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A68828 The holie exercise of a true fast, described out of Gods word Seene and allowed.; Very godly and learned treatise, of the exercise of fastyng. Wilkinson, William, d. 1613.; Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603, attributed name. 1580 (1580) STC 24251.5; ESTC S120024 22,313 96

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that will haue no part in the obedience of the commaundement giuen hereof to both the peoples vnder the Lawe and vnder the Gospell must haue no part in the promises made to any of them according as the Lorde threateneth that who so euer shall not afflict or humble his Leui. 23. 29. Luke 5. 35. soule with the rest that he will destroy them from among his people The time of fasting is the time ●f affliction either for want of some great benefite needfull or through feeling of some great iudgement present or to come Where the Popi●● fast must passe an other condemnation which maketh no difference o● choice of time but appointeth euery Friday and other set euens yearely whether the time be prosperous o● vnprosperous whether it be peace o● warre health or sicknesse dearth o● plentie Which is al one as if the Physician shuld nowe appoint his patien● this day twentie or fortieyeres hence to take a purgation or to be let bloud In which case either he must be ● Prophet rather then a Physician t● knowe that he shall on that day hau● neede of it or else he must be a Physician of no value ignorant or vnfaithfull As therefore the Physicia● openeth no vaine but with ob●●●uation where the signe is giueth ● purgation without heede taking ● the time of the yeare whether it ● spring or fall whether it be hot ● colde so it behoueth the spiritu●● Physician to haue an eye vnto ●e time when this medicine is in ●●ason And so much the more ●re rather then there as the daun●●r is greater For as a newe piece ● cloth added to an olde garment ●●keth something from the olde ●●d causeth the rent to be worse Luke 5. 36. ●●en before so fasting vnfitly ap●lied to the state of those that are ●●ioyned to keepe it maketh them ●orse then they were before the fast ●ea that which more is as the newe Luke 5. 37. wine put into olde vessels doeth ●● onely make them worse but bre●● them all to pieces so this fast thr●● vpon those which are not either 〈◊〉 the time or for some other cause 〈◊〉 for it doeth vtterly destroy them Whereby men may perceiue wh●● cause we haue to make a great co●science of the Popish fast as th●● which is able of it selfe if there we●● no other corruptions amongest them to driue a man to eternall destruction According also to the greatnesse of the affliction the time of th● fast is taken by the discretion o● Leuit. 23. 27. 28. those to whome it belongeth at the least for a whole day And if the wrath of the Lorde be hotter then two dayes or * Ester 4. 16 else three as it appea●● by the example of the Iewes in ●●ters time and of Saint Paul Act. 9. 9. ●nd this time what so euer hath ● nature of a Saboth For therein Leuit. 23. 30. 31. ● are bound to abstaine from their ●●ly labours according to the same ●ightnesse and with the same ex●●ions that they are bound to ob●●e the Saboth And therefore the Ioel. 2. 12. Leui. 23. 32. ●phet willeth them to sanctifie a ● And the Lord threateneth that ● so euer shall doe any worke on ● day him shall he cut off from a●●gest his people The end whereof ● that men setting them selues a ● from their daily occupations ●●t be wholy bestowed in the spi●●●●all exercises aboue specified Whereby that we may knowe ●● there was neuer a thread in the ● cloth of the Popish fast which ● not throughly infected with the ●●●rituall leprosie of disobedience v● the Lorde it is to be noted ●● where they ordayned many ●● wicked and vnnecessarie holie day● this * one and besides the Sab●● the onely holie day appointed of ● Lorde they quite rased out of t●● Kalender And of the fast in ge●●rall thus farre The kindes or sortes of fastes ● followe which are either priuat● publique The priuate fast is that whic● vndertaken vpon some partic●● calamitie by the discretion of the ● against whome the calamitie is sent And it is either of a particular man ●● houshold In the former whereof it ●● to be obserued that for as much as ●he fast is ioyned with a separation ●●om their daily occupations that ●either children nor scholers nor ●eruantes nor any other which be at ●he disposition and gouernement of ●thers can chuse any such day ap●ointed for common occupations without the consent of those that haue commaundement ouer them Without which consent they must be ●orced to holde their fastes vpon the Lordes day or other dayes of rest established in the places of their abode For here the Lawe of the Lorde hath place that if the wife sonne or daughter vowe a vowe vnto Num. 30. 4. the Lord that the husband or father shall haue power to breake it The publique fast is that which is vndertaken vpon some more generall calamitie of the Church at the appointment of them which vnder Ioel. 2. 15. Christ haue the gouernement of the places where the fast is holden In this fast bicause a publique assembly is commaunded it followeth that the chiefe instruction of the foresaid profession of repentance is to be fetched from the publique preaching of the word Now leauing the causes of the priuate fasts to the examinatiō of euery one which cā best iudge of their own estate let vs consider what causes there be of a generall fast amongest vs. Wherein that it may be seene that the trumpet of fasting is blowen rather by the breath of GOD then by the mouth of man let vs take a short vewe of the causes of the fastes mentioned in the Scripture The cause of the fast is the wrath of God against the Church where is to be considered that the people of God haue not onely regarded this wrath against them selues particularly but against others also of the same societie and fellowshippe in religion that they were of through a mutuall feeling and compassion which they haue one with an other as in the exāple of the Church of Antioch whose fast Acte● ●3 2. appeareth to haue ben taken in hand rather for the miserie of the Church of Ierusalem then for them selues Now the Churches round about vs being fallen into great decay partly by the spirituall miseries as well of the heresies of Papists Arrians Anabaptists the Familie of loue c. as also of the schisme of Lutheranisme daily preuayling partly by bodily plagues of the pestilence almost in al places of the sword in our neighbour coūtries and of the famine which waiteth cōmonly vpō the same it is euident that therby groweth one cause of hūbling our selues before our God And when this wrath is cōsidered either in that which is alreadie come or in that which may be feared shortly to come to whether so euer of the causes we looke we shal find that we haue cause to fast For what spirituall euil is in