A27107:766
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.
Fifthly and lastly, From all outward pleasures of our senses. So that as it was not the* throat only that sinned, so must not the throat only be punished: and therefore we must endeavour to make our eyes (as at all times, so) especially on that day, to fast from beholding vanities; our ears from hearing Mirth or Music, but such as may move to mourn; our nostrils from pleasant smell: our tongues from lying, dissembling, and slandering; yea, the use of the Marriage b•d must be omitted in a religious reverence of the Divine Majesty, that so nothing may hinder our true Humiliation, but that all may be signs that we are unfeignedly humble. Thus much of the outward manner.
Fifthly and lastly, From all outward pleasures of our senses. So that as it was not the* throat only that sinned, so must not the throat only be punished: and therefore we must endeavour to make our eyes (as at all times, so) especially on that day, to fast from beholding vanities; our ears from hearing Mirth or Musick, but such as may move to mour•; our n•strils from pleasant smell: our tongues from lying, dissembling, and slandering; yea, the use of the Marriage b•d must be omitted in a religious reverence of the Divine Majesty, that so nothing may hinder our true Humiliation, but that all may be signs that we are unfeignedly humble. Thus much of the outward manner.
- *Si sola gula peccavit sola jejanet; & su••icit: Si veverò peccaverunt & membra caetera, cur non jejunent & ipsa▪ Bern. Serm. Quadrag. 3.
The inward manner of fasting consists in Two things: 1. Repentance. 2. Prayer.