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Fasting

 

Sermon for Ash Wednesday, February 9, 1622 : Con­cerning the spiritual fruits of fasting and the con­ditions which make fasting pleasing to God: fasting universally, that is, with all the senses and with the understanding, memory, and the appetites of the will; how completely the primitive Christians fasted, fasting through humility rather than through vanity, fasting through obedience rather than through self-will, following the community customs in fasting rather than seeking to be singular, fast­ing only to please God and not for the esteem of men, and the evil of subjecting the commands of God and our superiors to our own human dis­cretion.

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