ON FASTING
- CHAP. I.—CONNECTION OF GLUTTONY AND LUST.
GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MONTANISTS.
- CHAP. II.—ARGUMENTS OF THE PSYCHICS, DRAWN FROM
THE LAW, THE GOSPEL, THE ACTS, THE EPISTLES, AND HEATHENISH PRACTICES.
- CHAP. III.—THE PRINCIPLE OF FASTING TRACED BACK
TO ITS EARLIEST SOURCE.
- CHAP. IV.—THE OBJECTION IS RAISED, WHY, THEN,
WAS THE LIMIT OF LAWFUL FOOD EXTENDED AFTER THE FLOOD? THE ANSWER TO IT.
- CHAP. V. —PROCEEDING TO THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL,
TERTULLIAN SHOWS THAT APPETITE WAS AS CONSPICUOUS AMONG THEIR SINS AS
IN ADAM'S CASE. THEREFORE THE RESTRAINTS OF THE LEVITICAL LAW WERE
IMPOSED.
- CHAP. VI.—THE PHYSICAL TFNDENCIES OF FASTING AND
FEEDING CONSIDERED. THE CASES OF MOSES AND ELIJAH.
- CHAP. VII.—FURTHER EXAMPLES FROM THE OLD
TESTAMENT IN FAVOUR OF FASTING.
- CHAP. VIII.—EXAMPLES OF A SIMILAR KIND FROM THE
NEW.
- CHAP. IX.—FROM FASTS ABSOLUTE TERTULLIAN COMES
TO PARTIAL ONES AND XEROPHAGIES.
- CHAP. X.—OF STATIONS, AND OF THE HOURS OF
PRAYER.
- CHAP. XII—OF THE NEED FOR soME PROTEST AGAINST
THE PSYCHICS AND THEIR SELF-INDULGENCE.
- CHAP. XIII.—OF THE INCONSISTENCIES OF THE
PSYCHICS.
- CHAP. XIV.—REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF "GALATICISM."
- CHAP. XV.—OF THE APOSTLE'S LANGUAGE CONCERNING
FOOD.
- CHAP. XVI.—INSTANCES FROM SCRIPTURE OF DIVINE
JUDGMENTS UPON THE SELF-INDULGENT; AND APPEALS TO THE PRACTICES OF
HEATHENS.
- CHAP. XVII — CONCLUSION.
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