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id: A78989
author: England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)
title: By the King. A proclamation for a generall fast thorowout [sic] this realme of England
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summary:
  And His Majestie doth further by this His Proclamation straitly charge and command , that a Generall , Publike , and Solemn Fast be kept and holden , as well by abstinence from Food , as by publike Prayers , Preaching , and Hearing of the Word of God , and other sacred Duties , in all Cathedrall , Collegiate , and Parish Churches and Chappels within this Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales ( without any exception ) on the last Wednesday of the moneth of February next following the date hereof , and from thenceforth to continue on the last Wednesday of every moneth during the Troubles in the said Kingdom of Ireland . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78989 of text R225745 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C2582).


id: A88452
author: Alleyne, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1660. aut
date: 1659.0
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title:
  Aleyn Mayor. At a Common-Councel holden at the Guild-hall London, on VVednesday the 23 day of November 1659

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A88452 of text R211344 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.22[11*]). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153459)


id: A78991
author: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.
date: 1643.0
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title:
  By the King. A proclamation for a generall fast to be held throughout this kingdome on the second Friday in every moneth

summary:
  But when VVe have seen what ill use hath been made of those publicke meetings under the pretence of Religion , in Pulpits , and Prayers and Sermons of many seditious Lecturers to stir up and continue the Rebellion raised against Vs within this Kingdome ; And that those who first moved and seemed to affect the reliefe of Our distressed Subjects of Ireland , have deserted the care thereof , and diverted the Meanes ordained for the support and preservation of that Kingdome , to the destruction of Vs and of this Kingdome of England : VVe have thought it fit to Command that such an Hypocriticall Fast , to the dishonour of God , and the slander of true Religion be no longer continued and countenanced by Our Authority , which hath been too long continued already , to such false and Traiterous ends . VVe doe therefore hereby Command , that from henceforth no Fasts , or publicke Meetings under that name be held on the last VVednesday of the moneth in any part of this Our Kingdome of England , as for many Moneths it hath been , nor upon any other day , then as hereby is appointed by Vs , which VVe are well assured , none of Our Subjects may or ought to doe without , much lesse against Our Command : but instead thereof VVe doe expresly Charge and Command , That in all Churches and Chappells in all parts of this Our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales , there be a solemne Fast held , and Religiously observed on the second Friday in every Moneth , with publicke Prayers to God , and Preaching in all places where it may be had , when and where we may all both Prince and People as one man , earnestly powre out Our Prayers to God , for the diverting of his heavy judgements from Vs , for the continuing of his Gracious Protection over Vs and this Nation , for the avoyding of all Malitious practices against Vs , and the setling and establishing of a happy Peace amongst us .


id: A80908
author: England and Wales. Council of State. aut
date: 1655.0
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title:
  A declaration of His Highness, with the advice of his council inviting the people of this Commonwealth to a day of solemn fasting and humiliation.

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80908 of text R211672 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[19]). The rate of 18 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.


id: B05599
author: Scotland. Privy Council.
date: 1665.0
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title:
  A proclamation, for a publick general fast throughout the kingdom of Scotland. At Edinburgh, the eight day of August, one thousand six hundred and sixty five years.

summary:
  Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). Royal arms at head of text; initial letter.


id: B05600
author: Gibson, Alexander, Sir, d. 1693.
title: A proclamation for a publick general fast throrowout the realm of Scotland
date: 1678.0
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words: 1450
sentence: 66
flesch: 60
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summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B05600) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 179628) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A79705
author: Church of Scotland. General Assembly.
date: 1696.0
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sentence: 51
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title:
  Causes of a solemn national fast and humiliation, agreed upon by the Commissioners of the late General Assembly, met at Edinburgh the 4. of June 1696 and presented to the Lords of His Majesties most honourable Privy Council, to be read by the ministers, in all the churches at the intimation of the said fast.

summary:
  THE KING'S MAJESTY , being gone Abroad , and Engaged in a Dangerous War , and His ROYAL PERSON exposed to Danger , on whose Safety and Success under GOD , the Welfare of these Nations , and of the Churches of GOD , both at Home and Abroad ▪ much depends : It is Our Judgement , that there is great need of pouring out fervent Prayer , and Supplications to GOD , for the Preservation of His MAJESTIE' 's PERSON , and for Directing His Councils , and Blessing the Forces of His MAJESTY , and His ALLYES by Sea and Land with Success ; and in Order to Our Acceptance with GOD , It is Our Duty to join Fasting and Humiliation and Reformation , with Our Prayers , and to be Humbled , and Lament bitterly before the LORD , That tho' there have been for some Years past , divers solemn National Fasts , and in some of them , a Particular Enumeration of the Nations Sins , yet few have been duly Humbled for these Sins , and few have joined suteable Reformation , with their profest Humiliation ; and that notwithstanding of all the Great Things , GOD hath wrought for Us , and the shaking of his terrible Judgements of the Sword of a cruel Enemy , and Arrow of Famine , Yet few have turned from the Evil of their Ways unto GOD , or sought him with all their Heart , We have been unthankful for Our Deliverance ▪ many have been angry at , or murmure under it , the Gospel hath little success , yea by many is much contemned , Iniquity aboundeth in City and Country , and in the Army , and while some are in great Straits , others abuse their Plenty to Excess and Riot and Lasciviousness , and by frequent Murders Blood toucheth Blood , Animosities and Divisions continue , and these contrary to the many Obligations


id: A57186
author: Reynolds, John, of Kings-Norton.
date: 1669.0
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title:
  A discourse upon prodigious abstinence occasioned by the twelve moneths fasting of Martha Taylor, the famed Derbyshire damosell : proving that without any miracle, the texture of humane bodies may be so altered, that life may be long continued without the supplies of meat & drink : with an account of the heart, and how far it is interessed in the business of fermentation / by John Reynolds ...

summary:
  2. It is not unknown that several liquors are self-sufficient to command a fermentation , and that perfective ; as Wine , Cyder , with other like spiritosulphuro-saline-fluids , as also fruits of a more crass consistence , as Apples , Pears , Plumbs , &c. whereof many are advanced , by lying , to a greater perfection after pull'd from their Mothers Breast ; and it is at least a violent presumption that the blood confected by such self-fermenting bodies , and they exalted greatly by the various additional concoctions , percolations , and ( as it were ) distillations in the transcendently exquisite , and proto-laboratories of humane bodies is crown'd with the same Diadem of self-fermenting principles : and indeed an ordinary analysis of blood according to the rules of Pyrotechny will discover all those principles of Spirit , Sulphur , Salt , Water and Earth , lodg'd in its embraces which are sufficient to elaborate fermentations : which is further confirm'd in that when some of the innate fermenting principles , as suppose Salts begin to languish , several artificial ferments prove highly useful ; under this notion ( saith the sagacious Will● ) are the fixed Sa●ts of Vegetables , Chalybeats , &c. of such Soveraign efficacy . These things premised , 't will be no difficulty to prove that the blood is fermented by the Spleen : 't is but very lately that I added Spirit of Vitrioll to a small quantity of the recent blood of a Patient , which caus'd a visible fermentation , and such a coagulation that it became almost of the colour and consistence of our table Mustard , only there remain'd some perfect black parts , but no red ones : from whence I conjecture , that 't is an acid humour which causes such a black s●diment in the urine of many hypochondriack persons , and that the same humour it is that coagulates the blood often , if not alwayes , and renders it so unapt for circulation : wherefore by the way , I would offer it to your consideration , whether that sort of Scorbute and Melancholy which is rooted in blood more than sufficiently hot , florid , and fluid ( as oft-times they are ) can ascribe its origination to a meer acidity , or to fluid Salts : and consequently whether it be not a misapplication of the nitrosulphurous Plants which renders them of late suspected of impertinency ? for to what end should these Plants be given to those persons whose blood exceeds with salt and sulphur already ?


id: A61415
author: Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  An admonition concerning a publick fast the just causes we have for it, from the full growth of sin, and the near approaches of God's judgments : and the manner of performance to obtain the desired effects thereof, which ought to be other than our Common Forms, and with stricter acts of moritication than is usual amongst us : with an abstract of Mr. Chillingworth's judgement of the state of religion in this nation in his time : and of a letter from the Hague concerning two sermons preached there in the French church at which were present divers of the English nobility.

summary:
  For the King himself , if I , and many others , be not mistaken , hath already suffer'd some Diminution in some Essentials of his Majesty , Honour , and most Prevalent Powers and is in Danger to fall lower , from being a Glorious Instrument of God for Good and Happiness to this and many other Nations , into the deplorable and despicable condition of being an occasion of Confusion and Misery : only there seems a door of Hope still open for him , upon one Consideration , if the Opportunity be not neglected ; of which more presently : but first I think fit to say something briefly concerning The present State of Things in the World , and what may be expected from it . In matters of Prudence , none but weak and dull , or depraved Souls will expect Mathematical Demonstrations and Sensible Evidences , for all their Actions : God by his Providence hath purposely so ordered the Course of things , that his Rational Creatures , Mankind , should be often necessitated to a Close Application of their Minds , and a kind of Spiritual Discerning , in the Management of their own Affairs .


id: A17136
author: Buddle, George, b. ca. 1568.
date: 1609.0
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title:
  A short and plaine discourse Fully containing the vvhole doctrine of euangelicall fastes. By George Buddle, Bachelour of Diuinitie, and parson of Whikkenby in Lincolne-shire.

summary:
  It pertaineth also most principally to Saint Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , abstemious temperate Bishop , that hee call vpon the supreme Magistrate , and vpon the whole people of Christ , and bee a liuely precedent vnto them , for the execution of this consultatorie commaund , [ Then shall they Fast . Now followeth the second necessarie part of my declaration of this Text , Namely , as this command , [ Then shall they Fast , ] is further determined by Christ , both in the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which do further command the Seueritie of these Disciplinary publicke Fasts , or Church-fasts , and also in the Synonymall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Then shall they mourne , which doth further commande the Euangelicall holinesse of Gospel Church-Fasts , or of Church-fasts vnder the Gospel , which ought now to be farre more holy , as it is plaine by that which Christ immediately addeth in the next parable , then the paedagogicall , Disciplinarie , Ordinarie penitentiall Church fasts , either of the Prophets , or of Iohns Disciples , or of the Pharisees vnder the Law had euer beene . Chap. III.


id: A20731
author: Downame, George, d. 1634.
date: 1604.0
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title:
  The Christians sanctuarie vvhereinto being retired, he may safely be preserued in the middest of all dangers. Fit for all men to read at all times, especially for those that are exercised in the schoole of affliction, in the time of Gods present visitation. Described in two bookes or treatises: I. Of the Christian exercise of fasting. II. Of holy inuocation on Gods name. By George Dovvname Doctor of Diuinitie.

summary:
  Now if it bee our dutie in affliction to flie vnto the Lord by prayer , it may not be denied , but that we are to pray in a sence of our want ; and consequently , that wee are to be humbled vnder the mightie hand of God , and that we are to mourne vnder the crosse , because by our sinnes wee haue offended God our gracious and louing father , and prouoked him to lay his rod of correction vpon vs. It becommeth not Christians when they are afflicted , to be like Stoicks or stockes , without sence and feeling : for it is a signe of an hard heart not to mourn when God afflicteth , Ier. 5. Lord thou hast stricken them , but they haue not sorrowed : thou hast consumed them , but they haue refused to receiue correction . The office of the minister is noted in generall termes , Acts 13.2 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , as they performed the publicke function of their ministerie vnto the Lord and fasted : more specially Neb. 9 , where they are noted to haue read and preached the word of God ( as before chap.


