A27107:754
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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. Of the Author.
The first that ordained Fasting, was God himself ina Paradise: and it was the first Law that God made, in commanding Adam to abstain from eating the forbidden fruit. God would not pronounce nor write hisb Law without fasting, and in his Law commands all his people to fast. So doth ourc Saviour Christ teach all his Disciples under the New Testament likewise. By religious fasting a man comes nearest the life of dAngels, and to do God's will on Earth, as it is done in Heaven.
- aJejunium in Paradiso praescriptum est reverere igitur jejunii canitiem. Basil. hom. c. de jejun.
- bLev. 23.
- cMat. 6. 17. and 9. 15.
- dQui jej•nat, Angelorum ritu vivit, & dam paucissi• is contentus est; similitudinem cum illis assequicur. Bas. hom. de jejuniis.