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The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God
The whole-armour of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keep him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well use it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sin against the Holy Ghost. By William Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Black Fryers London. ...The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ...
London: printed by John Beale, 1619London: printed by Iohn Beale, 1619
THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 3 › Part 2 › Section 100: §. 100. Of the sundry kinds of Fasts.
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3 An enforced and necessary Fast, 1is when men have not sufficient for ordinary meals: as in a City besieged, or in a ship on Sea far from Land, provision being very⟨p. 447⟩ scarce, men are forced to take but one meal a day, or to make every other day a fasting day. Thus many poor folk are forced often times to fast, because they have nothing to eat.
3 An inforced and necessary Fast, 1is when men haue not sufficient for ordinary meales: as in a City besieged, or in a ship on Sea farre from Land, prouision being very⟨p. 447⟩ scarse, men are forced to take but one meale a day, or to make euery other day a fasting day. Thus many poore folke are forced often times to fast, because they haue nothing to eate.
- 13 The poor mans fast.3 The poore mans fast.
4 A moral fast, 1is when men eat and drink sparingly, not so much as their appetite desireth, but only so much as may preserve nature, and maintain health and strength, that their wanton and lustful flesh may not be pampered, but rather kept under: to which purpose tendeth this exhortation of Christ;2 Take heed to your selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. This is not properly a fast, because something is taken, but only respectively, because something is forborne.