A fruitful treatise of fasting wherin is declared what ye Christen fast is, how we ought to fast, [and] what ye true vse of fastyng is. Newlye made by Thomas Becon.
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A fruitful treatise of fasting wherin is declared what ye Christen fast is, how we ought to fast, [and] what ye true vse of fastyng is. Newlye made by Thomas Becon.
Author
Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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[Imprynted at London :: By Ihon Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate. These bookes are to bee solde at the shop at the lyttle Cundyte in Chepesyde,
[1551?]]
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Fasting -- Early works to 1800.
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"A fruitful treatise of fasting wherin is declared what ye Christen fast is, how we ought to fast, [and] what ye true vse of fastyng is. Newlye made by Thomas Becon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06783.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed August 31, 2024.
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The .iii. Chapter
ANd as the godlye menne in
the tyme of theyr fasting did
abstayne frome meate and
drincke, so dyd they from al other
thynges that myghte delyte the
fleshe, and be haued them selues
outwardlye accordinge to the so∣rowe
and trouble of their hearte
inwardlye. Oute of a mourning
and soroweful hearte dyd spring
outwarde yea and those vnfaye∣ned
tokens of sorowe and mour∣nynge.
For wee hearde before,
that when Daniell fasted three
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weekes, and prayed vnto the
Lorde hys God, although he did
eate bread euerye nyghte for the
comforte of hys weake body, yet
he neyther eate flesh, nor dronck
wyne, nor yet once anoynted hym
selfe.* 1.1 And in a nother place he sai¦eth:
I turned me vnto God the
Lorde for to praye,* 1.2 and to make
myne intercession wyth fastyng,
sakcloth and ashes.* 1.3 The people
of Niniue, when they hearde the
preachynge of Ionas, whyche
threatened them and theyr cytye
destruccion after fortye dayes,
repented, beleued God, and pro∣claymed
fastyng, and arayed thē¦selues
in sackeclothe, as well the
greate as the small of them. And
when the tidyngs came vnto the
king of Niniue: he also arose out
of his seate, & dyd his apparel of
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and put on sackeclothe, and sate
hym downe in ashes.* 1.4 Agayne,
the chyldren of Israell (as wee
reade in Esdras) when they fa∣sted,
dyd put on sackeclothe, and
sprinkled earth vpon theyr hea∣des,
knowledged theyr synnes,
prayed vnto God, and redde in
the booke of the lawe of the Lord
theyr God.* 1.5 Quene Esther also
when she fasted, layed awaye her
glorious apparel, and put on the
garmentes that serued for sygh∣yng
and mourning. In the stede
of precious ointment, she scatte∣red
ashes and donge vpon her
heade, and as for her bodye, shee
hūbled it with fasting, & brought
it verye lowe. Lykewyse kynge
Achab, whē he was reproued of
the Prophete Helyas for kyl∣lynge
Nabothe, fell to fastynge,* 1.6
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and as he fasted, so dyd he putte
sake cloth about hys flesh, lay in
sackclothe, wente barefoote and
hangyng downe hys heade.