Excerpt from A Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting But, upon this argument, we meet not with great plenty of distinct treatises, unless we put such into the number as the writers have tran scribed, some from fancy, others from severity of nature. For Epicures are not more humour ous in their rules of luxury, than Monasticks are in their rules of abstinence. It is happy, therefore, for the people that they have gained this Tract concerning Fasting, in which the directions and persuasives to a mortified life are not embased, either with ca pricious affectation, or superstitious rigour. We have need of such directions, and of a strict and temperate practice suitable to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.