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Ans. FIrst, for chastising of the bodie, it is lawfull to abstayne either wholly for a time, or in respect of the quantitie or qualitie of the meates, which may more prouoke carnall lusts, not in the prohibition of the whole kind, as the Papists doe of all flesh, bee it neuer so grosse or small in quantitie. Like∣wise
it is lawfull for chastising of a mans body to abstaine from any kinde, as of wine, fruites, spices, flesh, so that the vse of them be not forbidden, as though in the very abstinence there were religion, Fulk. ibid.
2 But the true and properly religious fast of Christians, is a generall absti∣nence from all meats and drinkes, during the time of such fasting: Esther. 4.16. Nehemiah. 9.4. Where the manner of their fast is described: howe the lawe was read vnto them foure times in the day, and as oft did they worship the Lord and confesse their sinnes. It was the custome of the Church also in Au∣gustines time, in the dayes of fast, not to abstaine onely from flesh, or some certayne kinde of meate, as the Papists vse, but altogether to continue fasting till the eeuen. Rogo vos (fratres) (sayth he) vt in isto sacratissimo tempore, excep∣tis dieb. dominicis nullus prandere praesumat:* 1.1 I pray you, brethren, that in this holy time, none of you presume to dine at all, except it be vpon the Lords daies. Ergo, they that wil keepe a true religious fast, if they are able, ought for the time wholly to absteyne.
De tempor. serm. 62.