2 They prescribe certain times as necessary to be keept upon the account of salvation, what ever dayes the Church appoints for annuall Fasts it is necessary if they would be save to ob∣serve them accordingly, hence it is that the neglectd of it as a breach of the third (though according to God of the fourth,) commandement must of necessity be confessed, to the priest, that such penance may be injoyned as is sutable to that high offence for the expiation of its guilt. Now the Church Catho∣lick, appoints, neither knows she any time to be obser∣ved as necessary but what God and his Son appointed in his word.
3. They abstain from meals of this or that fort, as being for the time (prescribed for the fast) altogether uncleane, their consciences will be defiled if they should eat them, that is with∣out authority. Now the Catholick Church though she injoyne a fast, yet by the Lord Jesus she knows no meat unclean of it self, and he that teacheth otherwise is not of God but of Sathan, 1 Tim. 43.
4 The Church of Rome looks upon her fasting as a part of Gods worship, her very abstaining from meat or from this or that meat, is taught to be points of worship, the Church Catholick teacheth that Fasting in it self is of no use, nor no part of worship, But as a fit meanes and as it serves to the uses aforesaid, so she requires it, not otherwise.
5. That some fast, particularly lent, is of Apostlical insti∣tution, and out of religion and conscience to be observed, the Catholick Church knowes no such law, and therefore she keeps not lent, upon that account, but for other ends and o∣ther causes, as shall by and by be shown.
6. That outward Fasting is of it selfe sufficient without the inward, and indeed if fasting that is abstaining from meats or meals be of it selfe a point or part of worship it may be so: but the Catholick Church pleads for an Inward fasting or abstaining from sin, and for a soul to afflict it selfe for trans∣gression, without which the outward fasting is not regar∣ded.