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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. ...
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THE Whole Armour of GOD. › Treatise 3 › Part 2 › Section 106: §. 106. Of the continuance of a Fast.
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§. 106. Of the continuance of a Fast.
TO know the right and due continuance of a fast, it is needful to put difference betwixt a fast in whole, and in part. A fast in whole is such a fast as we have described, wherein there is an utter abstinence (except in case of necessity) from refreshing the body with any food at all. A fast in part, is when a man taketh some nourishment in the days of his fast:1 and this is when there is occasion of fasting longer then a man is able to forbear all manner of sustenance: for example a man of great use, whose⟨p. 457⟩ death is a very great loss, is strucken with a dangerous sickness, and lieth betwixt hope and fear some week or more: their issue being unknown, his friends earnestly desirous of his life, continue to fast and pray every day, till they see what issue the Lord will give: now because of the long continuance of such a fast, every day they take one meal to preserve the strength of their body. The like fast may be used when a City is besieged, and the inhabitants enclosed by their enemies on every side. Now because such a fast may be long endured, and the occasion thereof may be longer or shorter, no set time can be set for the continuance of it, but only that it be ordered according to the occasion that God giveth.
TO know the right and due continuance of a fast, it is needfull to put difference betwixt a fast in whole, and in part. A fast in whole is such a fast as wee haue described, wherein there is an vtter abstinence (except in case of necessity) from refreshing the body with any food at all. A fast in part, is when a man taketh some nourishment in the daies of his fast: