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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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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.
3. Fasting is a visible testification of our ardent prayer,1 and of our earnest desire to obtain that which we pray for: in that, by our voluntary abstaining from our bodily food and other delights of the body, we show, that we prefer the thing that we pray for, before them. Yea fasting is not only a testification if our humiliation, but it is a means to humble the soul the more: for that is the use of outward rites, both to testify the inward disposition of the soul, and also to help it on the more.
3. Fasting is a visible testification of our ardent praier,1 and of our earnest desire to obtain that which we pray for: in that, by our voluntary abstaining from our bodily food and other delights of the body, we shew, that we prefer the thing that we pray for, before them. Yea fasting is not only a testification if our humiliation, but it is a means to humble the soul the more: for that is the use of outward rites, both to testifie the inward disposition of the soul, and also to help it on the more.