A05817:790
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
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 Of the Ends of Fasting.
The true ends of Fasting, are not to merit Gods favour or eternal life (for that we have only of the gift of God through Christ.) Nor to place Religion in bodily abstinence (for fasting in it self, is not the worship of GOD, but an help to further us the better to worship GOD.) But the true ends of fasting are three:
The true ends of Fasting, are not to merit Gods fauour or eternall life (for that vve haue onely of the gift of God through Christ.) Nor to place Religion in bodily abstinence (for fasting in it selfe, is not the worship of GOD, but an helpe to further vs the better to worship GOD.) But the true ends of fasting are three:
First, to subdue our sflesh to the Spirit: but not so to tweaken our bodies, as that we are made unfit to do the necessary duties of our calling. A good man (saith Solomon) is merciful to his beast, Prou. 12.10. much more to his own body.
First, to subdue our sflesh to the Spirit: but not so to