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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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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.
4 A morall fast, 1is when men eate and drinke sparingly, not so much as their appetite desireth, but onely so much as may preserue nature, and maintaine health and strength, that their wanton and lustfull flesh may not be pampered, but rather kept vnder: to which purpose tendeth this exhortation of Christ;2 Take heed to your selues, lest at any time your hearts be ouercharged with surfetting and drunkennesse. This is not properly a fast, because something is taken, but onely respectibly, because something is forborne.
- 14 The sober mans fast.
- 2Luk. 21. 34.