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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.
4. I shall next speak of the concern that abstinence from food hath in the duties of a fast.
1. That hereby the soul may be more fit for its operations;1 the pampering and feeding the body is usually injurious to the free exercise of the soul. And therefore the chastening it with due fasting may befriend the soul therein, especially in such exercises wherein the soul is to have least communion with the body.
- 1Jejunium purgat mentem, s•blevat sensum, carnem spiritui subjicit, concupiscentiae nebulas dispergit; as Austin speaks of it. Tom. 10. Ser. 230. de Temp.
As the body ought not to be robbed for the serving of God of that which is necessary for it; for God hates robbery for sacrifice, so by undue providing for it, we may rob the soul, and rob God of that service which it ought to perform unto him.