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The right wayThe right vvay
The right way: or A direction for obtaining good success in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.The right vvay: or A direction for obtaining good successe in a weighty enterprise. Set out in a sermon preached on the 12th of September, 1648. before the Lords on a day of humiliation for a blessing on a treaty between His Majesties and the Parliaments commissioners. / By W. Gouge.
London: printed by A. Miller for Joshua Kirton, 1648London: printed by A. Miller for Ioshua Kirton, 1648
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1.1 It's a means of quickening a dull spirit, and rousing up a drowsy body.2 Ye know that eating and drinking use to send vapours into the head which make a man drowsy in body, and heavy in spirit. Now fasting preventeth these impediments, and thereupon putteth a kind of life into a man, and maketh him to pour out his spirit in prayer the more ardently.
1.1 It's a means of quickning a dull spirit, and rousing up a drousie body.2 Ye know that eating and drinking use to send vapours into the head which make a man drousie in body, and heavy in spirit. Now fasting preventeth these impediments, and thereupon putteth a kinde of life into a man, and maketh him to pour out his spirit in praier the more ardently.
- 1Fasting a help to prayer.Fasting a help to praier.
- 2In jejuniis, &c. quam plurimum adjuvatur oratio, Aug Probae Ep. 121.
2. It enableth a man to continue longer in his devotion. A man after eating and drinking cannot so long hold out in duties of piety as he that fasteth. Besides that time which useth to be spent in eating, drinking, and other refreshments and delights, is by fasting gained for prayer and other sacred duties. Well observe the most ardent and long continued supplications in Scripture, and you shall find them supported by fasting.
2. It enableth a man to continue longer in his devotion. A man after eating and drinking cannot so long hold out in duties of piety as he that fasteth. Besides that time which useth to be spent in eating, drinking, and other refreshments and delights, is by fasting gained for praier and other sacred duties. Well observe the most ardent and long continued supplications in Scripture, and you shall finde them supported by fasting.