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1 10, 9 | sunset," a "late Station?"~10.
2 10, 10 | Station longer even than late.~11.
3 10, 11 | earth was breakfasting!~12.
4 10, 12 | although of a simple kind.~13.
5 7, 5 | shall they lick up,"--he "abandoned himself, and put sackcloth
6 1, 2 | which according to its ability opposes it, in this species
7 | above
8 12, 2 | of enduring as well the absence of food as anxiety about
9 15, 4 | interdicters of food, such as abstained from it of contempt, not
10 2, 4 | heathenish superstition, like the abstemious rigours which purify an
11 15, 7 | else ye fast with a view to abuse and strifes, and ye smite
12 11, 2 | a vow, when it has been accepted by God, constitutes a law
13 11, 2 | to the authority of the Acceptor; for he who has given his
14 7, 4 | just as gladness is an accessory of fulness. Through this
15 3, 3 | been able, have habitually accounted food as poison, and taken
16 11, 1 | place, may confute those who accuse them as novelties: for neither
17 1, 2 | marrying--so that it deservedly accuses the spiritual discipline,
18 12, 3 | fear they should miss their accustomed usages, grow weary of life, (
19 3, 1 | observance will then be acknowledged, when the authority of a
20 7, 4 | fasted. This remedy even Ahab acknowledges.~5.
21 9, 9 | moreover, the apostle had any acquaintance with xerophagies--(the apostle)
22 12, 2 | food as anxiety about it acquired: in order that the Christian
23 10, 5 | who think that they are acting in conformity with Peter'
24 13, 1 | way of observance must be added, on account of the unlawfulness
25 13, 1 | ancestors; and that no further addition in the way of observance
26 8, 1 | single-husbanded widowhood, is additionally graced with the testimony
27 2, 8 | quality of the hortatory addresses of carnal conveniences,
28 9, 3 | was sent out (from God), addressing him on this wise: "Daniel,
29 10, 5 | tradition, we are bound to adduce so much the more worthy
30 10, 6 | be not a worthier reason adduced among its for the observing
31 concl, 3| drunkenness and revels," he adjoined, "nor in couches and lusts."~
32 1, 5 | that either it must be adjudged heresy, if (the point in
33 16, 6 | an Isis and a Cybele. I admit the comparison in the way
34 2, 4 | to the Jewish Law even, admitted as it has been by the apostle
35 9, 9 | Timotheus; whom when he admonishes, "for the sake of his stomach
36 16, 3 | Nay, even in Hades the admonition has not ceased to speak;
37 16, 4 | by dressing them, and by adorning them in their sanctuary,
38 10, 5 | arguments), moreover; (we have advanced) for their sakes who think
39 7, 1 | people), and the aliens were advancing to battle, then and there "
40 11, 1 | in either Testament, the advantages which the dutiful observances
41 9, 9 | by this very fact he has advised abstinence from wine as "
42 13, 5 | character of Paraclete (that is, Advocate for the purpose of winning
43 16, 6 | the duty, still they do affect a faith in abstinence, and
44 1, 1 | pudenda would not have been affixed to the belly itself rather
45 16, 1 | sacrifice, which is a soul afflicted with fasts. He, at all events,
46 9, 1 | restriction may already afford a prejudgment concerning
47 12, 3 | thanks to the facilities afforded by the "free custody" (now
48 6, 4 | themselves are the procuring agents. Through them, to wit, had "
49 11, 1 | those who are in a state of agitation at our proceedings; or else
50 7, 7 | affirm that, without external aid, it cannot be discovered
51 10, 10 | Gibeon, and the moon in Ajalon; the sun and the moon "stood
52 2, 4 | studied duty, and very much akin to heathenish superstition,
53 6, 1 | with a heart much more alive, than when that whole habitation
54 concl, 3| and voluptuousness. Which alliance the apostle withal was aware
55 4, 4 | liberty; preparing through allowance an undergrowth of discipline;
56 1, 2 | just as upon lust, through allowing but one marriage.~3.
57 12, 3 | Church!), and to all the allurements of this life (as if they
58 13, 4 | collecting contributions of alms, as your beggarly fashion
59 16, 6 | single fire in public--on the altars; no water even in their
60 10, 9 | Moses, battling against Amalek by prayers, maintained as
61 concl, 7| satiety. To them bodily ambition is suitable to whom bodily
62 10, 10 | Nun, when warring down the Amorites, had breakfasted on that
63 9, 5 | some attendant with his amply-furnished waiter, and transfer him
64 1, 5 | reclaim hear (sentence of) anathema.~
65 13, 1 | or the tradition of the ancestors; and that no further addition
66 concl, 2| in kitchens, "hope" its anchorage in waiters; but of greater
67 7, 7 | fasts with his fraternity, and--his prayers thus commended--
68 5, 4 | the Psychics), to find the angelic bread s of xerophagy displeasing:
69 12, 2 | down by our prayers God's anger, nor to obtain his protection
70 7, 1 | reconciles God, even when angered, to man. Israel, before
71 7, 4 | cattle with which God was not angry. Sodom also, and Gomorrah,
72 8, 1 | threshold of the Gospel, Anna the prophetess, daughter
73 7, 3 | is), that on heating the announcement of the harshness of the
74 9, 3 | mouth; with oil I was not anointed; until three weeks were
75 concl, 8| it behoves us to make our antagonistic stand.~9.
76 6, 4 | the enormity of edacity antecedent, for which riches themselves
77 11, 5 | you affirm it is "a human Antichrist:" for by this name heretics
78 11, 5 | our Lord; whereas withal antichrists have (ever) gone forth (
79 2, 2 | the legal and prophetical antiquities having been abolished: for
80 14, 4 | taunt us with the form of antiquity all the while you are laying
81 12, 2 | well the absence of food as anxiety about it acquired: in order
82 | anything
83 12, 4 | a Montanus, exists in an Apicius?~
84 2, 4 | rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater,
85 12, 3 | died in the very act of apostasy!~4.
86 10, 4 | marked and subsequently apostolic (hours)--the third, the
87 10, 2 | which (in Peter's case) was apparently to finish that duty, after
88 16 | THE SELF-INDULGENT; AND APPEALS TO THE PRACTICES OF HEATHENS.~
89 concl, 3| Appendages, as we all know, of appetite
90 2, 6 | righteousness, which he there appends: and that the Lord Himself
91 5, 4 | that was more pleasing and appetizing was withdrawn, for the sake
92 13, 5 | necessarily observe also the appointments which He then made.~6.
93 12, 1 | xerophagies extort, nor apprehending such wars of your own as
94 9, 2 | more handsome" (lest any be apprehensive on the score of his paltry
95 7, 3 | priests, similarly habited, approach God through Isaiah--fasting
96 10, 13 | beginning, swiftly flying, approached me, as it were, at the hour
97 15, 4 | contempt, not of duty; but to approve such as did so to the honour,
98 11, 5 | always both commanded and approved?~6.
99 11, 5 | He commands, or when He approves, what our God has always
100 10, 9 | far joined issue on the argumentative challenge; rebutting, as
101 12, 2 | we ourselves would have arisen as prophets to ourselves,
102 5, 2 | mighty hand and sublime arm" of God, they were seen
103 7, 1 | the fed, the unarmed the armed.~2.
104 7, 3 | and four thousand from his army than Hezekiah the king's
105 6, 2 | eat and drink, and they arose to play." Understand the
106 1, 2 | is proportionate to the arrangement of the members. First, the
107 16, 6 | abstinence, and sigh for the arrival of the long-lingering evening
108 6, 6 | belly empty, his mouth dry, arrived at Mount Horeb; where, when
109 9, 7 | enter the tabernacle, or ascend unto the sacrificial altar;
110 1, 3 | with such: one is really ashamed to wrangle about subjects
111 16, 5 | proclamation; the magistrates lay aside their purple, reverse the
112 5, 2 | these deserts, to kill this assembly by famine?"~3.
113 7, 2 | Similarly, when the king of the Assyrians, Sennacherib, after already
114 2, 1 | seventh month (as) a day of atonement, saying, "Holy shall be
115 15, 6 | bread," not the wealth of Attalus therewithal.~7.
116 8, 1 | which should characterize attendants of the Church, and (pointing
117 9, 4 | xerophagies expel fear, and attract the ears of God, and make
118 10, 6 | reason (of ours) must be attributed even to Peter if he observed
119 13, 7 | is this, that, under the auspices of faith, men should congregate
120 2, 6 | fact that Isaiah withal has authoritatively declared, "Not such a fast
121 10, 11 | bread until evening, until I avenge me on mine enemy;" and his
122 10, 10 | station until the People was avenged of his enemies, and the
123 7, 6 | merely change of nature, or aversion of perils, or obliteration
124 10, 8 | to fast till a late hour, awaiting the time of the Lord's sepulture,
125 6, 6 | which he had found on being awakened by an angel, he too himself,
126 concl, 3| alliance the apostle withal was aware of; and hence, after premising, "
127 7, 6 | empty of food, with a son, ay, and a prophet. Nor is it
128 7, 7 | the dream of the King of Babylon all the sophists are troubled:
129 7, 3 | garment, put on sackcloth, and bade the elders of the priests,
130 9, 7 | wine withal has honourable badges of its own: (an abstinence)
131 12, 2 | heavenward) before him, the baggage as it were of his soul,--
132 11, 6 | It remains for you to banish Him wholly, being, as He
133 9, 5 | away from some pan of the banquet-room of the king some attendant
134 concl, 4| who is more frequent in banqueting, more sumptuous in catering,
135 16, 5 | rigid and the year arid, barefooted processions are enjoined
136 9, 2 | spiritually cultured into the bargain. For God gave to the young
137 7, 6 | of Elkanah making suit, barren as she had been beforetime,
138 1, 4 | with abstinence from the bath, congruent with our dry
139 concl, 9| will be more necessary to bears and lions, perchance, than
140 4, 4 | and from the hand of every beast." And thus, preministering
141 9, 4 | was it that afterwards, at Beersheba of Judea, that certain angel,
142 5, 1 | when a familiar people began to be chosen by God to Himself,
143 13, 4 | contributions of alms, as your beggarly fashion has it, but sometimes
144 9, 6 | But it behoved that an example should be
145 16, 8 | spiritual gifts, and your belching prophecy.~
146 12, 3 | nothing but hiccoughs and belchings, died in the very act of
147 15, 3 | propitiable to our God." "One believeth that all things may be eaten;
148 11, 4 | he enjoins duties which belong to our God, and enjoins
149 6, 3 | My) beloved is waxen thick, and fat,
150 9, 9 | custom would rather have been beneficial to his stomach--by this
151 13, 6 | are handled for the common benefit, but the actual representation
152 11, 6 | ceased in like manner as His benefits; and you thus deny that
153 16, 5 | rite, clad in sackcloth and besprent with ashes, present a suppliant
154 concl, 6| is not by weight that God bestows flesh, any more than He
155 7, 1 | aliens, and smote them unto Bethor,"--the unfed (chasing) the
156 12, 3 | the baths (as if they were better than baptism!), and to all
157 9, 2 | diet of vegetables and the beverage of water to the royal dishes
158 11, 2 | constituted this practice legally binding; some, offered by man to
159 15, 6 | the hungry and thirsty, blessed:" (He) who was wont to profess "
160 4, 3 | law--of abstaining from blood--was sufficient, the use
161 16, 2 | child-birth: for such was the blow which had been deserved
162 concl, 2| dyed red with must well boiled down, forthwith you will
163 9, 2 | score of his paltry body, to boot!), sides being spiritually
164 1, 3 | the exterior and interior botuli of the Psychics. It is these
165 11, 6 | But you again set up boundary-posts to God, as with regard to
166 concl, 7| Olympic cestus-players and boxers cram themselves to satiety.
167 13, 4 | that in our case you set a brand upon the very unity also
168 16, 3 | paid the penalty of his breach of fast. These will be warnings
169 10, 10 | warring down the Amorites, had breakfasted on that day on which he
170 10, 11 | yet) the whole earth was breakfasting!~12.
171 16, 2 | Eli breaks his neck before the temple
172 4, 4 | blood from the hand of a brother, and from the hand of every
173 16, 1 | digesting the quails, they brought on cholera, were buried.~
174 11, 1 | accordance with the greater bulk of "the unskilled" among
175 4, 3 | not suitable for man to be burdened with any further special
176 16, 2 | uttered over the table, of burial in his fathers' sepulchres.~
177 1, 1 | if they were not likewise bursting with gluttony, which leads
178 16, 6 | Ninevitan suspension of business! A Jewish fast, at all events,
179 10, 3 | the day, which distinguish businesses, which re-echo in the public
180 13, 6 | Look at the Jewish calendar, and you will find it nothing
181 11, 5 | by this name heretics are called in John. And how is it that,
182 3, 4 | both commands fasting, and calls "a soul, wholly shattered "--
183 7, 5 | in sackcloth. And then (came) the word of the Lord unto
184 | can
185 3, 2 | Church, and no longer being "capable of the things which were
186 12, 2 | and thirst practised, and capacity of enduring as well the
187 15, 5 | but rather about rich and carefully prepared, if, when he subjoins, "
188 2, 8 | the hortatory addresses of carnal conveniences, how easy it
189 3, 2 | onward its appetite for carnalities and rejection of spiritualities.~
190 9, 5 | breakfast of the reapers was carried into the den of lions and
191 9, 5 | difficult to the "angel" to carry away from some pan of the
192 12, 2 | in a mere dry skin, and cased in horn to meet the claws,
193 6 | FEEDING CONSIDERED. THE CASES OF MOSES AND ELIJAH.~1.
194 concl, 1| unlimitedly studious are you of catching fieldfares, so do you come
195 9, 1 | principal species in the category of dietary restriction may
196 concl, 4| banqueting, more sumptuous in catering, more learned in cups?~5.
197 7, 4 | days, starving out even the cattle with which God was not angry.
198 3, 4 | satisfaction through the self-same causative material through which he
199 10, 1 | proper to this particular cause--concerning the limit of
200 10, 1 | give a reply to suit all causes. Now, (turning) to the point
201 6, 6 | where, when he had made a cave his inn, with how familiar
202 14, 2 | months, and years," why do we celebrate the passover by an annual
203 10, 8 | Christian religion, while it celebrates more the glory of Christ,
204 13, 8 | solemnities, whose then celebration our present discourse has
205 10, 5 | Scripture, until by some signal celestial gift they be either confirmed
206 11, 3 | For, while censuring that form in which the ancient
207 8, 4 | granting that upon the centurion Cornelius, even before baptism,
208 14, 1 | are observers of Jewish ceremonies, of legal solemnities: for
209 1, 1 | Lust without voracity would certainly be considered a monstrous
210 concl, 7| its firmness. Let Olympic cestus-players and boxers cram themselves
211 10, 9 | issue on the argumentative challenge; rebutting, as I have done,
212 7, 6 | prophet. Nor is it merely change of nature, or aversion of
213 13, 2 | not of command." You have changed your ground, therefore,
214 13, 5 | befall the world, in His character of Paraclete (that is, Advocate
215 8, 1 | duties are which should characterize attendants of the Church,
216 11 | HUMAN AUTHORITY;" AND OF THE CHARGES OF "HERESY" AND "PSEUDO-PROPHECY."~
217 7, 1 | unto Bethor,"--the unfed (chasing) the fed, the unarmed the
218 1, 4 | continence, in regard of the chastisement of diet. They charge us
219 15, 4 | Divine! Thus he knew how to chide certain restricters and
220 16, 2 | daughter-in-law expires in child-birth: for such was the blow which
221 16, 1 | quails, they brought on cholera, were buried.~2.
222 11, 4 | on whatever ground they choose. "It is the spirit of the
223 13, 6 | gathered out of the universal Churches, by whose means not only
224 6, 7 | Such is the prerogative of circumscribed food, that it makes God
225 7, 2 | after already taking several cities, was volleying blasphemies
226 16, 5 | inhabitants), by an annual rite, clad in sackcloth and besprent
227 7, 1 | way do we learn that the clemency of God was more procured
228 6, 5 | show Himself to him, the colleague of His own fasts, no less
229 13, 4 | for the special purpose of collecting contributions of alms, as
230 16, 5 | There are, moreover, some colonies where, besides (these extraordinary
231 15, 6 | ordinary prayer likewise commanding us to request "bread," not
232 10, 6 | albeit it behoves to be commemorated always, without difference
233 10, 6 | impressively commended to its commemoration, according to the actual (
234 7, 7 | fraternity, and--his prayers thus commended--is instructed throughout
235 10, 3 | since in the self-same commentary of Luke the third hour is
236 4, 4 | moreover, likewise issued a comminatory warning through the "requisition
237 4, 4 | exact more" if He had "committed more;" to command abstinence
238 13, 3 | for fasts to the universal commonalty of the Church;~4.
239 16, 7 | religion that superstition is compacted. ~8.
240 16, 6 | and a Cybele. I admit the comparison in the way of evidence.~
241 2, 6 | in the Gospel has given a compendious answer to every kind of
242 12, 3 | wine as an antidote, and so completely enervated, that on being
243 4, 3 | is manifest that He has conceded the use of all other flesh."
244 13, 8 | But those conclaves first, by the operations
245 2, 3 | the ninth hour generally concludes, after Peter's example,
246 10, 1 | this prescriptive law for concluding Stations at the ninth hour~
247 1, 1 | these two are so united and concrete, that, had there been any
248 16, 1 | this day the "monuments of concupiscence" remain, where the People,
249 3, 3 | transmitted to me also, concurrently with my very generation;
250 16, 8 | the Holy Spirit, and your condiments spiritual gifts, and your
251 12, 3 | interrogating him "whom he confessed to be Lord;" and, being
252 12, 2 | conflict with all the more confidence, having nothing of sinful
253 3, 3 | nilled the contrary, and confident enough that the care of
254 10, 6 | out of the question the confirmer of all such things, the
255 12, 2 | of custody to (the final) conflict with all the more confidence,
256 16, 8 | proportion as a heathen is more conformable. He, in short, sacrifices
257 10, 5 | that they are acting in conformity with Peter's model, (a model)
258 7, 1 | and they were thrown into confusion, and felt in a mass in the
259 11, 1 | have always had place, may confute those who accuse them as
260 13, 7 | auspices of faith, men should congregate from all quarters to Christ! "
261 1, 4 | abstinence from the bath, congruent with our dry diet.~5.
262 1 | I. CONNECTION OF GLUTTONY AND LUST. GROUNDS
263 14, 3 | celebrated by an ordinary consecration.~4.
264 2, 4 | Xerophagies, however, (they consider) the novel name of a studied
265 11, 2 | thenceforward. And so from this consideration, again, the wrangling of
266 1, 2 | flesh (of which it wholly consists)--as prone to manifold feeding
267 5 | SHOWS THAT APPETITE WAS AS CONSPICUOUS AMONG THEIR SINS AS IN ADAM'
268 9, 9 | sake of his stomach and constant weaknesses," to use "a little
269 11, 2 | commanded by God to man, have constituted this practice legally binding;
270 11, 2 | has been accepted by God, constitutes a law for the time to come,
271 6, 1 | restrictions upon food, let us consult common conscience. Nature
272 9, 3 | until three weeks were consummated:" which being elapsed, an
273 12, 3 | martyr--had ever come in contact with: he whom--stuffed as
274 6, 5 | he, could not constantly contemplate even Moses himself, fed
275 15, 4 | as abstained from it of contempt, not of duty; but to approve
276 11, 5 | Either contend that the devil works with
277 concl, 8| other sinews, just as our contests withal are other; we whose "
278 14, 1 | unteaches, suppressing the continuance of the Old Testament which
279 10, 1 | of free choice, and not continued beyond the ninth hour,--(
280 11, 6 | thus deny that He still continues to impose duties, because,
281 2, 5 | which lead us to repeated contracting of nuptials and daily cooking
282 3, 3 | that whereof He nilled the contrary, and confident enough that
283 13, 4 | special purpose of collecting contributions of alms, as your beggarly
284 2, 8 | hortatory addresses of carnal conveniences, how easy it is to say, "
285 16, 8 | sacrificial altar, and your cook the priest, and your fragrant
286 2, 5 | contracting of nuptials and daily cooking of dinners!~6.
287 12, 3 | your habit is to furnish cookshops in the prisons to untrustworthy
288 8, 4 | apostle too, in the Second of Corinthians, among his labours, and
289 8, 4 | that upon the centurion Cornelius, even before baptism, the
290 10, 5 | either confirmed or else corrected. "And if," says (the apostle), "
291 9, 8 | quality of the drink is correspondent to that of the eating. It
292 10, 4 | is sanctioned also by the corroboratire fact of Daniel praying thrice
293 6, 4 | To the corrupting power of riches He made
294 concl, 3| revels," he adjoined, "nor in couches and lusts."~4.
295 13, 6 | definite localities those councils gathered out of the universal
296 10, 1 | manner they censure on the count of novelty our Stations
297 concl, 7| cestus-players and boxers cram themselves to satiety. To
298 2, 4 | bid us abstain from meats created by God.~5.
299 14, 2 | But if there is a new creation in Christ,' our solemnities
300 4, 2 | fish of the sea, and every creeping thing,' He says, 'They shall
301 5, 3 | wont to eat freely, and the cucumbers, and the melons, and the
302 12, 2 | to work on, since he is cuirassed in a mere dry skin, and
303 9, 2 | sides being spiritually cultured into the bargain. For God
304 concl, 4| catering, more learned in cups?~5.
305 10, 11 | manifestly enjoined this duty: "Cursed (be) the man who shall have
306 5, 1 | were imposed, even such as curtailed food; certain things being
307 11, 1 | observances of abstinence from, or curtailment or deferment of, food confer,
308 9, 9 | from devotion--else the custom would rather have been beneficial
309 16, 6 | chastity of an Isis and a Cybele. I admit the comparison
310 9, 3 | Finally, in the third year of Cyrus king of the Persians, when
311 2, 5 | contracting of nuptials and daily cooking of dinners!~6.
312 1, 2 | are laid subordinately to daintiness: through love of eating,
313 3, 1 | principle), which is in danger of being secretly subverted; (
314 10, 7 | sixth hour in a general darkness--performed for its dead Lord
315 3, 2 | that, even from this early date, animal faith may recognise
316 3, 1 | authority of a rationale, to be dated back from the very beginning,
317 8, 1 | Gospel, Anna the prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, "who both recognised
318 16, 2 | sons fall in battle, his daughter-in-law expires in child-birth:
319 9, 6 | xerophagies. With such food did David express his own exomologesis; "
320 10, 7 | darkness--performed for its dead Lord a sorrowful act of
321 3, 3 | the primordial cause of death--a cause transmitted to me
322 9, 2 | to the royal dishes and decanters, and being found as they
323 1, 5 | pseudo-prophecy, if it is a spiritual declaration; provided that, either way,
324 2, 6 | withal has authoritatively declared, "Not such a fast hath the
325 16, 2 | way of recompense, plainly declined (for he had been prohibited
326 13, 5 | perhaps, it is against the decrees of the senate and the mandates
327 9, 7 | an abstinence) which had dedicated Samuel, and consecrated
328 3, 2 | recognise its own seed, deducing from thence onward its appetite
329 13, 6 | whose means not only all the deeper questions are handled for
330 11, 4 | divinity: and so far forth I defend this side indifferently,
331 13, 8 | present discourse has been defending, that is the sacramental
332 15, 2 | which we do not reject, but defer.~3.
333 10, 7 | oath, yet pay a greater deference to Stations. And so the "
334 11, 1 | from, or curtailment or deferment of, food confer, we may
335 2, 6 | into the mouth is a man defiled, but by such as are produced
336 2, 2 | think that those days were definitely appointed for fasts in which "
337 16, 2 | the shameless house, the defrauder of the fleshly sacrifices.
338 2, 7 | abstinence from, or diminution or delay of, food, since "God," forsooth, "
339 15, 5 | And if he has "delivered you the keys of the meat-market,"
340 10, 1 | time, I mean--I must first demand from themselves whence they
341 4, 1 | opposite side, with the view of demolishing our proposition, should
342 8, 3 | battling with the more direful demons: for what wonder if the
343 7, 8 | I am come," he said, "to demonstrate to thee, since thou art
344 15, 7 | Thus, too, Isaiah has not denied that God "hath chosen" a "
345 2, 5 | as "in the latest times departing from the faith, giving heed
346 5, 3 | they destined (at last) to deplore (the fate of) the self-same
347 16, 2 | himself a prophet, he was deprived, in accordance with the
348 10, 1 | from themselves whence they derive this prescriptive law for
349 10, 1 | beyond the ninth hour,--(deriving their rule), of course,
350 8, 4 | besides, had hastened to descend, we see that his fasts had
351 5, 2 | spectacle of an incopious desert sighing after the lost enjoyments
352 5, 2 | leddest thou us out into these deserts, to kill this assembly by
353 16, 2 | the blow which had been deserved at the hand of God by the
354 7, 7 | knowing what would tend to the deserving of God's favour, requires
355 15, 1 | extent of destroying and despising the works of the Creator;
356 15, 1 | abstinence to the extent of destroying and despising the works
357 15, 7 | but has particularized in detail the kind of fast which He
358 2, 4 | the apostle, I say), that detester of such as, in like manner
359 15, 3 | gives you a home-thrust, detractors as you are of this observance: "
360 6, 3 | short, in the Self-same Deuteronomy, when bidding precaution
361 11, 2 | human presumption which devises them."~3.
362 14, 2 | all exultation? Why do we devote to Stations the fourth and
363 6, 6 | famine, already sufficiently devoted himself to fasts: "The Lord
364 14, 2 | the apostle has erased all devotion absolutely "of seasons,
365 9, 9 | not from rule, but from devotion--else the custom would rather
366 16, 1 | greedy of "flesh," till, by devouring without digesting the quails,
367 6, 6 | sight, if there shall be dew in these years, and rain-shower."
368 12, 3 | not to be willing to die--on the very last day of
369 12, 3 | hiccoughs and belchings, died in the very act of apostasy!~
370 3, 4 | of course, by straits of diet--" a sacrifice;" who will
371 10, 6 | commemorated always, without difference of hours yet are we at that
372 11, 1 | course straight through the different individual species of fastings,
373 14, 4 | eyes of the apostle, the differentiating principle--distinguishing (
374 9, 5 | liberally? or had it been difficult to the "angel" to carry
375 16, 1 | till, by devouring without digesting the quails, they brought
376 12, 1 | upon such sins as fasts diminish, nor feeling need of such
377 2, 7 | duties of abstinence from, or diminution or delay of, food, since "
378 2, 5 | nuptials and daily cooking of dinners!~6.
379 11, 3 | merely an ordinary believer, direct their course to the honour
380 11, 5 | the name of) our Christ directed these duties toward our
381 8, 3 | for battling with the more direful demons: for what wonder
382 10, 2 | hour for the conclusion and discharge of the Station? Nay, but
383 11, 2 | offered by man to God, have discharged some votive obligation.
384 9, 9 | even from the case of his disciple Timotheus; whom when he
385 15, 6 | to be, not that which His disciples had supposed, but "the thorough
386 13, 8 | celebration our present discourse has been defending, that
387 7, 7 | external aid, it cannot be discovered by human skill. Daniel alone,
388 16, 6 | ornamentation of mourning they disgrace the duty, still they do
389 9, 2 | beverage of water to the royal dishes and decanters, and being
390 1, 3 | another God, nor that they disjoin Jesus Christ (from God),
391 1, 1 | been any possibility of disjoining them, the pudenda would
392 15, 5 | not; and for this reason disparage these observances.~6.
393 12, 1 | of your own as Stations dispel.~2.
394 7, 1 | that the peril of battle is dispersed by them simultaneously (
395 concl, 6| will, of it. Emaciation displeases not us; for it is not by
396 5, 4 | angelic bread s of xerophagy displeasing: they preferred the fragrance
397 1, 5 | heresy, if (the point in dispute) is a human presumption;
398 9, 9 | ground of necessity, he has dissuaded.~
399 6, 3 | waxen thick, and fat, and distent, and hath quite forsaken
400 8, 1 | after the pre-eminent distinction of long-continued and single-husbanded
401 10, 3 | which divide the day, which distinguish businesses, which re-echo
402 14, 4 | differentiating principle--distinguishing (as he is doing) "things
403 13, 8 | rejoicing." If we also, in our diverse provinces, (but) present
404 11, 4 | His Christ, be judged by diversity of divinity: and so far
405 7, 2 | nothing else (but fasting) diverted him from his purpose, and
406 10, 3 | things human--(hours) which divide the day, which distinguish
407 11, 4 | be judged by diversity of divinity: and so far forth I defend
408 2, 5 | conscience inburnt with doctrines of liars."(Inburnt?) With
409 6, 7 | What (doest) thou, Elijah, here?" Much
410 15, 3 | for he who in these points doeth service, is pleasing and
411 7, 5 | inheritance? In the place where dogs had licked up the blood
412 3, 2 | good and evil," with the doom of death to ensue upon tasting.
413 16, 2 | his neck before the temple doors, his sons fall in battle,
414 15, 6 | fact that the Lord "ate and drank" promiscuously! But I think
415 10, 10 | moreover, (the sun) did draw toward his setting and the
416 16, 6 | heaven. And, albeit by the dress and ornamentation of mourning
417 16, 4 | who court their idols by dressing them, and by adorning them
418 concl, 7| longer in the sepulchre will drier flesh retain its firmness.
419 2, 6 | Behold, a gormandizer and a drinker."~7.
420 1, 4 | and with not eating or drinking anything with a winey flavour;
421 12, 3 | noon, you premedicated with drugged wine as an antidote, and
422 10, 3 | Holy Spirit were held for drunkards; and the sixth, at which
423 6, 3 | thou shalt have eaten, and drunken, and built excellent houses,
424 concl, 3| after premising, "Not in drunkenness and revels," he adjoined, "
425 9, 9 | many," who had forbidden "drunkennesses and revellings"--we have
426 16, 2 | King Jeroboam--after the drying up and immediate restoration
427 11 | XI. OF THE RESPECT DUE TO "HUMAN AUTHORITY;" AND
428 | during
429 11, 1 | the advantages which the dutiful observances of abstinence
430 10, 10 | so long persistent in his duty--a Station longer even than
431 13, 7 | enjoyable for brethren to dwell in unity!" This psalm you
432 concl, 2| offer you a paltry lentile dyed red with must well boiled
433 10, 3 | which re-echo in the public ear--have likewise ever been
434 3 | FASTING TRACED BACK TO ITS EARLIEST SOURCE.~1.
435 3, 2 | so that, even from this early date, animal faith may recognise
436 3, 1 | the rationale itself of earning the favour of God in this
437 2, 8 | carnal conveniences, how easy it is to say, "I must believe
438 13, 4 | some particular cause of ecclesiastical solicitude. And accordingly,
439 3, 2 | Psychic after the spiritual ecstasy in which he had prophetically
440 6, 4 | He made the enormity of edacity antecedent, for which riches
441 9, 1 | most ancient as of most efficacious religion.~2.
442 7, 1 | that, by its profitable efficacy, we may unfold the powers
443 8, 3 | the iniquitous spirit's egress as of the Holy Spirit's
444 7, 3 | of the angel an hundred eighty and four thousand from his
445 9, 3 | consummated:" which being elapsed, an angel was sent out (
446 6, 3 | silver and gold, thy heart be elated, and thou be forgetful of
447 10, 10 | which he ordered the very elements to keep a Station? The sun "
448 16, 2 | Eli breaks his neck before the
449 7, 6 | also Hannah the wife of Elkanah making suit, barren as she
450 13, 5 | and the mandates of the emperors which are opposed to "meetings"
451 16, 7 | divine, which the devil, the emulator of things divine, imitates.
452 3, 4 | interdiction of food; and thus, in emulous wise, hunger might rekindle,
453 concl, 9| God; only that, even to encounter beasts, it will be his duty
454 | end
455 6, 1 | is ever wont to find us endowed when she sets us, before
456 12, 2 | practised, and capacity of enduring as well the absence of food
457 10, 10 | People was avenged of his enemies, and the sun stood in the
458 10, 11 | until I avenge me on mine enemy;" and his whole people tasted
459 12, 3 | antidote, and so completely enervated, that on being tickled--
460 1, 3 | It is really irksome to engage with such: one is really
461 10, 11 | events, Saul himself, when engaged in battle, manifestly enjoined
462 12, 2 | position of the "latest times;" enjoining every species of tapeinofronhsis,
463 13, 7 | See, how good and how enjoyable for brethren to dwell in
464 10, 7 | we too may then return to enjoyment when the universe regained
465 5, 2 | desert sighing after the lost enjoyments of Egyptian satiety, they
466 4, 1 | rather, why did He withal enlarge His permission?~2.
467 6, 4 | power of riches He made the enormity of edacity antecedent, for
468 3, 2 | with the doom of death to ensue upon tasting. However, even (
469 14, 2 | month? Why in the fifty ensuing days do we spend our time
470 1, 1 | the Psychics, if they were enthralled to voluptuousness alone,
471 10, 8 | when Joseph took down and entombed the body which he had requested.
472 8, 4 | after "hunger and thirst," enumerates "fasts" also "very many"~
473 4, 2 | Afterwards, however, after enumerating to Noah the subjection (
474 2 | THE GOSPEL, THE ACTS, THE EPISTLES, AND HEATHENISH PRACTICES.~
475 6, 7 | time for man to be made equal with God, when he lives
476 14, 2 | else, if the apostle has erased all devotion absolutely "
477 concl, 1| recognise the savour of Esau, the hunter of wild beasts:
478 7, 4 | and Gomorrah, would have escaped if they had fasted. This
479 7, 3 | fasting being, of course, the escorting attendant of their prayers.~
480 6, 1 | of matters, by the sense especially whereby things divine are,
481 5, 1 | restoration of man was able to be essayed, then all the laws and disciplines
482 15, 3 | not him who eateth lightly esteem him who eateth not. Who
483 7, 2 | purpose, and sent him into the Ethiopias.~3.
484 | everywhere
485 8, 1 | produce, too, our remaining (evidences). For we now hasten to modern
486 3, 2 | recognition of good and evil," with the doom of death
487 5, 3 | plenties, they were ever exacerbating: "Who shall feed us with
488 4, 4 | take some away; meaning to "exact more" if He had "committed
489 9, 8 | abstinence from wine is either exacted by God or vowed by man,
490 13, 2 | your ground, therefore, by exceeding tradition, in undertaking
491 6, 3 | and drunken, and built excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen
492 15, 2 | and the Lord's days, being excepted) we offer to God; abstaining
493 16, 4 | For Joel withal exclaimed: "Sanctify a fast, and a
494 6, 1 | fermenting for the purpose of excremental secretion, is already being
495 10, 12 | sin, and with difficulty exempted from punishment through
496 4, 3 | this very fact, that He exempts from eating that flesh only
497 5, 4 | of punishing gluttony and exercising continence, that the former
498 4, 1 | as He does, to suit the exigencies of the times--lest any from
499 11, 5 | the Spirit is confirmed as existing among us; when He commands,
500 12, 4 | you deny in a Montanus, exists in an Apicius?~