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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.
1. By groundless fasting, as on the vespers of their Saints days, and their Quadragesima's, fasting the holy time of Lent, in imitation of Christ's fasting in the wilderness which was miraculous, and so not imitable.
2. By making fasting meritorious, and that which is part of satisfactory penance for the expiation of sin, as Aquinas speaks expressly, fasting is to be used ad satisfaciendum pro peccatis, to make satisfaction for sin.
2. By making fasting meritorious, and that which is part of satisfactory pennance for the expiation of sin, as Aquinas speaks expresly, fasting is to be used ad satisfaciendum pro peccatis, to make satisfaction for sin.
3. By their prohibition of certain meats which God hath commanded to be received with thanksgiving, and yet allowing others in their room,1 which are as inconsistent with the abstinence of a true fast; as those that their Church prohibits, but yet they have the salve of a dispensation in such cases, and if men will open their purses, they may gratify their palates.
3. By their prohibition of certain meats which God hath commanded to be received with thanksgiving, and yet allowing others in their room,1 which are as inconsistent with the abstinence of a true fast; as those that their Church prohibits, but yet they have the salve of a dispensation in such cases, and if men will open their purses, they may gratifie their palats.