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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

themselves with others yea as some of their owne astirme that their fasts are meere gluttony epicure-like as the fore-named Doctour sheweth These I say do not imitate our Saviour Christ who fasted so but once in his whole life they every yeare He abstaining from all food they onely from certaine kinds of food 7. But that religious fast whereby men seasonably abstaine from refreshing their bodies to make them fitter for religious duties This pious and godly exercise by which God is immediately served and being joyned with prayer and inward humiliation is an adjuvant meanes to appease and deprecate Gods anger to impetrate and obtaine sundry benefits and to resist and repell Satan that subtill serpent This is an abstinence commanded by the Lord to make solemne profession of our repentance It is a totall 〈…〉 who le abstinence from meats and drinks or a 2 Sam. 3. 35. 12. 7 20. Ezra 106. ●st r 4. 16. ●onah 3 7. all kind of sustenance or nourishment difference of meats therefore makes not this fast Matth. 15. 3. 1 Cor. 10. 25 27. 8. 8. Heb. 13. 9. and all other pleasurefull delights profitable and gainefull things of this life Namely b 2 Sam. 12. 20 1 King 21. 27. 1 Chron. 21. 16. Ester 4. 3. Psal 69. 11. Ier. 6. 26. Ezek. 7. 18. Dan. 9. 3. Ioel 1. 13. Ionah 3. 6. Mat. 11. 21. costly and curious apparell c Ioel 2. 16. 1 Cor. 7. 5. Deut. 24. 3. 2 Sam. 11. 11. Exod. 19 15. 2 Sam. 12. 16. Ioel 1. 13. Matrimoniall benevolence or the marriage-bed d Dan. 6. 18. 2 Cor. 6. 5. part of our ordinary sleepe e Neh. 1. 4. Dan. 6. 18. all mirth musicke pleasures and pastimes this being a time of weeping and wailing of sadnesse and sorrow and all bodily workes of profit and pleasure and therefore from the ordinary workes of our callings such times being dayes of rest to be kept as Sabbaths without doing f Levit. 16. 29 30 31. 23. 27 28 30 31 32. Heb. 29. 7. any worldly works for a certaine time namely g Lev. 23. 32. Iudg. 20. 26. 1 Sam. 14. 24. 7. 6. 2 Sam. 1. 12. 3. 35. Acts 10. 30. a day at the least except necessity inforce some weake and impotent persons so farre forth to refresh themselves as their need and weakenesse doth require For God will have mercy and not sacrifice Hos 6. 6. Excellently saith S. Chrysostome to this purpose Beloved if Hom. 10. in Gen. through bodily weakenesse thou canst not fast a whole day none that is wise can therefore reprove thee for this for we have a mild and gracious Lord requiring nothing of us above our strength if therfore there are any present whom the feeblenes of body doth forbid to fast and to remaine without dining I exhort such to regard the weaknesse of the body therefore he who receiveth meat and cannot fast let him give the more liberall almes let him be more fervent in prayer let him have the more readinesse in hearing divine speeches in which the feeblenesse of the body cannot hinder let him be reconciled to his enemies let him shun all hatred and desire of revenge He who doth these things will fast a true fast which the Lord doth principally require of us Sometimes for a larger and longer time the occasions being more urgent and forcing N●h 1. 4. Esther 4. 16. Acts 9. 9. extraordinary occasions and speciall occurrences private publike or particular earnestly calling upon us for more than ordinary humiliation and prayer Mistake me not I pray as if I deem'd it lawfull or allowable for private persons to appoint or approve of publike fasts without authority of Soveraigne and supreame Magistrates a 1 King 21. 8 9 2 Chron. 20 3 Ezra 8. 21. Ester 4. 10. Ion 3 2. to whom it doth belong to authorize and command to publish and proclaime the same b Iudg. 20. 26. Ierem. 36. 6. Ioel 1. 14. Which divine duties ought then to be performed and practised in the temple or house of God And the persons to be present and participate are c 2 Chron. 20. 13. Neh. 9. 38. 10. 28. Ioel 2. 16. all sorts of people high and low rich and poore young and old 1. Rulers and regents who have the guidance and government upon their shoulders should then and there accommodate themselves to accompany the people 1. Because the guilt and cry of their sinnes is as great loud and clamorous if not more than of other men both in regard of their age offices provocations tentations and allurements to erroneous wayes and wandrings 2. Because their examples are more beneficiall or obnoxious being more observed and followed 3. Because also their helping hand councell and countenance is of great and urgent importance for the discovery and discountenancing ●urbing and countermining punishing and preventing capitall and crying offences causing and occasioning evils of all sorts 2. Yea even harmlesse and helplsse tender and irreprehensible children and infants have not often and usually formerly beene excluded nor exempted from these publike performances 1. Not onely because they are defiled with their owne sins and their parents and so are liable to the dreadfull displeasure and irefull judgements of God Hos 13. 16. 2. But also because the seeing and hearing the mournefull and sadding ru●ull teares and dolefull cries of such perplexed persons will much move presse and provoke others to mournfull lamentations 3. And lastly because this is a notable and speciall meanes timely to traine them up in holy and pious services to our gracious God 4. Lastly the seasons times occasions and ends of these extraordinary duties have been and ought to be 1. The preventing of some future and fearefull eminent dangers and distresses the obtaining deliverance from and defence against our mighty and malicious fierce and furious foes 2 Chron. 20. 3. Est 4. 1 2 3. Io●ah 3. 2. The removing and remitting some present pinching pressure and calamity Io● 7. 6. Iudg. 20. 20. I●el 1. 4. Thus we were enjoyned by publike authority in those dangerous dayes of warre 1628. for ●he perservation of his Majesties Realmes and all reformed Churches to fast Thus by the same authority we were enjoyned to fast every wednesday during that heavy visitation of the pestilence 1625. and also in the time of the dearth 1626. 3. The preventing and pacifying of Gods wrath justly feared and conceived by some shamefull raigning sins in a land Ezra 9. 1 2 3. 4. The comforting succouring and supporting neighbour-Churches in their miseries and calamities Gods people in their persecutions and pressures Acts 13. 2. 5. The recovery and regaining of Gods favours which may seeme to be lost and ecclipsed by sensible signes of his indignation Est 4. Dan. 9. Mat. 9. 15 16. 6. The furthering and forwarding of some speciall work or enterprise undertaken and in hand Ester 4. 16. Acts 13. 3. 1. 14 15. It is the private and particular which I

soules the beauty of old men the Schoolemaster of young men the teacher of the continent which adorneth every age and sex as with a diadem 6. Herby the Saints of God have been and are better enabled to all holy and heavenly pious practises and divine duties Matth. 17. 21. by fasting and prayer 2 Cor. 7. 6. Saint Chrysostome Hom. 15. in Matth. therefore calls it the mother of all good workes the mistresse of modesty and all other vertues the helper of prayer because prayer without fasting is slender and weake for that prayer is strong which is made with an humble spirit and a contrite heart but he cannot have a lowly spirit and a broken heart who eates and drinkes and enjoyes his pleasures whereas fasting adds fervous and force gives wings unto and nourisheth prayer Our Homilies excellently make three ends of fasting The chastising of the flesh To testifie our humble submission and That the spirit may be more servent in prayer 7. Hereby we may be encouraged against Satans execrable exploits and encounters this being a meanes to extirpate and expell the Divell Matth. 17. 21. Vpon which place Saint Hom. 58. i● Matth. Chrysostome saith He who prayeth fasting hath two wings by which in flying he is carryed over the windes for he neither doth sle●pily gaspe neither doth he deferre neither is he dull or slow in prayer which things many indure but he is more burning then fire above the earth and therefore is made a terrible enemy to the divell The same holy Father calleth fasting our armour and weapons against our adversaries saying They who goe to battaile Hom. 13. in Marke doe diligently furnish themselves before hand he seeth that he hath his helmet if he hath his sword if he hath his speare if he hath his arrowes if his horse be refreshed and that he may fight before hand he makes ready his armour your weapons Serm de uno legislatore Tom. 1. are fastings Againe he saith It is better to ●ast the fast of affection than of hunger The fast of love is better than of necessity Our Saviour saith of Divels this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting Prayer and fasting do put to fl●ght the Divels and shall they not overthrow churlish Barbarians The same Father in a Sermon of fasting alledging the same Serm. 2. de ●ejunio Scripture saith Fasting ought not to be terrible to you for it is ordained against the nature of Divels So that if any be possessed with an uncleane spirit and shall behold the countenance of fasting if he were an unmoveable stone he shall be quickened But if thou addest to it the sister of fasting that is if he shall behold its companion prayer with it therefore Christ saith this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting Since therefore it doth weaken and repell the enemy of our salvation and smite feare of such terrour in our enemies where fasting hath beene affected the difficulties of cruelty are released the bonds of captivity are loosed the rights of liberty are restored wholly Since therefore fasting doth resist our adversaries will reject the yokes of bondage and restore the security of freedome wilt thou heare what a safety how great a succour is brought forth to mankind by fasting And since abstinence hath beene a necessary buckler to us before the conflict to resist our wilfull sensualities much more must we desire the helpe of fasting in our fight it selfe to our victory 2 Sam. 11. 12 26. Dan. 9. 3. Esther 4. 16. Mar. 9. 29. Luke 2. 37. Acts 10. 13. 13. 3. 14. 23. This duty of fasting therefore being although not an essentiall property of prayer yet often necessarily to be joyned with and accompany the same as a prime and principall means to protect and safeguard our selves against the asperate assaults and sharpe attempts of our assiduous adversaries and audacious enemies and to propugne and prostrate the fierce and furious fraud and force of Satan and his assistants We therefore fellow Christian souldiers ought to our other pious performances to add and conjoyne this of fasting 1. I do not meane that naturall or physicall fast which is for healths sake and therefore often prescribed by learned Physitians for the recovery and continuing of bodily health 2. Nor that civill abstinence whereby men forbeare meats and drinks the better to accommodate themselves to accomplish some worke of waight or businesse of speciall importance more seriously setting and more firmely hereby fastening their minds to prosecute and effect with greater earnestnesse and forwardnesse the businesse intended 1 Sam. 14. 24. Acts 23. 14. 3. Nor a constrained fast when mens for bearance of food is from a forcible compulsion they would eat but either want meat or appetite Mat. 15. 32. 2 Cor. 11. 27. 4. Nor that Christian sobriety whereby men use the good creatures of God soberly and temperately not so often nor so plentifully as is usuall 1 Cor. 9. 27. Which is pious praise-worthy and profitable for the poore the common-wealth the health of our bodies the good of our soules This deading and diminishing fleshly and filthy lusts bridling and battering down unruly affections and fitting and framing the mind to holy and heavenly duties 5. Nor that spirituall fast whereby we abstaine from sinne Isa 58. 6. This abstinence and freedome from filthinesse and vice as to have our eyes fast from wantonnesse and vanity our eares from fables fraud and flatterie our tongues from wicked words and all evill speaking our hands from godlesse works and gracelesse actions our soules from sinfull thoughts and vaine imaginations ought to be constantly continued in the whole course of our lives 6. Not that miraculous fast whereby Moses Eliah and Deut. 9. 9. 1 King 19. ● Matth. 4. 1. our Saviour Christ abstained from all manner of fustenance for many dayes together without being at all hungry For this fact of our Saviour is not for our imitation we may not presume to do miraculous workes and acts because our Saviour did such Christ was baptized so ought we Christ confuted Satan with the Scripture so ought we Christ lasted so ought we But as we do not therefore desire to be baptized in Iordan as we do not desire to be placed on the pinacle of the Temple to resist Satan so neither in all circumstances Hom. 48. in Mat. must we imagine in our fasting to imitate our Saviour Christ Thus S. Chrysostome saith Our Saviour doth not say his fast is to be imitated although he might have propounded those forty dayes But learne of me because I am meeke and lowly in hea●t Neither doe those Papists who presse so much their ungrounded fasts consisting in an abstinence from certaine kinds of meates prohibited by the Romane Church as our learned * Pag. 68. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ●●llict the soule with abstinence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●asting nothing at all Bishop White Although they glut