A69075:2542
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What are the outward exercises?
A more liberal use of the creatures, both in meat and apparel, then is ordinary.
A more liberall vse of the creatures, both in meate and apparell, then is ordinarie.
May we eat and drink more that day then on others?
May wee eate and drinke more that day then on others?
No: the exceeding is not in the quantity of meat and drink; but in a more dainty and bountiful diet then ordinary, which is to be referred to the exercise of godliness;1 and therefore ought to be used in that moderation and sobriety, at men may be made more able thereunto; even as the abstinence in fasting is used to a further humiliation of the mind, and affecting of the soul.
No: the exceeding is not in the quantity of meat and drinke; but in a more daintie and bountifull diet then ordinarie, which is to bee referred to the exercise of godlinesse;