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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 106: §. 106. Of the continuance of a Fast.
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As for the other more true and proper Fast, a Fast in whole, which was described *1 before, and whereof we do now especially speak; a whole natural day is a fit time for the continuance of it.2 Our natural day consisteth of four and twenty hours: Of less continuance a Religious Fast (as I take it) may not be. In the Law the day of a fast is called a Sabbath:3 the time of a Sabbath must therefore be allotted unto it: now a Sabbath containeth the seventh part of a week, which is four and twenty hours. Where Esther enjoineth a Fast of three days,4 she mentioneth the night as well as the days, showing thereby, that the night must be reckoned as a part of that day wherein a Fast is observed.
As for the other more true and proper Fast, a Fast in whole, which was described *1 before, and whereof we doe now especially speake; a whole naturall day is a fitte time for the continuance of it.2 Our naturall day consisteth of foure and twenty houres: Of lesse continuance a Religious Fast (as I take it) may not be. In the Law the day of a fast is called a Sabbath:3 the time of a Sabbath must therefore bee allotted vnto it: now a Sabbath containeth the seuenth part of a weeke, which is foure and twenty houres. Where Esther inioyneth a Fast of three daies,4 shee mentioneth the night as well as the daies, shewing thereby, that the night must bee reckoned as a part of that day wherein a Fast is obserued.
- 1§. 102. & 103.
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