The Practice of Piety

There are divers kinds of Fasting: First,¹ a constrained Fast, as when men either have not food to eat, as in the ^aFamine of Samaria. or having food cannot eat it for heaviness or sickness, as it befell them who were in the ^bShip with Saint Paul. This is rather Famine, then Fasting.

There are diuers kindes of Fasting: First,¹ a constrained Fast, as vvhen men eyther haue not foode to eate, as in the ^aFamine of Samaria. or hauing foode cannot eate it for heauinesse or sickenesse, as it befell them who were in the ^bShip with Saint Paul. This is rather Famine, then Fasting.

1. 11 Coactum.
2. a2 Kin. 6.26
3. bActs 27.33

Secondly, A natural Fast, ¹which we under-take Physically for the health of our body.

Secondly, A naturall Fast, ¹