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A03339	The doctrine of fasting and praier, and humiliation for sinne Delivered in sundry sermons at the fast appointed by publique authority, in the yeere 1625. By that late faithfull and worthy minister of Iesus Christ. Arth. Hildersam.	Hildersam, Arthur, 1563-1632.; Hildersam, Samuel, 1593 or 4-1674.	1633 (1633)	STC 13459; ESTC S104100	106,897	227

and much sleep is a great means of satisfaction and contentment to the body I said my bed shall comfort me saith Ioel 7. 13. my couch shall ease my complaint soe doth the want of it afflict the body much as appeareth also by Iobs complaint VVearisome nights are appointed to me saith he Iob 7. 3 4. when I lye downe Isay when shall I arise and the night be gone and I am fall of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day And this separation and restraint of our selves from these foure things must continue during the space of one whole day that is foure and twenty houres No fast we read of in Scripture continued for any lesse time And we have expresse commaundment we should keep it as a Sabbath Levit. 16. 31. It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you Yea in this very point we should keep it as a Sabbath Levit. 23. 32. It shall begin in the ninth day of the seventh mo●●h at even from even unto even shall ye celebrate your Sabbath Now before I proceed to give you the reasons why this abstinence and restraining of our selves in these foure things should be so necessary upon the day of our fast I must give you certain cautions to prevent the mistaking of this Doctrine First That this outward abstinence is not the chief part of a true fast not the chief help to our prayers the inward humiliation of the soule is farre more acceptable to God and hath more force to make our prayers pierce the Heavens then all this Bodily exercise profiteth little saith the Apostle 1 Tim. 4. 8. and such are all these foure parts of abstinence that you have heard of But godlinesse whereof the inward afflicting of the soule and mortifying of our lusts is a chief part is profitable unto all things Rent your hearts and not your garments saith the Prophet Ioel 2. 13. Nay the restraining of our selves in these foure things is in it selfe no service of God nor acceptable at all unto him further then as it is a help to the inward humiliation of the heart and even animated by it That that is said of the one of these may bee fitly said of all Mat. 15. 11. That which goeth into the mouth defileth not a man and Rom. 14. 17. The Kingdome of God consisteth not in meat or drink Secondly That these outward signes and helpes to humiliation must bee increased according to the increase and urgency of the cause As there bee degrees in Gods judgements on a land or family or person some more generall then other some some more extreame then other some seven times more grievous as the Lord speaketh Levit. 26. 24. and such as doe more deeply affect the heart so ought these outward signes and helps of our humiliation bee proportionable thereunto Whereas ordinarily the fasts wee read of lasted but a day Levit. 23. 32. from even to even Iudg. 20. 26. they fasted that day untill even 2 Sam. 1. 12. they mourned and wept and fasted untill even the fast we read of Esth. 4. 16. was kept three dayes and three nights together If any man shall aske me doth not that example bind us I answer three things 1. That we in these Northerne Climates are not able to forbeare meat so long as they in those Countries were Experience teacheth us that the Spaniard and Italian needs not meat so much as we 2. We have not blessed be God the like occasion That judgement was so extreme generall presently imminent as they might well hold out their fast so long with feeling and affection which is the maine thing to be looked unto in this case and without hope and likelihood of that the injoyning of the other were but grosse hypocrisie as is plain by that speech of our Saviour Matth. 15. 7 8. 3. From that example we learne that though we cannot keepe so long a time without any intermission as they did yet when God shall increase the causes and occasions of our humiliation we may and ought to increase and multiply our fasts in that manner as the men of Iabesh Gilead did 1 Sam. 31. 13. they f●sted seven dayes Which also justifieth this most Christian and religious decree of our King and State in injoyning during this time of so great calamity a generall fast to be kept every weeke Thirdly That this law of outward abstinence in the dayes of our humiliation must give place to the necessity of man necessity said I yea even unto decency and conveniency also in some sort Though we must on the fasting day abridge our selves in our apparell yet may we have respect to comlinesse in our apparell even on that day We may not disguise our bodies or make them ridiculous as our Saviour noteth it to have beene the fashion of hypocrites to do They disfigure their faces saith He Mat. 6. 16. that they may appeare unto men to fast It is required even of the Minister and so likewise of other men to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comely and decent even that way 1 Tim. 3. 2. So though we must for the whole day of our humiliation abstaine from all food yet such as cannot fast so long without evident danger 1. either of their health or 2 of making themselves unfit to performe the spirituall duties of the day may lawfully eat something upon the fast day Two things will make this evident First The rest of the Sabbath which is as strictly injoyned as abstinence at a fast yet might be lawfully broken for the preservation of a mans life as we see in Eliahs travell 1 King 19. 8. five or sixe Sabbaths together yea for the preservation of the life of a beast Luke 14. 5. yea for the preservation of the health of a beast Luke 13. 15. For God delights more in mercy than in any externall workes even of His owne s●rvice Mat. 12. 7. Secondly This abstinence is injoyned but for a helpe to our prayers and other spirituall duties when once it ceaseth to be a helpe and proves an hinderance to them then is it of no worth with God I grant that such as cannot thus abstaine cannot keepe a fast but yet may they keepe a day of humiliation in as acceptable and effectuall a manner as they that can fast best Provided 1. that they abuse not this liberty and pretend necessity when there is none but remember that they have herein to deale with God which knoweth their heart 1 Thes. 2. 4. Gal. 5. 13. Brethren ye are called unto liberty onely use not your liberty as an occasion to the flesh 2. That that which they eat upon the day of humiliation be neither for quantity nor quality such but that they may still preserve in themselves such a feeling of the want of food as may afflict nature as we see Daniel did Dan. 10. 3. I eat no pleasant bread neither came fl●sh nor wine within my mouth neither did I annoint my selfe at all