eHAP.9. of Wifedome,&c. 50f On our behalfe, for the bet,tcr;qu.icke,ningof vs vn.ro this dutie, we are not onely carefully, and with a good confcience,to vfe all the holy tucanes ordained ofGod for the conuerting of our tonics, Prayer, Meditation of the Word,and other godly and profitable exercifes; but efpecially,fometimes we are to take vptheexercife of a truefail commanded in theWord ofGod : for our h Sa- h Matt.;7: 21, uiour telleth vs, that there. are force kind of Deuils, whomPrayer only will not call out,vnleffe it haueFall- ing ioyned with it. Fafling,is anutter ablinerice for a timenotfrom fleflz onely , but from all the delights, and commodities of this life , fo farre as neceflitie and comlineffe will per mir.Whereupon it is called, A day of refiraint. i reel z. r5. That we may know to fall as we ought; it (hall be fit 1°1`lY to reduce to formheads,what is neeeffárie to:a true fail. All may be comprehended in thefe tome The firfl head, is of the things we arecommanded to abllaire from : As firfl, all kindof Popith Fall, whichperrnitteth aÜ Meates and Drinkes, kind of meat at Dinner, 9e(h one- ly excepted ; and at Supper to fill 1,chtch the eerie word ones felfe with bread and drinker of k falling loth im- k vñsira andboth at Dinner and Supper with port : And therefore in John 3.8. Wine, and all kind of Dainties, theFall ofNinitue, they Spice-bread, Fruit, Marrnalet, and Sacker &c. are forbidden as much as tot taffe any thing. l Iona 3.7. Secondly, The benefit ofordinarie fleepc ; Joel T. t 3.. Goe lodge in Sackcloth : extending this exerci(e at the leali toforne part of the night : whereupon ra watching mMark.r?ê;a. is all() added as á companion to this'exercife. Thirdly, All brauerie and co(Iline(le of attyre, con- tenting our felues with a commonkind of apparel! , or rather veder that dN hich is common and ordinarie,Ex.- dw 3 3.5 I E H .o v AH faidunto M o s E s, Say unto the ehildrexof1frael, Tim: art ail fi e-necked people,&e. Pot acre.
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