A26892:6983
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
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II. As for Lent in particular: We must distinguish, 1. Between the ancient Lent, and the later Lent; 2. Between keeping it on a Civil account, and on a Religious. 3. Between true fasting, and change of diet. 4. Between the Imitation of Christs forty days fasting, and the mere Commemoration of it. Which premised I conclude,
II. As for Lent in particular: We must distinguish, 1. Between the antient Lent, and the later Lent; 2. Between keeping it on a Civil account, and on a Religious. 3. Between true fasting, and change of dyet. 4. Between the Imitation of Christs fourty dayes fasting, and the meer Commemoration of it. Which premised I conclude,
1. The keeping a true Fast or Abstinence from food, for forty days, on what account soever, being impossible, or self-murder, is not to be attempted.
1. The keeping a true Fast or Abstinence from food, for fourty dayes, on what account soever, being impossible, or self-murder, is not to be attempted.
2. The Imitation of Christ in his forty days fasting is not to be attempted or pretended to: Because his miraculous works were not done for our imitation. And it is presumption for us to pretend to such a power as is necessary to Miracles, or yet to make any Essays at such an imitation▪ any more than at the raising of the dead.
2. The Imitation of Christ in his fourty dayes fasting is not to be attempted or pretended to: Because his miraculous works were not done for our imitation. And it is presumption for us to pretend to such a power as is necessary to Miracles, or yet to make any Essayes at such an imitation▪ any more than at the raising of the dead.