was on that very account avenged by God himself upon his posterityi. The Jews also complied with the institutions of Moses in observing their religious fasts and feasts: but because “they did fast and feast unto themselves rather than unto God,” and sought rather to cover their own enormities by such observances, than really to honour God, their services were deemed hypocritical, and were rejected with abhorrencek. Thus must all our duties, civil or religious, have respect to God: we must have