A01979:2458

The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God

Name: The whole-armour of God
Author: William Gouge

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. ...

William Gouge 1578–1653London: printed by John Beale, 1619London: printed by Iohn Beale, 1619

[26], 626, [12] p. · 196k words · STC 12123 · ESTC S103304

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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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Object. Paul, ¹and they which were in the ship with him, fasted fourteen days, and took nothing.

Obiect. Paul, ¹and they which were in the ship with him, fasted foureteene dayes, and tooke nothing.

1Acts 27. 33.

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Answ. They are said to fast,¹ because being all that time in danger of their lives, much perplexed, and busied in saving the ship, they had no leisure to take one ordinary meal: so as that was not a proper Fast, but yet an extraordinary abstinence, no more taken then was necessary to preserve life: and therefore Paul fearing lest some of them might faint, exhorted them to take some meat, adding this reason, This is for your health, as for this phrase⟨p. 459⟩ (They took nothing) it is but an hyperbolical speech.

Answ. They are said to fast,¹ because being all that time in danger of their liues, much perplexed, and busied in sauing the ship, they had no leasure to take one ordinary meale: so as that was not a propper Fast, but yet an extraordinary abstinence, no more taken then was necessary to preserue life: and therefore Paul fearing lest some of them might faint, exhorted them to take some meate, adding this reason, This is for your health, as for this phrase⟨p. 459⟩

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The book

Title as printed

Author

William Gouge 1578–1653

Place

London

Printer

John BealeIohn Beale

Year

1619

Size

[26], 626, [12] p.

Words

195,569

Catalogue

STC 12123 · ESTC S103304

Text

EEBO-TCP A01979

Passages

3,349

Sections

594

Title page

The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God

§. 107. Of Supplication, the most principal end of a Religious Fast.

§. 107. Of Supplication, the most principall end of a Religious Fast.

§. 108. Of Examination, another end of Fasting.

§. 109. Of Humiliation, a third end of Fasting.

§. 110. Of Mortification, a fourth end of fasting.

§. 111. Of fasting now under the New Testament.

§. 111. Of fasting now vnder the New Testament.

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