Ancilla pietatis: or, The hand-maid to priuate deuotion presenting a manuell to furnish her with necessary principles of faith. Forcible motiues to a holy life. Vsefull formes of hymnes and prayers. ... By Daniel Featly, D. in Diuinity.

THE TEXTS.

BLow the Trumpet in Zion,* 1.1 sanctifie a Fast, call a solemne Assemblie. Ioh. 2. 16.

Is this the Fast which the Lord requireth. &c. Isa. 58. 5.

The Bridegroome shall be ta∣ken away, and then they shall Fast. Mat. 9. 15.

When yee Fast, bee not as the hypocrites, &c. Mat. 6. 16.

Giue your selues to Fasting. 1 Cor. 7. 5.

And when he had fasted forty dayes and forty nights afterward he was an hungry.* 1.2 Mat. 5. 2.

Moses fasted. Exod. 34 28.

Fliah Fasted. 1 King. 19. 8.

I ate no pleasant bread, nei∣ther came flesh nor wine in my mouth. Dan. 10. 3.

Hanna serued God with Fasting and Prayer. Luk. 2. 37.

About this howre I Fasted. Acts 10. 30.

As they Ministred to the Lord and Fasted. Acts 13. 2.

Then Fasted they and Prayed. verse 3.

In Fasting often. 2 Cor. 11. 27.

And Prayed and Fasted. Acts 14. 23.

This kinde (of Diuell) goeth not out but by Fasting and Pray∣er.* 1.3 Mat. 17. 21.

I humbled my soule with Fa∣sting.* 1.4 Psal. 35. 13.

I beate downe my body.* 1.5 1 Cor. 9. 27.

And hee proclaimed through Nineueh, Let neither man nor beast, taste any thing, neither feede, nor drinke water. Ionah 3. 7.

And God saw their workes,* 1.6 and God repented him of the e∣uill which hee said he would doe vnto them, and hee did it not. verse 10.

Go and assemble all the Iewes that are found in Shushan,* 1.7 and

Fast ye for me, and eate not, nor drinke in three dayes: I also and my Maides will Fast likewise, Ester 4. 16.

And the Posts went forth with speede to exe cute the Kings de∣crees. Ester 8. 14.

Mordecay went out in a crowne of gold, and to the Iewes was come Ioy and gladnesse. verse 15.

I Fasted.* 1.8 Acts 10. 30.

Peter sayd, Of a trueth I see, &c. ver. 34.

The holy Ghost fell on them. verse 4. 4.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1 Precepts for Fasting.
• * 1.2

  2 Examples of it.
• * 1.3

  It expelleth Diuels.
• * 1.4

  Benefits.
• * 1.5

  It tameth the flesh.
• * 1.6

  It auerteth Iudgements
• * 1.7

  It obtaineth temporall blessings
• * 1.8

  and spiri∣tuall.