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

And when the Prophet Zechariah speaks of families mourning apart, Zach. 12.13, 14. It may probably be meant of fasting joined with mourning: And though the word family may be understood patronymically, and extend further than to a particular house, yet it may by Analogy be applied to particular houses and the inhabitants therein.

And when the Prophet Zachary speaks of families mourning apart, Zach. 12.13, 14. It may probably be meant of fasting join'd with mourning: And though the word family may be understood patronimically, and extend further than to a particular house, yet it may by Analogy be apply'd to particular houses and the inhabitants therein.

Again, a Religious fast is either stated or occasional.

1. Stated, as the fast of the seventh month, and the tenth day of the month was a stated fast to Israel every year, and the fasts the Jews observed in Babylon of the fourth, fifth, seventh, tenth month, mentioned Zach. 8.19. were stated fasts, and the Pharisee in the Gospel boasted of his stated fasting; I fast twice in the week, Luke 19.12. Against which stated fasts, I have nothing to speak, or to censure any mens practice herein, if the occasion still continues, and it do not degenerate into formality.