A25478:1211
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
Now this Religious fast is either public or private.
Now this Religious fast is either publick or private.
1. Public. As when a whole City fasts, as in the case of Nineveh; or a whole Nation, as in Jehoshaphat's case, 2 Chron. 20.3. who proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And the Prophet Joel calls to such a fast, Joel 1.14. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn Assembly, gather the Elders, and all the Inhabitants of the Land into the House of the Lord, &c. when the occasion is public, so ought the fast to be.
1. Publick. As when a whole City fasts, as in the case of Nineveh; or a whole Nation, as in Jehoshaphat's case, 2 Chron. 20.3. who proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And the Prophet Joel calls to such a fast, Joel 1.14. Sanctifie a fast, call a solemn Assembly, gather the Elders, and all the Inhabitants of the Land into the House of the Lord, &c. when the occasion is publick, so ought the fast to be.
2. Private. Which is either of a particular person, of which Christ speaks, Mat. 6.17, 18. But thou when thou faste•, anoint thy head, wash thy face, that thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father in se ret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. And of this private fast, Anna is an instance, of whom it is said,