“Those, whom the easy Service of the Lord’s Day repels not, who would fain serve God on the seventh day, and Mammon on the remaining six, would be these severer or more continuous services, be brought to some test of what spirit they were; more frequent Communions, more constant Worship, more regular Fasting, would show men, whether they belonged to the Church or to the World.”
John Henry Newman (1801-1890), et al in “Thoughts on the Benefits of the System of Fasting enjoined by our Church” in Tracts for the Times (London: Rivington, 1840) 15.