Posted in Lewis Bayly on January 4th, 2007 18 Comments »
#2 OF THE TIME
The holy Scripture appoints no time under the New Testament to fast; but leaves it to Christians’ own free choice (Romans 14:3 & 1 Corinthians 7:5), to fast as occasions shall be offered to them (Mattew 9:15) as when a man becomes an humble, an earnest suitor to God for the pardon of […]
Posted in Lewis Bayly on January 3rd, 2007 949 Comments »
That we may rightly perform a private fast, four things are to be observed:—First, The author; Secondly, The time and occasion; Thirdly, The manner; Fourthly, The ends of private fasting.
#1 OF THE AUTHOR
The first that ordained fasting was God himself in paradise; and it was the first law that God made, in commanding Adam to […]
Posted in Lewis Bayly on January 2nd, 2007 63 Comments »
There are divers kinds of fasting—First, A constrained fast, as when men either have not food to eat, as in the famine of Samaria (2 Kings 6:25) or, having food, cannot eat it for heaviness or sickness, as it befel them who were in the ship with St. Paul (Acts 27:33). This is rather famine than […]
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