The benefits of Fasting.
He that undertakes to enumerate the be∣nefits of fasting, may in the next page also reckon all the benefits of physick: for fast∣ing is not to be commended as a duty, but
The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.
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- The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.
- Author
- Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.
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- London :: Printed [by R. Norton] for Richard Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane,
- MDCL. [1650]
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- Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64109.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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as an instrument; and in that sense, no Man can reprove it, or undervalue it; but he that knows neither spiritual arts, nor spiritual ne∣cessities: but by the Doctors of the Church it is called, the nourishment of prayer, the restraint of lust, the wings of the soul, the diet of Angels, the instrument of humili∣ty, and self-denial, the purification of the Spirit: and that palenesse and maigrenesse of visage which is consequent to the daily fast of great mortifiers, is by Saint Basil said to be the mark in the Forehead which the Angel observed, when he signed the Saints in the forehead to escape the wrath of God. [The soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul shall give thee praise and righteousnesse, O Lord.
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B••ruch •• 18.