 | Margaret Woods - 1829 - 528 pages
...and to clothe the naked, if we wish to perform an acceptable fast to the Lord. It is notfo a man, " to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes und?i him." Kings and legislators may proclaim an outward fast; but their orders cannoi reach the heart.... | |
 | 1829 - 760 pages
...not, we could expect little else than to be driven from his presence, with the indignant rebuke, ' Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ? Bring no more vain oblations ; the calling of assemblies I cannot away with.' "—pp. 1, 2. To give... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? — a day for man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. 22 Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a...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 of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...with the fist of wickedness. Ye shall not fast as this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen ? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ?' wilt thou call... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 638 pages
...with the fist of wickedness. Ye shall not fast as this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul ? to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? -wilt thou call this... | |
 | Margaret Woods - Quakers - 1830 - 522 pages
...and to clothe the naked, if we wish to perform an acceptable fast to the Lord. It is not for a man " to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him." Kings and legislators may proclaim an outward fast ; but their orders cannot reach the heart. It must... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...their God ; they ask of me the ordinances of justice, they take delight in approaching to God. — Is not this the fast that 1 have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the hehvy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free ; and that ye break every yoke ?" Isaiah... | |
 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. 5 Is it such a fast that 1 r ? 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1831 - 466 pages
...act will receive any blessing from God. " Is it such a fast that I have chosen, (saith the Lord :) a day for a man to afflict his soul ? Is it to bow...bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him ?" Are these outward acts, however strictly performed, all that is meant by a man's " afflicting his... | |
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Is it 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 him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? 
