Two treatises. 1. The holy exercise of a true fast, described out of God's…

AT the motion and request of sundry my dear friends in the Lord, I have thought good to put down two Prayers at the latter end of this Treatise, not thereby minding either to tie any person to the use of them only, for they may according to their several necessi jes conceive some other of their own, or practise some better form already set down, by men of greater gifts, and feeling: nor yet, so to busy their minds, and to occupy their heads, as that they should be employed in these, when the public Prayers and exercises of the Church, performed by the Ministers are in hand (for be it far from us, when the Minister Gods mouth speaketh from the Lord to us or when he as our mouth speaketh to the Lord for us, to have either our hearts ⟨image 58⟩or our mouths occupied about any other thing, than the reverent hearing and consenting unto, of such things as he uttereth) but that aiding the infirmity of our brethren, such as have not the gift to conceive Prayer, might have a form to exercise themselves in, both before they repair to the public exercises of the Church, and after the celebration of those reverent mysteries, shall he finished.

AT the motion and request of sundrie my deare friendes in the Lord, I haue thought good to putte dovvne tvvo Prayers at the latter ende of this Treatise, not thereby minding either to tie any person to the vse of them onely, for they may according to their seuerall necessi ies conceiue some other of their ovvne, or practise some better forme already set dovvne, by men of greater giftes, and feeling: nor yet, so to busie their mindes, and to occupie their heades, as that they should be imployed in these, vvhen the publike Prayers and exercises of the Church, performed by the Ministers are in hand (for be it farre frō vs, vvhen the Minister Gods mouth speaketh from the Lord to vs or vvhen he as our mouth speaketh to the Lord for vs, to haue either our heartes