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A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein…
A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdays lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine William Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabetical tables ...A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
London: printed by A.M. for Joshua Kirton, 1655
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.
Unwarrantable in this respect is the distinction which Papists make betwixt flesh1 and fish in matter of Religion. They make a religious fast to consist in abstaining from flesh, though they glut themselves with fish, sweet-meats and wine. These fasts are mere mock-fasts: and that both in the substance, and also in the end of them. A true fast is an abstinence from all manner of food, whether flesh or fish, and drink also during the time of the Fast. Fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink, saith Esther, Esth. 4. 14. At the Proclamation of a Fast, this charge was given, Let neither man nor beast taste any thing, &c. Jon. 3. 7.
Unwarrantable in this respect is the distinction which Papists make betwixt flesh1 and fish in matter of Religion. They make a religious fast to consist in abstaining from flesh, though they glut themselves with fish, sweet-meats and wine. These fasts are meer mock-fasts: and that both in the substance, and also in the end of them. A true fast is an abstinence from all manner of food, whether flesh or fish, and drink also during the time of the Fast. Fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink, saith Esther, Esth. 4. 14. At the Proclamation of a Fast, this charge was given, Let neither man nor beast taste any thing, &c. Ion. 3. 7.
- 1Popish distinction of meats.
As for the end of a Fast, it is to subdue the flesh; which eating of fish can do no more then eating of flesh.