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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14199	The voyce of the cryer Containing 1. A denunciation of Gods iudgements. 2. An inuitation to repentance to preuent the same. Deliuered in two sermons by Alexander Vdny B. in Diuinity, and chaplaine to his Maiestie in ordinary, and minister of the Gospell at Hauking in Kent.	Udny, Alexander, minister of Hauking in Kent.	1628 (1628)	STC 24513A; ESTC S114880	80,029	113

Statute was not Ceremoniall but Morall because we sinne daily against God and we cannot say that extraordinary actions did fall vpon that day vnto that people So also Mat. 9.14 Luk 2.37 Whence may be gathered that fasting was kept in the dayes of Christ for a religious vse Christ reproued the abuse but not the lawfull vse which dutie was performed by Anna Who serued God Luk. 2.37 with fasting and prayer night and day So that this sort of fasting is lawfull and helpefull to further our humiliation both it selfe and the seuerall kindes thereof are commanded in the word of God For the 3. The Author and ordainer of Fasting The Author of Fasting Exod. 19.3 Luk. 23. Mat 6.17 was God himselfe in Paradise as God did command it both before and vnder the Law so doth Christ also in the Gospell By eating the Serpent ouerthrew the first Adam by abstinence the second Adam ouercame the Serpent and restored vs to life againe It is not a late inuention of men but hath for its warrant both the precept and practise of Christ For the 4. The time wherein this dutie is required of vs The Time is either when our enemies conspire against vs as Iehosaphat did 2 Chron. 20. or when we behold the face of the Lord against vs and his hand punishing vs as the Israelites Iudg. 20.26 or when Gods Iudgements are threatned against vs as the Niniuites or when wickednesse is not taken to heart as it was in the dayes of Ezra Iona. 3.5 Ezra 8.23 or out of a loue to Gods glory and preseruation of his people as Queene Hester and Mordicai Hest 4.15 when our outward state and condition doth decay when Gods Iudgements doe not prouoke vs vnto Repentance when we haue committed some grosse sins which we would haue pardoned when we would preuent future sinnes when we finde a want of spirituall blessings and the like For the 5. The parts of a Religious Fast are two externall The part of a religious fast and internall externall in abstaining from labor and all worldly businesses wherein the Iewes were so precise that they held it as vnlawfull to doe any worke vpon that day as vpon the Sabbath Maymon Treat rest of the 10. day cap. 1. ser 1.2 yea and ordained the breakers of both to be punished alike Internall consisting of two parts Repentance and Prayer Repentance consisting of two parts sorrowing for sinnes past leading of a new life In the sorrowing for sinnes past there must be first a sense and feeling of our misery secondly lamentation for it Thirdly an vnfolding of the same before God 1. I say there must be a sense and feeling of sinne to enforce which we are to remember the time place and manner of our sinnes we are to take notice that our sinnes offend God and that we deserue punishment both in this life and the life to come for which we must mourne and fast which is true humiliation 2. We must lament our misery which is the groaning of the heart and is sometime expressed by our voyce and teares and if God heare the groanes of other creatures how much more the groanes of his owne children 3. We must confesse this our miserable estate to God not in generall but in particular that hereby we may acknowledge Gods goodnesse and our owne wickednesse which vntill we haue some grace we are still ashamed to confesse although to such as doe acknowledge their sinnes God is faithfull and iust to forgiue them Prayer 1. That the Lord would remoue his iudgements from vs. 2. That he would bestow all sorts of blessings vpon vs. 3. That God would giue vs grace first to abstaine from euill of which Saint Ierom said It is a pleasant fact to the body when the minde fasteth from vice for if we would haue God to turne from the euill of punishment we must first turne from the euill of sinne for what profit is it to astaine from the eating of flesh if in the meane time both the mouth and our other members be giuen ouer vnto impieties to abstaine from meat and to doe euill is the Diuels fast who doth euill and yet eateth nothing 2. To doe that which is good first in performing our dutie towards God secondly in louing one another forgiuing wrongs done vnto vs and debts owen by the poore if they be not able to pay which three are by our Sauiour ioyned together Fasting Prayer and Almesdeeds Mat 6. which actions of Christianity ought to be performed by euery Christian we must be like Cornelius who saith Foure dayes agoe I was fasting vntill this houre and at the ninth houre Acts 10.32 I prayed in my house and behold a man stood before me in bright cleathing and said Cornelius thy prayer is heard and thine almes are had in remembrance in the sight of God For the 6. This dutie is thus to be performed First How wee ought to fast there must be an abstinence from meat and drinke that the body may be afflicted yet so that nature be not destroyed neither we made more vnfit for spirituall duties 2. We must abstaine from morning vntill night as by the Scriptures the custome of the Iewes and the custome of the Church thereafter is euident and plaine 3. We must abstaine from all pleasures which may prouoke vs to sin 4. All persons excepting such as want strength and discretion are bound to keepe this humiliation 5. We ought to put on our meanest apparell 6. We must make a more solemne confession of our sinnes both in generall and in particular with more strong cries and groanes to obtaine pardon for our sinnes with plenty of teares which were accompanied with putting on sack-cloath bowing of the body renting of the garments lying in the dust of which the Prophet Micah speaketh Therefore will I wait and houle Mic. 1.8 I will goe stript and naked I will make a wailing like a Dragon and mourning as the Owles 7. All the members must fast the eye Ber. ser 3. de quad the eare the tongue the hand much more the soule it selfe For the 7. The ends of Fasting are 1. To subdue the flesh The ends of Fasting and mortifie our bodily lusts that they may become subiect to the will of God 2. To stirre vp deuotion and attention vnto holy duties for by it the heart and affections become lighter purer more fit and in better order for the seruice of God 3. To testifie by our humiliation that we deserue to be cut off from God that we deny our selues the vse of Gods creatures and that we rather deserue death as being by reason of sin vnworthy to enioy the smallest of Gods creatures For the 8. The benefit of casting The benefits of Fasting besides those formerly mentioned are diuers 1. Hereby both blessings haue beene obtained and fearefull iudgements haue beene remoued yea turned into blessings 2. By it Gods children haue