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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.
And that both with respect to the outward and inward man.
11. With respect to the outward man.
- 1And if some cannot hear a total abstinence, some courser food may be used, as in Tertullian's time they had their Xerophagiae, so called from a dry kind of food used by them. Tertullian de jejun. adv Psithicos.
1. Abstinence from food is requisite and necessary so far as may consist with mercy to the body. For the very name of a fast implies this abstinence, and not only the Jews but the very Heathen in their fasts did enjoin this abstinence upon themselves and others, as appears by that of Nineveh, Jonah 2.7.
1. Abstinence from food is requisite and necessary so far as may consist with mercy to the body. For the very name of a fast implies this abstinence, and not only the Jews but the very Heathen in their fasts did injoin this abstinence upon themselves and others, as appears by that of Nineveh, Jonah 2.7.