith is to Feed upon it A Fasting Day is with Faith a Feeding Day In our Fasts we are to Imitate the Action of the Molossians who seeking the Kings Good will unto them took the Son of the King into their Arms and presenting themselves thus before him said Syr For the sake of this your Son we hope you