it. Of a prsstate Foil?.. iflatt wee may rightly per- 11- forme a private Fan, feure things are to be obferued" firft, the Author : fecondlÿ, the time and occrifon : thirdly, the man- ner fourthly, the ends of pri- natefafiing. Y. Of the eAuthor. The firfl that ordained Fa- fting,was God himfelfe in Para- (4.12. ' and it was the flrg Law that God, made, in comman- ding eAdwn to ab iaine from eating the forbidden fruit. God would not pronounce nor write his Law without Fatting, and in his Law commands all his People to fai. So loth our. - uiour Chrifl teach all his Dif ciples vnder the New- Tegu- ment likewife. By religious Fa¢ing a man. -comes neere{} the life of * Angels , and to doe Gods will on earth,as it ù dine in hea se n. leiunium in Paradijò prafcriptum reuerere', igitúr n j canitiem, Baril. Horn. c. de ieiun. Eiod.19.3. Idetar..23. 'ißath.6.. i?. aud g. 21. * ui ieiu- nat,Angele- rum vitam viuit, da cum pauciffi- mis eonten- tzo eÉi fmí- litudiie cum illre af- fo%iátur, BaGl.Hom, de iPiu.
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