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The first point, is Christs fasting in the wilderness the space of forty days.

The first point, is Christs fasting in the wildernesse the space of fortie dayes.

There be three sorts of fastings:¹ First, a daily fast, which is nothing else but the virtue of sobriety, or a moderate using of the creatures of God with abstinence: and this kind of fasting all men must use continually, and we must take heed of the abuse of Gods creatures by surfeiting and drunkenness. Rom 13. 12.

There be three sorts of fastings:¹ First, a dayly fast, which is nothing else but the vertue of sobrietie, or a moderate vsing of the creatures of God with abstinence: and this kind of fasting all men must vse continually, and we must take heed of the abuse of Gods creatures by surfetting and drunkennesse. Rom 13. 12.

1. 1Three kinds of fasts.

The second kind of fasting is a religious §2fast, when we abstain from meat and drink for a certain time, that we may be more fit for the exercises of repentance, prayer and duties of religion: and this kind of fasting,¹ the Jews used sometimes for one meal,