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spirit_n	body_n	holy_a	soul_n	16,669	5	5.2335	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11748	The ordour and doctrine of the generall faste appointed be the generall assemblie of the kirkes of Scotland, halden at Edinburgh the 25. day of December. 1565 ...	Church of Scotland. Presbytery of England.; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Craig, John, 1512?-1600.	1566 (1566)	STC 22041; ESTC S113445	34,568	114

not we declare no dout that Christ Iesus dwelleth not within vs but that wear they that heare and knowe the will of our Lord but do not the same And vnto what curse and malidiction suche persones are subiect the parable of the Fegge tre whiche we● thr●atned to be cut downe if it brought not furth ●rute the curse giuen to it vpon the which Christ Iesus being hongrie fand no frute and his last sentence against the reprobate do sufficiently witnes In the which we haue to obserue that the reprobate are adiudged to the fyre that neuer shalbe quenched not onely because they committed iniquitie but also because they were not found frutefull in good workes ▪ Let euerie man therefore that will avoyde plagues temporall and perpetuall vn●eanedlie studie to accomplishe in worke that which in worde and outwarde profession he doeth awowe and vpone suche no dout shall the benediction of God rest when the manifest contempners and cloked Hypocrites shalbe rased from the face of the earth and shalbe cast in vttermoste darknes where there shalbe weaping and g●asheing of teith without end whiche shalbe the rewarde of all their wicked workes Mo thinges we wolde haue written suche as the notes vpone the disconsiture of Iosua at Hay and of the Israelites ●ighting against Ben●amin together with the foolishe opinion of the Papistes who think them selues oblished to fast fourtie dayes ● whiche they call their Lent because that Christ Iesus fasted fourtie dayes immediatlie after his Baptism ▪ But these we are compelled for this present to pretermit be reason that the tyme appoynted to this present exercise of Fasting approcheth so ●ye If God of his mercy shall pleas● to continew the light of his Euangle amonges vs this argument will be enlarged and set furth with gr●ter circumstances frome tyme to tyme. Now to the ordour ▪ exercise abstinence that is to be kept into this publict Fasting First it is to be obserued that the two dayes before expressed to wit the last Sonday of Februarie instant and the first Sonday of Marche immediatly thereafter following ar not appoynted for any Religion of tyme nether yet that those precised dayes shalbe obserued euerie yeare following but because that shortly thereafter are the Estates of this Realme appoynted to conuene in Parliament Therefore the whole Assemblie thoght those dayes for the present necessitie moste mei● leauing in the libertie of the Churche what tyme they will appoynt to that exercise in all tymes to cum The Sondayes are appoynted not of superstition nether yet to bring in any Schysme wi●hin the Church but because that vpone the Sonday the people especially that dwell a landwart may best attend vpone prayer and the rest of the exercises that ought to be ioyned with publict Fa●●●●g The abstinence is commanded to be from Setterday at eight houres at nyght till Sonday after the exercise at after none that is after 〈◊〉 houres And then onely bread drinck to be vsed and that with great sobrietie that the body c●auing necessary food the soule may be prouoked earnestly to craue of God that which it moste neadeth that is mercy for our former vnthanckfulnes and the assistance of his holy Spirite in tymes to cum Men that will obserue this exercise may not any of the two dayes vse any kynde of gammes but exercise them selues after the publict Assemblies in preuie meditation with their God Gorgious apparrell wolde be absteaned fra during the whole tyme of our humiliation Which is frō the one Sonday in the morning till the nixt Sonday at nyght Albeit that the straitnes of abstistence is to be kept but the two dayes onely We do not bind the conscience of persones that be vnable to the extremitie of the abstinence and yet do we exhorte thē to vse their libe●tie if any they tak in secret least that vthers ather follow their euill exemple or els iudge them to be dispysers of so necessarie an exercyse The tyme that shalbe spent aswell before none as after must be left to the wisdome of the discrete Ministers who best cā iudge bothe what the auditore may beare and what them selues are able to sustene But because that this exercise is extraordinary the tyme thereof wolde be somewhat longer then it vsed to be in the accustomed Assemblies And yet we wolde not haue it so tedious that it shulde be noysome to the people And therfore we think that thre houres les before noune and two houres at after noune shalbe sufficient for the whole exercyse publict The rest to be spent in preuie meditation euerie familie aparte The Sonday preceading the last Sonday of February as before is said shall euerie minister giue aduertisement to his flocke of such thinges as are to be done the nixt Sonday following and of the causes of the same with suche exhortation as God shall put into their mouthes to make the people to embrase the iust commandement of the Churche with more glaide myndes In townes we think expedient that the exercise of the doctrine begine vpone the Setterday at af●er noune immediatly p●eceading the first Sonday of abstinence that the people may be the better prepared Religiously to vse the obseruations of the nixt day But in landwart we think good that the doctrine begine the Sonstay before The argumēt of the Sermon● and exhortation to be taken from some proper place of the Prophetes as of Ioel the first where he sayeth Sanc●ifie a Faste appoynt the Assemble c. Or of Ionas the thride where Ionas cryed 〈◊〉 yet fourtie dayes and Niniue shal be distroyed c. Or of Ieremie the s●iu●nt Where that he sayeth Heare the worde of the Lord all Iuda and ye that enter in by these gates c. Or of the threttene of Lucas vpone the declaration of them that shewe to oure Master the crueltie of Pylate and vpone his answer Or vpone any vther proper place within y ● Scripture that entreteth of repentance of publict humiliation of the causes and of the frutes of the 〈◊〉 This ended as it were for preparation the beginning shalbe vpone Sonday from the Law of God because that all that offendeth Gods Maiestie ▪ proceadeth form the trāsgression thereof and therefore after a shorte prayer That God will please to make his holy word to fructifie amonges vs this confession shalbe made ¶ The Confession that shal go b●for● the reading of the Law and before euerie exercyse IT IS of thy mercy ô Lord and not of our merites that it hath pleased thee to showe thy sel● vnto the worlde euer from the beginning vnto vs now in this last and moste 〈…〉 yea Lord we further con●esse that nether Law nor Euangle can profite vs to Saluation except that thow of thy me●r● grace worke into vs abu●e all power that is in this oure nature For albeit thow teache we shall remaine ignorant alb●it thow threaten we