Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.

PAR. 7.

CHrist defineth a fast to bē a sorrow, Matth. 9.15. Can the children of the Bride-chamber mourne? I answer, it is no definition of a fast, Christ speakes of mourning: as of a companion, fellow, and concomitant of fasting. Yea, some mourning may be without fasting; and therefore they be not reci∣procall.

But Daniel 10.3. it is so defined. I answer, it is not: it is true Daniel mour∣ned three weekes: and as true that he did eate no pleasant bread; neither came flesh or wine into his mouth: neither did hee annoint himselfe at all, till the whole three weekes were fulfilled; yet might hee eate other bread, and other food▪ though costly or curious food, hee ate not. Illyricus might have remem∣bred, that because Daniel did chasten himselfe before his God: his words (or prayers) were heard, vers. 12. Therefore his fasting prepared him to prayer, and other exercises of devotion: and prepared God to blesse all.

But fasting is defined to be a mourning, Zach. 7.5. When yee fasted and mourned. I answer, Here fasting precedeth mourning: where Illyricus saith

Fasting is an effect of mourning, and naturally floweth from it: when it is commanded, Watch and Pray, is one a definition of the other: because they be conjoynd? Fasting and mourning be two distinct things, and fall not under one definition.