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A93722	Englands patterne and duty in it's monthly fasts presented in a sermon, preached to both Houses of Parliament assembled, on Friday the 21. of July, An. Dom. 1643. : Being an extraordinary day of publicke humiliation appointed by them throughout London and Westminster. that everyone might bitterly bewaile his owne sinnes and cry mightily vnto God for Christ his sake, to remove his wrath, and heale the land / by William Spurstowe sometimes fellow of Katherine Hall in Chambridg [sic], and now pastor of Hackney near London.	Spurstowe, William, 1605?-1666.	1643 (1643)	Wing S5094; Thomason E64_2	20,339	37

eye and respect both the other into two poynts sutable to this representative Assembly of this whole Kingdome now met about the same worke and duty First that true fasters should be weepers Secondly that in fasting there should be an acknowledgment and confession of sinne Doct. 1. That true fasters should be weepers Fasting and teares you shall find in Scripture to be like two twines that cannot be seperated like a paire of mournfull Doves that alwayes accompany together Nehemiah 1. 4. I sat down and wept and mourned certaine dayes and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven Joel 2. 12. Turne yee to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning Hester 4. 3. And everie Province whether-soever the Kings Commandement and his Decree came there was great mourning among the Jewes and fasting and weeping and wailing For the cleare explicating of this poynt I will propound two thinges First I will shew why teares are requisite to fasting Secondly what qualifications those teares should have which are shed in a day of Fast and Humiliation Teares are requisite to fasting for 3. respects First why teares are requisite to fasting and that in these three respects First in regard of the prevalencie that teares have with the God of Mercy and bowells Eusebius tels a Storie of a certaine Altar that was Clementiae consecrata dedicated and consecrated to mercy upon which no other Sacrifice was to be layed but teares intimating therby a peculiar aptnes in tears to stirre up bowels and to beget Compassions above all other Sacrifices whatsoever And indeed with God we shall find them of that e●…cacy as that none have bedewed his Altar with their unfeined teares but he hath made their Faces to shine with his oyle of gladnesse Hannah in bitternesse of Soule prayed vnto the Lord and wept sore 1. Sam. 1. 10. But she went her way and her countenance was no more sad ver 18. Good Hezechia by his prayer and teares reversed the Sentence of death and had fifteen yeares added vnto his dayes 2. King 20. 5. 6. Jacob had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed but how he wept and made supplication vnto him Hosea 12. 3. 4. Prevalency of teares strang● in 2. respects And this prevalency of teares as it is great so it is strange and wonderfull and that in a double regard 1. Deorsum fluunt et Coelum petunt They drop and fall from the eyes to the earth but yet by their power they reach and pearce the highest Heavens 2. Mutae sunt et loquntur They hold their peace and yet they crie they are mute and yet they speak Psal 6. 8. The Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping Lam. 2. 18. In the Originall it runes thus Non taceat pupilla oculi tui let not thine eye hold its peace A second respect that makes teares requisite is because the eye hath been the cheifest Broker for sin and vanitie Sinne made its first enterance by the eye Gen. 3. 6. and still it is one of the widest Gates by which lusts and follies are let into the Soule Fit therefore it is that in the duties of humiliation the eye should beare a part with the other members of the body that as the heart doth sigh the face doth blush the tongue doth crie the hand knockes the breast the lippes doe tremble and the knees do bend so the eye should mourne and weep it having exceeded in guilt any other part and member of the body otherwise it 's rather the eye of an Idol then of a Christian Three things occasion tearce A third respect is taken from the confluence of all those thinges in a day of Humiliation which vsually are the occasions and rise of teares Now there are three things that doe dispose and incline a person to weeping First The losse or absence of some Great Good That was it which put Micha Judges 18. 24. into such a strange mixture of passions of anger weeping crying out when being asked what aileth him he replies ye have taken away my gods which I made and the preist and ye are gone away and what have I more and what is this that you say unto me what aileth thee that was it which sprang as a new leake in Maries eys Joh. 20. 13. They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have layd him that was it which made David and his people when Ziklag was burnt with fire and their wives their sonns and their daughters were taken captives to lift up their voyce and weepe untill they had no more power to weep 1. Sam. 30. 4. Now in a day of fasting what truly broken and humbled heart reflecting upon its owne condition finds not such a losse of peace with God such suspensions of light from God such an absence of holynesse in it selfe such a want of mortification of lustes as may justly call for teares sighes and what ever else doth vsually attend great sorrow But especially we on this day have cause to mourne having losse upon losses that may provoake us thereunto A losse of Worthies that have lately fallen and miscaried in our Israell a losse of hopes and affaires in State a losse of expectation in maine blessinges that concerne the beautie and the settlement of the Church whose Foundations are still shaken by the violence and opposition of many sonnes of Belial that are risen up against it In a word I am affraid that most of us are this day at a losse in regard of all those affections of feare of shame of indignation which should be a stirring in this present duty the very want of which may cause us to weepe in that we can fast and mourne no better before the Lord. Secondly the feare of some great approaching evill In the Object which moves and begets feare futurition is required as a necessarie condition but yet all evill the lesse future it is the more dreadfull it is it being with the Objects of passion in nearenesse of time as it is with the Objects of sence in nearenesse of place propinquitie in either making the objects more present and the impressions therefrom upon the faculties more strong The feare of Ninivehes speedy destruction which was prophecied to be within foutie dayes did strike that Heathen King with such apprehensions of dread as to make him change his Throne for the pavement his roabes for sackecloath his mirth and fulnesse into a bitter mourning and fasting Jonah 3. 6. the going out of the Decree of Ahasuerus to destroy and extirpate forthwith all the Jewes was that which filled everie Dwelling with sadnesse and everie eye with teares In everie province whethersoever the Kings Commandement and his Decree came there was great mourning among the Jewes and fasting and weeping and wailing Est 4. 3. Now if the feare of imminent evills doe occasion weeping what wonder is it if a faster be a weeper