A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

And as we must thus totally abstain from meats and drinks, so must we in the greatest part, from all other bodily and worldly comforts ¹and delights, and much more moderate our selves in the use of them, so far forth as will stand with necessity and comeliness, then at other times. Thus we must abridge our selves from some part of our ordinary sleep, that by this bodily waking, we may be more ready to keep the spiritual watch, & have more time to spend in religious and spiritual duties; as also that we may hereby testify our humiliation, acknowledging our selves unworthy, as of other blessings, so of our ordinary rest and sleep. To which purpose the Faithful ²under the Law did lie upon the ground, and in sack-cloth and hard beds, that lying thus uneasily, they might take the less rest. Wherein our care must be, that we so perform this bodily exercise, as that it do not the next day disable us for Gods spiritual service, as hearing the Word and prayer, which are the ends of it, by making us drowsy and sleepy through over-much watching. Secondly, we must moderate our selves in the use of our apparel, putting on our worst attire, which may be most fit to signify and also further our humiliation. And in any case for that time to forbear such show of bravery in our ³