 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Page 481819Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...sackcloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? 23 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands...the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? 24 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy... | |
 | John Wesley - 1831 - 466 pages
...for a memorial before God," Acts x. 4. And this God himself expressly and largely declares, " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? To loose the bands...thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thy own flesh ? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 466 pages
...wickedness ; but to loose and break such things. ' Further, concerning the true fast the Lord requires, " Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that...thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from from thy own flesh ? (Do you keep this true fast ?) Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it." " Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring...that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?" In strains like these was God continually admonishing the ancient Church. It was natural to expect... | |
 | George Fox - 1831 - 410 pages
...wickedness; but to loose and break such things. ' Further, concerning the true fast the Lord requires, " Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that...thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from from thy own flesh ? (Do you keep this true fast ?) Then shall thy light break forth as the morning,... | |
 | 1831 - 416 pages
...such a fast as I have chosen," says Jehovah by the prophet, " that thou deal thy bread to the hungry ; that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh 1" What occasion so a those who are hungry from necessity, as when we submit to the privation from... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 pages
...such a fast that I have chosen — a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? Isaih Iviii. 4-7. Thus forcibly and sternly did a noble of the realm (who prophesied) reprove the... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...thee openly. 3 Is this such a fast as I have chosen, saith the Lord, for a man to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? Then shalt thou call, and the Lord will answer. 4 Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be... | |
 | Cyprian (st, bp. of Carthage.) - 1832 - 212 pages
...for a memorial before God." Thus also the Lord asks — " Is not this the fast that I have chosen r to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily : and... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - 1832 - 472 pages
...wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that...and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ? 8 IT Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily... | |
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