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A03464	The Christian exercise of fasting, priuate and publike plainly set forth by testimonies of holy Scriptures, and also of old and late writers: wherein is shewed how religious families priuatly, and the congregations publikely, haue humbled themselues before almightie God, making vse of iudgements past, auoyding euils present, and preuenting future calamities, &c. Together with sundrie abuses of fasting in three generations of hypocrites: the first in the dayes of the prophets: the second in the dayes of Christ: the third in the dayes of Antichrist. Hereunto also are added some meditations on the 1. and 2. chapters of Iob, to comfort and instruct all such as be afflicted with any crosse, either inwardly in minde, or outwardly in bodie. By H. Holland, minister and preacher of Gods word.	Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.	1596 (1596)	STC 13586; ESTC S104147	181,008	249

read the Scriptures chap. 9. 2. Dauid read the Scriptures Psalm 119. and 19. Christ commaundes all to search the scriptures Ioh. 5.39 Paule warnes Timothie to giue attendance vnto reading 1. Tim. 4.13 The Eunuch was very diligent in reading the scriptures Act. 8. and the Apostle commaundeth his epistles to be read publikely and priuatly to all the saintes 1. Thes 5.27 Col. 4.16 A diligent wise and profitable reading of holy scriptures helpeth iudgement increaseth faith confirmeth memorie stirreth vp affection c. and prepareth a man wonderfully to the fruitefull hearing of Gods word preached A great number not regarding this preparation know not the preachers text and many know not what booke or part of the bible and some are so rude ignorant that they know not whether the scriptures of God or apocriphall bookes be handled In reading haue a speciall regarde first vnto matter secondly to method first for matter reade most the holy scripture it selfe secondly in the scripture things most profitable and needefull for thy saluation And for methode first begin with the groundes of saluation secondly labour to discerne higher mysteries which most neerely concerne thy saluation Secondly by meditation after reading Heb. 5.12 13 14.6 1 2 3 4. After reading must follow meditation and according to our loue vnto the worde will euer bee our meditation Psalm 119.97 Reading without this is but barren and will breede neither sound delight nor good learning Psalm 37.5 Delight thy selfe in the Lord and his word and there will follow good meditation and applie the word to the minde by meditation for the right vnderstanding of it this will bring great delight and comfort to thine heart Pro. 2.1 2 3 4 5. for this diligent searching is the way to get diuine wisdome and spirituall vnderstanding 2. Heart prepared The heart must also bee humbled and prepared and that in speciall manner when we would receiue a blessing by the word preached or the sacraments administred for the good heart receiues the immortal seed of regeneration and of faith Luk. 8. vers 15. The honest and good heart heares the word and keepes it and brings foorth fruite with patience Psal 119. vers 11. Hide thy promise in mine heart Prouer. 4.4 Let thine heart hold fast my words Heb. 3.12 Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an euill heart of infidelitie to depart away frō the liuing God c. Now for that the Lorde alone workes in the heart searching and framing it as pleaseth him Ierem. 17.9 1 By prayers therefore here wee must put vp our supplications to him to prepare our harts by his holy spirit to humble and beate downe the pride of our hearts Bradford praied thus sweetly for a good heart Take from vs our hard hearts our stony hearts our impenitent hearts our distrusting doubtfull hearts our carnall and secure hearts our idle hearts our impure malicious arrogant enuious wrathfull impatient couetous hypocriticall and epicureall hearts and in place thereof giue vs new hearts soft hearts faithfull hearts mercifull hearts louing obedient chast pure holy righteous simple lowly and patient hearts to feare thee loue thee and to trust in thee for euer 2 By fasting And here wee bee called againe to the exercise of fasting for this we heard before is a meanes to humble vs and to giue wings vnto our prayers This Chemnitius sayth of his experience among the godly Multi sunt c. The 4. part A great number there is of good faithfull people when they giue themselues to the meditation of Gods word preached and to the common prayers and participation of the Sacrament the day before they fast or eate very sparingly A willing desire to learne is a good grace of god Ioh. 4.39 Heb. 4.2 The heart prepared by prayer and fasting must haue two thinges first a reuerent feare of Gods word Esai 66.2.3 Hebr. 11.7.8 secondly an earnest desire to heare it and to feede our soules vpon it as vpon our ordinary foode Iob. 23.12 2. Attention and reuerence in hearing the word and participation of the Sacrament OVr hearts and minds being well prepared before Reuerend attention in hearing the word we must with diligence attend and incline our hearts to heare Gods word preached This teacheth Gods spirit in these wordes Prou. 2.1.2 My sonne if thou wilt receiue my words hide my commandements within thee and cause thine eares to hearken vnto wisedome and incline thine heart to vnderstanding c. And againe Psal 45.10 Hearken O daughter and consider incline thine eare c. For this gift and grace Lidia is a blessed president Acts 16. for the Lord opened her hart that she did attend vnto these things which Paul spake The reuerend participation of the Sacrament Againe our hearts and minds being prepared before as is aforesayd we must draw neere also in as reuerent a manner to the participation of the Sacrament at which time thinke of these poynts First when the Minister taketh the bread and wine into his hand and partly by opening the institution and promise of God partly by prayer dooth consecrate the elements of bread and wine then meditate on this Ioh. 6.27 that Christ alone was giuen of the father and sealed to be thy redemption Secondly when the minister breaketh the bread and powreth out the wine meditate on the passion of Christ and shedding of his bloud Thirdly when the minister giueth thee bread and wine into thine hands meditate how the father offereth vnto thee Christ Iesus and all his benefites for thy saluation Fourthly when thou receiuest bread wine at the hand of the minister labour withall by faith to apprehend and receiue Christ and his benefits Fiftly As thou eatest the bread and drinkest the wine 2. Cor. 13.4.5 Eph. 3.20 Phil. 3.9.10 and 4.14 Gal 2.19.20 Heb 9.14 1. Ioh. 1.7 so labour by the same faith to appropriate and to apply Christ vnto thy soule and as thou feelest strength and comfort to come to the bodie by the outward elements ●o labour to feele Christ and his grace in thee his death more and more to kill thy sinne his bloud to sanctifie and purge thy heart and conscience from dead workes his grace power and vertue to inable thee to stand against the kingdome of Sathan and sinne 3. Meditation after the word and Sacrament MEditation is that which nourisheth and cherisheth that good in vs which we haue receiued by the word and Sacrament This meditation is either 1. With our selues and is either 1. A meditatiō of the mind and reason 2. A meditation of the heart and affections 2. With others this is conference Meditation of the vnderstanding is when reason discourseth of things heard and read which the wise heathen call the refining of iudgement the life of learning they that want this howsoeuer they heare and reade shall neuer haue good iudgement Meditation of the affections is

the number of them all That is 7. sacrifices for his seuen sonnes howbeit some will haue 3. more for the 3. daughters the matter is not great The sacrifices which he offered were burnt sacrifices hee spared no cost in his seruice and worship of God Holocauflum what for this kinde of sacrifice was all consumed in fire vnto God signifying in respect of Christ that hee should bee an offering and a sacrifice of a sweete smelling sauour vnto God Ephes 5.2 Heb. 10.8.9.10.11.12 Iob. 42.8 And in respect of our selues that we please not God before we offer vp and consecrate our selues bodies and soules Psal 103.1.2.3.4 and all that is within vs by and through Iesus Christ vnto gods seruice and worship Rom. 12.1 2 3.1 Thes 5.23 Mark 12 33. Q. But here it may be demanded whether these burnt offrings were knowen before the lawe A. It is not to be doubted the seruice written in the books of Moses and commaunded in Sinai was prescribed of God and knowen for the sustance and principall parts of it of the fathers from the beginning of the world They had their priestes and prophets Gen. 4 4. Heb. 11.4 The best thinges must be offered vnto God Gen. 8.20 Iude vers 14. and their sacrifices for Habell is sayd to offer a burnt offering vnto God of the first fruites of his sheepe euen the fattest of them Againe in the time of the great deluge they knew a distinction and difference of cleane and vncleane beasts that is as a learned interpreter saith right well of such beastes as might be offered and not bee offered in sacrifice vnto God for Noah is said euen then to offer a burnt offring vnto God Gen. 8.21.22 But all this order of Gods worship and seruice then not written nor Iobs time also which followed was afterwardes more fully manifested and reuealed in Sinai and written that Gods people might no more decline from the pure worship of God vnto superstition and false wil-worship And yet howe harde is it to bridle the diuelish witte of man but that still they will worshippe either false gods or the true God in a false manner after mans inuention Wherfore here is a most high commendation of Iob that hauing not the worde written but the knowledge of God and his worship by tradition and reuelation Iob. 42.5 yet did he not decline from the true seruice and worship of God Sense 1. Cor. 13.5 For Iob sayd that is Iob thought within himselfe It may be my sonnes haue sinned Loue is not suspicious thinketh no euill yet notwithstanding loue is watchfull Iob had no manifest cause iustlie to suspect euill in his children yet because of the libertie that commonly is vsed in banquettings he feareth lest by infirmitie they might fall therefore as a wise and a carefull father hee makes all speed to pacifie the Lords wrath with a sacrifice And blessed God that is cursed God or blasphemed god or thought any wicked thoughts or intēded any way to dishonour God The Lorde would haue his people to be so farre from blaspheming and taking of Gods name in vaine Note that albeit they had a proper word wherby they could expresse this yet had they rather vse another which did not so sound in the euill part So they vse this worde of blessing which because it is of contrary signification Barak we may the better know what the sense is and what is intended This maner of speaking is vsed often 1 King 21 13 and in this chapter againe verse 11 chap. 2 verse 9. In their heart That is at leastwise inwardly in their hearts and mindes if not more But if Iob had knowen it otherwise he would soone haue broken all their feasting and would haue turned all their mirth by sharpe correction into bitter mourning And thus did Iob all those daies That is hee did offer the aforesayde burnt offring alwayes when his children thus feasted how often soeuer they thus banquetted in the yeare 1. The first thing to be obserued here in Iobs example Doctrine is how carefully he doth watch his good time for holy exercises and of al times delights most in the morning Reasons to moue vs to followe Iob herein are many 1. The example of the whole church in general both of the Iewes and of the Gentiles The morning the best time for Gods seruice Psal 5.3 psal 55.17 They had their morning and euening sacrifices God commanded them to consecrate the first fruites of the day for his worship and seruice 2. The examples of all holy religious men as Dauid alwaies Heare my voice in the morning O Lorde for in the morning will I direct me vnto thee and I will waite 3. It is a time when the soule and all faculties thereof when the body and all senses and partes thereof are most fresh and most strong because of the nights rest and therefore best able to performe any dutie to God or man 4. For the morning is a time wherein the worlde and the affaires of this life haue not forestallen and preoccupied our senses our hearts minds affections c. therefore most fit then are we and able to performe any spirituall seruice vnto God 5. It is the first part of the day and therefore the best part and most worthie to bee consecrate vnto God 2. We bee taught here also how to sanctifie our selues and our families that is to prepare our selues with al reuerence to the holy assemblies to offer vp our spirituall seruice and sacrifices vnto God Had they neede in elder times of such preparation by prayer fasting c. to come reuerently to the Sanctuary of God Of preparatiō before we come vnto Gods church and haue not wee as well as they no doubt we haue greater cause for that al our seruice is more spirituall and we haue greater graces and greater meanes of faith and knowledge offered vs in the Gospell Iob hath his children in great obedience he sends vnto them that is his care they prepare themselues with all subiection and reuerence A blessed father godly children The great loue and obedience of Iobs Children happie children which haue such a father Adam Noah Abraham and Isaac could not so rule two or three as Iob could ten 3. In their sacrifices they were put in minde of many things for the confirmation of their faith and repentance 1. The killing of the beast put them in minde what death they deserued 2. The bloud shed in sacrifice put them in minde of the bloud shedding of the Sonne of God 3. The fire consuming it signifieth the fire of Gods iudgement teaching vs how Iesus Christ hath past through such a fire wherein we had been consumed to nothing by reason of our sinnes if hee had not past for vs as a blessed sacrifice most acceptable and sufficient that could not bee consumed 4. What moued religious Iob to bee thus earnest so