Scotlands Warning, Title page – Epigraph
SCOTLANDS WARNING, Or a Treatise of Fasting, Containing a Declaration of the causes of the solemne Fast, Indyted to bee kept in all the Churches of Scotland, the third and fourth Sundayes of this instant MonethMonth of May Anno 1628. & the Weeke dayes betwixt them, as they may be goodly keeped in Townes. Together with a Direction how to proceed in the Religious Obseruation of any soleme Fast. Written at the appointment of Superiors, By Mr. W. STRVTHER, Preacher of the Gospel at EDINBVRGH.
Printed at Edinburgh, by the Heires of Andro Hart. Anno Dom. 1628.
Ieremiah. 36. 5. 6. 7.
And Ieremiah said vntounto Baruch, I am shut vp, I cannot goe into the house of the Lord. Therefore goe thou, and read in the roule which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord, in the eares of the people, in the Lordes House vponupon the Fasting day, and also thou shalt read them in the eares of all Iuda, that come out of their Cities.
It may bee they present their Supplications before the Lord, and will returne euerie one from his euill way: For great is the anger and wrath that the Lord hath pronounced against this Place.
2. Chron. 34. 27. 28.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thy selfe before God, when thou heardest his wordes against this Place, and against the Inhabitants thereof, and humblest thy selfe before me, and diddest ren… thy clothes and weepe before mee, I hauehave euen heard thee also, saith the Lord. Behold, I will gather thee to thy Fathers, and thou shalt bee put in thy graue in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the euill that I will bring vponupon this Place, and vponupon the Inhabitants of the same: