The holy exercise of fasting Described largely and plainly out of the word of God: with all the parts and causes, and seuerall kinds of the same: together with the most fit times, and conuenient seasons, when and how long it should be held: with the manifold fruite and commoditie that redoundeth to vs thereby: and the whole nature and order thereof. In certaine homilies or sermons, for the benefit of all those, that with care and conscience intend at any time publikely or priuately to put in practise the same. By Nicolas Bownde Doctor of diuinitie. Perused and allowed by publike authoritie.
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- The holy exercise of fasting Described largely and plainly out of the word of God: with all the parts and causes, and seuerall kinds of the same: together with the most fit times, and conuenient seasons, when and how long it should be held: with the manifold fruite and commoditie that redoundeth to vs thereby: and the whole nature and order thereof. In certaine homilies or sermons, for the benefit of all those, that with care and conscience intend at any time publikely or priuately to put in practise the same. By Nicolas Bownde Doctor of diuinitie. Perused and allowed by publike authoritie.
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- Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.
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- [Cambridge] :: Printed by Iohn Legat, printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, 1604. And are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne in Pauls Churchyard by Simon Waterson [in London],
- [1604]
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- Fasting -- Early works to 1800.
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"The holy exercise of fasting Described largely and plainly out of the word of God: with all the parts and causes, and seuerall kinds of the same: together with the most fit times, and conuenient seasons, when and how long it should be held: with the manifold fruite and commoditie that redoundeth to vs thereby: and the whole nature and order thereof. In certaine homilies or sermons, for the benefit of all those, that with care and conscience intend at any time publikely or priuately to put in practise the same. By Nicolas Bownde Doctor of diuinitie. Perused and allowed by publike authoritie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16525.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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To the right Reuerend
father in God, and right honourable Lord, Doctor Iohn Iegon, Lord Bishop ofNorwich, the continuance, and daily in∣crease of all those heauenly vertues andgraces, which the Apostle S. Paul re∣quireth in a Bishop, 1. Tim. 3.2. -
To the godly and
Chri∣stian Reader, the daily increase of that true godlinesse, which hath the promiseof the life present, and of that that is to come, 1. Tim. 4.8. -
THE GENERAL
Contents of the whole booke, which may serue for an alphabeticallta∣ble, to finde out euery thing hand∣led in the same. -
The holie exercise of
Fasting described out of the word of God. -
A direction for Prayer: Fit and conuenient for all those, that being ignorant or vnac∣quainted with priuate prayer, are desirous to pray by themselues. -
An order priuatelie to reade ouer
with great facilitie the olde Testa∣ment once euery yere, and the new twise. -
Hee that is desirous to learne and remember the Word of God, that he might liue according to it, let him consider of that which is written,
Psalme 119. Part 2.