Do both
That a Christian ought to abstain from sin is most true. But how does it follow from this that he ought not to abstain from food? Yes, let him do both the one and the other. Let him, by the grace of God, always abstain from sin, and let him often abstain from food, for such reasons and ends as experience and Scripture plainly show to be answered by it.
1771 text
That a Christian ought to abstain from sin, is most true. But how does it follow from hence, that he ought not to abstain from food? Yea, let him do both the one and the other. Let him, by the grace of God, always abstain from sin; and let him often abstain from food: for such reasons and ends as experience and scripture plainly shew to be answered thereby.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 27 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:16-18.
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