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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.
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.
2. Occasional, of which we have frequent instances, as the fast observed by Esther and her Maidens, and the Jews in Shushan was occasional. And so that which I mentioned of Jehoshaphat was occasional. And the fast in Nehemiah's time mentioned ch. 9.1. was occasional. These fasts did not pass into any Stated course of observation.
Having premised these distinctions, I shall discourse of this religious fast.