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

Now if we have these calls from God to this great duty of fasting and prayer, let us not fail God herein, and though we should obtain nothing for others, yet we may deliver our own souls; and we know the respect God had to those that sighed and mourned in Jerusalem, that the Prophet was bid to set a peculiar mark upon them, Ezek. 9.4.

¹And I shall only add this further word of encouragement, i. e. That this extraordinary duty of Fasting hath been often answered with extraordinary success, as Esthers fast when she went in to the King, and Jehoshaphat's Fast, when the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites invaded him, and Ezra's fast, ch. 8.23. and upon Daniel's fasting he had the Angel Gabriel dispatched to him to give him understanding in the things he sought, ch. 9.22. and again upon his fasting in ch. 10. he saw a vision, wherein a man appeared to him, and told him that he was a man greatly beloved, and from the first day that he set himself to understand and chasten himself before God, his prayers were heard, and sometimes where ordinary prayer hath not prevailed, extraordinary hath had success, which Christ intimates in saying, This kind cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer, Mat. 17.21.

¹And I shall only add this further word of encouragement, i. e. That this extraordinary duty of Fasting hath been often answered with extraordinary success, as Esthers fast when she went in to the King, and Jehoshaphat's Fast, when the Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites invaded him, and Ezra's fast, ch. 8.23. and upon Daniel's fasting he had the Angel Gabriel dispatched to him to give him understanding in the things he sought, ch. 9.22. and again upon his fasting in ch. 10. he saw a vision, wherein a man appear'd to him, and told him that he was a man greatly beloved, and from the first day that he set himself to understand and chasten himself before God, his prayers were heard, and sometimes where ordinary prayer hath not prevailed, extraordinary hath had success, which Christ intimates in saying, This kind cannot be cast out but by fasting and prayer,