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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 What are the religious duties whereunto we ar• made more fit by fasting.
3 What are the religious duties whereunto wee ar• made more fit by fasting.
A religious fast, is in these three points distinguishe• from all the other forenamed fasts.
By the first from a moral, spiritual and heretical fast For a moral fast, though it keep a man from pampering and glutting his body, yet it hindereth not a comfortab• nourishing, and refreshing of it, as a religious fast do• for the time of the fast. A spiritual fast is no whit hind• red by the bodies sustenance, if it be moderate. As for t• heretical fast, therein it is permitted even to glut the b• dy with fish, sweet meats, and such like delicates, so fle• be forborne.
By the first from a morall, spirituall and hereticall fas• For a morall fast, though it keepe a man from pamperin• and glutting his body, yet it hindereth not a comfortab• nourishing, and refreshing of it, as a religious fast do• for the time of the fast. A spirituall fast is no whit hind red by the bodies sustenance, if it be moderate. As for t hereticall fast, therein it is permitted euen to glut the b dy with fish, sweete meats, and such like delicates, so fle be forborne.