Jeremy Taylor - Rules for Christian Fasting (Part 12)
February 17th, 2007 by Nicholas Chorba
12. When the principal end why a fast is publicly prescribed is obtain by some other instrument, in a particular person — as if the spirit of fornication be cured by the rite of marriage, or by a gift of chastity — yet that person so eased is not freed from the fasts of the church by that alone, if those fasts can prudently serve any other end of religion, as that of prayer, or repentance, or mortification of some other appetite; for when it is instrumental to any end of the Spirit, it is freed from superstition, and then we must have some other reason to quit us from the obligation, or that alone will not do it.
