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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85486	The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.	Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing G1394; Thomason E463_1; ESTC R202327	28,997	43

Their fast was not such an one as the Lord had chosen So as the Lords hand was not shortned that it could not save nor his ear heavy that it could not hear but their iniquities had separated between them and their God and their sins had hid his face from them that he would not hear Isa 59. 1 2. Let us therefore that do what is warrantable do it uprightly and fervently so may we do it in faith and be be sure to have it accepted All things are possible to him that beleeveth Mark 9. 23. Surely we fail of much benefit that we might receive from our praiers for want of faith 3. I might here adde 3 By extraordinary praier extraordinary honour is done to God that by fasting and praier which is an extraordinary humbling of our selves before God and an extraordinary manner of craving blessing of him extraordinary honour is done unto him for the more we humble our selves for his displeasure and stoop under his strokes the greater testimony we give not only to the greatnesse of his wrath and indignation but also to the justice and equity of his judgements and the more earnestly we call on him for favour and blessing the greater evidence we give of our high esteem of them Now by how much the more God is acknowledged and justified in his judgements and by how much the more Gods favour and blessings are prised by so much the more is the Lord glorified For Gods honour is much set forth in and by mans acknowledgement of his justice and mercy Nihil magis agendum est Christian● quam ut in omni opere ejus Dei gloria praedicetur Hier. Com. in 1 Cor. 10. And who would not doe to his uttermost what he can to set forth the Lords honour This third ground of the fore-said duty is the weightiest of all the rest If these motives be not of force to enforce this duty of extraordinary supplication in an extraordinary case I know not what motives may be of force to enforce a duty Come we now therefore to the Application of the Point 1. Too great cause of just complaint may here be taken up Lamentation for mens sleighting fasts by reason of mens slight and carelesse observing those means which are warranted and prescribed by Gods Word for pacifying his wrath and procuring his favour The Lord may justly upbraid to us our fasts as he did to the Israelites before mentioned Isa 58. 3 c. This complaint may justly be taken up not only against the prophaner sort of people but also against many that look Sion-ward There be of them that on our monethly daies of fast not only forbear to joyn with the assembly of Gods people in those solemn sacred duties but also follow their secular affairs yea their pleasures and pastimes in a kinde of dislike if not a detestation of these duties I will not lay to their charge their disavowing of these duties as if so be they thought fasting and praier unlawfull but their disesteem of our monethly daies enjoyned by publike authority The ground of our monthly fasts The authority was first his Majesties Proclamation straitly charging and commanding That a Generall Publike and Solemn Fast be kept and held on the last Wednesday of every month during the troubles in the Kingdome of Ireland This Proclamation was given the eight day of January in the seventeenth of his Majesties reign It hath been also ratified by sundry Orders and Ordinances of Parliament for a due observing thereof and it hath continued now almost seven whole years and that upon just and weighty causes for the very ground of that Proclamation still remaineth namely The lamentable and distressed estate of Ireland Now why this monethly fast should not be duly observed I see no good reason It may be that it is disesteemed by many because it is enjoyned by authority But that seems to me a strange reason that that which is a ground warranted by Gods Word as out of this text we have formerly shewed should be a reason to slight it I know not how it comes to passe but so it is that mens mindes are averse from such things as are enjoyned by authority though they be things lawfull and agreeable to Gods Word Never were Orders and Ordinances of Parliament more slighted then now and that in things that concern their own good O tempora O mores To what times are we reserved What are the mindes and manners of men But it may be Fasts may be continued while the occasion remains that another thing scruples their consciences namely the set times of fast that it is such a day in every moneth I grant that if there were not a continued occasion of this constant course there might be some ground of scruple but that particular ground of enjoyning this monethly fast still remaining and other weighty grounds also more nearly concerning us namely the troubles of our own Kingdome why should we not persevere in using the means for averting Gods wrath and the fearfull effects thereof from us That which is recorded of the Jews annuall fasting in certain set moneths seventy years together because the judgements which moved them first to take up those fasts continued so long may be a warrant for our continued monethly fasts For they are so mentioned by the Prophet Zech. 7. Publike fasts in former times rare Quid mirum si Christianis temporibus iste mundus tanquam servus jam sciens voluntatem Domini sui faciens digna plagis vapulat multis Aug. vict ep 122. 5. 8. 19. as they are rather ratified then disavowed No marvel that Gods judgements have so long lien upon us and our neighbouring Nations seeing the means of removing them are by most either despised or too much slighted The great complaint of pious Christians in former times was that publike fasts were not enjoyned by publike authority Sometimes a dozen sometimes more years passed in this Land and Kingdome without any publike fasts and yet sundry Parliaments called in those years sundry Armies sent forth and sundry judgements inflicted I can remember a solemn fast proclaimed and most solemnly kept in the year 1588. upon the approach of that Spanish Armado that carried the stile of Invincible Admirable was the blessing that followed upon that fast for soon after that proud Armado was strangely dissipated I doe not well remember another publike fast betwixt that and the first year of King James wherein was such a raging Plague as we have not heard of the like before in this Land Thereupon a weekly fast was enjoyned by publike authority till it pleased God to remove that plague Very few publike fasts were betwixt that and another greater plague in the year 1625. when there was also a weekly fast enjoyned by publike authority at which time God gave a very gracious return to the praiers of his people for the plague decreased much faster then it increased and