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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

to call for the performance of them And first we humbly desire thee to forgiue vs all our sinnes Thou hast saide that if we confesse our sinnes thou art faithfull to forgiue vs them We acknowledge the debte cancell therefore the obligation let not the multitude of them preuaile against vs but where our sinne hath aboūded let thy grace more abounde and as we haue multiplyed our sinnes so we pray thee to multiply thy mercies and although wee haue by continuaunce in them so soked our selues that thereby we are not onely lightly stained but also haue gottē as it were the scarlet purple die of them yet let them all we pray thee being washed in the blod of thy deare sonne be made as whyte as the snowe in Salmon and as the wolle of the sheep which come from washing And ●o conclude as our sinnes haue magnified themselues in an infinit length ●readth depth and height so let thy ●ercies which passe all vnderstan●ing of all sides and all assayes out ●eache them Therefore also we most ●umbly desire thee O Lord that the ●inne being pardoned thy wrath whiche is alreadie declared may be appeased towardes all the Churches of our profession and especially towards vs that the manifolde breaches of the Churches and common wealthes may be made vp that those being receyued into the bosome of the Church which belong to thy election the rest of the Papistes and heretikes may be vtterly rooted out that the enemies in religion being slaine we may to the vttermost think all one thing in the honeste and peaceable gouernment of the common wealth Vpon which vniting of vs in all trueth and honestie the curses of the plague and barrennesse being remoued a way may be made to thy blessinges which as the hills do the valleis may make our land holesomely fruitfull And that not onely the wrath which is alreadie kindled may be quenched but that which hath beene lately threatned may be caused to retyre For the graunt whereof vnto vs we beseech thee to remember that howe vnworthy soeuer yet are wee thy people and the Sheepe of thy pasture whome thou hast redemed with thy most pretious ●lood watched ouer with a carefull ●ye defended with a mightie hand ●espise not therfore O Lord the wor●es of thy hands And seing thou hast ●●ued vs when we hated thee visited vs when we desired thee not then acknowledged vs when we knewe not thee now that there be a nūber of vs which loue thee desire thine aboade acknowledge thee hold on thy loue still depart not from vs deny vs not O thou God of trueth which art the God that chaungest 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 shoulde b● rent and runne through spare v●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 olde and vnchangeable nature of a merciful kind sparing long suffering God Which mercie we do not O Lord desire to the end that we shoulde tumble and wallowe our selues in our accustomed neglect and contempt of thy holy worde but together with mercie for our sinnes and the rewarde of them we moste humbly craue vppon the knees of our heartes that for the time to come howe long or howe short soeuer we with deniall and detestation of our selues and of our wicked lustes may ●●er vp vnto thee in Iesus Christe ●●r selues our bodies and soules to ●●e seruauntes at thy holy commaun●ement in that reasonable seruice ●hich the high reason of thy holy ●orde doth prescribe and to be wea●ons or instruments of righteousnes ●nd holinesse as they haue bene here●ofore of the contrarie All which ●hinges as whatsoeuer thou knowest ●o be further needefull for vs or for any of the Churches we pray thee as our sauiour hath taught c. A CONFESSION OF sinnes with fayth and repentaunce O Mercifull and heauenly Father we thy seruāts doe humbly prostrate our selues before thy Ma●estie acknowledging here in thy ●ight our hainous offences committed against thy Maiestie seeing and beholding thy heauie wrath against them we feele our selues laden O Lord our God with a huge company of horrible sinnes whereof euen the very least beeing but conceiued in thought is sufficient in iudgemēt to throwe vs downe to the euerlastinge burning Lake Our owne consciences O Lorde doe beare witnesse against vs of our manifolde transgressions of thy blessed lawe of our securitie and sencelesse blindenesse running headlong to destruction cōmitting sinne after sinne although not notorious to the worlde yet horrible before thine eye The thoughts of our heartes rise vp in iudgement against vs the vanitie of our talk before thy maiestie condemneth vs the wickednesse of our deedes from thy sight reiecteth vs all our wicked thoughts wordes and deeds with the inwarde corruption of our nature do altogether as it were a whole lumpe and loade of sinne lie heauie vppon vs with their intollerable weight doe euen presse vs downe to Hell Wee doe dayly grone vnder the burthen of them inwardly lamenting our owne follie so greedily running into them In heauen earth or hel we see none able to sustaine the weight of them but euen thy dearly beloued sonne Iesus Christ who in mercy infinite and compassion endlesse hath sustained and ouercome that endlesse punishment due vnto them in him therefore in him most mercifull Father and through him we come to thee being fully assured according to thy promise that thou wilt accept take that full recompence which he thy deare sonne hath made for vs as a iust ransome for all the sinnes of all those who with a true faith take hold on him In him therfore we see thine anger towards vs appesed thy wrath satisfied and our debts paide Increase in vs good Lord we beseech thee this liuely and feeling faith for we feele it oftentimes in vs very weake and troubled with many doubtes increase it in vs O Lorde that we may through thy holy spirite be assured that the punishment of our sinnes is fully in thy sonne discharged Make vs O Lord our God to feele this same in our soules and consciences that Iesus Christe is ours and al 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 spirite let vs feele the comfort of them in our heartes fully sealed and setled in vs that we 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 brethren for thy sake Make sinne to dye in vs daily more

any of all their Churches which are not altogether in ours not one of those detestable heresies but are lodged amongst vs. And although the schisme of Lutheranisme be not among vs yet there is almost a great distraction of minds for the Church gouernement beside the diuersities of iudgementes in many other matters And among bodily punishments the plague hath indifferently fed and yet doeth feed vpō vs. The sword hath ben shaked at vs both in the North by traytours and in the South by disordered wicked persons And shuld it not strik vs that her maiestie was of late in daunger of her life by a shot Which that it was not meant towardes her ought not to abate our care for her maiestie but rather encrease it as that which was more nerely directed against her of the Lorde to make both her and vs to crie for his grauous couer and protection ouer her And if we consider the wrath that hangeth ouer our heades the notes thereof are taken by the example of the people of God and first of Ezra Ezra 9. 3. who vnderstanding that the people had married straunge women fasted wherevppon we haue this note of the wrath to come that considering how that sinne is committed openly in the land in diuerse sortes that therefore anger is at hand Here may be hādled with godly and discrete wisdome the sinnes of the lande The seconde note to knowe the tempest to come is taken from the Niniuites fast Wherevppon we gather Ionas 3. 5. that for somuch as we are greeuously threatened aswell by the ministers and seruauntes of the Lorde that speake in his name vnto vs as also by his late shaking of the earth that sharpe iudgement without repentaunce must spedily come vppon vs. The thirde is taken from signes of the wrath of god which may break out against vs as in Hester where Hester 4. 6 it was concluded at the request of Hamon of the destruction of the whole Church wherewith may fitly be compared the holy league as they say and decree of the late coūcel of Trent against the whole church and against ours particularly An other signe is the preparation made against the Church or an indeuour to execute their malice which draue Io ● Paral. 20. saphat and other moe to a fast Here the loftie countenaunces and vndewtifull demeanour of the Papistes may be considered with their rebellious attempts in Ireland as also the Spanish nauie and great preparation made amongst them of the holy league with the present troubles in Scotland like accidents sufficient to procure the practise of this holy exercise A GENERALL CONFESSION OF Sinnes to be made at the exercise of fasting the more particuler confessiō being taken according to the estate of the seuerall Churches by the good discretion of the minister vppon the knowledge thereof O Lord which art glorious in power holines we being but dust and ashes with the casting of our selues downe at the foote of thy high Maiestie confesse that me are most vile sinners conceiued and borne in sinne that we are by nature nothing else but a lumpe of all wickednesse whose naturall propertie is to growe in sinne as we growe in yeares and to waxe stronge in wickednesse as the powers of our mindes and bodies receiue strength There is in vs no holsome nor sounde knowledge howe to obey there is no manner of good will or affection to please thee finally there dwelleth no good thing in our flesh And although our cursed estate doeth herein greatly appeare yet our sinne is made out of measure sinnefull through the exceding grace which thou offrest by the Gospell of thy deere sonne wherby wee are so farre from profiting that of our selues we shoulde waxe worse and worse For the more light of knowledge is shewed the blinder would we remain the greater obedience is taught the frowarder and stubberner woulde we become if thou by the mightie working of thy holy spirite shouldest not cause it to be fruitfull And although we haue this naturall corruption in common with the whole rotten race of Adam yet we confesse that in vs it hath budded and shotte foorth so much more then in others as wee haue had moe meanes to kill it and to cause it to wither thē others haue had Where first of all the gracious offer of the treasure of thy holy gospel vnto vs maketh vs guiltie many wayes For where passing by many other nations thou hast trusted our ●ation withall yet with a number of vs hath it found as small entertain●ent and felt as great resistaunce as amongest them at whose gates it neuer knocked For a great portion of the land partly neuer yelding thē selues to the obedience thereof and partly falling from it after they had once yeelded stand proudly as it were at the staues end with thee The rest which make profession of their submittaunce vnto it doe it not accordingly For first there be heapes of our people which either through anyrckesomnesse of the yron yoke of the Popish religion or through a wicked opinion which they nourish of embracing any religion set foorth so cast aside the former poperie as they still abyde in an vtter ignoraunce of the trueth it selfe in such sorte that through want of Preaching they are as rawe in the knowledge of the true seruice of thee as they were expert before in the seruice of the deuill And where knowledge is to any such sufficiencie as is requisite for the inheritours of the kingdome of heauen there is it for a great part ioyned with such hypocrisie as maketh them more detestable before thee which searchest the very raines then if they had still continued in their ignorance Now for the remnant of vs which through grace haue truly and faithfully beleeued it is with so great weaknesse of faith and so small reformation of manners That our glorious profession of the Gospell supported and borne out with so small shewe of the the fruites which the excellencie thereof doeth require maketh not onely the enemies to condemne vs but our selues to suspect one an other whether we belong vnto thee or no. Wherein O Lord we acknowledge that to be our great and horrible sinne that being put in trust with this vnspeakable treasure of thy holy Gospell and preferred to our neighbours professours about vs yet wee are in thankeful obediēce vnto thee behinde them all first in knowledge last in zeale before them in the doctrine of thy holy Gospell behind thē in the discipline of the same The yoke of the slauery of our bodies whiche the Popish religion layed vppon vs wee willingly shake off but the holy bandes of thy lawe whereby our ●iotous life and affections shoulde be brought into bondage we doe hardly and heauily admitte The Gospell which brought a freer vse of our lawfull honors pleasures and com●odities was welcome vnto vs but the same Gospell which restraineth the vnlawfull licentiousnesse of our ambition intemperancie and

and more that we may hate detest and vtterly abhorre all sinne and wickednesse in all men but especially in our selues that we may strongly through thy holy spirite set our selues in open warre and defiance against all sin and wickednes that we please not our selues in our sinns but straightly examining sinne by the iust rule of thy holy lawes we may vtterly from the bottome of our heartes condemne euen the least sinne in our selues hauing our whole ioy comfort consolation vpon those things which be agreeable to thy blessed will alwayes being afraide to doe any thing contrarie to the same that we may euen from the bottome of our hearts examine and trie our thoughtes before thy presence that they be vpright and vnfained not hypochriticall in outward shewe only and appearance but that euen all corners of our hearts being opened and disclosed before thee we may euen as though it were openly before the face of the whole world bring them in shewe knowing that a double heart is detestable in thy sight and that we may walke alwayes as before thine eyes not only before the eyes of man being more carefull to walke circumspectly in this respect that we haue thee to be a viewer of our doings a thousande folde more then the eyes of man that thus we may walke as becommeth thy children not onely in outward shewe but also in sinceritie of heart abhorring euen the least sinne in our selues striuing resisting and fighting against sinne not delighting our selues in sinne nor nourishing the same in our brest but earnestly embracing and studiously seeking after those things which be pleasant in thine eyes that neither the feare of man nor losse of goods life landes possessions or friendes drawe vs away frō thee to do any the lest thing contrarie to thy wil and pleasure neither the fauour or friendship of man nor yet the flattering enticements of this world nor the vaine promotions of the same doe moue vs any whit from the true and endlesse ioy delight and pleasure which we ought to haue in those things which be agreeable to thy will and the constant performance of the same but that alwayes to the end of our life we may continue in thy pathes growing and increasing from faith to faith from strength to strength till at the length we shall come to thy euerlasting rest Amen A Prayer for the Queene O Gratious Lorde and most mercifull Father we acknowledge thee the Lorde of Lordes and the King of Kinges creating at the beginning and ruling all thinges euermore in heauen and earth according to thy wonderfull wisedome and power and our selues to be thy poore seruantes the worke of thy hands and the sheep of thy pasture subiected to thy Maiestic depending vpon thy fatherly prouidence for all things Neuerthelesse seeing thou in thy wisedome annoyntest Kings and Queenes appointing them to rule ouer thy people to sit as Lieuetenants in thy seat to minister iustice and most of all as Fathers and Nurses to maintaine cherish thy Church commaunding vs not only to obey and honour them but moreouer to pray for them as watching ouer vs for our good We therefore beseech thee for thy great mercies sake and for Iesus Christes sake to shewe thy mercy to all Kinges and Princes that maintaine thy glorious Gospell but especially we pray thee to blesse our gratious Queene in all spirituall blessings in Christ Iesus and in all temporall blessings according to thy good pleasure that in the great measures of thy effectuall loue she may more and more finde greate increase of vertue and wisedome strength in Christ Iesus to the faithfull and happie discharge of her duetie that her holinesse and ioy and zeale of thy house may be multiplied and euerlasting And seeing it hath pleased thee of thy singular mercy to giue her this speciall honour first to suffer for thy glorious trueth and afterward miraculously deliuering her out of the handes of her enimies to set a crowne vpon her head and to make her the instrument to aduaunce thy glory Gospell for which she suffered and to bring it out of darknesse into light out of persecution into this great and long peace As we giue thee most heartie thankes for this singular benefite so we be seech thee to make her and vs euermore thankefull for it and in thy good pleasure still to preserue her for the continuance of these blessings towards vs with all increase from time to time to thy glory the benefite of the Church and her infinite peace in Christ Iesus the prince of peace And further more we pray thee for her and the estate that such as be enimies of the Gospell and her enimies also for the defence thereof may not despise the peace offered thē to repentance but that they may account thy long suffring her peaceable vnbloudy gouernment an occasion of saluation to their soules and vnfeined loue to the truth and their mercifull souereigne Otherwise of they still remaine disobedient to the trueth disobedient to her highnesse and daungerous to the state then O God of our Saluation as thou hast discouered them so discouer them still as thou hast preuented them so preuent them still and let their eyes waxe wearie with looking and their hearts faint with wayting for the cōming of that which yet commeth not neither let it come O Lorde we beseech thee but a blessed and a long reigne to her and peace to Sion for euermore Also deare father so blesse so loue so in thy spirite sanctifie and keep her that she may in the spirit of counsel and fortitude so rule that other sister also namely this her cōmon wealth that they may flourish together and growe vp together as palme trees in beautie and in strength giuing ayde and helpe one to an other that in the Church the glory of God may appeare as the Sunne in his brightnesse and that the lande may flowe with Milke and Honie and true peace abound therein as in the triumphant reigne of Debora These graces O Lord are great and we miserable sinners vnworthie of the least of them therefore looke not to vs but to thy selfe not to our iniquities but to thy great mercies accepting the death and passion of thy Sonne as a full ransome for all our offences throwing them into the bottome of the Sea and making his crosse and resurrection effectuall in vs to all obedience and godlinesse as becommeth thy Saintes that to all other thy good blessings towards our gratious Souereigne this may be added that she gouerneth blessedly ouer a blessed people a people blessed of the Lorde and beloued of the Lorde and ●hat thy graces may abound as the waters of the Sea in the Prince and in the people in the Church and in the Common wealth from day to daye till the day of our translation into thy kingdome where iustice inhabiteth where also we shall inhabite and reigne with thee according to thy promise for euer Graunt these thinges O mercifull Father ●or thy deare Sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ his sake in whose name we craue them at thy mercifull hand praying furthermore for them as he hath taught vs to pray Our Father which are in heauen c. 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