Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

ARTICLE, X. Jejunator, or, Days of Devotion.

I Have briefly dispatched one of the Promised Articles. The next is to report, that one of the most Copious Entries in the Diary, was upon what concerned the Days of Prayer, and more soaring Interviews with Heaven, which he kept with Fasting (even with Rigid Fasting) usually once in a Month, (and sometimes oftener) as part of his Preparation for the Monthly Celebration of the Eucharist. Of which Days I find his Pen once dropping this Testimony, I would not for all this Worlds Good, be without the Answer ⟨p. 42⟩of those Prayers! On these Days, his manner was, one while in Papers wholly assigned unto that purpose, to note on One Column, Causes of Humiliation; on the Adverse Column, Matters of Supplication. Afterwards, he entered them, only in his Diary, without any Distinct Columns for them; and he never entered any where else, the like Enumeration, which he always made, of Matters, and Causes, for the Public Days also, which he kept in Conjunction with the People of GOD. And what he did for Fasts, he also did for Thanksgivings: For some such Days he kept also in Secret before the Lord; Affecting himself with the Various Mercies of GOD unto him, and Contriving special Returns of Obedience, wherein he was desirous to Glorify GOD. In these Registers one finds the very Spirit of PIETY in the true Breathings and Pulses of it. But the Public Spirit Conspicuous in them, and his generous concern for others as well as himself, and for the Town, and Land, and the whole Church of GOD, was highly agreeable to the large Heart which GOD had Crowned him with.

I Have briefly dispatch'd one of the Promised Articles. The next is to report, that one of the most Copious Entrie• in the Diary, was upon what concerned the Days of Prayer, and more soaring Interviews with Heaven, which he kept with Fasting (even with Rigid Fasting) usually once in a Month, (and sometimes oftner) as part of his Preparation for the Monthly Celebration of the Eucharist. Of which Days I find his Pen once dropping this Testimony, I would not for all this Worlds Good, be without the Answer