A09365:1236
The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Sect. 1.
Fasting is then to be used, when a just and 1weighty cause or occasion thereof is offered. There be two just causes of a fast.
Fasting is then to be vsed, when a iust and 1weightie cause or occasion therof is offered. There be two iust causes of a fast.
- 1The just cause of a fashThe iust cause of a fash
The First is, when some judgement of God hangs over our heads, whether it be public, as Famine, Pestilence, the Sword, destruction, &c. or private. The Prophet Joel in the name of the Lord, calls the Jews to a strait and solemn fast; and that upon this just occasion, because the Lord had sent a great dearth upon the land, Joel 2. 14, 15, &c. Esther and her company fasted, when she had heard news of the intended destruction of the Jews, Ester. 4. 16. The people of Nineveh, which were not Jews, but foreigners in regard of the Covenant, when the ⟨p. 426⟩