Bible Encyclopedia: Fasting: Afflictions

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Of the Union of Our Will to the Divine Good-Pleasure in Spiritual ...
... The love of the cross makes us undertake voluntary afflictions, as for example,
fasting, watching, hair-shirts and other macerations of the flesh, and makes us ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii of the union.htm

The Former Subject of the Sedition Continued; Also of Fasting...
... The former subject of the Sedition continued; also of fasting; and upon the Apostolic ...
sufferings, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xviii the former subject.htm

Trials of the Christian
... Out of dark afflictions comes a spiritual light ... The righteous are apt to be like
well-fed children, too wanton, if God should not appoint them some fasting-days ...
/.../bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xiv trials of the christian.htm

Of the Distinction of Meats.
... earnest, and unfeigned mortification, to wit, to be exercised with divers afflictions,
and to ... Matt.17, 21: This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. ...
/.../various/the augsburg confession of faith/article xxvi of the distinction.htm

Those who in Town or in Villages Wish to Go Away into Cloisters...
... are first of all to be shut up in the said convent even against their wills, and
then are to cure themselves with fasting and other afflictions, knowing how it ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xli those who in.htm

Spiritual Culture.
... That the apostle Paul considered fasting an excellent means for spiritual ... of God
should approve themselves by "much patience, in afflictions, in necessities ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/the gospel day /chapter xi spiritual culture.htm

The General Service to a Monk.
... best, thou didst, O most glorious father (mentioned by name), by fasting destroy
the ... I make known my sorrows, for my soul is become full of afflictions and my ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter xii the general service.htm

First Sunday in Lent
... as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities ... anxiety, stripes,
imprisonment, tumult or sedition, labor, watching, fasting, and so on! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/luther/epistle sermons vol ii/first sunday in lent.htm

Hail, Jesus;
... who, for our sakes abiding amongst wild beasts in the desert, and fasting forty
days ... be to Thee, O Christ, who for me hast suffered many afflictions, heat, cold ...
/.../baker/holy wisdom or directions for the prayer of contemplation/hail jesus.htm

2 Cor. I. 23
... every where by the authority of the Spirit, and didst set forth thine afflictions. ...
Praiseworthy indeed is even that which now ye do, your fasting and lying on ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily iv 2 cor i.htm

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Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
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Daniel 6:18
Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
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