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A93153 A few words concerning the fast which God requires the antiquity, necessity, and universality of it. Shewen, William, 1631?-1695. 1680 (1680) Wing S3422; ESTC R42493 7,259 15

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A Few WORDS Concerning the FAST Which God requires The Antiquity Necessity and Universality of it LONDON Printed for Ben. Clarke in George-Yard Lumbard-street 1680. A few Words concerning the Fast which God requires The Antiquity Necessity and Universality of it FIrst God commanded mankind or our first parents who were made Perfect Holy Upright Innocent in his own Image and Likeness to Fast or abstain from eating the forbidden fruit And while mankind kept this Fast God was well pleased with him and he kept his state and dwelling place in Paradice enjoying the Light of Gods countenance no Guilt no Shame no Fear the effects of sin was in being the whole Creation was in their heavenly and earthly order without Rent Schisme or Jar All was good yea very good Now when mankind broke his this Fast and eat that which God forbid him which was good in it self though not for food this let in all the Guilt Fear Shame Perplexity of Mind Confusion Distress and Misery that hath ever since attended mankind in this estate even to this our Day Age and Generation among the whole bulk of mankind of what Name Nation Opinion Sect Sort or Fashion of Religion soever they be off If they are found Eating the forbidden fruit breaking the command of God not keeping the Fast that God required and requireth let their Form and Worship be what it will such cannot find acceptance in the day they eat they die As to God and they find that saying true When sin is finished it brings forth death Now all evil thinking evil speaking and evil doing all Envy and Hatred Plots and Conspiraces to Murther and Destroy one another received its life and beginning in man when he broke the Fast God commanded him to keep and will continue and remain until the Fast be kept again until man comes to live in obedience to the command of God To cease from evil and learn to do well to do that he should do and leave undone that he should not do And this I testifie from certain knowledge and experience that this is the Fast which God requires And that it is possible mankind through walking in the Light and Learning of the Grace and Spirit of God may come into such estate while on this side the grave as to be able to keep this Fast which God is well pleased with And is indeed the Fast which was pointed at and Typified forth by all the appointed Fasts under the Shadows Dispensation of the Law Testified of by the Prophets enjoyed and witnessed by the primitive Christians God Almighty Bless the Intentions and Endeavours of this present Parliament in order to this work and Crown them with Success Which Fast did not consist in forbearing to eat outward Food and to cease from outward Labour or in hanging down the Head and walking Mournfully for a time or day or in Reading over Prayers c. But in short To loose the Bonds of wickedness Isa 18. Zech. 7. from the 5 v. to 10. Mat. 6.16 17 18. ver undo the heavy Burthens let the oppressed go free Break every evil yoak give bread to the hungry bring the poor into the house cover the naked execute true judgment shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother Oppress not the Widow Fatherless Stranger and Poor And let none imagine evil against his Brother or Neighbour This is the Fast the Lord did declare to be his choice in the Prophets time and his choice is the same at this day And this Fast is agreeable to the dispensation of Christ or Gospel days we now live in being indeed the substance of the Doctrine of Christ and the blessed end of his Coming and glorious appearance in and among mankind To make an end of sin And to mortifie the appetite desire or hunger that sprang up and springs up in mankind after the forbidden fruit the which being given way unto led and leadeth into the breaking that Fast which God commanded and commandeth to be kept And to bring in everlasting righteousness destroy the Devil and all his works and restore and redeem mankind into the Image of God again into Purity Uprightness Holiness Justice Righteousness Equity and Mercy Love and good Will to all mankind Those that are here are in the Image of God and are keeping the Fast which God commanded and his Soul delights in And in this state men are friends to God and friends to their Neighbour and Love and good Will abounds in each man to his Neighbour and Brother though he may differ in his understanding about spiritual things and in the Manner and Form of his Worship For let all men take this for an infallible sign that if they find Envy and Anger arise in them against their Neighbour and Brother about Religion Worship and Sacrifice that they are of the spirit of Cain that Religious Murtherer who slew his Brother because he was more Righteous and his Sacrifice more accepted then his Oh that none professing Christianity might be found in this state For it is inconsistant with the Spirit and Nature thereof though not with the Name and Form to Hate Envy and Persecute about Religion Church and Worship to Inquisition and torture mens Bodies ruine and destroy their Estates in this World about the things of the World to come or the Belief or Opinion of them who are found in this work know not what Spirit they are of neither know they how to keep a Fast to God nor offer a Sacrifice acceptable in his sight this is the word of Truth to all let their Name Form or Fashion of Worship and Religion be what it will It is the Duty of every Christian to Fast and Pray to Sacrifice a Fast unto the Lord To abstain from every appearance of evil not from outward Food or from one sort of Food and eat another and call that a Fast Fasting and Prayer God delights in but Eating and Prayer Sinning and Sacrificing doing that which should not be done and leaving that undone which should be done his Soul hates And because of these things his Judgments are near to be revealed in this Age as in Ages past against all outside formal hypocritical Professors of all sorts and sects who have good Words and fair Speeches in their Mouths but foul Deeds and evil Doings are found in their Hearts and Hands This is the great Sin of Christendom which God will visit for And God hath opened the eyes of thousands and ten thousands in this Island to see in some measure as he seeth and to understand things aright and such are not nor cannot be deceived with a Golden Cup while the Wine of Fornication is in it In the time of ignorance it is written God winked but now he hath opened his eye and his mouth also and calls to all men every where to Repent and all such as walks in the light of the eye of God and obeys his voice they come to know and