• TheSaints )8 I - - 1 1 ~ ~utting on fa~kcloth, unworthy the worfr ; r~g to cover fRame with. r ; ' 3 # A'bfta.irtingfrommatrimoniall fellow!hip-un• .I worthyofany pofieritie, or remembrance a~ the ~ 1 earth. . · I 4 Cuttingflierttheir ordinarieOeep, unworthy ofany re-fr ., ! · · . · I . . ). . . ! 5 Duft and allies, worthy tobee as farre under i the grot1nd, as they were above it. · :Ofthecontinuanceoftheabfrinence. . The time ef j . The tifuall ti~eof a faft,. is the fpace<gfapatu~ a faft. rail day. Yiz. From even to even, or from fupper to fupper. For as that was the time appoint~d for the ordinary Sabbath , fo alfo for the extraordina· ~ rie. From even tDeven fh.dlJIIIfanEJifieJ'~IIr;Sabbflth. S~e Lev.23·ll.lud~s. 20.1.6. 2 $am·.:J. 1;•• l1fh.7.6. ~Sam•3•35· . In like fort, not onely the Jewes, but aHo the ancient Chriftians ufed to fafr untill the Sun were fet. Howbeit ~n proceffe.oftime theybegan, efpe– cially in the ·Church ofRome, to diffoJve their fafts at the nintlt houre ; which is three a clock in rhe afternooae; whiCh now they have brought!to the fixt houre,. and.{or .themoft parr, on their f'\fl:ing , dayes goe to fupper before noone..But fhe,fbortefl: time that is mentioned in the Scripture of a Fafr,is untill the evening.Towhich cuftome their practice is moft conformable,who fact al dayunti11 the ordi– ,rlarie time offupper. This I faid is the ufu.all time • But the childrenof God when they have beene pretfed with more urgent ocrafion, have fome– times continued this exercife for moredaies tege· ther: *.
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