A17410:374
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our lives, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selves. With general rules of preparation, that concern either the helps, or the manner of a holy conversation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our liues, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selues. With generall rules of preparation, that concerne either the helps, or the maner of a holy conuersation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by George for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
CHAP. XVII.
Rules about Fasting.
Thus of Vows and Swearing; Fasting follows: Now if we would keep a religious Fast unto God, we must observe these two Rules.
THus of Vowes and Swearing; Fasting followes: Now if we would keep a religious Fast vnto God, wee must obserue these two Rules.
First,1 we must look to the strictness of the abstinence in the day of our Fast; for we must abstain from all sorts of meat as well as one, and from all labour also, and from our costliest apparel, and from recreations and usual delights: We must keep the day, as we keep the Sabbath, in forbearing our own works, Jon. 3. 6, 7. 1. Cor. 7. 5.