A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

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, Luke 2.37. That she served God in the temple with fastings and prayers night and day: And Daniel another, who tells us, in three whole weeks he was mourning, did eat no pleasant bread, neither came flesh and wine into my mouth,