Christian humiliation, or, A treatise of fasting declaring the nature, kindes, ends, vses, and properties of a religious fast: together with a briefe discourse concerning the fast of Lent. By Henry Mason, pastor of Saint Andrews-Vndershaft London.

Title

Christian humiliation, or, A treatise of fasting declaring the nature, kindes, ends, vses, and properties of a religious fast: together with a briefe discourse concerning the fast of Lent. By Henry Mason, pastor of Saint Andrews-Vndershaft London.

Author

Mason, Henry, 1573?-1647.

Publication

London :: Printed by G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Iohn Clarke, and are to be sold at his shop vnder S. Peters Church in Corne-hill,

1625.

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Fasting -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL, Mr. Henry King, Arch-Deacon of Colchester, Canon-Residentiary of the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul, and eldest Sonne to the worthy Prelate Dr. KING, late Bishop of London.
• CHRISTIAN HVMILIATION: OR, A TREATISE OF FASTING: Declaring the Nature, Kindes, Ends, Vses, and Properties of a Religious FAST.
  • CHAP. I. What Fasting is.
  • CHAP. II. What sorts or kinds of fasting are commended to vs in Scriptures.
  • CHAP. III. What holy vse there is of Fasting, and how it may further vs for holy duties, and workes of GODS seruice.
  • CHAP. IIII. What conditions are required of vs in our fasting, that it may be accepted with God.
  • CHAP. V. In what cases and for what purposes Fasting serueth to obtaine helpe and fauour from God.
  • CHAP. VI. Why Christ fasted at this time.
  • CHAP. VII. Why Christ fasted forty dayes and forty nights.
  • CHAP. VIII. When a Christian may or should fast.
  • CHAP. IX. How long wee should continue our Fast.
  • CHAP. X. What we are to thinke of the Fast of Lent.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Christs hungring.
  • The Conclusion, touching the physicall vse of Fasting.