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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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But before I define what fasting is, I think it good first to use a distinction.1 For forasmuch as there are sundry kinds of fastings, they serve not all to our purpose. For there is a certain fast that is natural, which pertaineth either to the recovering or to the defending of the health of the body. Wherefore Hippocrates ⟨image 280⟩saith, that they which are of a full and perfect age, or also are old, can very well abide to fast: in which place old men are to be understand as touching the first part and beginning of age. For they which are very old can no better abide fasting,2 then young men or children. There is an other fast which is civil, & is then taken in hand, when men are so bent to their things, that by no means they will intermit the affairs which they have begun. So Saul when he pursued the Philistines, and had the victory now in his hands, commanded that no man should taste of any meat before evening. So also certain Hebrews vowed that they would neither eat any thing or drink,3 before they had killed Saul, as it is written in the acts of the Apostles. This manner also of fasting pertaineth not to this present matter. There is an other kind of fasting, which ought to be familiar unto all Christians, namely to take meat soberly and temperately: which thing they shall do, if they neither eat to often in one day, nor when they do eat, do gorge themselves with to much meat, or seek for delicates and fine banquets.
But before I define what fasting is, I think it good first to vse a distinction.1 For forasmuche as there are sundry kindes of fastings, they serue not all to our purpose. For there is a certaine fast that is naturall, whyche pertayneth eyther to the recouering or to the defending of the health of the body. Wherfore Hipocrates ⟨image 280⟩sayth, that they which are of a full and perfect age, or also are old, can verye well abide to fast: in which place old men are to be vnderstande as touching the first part and beginning of age. For they which are very old can no better abide fasting,