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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

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

that question sufficiently discussed for the instruction and comfort of all Christian readers Necessarie to be read at all times but especially before the administration and receiuing of the sayd Supper 2. Cor. 13.5 Prooue your selues whether yee are in the fayth examine your selues Know yee not your owne selues how that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates Imprinted at London for T. Man and I. Harison Anno. 1610. To the right worshipfull and my verie good friendes sir William Peliam Knight her Maiesties Lieuetenant of the Ordinance and the Ladie Dorothie his wife T.VV. wisheth in this life all sound knowledge of Gods trueth with an assured fayth in the trueth of his promises and after the wearisome dayes of this pilgrimage shall be ended eternall bl ssednesse in the life to come through Christ AMongest many reasons needlesse nowe to rehearse inducing mee to offer this smal Treatise vnto your Worshippes this was not the least to weet that thereby I might testifie as my vnfeigned good will towardes you in the Lord so the care that I haue in all holy loue to buyld you vp in the sincere iudgement of the pointes and principles of Christian religion For though I doubt not but that you are in some good measure endued with sundry good giftes and graces form God which should be continuall spurres and prouocations vnto you to imploy your selues to the vttermost of your powers in the seruice of his Maiestie and the obedience of his will yet in respect of the corruption of mans nature and the stumbling blockes which Sathan our common aduersarie casteth in our way to hinder vs in the rase and course of godlinesse I know that all Gods children and therefore you amongest the rest haue neede of continuall remembrancers not onely to put you in minde but also to prouoke you to passe the dayes of your pilgrimage in the reuerent feare of Gods great Maiestie and being sound in zeale sincere in knowledge and carefull in practise to finish your course in his fayth that so at the last you may be made thorough Christ partakers of eterrall saluation which is the end of our hope a d fayth yea the verie ende of our life in this life and therefore good reason that wee should imploy our whole life thereto and to the continuall vse practise of all the meanes that God hath ordeined for our better attayning thereof and namely that we should be often and earnest with him in prayer that we should delight in and labour to profite by the daily hearing reading meditating and conference of in his holy word and that wee should frequent the reuerent and ordinarie vse of his Sacramentes appoynted for the strengthening of our fayth in the trueth of his promises growing euen to this narrownesse and streightnesse of onscience that we should thinke euery day and euerie hower of a day ill spent wherein we haue not profited somewhat towardes godlinesse and honestie True is it that here is handled but onely one poynt of our Religion yet notwithstanding I beseech your Worshippes by this to gather the readie good will that is and shall bee in mee through Gods goodnesse further to write or speake in this or any other ground whereby your knowledge may be increased and your fayth strengthened in the trueth of Gods eternall Word and Promises yea I doe further request you and in you all those that shall read this little Discourse to consider not the smalnesse of the Treatie but the waightinesse of the matter propounded in the same which is one of the principles of our Religion wherein wee cannot be ignoraunt without our great hurt and to which wee can not vnworthily repaire a fault ouer common in these our dayes without iudgement and condemnation against our owne soules which hath made mee to annex at the ende thereof sundry short meditations for the better direction of the ignoraunt and vnskilfull in this behalfe In all this that I write whatsoeuer it bee I deale with them I hope that be both charitable and wise inough to conceaue my meaning and therfore shall not neede to vse many words to perswade that wherevnto you your selues bee in some measure thorough Gods goodnesse inclined and to the perfourmaunce whereof you are bound by the great grace and excellent calling that the same God in mercie hath bestowed vpon you This onely I wish and will pray or all the dayes of my life that this my poore labour and whatsoeuer other thing else it shall please him by me or any other to publish either for your good or the good of his Saintes wheresoeuer may be profitable not vnto you onely for your saluation but vnto all his elect and chosen children that the number of his faythfull being accomplished and the dayes of sinne vtterly cut off wee may be gathered to those eternall and heauenly Tabernacles which Christ our sauiour hath purchased and prepared for vs and that wee might be the better assured thereof is entred before hand there into to take possession thereof in our name there to raigne with him for euer and euer So be it Your Worships alwayes readie and humble in Christ T. VV. the Lords most vnworthy seruant To the Reader AT the motion and request of sundrie my deare friendes in the Lord I haue thought good to putte dovvne tvvo Prayers at the latter ende of this Treatise not thereby minding either to tie any person to the vse of them onely for they may according to their seuerall necessi ies conceiue some other of their ovvne or practise some better forme already set dovvne by men of greater giftes and feeling nor yet so to busie their mindes and to occupie their heades as that they should be imployed in these vvhen the publike Prayers and exercises of the Church performed by the Ministers are in hand for be it farre frō vs vvhen the Minister Gods mouth speaketh from the Lord to vs or vvhen he as our mouth speaketh to the Lord for vs to haue either our heartes or our mouthes occupied about any other thing than the reuerent hearing and consenting vnto of such thinges as he vttereth but that ayding the infirmitie of our breathren such as haue not the gifte to conceiue Prayer might haue a forme to exercise themselues in both before they repaire to the publike exercises of the Church and after the celebration of those reuerent mysteries shall he finished The substaunce of the Lordes Supper shorly and soundly set foorth for the instruction and comfort of all Christian readers TO cleare yea to voyde all the controuersies that frō time to time haue crept into the Church concerning the matter of the Lordes supper these three circumstances in the first place are meete to be considered 1 First who ordeined it to witte Iesus Christ our Sauiour which is an euident proofe of his eternall Deitie or Godhead because it belongeth to God alone to institute and ordeine Sacramentes in the Church 2 Secondly when it