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A47333	Of fasting a sermon preached before the Queen at White-hall, on May 23, MDCXCIV, being a day of publick humiliation / by Richard, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells ; published by Her Majesties special command.	Kidder, Richard, 1633-1703.	1694 (1694)	Wing K408; Wing K416A; ESTC R16672	12,903	30

THE Bishop of BATH and WELLS's FAST-SERMON Before the QUEEN At WHITE-HALL On the 23d of May 1694. Zechariah VII 5. Speak unto all the people of the land and to the priests saying When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month even those seventy years did ye at all fast unto me even unto me THese Words are an answer to the question in the 3d. Verse Should I weep in the fifth month separating my self as I have done these so many years To this the Prophet is commanded to reply in the Words of my Text When ye fasted c. I shall premise something concerning the Fasts which obtained among the Jews for the better understanding the Words of my Text. Among the Jews there was but one Fast in a year Commanded in the Law of Moses And that was the Day of Expiation Levit. 16.29 ch 23.29 30. Numb 29.7 on the tenth Day of the seventh Month Then they were obliged to afflict their Souls and to do no work under the severest penalty So that it was at once to be observed as a Sabbath and a Fast a day of Abstinence and of Rest And hence 't is called not onely a Fast Levit. 16.31 ch 23.32 v. Thorndike of Religious Assembl p. 10. but a Sabbath of Rest A very solemn time and which the Jews observed as such But what-ever their outward Expressions of Devotion were they were Hypocrites in the mean time And their Hypocrisie is laid open by Isaiah chap. 58. That Chapter I understand of this Fast even those words v. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the Holy of the Lord c. By Sabbath here we have no cause to understand the Jews weekly Sabbath Selden de jure Naturali l. III. c. 15. for the Prophet in the foregoing Words speaks of their Fasting and the Day of Expiation was then the onely stated Fast and is called from its first Institution a Sabbath as hath been observed before Kimchi Abravenel in Isa 58.13 Kimchi confesseth also that the Rabbins understood this place of the Day of Expiation and Abravenel cites the Vajikra Rabbah expressly interpreting the Holy of the Lord of the same day St. Luke is observed to call this Day of Expiation the Fast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 27.9 When sailing was now dangerous because the Fast was already past That is it was after the tenth of the seventh Month a time of year when there was more danger of Sailing than in the earlier time of the year Besides this great Fast there were others in use among the Jews in After-times There were who fasted two days in a Week Luk. 18. There were private and voluntary Fasts which pious Persons took upon themselves Occasional ones appointed upon particular Emergencies Besides these they had their four times a year of which there is mention in this Prophet The Fast of the fourth Zech. 8.19 fifth seventh and tenth Month. That of the fourth Month was upon occasion that in that Month Jerusalem was broken up by the Chaldees Jer. 39.2 Jer. 52.6 7. This Kimchi calls the beginning of the Destruction of the Holy City Kimchi in Ezek c. 1. v. 1. This was the true ground of this Fast Abravenel in 2 Reg. c. 25. what-ever the Jews add concerning the breaking of the Tables of Stone ceasing of the daily Sacrifice and burning the Law setting up an Idol in the Temple c. That of the fifth Month was in memory of the burning of the Temple by the Men of Babylon Jer. 52.12 13. which happened in that Month. Maimon H. Taan c. 5. The Jews do indeed mention some other sad things which happened to them in this Month That then it was decreed that their Fore-fathers in the Wilderness should not enter into Canaan That the Temple was destroyed the second time that the City of Bitter was taken c. That of the seventh Month was in memory of the Slaughter of Gedaliah Jer. 41.1 2. which happened in this Month. That of the tenth Month was in memory of that Siege that was so fatal to them whereof we have mention 2 King 25.1 Jer. 52.4 chap. 39.1 In this Month also came the sad news to Ezekiel that the City was smitten Ezek. 33.21 By all this it appears if we follow the Scripture-grounds of these Fasts That they were kept in memory of the Jews Sufferings from the Babylonians and upon occasion of the Evils which happened to them about the time of that Captivity They who were Captives in Babylon are now returned to their City and Building of their Temple Their Captivity is expired and now the question is Whether or not they shall need to Fast any longer Should I weep in the fifth month separating my self as I have done so many years The question will admit of some dispute On the one side it might be said Why should we Fast when the reason of our Fasting is ceased We Fasted for the Burning of our City and Temple we are now returned to that desolate place and 't is in great measure raised from its Ruins 'T is now a time to rejoice and not to mourn 'T was fit by the Rivers of Babylon to sit down and weep when we remembred Zion Well did it become us there to hang our Harps upon the Willows That strange Land was no place to sing the Lord's Song He that then called for Mourning now calls for Joy He hath turned back the Captivity of Zion and now our Mouth is filled with laughter and our Tongue with singing The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad On the other hand they might plead for their Fasting thus We ought not so soon to forget the Evils we have suffered much less the Sins which brought them upon us We are returned but we are but newly returned Our Temple is not finished or were it finished it holds no proportion to that which was destroyed We are amidst our Enemies and not purged from our Sins This Temple is like to want many things which the former had and we come short of what we should be We have still much to do Fasting is a great instrument of Piety and the House of Mourning will be more instructive and more safe than that of Feasting The question is Whether or not they shall need Fast any longer They consult the Priests and the Prophets who might be presumed most likely to inform them The Prophet is instructed to give them an answer and such an one it is as is very instructive to us and he begins to do it in the Words of my Text saying When ye fasted c. q. d. When ye Fasted and Mourned was it to my advantage or for my sake that ye did it Ye Fasted indeed for Seventy years together but as you took it upon your selves at first so it was