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.

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.

Author

Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.

Publication

London :: [s.n.],

1691.

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Subject terms

Fasting -- Early works to 1800.

Judgment Day -- Early works to 1800.

Fasts and feasts -- England -- Early works to 1800.

God -- Love -- Early works to 1800.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61415.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Queen.
• AN ADMONITION Concerning A PUBLICK FAST, TO Implore the Mercy and Favour of GOD for the Averting of his Judgments, and the Recovering of his Blessing.
  • 1. An Abstract of Mr. Chillingworth's Judgment of the State of Religion in this Nation, in his time, which is much more decayed since.
  • 2. An Extract of a Letter from the Hague. Concerning two Sermons preached there in the French-Church, 2/12 Mar. 90/1.
  • 3. An Abstract of Archbishop Usher's Prediction, concerning a Great Persecution to come upon the Protestant Church, to one who supposed it might have been over in his Life time.