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B07431	Two treatises. 1. The holy exercise of a true fast, described out of God's word. / Written by T.C. ; 2. The substance of the Lordes Supper. / Written by T.W..	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.; T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608.	1610 (1610)	STC 4314; ESTC S91274	43,382	204

We acknowledge the debt cancell therefore the Obligation let not the multitude of them preuaile against vs but where our sinne hath abounded let thy grace more abound and as we haue multiplyed our sinnes so wee pray thee to multiply thy mercies and although we haue by continuance in them so soaked our selues that thereby we are not onely lightly stained but also haue gotten as it were the Scarlet and Purple die of them yet let them all wee pray thee beeing washed in the blood of thy deare Sonne be made as white as the Snow in Salmon as the Woolle of the Sheepe which come from washing And to conclude as our sinnes haue magnified thēselues in an infinite length breadth depth and height so let thy mercies which passe all vnderstanding of all sides and all assaies out-reach them Therefore also wee most humblie desire thee ô Lord that the sinne being pardoned thy wrath which is alreadie declared may be appeased towardes all the Churches of our profession and especiallie towardes vs that the manifolde breaches of the Churches and Common wealthes may bee made vp that those being receiued into the bosome of the Church which belong to thy election the rest of the Papistes Heretikes may be vtterly rooted out and that the enimies in religion being slaine we may to the vttermost thinke all one thing in the honest and peaceable gouernement of the Common wealth Vpon which vniting of vs in all trueth and honestie the curses of the Plague and barrennesse being remooued a way may be made to thy blessinges which as the Hilles doe the Vallies may make our land holesomely fruitefull And that not onely the wrath which is alreadie kindled may be quenched but that which hath been lately threatened may be caused to retyre For the graunt wherof vnto vs we beseech thee to remember that how vnworthy soeuer yet are we thy people the Sheepe of thy pasture whō thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood watched ouer with a carefull eye defended with a mightie hand despise not therfore ô Lord the works of thy handes And seeing thou hast loued vs when we hated thee visited vs when we desired thee not then acknowledged vs when we knew not thee now that there be a number of vs which loue thee desire thine aboade and acknowledge thee hold on thy loue still depart not from vs deny vs not ô thou God of trueth which art the God that changest not And if thou wouldest or couldest forget vs calling vpon thee yet what should become of thy great name which is called vpon by vs And therefore for thy glories sake and for thy blessed names sake which in our destruction should be rent and runne through spare vs spare vs good Lord according to the vsuall dealing which thou hast euer kept with those which in prayer haue had recourse vnto thee and according to the old and vnchangeable nature of a mercifull kind sparing and long suffering God Which mercie wee doe not ô Lord desire to the end that wee should tumble and wallow our selues in our accustomed neglect and contempt of thy holy word but togeather with mercie for our sinnes and the rewarde of them wee most humblie craue vpō the knees of our heartes that for the time to come how long or how short soeuer wee with deniall and detestation of our selues and of our wicked lustes may offer vp vnto thee in Iesus Christ our selues our bodies and soules to be seruantes at thy holy commaundement in that reasonable seruice which the high reason of thy holy word doth prescribe and to be weapons or instrumentes of righteousnesse and holinesse as they haue been heretofore of the contrarie All which thinges as whatsoeuer thou knowest to be further needfull for vs or for any of the Churches we pray thee as our Sauiour hath taught c. A Confession of Sinnes with Faith and Repentance O Mercifull and heauenly Father we thy seruantes doe humbly prostrate our selues before thy Maiestie ackowledging heere in thy sight our hainous offences committed against thy Maiestie seeing beholding thy heauie wrath against them We feele our selues laden ô Lord our God with a huge companie of horrible sinnes wherof euen the very least being but conceiued in thought is sufficient in iudgement to throw vs down to the euerlasting burning lake Our owne consciences ô Lord doe beare witnesse against vs of our manifolde transgressions of thy blessed Law of our securitie and sencelesse blindnesse running headlong to destruction cōmitting sinne after sinne although not notorious to the world yet horrible before thine eye The thoughtes of our hearts rise vp in iudgement against vs the vanitie of our talke before thy Maiestie condemneth vs the wickednesse of our deeds from thy sight reiecteth vs all our wicked thoughtes wordes and deedes with the inwarde corruption of our nature doe altogeather as it were a whole lumpe and load of sinne lie heauie vpon vs and with their intollerable weight doe euen presse vs downe to Hell We doe daily grone vnder the burthen of them inwardly lamēting our owne follie so greedily running into them In heauen earth or hell we see none able to sustaine the weight of them but euen thy dearely beloued sonne Iesus Christ who in mercie infinite and compassion endles hath sustained and ouercome that endlesse punishment due vnto them in him therefore in him most mercifull Father and through him wee come to thee beeing fully assured according to thy promise that thou wilt accept and take that full recompence which hee thy deare Sonne hath made for vs as a iust ransome for all the sinnes of all those who with a true fayth take hold on him In him therefore we see thine anger towardes vs appeased thy wrath satisfied our debts paied Increase in vs good Lord we beseech thee this liuely and feeling Fayth for we feele it oftentimes in vs very weake and troubled with many doubtes increase it in vs ô Lord that we may through thy holy spirite be assured that the punishment of our sinnes is fully in thy Sonne discharged Make vs ô Lord our God to feele this same in our soules and consciences that Iesus Christ is ours and all that he hath done that we are grafted into his body and made one with him and therefore fellow heires with him of euerlasting life Let vs not onely haue these wordes in our mouthes good Lord but through thy holy spirit let vs feele the comfort of them in our heartes fully sealed and setled in vs that wee feeling our selues inwardly before thy iudgement seate discharged and our consciences towardes thee appeased may be swallowed vp with an vnfaigned loue toward thy heauenly Maiestie and towardes our breathren for thy sake Make sinne to die in vs dayly more and more that wee may hate detest and vtterly abhorre all sinne wickednesse in all men but especially in our selues that we may strongly through thy holy spirite set our selues in open warre

againe But if Fastes neither standing nor sitting neither vnder the Law nor vnder the Gospell neither of the weaker nor of the stronger can draw vs into loue and in loue into practise thereof it must needs be confessed that there is a maruellous poison of rebellion in our natures which all this triacle of the Lords high authoritie and of such authorized examples of the children of God will not cast foorth Howbeit the Lord leaueth vs not here but vnto his Lordly authoritie of commaunding this exercise of Fast hath added fatherly promises to allure vs vnto the same as towardes the end of this Treatise shall plainely appeare This exercise therfore of Fasting being both of such authoritie and of so great weight to pull wrath vpon vs if it be neglected let vs now see in what things especially it doth consist And they are in number two The former is of the outward and as the Apostle calleth it 1. Tim. 4.8 of the bodily exercise the other is of the inward vertues helped forward by the bodily exercises For the outward ceremonie it is an abstinence for a time from the commodities and pleasures of this life thereby to make vs the apter to the inward vertue And this outward abstinence is therefore commaunded that wee should both feele and in feeling professe that we are vnworthy either of life or of any thing that belongeth to the vpholding thereof And albeit it may appeare but a childish thing to carnall men and a thing vnworthy the wisedom of the Gospel to place any thing in this bodily exercise seeing that the Lord is a Spirit will be worshipped in spirit trueth and seeing that they being of their owne nature neither good nor euill can not make vs either better or worse yet if wee consider that it is the Lordes ordinance who hath so commaunded it we can not be but most assured that the Lord who hath so instituted it will giue it a blessing and cause it to prosper to that end whervnto he hath ordeined it if wee vndertake it in his feare and in a conscience of obeying the Lordes commaundement Those which came either to runne 1. Cor. 9.25 or to wrastle for the best Game were wont to abstaine frō such things as might hinder their exercise or make them lesse able to performe thē with praise And whatsoeuer either pith in their armes or swiftnesse in their legges they had otherwise yet as they neglected not that abstinence so they found that it greatly profited them to the better breathing and other inhabling of them to their exercises And shall we thinke that the dyet which the Lord him selfe hath appoynted to the fitting of vs towardes the spirituall wrastling with our fleshly minde shall not haue a singular fruite And if there were no other fruite of this Abstinence but that the enimies mouth should thus be stopped which charge the Gospell to set open a schoole to all licentiousnes of eating and to giue as it were a sauce to prouoke mens appetites therevnto which are otherwise too sharpe set of them selues it should be no small effect of our Abstinence In deed the Papistes charge vpon vs is heere the same and no other Luke 5 33. then the Pharises against the Disciples of our Sauiour Christ But why should not we if we desire that the Gospell should be well spoken of take away the occasion of such speaches But let vs see wherein this Abstinence doth consist where first of all commeth to be considered the Abstinence from Meates and Drinkes whereof as the principall of the outward Obseruations the whole exercise tooke the name 2. Sam. 12.16.17 Ezr. 10.6 Leui 23.32 Iudg. 20.26 And the word it selfe with the practise declare that it is not onely a sober vse of Meates which ought to be continuall all the life long or a more sparing diet then at other times but an vtter Abstinence from euening to euening from all kind of meates drinkes Whereby it appeareth that the Popish Fast is nothing lesse then the Fast which the Scripture teacheth for they breake the necke of this Abstinence both by fulnesse and by delicacie By fulnesse in that it is lawfull as other dayes at Dinner to fill them selues with anything flesh only excepted at euening morning to fill thē selues with Bread and Drinke By delicacie for that where men on that day should content themselues with common and course meats sufficient onely for preseruatiō of health the Papistes in their abstinence did either not so much as aime at this marke or else they shotte grossely wide For in permitting the vse of all thinges at their Dinner besides Flesh it is euident that they left greater dainties greater stirrers of fleshly lustes then they did cut off And besides the dainties in meates Wine then which there is nothing more prouoking was as vsuall that day as of others And at euening when they would giue the clearest testimonie of their Abstinence and when they did light their candles as it were to shew their abstinence by the greatest part of those that were both able and might finde in their heartes to bestow it of them selues had their Tables furnished with Spice-bread with Fruites of this side and beyonde the Seas with Marmelet and Sucket and such like then which dealing what could be more childish to deny the tasting onely of one morsell of Flesh and to permit a fulnesse of bread to forbid the courser Meates and Table which might haue bin furnished for two pence and to draw in the delicatest Meates which could not be prouided for twentie shillinges to restraine the vse of thinges bredde at home and to leaue the vse free of thinges fetched out of Barbarie finally to condemne the eating of a peece of smoakie and reastie Bakon and to iustifie the banqueting and iunqueting Dishes which are before mentioned That I speake nothing of some of the poorer sort which vpon the Thursday at night and Fryday at dinner would fill their bellies the fuller that they might passe ouer their abstinence with lesse feeling the want of their accustomed diet All which thinges as wee condmne in the Papistes so we must carefully take heed that they be not found in vs Rom. 2.1 vnlesse we haue forgot that in iudging them wee condemne our selues when as we doe the same thinges which we finde fault woorthy in them An other of these corporall exercises is watching or a cutting short of our ordinarie sleepe which we may apply to the furtherance of this exercise For beside that this Abstinence is a remouing of ordinarie pleasures and commodities it appeareth that some thing also should be pared from it For beside that it is meete that there should be a certaine conformitie and sutablenesse of our whole behauiour all the time of the Fast The Prophet Ioel exhorting the Priestes to this holy exercise of Fast Ioel. 1.13 biddeth them that they should continue in Sackcloth in the night