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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
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.
Qu. But why should they fast after he was taken away?
Ans. 1. Some say, because till then the Holy Ghost was not given in such a degree as might fit them for such extraordinary duties.
1As Christ seems to intimate, when upon this occasion he excuseth his Disciples, as being not yet fit for such spiritual services. No man putteth a piece of new Cloth into an old garment, nor new wine into old bottles, Mark 2.22. It's true they might be able to keep fast days as the Pharisees did; but Christ that values our duties by the frame of spirit exerted in them, would not have them put upon extraordinary duties till they had a suitable measure of the spirit to enable them thereunto.
- 1Chrysost.