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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. Abstinence from food is requisite and necessary so far as may consist with mercy to the body. For the very name of a fast implies this abstinence, and not only the Jews but the very Heathen in their fasts did enjoin this abstinence upon themselves and others, as appears by that of Nineveh, Jonah 2.7.
1. Abstinence from food is requisite and necessary so far as may consist with mercy to the body. For the very name of a fast implies this abstinence, and not only the Jews but the very Heathen in their fasts did injoin this abstinence upon themselves and others, as appears by that of Nineveh, Jonah 2.7.
2. As also meaner apparel than what may be used at other times, though not to put on Sackcloth, yet to lay aside ornaments and richer dresses upon such a day.
When the Israelites would express their sorrow for the sad tidings of God's refusing to go before them. It is said, they laid aside their Ornaments, Exodus 33.4.