A27107:803
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.
3. Of the Ends of Fasting.
The true Ends of Fasting are not to merit God's favour, or eternal life (for that we have only of the gift of God through Christ) nor to place Religion in bodily abstinence (for Fasting in it self is not the worship of God, but an help to further us the better to worship God;) But the true Ends of Fasting are Three:
First, To subdue ourf Flesh to the Spirit: but not so tot weaken our Bodies, as that we are made unfit to do the necessary Duties of our Calling. A good man (saith Solomon) is merciful to his beast, Prov. 12. verse 10. much more to his own body.
- fEsd. 8. 2.
- t1 Tim. 5. 23. Jejunium orationem roborat, oratio fanctificat Jejunium. Bern. Ser. de Jejun.