The
holie
exercise
of
Fasting
described
out
of
the
word
of
God
.
HOMIL.
I.
The
first
Homilie
sheweth
,
that
the
exercise
of
fasting
is
not
an
humane
constitution
,
but
an
ordinance
of
God
,
approoued
in
the
old
and
newe
Testament
,
and
so
how
God
requireth
it
of
vs
at
this
present
,
and
for
what
causes
.
RIght
wel-beloued
in
the
Lord
,
whereas
we
haue
beene
of
late
commanded
by
the
Kings
most
excellent
Maiesty
,
and
that
not
without
iust
cause
,
to
meete
once
a
weeke
vpon
the
Wednesday
,
Heere
then
first
of
all
that
we
might
doe
this
that
we
doe
,
not
onely
in
obedience
to
our
Lord
and
King
,
but
especially
&
most
of
all
in
faith
,
vnto
God
,
without
which
nothing
(
yea
though
it
be
good
)
can
please
him
,
as
the
apostle
saith
,
●eb
.
11
.
6.
●sting
is
●t
deuised
〈◊〉
man
,
but
mmanded
〈◊〉
God
.
we
must
be
perswaded
,
that
this
order
of
fasting
is
not
a
thing
deuised
by
man
:
but
appointed
of
God
,
and
commanded
in
his
holy
word
:
and
therefore
that
which
he
doth
necessarily
require
at
the
hands
not
onely
of
others
,
but
euen
of
our selues
.
And
this
we
had
need
to
be
perswaded
of
the
rather
,
because
that
some
neuer
thinke
themselues
bounde
vnto
it
,
and
so
make
no
difference
of
times
either
for
fasting
or
for
feasting
,
but
(
if
they
haue
wherewithall
)
all
times
are
alike
vnto
them
for
eating
,
or
not
eating
.
But
Solomon
the
wise
sheweth
,
●eu.
16.29
.
To
this
end
wee
may
remember
,
what
is
written
concerning
fasting
in
the
booke
of
Leuiticus
,
and
namely
how
there
it
is
said
,
that
the
Lord
commaunded
the
Iewes
once
a
yeere
,
that
euery
soule
should
humble
it selfe
with
fasting
before
the
Lorde
in
one
of
the
great
assemblies
:
where
Moses
sheweth
or
rather
the
Lord
by
him
,
that
this
fast
should
be
kept
perpetually
once
a
yeere
,
and
in
what
moneth
,
and
what
day
of
the
moneth
,
and
to
what
end
,
namely
to
humble
themselues
for
their
sinnes
,
and
therefore
what
must
then
be
done
,
viz.
that
they
must
abstaine
from
all
worke
and
worldly
businesse
,
and
be
occupied
in
all
exercise
of
Gods
worship
,
as
vpon
the
Sabbath
day
,
and
that
the
Priest
should
make
attonement
by
praier
to
obtaine
remission
of
their
sinnes
.
And
the
same
commandement
is
set
downe
againe
in
as
many
wordes
in
the
23.
And
in
these
places
though
there
be
no
mention
of
absteining
from
meate
and
drinke
,
and
so
they
may
seeme
not
to
appertaine
to
this
argument
of
fasting
,
yet
besides
that
all
learned
men
doe
thus
take
them
,
that
this
was
a
day
of
yeerely
fasting
,
euen
the
verie
circumstance
also
of
the
text
doth
necessarily
lead
vs
vnto
this
interpretation
;
for
when
he
not
onely
makes
it
a
daie
of
abstaining
from
al
worke
,
and
spending
it
wholly
in
Gods
seruice
publikely
,
but
also
that
the
end
of
it
should
be
,
that
they
might
be
humbled
for
their
sins
,
&
so
reconciled
vnto
God
,
&
this
humbling
of
their
souls
is
principally
vrged
:
and
we
know
that
the
humbling
of
the
body
is
a
meanes
to
humble
the
soule
,
and
the
body
is
specially
humbled
and
brought
downe
by
abstaining
from
meate
and
drinke
and
other
comforts
of
it
:
and
besides
we
finde
by
practise
in
the
Scripture
,
that
in
other
times
of
great
humiliation
,
the
seruants
of
God
haue
abstained
from
these
things
;
therefore
wee
may
be
assured
that
this
is
ment
in
these
places
,
and
that
this
was
their
practise
,
that
vpon
this
day
they
abstaining
from
meat
and
drinke
,
did
thus
also
cease
from
worke
,
and
were
occupied
in
Gods
worship
to
this
end
,
euen
to
the
humbling
of
themselues
before
the
Lord
:
and
so
this
was
the
thing
that
was
commaunded
them
yeerely
to
doe
,
euen
to
keepe
a
daie
of
fast
.
And
there
was
great
reason
of
it
,
For
if
Dauid
bad
the
people
of
his
time
mourne
for
the
death
of
Saul
their
King
,
because
they
enioyed
manie
great
benefits
vnder
his
gouernment
,
saying
,
Besides
this
,
if
they
vpon
this
day
had
cause
to
bee
humbled
for
their
sinnes
,
Moreouer
if
we
consider
the
great
sicknes
and
mortality
,
that
raigneth
,
&
hath
done
a
long
time
in
most
of
the
chiefe
places
in
the
land
,
Thus
we
see
also
,
what
we
ought
to
haue
done
,
and
what
God
required
of
vs
often
heeretofore
,
though
we
haue
neglected
it
;
when
wee
haue
seene
sin
abound
,
threatning
Gods
iudgement
,
yea
when
wee
haue
seene
and
felt
his
punishment
vpon
vs
,
in
vnseasonable
weather
,
in
scarcitie
and
deere
yeeres
,
in
the
time
of
common
sicknesse
,
in
the
feare
of
our
enemies
,
in
traitors
at
home
,
and
such
like
:
which
if
we
had
vsed
more
,
as
we
had
occasion
,
and
the
time
called
vs
vnto
it
,
we
might
haue
looked
for
greater
blessings
,
and
many
punishments
had
not
lien
so
lo●g
vpon
the
people
.
But
that
that
we
ha●e
failed
in
before
,
let
vs
now
make
a
supply
of
:
and
to
that
end
let
vs
farther
consider
,
what
proofe
we
haue
more
,
that
God
requireth
it
of
vs
.
If
this
yeerely
day
vpon
these
grounds
,
that
we
haue
heard
,
be
not
sufficient
to
bind
vs
,
then
let
vs
remember
,
that
besides
it
,
they
had
other
mooueable
&
vncertaine
fastes
,
Ioel
,
cap.
2.
2
Sam.
1.
by
this
pestilence
and
hand
of
God
are
destroied
in
great
number
.
Thus
Dauid
by
the
wisedome
of
gods
spirit
according
to
the
equitie
of
his
law
,
did
see
,
that
he
had
great
cause
to
fast
,
when
he
heard
of
the
ouerthrow
that
the
Israelites
had
by
the
Philistims
,
and
so
himselfe
and
his
companie
did
fast
for
that
great
losse
:
accounting
as
it
is
written
:
They
mourned
,
and
wept
,
and
fasted
vntill
euen
for
Saule
,
and
for
Ionathan
his
sonne
,
and
for
the
people
of
the
Lord
,
and
for
the
house
of
Israel
,
because
they
were
slaine
with
the
sword
:
if
he
saw
that
God
required
it
of
him
,
when
the
people
were
slaine
by
men
,
then
ought
we
to
beleeue
that
he
requireth
it
of
vs
also
,
when
so
manie
are
slaine
by
his
owne
hande
,
and
he
hath
not
yet
ceased
,
but
his
arme
is
stretched
out
still
,
as
the
Prophet
saith
.
In
like
maner
Iehosaphat
the
king
of
Iudah
,
Last
of
all
,
that
we
might
be
persuaded
that
God
requireth
fasting
of
vs
as
well
as
of
our
forefathers
,
HOMIL.
II.
The
second
Homilie
sheweth
what
are
the
parts
whereof
this
fasting
consisteth
,
and
first
,
which
be
outward
belonging
to
the
body
,
and
to
what
end
they
serue
,
as
to
abstaine
wholly
for
a
time
from
all
kinde
of
meat
and
drinke
,
and
sleepe
,
and
costly
apparell
,
and
such
like
comfortes
of
the
bodie
:
and
yet
what
libertie
we
haue
then
in
all
these
in
times
of
necessitie
.
BEing
thus
persuaded
of
the
necessitie
of
this
holie
exercise
of
fasting
,
by
good
and
sound
reasons
from
the
Olde
and
New
Testament
,
and
that
it
is
our
duetie
to
obserue
it
,
and
that
the
Lord
requireth
it
at
our
hands
;
it
remaineth
,
that
I
should
further
declare
,
wherein
this
blessed
ordinance
of
fasting
consisteth
,
and
what
are
the
parts
and
nature
of
it
:
that
we
being
willing
to
obey
God
in
this
dutie
,
might
not
erre
of
ignorance
,
Now
whereas
it
may
seeme
vnto
carnall
men
,
For
answer
vnto
all
these
,
Furthermore
,
seeing
this
outward
abstinence
is
appointed
to
this
ende
,
to
further
vs
in
true
humilitie
and
affliction
of
our
soules
,
●eu.
16.29
.
as
hath
beene
shewed
out
of
Leuit.
16.
where
it
is
precisely
and
in
expresse
words
required
,
that
euery
one
should
humble
his
soule
vpon
that
day
:
and
so
appointed
to
this
end
,
that
otherwise
we
cannot
attaine
vnto
it
in
that
measure
that
we
should
(
for
then
had
God
appointed
it
in
vaine
,
which
once
to
imagine
were
most
horrible
blasphemie
)
in
respect
of
this
,
God
doth
require
it
,
and
we
cannot
without
neglecting
of
the
inward
vertue
refuse
the
outward
exercise
.
For
as
the
Sacrament
is
appointed
to
that
end
,
that
thereby
we
might
effectually
remember
Christes
death
,
according
as
it
is
written
,
Now
let
vs
consider
wherein
this
abstinence
doth
consist
;
Whereby
it
appeareth
,
that
the
Popish
fasts
,
which
they
so
greatly
boasted
of
,
were
nothing
lesse
than
that
true
fast
,
which
the
Scripture
teacheth
,
and
which
we
must
practise
:
for
they
brake
it
diuers
wayes
,
both
in
fulnesse
,
&
also
in
all
delicacie
of
meats
,
which
they
permit
vnto
themselues
in
great
measure
,
euen
vpon
their
fasting
daies
:
and
first
of
all
they
offended
in
superfluitie
and
fulnesse
,
Secondarily
in
their
fasting
daies
they
did
greatly
offend
in
delicacy
&
daintinesse
of
meats
and
drinkes
:
Besides
this
abstinence
from
meate
and
drinke
,
which
is
first
and
cheefe
,
And
the
rather
that
we
might
be
willing
to
abridge
our selues
not
onely
of
sleepe
,
but
of
meat
,
But
heerein
we
must
take
heed
that
wee
abuse
not
Gods
liberalitie
,
And
these
are
the
outward
exercises
of
the
bodie
,
which
are
common
to
al
those
that
professe
to
keepe
this
holie
ordinance
,
as
they
should
,
of
what
degree
or
calling
soeuer
they
be
:
there
is
one
more
remaining
,
which
is
proper
to
all
that
are
maried
:
who
as
they
haue
one
comfort
and
commoditie
in
that
estate
,
euen
of
their
bodies
,
aboue
others
,
so
they
are
during
the
time
of
fast
to
abstaine
from
it
:
HOMIL.
III.
The
third
Homil●e
intreateth
of
the
inward
vertues
of
the
minde
to
be
attained
vnto
,
and
professed
in
fasting
;
without
the
which
the
outward
abstinence
is
no●hing
woorth
:
namely
of
true
humilitie
and
casting
downe
of
our selues
before
God
,
and
wherein
that
consisteth
,
and
how
necessary
it
is
,
and
by
what
meanes
we
may
atttaine
vnto
it
.
For
as
in
the
Sabbath
bodily
rest
is
first
commanded
,
yet
the
sanctifying
of
the
day
of
rest
in
the
holy
worship
of
God
is
chiefe
,
For
this
sorowing
and
mourning
is
so
vnseparablie
proper
vnto
the
time
of
fasting
,
and
so
fitly
answereth
to
the
outward
ceremonie
of
it
,
that
the
thing
it selfe
is
thus
noted
out
by
Christ
himselfe
.
But
if
any
should
not
only
not
humble
himselfe
,
and
be
sory
for
his
sinne
,
By
this
also
it
appeareth
how
farre
the
Papists
Church
is
from
the
true
maner
of
fasting
:
for
they
doe
greatly
boast
of
their
fastings
,
as
the
proud
Pharises
did
before
:
and
they
make
them
meritorious
for
the
pardoning
of
their
sinnes
:
for
this
is
part
of
the
penance
that
is
inioined
them
to
make
satisfaction
:
euen
to
fast
so
many
times
,
vpon
such
&
such
daies
,
Seeing
then
this
humiliation
is
a
speciall
vertue
and
grace
of
God
to
be
attained
vnto
in
the
day
of
fast
,
it
is
necessarie
to
be
considered
,
Now
the
holie
spirit
of
God
worketh
this
in
vs
by
the
true
vnderstanding
and
right
vse
of
the
lawe
of
God
set
downe
in
the
tenne
Commandements
:
And
besides
all
this
,
to
further
vs
in
this
most
excellent
vertue
of
humiliation
,
which
in
time
will
lift
vs
vp
as
high
,
as
wee
were
cast
downe
before
,
according
to
the
Prouerbe
of
Solomon
,
Pro.
15.32
.
Especiallie
how
the
Lord
from
time
to
time
hath
verified
the
same
.
Before
glory
goeth
humilitie
,
we
must
also
consider
,
the
execution
of
these
iudgements
vpon
men
from
time
to
time
,
that
we
might
know
God
to
be
iust
,
and
will
assuredly
doe
as
he
hath
saide
,
and
that
he
hath
not
threatned
in
vaine
,
as
many
men
doe
imagine
:
that
so
wee
might
feare
and
tremble
,
when
wee
shall
see
as
it
were
others
beaten
for
the
like
sinnes
before
our
faces
.
And
these
iudgements
wee
must
well
weigh
both
generally
brought
vpon
whole
nations
and
countries
,
HOMIL.
IIII.
The
fourth
Homilie
continueth
to
intreat
of
the
inward
vertues
of
the
mind
;
and
namely
of
the
hope
that
we
should
haue
of
the
pardon
of
our
sinnes
,
vpon
our
true
repentance
:
and
that
God
will
giue
vs
the
things
that
we
seeke
to
him
for
:
which
hope
must
stirre
vs
vp
to
feruent
and
long
prayer
,
and
how
by
importunitie
wee
shall
preuaile
with
God
;
and
what
things
els
may
quicken
vs
vnto
feruent
prayer
.
THe
second
part
of
the
inward
vertues
of
the
mind
,
and
graces
of
the
spirit
of
God
,
which
we
must
not
only
haue
,
So
that
heere
is
another
thing
to
be
furthered
in
by
this
outwarde
abstinence
,
namely
,
And
thus
we
shall
find
in
holy
scripture
,
that
all
the
best
seruants
of
God
haue
in
their
fastings
vsed
solemne
praier
:
and
whereas
praier
is
,
&
ought
to
be
a
daily
exercise
of
euery
christian
man
&
woman
,
euen
as
the
Iewes
had
their
daily
morning
and
euening
sacrifice
,
which
were
not
without
praier
:
and
as
it
is
saide
of
Daniell
,
Thus
it
appeareth
that
when
Ezra
,
and
the
rest
that
feared
God
with
him
,
fasted
because
of
the
transgression
of
them
of
the
captiuitie
,
that
hee
praied
verie
earnestly
and
long
,
as
wee
may
gather
both
from
his
behauiour
,
and
from
the
wordes
that
hee
then
vsed
,
which
were
full
of
great
affection
:
S.
Luke
,
and
may
further
learne
out
of
many
other
places
of
Scripture
besides
,
as
,
This
therefore
is
another
most
excellent
vse
and
end
of
fasting
,
And
euen
as
a
man
if
he
were
condemned
to
death
would
sue
earnestly
for
his
pardon
;
especially
if
hee
were
lead
from
the
iudge
to
the
place
of
execution
,
and
were
also
vpon
the
ladder
,
and
had
the
rope
about
his
necke
:
and
the
neerer
he
were
to
death
,
and
had
the
verie
badges
and
tokens
of
it
vpon
him
,
the
more
earnest
suter
wold
he
be
for
his
pardon
,
if
hee
coulde
but
conceaue
that
there
were
any
hope
of
it
.
So
we
the
more
that
by
this
holie
exercise
of
fasting
we
see
,
and
professe
that
we
are
woorthy
of
all
Gods
punishments
and
plagues
,
yea
of
eternal
death
and
condemnation
it selfe
,
by
so
much
the
more
earnestlie
wee
must
praie
that
God
would
forgiue
vs
our
sinnes
and
spare
vs
.
Therefore
in
the
daies
of
fasting
there
must
be
a
speciall
kinde
of
striuing
with
God
in
praier
,
and
wee
must
as
it
were
wrestle
with
him
therein
,
and
neuer
giue
him
ouer
,
or
suffer
him
to
haue
rest
,
vntil
he
haue
sent
vs
away
with
some
blessing
:
Euen
as
it
is
saide
of
the
holy
patriarke
Iacob
,
Seeing
then
that
feruencie
and
continuance
in
praier
is
so
proper
vnto
the
time
of
fasting
(
as
we
haue
heard
)
and
it
is
specially
vndertaken
to
that
end
:
To
this
end
we
must
giue
ourselues
as
much
as
we
can
to
a
deepe
and
serious
meditation
of
that
that
is
the
cause
of
our
fast
,
So
must
we
also
doe
at
this
present
,
But
I
can
not
tell
how
it
commeth
to
passe
(
the
more
is
the
pitie
)
through
the
great
hardnesse
of
mens
hearts
,
And
lastly
for
this
present
let
vs
consider
,
that
as
in
no
other
thing
,
so
in
this
most
of
all
,
none
can
helpe
vs
but
the
Lord
;
HOMIL.
V.
The
fifth
Homilie
doth
further
intreat
of
feruencie
of
praier
requisite
in
fasting
:
and
to
the
end
we
may
consider
,
what
great
things
God
hath
promised
to
fasting
and
praier
;
and
how
he
hath
performed
the
same
,
not
onely
to
the
godly
,
but
euen
to
the
wicked
,
who
haue
thereby
obtained
great
deliuerances
:
yea
how
men
by
humble
supplication
haue
preuailed
with
men
,
euen
with
their
enemies
.
I
Am
at
this
present
to
proceede
in
that
argument
,
Then
we
see
,
how
the
Prophet
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
doth
promise
vnto
them
,
that
if
they
would
thorowly
humble
themselues
for
their
sinnes
the
cause
of
this
great
affliction
,
noted
by
the
rending
of
their
hearts
,
though
the
Lord
had
begunne
to
punish
them
already
,
and
that
most
grieuously
,
yet
he
would
stay
his
heauy
hand
and
bestow
some
blessing
vpon
them
:
where
in
saying
,
Who
knoweth
,
or
who
can
tell
?
his
meaning
is
nothing
lesse
than
to
call
it
into
question
,
or
any
wayes
to
make
them
doubt
of
it
,
but
rather
to
consider
the
hardnesse
of
the
thing
,
and
so
to
seeke
for
it
the
more
earnestly
,
that
they
might
haue
some
hope
of
it
:
as
if
he
had
sayd
,
Seeing
God
is
so
mercifull
,
as
he
had
spoken
of
him
before
,
calling
him
,
Gratious
,
slow
to
anger
,
and
of
great
kindnes
,
and
one
that
repenteth
him
of
the
euill
,
there
is
no
doubt
of
the
thing
,
but
that
if
they
could
humble
themselues
as
he
required
,
and
pray
earnestly
,
though
he
had
begun
to
punish
them
already
,
yet
hee
would
repent
and
spare
them
.
As
also
it
is
sayd
in
the
Prophet
Jona
,
Therefore
that
we
might
doe
this
that
we
doe
in
faith
,
And
especially
we
may
see
plainely
from
the
eighteenth
verse
of
that
chapter
vnto
the
end
of
the
same
,
And
the
rather
that
we
might
thus
doe
,
To
this
we
may
adioine
that
notable
and
famous
example
,
that
we
haue
in
the
booke
of
Hester
:
Besides
wee
may
consider
of
that
woorthy
example
of
Gods
mercy
this
way
shewed
vpon
those
that
humbled
themselues
by
fasting
and
praier
in
the
daies
of
Iehoshaphat
,
that
good
King
of
Iudah
,
as
it
is
set
downe
in
the
second
booke
of
the
Chronicles
:
Lastly
concerning
this
mattter
we
may
see
how
the
prophet
Iona
Therefore
to
conclude
this
one
point
,
And
that
wee
might
yet
be
further
comforted
in
this
great
heauinesse
of
ours
with
hope
of
some
mercie
from
God
,
euen
that
he
would
spare
vs
at
the
last
according
to
our
earnest
desire
,
let
vs
remember
how
when
King
Ahab
a
wicked
and
verie
vngodlie
man
fasted
for
that
destruction
,
which
the
prophet
Elijah
had
by
the
worde
of
the
Lord
threatned
against
him
,
And
wee
haue
great
reason
so
to
doe
,
if
we
doe
but
well
weigh
the
dealing
of
one
man
towards
another
,
that
when
in
affliction
they
haue
submitted
themselues
vnto
them
,
they
haue
founde
fauour
with
them
,
Aram
▪
that
when
he
was
ouercome
in
two
battels
of
Ahab
king
of
Israel
,
HOMIL.
VI.
The
sixt
Homilie
sheweth
what
is
the
proper
time
for
fasting
,
namely
,
the
time
of
affliction
&
sorow
:
and
then
how
God
requireth
it
,
and
his
seruants
haue
practised
it
:
and
so
how
the
Lord
requireth
it
of
vs
in
this
time
of
our
sorow
:
and
how
long
the
time
of
a
fast
should
continue
:
and
how
the
same
time
should
be
spent
.
HAuing
shewed
in
the
former
Treatises
(
as
you
haue
seene
)
that
this
holy
ordinance
of
fasting
is
grounded
vpon
the
commandement
of
God
,
and
that
he
straitly
vpon
our
allegeance
that
wee
owe
vnto
him
requireth
it
of
vs
,
and
so
it
can
not
be
left
vndone
of
vs
without
a
manifest
disobedience
and
contempt
of
his
Word
:
and
moreouer
,
that
the
whole
action
consisteth
both
in
that
outward
bodily
exercise
of
abstinence
and
forbearing
of
those
things
for
a
time
,
which
we
haue
heard
of
:
and
also
and
especially
in
those
inward
vertues
of
the
minde
and
graces
of
the
spirit
,
to
be
then
attained
vnto
,
vsed
,
and
professed
,
which
haue
lastly
beene
intreated
of
:
and
therefore
is
to
be
obserued
of
vs
after
that
maner
that
hath
beene
declared
,
if
we
will
haue
our
seruice
therein
acceptable
vnto
God
,
and
profitable
to
our selues
:
it
remaineth
to
shew
,
what
is
the
time
proper
and
peculiar
vnto
this
exercise
,
and
when
the
Lord
especially
requireth
it
of
vs
.
For
it
is
not
an
ordinarie
and
common
seruice
of
God
,
Heerein
the
Lord
hath
beene
mercifull
vnto
vs
,
and
hath
directed
vs
aright
by
his
worde
,
which
as
it
is
a
light
vnto
our
pathes
,
The
like
may
be
saide
of
the
people
of
the
Iewes
in
the
daies
of
Queene
Hester
,
when
Haman
,
for
the
malice
he
bare
against
Mordecay
,
sought
the
desolation
of
all
them
,
and
had
diuelishly
,
plotted
for
it
,
that
he
obtained
the
kings
Decree
in
writing
against
them
for
it
;
which
for
the
more
speedie
executing
of
the
same
,
was
sent
by
postes
into
all
prouinces
of
his
kingdome
,
where
the
Iewes
were
,
to
roote
out
and
to
destroie
them
all
in
one
daie
;
both
yoong
and
old
,
children
and
women
:
This
is
,
and
hath
beene
a
long
time
,
of
great
sorrow
vnto
vs
,
So
we
may
say
of
this
mortall
pestilence
▪
and
pestilent
mortalitie
,
that
the
like
was
neuer
in
our
dayes
,
nor
in
the
dayes
of
our
f●thers
,
the
ol●est
man
or
woman
that
liueth
can
not
of
their
owne
knowledge
make
relation
of
the
like
:
so
that
we
haue
great
cause
neuer
to
forget
it
,
but
to
keepe
the
memorie
of
it
with
profit
to
our selues
:
and
also
to
tell
it
to
our
children
&
to
our
childrens
children
,
that
they
may
thinke
of
it
also
,
&
wisely
to
applie
it
to
themselues
,
and
so
to
profit
by
our
harmes
:
that
we
all
the
sonnes
and
daughters
of
faithfull
Abraham
may
do
,
Let
vs
then
be
perswaded
vpon
the
former
reasons
,
commandements
,
and
examples
,
that
howsoeuer
God
at
other
times
giueth
vs
libertie
,
to
feast
,
and
to
reioyce
,
and
to
vse
his
benefits
not
onely
for
necessity
,
but
for
delight
,
according
to
the
sundrie
causes
of
mirth
(
which
by
his
blessings
is
bestowed
vpon
vs
)
he
shall
offer
vnto
vs
:
yet
at
this
time
,
it
being
a
time
of
so
great
affliction
,
and
so
of
sorrow
euerie where
,
as
hath
not
bene
knowne
or
heard
of
,
whiche
they
doe
best
know
that
haue
beene
vnder
the
hande
of
God
,
and
we
our selues
cannot
altogither
be
ignorant
of
it
;
let
vs
bee
perswaded
I
say
,
that
the
Lord
requireth
of
vs
fasting
,
and
mourning
,
and
great
humiliation
,
that
so
we
may
doe
that
that
we
doe
in
faith
,
and
in
obedience
to
his
holy
commandement
,
and
that
most
willingly
also
,
that
he
might
accept
it
at
our
handes
and
reward
vs
for
it
.
And
heere
againe
by
the
waie
we
may
easily
iudge
of
the
fastes
held
in
the
time
of
poperie
and
ignorance
,
But
to
proceed
in
this
doctrine
of
fasting
,
as
we
haue
hitherto
seene
the
time
when
this
holie
exercise
ought
to
be
vndertaken
of
all
Christians
,
euen
the
time
of
sorrow
for
the
want
of
some
benefit
,
or
presence
or
feare
of
some
punishment
;
so
now
we
are
farther
to
consider
in
few
wordes
,
howe
long
it
should
continue
;
that
is
,
when
we
see
that
we
haue
cause
to
fast
,
and
minde
to
doe
it
,
how
long
the
time
of
our
fast
should
last
:
Leuit●cus
▪
in
the
ninth
day
of
the
month
yee
shall
celebrate
your
Sabbath
from
eeuen
to
eeuen
:
where
hee
speaketh
not
of
the
seuenth
daie
(
commonly
called
the
Sabbath
)
but
of
the
yeerely
daie
of
fasting
,
called
the
day
of
reconciliation
.
Wherein
againe
most
euidentlie
appeareth
the
foolishnesse
of
popish
fastes
,
But
if
the
affliction
be
greater
,
and
the
wrath
of
God
appeere
to
be
more
seuere
,
and
so
we
haue
greater
cause
of
deeper
humiliation
,
Now
further
we
are
to
consider
how
we
should
bestow
this
time
of
fasting
,
and
wherein
we
are
to
be
occupied
in
the
daie
of
fast
.
And
besides
this
resting
from
worke
(
which
is
necessarily
required
)
wee
ought
to
bestow
the
whole
day
in
the
publicke
and
priuate
exercises
of
the
worship
and
seruice
of
God
;
Bani
,
Kadmiel
,
Shebaniah
,
Bunni
,
Sherebiah
,
Bani
,
&
Chenani
,
who
cried
with
a
loud
voice
vnto
the
Lord
their
God
:
and
they
stood
vp
,
and
said
,
Praise
the
Lord
your
God
for
euer
and
euer
;
and
let
them
praise
thy
glorious
name
,
O
God
,
which
excelleth
about
al
thanksgiuing
&
praise
:
where
wee
see
that
there
were
manie
that
prayed
vnto
God
,
and
exhorted
the
people
,
which
could
not
be
all
at
once
,
because
of
disorder
and
confusion
,
but
one
after
another
;
whereby
also
it
came
to
passe
,
that
they
were
able
to
continue
so
long
,
euen
to
preach
&
to
pray
foure
times
in
the
day
.
And
thus
we
see
,
how
this
day
ought
to
be
spent
;
therefore
they
that
come
to
the
Church
in
the
forenoone
,
and
absent
themselues
in
the
afternoone
,
without
any
necessarie
cause
to
be
approued
of
God
and
men
,
do
not
keepe
this
holie
day
of
fast
,
as
they
should
.
HOMIL.
VII
.
The
seuenth
Homilie
intreateth
of
the
seuerall
kindes
or
sorts
of
fasts
,
whereof
the
one
is
priuate
,
and
the
other
publike
:
and
first
of
priuate
fastings
,
and
how
to
behaue
our selues
in
them
:
and
how
they
ought
to
be
intertained
into
mens
houses
:
and
for
what
causes
;
and
what
great
good
may
come
thereby
:
and
what
liberty
the
Gouernors
haue
in
appointing
of
them
aboue
all
the
rest
of
the
familie
.
THe
nature
and
thus
condition
of
this
holie
exercise
of
fasting
being
thus
hitherto
described
out
of
the
worde
of
God
,
both
that
it
is
an
ordinance
and
commandement
of
almightie
God
,
and
not
an
humane
constitution
,
and
brought
in
by
the
policie
of
men
,
and
therefore
that
which
all
men
must
submit
themselues
vnto
of
conscience
:
and
also
that
it
consisteth
in
that
outward
bodilie
exercise
of
abstinence
from
all
the
confort
of
this
life
for
a
time
,
and
in
those
inward
vertues
of
the
minde
,
as
true
humilitie
,
and
feruencie
of
praier
,
(
whereof
we
haue
heard
)
and
that
the
time
fit
for
it
is
specially
the
time
of
some
great
affliction
,
and
that
then
it
must
bee
held
longer
or
shorter
time
according
to
the
greatnes
of
the
same
affliction
,
whether
it
bee
present
,
or
iustly
to
be
feared
;
&
that
the
said
time
of
fasting
is
of
the
nature
of
the
Sabbath
,
and
therefore
must
be
so
spent
of
all
,
as
vsually
the
Sabbath
is
,
&
ought
to
be
,
both
in
abstaining
from
all
the
workes
of
our
callings
(
things
of
necessitie
onely
excepted
)
and
also
in
being
occupied
in
the
seuerall
parts
or
Gods
worship
,
as
the
exercises
of
the
reading
,
and
hearing
of
the
worde
of
God
,
praier
vnto
him
,
and
all
meditation
and
good
conference
that
might
further
them
thereunto
:
We
haue
a
practise
and
example
of
this
priuate
kinde
of
fasting
in
the
person
of
King
Dauid
:
Dan.
9.2
.
Daniel
fasted
priuately
in
the
time
of
the
captiuitie
.
Wee
haue
also
a
very
cleere
and
pregnant
example
of
priuate
fasting
,
in
the
prophet
Daniel
,
who
when
hee
vnderstood
by
bookes
the
number
of
the
yeeres
,
whereof
the
Lord
had
spoken
vnto
Ieremiah
the
prophet
,
that
he
would
accomplish
seuentie
yeeres
for
the
desolation
of
Ierusalem
:
and
so
perceaued
that
the
time
of
their
deliuerance
was
drawing
on
,
he
turned
his
face
vnto
the
Lord
his
God
,
&
sought
by
praier
and
supplications
,
with
fasting
and
sackcloth
,
and
after
that
the
Lord
according
to
his
promise
would
now
accomplish
the
same
.
The
affliction
of
captiuitie
was
common
,
and
so
all
ought
to
haue
sought
vnto
God
after
this
maner
,
aswell
as
hee
,
as
they
did
in
the
daies
of
Hester
:
and
it
may
be
that
some
other
that
feared
God
,
did
so
then
also
in
their
seuerall
families
:
but
as
we
are
vncerteine
of
that
,
though
charitie
bindeth
vs
to
hope
well
of
them
,
so
wee
are
sure
,
that
Daniel
did
priuately
seeke
vnto
God
in
fasting
and
praier
,
both
for
himselfe
,
and
for
the
people
,
because
it
is
so
written
of
him
.
Whereupon
we
inferre
,
that
not
onely
when
affliction
is
priuately
vpon
our selues
,
wee
ought
thus
to
seeke
vnto
the
Lord
,
but
when
it
is
vpon
our
brethren
,
especially
when
it
is
vpon
the
church
and
common-welth
,
and
we
ought
then
priuately
to
doe
it
the
rather
,
because
we
should
be
more
touched
with
the
common
estate
,
then
with
our
owne
particular
;
so
that
if
in
such
cases
there
bee
no
order
taken
for
publike
fasting
,
then
they
that
feare
God
,
and
know
the
day
of
their
visitation
,
must
thus
priuately
humble
themselues
before
God
,
and
mourne
euery
familie
a
part
,
But
to
returne
to
Dauid
,
2.
Cor.
11.27
.
Dauid
faste●
priuately
fo●
the
afflictio●
of
his
enimies
.
(
of
whom
we
beganne
to
speake
before
)
as
hee
was
a
verie
godlie
man
,
so
hee
did
much
frequent
this
holy
exercise
of
fasting
:
that
it
may
truely
be
saide
of
him
,
as
it
is
of
the
Apostle
Paule
,
hee
was
in
fasting
often
.
And
these
fastings
he
vsed
not
onely
for
himselfe
,
but
for
others
;
so
louing
and
pittifull
was
he
,
and
so
full
of
compassion
:
and
so
touched
with
the
griefe
of
others
,
that
when
they
were
in
any
great
miserie
(
as
s●ckenesse
,
or
otherwise
)
and
these
not
his
friends
so
much
,
but
his
verie
enimies
,
he
besought
the
Lorde
for
them
:
as
we
read
in
the
35.
Psalm.
And
that
we
might
be
mooued
vnto
it
indeed
,
we
may
further
consider
,
that
we
haue
not
onely
the
example
of
men
,
but
of
godly
women
in
this
kind
:
who
haue
giuen
themselues
much
vnto
priuate
fasting
.
For
we
read
in
the
Gospell
of
Anna
the
daughter
of
Phanuel
,
who
was
a
Prophetesse
,
Thus
also
in
the
daies
of
Queene
Hester
the
fast
that
was
kept
by
all
the
Iewes
in
Sushan
,
And
truely
if
wee
had
rightly
considered
of
all
things
that
haue
fallen
out
in
our
time
,
and
well
weighed
them
,
For
though
we
obtaine
many
things
daily
at
the
mercifull
hands
of
our
heauenly
father
by
our
ordinarie
prayers
publike
and
priuate
:
yet
he
hath
made
the
largest
promises
of
blessing
vnto
fasting
and
prayer
,
and
greatest
things
haue
been
obtained
that
way
of
all
the
seruaunts
of
God
.
Iohn
Baptist
did
.
But
surely
for
vs
,
this
long
time
and
plentifull
preaching
of
the
Gospel
so
many
yeres
,
might
haue
made
all
of
vs
fit
enough
for
this
holie
excrcise
,
so
many
as
are
of
yeres
of
discretion
:
and
so
this
grosse
ignorance
,
and
thereby
wonderful
vnfitnesse
that
is
in
men
doth
not
excuse
them
,
as
it
did
the
Disciples
,
who
were
but
Nouices
in
his
schoole
,
for
hee
had
beene
then
but
a
little
with
them
.
Therefore
wee
see
what
God
requireth
of
vs
priuately
as
any
occasion
shall
fall
out
,
namely
that
wee
should
serue
him
not
onely
in
other
holy
dueties
,
but
in
fasting
and
prayer
:
and
therfore
that
we
ought
all
of
vs
so
to
profit
by
the
publike
ministerie
of
the
Word
,
while
it
is
among
vs
,
that
we
may
be
fit
for
it
,
when
the
Lord
by
his
word
,
or
by
his
worke
shall
call
vs
vnto
it
.
But
to
draw
towards
an
end
,
it
is
further
to
bee
obserued
concerning
these
priuate
fasts
(
that
we
now
intreat
of
)
that
all
sorts
of
men
and
women
haue
not
power
to
appoint
vnto
themselues
,
what
time
they
wil
for
this
purpose
,
no
though
they
euidently
see
,
that
they
haue
iust
cause
to
vse
it
.
For
besides
that
the
man
and
woman
are
so
neerely
vnited
by
the
bond
of
mariage
,
as
by
the
couenant
of
God
,
And
heerein
as
in
some
other
things
doth
the
law
of
God
take
place
,
that
is
set
downe
by
Moses
:
HOMIL.
VIII
.
The
eight
Homilie
intreateth
of
the
second
kind
of
fasts
,
which
are
publike
:
&
why
so
called
:
and
how
all
sorts
ought
to
come
to
them
:
and
what
a
great
fault
it
is
for
any
to
be
absent
:
And
then
of
the
cause
of
them
,
wh●ch
is
the
wrath
of
God
against
his
Church
:
either
present
,
as
it
is
now
vpon
vs
:
or
likely
to
come
:
which
the
godlie
haue
considered
in
the
course
of
Gods
prouidence
,
and
so
haue
sought
by
fasting
and
praier
to
preuent
it
,
and
not
alwaies
taried
till
it
came
vpon
them
.
THe
second
and
last
kind
of
fasting
,
And
such
is
this
that
we
haue
,
For
what
hardnesse
of
heart
would
we
thinke
to
bee
in
them
,
Iudg.
20.26
For
concerning
the
former
,
which
is
the
wrath
of
God
presently
vpon
the
Church
,
wee
reade
in
the
time
of
the
Iudges
,
when
in
two
battels
there
were
slaine
of
the
Israelites
fortie
thousand
;
this
heauie
hand
of
God
being
then
vpon
them
,
all
the
children
of
Israel
went
vp
,
and
all
the
people
came
also
vnto
the
house
of
God
,
and
wept
,
and
sate
there
before
the
Lord
,
and
fasted
that
day
vnto
the
euening
:
so
that
in
this
present
calamitie
all
the
people
came
to
the
fast
,
which
was
held
for
it
in
the
house
of
God
.
Since
this
plague
began
among
vs
,
by
all
estimation
there
haue
not
so
few
as
forty
thousand
died
in
this
land
,
therefore
wee
haue
also
as
great
cause
to
fast
for
this
present
apparent
token
of
Gods
wrath
,
as
they
had
,
and
so
all
the
people
should
come
to
the
house
of
God
to
that
end
.
Moreouer
,
the
Prophet
Ioel
sayth
to
the
people
of
Iudah
,
that
seeing
there
was
so
great
a
famine
among
them
,
that
God
commanded
them
all
publikelie
to
fast
,
saying
,
Furthermore
the
wrath
of
God
is
to
be
considered
of
vs
,
not
only
when
it
is
〈◊〉
presently
vpon
vs
,
and
may
be
felt
:
And
concerning
the
signes
and
tokens
of
Gods
wrath
shortly
to
come
,
they
haue
wisely
obserued
and
considered
of
them
diuersly
:
As
first
of
all
in
the
course
of
his
prouidence
,
that
seeing
ordinarily
such
and
such
causes
doe
bring
forth
such
effects
&
euents
,
and
therefore
by
the
cause
,
as
by
a
signe
more
then
probable
,
Hazzon
Tamar
,
which
is
in
Engedi
.
And
Iehoshaphat
fefeared
,
&
sat
himselfe
to
seeke
the
Lord
&
proclaimed
a
fast
throughout
all
Judah
:
&
Iudah
gathered
themselues
together
to
aske
counsel
of
the
Lord
,
they
came
out
of
all
the
cities
of
Iudah
to
inquire
of
the
Lord
.
Thus
we
see
when
this
huge
armie
of
the
Ammonites
&
Moabites
,
and
mount
Seir
did
but
come
vp
against
Ierusalem
at
the
first
hearing
of
it
,
though
yet
nothing
was
done
,
neither
were
they
come
to
them
considering
what
was
likely
to
be
the
euent
of
that
warre
,
if
they
had
proceeded
,
and
if
the
Lord
had
not
holpen
them
,
he
proclaimed
a
fast
,
and
did
thus
seeke
to
escape
that
,
which
was
like
to
come
.
So
likewise
in
the
time
of
the
captiuitie
,
when
ambitious
and
cruell
Haman
the
mortall
enimie
of
the
Iews
,
so
breathed
after
their
vtter
destruction
,
that
he
ceased
not
to
cast
lottes
from
day
to
day
,
to
finde
out
a
prosperous
time
to
bring
his
mischieuous
purpose
to
passe
,
and
at
the
last
had
got
the
King
to
set
his
hande
to
a
Decree
concerning
the
finall
racing
of
them
all
out
in
one
daie
;
and
Mordecay
had
sent
the
copie
of
this
commission
to
the
Queene
Hester
:
In
which
respect
also
(
besides
that
,
that
we
spake
of
before
)
we
must
needs
confesse
,
that
wee
haue
great
cause
to
fast
and
pray
publikly
;
for
besides
that
great
wrath
of
God
,
that
hath
beene
a
long
time
vpon
our
brethren
,
HOMIL.
IX
.
The
ninth
Homilie
continueth
to
shew
the
causes
of
publike
fastes
,
namely
,
when
the
wrath
of
God
to
come
hath
beene
iustly
feared
,
in
respect
of
the
great
sinnes
,
that
haue
abounded
:
and
of
the
iudgement
of
God
,
denounced
against
the
same
openly
by
the
ministers
of
God
.
And
when
Gods
wrath
hath
not
onely
beene
vpon
themselues
,
but
vpon
others
of
their
brethren
,
the
children
of
God
.
THe
last
daie
we
entring
into
this
treatise
of
the
consideration
of
the
causes
of
publike
fastings
,
haue
hitherto
proceeded
thus
farre
;
to
shew
that
the
seruants
of
God
haue
beene
mooued
thereunto
,
not
onely
when
some
great
punishment
as
a
testimonie
of
Gods
displeasure
hath
beene
vpon
them
,
And
this
they
haue
done
euen
then
,
Thirdly
and
last
of
all
,
Haue
we
not
heard
it
preached
vnto
vs
,
as
it
was
to
the
Iewes
,
that
the
kingdome
of
God
should
bee
taken
from
vs
for
our
great
barrennesse
,
And
hath
not
this
bene
seuerelie
denounced
against
vs
often
,
Iohn
Baptist
did
against
the
Iewes
?
Now
is
the
axe
put
to
the
roote
of
the
tree
:
therefore
euerie
tree
,
which
bringeth
not
foorth
good
fruite
,
shal
be
hewen
downe
,
and
cast
into
the
fire
?
hath
it
not
beene
preached
,
that
God
would
vtterly
destroy
all
those
that
liue
vnprofitable
vnder
his
Gospell
,
destroie
them
,
I
say
,
euen
by
the
rootes
?
yet
vndoubtedly
this
hath
beene
often
sounded
in
the
eares
of
all
hearers
:
Iohn
Baptist
did
mourne
vnto
vs
,
Thus
we
see
,
Rom.
12.15
and
which
he
quickeneth
by
one
spirit
,
according
to
the
doctrine
of
Saint
Paul
:
Reioice
with
them
that
reioice
,
and
weepe
with
them
that
weepe
,
bee
of
like
affection
one
towards
an
other
.
So
that
though
they
haue
bene
free
from
any
token
at
all
of
Gods
displeasure
themseues
,
yet
when
they
haue
seene
it
lie
heauilie
vppon
the
shoulders
of
their
brethren
,
they
haue
by
fasting
and
praier
put
to
their
helping
hand
,
Therefore
no
man
must
thinke
,
that
these
publike
fasts
which
we
keepe
by
the
commaundement
of
our
gouernours
,
doe
concerne
others
and
not
themselues
,
nor
say
,
We
are
all
well
heere
(
God
bee
thanked
)
what
need
we
vexe
and
trouble
our selues
with
anie
such
thing
before
we
haue
cause
?
this
order
is
appointed
for
such
places
where
the
plague
is
,
heere
is
none
yet
,
neither
is
any
neere
vs
,
Gods
name
be
blessed
for
it
:
These
are
good
wordes
indeed
,
and
I
pray
God
,
that
they
may
so
consider
of
the
goodnesse
of
God
towards
vs
indeed
,
that
wee
may
labour
to
be
truely
thankefull
to
him
for
the
same
.
But
doth
not
the
Apostle
say
,
It
is
written
of
Vriah
the
Hittite
one
of
Dauids
woorthie
captaines
,
that
when
hee
was
sent
for
home
in
pollicie
by
the
King
,
that
by
going
home
to
his
owne
house
,
the
adultery
that
was
committed
with
his
wife
Bethshebah
in
his
absence
might
be
hidden
:
When
as
Haman
sought
the
destruction
of
Mordecai
principally
,
because
hee
would
not
satisfie
his
proud
humour
in
giuing
him
that
reuerence
,
which
hee
required
,
and
then
for
his
sake
the
destruction
of
all
the
Iewes
:
Mordecay
,
Haman
sought
to
destroy
all
the
Iewes
,
that
were
throughout
the
whole
kingdome
of
Ah●s●uerosh
,
euen
t●●●eople
of
Mordec●y
▪
and
had
preuailed
thus
farre
with
the
king
,
that
he
had
obt●ined
a
commission
to
that
end
sealed
with
the
kings
ring
,
euen
to
roote
out
,
to
kill
and
destroy
all
the
Iewes
both
yoong
and
old
,
children
,
&
women
in
one
day
:
and
Queene
Hester
,