A25478:1284
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.
When the Ammonites and Moabites invaded Judah with a great Army, then Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast, 2 Chron. 20.3. When a great famine was upon the land of Israel, then said the Prophet Joel, ch. 1.14. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. And when the Jews were in Babylon, then they kept their fast of the 4th 5th 7th and 10th month, all the time of their captivity though the several months had respect to some particular calamities that befell them in those months. Sympathy and sorrow are naturally expressed by fasting; and are spiritually to be expressed with respect to the Churches distress by a Religious fasting.
When the Ammonites and Moabites invaded Judah with a great Army, then Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast, 2 Chron. 20.3. When a great famine was upon the land of Israel, then said the Prophet Joel, ch. 1.14. Sanctifie a fast, call a solemn assembly. And when the Jews were in Babylon, then they kept their fast of the 4th 5th 7th and 10th month, all the time of their captivity though the several months had respect to some particular calamities that befel them in those months. Sympathy and sorrow are naturally exprest by fasting; and are spiritually to be exprest with respect to the Churches distress by a Religious fasting.
2. Upon the occasion of extraordinary sin: If in a particular family it may be ⟨p. 261⟩a just occasion for a fast in the family, if in a particular Church, or in a Nation, it may be an occasion of a more public fast. As the fast of Ezra chap. 9. and of