A25478:1201
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.
Obs. 3. That fasting is a duty to be practised in the days of the New Testament, even all the time of the Bridegroom's absence. So that it is not a duty that was peculiar to the times of the Old Testament and the Mosaic pedagogy, but is to be practised in the Gospel times.
Obs. 3. That fasting is a duty to be practised in the days of the New Testament, even all the time of the Bridegroom's absence. So that it is not a duty that was peculiar to the times of the Old Testament and the Mosaic poedagogy, but is to be practised in the Gospel times.
The last I shall only insist upon, and touch upon the other in the handling of it, wherein I shall take notice, That Fasting may be considered either as, 1. Merely natural. 2. Civil. 3. Religious.
The last I shall only insist upon, and touch upon the other in the handling of it, vvherein I shall take notice, That Fasting may be considered either as, 1. Meerly natural. 2. Civil. 3. Religious.
1. As merely natural, which is only an abstinence from food. As the Greek word, [Greek or Hebrew], a Fast, Grammatically imports no more but a not eating.
1. As meerly natural, vvhich is only an abstinence from food. As the Greek vvord, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Fast, Grammatically imports no more but a not eating.