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B12526 A preparation vnto fasting and repentance. By Peter Moulin, and translated by I.B.; Preparation à jeune et repentance. English Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; J. B. (John Bulteel), d. 1669. 1620 (1620) STC 7336.5; ESTC S113623 21,955 107

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A PREPARATION vnto FASTING and REPENTANCE By PETER MOVLIN and translated by I. B. LONDON Printed by T. S. for Nathaniel Newbery and are to be sould at the signe of the Starre vnder S. Peters Church in Cornehill and in Popes head ally 1620. To the Religious and Vertuous Lady the Lady IANE BOYS Widdow to the right worshipfull Sir IOHN BOYS sometime Recorder of the City of Canterbury grace peace from our LORD IESVS CHRIST MAdame I present vnto your Ladiships view and reading this Homelie preached in the French tongue by that learned and iudicious diuine Mr. Peter du Moulin Minister of the word of God and by me translated touching that excellent conference betweene God and his seruant Abraham wherein we may behold on the one side the nature of sinne and the vengeance of God when sinners are come to their full measure on the other side the patience and familiar accesse which he affords to those that loue him how milde and patient he is towards them that feare him and how hee behaues himselfe towards his enemies and all to this end to moue vs all to faith repentance and humility And sithence my small paines in englishing it yeelds me a right to make choyce of one to whom I may dedicate this little volume I am bold to present the same vnto your Ladiship hoping your fauourable acceptance therof and the rather because it befits you Madame in many respects for these vertues that are here required are in you Madame I speake it without flattery faith repentance humility zeale to Gods house loue to his word loue and faith which you haue to the Lord Iesus and towards all his Saints for you are an Anna alwayes seruing God in the Temple with fasting and prayers a Lydia in hearing Gods word a Mary in pondering and meditating the same a Dorcas to Widdowes and Orphans a Shunamite to the Prophets and Ministers of God not onely countenancing our persons and ministery with your person and presence in our Church of Canterbury when you are here but also cherishing vs with good and comfortable words and exercising your liberall charitie towards our poore not leesing your first loue like the Ephesians but continuing it towards vs frō time to time and therefore the iust God will not forget your piety towards him nor your charity towards his Saints but as your name and charitable workes are inregistred in our booke of remembrance so is your name written in the Booke of Life your deeds of charity in feeding couering visiting the poore written in that Booke that shall be opened in the day of iudgement to your consolation then shall you reape plentifully what you sowe here and as Damascen speakes here you giue a little there you shall receiue much now you giue a transitory thing then shall you gaine an eternall here you giue a penny there you shall receiue a Kingdome for if Iulius Cesar gaue Lands to one that gaue him but a draught of water what a reward will Christ giue to those that giue but a cup of water to drinke in his name to those that belong to him If Darius gaue a Kingdome to Silosontes that gaue him a garment onely what a Kingdome will Christ giue to those that giue him cloathing foode and drinke in the name and person of the least and poorest of his brethren The same Iesus Christ whom you feede cloath and visite here on earth in his members as he feedes you and cloathes you here on earth not onely corporally but also spiritually with the spirituall Manna the bread and water of life euen he himselfe who is your spirituall foode and garment also will giue you that euerlasting Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world where and when you shall be crowned with the crowne of righteousnesse cloathed with the roabes of glory sit downe with Abraham Isaack and Iacob to be nourished with the fruit of the tree of life and water of life and liue eternally with him in the kingdome of heauen Amen Canterbury the 30. of Iune 1620. Your Ladiships in all dutifull seruice to command IOHN BVLTEEL ¶ A Preparation vnto FASTING and REPENTANCE GEN. Chap. 18. vers 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. c. 20 And the Lord saide Because the cry of Sodome and Gomorrah is great and because their Sinne is very grieuous 21 I will goe downe now and see whether they haue done altogether according to the cry of it which is come vnto mee and if not I will know c. IT is not needfull my brethren to represent shew forth vnto you the extraordinary occasions for the which we are inuited to afflict our soules and sanctifie a Fast by Repentance seeing that we want not ordinary causes The enmity of Satan and of the world the feeblenesse of the Church the Name of God blasphemed our vices that doe increase our zeale which waxeth cold the hand of God lifted vp to strike vs and his rods prepared doe binde vs to tremble vnder his hand and preuent his iudgements by Fasting and Repentance least GOD send vs another kinde of Fasting making vs to Fast from his Word which is the spirituall bread sending vs that famine prophecied by the Prophet Amos not a famine of bread but a famine of the hearing of the Word of God for a punishment because we taste this spiritual bread with distaste and receiue not his Word with reuerence Let vs doe in such sort that our humiliation may be acceptable vnto God and that whiles our bodies are voide of meate we haue not our hearts replenished with hatred and rancour that whiles wee abstaine from drinking we be not drunken with pride for God doth as much detest the fast of the hypocrite as the dissolutenes of the prophane that our mouthes doe not only abstaine from meates but also from bad discourses and euill words that we fast with our eares to keepe them shut against vaine and idle discourses and with our hands keeping vs from rapine vsury In a word that al that which is in vs euen to our secret thoughts celebrat vnto God an holy Fast and pleasing vnto God through Iesus Christ That we may know that fasting is not instituted to satisfie the Iustice of God but to reuenve vs of our selues That we giue vnto the poore that which wee spare take from our selues that our voluntary fasting may helpe and aide that fast which the poore indureth of force necessitie And while that your bodies fast let your soules feede on the foode of life which is a meate which you must eate as of olde the Paschall Lambe with bitter hearbes soaking it in teares of repentance Instead of sackcloth after the fashion of the Elders be ye cloathed and couered all euer with holinesse and integritie in lieu of sprinckling of ashes as of olde acknowledge your selues with Abraham to be dust and ashes and giue glory to GOD in humbling your selues Who knoweth if God will not