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

1. We are not to use those rites and outward expressions of sorrow that were practiced in those times; which belonged to the rigour of that legal ministration As Rending the garment, Joel 2.13. putting on of sackcloth, Neh. 9.1. covering with Ashes, Dan. 9.3. bowing down the head, Isa. 58.5. Putting earth upon their head, Neh. 9.1. and sometimes putting off their sandal, or shoes, and plucking off the hair, Ezra 9.3. and making themselves bald, Isa. 22.12. And the Pharisees used disfiguring of their faces, Mat. 6. But saith Christ to his Disciples, when thou fastest anoint thy head, wash thy face, which in their fasting the Jews should forbear, though used at other times, as appears by Daniels fasting, chap. 10.3. I ate no pleasant bread, neither did I anoint my self at all. But saith Christ, do not ye do so, but anoint thy head, and wash thy face, &c. and so use not such visible signs of sorrow, that thou mayst not appear to men to fast.

1. We are not to use those rites and outward expressions of sorrow that were practiced in those times; which belonged to the rigour of that legal ministration As Rending the garment, Joel 2.13. putting on of sackcloth, Neh. 9.1. covering with Ashes, Dan. 9.3. bowing down the head, Isa. 58.5. Putting earth upon their head,